Matilde

Clare graduating into Lady Whistledown🥰

The carriage scene (yes, I have watched it n times - where n>237): my favourite bit: when Colin moves closer to do his speech, you can see Penelope move a bit closer as well. She is so welcoming of him wanting the proximity! So so sweet!

I am really anxious about the second part. I want Penelope to only be happy :(. It's silly I know, but I don't want to see the difficulties she will still have to go through. Darn!

Having said that, I am counting down the days to the second part. I have never never ever counted down to anything. Mainly due to time blindness and difficulty in grasping the concept of future, but wow, this has got me mentally ticking the days! (9 days to go btw!)

Lady Whistledown: I understand in the books she gets unmasked and everyone knows. I don't mind that. But I don't want her to stop writing. She is doing valuable work in that micro-society of the super rich. Give them some accountability, that's always needed! I want her to be able to continue her work, maybe even more.

-To have the hyperfocus. To have the motivation. How? Sometimes works if you distract yourself into going to the room where stuff needs doing... and then say... oh, let me just wash this one dish... that may help. Sometimes… Other times, it may help to challenge yourself... oh the rice is cooking, let me see how much I can fold until the machine beeps.. Most times nothing works. Just leave the house, go out for a walk, f**k all that…! - Slip on shoes. Yes. For those impulses to leave the house immediately. Shoe laces, fiddly shoes will discourage you. Get shoes (that you love, that's also a requirement) that are easy to put on! - Hang everything hangable. I have command strips, hooks, no drill small shelves, the lot. Use all that to put stuff you use regularly. That way it's always on sight and after a few iterations you will remember where it is. and It's the easiest to put away. - The keys (house, car, etc) go in a very very specific place, preferably near where you get ready to get out, near the coats / shoes. But needs to be a proper place, the ultimate place for the keys and always put them there as soon as you get home. When you find them somewhere else, make the conscious effort (all our efforts are very very concious anyway) to put them in their place. Hopefully it's make the leaving the house easier. Backpack I find is easiest to put the stuff on to take with me. Less fiddly than a bag or purse. - It's all about minimising the steps required to do something. Or keeping the things as close by as possible to the place where you have to use them. That sounds logical... but that may mean leaving tissues on every single surface around the house. Or getting loads of lip balms and put them on sight (always on sight if you need to use it). Boxes or bags, it's a sure way of not using something and forgetting you have it. Stackable boxes, preferably clear, work for stuff that seems to always be around but you don't use that much. Try to catogorise the stuff and use to boxes to group on the same categories. It's easy when it's the hyperfocus stuff... cause it'll be loads of stuff of the same category. But box that stuff only when the hyperfocus is dying down. I personally haven't got any problem in leaving my hyperfocus of the day crap lying around wherever I am doing it, for days or weeks. It helps that I live alone with a small human (who I suspect has the same type of brain as I).

I don't know where to go with this one, just putting it here and see

God. She narrates the first Season. Also the book. So She knows (of course). She knows about the A and C relationship. I actually thought the final Nightingales scene was a private moment between Her and the audience. That A and C were oblivious to it.

On the second season, we only glimpse God in the Job minisode, so really we don't know what She knows (surely She's aware A 'lied to thwart the will of God'...).

So where am I going with this... I don't know.... thinking that... all this was Her (ineffable) plan... which yes, we don't know what it is but am I to expect it'll make sense at all? She'll show up at the end saying "Ahah it was all me, the whales and these two angels are my greatest achievements!"

Realising that this is the second time a show breaks my heart because… one of them chose god!

I don’t think there was poisoning of the coffee or change of identities or another clever ruse to negate the final scene, in season 2 ep 6. It was exactly what it was. And I don’t think any of them, both Crowley or Aziraphele are in the wrong… Of course C can’t come with A… but of course A wants to go and change everything for the better… it is what they are… one eternally cynic, one eternally optimist. Personally I am more inclined towards C’s pov, as are the majority of viewers. Because we are shown more sides of the story than A is shown. We are aware heaven is toxic as well, and we are aware that the Metatron is probably the manipulator of this whole situation. They knew C wouldn’t accept the offer…! And they knew that would mean the separation of C and A. For the Met in fact, both situations would be a win for them. What they couldn’t have was A and C off together being the power we’ve witnessed they are.

The kiss is so sad indeed 😔 I was sad as well when C left. I wanted him to fight a bit more for A. I think A in that moment was still too overwhelmed by Met’s offer that his brain wasn’t focusing exactly on C’s proposal or what it meant. But I am aware that C couldn’t have possibly pushed any harder, he knows, as we all do, that A needs to make his own choice and learn… or maybe, we the cynics are the ones that need to learn, if indeed A was right! That’s a lot of dances to be had! I’d like that 😉