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fictionadventurer

One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.

Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.

There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!

emmaxrosa

RHAENYRA, HELAENA & VISERYS

#the Alyssa to Aemma to Helaena pipeline is haunting me #hotd #hotd spoilers

twasmayfield

sara <3

#sara myers #from tv #MY GIRL #this is amazing

my little freaks #myfreaks

#cytherea.txt #wurmple and dustox are spiritually in this but i didn't have the slot for them :/#cleaning out my drafts and found my freaks (my freaks)

Hindsight being 20/20 is realising that I broke up with my last (and only healthy) partner because of my OCD. Like my brain really did poison my perception of that relationship for no gotdamn reason.

#cytherea.txt #oh well it's WAY too late lmao

aphel1on

"character doing a c+ job of breaking the cycle of abuse" is such a crunchy dynamic forever. what if i'm giving my all to give you a better life than i had and i'm succeeding but "better" just isn't quite enough. what if my blind spots and deeply ingrained trauma and inexperience mean that you will be indelibly scarred by me despite my best efforts. what if my abuser's influence still bleeds through at times because i know nothing else. what if i go so far in the opposite direction to avoid it that i hurt you in ways i couldn't have anticipated. what if my undeniable love and unforgivable shortcomings came part and parcel with each other. what if your love and gratitude and resentment and pain came part and parcel too. what if we both knew you deserved better but i was all you had. what if we had to move forward and reckon with that. what then

#lorelai gilmore #leandra hawke #(I feel like wider general audience Gilmore Girls fans would kill me for tagging Lorelai in this #but real ones know that she traumatized Rory in a different way than she herself was traumatized but just as profoundly)#anyway who said that #oh and also this is just my mum

redstonedust

what if your doppelganger loved being you more than you ever loved being yourself. they're better at being you and everyone loves them and it feels almost selfish to want your life back. i want clone horror but the horror is that the thing trying to replace you is also the person you always wanted to be.

#btvs #many such cases in that show

visenyaism

it was butterflies the whole time. george you rascal

visenyaism

What did he mean by this though

#women aren't even allowed to kill themselves over being held hostage and force-fed anymore 🤪#not to mention how her entire life SUCKED and even when aegon gets back into power everything will still SUCK

alysmond

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022–) Season 1, Episode 9 | Season 3, Episode 8

#aegon ii targaryen #aemond targaryen #alicent hightower #hotd #hotd spoilers #this is actually so cute to me sorry #like aww you nearly killed me and now I respect you. IDIOT.#they're so fucked up and I love them 🥺

romanceyourdemons

you can tell the economy is doing awesome when every ad is like “play our slot machines—they’re weirdly addictive!” “no money? try loan shark!” “sports betting: the cooler way to be a man” and i swear to god i’m barely paraphrasing the copy of several ads i just saw i swear to jesus christ