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Overall media side blog, ideally new stuff but realistically the same 5 stories on repeat. Main: sage-thyme

[janeaustentextposts]

[crimsonclad]

The thing about Persuasion that just kills me is that the central premise— “I hope the person who broke my heart has a miserable life and I get to watch them be humiliated while I get everything I ever wanted” is so universal.

But Wentworth is only able to fully enjoy it for like A DAY before he starts realizing how terrible it is. He watches Anne suffer in silence and he hates it. He watches her being treated like an inconvenience and a joke and a piece of furniture and he hates it. He hears sneering comments at her expense and he hates it. He spends evening after evening in her company, where he is celebrated as a handsome, dashing hero while she is shoved to the side and ignored and he hates it.

He probably spent a lot of heartbroken hours out on the sea wishing revenge on her (like ten years’ worth), but then he gets to see it happening and revenge turns out not to be that sweet after all. He probably thought “I hope she never gets married to anyone else and she has to spend the rest of her miserable life with her miserable family, listening to them talk about nothing and regretting ever letting me go.” But then he has to watch her live through it, and it is just excruciating. Watching her bite her tongue. Watching her keep her eyes down on her clasped hands. Watching her silently accept everything as if she deserves it.

He’s like, “YES, it’s all HAPPENING! She’s all ALONE and PALE and OLD and…sad. And her family treats her terribly, and she’s— no one is talking to her. No one even knows that she’s funny and smart, they just— they just make her sit in the corner. She’s hardly eating anything. And she really isn’t that old, but they are acting like she’s dead? Her family is even worse than they used to be, how is that even possible? Why isn’t anyone helping her? Why is she the only person taking care of anyone? Why isn’t anyone taking care of her?”

And his nasty “she’s so altered I should not have known her again” comment that he KNOWS got back to her starts ringing in his ears. And his cocky “yeah I’m just here to find a YOUNG, HOT girl to marry now that I’m SUCH A CATCH, whatevs” approach starts to make him feel queasy, because she’s HELPING, she’s trying to stay out of his way and help him pick a young wife, and she hardly ever smiles anymore, not really. He watches her slip out of rooms when he enters them and he hears her laughing with her nephew sometimes but then go quiet when anyone else approaches, and he doesn’t know what to do. Anyway, every fandom has a bunch of Pride and Prejudice AUs, but I WANT PERSUASION AUS. I NEED THEM. I NEED THEM. 

[a-field-of-thistles]

mmmmm What shard would I be?

[cosmereplay]

congrats on killing god! time to find out what schtick you're stuck with forever. also i'm not writing descriptions for fifteen different re

[janeways-coffees]

I am. Mostly through a Conspiracy of Kings

[bethanydelleman]

It is so human and so not romance novel that after Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice reads Mr. Darcy's letter and accepts that Wickham was the real villain and not him, her reaction is not, "Oh no, I loved and lost him!" it's "Oh shit, I fucked up! I hope I never see that man again in my entire life."

[starwalkingpotato]

Ok, here is the OFFICIAL AND ONLY CORRECT GUIDE to starting reading Pratchetts Books. Its a multiple step process, so read all steps carefully otherwise you will be wrong and shunned to eternity.

1. Go outside.

2. Trust the universe for once in your life.

3. Find any of these: Library, Thriftstore, secondhand bookshop, a cupboard with free books, your relatives or friends book shelf or storage boxes ...

4. Locate the Pratchett Book.

5. The universe has now deciced with which book you must start with.

6. Compliment the universe for its wisdom.

7. From there on repeat the steps above.

Edit: Added relatives and/or friends to step 3

[oh-good]

Young Cathy and Heathcliff find a half staved unconscious Jane Eyre on the moors and poked her with a stick to see if she's dead. She isn't roused by their proding and they don't care enough to try and help her so it isn't mentioned in either book.

[catsbypawty]

Hello, tumblr user. Before you is a tumblr post asking you to name a female fictional character. You have unlimited time to tag a female character, NOT a male one.

Begin.

[mteverestaaaaahh]

as is the case with everyone their relationship is very thought provoking to me

[aweirdlyspecificamountofsnails]

In the beginning of the scene where Attolia pardons Teleus it says:

In the movie in my head, this scene is composed with Attolia centered, on her throne, with Teleus and the soldiers kneeling before her. The king's throne half visible at the edge of the shot.

When this happens, the camera shifts and zooms out a bit so the two thrones together are centered. Eugenides is not in the room, but his influence is now prominent and brought to the forefront of the viewer's (and Attolia's) mind.

[hycinthrt]

still rereading northanger abbey, so funny to me that catherine thinks she’s living in a gothic novel but she’s actually in a romcom while the tilneys are actively and knowingly living through the horrors pretty consistently

[elinordashboard]

just finished my reread and i am no longer just upset about the lack of attention this book gets but once again furious at netflix choosing PERSUASION to make a hip, funny rom com when that was supposed to be northanger abbey, like na is deliberately silly and meant to be a parody, the suddenly modern, sort of breaking the fourth wall would have fit so well with it and i am so so mad that instead they victimized anne and frederick

[elinordashboard]

like LIKE

can you imagine the random lightning and thunder whenever the tilneys say something mildly suspicious about their father?? austen’s interjections as a narrator that points out details good omens style?? bringing back catherine’s fantasies as dream sequences??? nobody thinks what i think

[firawren]

I love all of your ideas. Especially Jane Austen as a visible narrator, amazing!

Or, it could also be fun if every time Catherine says something innocent/naive/fanciful, Henry Tilney looks into the camera, either smiling like gosh isn't she delightful or deadpan when she's complimenting his dad or Isabella.

Hell, you could make it into a full mockumentary style, complete with talking head interviews to the camera, and it would still work! I want to see how miserable Catherine is on her carriage ride with John Thorpe to Blaize Castle and then cut straight to a talking head of Thorpe confidently saying "Yeah she had a smashing time. The best! Did you see how much she loved my gig? How could she not? Yeah I'm feeling great about how things are going with her."

We could have such a fun adaptation of this book if anyone in movie land just had a shred of imagination!

[cogentranting]

Mr. Collins would be such a fan of ai. He would love it. He would have it write scripts for him to use for complimenting people. He'd ask it what to do in social situations and then when someone would tell him "I think that's a bad idea" he'd be like "my dear madam it's so good of you to be concerned but I think the highly esteemed Grok knows a little more about this than a lady like yourself" and then he'd go humiliate himself publicly.

[last-braincell-standing]

Pride and prejudice is the one thing where whenever I try an adaptation I always think "man I could be reading pride and prejudice rn" and then I go do that instead

[nooneinnportant]

AHJSUXUDJWJDUDD Look at this absolute masterpiece my friend @lorush1 drew for me after I got them to read the cosmere and finally fulfilling my long held wish to see Jasnah Kholin in a suit.

[hoidianslips]

If I was forced by society to only function as an auditory learner, I too would devote myself to the military industrial complex and become a killing machine.

[gettiregretti]

No one asked but I think the secret to making the enemies-to-lovers trip work is respect. They can loath each other, but they have to loath each other as equals. Like “sorry but no one else is allowed to murder this man but me” + “it’s an honor and privilege to despise you.”

[zombeesknees]

#oh that is KEY #it’s enemies-to-lovers not ‘just some upsetting person-to-lovers’ #they have to Matter to you in one specific direction of which the polarity gets flipped #the other one is also a thing but it’s a different Thing #enemies to lovers is based on them being the most important person in the room - it's just that the reason inverts

[sassaffrassa]

“...I translated it from the Ensur into the Mede a long time ago. I was in Attolia when I translated it into your language. I used to sit sometimes in the kitchens, and the workers there liked to ask me about where I came from. Once when they were telling stories of the Attolian afterlife, they asked me if there were stories of the Mede afterlife. One of them kept asking until I translated Ennikar and Immakuk and the Queen of the Night for him. I liked doing it, so I kept at it.”

Thick as Thieves — Megan Whalen Turner

[heisenbergsays]

tqt is such a special series to me esp as an enjoyer of women characters and even more esp women characters who aren’t perfect victims.

irene and helen get angry and lash out with violence. they fall in love and make huge costly mistakes motivated by personal flaws. they’re dangerous, brilliant, and clever - and both learn to weaponize those traits in different ways in order to survive the patriarchal systems over which they rule. they’ve also both almost definitely pegged their husbands, one of whom is kind of a god sometimes

their arc of going from enemy queens to allies and eventually family will live like a warm little campfire in my heart for the rest of my life, and i just want to hug mwt’s neck for bringing them into existence