SoMuchDepends

The Internet’s hottest IP is the Bridgerton Cinematic & Literary Universe. It. Has. Everything: the ultimate enemies-to-lovers plot, an entire book based on Speak Now by Taylor Swift, a Cancerian matriarch who is obsessed with finding love matches for her 8(!) alphabetically-named children, expertly placed orchestral pop covers, bee-based trauma, a man covering sex stains on the couch with a throw pillow, a bounty of man sluts, incompetent and/or dead father figures, Julie Andrews VO, excellent cane-centered prop work, and a lot of problematic elements that make much more sense when you realize the source material was written in the early 2000s.

This is it. This is the plot of When He Was Wicked.

my brothers in christ I’m begging you to take this as the joke that it is

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen (1813) / “Lover,” Taylor Swift (2019) / You’ve Got Mail, Nora Ephron (1998) / Fraiser, David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee (1993-2004)

Persuasion, Jane Austen (1817) / “Cruel Summer,” Taylor Swift (2019) / Bridgerton, Chris Van Dusen (2020-present) / “Motion Sickness,” Phoebe Bridgers (2017)

Emma, Jane Austen (1815) / “When You Say Nothing At All,” Keith Whitley (1988) / Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare (1623) / “You Are In Love,” Taylor Swift (2014)

Pride & Prejudice (2005) + ao3 tags

Emma. (2020) + ao3 tags

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Well, they’re obviously in love. And it’s messy and it’s groundbreaking and it really wouldn’t be so toxic if it weren’t for the fear of intimacy and bees.

Friends, it’s time for me to share another of my dumb little TikTok videos and none of you can stop me.