canonisrelative

i am lurking here for the mash blogs and that's all. i ship hawkeye with almost everyone and i'm really weird about sidney. all my fic is here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Canon_Is_Relative

[artgroves]

Natasha, for the winner of my @marveltrumpshate auction, who requested a callback to the Captain America panel "a flag is a piece of cloth"

I've styled her after the 1943 American wartime "We Can Do It" poster by J. Howard Miller. Natasha, an immigrant with a past who testified in front of congress and worked to root out the Nazis inside government, is rolling up the sleeve of her Nazi punching arm. She is wearing an upside-down American flag bandanna, with the caption #HandsOff above her head.

[allcanonisrelative]

HELL. YES.

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Wayne Rogers looking particularly beautiful on a lobby card promo shot for “Once in Paris…”

[janeaustentextposts]

If none of them married, how desperate would the Bennett girls actually have been?

Well the only dowry they have is £50 apiece from their mother’s small inheritance, per year; so that’s a total of £250 generated by Mrs. Bennet’s inherited investments per annum.

The Dashwoods (four women) are living on £500 a year when they are forced to live in Barton Cottage (with good-will making the rent presumably ridiculously low thanks to Sir John Middleton’s good nature, to say nothing of all the dinners and outings he invites the ladies to, which will help them economize on housekeeping costs for heavier meals.)

So there would be six Bennet women left to live on half as much as the Dashwoods are barely scraping by on. £250 is roughly considered enough to keep ONE gentleman at a barely-genteel level of leisure (presuming he does not keep a horse or estate or have any major expenses beyond securing his own lodgings/clothes/meals at a level becoming of a gentleman.)

None of the Bennet girls have been educated well enough for them to be governesses to support themselves, so…yes, their situation would heavily rely on mega-charity from others to just help them survive, much less maintain them in the lifestyle they’ve been accustomed to. The Dashwood women have NO social life beyond the outings provided by Sir John and the offer of Mrs. Jennings to host the older girls in London–otherwise they’d be stuck in their cottage, meeting absolutely no eligible men, creating a cycle of being poor and unmarried and too poor to meet anyone with money they could marry.

If the Bennet girls don’t at least have ONE of them marry well enough to help the rest before their father dies, they are really, truly, deeply fucked.

They may joke about beautiful Jane being the saviour of the family, but…it’s true. Mr. Bennet failed his daughters several times over in A) presuming he’d have a son, B) not saving money independently from his income to support his family after his death when it became clear he wasn’t going to have a son, C) not educating them well enough to enable them to support themselves in even in the disagreeable way of being a governess, D) not making any effort to escort his daughters to London or even local assemblies to help their matrimonial chances because he just doesn’t feel like it, E) throwing up his hands and shrugging when faced with the crises of Mr. Collins and Wickham.

Much as we are relieved on a romantic level that Mr. Bennet’s support of Elizabeth saves her from parental pressure to accept Mr. Collins, Mrs. Bennet is NOT A DICK for pushing for the match, because on a material level it very much means they get to KEEP THEIR HOUSE and gain a connection to the powerful patron Lady Catherine de Bourgh, which could be VERY advantageous for the other unmarried girls.

And the scandal of Wickham very nearly scuppers the chances of ANY of the other girls, and Wickham is a further DRAIN on the family finances, not a man who is going to substantially be able to support them. It is SUCH a disaster, and of course there’s not much Mr. Bennet can do until they are found, but he’s away in London and doing…what, exactly? Mr. Gardiner takes over and manages everything and Mr. Bennet seems happy to just let him.

Mr. Bennet does the ABSOLUTE LEAST, and actively damages his children’s futures by his inaction AND by his one action to support Lizzie’s individual needs being prioritized over the collective gain, which…I mean, Lizzie is going to be JUST as homeless and destitute as her sisters when he dies, so much good being Dad’s Favourite is going to do her. :/

[hillnerd]

£50 is around £4200 now, so about £21,000 for 6 women to live on today for the Bennets.

The Dashwoods at £500/year are at about £42,000 for 4 women to live on today.

Mr bennet definitely messed up, and mrs b deserves way more respect for the immense amount of pressure she’s under

[mythologicalmango]

I wrote an entire essay about this my last year of school, and my teacher thought I had lost the plot. He was my most hated teacher for other reasons, and this did not help his case.

[randomsquirrel42]

I am Here for the Mrs. Bennet Defense Squad. Yes, she can be unsubtle in a major way, but she is also terrified of the alternative outcome. However, for all her lack of tact, she is also hella strategic, as demonstrated by setting up an “oh no I’m stuck in your house” romance trope situation for Jane and Bingley. She’s a clever lady, and she sees exactly what kind of shitty situation they’re in, and she can’t get her husband to do anything.

It’s really easy to read Mrs. Bennet’s inability to be subtle about anything as a sign of stupidity or inability to understand “society” (and the Bingley sisters are inclined to do this and link it to her very middle-class family because of classism) but she is literally panicking at all times about a very real concern, and everyone is just rolling their eyes. No compassion for her poor nerves indeed!

[fairy-anon-godmother]

Ok so I started to scroll by. But the problem with the Mrs. Bennet discourse is that it can too quickly swing too far in the wrong direction. Yes, everything about this is (mostly) true. The Bennet women are in a really delicate position. Their safety and continued financial security hangs on Mr. Bennet’s faintest breath. It is in fact a conversation point several times that the girls are not educated enough to serve as governesses, but are of too high a social status to expect marriage to a tradesman. 

The problem is that while Mrs. Bennet is certainly the only one in the Bennet household taking this issue seriously, she’s also gone too far in the opposite direction. The point of the Bennet marriage is that it’s bad for both of them. Mr. Bennet married a beautiful, foolish woman and then didn’t live according to the economy he would have had to in order to leave her a tidy sum once he died. Mrs. Bennet held herself safe under the happy expectation that she would produce a son, who would inherit the estate and provide for her in her own age.

Once it became clear that wouldn’t happen (and remember Lydia is only fifteen when the book opens, so Mrs. Bennet might only have given up the idea that she would have a son possibly a decade before, when Jane was about twelve) Mrs. Bennet had to focus on her daughters’ marriages in order to ensure the family’s well-being. The problem is that she overcompensated beyond what the society she lives in found good form. 

Mrs. Bennet is a foolish, vain, nervous woman who is often called out in the narrative as an older woman with Lydia’s naturally foolish and selfish character. Her husband long ago realized he’d someone for looks who he was incompatible with personality-wise. The readers (especially modern readers) see his neglect of family affairs readily, and his gentle (and at times less than gentle) mockery of his family (particularly his wife and his three youngest daughters). But importantly, Mrs. Bennet also is meant to come across as a lesson to the reader. A silly woman who married above her station (it’s mentioned several times she secured the better marriage compared to her own sister) Mrs. Bennet doesn’t have the social graces she should have been expected to, as her husband’s wife.

This is an important plot point. Raising Mrs. Bennet up as the only Bennet aware of their impending doom as Mr. Bennet ages is important and adds depth to her matrimonial scheming on her daughters’ behalves. But vitally the way she goes about her work causes Mr. Darcy to hold the greatest of disdain for her and her family. It’s that disdain that helps induce him to persuade Mr. Bingley to leave Netherfield Park. This isn’t truly questioned by Elizabeth, who understands that her mother’s over-eager grasping immediately raised Mr. Darcy’s concerns. Remember, at this time there was an abundance of women who were deliberately setting out to marry men of good fortune, and desperate to make themselves amiable enough to secure that marriage, regardless of their true feelings. Mr. Darcy (and honestly Mr. Bingley too should have known better) would have spent his entire later youth and then adulthood on the alert for women whose intentions were only for his wealth, and not for his happiness. That’s important, especially after we see the great care Mr. Darcy takes with Pemberly and his dependents. 

Mrs. Bennet’s desperation is understandable. Her character (grasping, foolish, too needy and nervous to understand the social graces she must display to appear acceptable to men of the station she wants her daughters to marry) isn’t virtuous. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are intended by the narrative to stand as examples for what happens when people who are not of similar or compatible characters marry. Mr. Bennet grew so disillusioned with his wife that his reaction to his family’s financial insecurity is to make jokes and wave his wife’s concerns away as foolishness. He’s not really concerned with the future of his female family members. Mrs. Bennet on the other hand, doted on for her beauty then ignored and trivialized after that beauty lost it’s attraction, is left to indulge her worst impulses as she tries to snap up eligible young men for her daughters. Importantly, Mr. Wickham easily fools her as to his true character, even after he runs off with her daughter. 

While we look at Mrs. Bennet’s desperation and find it both pitiable and understandable, that doesn’t mean that she’s the better person in the marriage.  These two people could have been better than who they became as they aged. The problem is that in their youth they found a spouse who wasn’t compatible with them, and their own character deficiencies were magnified in the marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are intended as a warning to the reader over marrying for shallow reasons (beauty for him, money for her). Character matters in a marriage, as does mutual compatibility. 

[firekeeperannwyl]

@thebibliosphere

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I feel like it’s important also to acknowledge that while, yes, Mrs. Bennet pushing Mr. Collins on Elizabeth is completely understandable from a material point of view, it’s also setting up a repeat of the Bennet’s marriage that Mr. Bennet absolutely does not want for any of his daughters. Not just because Elizabeth would be unhappy, but because she’d be unhappy for the same reasons Mr. Bennet is unhappy with Mrs. Bennet.

Mr. Collins is repeatedly shown to be essentially the masculine equivalent of Mrs. Bennet: obsequious, social climbing, and utterly incapable of conducting himself in society without embarrassing himself and anyone connected to him. Charlotte is only able to handle the situation by either a) manipulating him so as to avoid him as much as possible or b) maintaining a stone cold poker face at all times:

When Mr. Collins said anything of which his wife might reasonably be ashamed, which certainly was not seldom, she involuntarily turned her eye on Charlotte. Once or twice she could discern a faint blush; but in general Charlotte wisely did not hear.

This is an objectively shitty situation for Charlotte to be in, but it’s one she went into voluntarily, as the benefits (namely independence in running the house and having space of her own) outweigh the detriments for her. Lizzy would not be doing it voluntarily.

Sure, Mrs. Bennet’s primary concern is making sure her daughters are not in poverty, but Mr. Bennet’s is making sure they’re not trapped in unhappy marriages for the rest of their lives. In both Jane and Lizzy’s cases, he is only happy when he believes that they’re choosing husbands of good character and compatible personality, and extremely upset if he thinks they’re not. Compare his initial reaction to Bingley’s proposal (which comes after spending significant time with him, during which he confirms his good character and disposition) with Darcy’s (which doesn’t):

Bingley was punctual to his appointment; and he and Mr. Bennet spent the morning together, as had been agreed on. The latter was much more agreeable than his companion expected. There was nothing of presumption or folly in Bingley that could provoke his ridicule, or disgust him into silence; and he was more communicative, and less eccentric, than the other had ever seen him. […] He then shut the door, and, coming up to her, claimed the good wishes and affection of a sister. Elizabeth honestly and heartily expressed her delight in the prospect of their relationship. They shook hands with great cordiality; and then, till her sister came down, she had to listen to all he had to say of his own happiness, and of Jane’s perfections; and in spite of his being a lover, Elizabeth really believed all his expectations of felicity to be rationally founded, because they had for basis the excellent understanding and super-excellent disposition of Jane, and a general similarity of feeling and taste between her and himself. […] Mrs. Bennet could not give her consent, or speak her approbation in terms warm enough to satisfy her feelings, though she talked to Bingley of nothing else, for half an hour; and when Mr. Bennet joined them at supper, his voice and manner plainly showed how really happy he was. Not a word, however, passed his lips in allusion to it, till their visitor took his leave for the night; but as soon as he was gone, he turned to his daughter and said,— “Jane, I congratulate you. You will be a very happy woman.” Jane went to him instantly, kissed him, and thanked him for his goodness. “You are a good girl,” he replied, “and I have great pleasure in thinking you will be so happily settled. I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.”

Versus:

Her father was walking about the room, looking grave and anxious. “Lizzy,” said he, “what are you doing? Are you out of your senses to be accepting this man? Have not you always hated him?” How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, her expressions more moderate! It would have spared her from explanations and professions which it was exceedingly awkward to give; but they were now necessary, and she assured him, with some confusion, of her attachment to Mr. Darcy. “Or, in other words, you are determined to have him. He is rich, to be sure, and you may have more fine clothes and fine carriages than Jane. But will they make you happy?” “Have you any other objection,” said Elizabeth, “than your belief of my indifference?” “None at all. We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.” “I do, I do like him,” she replied, with tears in her eyes; “I love him. Indeed he has no improper pride. He is perfectly amiable. You do not know what he really is; then pray do not pain me by speaking of him in such terms.” “Lizzy,” said her father, “I have given him my consent. He is the kind of man, indeed, to whom I should never dare refuse anything, which he condescended to ask. I now give it to you, if you are resolved on having him. But let me advise you to think better of it. I know your disposition, Lizzy. I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband, unless you looked up to him as a superior. Your lively talents would place you in the greatest danger in an unequal marriage. You could scarcely escape discredit and misery. My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life. You know not what you are about.” Elizabeth, still more affected, was earnest and solemn in her reply; and, at length, by repeated assurances that Mr. Darcy was really the object of her choice, by explaining the gradual change which her estimation of him had undergone, relating her absolute certainty that his affection was not the work of a day, but had stood the test of many months’ suspense, and enumerating with energy all his good qualities, she did conquer her father’s incredulity, and reconcile him to the match. “Well, my dear,” said he, when she ceased speaking, “I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to anyone less worthy.”

Mr. Bennet clearly isn’t going to forbid Lizzy from marrying for money rather than love – this is what he initially thinks is going on, and he gives consent to both Mr. Darcy and Lizzy anyway – but he really, REALLY doesn’t want her to. He KNOWS what happens if you jump into a bad marriage for the wrong reasons, and he is going to try to talk her out of it by any means possible. He has to be convinced that her attraction isn’t a passing crush or a coldblooded bid for Darcy’s wealth, but something real and capable of being maintained over time, and ONLY THEN is he truly okay with it.

Like, Mrs. Bennet’s concerns are understandable and rational given her situation and that of the family, but so too are Mr. Bennet’s given his own situation.

[greyjedimichi]

I swear I learn more about literature on Tumblr than I ever learned in high school

[bemusedlybespectacled]

#I’ve always thought this: #Elizabeth refused Mr. Collins out of fear she’d become her father #but the first time she refused Darcy? she was afraid she’d become her mother. (via @maxiemumdamage)

how dare you leave this in the tags

[comicgeekery]

In regard to the bit about Darcy and Bingley probably growing up with tons of opportunistic women throwing themselves at them, that really adds depth to Darcy’s first proposal.

He’s EMBARRASSED that he’s in love with Elizabeth. As he says, he’s tried in vain for months to NOT feel this way, because he’s convinced that she must be another wannabe social climber who won’t value Darcy as a person in any way. It’s how Mrs. Bennet, Kitty, and Lydia come across. It’s how he’s already perceived Jane (and why he encouraged Bingley to skip town). But he just can’t find the strength to let Lizzy go.

It makes me wonder what Darcy even thought he liked about her at that point. She’s pretty? Pushes back against his shit? I can’t imagine he’d thought it through that much if he was proposing while also clearly have so little respect for her.

But it makes sense that he’d assume she’d marry him. On a practical level Darcy is an enormous catch for any aspiring bride. He would have been very disillusioned with courtship even if he hadn’t had the awful scare of Wickham nearly running off with his sister. He probably thought he could recite a recipe for bread pudding with a “Hey, let’s get married” at the end and still be accepted.

Darcy may have been shocked at being rejected, but it was also an enormous wake-up call to him. Elizabeth outlined perfectly why she would deeply resent him and I think the heart of that was his utter lack of respect for her. Even if the Bennets were all awful people, even if Jane was just a gold digger, that family is still where Elizabeth was from. He has no right to tell her she should not love them, even be ashamed of them, while simultaneously expecting her to unite their families.

And I think he felt particularly bad about everything with Jane once he realized how Elizabeth loved her. After all, Georgiana is possibly the most important person in the world to him. How would he feel about someone who ruined a love match for her.

Darcy is frequently upheld as the gold standard for romantic leading men. I think a lot of people assume it’s because he’s a jerk who falls in love and then makes an exception to be kind to the heroine. But it’s not. It’s because he 1. Was actually less of a jerk than it seemed and 2. He realized he had hurt people and went out of his way to make amends for that. Darcy and Elizabeth both genuinely grew and became better people through what they learned from each other.

[caddyxjellyby]

Hawkeye’s book references

If by Rudyard Kipling “If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs, you probably haven’t checked with your answering service.” - Welcome to Korea

Gunga Din by Kipling “In India’s sunny clime, where I used to spend my time…” - Dear Dad Three “You’re a better nurse than I am, Gunga Din.” - CAVE

Keep reading

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[leguin]

Virginia Woolf and her lover, the English poet Vita Sackville-West

“Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads — They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.”

- Virginia Woolf’s 1927 Love Letter to Vita Sackville-West

[janetmillslove]

[yama-bato]

Andre Kertesz

Dive, 1935

[dr3am-operator]

the best character of anything ever

hawkeye pierce ⋆ rock the casbah

[seefasters]

i love that hawkeye is a big wimp and that he doesn’t understand cars or machinery and that he cheated his way onto a sports scholarship and he’s effeminate and that doesn’t make him question his masculinity even once and that he’s a brilliant surgeon and a giant flirt and is kind and brave when it counts but is still the worlds biggest coward and hates exercise and lousy at sports and has the worst posture known to man. the guy ever <3

[not-trustworthy]

“beej, i’m aghast” “okay”

[jaredandjensen]

15x19 - Inherit the Earth

[brsb4hls]

Ok, but if you wanna circle that Siken quote around, maybe post the whole thing?

The second part is the important one.

Also, for those who still can't seperate fiction from reality and are obvi already pestering him, because he dared to name that ship:

[silviacrossdresser]

By british cartoonist Smilby (Francis Wilford-Smith, 1927-2009).

[allcanonisrelative]

So, so, so

This is a love letter to the beloved author of the books that are most deeply rooted in my soul, the unparalleled @meganwhalenturner. My sister and I have loved read reread discussed analyzed cried and rejoiced over your stories since we were very small (I was 10 in ‘96 and she was 7, though we were probably a little older than that when she first blithely took The Thief down from our local library shelf and then insisted that I read it too).

We met you in Chicago a few years ago, for the release of Moira’s Pen.

It’s been awhile since she and I lived close to each other, but your books have always helped us stay connected because there is always, ALWAYS something new to be discovered and discussed, and whenever we flail about them to each other we rekindle our love for your world and your characters.

Las week we immortalized (ha!) that love with some very special ink.

(halfway through getting mine — I went first — she realized that we will never actually be able to explain what they mean to someone who hasn’t read the book. I guess we’ll be adopting a familiar phrase….. Not Telling!)

Even as I write this we’ve been texting with one of our oldest friends, our partner in all things Thiefy, and the same vibe of love and connection is sparking through all of us all over again. Though we don’t see each other often, the thrill of getting to geek out with each other is truly unparalleled. And we want you know how much joy you’ve brought to our lives. Thank you for your words and your stories and your kindness to your fans!

Be blessed in your endeavors.

[worldsentwined]

Immakuk and Ennikar they anointed each other with the oil of the gods made only for the gods

So a few weeks ago @shaelit asked if anyone had drawn that scene, and then the request got shared in the QT discord server and I was bullied into drawing it lovingly reminded that I have the ability to draw. Anyway, it was high time I did some art from these myths, the Immakuk and Ennikar stories are my favorite in the series and this one is a particular favorite.

[everywaythatmatters]

Attolia broke an amphora once…

[thelatecaptainpierce]

they’re cute :)

[inkonice-main]

"(...) I fear that it is at a cost which will give pain to my friends, and especially, my dear Watson, to you."

-Sherlock Holmes, The Final Problem