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every time i read some ethnography stuff about villagers (h-g's, agriculturalists, it doesnt matter) i am reminded of how bad it is to live in a village. your PARENTS or your INLAWS get to TELL YOU WHAT TO DO (who to marry!!!). everyone is in your BUSINESS. if you try to just leave you will probably DIE. it sucks!!!!! i am so glad we don't live in villages!!! rootlessness SWEEP

hannibalbabygirlifier

Do think Hawkeye and radar should get to visit each other post war at their respective homes. Hawkeye spends a week on a farm and gets introduced to every animal. Radar ends up at a gay bar. Both are formative experiences.

#yes!#tv: mash #and your aunt hawkeye

mimicofmodes

In honor of a few lines in the trailer for the new Sense and Sensibility adaptation that made me roll my eyes fiercely, I want to reshare a post I wrote on Medium several years ago.

Thanks to Jane Austen, the idea of an entail that forces an estate to go to the next male heir, no matter how distantly related or unliked…

The most relevant bit excerpted here:

Another illustrative situation is in Sense and Sensibility. At the very beginning, it’s laid out:

Old Mr. Dashwood invited Henry Dashwood, his wife, and their three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) to live with him

The first Mrs. Henry Dashwood brought a large portion, and in their settlement it was agreed that their son John would have half of it when he was twenty-one; the other half would go to him when his father died (presumably there were jointure provisions, but as she predeceased her husband they didn’t kick in)

The second Mrs. Henry Dashwood brought no portion, which apparently resulted in no jointure in their settlement

Old Mr. Dashwood left his estate to John’s son, with successive life interests for Henry and John, as well as £1,000 for each of the daughters

Henry Dashwood had £7,000 of his own, either inherited or saved from the income he’d had a life interest in, all of which he gave to his wife and daughters in his will

This is much more complicated than the way it’s presented in both the 1995 movie adaptation and the 2008 miniseries, which make it seem like Henry Dashwood had been forced to leave his estate to his son because of male-preference primogeniture. But for the wealthy, inheritance was as much about what had been agreed upon by one’s father and father-in-law as it was about the law or customs. Most of Henry Dashwood’s estate wasn’t really his — it was his son’s or his grandson’s, and he was holding it in trust. What was his, he gave entirely to his wife and daughters.

#history #jane austen

yuripittfreak

I think people are prone to accidentally overestimating Baran’s age, being the confident, mature woman she is, or maybe it’s simply too easy to forget that it’s 2026. But, Baran is only 40 years old. A standard millennial (by age, not experience)

She was a 90s kid and 00s teen/young adult.

2000 = 14 years old

(fun fact, SpongeBob first aired in 1999, but I don’t see her having grown up in much of a tv household)

She probably had a flip phone in high school and got an ipod when she started undergrad, which I like to think she still uses and cherishes seeing as she’s a wired earbud baddie. That thing got her through so many study sessions. Her parents were probably quick on getting her a cellphone in case of medical emergencies.

Mean Girls(2004) came out during her senior year.

9/11 and the start of the Iraq war was the political backdrop of her high school experience/going into college, and I’m sure the social consequences made her life just splendid and would have no impact on her future career choices. /s

She would unfortunately also start med school during the 2008 recession, in California no less. There might have been some financial support from her family, as her father is a doctor, but she is not an only child, and with her medical care on top, it was probably still tight for a bit.

It’s stated she got the laser ablation in 2014, which allowed her to drive. She was 28, a little older than Trinity, when she learned to drive a car. And turning on the car radio, she would most likely find “Happy” by Pharrell Williams playing on every pop station at that time.

A year later, same sex marriage is legalized nationally in the USA, and Baran is planning on going overseas into an active war zone.

May 2020, two months into a global pandemic and helping pregnant women in Afghanistan with limited resources, Baran is 34 (around Yolanda’s age) and witnesses a horrific massacre. She goes home to a country under lockdown.

Still in the midst of a pandemic, she gets a job with the VA.

We do not know when she got married, divorced, or had her son. I think it’s safe to assume she had him after the ablation, which means he’s either 9ish and was born before she went abroad (my personal bet) or he was a pandemic baby and is max 5yo (less likely but possible). Either way, I assume the divorce happened at some point during/post Covid, but there’s no actual evidence to support that.

#tv: the pitt

joeinct

Queen Elizabeth II in New York with the Twin Towers, Photo by George Forss, 1977

#the photo was slow to load so I thought it would be the person #1970s reference

bracketsandunderscores

I can't believe dreams is only rated around a 6-7/10 ??? this shit is amazing. It shows that literally everyone is suffering, even the people who act strong. It reinforces the theme that all children are innocent. it gives insight into Mulcahy and Charles' fear of their own attitudes, Margaret and BJ's fears of being literally married to their jobs and being left behind in the process, of Hawkeye's fear of failure, of Klinger's fear of nothingness after Korea. It gives us so much depth to what was previously lacking without the need for anything to be lightened in order to appeal to the audience. It's such a needed episode for everyone.

#some people don't like any of the serious episodes #tv: mash

beejwatch

....weh......

#margaret charles foils #she learns to open up but he mostly doesn't #tv: mash

wildhoneyvalancy

This is a fascinating description of the story because while Bernice is partially Native American and her cousin Olive Marjorie is a “Saxon blonde”, there is surprisingly little emphasis on this factor in the story itself. I really don’t think Bernice’s woes in the story are caused by it. Even Valancy’s eyes get more emphasis in The Blue Castle.

Edit:

Okay, I did not consider the “scalp” reference. I will read more critical analysis on this story.

#I've heard of this story but I had no idea the title character was indigenous

princesssarisa

"Pride and Prejudice" poll: What did Austen mean by "In spite of [Lydia's] youth and her manners, she retained all the claims to reputation which her marriage had given her"?

Despite being young and silly, her married status gave her a respectable veneer

Despite what we might expect of her, she was always faithful to Wickham

Despite her charms, her reputation was always stained by her patch-up marriage

Other

Voting ended onJun 28

#I interpreted it as the second option and I'm a little surprised that isn't higher than 14%#polls #pride and prejudice #jane austen

sugar-petals

i watched the pizza in the oven. i am now dough and cheese

telomeke

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Tweet by Jamie Bonkiewicz @ JamieBonkiewicz. The tweet reads:

PSA: if watching two men kiss will turn your child gay, just show them a man and a woman kissing and change them back. Since apparently you think that's how this whole thing works you fcking idiot

End ID.]

dyk-this-musical-song

Visit Original Link

Do you know this Musical Song? #333

I know the song and the musical

I know the song but not the musical

I know the musical but not the song

I may know this

I have never heard this

Voting ended onJun 29

#I learned of this musical when I took a book off the library shelf and opened it to random page #and it mentioned [real life incident] which I then looked up online #polls

wrigglewormz

I love having mutuals and going yeah you WOULD reblog that one wouldnt you .

#yes and I also love 'that is absolutely not the person I expected to reblog that'

beggars-opera

Female coal workers at the Rose Bridge Colliery, Wigan, UK, 1860s

Featured in the book "Victorian Working Women" Portraits from Life" by Michael Hiley

marzipanandminutiae

this is what I mean when I say the Victorians understood situational clothing

because this was their working apparel

but sometimes you see picture combinations like this:

they did mostly wear more conventional clothing outside work hours! you probably wouldn't look at the picture on the right and assume that was a girl who wore trousers and worked at a coal mine, but it was! they did understand "hey a hoop skirt dress doesn't work for every function and adjust for that!"

almost like they were...human beings with human intelligence and flexible thinking! wow!

#women's history #1860s reference #1870s reference

caddyxjellyby

a future oscar-winning actor, a future doctor/professor of immunology, a future newbery-winning author, and a future poet/biographer. first photo from presenting avi

second photo from yesterday: a memoir of a russian jewish family by Miriam Shomer Zunser, Avi’s maternal grandmother. the photos may have been taken on the same day - the kids appear to be wearing the same outfits

#alan arkin #avi wortis #imagine you have 2 grandkids who both win the highest honor in their fields