History is a burden, stories can make us fly

Aline, 28, Luxembourg, watch too many series, love music and books. Any questions? Ask me!

[my-dailydreams]

[goldenasters]

Happy Halloween! This is what I look like btw

[franny-banks-world]

@creepyblackalien

[eggsdoodz]

ohh yeah!!

[the-mikey-way]

“we need more weird queers!” you guys can barely handle a hairy woman

[the-mikey-way]

and frankly? some of you struggle with hairy men.

[strawberrygardenkisses]

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May your autumn be cozy, refreshing, and full of love.

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[isaipoet]

"If we can't find each other let love finds us together."

[franny-banks-world]

@creepyblackalien

[sprotteslaettberg]

Americans really do miss out on music experiences bc who needs Party in the USA (Miley Cyrus) when you can have Hollywood Hills (Sunrise Avenue)

[deadpoets]

LORELAI GILMORE + SNOOPY ☆ happy (belated) birthday to my favorite nina @labyrinthgf <3

[franny-banks-world]

@creepyblackalien

[zoesupreme]

no for real like sit over there and drink your little beverage and stay tf out of the way let me cook

[franny-banks-world]

@creepyblackalien

[molabuddy]

the insane experience of missing a fictional character . like you can always go back and reread the book , replay the game , rewatch the show or movie , you can always go back & see them , but you can never experience them & their story for the first time again . its absurd to miss them because they'll always be there , but you'll miss when there were still new things for them to say .

for a small time they were real & growing and changing and you hung onto every new word, but now all they can do is repeat the same story forever&ever & they're not real anymore because you know everything they're going to do. & you miss them. its fucked man...

[molabuddy]

in this way fanworks are like necromancy

[franny-banks-world]

@creepyblackalien

[tlirsgender]

I just think dating is a scam like 90% of the time. Joker voice And I'm tired of pretending it's not

[tlirsgender]

I can buy the concept of romance existing but the social song and dance of Dating specifically is so, like. Ok. So we're all just expected to walk around performing desirability & having coffee with people you find mildly interesting & Hopefully you will Feel Something for one of them. & if you keep it up long enough you can get legally bound and financially dependent on each other and have kids or something, not because you want them but because you're so fucking normal. This is supposed to be your #1 priority in life btw. Are you insane?

[tlirsgender]

And people will be like "you'll never be happy if you don't successfully have coffee with someone you think is mildly interesting, it's so sad that you're not having coffee with someone you think is mildly interesting" & I'm sitting here like I don't think that's true actually I think I'm doing pretty good. I have other things fulfilling my admittedly lower than average need for human connection, like friends

[franny-banks-world]

@creepyblackalien

[byjove]

dudes are like “I want a tradwife. A wife’s place is in the HOME raising CHILDREN.” and then have a slobbering rolling around on the floor meltdown when they have to pay alimony and child support in the divorce and their ex-wife gets primary custody. I thought you wanted her to stay at home and raise your children? you suddenly want her working 12 hours a day and not seeing your kids because you’re not fucking her anymore? smh.

[franny-banks-world]

@creepyblackalien

[lurker-no-more]

Well … points made, lmao.

[victoriansecret]

I've seen this post many times and I always want to make a huge history post with sources, but I just never have the time or energy so I will suffice it with this extremely basic post but: They're absolutely right, but it's hard to explain to modern people how commonplace this was in the period. Visiting and even staying at friends', family's (including distant) - or even strangers'! - houses was just something people did, for many different reasons. Sometimes it was purely practical, for example if you were traveling long distances and had to stop somewhere there wasn't a tavern or inn (or had some other reason, justifiable or not, to avoid them). Of course this also includes the oft-referenced going to the seaside for your health - if you didn't have your own home at Bath, or the North, or in Town or whatever, you'd probably stay with family or family friends. Often it was for entertainment, whether it be dances (and no, it wasn't just the rich people hosting in their huge ball rooms - with the way furniture was designed in this period to be folded up and moved aside to make space, you might cram a handful of couples into whatever room you could), teas, dinners, etc. Or outright tourism, like when Elizabeth visits Pemberley - by Austen's time, it had become common for the grand estates to offer tours, and/or have paid entertainments in the gardens like drink stalls or other refreshments, and even kitschy things like "hermits" living in caves on the grounds who'd "scare" guests. Some literally sold guidebooks. (I've been meaning to write a post about this practice, because it's fascinating and directly intersects with my research into servants, as servants often acted as tour guides.) I'd almost want to say it may have even been intentional satire on Austen's part - a lot of her work is satire on contemporary life - but I honestly think in this case it's just that was what life was like. Like it was so ubiquitous that of course her work would reflect it, not to mention that visiting different places creates opportunity for character and plot development.

[franny-banks-world]

@creepyblackalien I believe we've talked about this before: how freaking boring it must've been having to visit random people's houses and staying with them for an extended period of time. Living hell for introverts 😂

[sidneysheldon]

Sidney Sheldon, "The Other Side of Midnight"

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Tbh one of my favourite classic misogynistic 180°s is that back when I grew up, self-help and self-improvement books "7 steps to becoming a romantic goddess" stuff was brutally mocked, it was seen as something for silly women haha because women don't read real books and don't have the capacity for real literature and only want to live love laugh. There are many references to The Secret as this silly grift in the media of that time.

...and now with the rise of red pill nonsense and the Jordan Peterson cult and pick-up artists, suddenly you got straight guys out there specifically and only reading self-help books (increasingly many of them AI written slop with bonus misogyny disguised as "brutal honesty") and suddenly it's superior to fiction and prose and literature is a waste of your time and not being productive, suddenly reading about the worth of cleaning your room is The Grind. Except now it's called "7 Steps to become the Masculine Warrior Women Can't Resist"

[franny-banks-world]

And now that women have taken over the literary fiction field and are winning all the prizes for their literature works, what else have they got?

(To think that nerdy bookish girls have also always been made fun of for reading... oi)

[classycookiexo]

[franny-banks-world]

@creepyblackalien

[ejacutastic]

honestly fucking fascinating that people will pretty universally understand that thin people can be naturally predisposed to thinness regardless of what they eat or their activity level, but that so many of the same people cannot possibly fathom that fat people could have similar dispositions or that there could be any factors more complex than a "lack of self control."

[cumaeansibyl]

"Oh, it doesn't matter what I eat, I just never gain weight!" = normal, legitimate

"Oh, it doesn't matter what I eat, I just never lose weight!" = lying glutton

[franny-banks-world]

@creepyblackalien