r/Franchaela

unconsciously and consciously they mirroring each other

I found this on Instagram. So so so beautiful i HAD to share it. 😍

All credits to the one who made it.

So it's clear that at this moment, Michaela's target was Francesca, so I'm curious... if Fran had been unattached, what would she have done? Was she just going to tease her a bit and leave it at that? Would she wine and dine her and romance her properly? Or was she just planning to take her to an empty hallway during the ball and thoroughly debauch her? For one night only? A friends with benefits situation? What was her plan for blatantly flirting with Fran here? 😂

Or were the heart eyes so strong that she was just like, "I just have to talk to her, doesn't matter about what."

How Fran Looks at her I would ran Away too 😭😭

In s4, they showed us that Michaela is not afraid of being independent. She travels without a male relative, which was very frowned upon at the time and could destroy a woman's reputation (maybe she has a trusted lady's maid?). We saw her drive her own carriage when her coachman got sick. And she suggested that she, John, and Fran organize their own breakfast when Fran was fussing at them for staying up late. I'm really looking forward to seeing more of this side of her and I hope that people don't view it as the show masculinizing her just because she's not a damsel in distress. She is a queer woman not only because of her lesbian sexuality but because she approaches life differently than most women.

When I first heard John say in Episode 3 that he and Francesca had only been intimate again for the past few months, I was pretty convinced it had something to do with Michaela being at the castle.
Especially because, at the ball, John mentions that Francesca and Michaela had been keeping their distance from each other. So I actually thought that maybe something had happened between them, or that Francesca was so preoccupied with Michaela that it was starting to affect her and John’s intimate life.
I’ll admit that now I’m wondering if I completely overanalyzed that line and if, in reality, it didn’t mean that much. But the way John phrased it really made me think that they had been intimate, then something had caused that to stop for a while, and that they had only recently started again.
So I genuinely assumed there had to be a reason behind that lack of intimacy, and my mind immediately went to Michaela 😭
Am I the only one who interpreted it that way? 😅 What you think ?

I noted hairstyle and coloring changed from s3 to 4 ,it looks slightly more red each episodes, not as red as PEN but still,

it’s actually hard for me to put into words how fucking annoying i find the discourse around jess’s “self-insert” when it comes to franchaela

they act like jess is the only person in the history of writing to relate to a fictional character. apparently, a writer writing for a character who reflects something about themselves is some unprecedented literary crime

and it’s not lost on me that the people calling jess a “self-insert” are often the same people who were desperate to imagine themselves as a “self-insert” for francesca so they could fantasize about being with michael

what great crime did jess actually commit??

the general story is still there:

fran meets john
fran marries john
fran loves john
john croaks
fran falls in love with john’s cousin
john’s cousin is fran’s endgame

that is still the story. the biggest difference is that john’s cousin is now a woman, which obviously isn’t nothing. i’m not going to pretend this is exactly the same story as the book. but the reaction and the whining are so wildly disproportionate to the actual change

(and don't come at me about the fertility thing or francesca not loving john enough. i do not care, and neither do you. no one gave a fuck about fertility after season 1 when people were fancasting henry cavill as michael and talking about francesca riding him like a pony. no one was treating john and fran's marriage as sacred then. the sudden reverence for their marriage only appeared once michaela did.)

and people have always seen themselves in these characters. kate, penelope, daphne, sophie... all of them represent something people can recognize in themselves. that’s literally part of the point of representation

so is it really such a crime to have ONE season where lesbians can see themselves in a character? especially black lesbians, who are already a minority within an already underrepresented wlw genre, and now specifically within a regency romance?

if the homophobes of the bridgerton fandom want to call that “self-insertion,” they can go ahead. i’m just going to keep enjoying the fact that some lesbians finally got to have this too

side note, i’m fucking tickled by how deeply conservative some of the people watching this show are when the entire premise is basically watching beautiful people get thoroughly debauched and fucked in increasingly elaborate costumes

this is where john’s grave scene was filmed.
Since it’s only closed for two days and I think they’re filming block 4 now, I feel like this could be the scene from the book where Fran talks to John’s grave??