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ladystrallan · 17 days
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New G&G fic!
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Happiness
A G&G modern AU
Grigor packs up his stuff as he prepares to move out of their apartment.
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ladystrallan · 1 month
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sport scholarships were invented when Lord Grantham suddenly accepted Thomas Barrow's homosexuality as soon as he realised he was decent at cricket
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ladystrallan · 2 months
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If you had to pick, what's the ONE trait in a fictional character that makes you immediately go "oh this one's mine"
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ladystrallan · 2 months
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The weird way The Great frames infidelity
The Great is a show which portrays many extramarital relationships. However, it is quite inconsistent with the way in which they are framed by the narrative. This portrayal results in a strange theme of ‘cheating is okay if you don��t love your spouse’. Let’s look at all of the affairs in the show and how they are framed:
1. Catherine and Leo: this affair is consensual from all sides until it isn’t. Peter is the one who sets up Catherine and Leo, who she ends up falling in love with. Peter only starts to have a problem with this relationship once he falls in love with Catherine, and we all know how that ends. Catherine is not portrayed as in the wrong for cheating, because her marriage to Peter is loveless and he is a horrible person in season 1. Additionally, Peter is also not framed as bad for being jealous, only for killing Leo.
2. Peter and George: the most fucked up relationship in the show. Both are married; George to Grigor who she does love, and Peter to Catherine who he doesn’t love (at first). It is also pretty evident that their relationship started long before Peter married Catherine. There is an obvious power imbalance here. Peter is the absolute ruler of the country and George is his subject. No matter how ambiguous the question of consent is, he could absolutely have her killed if he wanted to. A lot of people forget how volatile and absolutely cutthroat Peter was in season 1. Catherine is hurt when Peter invites her into a threesome with George, but his infidelity largely doesn’t matter after she decides she doesn’t love him. Peter cheating on his wife is pretty much not a big problem at all and just adds to reasons why he is a ‘bad person’ in season 1. There is also a second element that makes this affair ‘worse’. George’s husband is Peter’s best friend. We see just how distraught Grigor is about this affair, finally snapping and trying to kill Peter. George is framed as an ‘evil whore’ for cheating on her husband with his best friend, while no one mentions how Peter is fucking his best friend’s wife. Peter is the emperor of Russia. He literally could have chosen anyone to be his mistress and he chose his best friend’s wife. Additionally, in the 18th century ‘mistress of the king’ was a legitimate position and one of the only ways for women to improve their position in court. She also makes many references to how she only does this to keep her (and Grigor’s) position in court. (See scenes from s1e5 and s1e9)
3. Peter and Joanna: this one is also a mess. Joanna is obviously framed as bad for trying to seduce her daughter’s husband. Peter is framed as in the wrong— but there is a bit of ‘he couldn’t help himself because Joanna seduced him’— but mostly because of who he cheated with. It’s not that big of a deal that he cheated, it’s bad because he fucked her mother. (And then she fell out the window and died and he covered it up)
4. Grigor and Marial: Similarly to Catherine and Leo, this relationship is also ‘person finds true love outside of their evil spouse’ except George was not an abusive murderous tyrant, but that’s besides the point. This affair is framed as very triumphant for Grigor; he has finally escaped his toxic marriage! Even though his relationship with Marial is very toxic. She is constantly rude to him, lies to him, hates his friends, not to mention how she treats him after Peter’s death. She wants to be the only person in his life. When George returns from France to find that her husband has left her for another woman, she is justifiably upset but is framed by the narrative as in the wrong even though she does nothing to break up Grigor and Marial. Marial is also married to Maxim but he’s 11 so it doesn’t really matter, and the fact that he is upset about her infidelity is played for laughs more than anything.
Honorable mentions:
- Hugo and Agnes: they both make passes at other people but are both always in on it
- Catherine and the American ambassador: it’s fine because she does it to get back at Peter for fucking her mother
- Peter’s countless hookups: don’t matter because they mostly happen when he and Catherine are not in love
- Tatyana and Arkady: Arkady gets really defensive at the idea of Tatyana doing anything with Peter, but she wants to take George’s place as his mistress. This is pretty evident when they think Pugachev is Peter and Tatyana is desperately trying to fuck him. It doesn’t amount to much of anything
When you look at all these relationships and how they are framed, one thing stands out. The only person who is vilified for cheating is George. Even though the dynamic between her, Peter, and Grigor is super complex, the one takeaway the narrative and most people in the fandom get is ‘George is an evil slut’. Even when she gets her ‘punishment’ and loses Peter, Grigor, and some of her standing in court, it’s still not enough and people want her dead. The theme turns out to be ‘cheating is only bad if you’re George’.
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ladystrallan · 2 months
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This Love Chapter 10 posted!
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Read chapter 10 (Sparks Fly) here
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ladystrallan · 2 months
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The writers of The Great: Grigor and George are over! He’s with Marial now!
Me, going down with my ship:
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ladystrallan · 3 months
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ladystrallan · 3 months
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tfw had she not been so sure that u loved her she should have never risked marrying Lionel
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ladystrallan · 3 months
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New chapter of This Love!
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Read chapter 9 (Back to December) here
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ladystrallan · 3 months
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Holiday fic!
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Happy holidays everyone! Check out my new holiday G&G fic ‘tis the damn season (inspired by the Taylor Swift song) here
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ladystrallan · 4 months
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New chapter of Even If She Falls posted!
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Chapter 7: Sometimes
George and Peter play Dare while Grigor is away on a hunting trip
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ladystrallan · 4 months
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feeling many emotions about how sibella hallward was clearly the smartest character in gentleman’s guide but she obfuscated it with inane conversation and an obsession with pink and a fickle personality because she knew the only way to survive as a woman from her background was to play dumb and marry rich and in the end it still bit her in the ass because lionel turned out to be a (strongly hinted at) jerk who made her abandon much of the facade she’d cultivated to even maintain a shred of individuality in her own carefully curated servitude like. sibella always knew she would wind up playing second fiddle to a man but tried to ensure she chose a good one that would allow her to play second fiddle the way She Wanted but then lionel took control of her life and ripped even that small bit of freedom she had left away from her! she was so smart and played all her cards right even at the expense of her own relationship with monty and it failed her! god!!!
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ladystrallan · 4 months
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ao3 wrapped [writers edition]
How many words have you written this year?
How many works did you publish this year?
What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?
What work of yours has the most hits?
What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?
Favorite title you used
If you use song lyrics, which artist’s songs did you pull from the most?
Pairing you wrote the most for this year?
Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?
What work was the quickest to write?
What work took you the longest to write?
How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?
What’s your longest work of the year?
What’s your shortest work of the year?
What WIP are you taking into next year with you?
What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?
Your favorite character to write this year?
The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?
What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?
Which work of yours have you reread the most?
How many kudos in total did you get this year?
Which work has the most comments?
Did you do any collaborative works this year?
Did you write any gifts this year?
Did you receive any gifts this year?
What’s your most common category?
What do you listen to while writing?
Favorite work you wrote this year?
Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?
Biggest surprise while writing this year?
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ladystrallan · 4 months
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I still agree with this, but New Year’s Day 100% belongs to Grigor/George
Reputation is such a Peter/Catherine album
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ladystrallan · 4 months
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Not an ask, but really a statement. Glad to see more people call out Marial. It was unfair how they treated Georgina’s character. On multiple occasion we’ve seen how rude, and selfish Marial is and yet she’s put on a platform. Have a good day from another anti Marial/Grigor fan
Hi! Always nice to see someone else who doesn’t hate on George for no reason and sees how toxic Grigor/Marial is. I have so many thoughts about this topic so probably expect more pro George anti Grigor/Marial rant posts lol
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ladystrallan · 4 months
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We got the Marial cut.
So recently I got to see the deleted scenes from season 3. This made it clear that it is not just the writers who seem to hate George, but the editors as well. Multiple scenes that make her look more sympathetic were left on the cutting room floor.
Exhibit A: a scene that confirms my interpretation of why George told Katya to do the play. For those who have not seen this scene, it takes place in S3E7 during Catherine's 'fun day'. Catherine and George are playing a game with the court to 'get to the truth of their lives' where someone gets up on the podium and tells a story and if the people believe it they throw roses, and if they do not they throw turnips. Catherine goes first and George tells her to tell a 'secret she holds in her heart', obviously trying to get her to tell everyone about Peter. Instead, Catherine tells the court a story about stealing her sister's pony. You can see George is upset that Catherine did not tell the truth after she told the court she would never lie to them. This is why George tells Katya to put on the play, Catherine is lying to everyone about Peter's death, making Grigor lie as well, and George would not have found out about one of her best friends being dead if Grigor had not told her.
Exhibit B: a scene that shows how truly devastated George is about Peter. This scene was supposed to take place directly after the tennis scene in Fun. George breaks down in tears in the hall, and then pulls herself together. We very rarely see George cry in the show. I'm pretty sure (need to rewatch to confirm) that this scene and when she talks to Catherine about Peter are the only times we've seen her cry. Ever. She is a survivor and even though she is deeply grieving, she has to pull herself together and keep going like she always does.
Exhibit C: a scene that shows that Grigor still seeks comfort with George. Not sure where exactly in the episode this was supposed to go, but it's from S3E8 Peter and the Wolf. Probably after Grigor discovers Marial at the party celebrating Peter's death. Grigor lays down in bed next to George who is sleeping. And he just stares at her, tears in his eyes.
George is not a bad person. She is deeply grieving just like Catherine and Grigor. All three of them just are dealing with it in different ways. Catherine in her delusion, Grigor turning nihilistic, and George hiding her feelings and taking it out on Catherine who she thinks is keeping a horrible secret. Grigor still loves her but struggles to see what their relationship could be without Peter. It is mind boggling to me that Grigor would propose to Marial after all she did and how disrespectful she was. It just didn't make any sense, much like George trying to marry Paul.
I will post later about my idea for a better storyline for the Dymovs after Peter's death. The one we got was just plain bad, trying and failing to make Marial look better.
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ladystrallan · 4 months
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New ask game:
Reblog if you want your followers to tell you what your trademark ™️ is. Like, what’s that thing that thing that really identifies you.
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