Thoughts of An Over Active Mind

Michelle. Female. Hufflepuff. Amity. College Grad. ISFP.

[afirewiel]

Possible unpopular opinion: Jane Eyre should not have gone back to Rochester at the end.

[afirewiel]

In Seeking Persephone, Adam offers the Lancasters over £100,000 in exchange for Persephone's hand. Well, I wanted to know how much that would be today in American dollars. So I did some research. Seeking Persephone takes place in 1805 and around that time the exchange rate between pounds and dollars was 4 dollars for every pound. So in 1805, Adam's offer would have amounted to $400,000. So what would be that today with inflation? Approximately $11,289,333.33. Over $11 million!

[jercythesiscrying]

further note: adam offers £20k per remaining daughter + £50k for both sons = £110k

seeking persephone ep.1

£110k in 1805 = £12,325,191.61 in 2026

and now conversion in different currencies because i am a nerd lol:

CAD$22,712,000.34

USD$16,507,437.25

EUR€14,232,083.63

(sources: inflation converter, google finance conversion)

persephone said it best herself!

seeking persephone ep.1

[afirewiel]

And that's just how much he offers the Lancasters! Not how much he has total. I cannot even begin to imagine how rich he really is if offering that much is won't hurt him financially. How did he even get that rich!?

I get that it's generational wealth, but even then as Persesphone herself says, he's wealthier than the son of the king! I guess it helps that he's a homebody who doesn't like going out into society unless he can help it. So he's not taking unnecessary trips or throwing lavish parties all the time. And he strikes me as someone who is very finically responsible and doesn't invest or waste money unnecessarily. I do think he pays his servants well (none of them seem unhappy to work for him). And the upkeep on the estate must be expensive, but other than that, he wouldn't have too many expenses.

Plus, it sounds like his father was the same way, possibly even his grandfather, since his father grew up isolated from society. Three generations of men not wasting money can certainly explain part of Adam's wealth, but not all of it.

[afirewiel]

In Seeking Persephone, Adam offers the Lancasters over £100,000 in exchange for Persephone's hand. Well, I wanted to know how much that would be today in American dollars. So I did some research. Seeking Persephone takes place in 1805 and around that time the exchange rate between pounds and dollars was 4 dollars for every pound. So in 1805, Adam's offer would have amounted to $400,000. So what would be that today with inflation? Approximately $11,289,333.33. Over $11 million!

[afirewiel]

I've seen people say that Willoughby is the worst Jane Austen villain because his actions resulted in the birth of an innocent child and the abandonment of said child and his mother. While I don't disagree with with this, I have to point that Lydia Bennet could just have easily ended up with the same fate as Colone Brandon's ward. She was could easily have been pregnant by the time Darcy found her and Wickham and the only reason Wickham didn't abandoned her and married her instead was because of Darcy's intervention. If Darcy hadn't intervened, we all know Wickham would have abandoned her and you really think he would have cared if Lydia had his child? So, really Wickham is just as bad as Willoughby and by saying that Willoughby is worse, I feel like we're slightly awarding Wickham for Darcy's actions.

[afirewiel]

I just found out that Ryann Bailey, Will Kemp, and Jake Stormoen who played Persesphone, her father, and Adam respectively in Seeking Persesphone have all worked together before in Mythica: Stormbound. Stormoen directed it while Bailey and Kemp were actors it it. I've never even heard of the Mythica series before (apparently Stormoen also starred in one of the earlier films as well). Might have to give them a try.

[afirewiel]

And the actor who played Mr. Smith, the greedy inn keeper, is also in it!

[afirewiel]

I'm rewatching Seeking Persphone and the man at the inn who Adam gave the half-crown to is also in Mythica: Stormbound. This is crazy.

[afirewiel]

Having now watched all six Mythica movies makes the casting for Seeking Persephone crazy.

[afirewiel]

I just found out that Ryann Bailey, Will Kemp, and Jake Stormoen who played Persesphone, her father, and Adam respectively in Seeking Persesphone have all worked together before in Mythica: Stormbound. Stormoen directed it while Bailey and Kemp were actors it it. I've never even heard of the Mythica series before (apparently Stormoen also starred in one of the earlier films as well). Might have to give them a try.

[afirewiel]

And the actor who played Mr. Smith, the greedy inn keeper, is also in it!

[afirewiel]

It's annoying when you're enjoying a piece of fiction only to some across a character with the same name as another character in a different story that you despised. It ruins the vibe.

[afirewiel]

I just found out that Ryann Bailey, Will Kemp, and Jake Stormoen who played Persesphone, her father, and Adam respectively in Seeking Persesphone have all worked together before in Mythica: Stormbound. Stormoen directed it while Bailey and Kemp were actors it it. I've never even heard of the Mythica series before (apparently Stormoen also starred in one of the earlier films as well). Might have to give them a try.

[theriu]

I think we need more stories of forgiveness, because when everyone around us is shouting, "Never forgive them, forgiveness is weakness, forgiveness is ignoring what they've done!" it sounds empowering and sympathetic to us when we're the victims...

Until WE mess up. Until WE hurt someone. And then that same lesson tells US, "You can't ever be forgiven, they SHOULD hate you, forgiving you would mean forgetting what you've done." And I think the end result of that thinking is that we either wallow in our mistakes, unable to ask for forgiveness or learn from it to become a better person - or we vehemently deny that we did anything wrong, because only "evil" people hurt others that badly, and WE can't possibly be evil. And both of those results cause terrible harm to ourselves and those around us.

Forgiveness isn't forgetting - it's letting go of the grudge, it's saying you won't hold this over their heads anymore, it's draining the poison caused by the hurt they caused so you (and they, if they choose to) can move on. Sometimes the person we need to forgive is ourselves (and not in a "I did nothing wrong" way but in a "I will do better going forward" way.)

But many of us don't see that nearly enough, which is why I think we NEED stories that remind us that forgiveness is real, it's healing, it's POSSIBLE (although sometimes we need God's help to truly let go - speaking from experience here) - and that we can receive it when we need it, too.

[afirewiel]

Whenever I think about the First Quarter Quell (the one in which the districts' leaders had to vote one which children to send into the arena), I wonder if any of those leaders committed suicide afterwards. I know if I had been forced to vote on something so horrific, I would never be able to live with the guilt, not to mention being able to face the parents of the children who where sent to their deaths.

[afirewiel]

Caroline Bingley and Elizabeth Elliot would either be BFFs or they would tear each other to shreads.

[reverie-de-la-rose]

Something that’s occurred to me about people who hate Rose Tyler and Rose Tyler fans is that they frequently engage in superior thinking.

Only they understand the Doctor and so therefore it’s absurd and wrong that Rose is in the top 5 ships for every Doctor. And they are the ultimate authority to say that’s incorrect. Only they truly get what the Doctor’s character is about, so we are just being frivolous and immature if we say that something like the Girl in the Fireplace was wildly out of character. They are so sure that love for Rose was entirely isolated to Ten and completely believe the entire character of the Doctor must’ve completely moved on despite much evidence to the contrary. Because, again, only they can understand the Doctor and the rest of us are just childish immature people. I even saw one post directly state that they are too mature to enjoy Doctorrose.

They also think they’re morally superior because they “understand” that no one human woman could be so important to a 900 year old Time Lord who is supposedly WAY above that. Despite the whole point of the show being that said Time Lord doesn’t see us as any less valuable than them.

Then there’s the constant posturing as authorities on anti racism. Only they are truly anti racist and enlightened enough to see that Rose Tyler’s uniqueness must be a race thing. Despite the majority of them favoring another white character like River or Clara and not batting an eyelid at Bill being far less popular than Clara.

And I’ve said it before but it really comes down to misogyny and internalized misogyny. The women in this camp are proud that they aren’t like other girls or feminine people. They’re more mature and enlightened and not drawn to a cheesy romance like Doctorrose.

Not to say everyone who doesn’t ship Doctorrose is like this. But a very large chunk of those who actively have to post hate about it are.

[afirewiel]

Sense & Sensibility begins with a dying Mr. Dashwood making his son John promise to help his soon-to-be-widowed stepmother and half-sisters. The thing is, such a promise shouldn't have been necessary. During the time S&S takes place, as the oldest (and in John's case, only) son, it would have been his duty to provide for his unmarried sisters and widowed (step) mother. This is something that would be understood and expected without having to be said.

So the fact that Mr. Dashwood felt it necessary to make his son promise to do something that it was already his duty to do, shows that Mr. Dashwood was a shrewd man who knew John might shirk his duty. Or he understood his daughter-in-law Fanny well to know she might try and talk John out of doing right by the female members of his family. Which is exactly what happened. Fanny talked John out of doing right by his sisters and step-mother, who had just lost a father and husband respectivefully.

Even worse is the fact that Mrs. Dashwood feels it necessary to move, when John should have continued to let them live with him and Fanny. While neither John nor Fanny threw them out, they certainly did nothing to make them feel welcome or to try and stop them from leaving.

Readers of Jane Austen at the time would have understood John's duty to his family and would have been appalled by his lack of character and his inability to stand up to his wife.

So John and Fanny are more than just two annoying characters. They are far worse than that.

[sanguine-scales]

i think something a lot of people don't get is that years of mocking your child, even in jest, does in fact tend to get under their skin

[sanguine-scales]

a decade or two of even light verbal harassment is very much accentuated when it's an authority figure you are in every meaningful way subservient to

[kanerallels]

Percy "If I'm going to die I'm gonna do it well dressed" Blakeney is my new favorite

[afirewiel]

It had never occurred to me that Trip's "death" was just part of the holodeck simulation and might not have actually happened! Though, I had heard about the novels and how his death was faked in them.

I've heard they're planning on making a Star Trek series about Archer and his time as the first president of the Federation. If they do, they should absolutely either a) have it that Trip never "died," that it was all just part of the holodeck simulation and so he's alive and well or b) go with the novels' explanation of his death being faked. Either way, I want him alive!