Most ardently

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you

[bob-belcher]

The Mummy (1999), dir. Stephen Sommers

[asystolle]

PRIDE & PREJUDICE + earth tones

[chaudebrise]

“I love to walk around! I tend to walk around at odd times, so I can be a bit more of a ghost in the city,” she adds. “Fewer people see me that way, and it’s just magical when you see places that are usually very crowded, empty. There is such cinema to that. So yeah – I love to haunt Paris at nighttime!”

[molinaesque]

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. - Persuasion, Jane Austen

[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.

What’s in an Entail?

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.

[lovandfear]

- forgive me. edward ferrars. - elinor dashwood sense and sensibility (2026) dir. georgia oakley

[classicalcanvas]

Relaxing in the Garden, Argenteuil (1876) by Claude Monet

[eddie-redcliffe]

Mr Hayward, I am heartened to see you out in public so soon after your... disappointment with Miss Baxter. The whole situation was so publicly played out. I would have hidden myself away for a year, at least, with the humiliation of it all.

[chaudebrise]

Keira Knightley for Netflix by Zoe McConnell, October 2025.

[lokihiddleston]

ATONEMENT (2007)

[rhaenyraitargaryen]

ROSAMUND PIKE

via Instagram (May 18, 2026) Femme d'argent ("Silver woman") - in a Prada dress

[sirwilliamlucasstanaccount]

Elizabeth and Charlotte are portrayed as very close friends, but they’re 6 or 7 years apart. It seems unlikely they’ve always had an equal relationship, more likely it’s sort of an idolized-older-kid dynamic that has recently come onto more equal footing. And it makes me sad to think that Charlotte had to navigate so much of coming of age by herself.

I imagine a young Lizzie watching Charlotte get dressed in fancy dresses and do her hair and go to balls and having such love for her as to imagine she must be a catch for any of the boys!! And to be so excited to hear all the second-hand gossip and the drama and think Charlotte’s prospects should always work out if she wants them to! And any time a match doesn’t work out for Charlotte, she wants to hide her own pain or embarrassment, or she doesn’t want to stop Lizzie being excited to enter society, so she tells Lizzie they weren’t in love or he was vain, and she’s still searching for the right guy.

And Lizzie loves her so much she couldn’t possibly think there’s more than what Charlotte’s telling her, and by the time she’s joined her in being out, Lizzie just believes Charlotte’s put herself above these options and she’s still waiting for someone new, and better, and why not? She deserves it. Lizzie’s not blind to how people speak of Charlotte in society, but it’s because they’re rude, or pompous, or perhaps it’s a coping mechanism from the time Charlotte rejected them, and she cannot for a minute believe it’s been what anyone halfway decent has always thought of her.

Then when Charlotte picks Mr. Collins, it makes absolutely no sense! He isn’t any better than some of the options that have always been around, and hasn’t Charlotte been the one to place herself above those boys? Haven’t they always been after her for her charming personality and quick mind? Hasn’t she been able to choose any of them at any point but has decided not to?

Beside the shock to learn Charlotte was perhaps desperate to marry, and that she would be willing to put up with a Mr Collins to do it, I think there must have been a very deep grief in reconsidering that maybe no one in this town had seen Charlotte for how wonderful she was, nor had loved Charlotte so much as Lizzie had and as Charlotte deserved. And by refusing to see this earlier, and refusing to engage with anything beyond optimistic ideals, Lizzie had left her to carry the feelings of disappointment and rejection all alone.

[caluanthes]

I'd always feared another man would sweep you away from me. I never thought it'd be your father.

MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES 3x08 - Death Do Us Part

[jace-targaryen]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003) dir. peter jackson

[filmtvtoday]

PRIDE & PREJUDICE 2005, dir. Joe Wright

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Still Life with Roses and Decorative Elephant (detail), Marie Nyl-Frosch 

[lasaraconor]