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#darcy caring so much about lizzie's opinion of him #he starts going out of his way to make small talk #and interacting more with people he does not know 😭 Pride & Prejudice (2005) Dir. Joe Wright
The most amazing thing to me about Jane Austen is that she staunchly refuses to leave any woman behind. It doesn't matter if a woman is an antagonist, a side character, or what, the reader is assured that they will be okay. This is so different from fiction at the time or even now.
Marianne Dashwood, living a plot perfect for a tragic death by illness to preserve the beauty of her first attachment and disappointment? Nope, she lives and loves with her whole heart again. Maria Rushworth, the fallen woman who cheated on her husband does not die for her crimes or even fall into poverty or prostitution, her father and Aunt Norris will provide for her. She is punished, but she's protected. Lydia Bennet? Her two sisters will provide for her for the rest of her life. Her husband's debt will not destroy her. Miss Bates? There is an entire community around her no matter what happens and her newly rich niece will provide. No woman is even left as a governess, Miss Taylor is Mrs. Weston, Jane Fairfax becomes Mrs. Churchill instead. Mrs. Smith is pulled out of her indigent state by Anne and Wentworth.
The only woman Jane Austen allows to suffer a terrible fate is off-page and dead long before the novel begins: Eliza Brandon. Eliza Williams, her mother's affair baby, is ruined by Willoughby. Colonel Brandon could easily have washed his hands of her and her affair child, but he doesn't. Eliza Williams is going to be okay. Her child will be okay.
Antagonist women never fall into poverty or die for their crimes, most of them are even in loving marriages. Fanny Dashwood is cruel to her mother and sisters-in-law, one could imagine her falling low in karmic retribution, but no, she's fine. Lady Susan, the delightful anti-heroine, marries a baronet at the end of her novel. No punishment looms on the horizon for her promiscuity and deception. Caroline Bingley has a loving family that will never turn her away and an independent fortune. Mary Crawford has a loving sister. Isabella Thorpe may have lost the big prize, but she has her mother. Never is a woman thrown to abuse or poverty, even when they have attacked other women. The only punishment would come from their own conscience or regret for the goodness they have thrown away.
Jane Austen somehow imagines a world where even the worst women are safe.
All these ladylike poses...
And then...BAM, Lady Tonitrus manspreading like a boss!!
we need to keep this circulating so it can find the people who are about to stay up for 3 to 4 hours
Something I’m finding a bit frustrating is how Twilight’s emotional stunting around love and sex is seen as something inherent to him and not something trained into him by WISE, and how many people seem to have blinders on when it comes to WISE’s stated goals and what they really stand for.
Twilight was a minor when he was scouted by WISE. They knew he was a minor; they were able to blackmail him because he was impersonating someone else and they knew that. They impressed upon him straight away that his work will preserve the tenuous peace between Ostania and Westalis, and his work directly impacts the continuation of that peace. They put that weight on him, straight away, as an impressionable young man, little more than a child.
Now fully grown, we can see how that pressure invades every part of Twilight’s psyche; every action, every choice he makes is given over-inflated importance because of the years and years and *years* of conditioning he has been given by WISE, Handler in particular, who as nice a person as she has seemed at times, relished in ripping Twilight’s psyche apart and building him into a tool for Westalis’s use.
This gets even darker when we look at Twilight’s relationships. I’d be comfortable speculating that Twilight has never had a relationship other than those he needed to have for a mission. In other words, relationships he was coerced into having by his employer. Coerced as in forced. Forced as in not his choice. I feel like I need to underline this point because I have seen takes blaming Twilight for tricking the women he had relationships with, as if these relationships were wholly his idea. He was told to find a wife and child at the beginning of Operation Strix with the usual ‘the world will blow up if you don’t succeed Twilight’ bs, so it’s way more likely he was told to forge relationships with women close to particular targets, and he was emotionally blackmailed with the ‘for the mission’ mantra that they bred into him as a weakness. In my opinion, WISE have acted very similar to traffickers when it comes to blithely commanding Twilight to share intimacy with women for their own benefit.
So what does that do to a person, when every instance of intimacy, of romance, of closeness with the opposite sex, has been for false reasons? What does it do to a person when every relationship you’ve ever had is not by your own choice, and on top of that you were told to ‘love’ this person and make it convincing otherwise oopsie, we might get into a war again, kids are going to be orphaned or die and it’s all your fault!
I don’t know whether it’s because Twilight is a man or what but most people can recognise that what Garden did to Yor is deeply unethical at best, and they only required her to kill; not torture, not lie to, not steal from, not have sex with, just kill her targets. Twilight is required to do all the above by WISE, and from the time he was a minor or close to a minor as well, but people don’t seem to recognise the deep harm he has suffered at the hands of WISE.
I have a theory that this is because we don’t see what Westalis is like currently and we only have Handler as a representative of Westalis, the majority of the audience take what she says at face value because they, like Twilight, trust her implicitly. I’d say this is a wildly incorrect reading simply because everyone reading this manga should understand the real-world parallels of Spy x Family enough to realise that WISE is the CIA. And like the CIA or really any covert operation operating in foreign territory, world peace is not a priority, the furthering of their own country’s interests is the priority.
The only reason why WISE and Ostania have their interests aligned *now* is because Westalis and Ostania both have governments that want peace. Operation Strix is basically a play at undermining a sovereign nation changing governments to one that doesn’t align with Westalis’s interests at this time, which is incredibly problematic even if the (stated) intention of preserving world peace is a good one. It’s completely in the realm of possibility that if Westalis’s government changes and their interests change, they can command Twilight and the other operatives to foment unrest and undermine the current Ostanian government, because that’s exactly what the CIA did in many parts of the world in the time period Spy X Family is set. We’re supposed to know this and distrust WISE accordingly. And when we distrust WISE we can see the cruel evil with which they have treated Twilight.
WISE took a boy who was deeply traumatised by the war, who had lost everything and used all the best parts of him to forge him into a weapon for their own interests. They straight up abused him, and we see the scars of that abuse *everywhere*; they deliberately made him into a person that cannot function normally, through emotional coercion and conditioning. That he has done horrible things for WISE and to other people in the name of WISE’s interests only binds him closer to them; he is not blameless of course but assigning full blame to him for his instances of deception especially is to absolve WISE of their blame, which I think is counter to Spy X Family’s broader point; that people wherever they come from are inherently good, but systems and governments are to be distrusted
honestly i think the selling point of romance for me (and where it usually fails to land) is 'can i imagine these people sharing an in-joke'
like, are they in cahoots. can they laugh together. do they have a similar enough or at least complementary enough outlook that they can connect over something being funny (even if it's funny in a fucked up way! sometimes those are the best in-jokes!)
that's not necessarily true love in and of itself, but it does feel like an essential component to me
Whoever needs to hear this: learning takes time, so take as long as you need. What matters is that you’re trying for yourself, that you’re not giving up even when education feels like it’s pushing you down. You’ll get there when it all happens.
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listen I know it's heartbreaking that Claudia dies and it's understandable to wish she didn't, but let's please not accuse the writers of fridging her. to do so is a fundamental misunderstanding of the story and is frankly insulting to the intelligence and skill of the writers of the show.
Claudia's death, and the overwhelming grief and regret her parents experience because of it, is quite literally the point of the entire story. she dies because Anne's daughter Michele died of leukemia when she was five years old and there was nothing she or her husband could do to prevent it.
writing IWTV was how Anne coped with the unimaginable loss of a parent losing her child. she created a story about a little girl that could not die and then killed her anyway. Claudia's death is a senseless, unavoidable tragedy, just like Michele's was. the grief that haunts Louis and Lestat for the rest of their lives is the same grief that haunted Anne and her husband.
so when you're accusing people of killing Claudia off to benefit a story about two men, please remember that in real life sometimes parents lose their children. please remember Michele Rice.
she's the reason Claudia exists.
she's also the reason Claudia cannot be saved.
I'm tired of all the pathetic whining about the portrayal of the demons in Frieren being supposedly inherently racist because we don't get a goodie little broken hearted demon who only kills humans because they're traumatized so Frieren can understand her wrong ways.
Like go watch kpop demon hunters or something if you need that kind of thing. It's literally in every piece of media ever and well executed too.
Stay with Frieren if you want to discuss Macht and the golden city arc. The demons in Frieren aren't evil, they're just incapable of complex emotions like love, empathy, remorse, guilt but also - hate.
What they are capable of however, is feeling the emptiness where those emotions should be. And fear.
I didn't think Frieren could make me feel sad for a demon but it did. Machts death was sad, as was his existence. Despite the people he killed it's hard to even hate him because he is just simply not capable of the emotions that would lead him to make better choices.
We know that because he desperately tries to understand humans. Spends hundreds of years on it. Becomes a servant to a human family, tries everything to make himself feel attached to them just so he can feel something when he eventually kills them.
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
This man will walk into court, put his hand on the bible and straight up lie if it means his wife gets off scot-free lmfaooo #real
True tsundere warrior of our times lmao
I love media where the underlying message is to be kind , even if it isn’t the main plot.
I love media where the underlying message is that you are not the worst mistake you made and you are not the worst thing that happened to you
I love media where the underlying message is that people can change for the better
I love media that’s like love, actually is all around us
I love media that’s like “we can’t save anyone.” “we can always try.”
as soon as the disorders stop disordering and the disability stops debilitating I will be so unstoppable powerful forever