feeling stupid or being perceived as dumb is genuinely one of the most paralyzing things to me because my brain somehow turns every completely normal human mistake into proof that i’m fundamentally incompetent and have no business participating in society
what if you were a LADY'S MAID and you tried to SEDUCE your employer's HUSBAND by climbing into his bed NAKED but he said NO and then you married a different guy who DIED and now your new husband is GAY and you are going to run SOCIETY together
anyway all this discourse about which period or fantasy drama had/has the best costumes is so stupid they’re all losing to the borgias which literally ate its whole budget up making the most stunning period drama costumes seen to date and got cancelled because of it.
Blake Ritson and Kelley Curran on where their characters are headed:
"The goal is to become pinnacle of high society, take down Mrs. Astor, shoot past Mrs. Russell. Be the king and queen of high society. They're always boundary pushing individually and now as a pair."