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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

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❋ * 𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 * ❋ sunsets and other endings

1. living for the hope of it all 2. late summer made poets of us both 3. I left my sadness on the screened-in porch 4. spritz spills and second chances 5. something about sea glass and the way you looked at me 6. borrowed time & blackberry wine 7. prosecco nights and the poetry of almosts 8. this is what healing sounds like in a sundress 9. I’m in my fig jam and fiction era 10. sun-drenched, salt-slick, and exactly who I want to be 11. I do not mourn what I outgrew 12. a love letter written in the condensation of my glass 13. tangled in you  14.  a poem written in wine rings and what-ifs 15. I am too in love with my peace to reopen old pages 16. I still dream of your laugh under the late August stars 17. pastel skies and paperback love 18. bitters & beginnings 19. I forgave the summer for being brief—because it gave me you.  20. chalk names on pavement, washed away by rain 21. they threw shade; I planted a garden 22. there is nothing villainous about choosing yourself 23. soft, whole, and finally out of reach 24. your version of me is fiction. mine is poetry 25. champagne flutes, typewriter keys, and the truth 26. figs, freckles, and full-bodied feelings 27. too rare to shelve, too beloved to loan out 28. one more sunset, one more wish: stay 29. I left the door open . . . just in case the season, or you, returned 30. where the wild lavender grows 31. summer slipped like sand through my fingers—and I loved it even as it left

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I’m willing a Russell reconciliation into being with all my might, but barring that, I will accept any or all of the following options for season 4:

Bertha and Aurora set up a fabulous Newport season with their alimony. They invite Mrs. Chamberlain to a ball and the three of them, with Marian, rule over society — with Queen B is for Bertha at the head, of course. Aurora and Bertha make out in the conservatory. Charles Fane is hit by a train.

George has been kicked out of the 61st St. house and is living at the Union club after confessing to adultery. Business is going very well now but he can’t enjoy any of it because he keeps hearing about the amazing dinner parties Bertha keeps throwing — often with Mr. Merrick. Marion is back with Larry and makes him be nice to his mom.

All the women are suffragists and pull a Lysistrata on the dumb men in their lives to promote the right to vote. Peggy publishes her novel. Charles Fane gets drunk after crashing Mamie Fish’s party in Newport and falls off the cliff.

Bertha is a leading suffragist with a hoard of suitors led by Merrick. George grovels over the course of 3 episodes before she takes him back mid season and then they’re just on each other for the rest of the show.

Gladys has a girl and names her Bertha. They call her Birdie for short and it’s adorable.

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i am not an "apologist" im his lawyer & he is walking out of here a free man so help me god

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I will not be normal in communication with anyone until tomorrow night

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Here's the thing right here's the thing, Gladys has horrible taste in milquetoast men. So maybe Hector is just the man for her, actually

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julian isn’t actually going to separate Carrie and Morgan i say to myself over and over

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listen, i'm so tired of this caricature villain treatment of bertha. they're punishing her? daring to stop listening to her, to shove her out of the frame, to belittle her, making her stand in that room, humiliated, while she's talking newport success and they're discussing real man's business, ignoring her like she's nothing?

i agree they were bound to have a big problem because she lied and manipulated, but this? why is this season's central theme being conveyed through the main characters acting wildly OOC?

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Sansa left to the lions in Kings Landing

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Also, how dare they belittle women’s work and her unpaid labor and emotional and mental labor. Bertha wasn’t allowed to have a career, so society (charities, causes, the arts, etc.) is her career and sphere of influence. If she was allowed to, Bertha would’ve been a CEO. Besides, George risked the entire family fortune without even consulting his wife.

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This season George created a list of Bertha’s wrongdoings many of which are imaginary or not entirely her fault or hers at all but failed to keep track of all her wins for the family in the past decades.

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He also chose to go live at the club knowing that it will cause gossip, the house is huge and he could avoid his wife without the need to expose his wife.

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We all know as a woman back then, money comes and goes but a TITLE? That’s forever and Bertha knows that. I don’t blame her for doing what she did to ensure Gladys’ security. Marriage is a gamble and that’s the thesis of this season. This show is for and about women.

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the bertha russell fan club: season 3 edition (requested by @cassi0pei4)

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Hell hath no fury like a rich white man who doesn’t get his way.

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After George survives I need him to realise he was being a sexist and wouldn't be where he is without Bertha matching his energy

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George married Bertha because she was just as ambitious, ruthless, and power-hungry as he was. And now that those traits aren’t convenient for him, he’s casting her aside. He is just as guilty as she is if we go that route.