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Delphinidin
@delphinidin4
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; Hearts starve as well as bodies; Give us bread but give us roses.
🎙️ this podcast does not exist: daily routine 📅
I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!
He’s being nosy on my desk
10h
A van delivering snooker supplies has crashed.
There are cues on both sides of the highway.
this joke is SO ENGLISH
Every time you go in a public place and something ISN’T disgusting it’s because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground it’s because somebody cleaned it.
Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.
I worked in a supermarket for 7 years and I don't think I can understate just how much cleaning you had to do for it to look clean (it very often where not in the places you aren't supposed to see)
True for food service, retail establishments, gyms, outdoor areas, schools, religious buildings, office buildings, etc. People usually only notice when a space is NOT clean, meanwhile every time a space is clean it’s only because of the diligent work of janitors, maintenance staff, custodians, parks workers, or volunteers.
Jun 18
Thank god soulmates (one person destined for you that you will never be happy without) aren't real but soulmates (people you understand and connect with on a special level, multiple, some of which you havent met yet) are real
Jun 18
@kleefkruid your tag is golden.
Jun 18
I know most adults have occasional dreams about being back in school. But I have a variation on it that I feel like a lot of people don't have: I'm back in school, but I KNOW that I graduated. I KNOW that I have a doctorate and I'm 40 years old. And yet I realized I somehow fell back into going to high school?? I think it's because I went back to subbing at my home high school after grad school.
Does anybody else have this variation?
Jun 18
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991)
Meanwhile, Gaston is also angrily moping in front of a fireplace about how it's hopeless to win Belle's affections, with friends trying to cheer him up.
But in Gaston's case, he is blaming Belle for it, and his friends don't tell him to do better. They tell him he's perfect just how he is, which ends up making him worse, and leads to his tragic demise.
Beast, however, is blaming himself, specifically his appearance, and Beast's servants tell him to improve himself. He doesn't do it right away, but ultimately he becomes better. Only then does Belle fall in love with him, which leads to his happy ending.
Jun 18
Jun 18
You know what’s a scene from Persuasion that we should talk about the way we talk about the “Wentworth pries a clinging child off Anne’s back” scene? A “this man is grade-A husband material” scene?
It’s the way Wentworth talks to Mrs. Musgrove about her dead son. He knows better than anyone that Dick Musgrove was a useless good-for-nothing, that it was a piece of “good fortune” for his family “to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.” His first reaction to Mrs. Musgrove talking about “poor Richard” to him is to laugh inwardly–but. Instead of laughing at her, he goes over and sits next to Mrs. Musgrove and speaks to her so kindly and patiently–“with so much sympathy and natural grace, as shewed the kindest consideration for all that was real and unabsurd in the parent’s feelings.”
Austen goes on for two paragraphs about how ridiculous Mrs. Musgrove looks while lamenting over her idiot son, and the entire time, Wentworth is keeping a completely straight face, focusing only on the fact that this woman is sincerely upset and he can relieve her feelings a little by showing compassion.
What could possibly be sexier than this rich, dashing, battle-hardened sea captain taking a moment to show genuine kindness, generosity, and compassion? When he could instead be flirting with two pretty, single women, or talking to anyone else in the room? What husband material. And Anne is right there, listening to this.
Jane Austen, in every novel: Does he care about people? Does he use his privilege for good? Does he have a sense of duty and does he act on it? If not, throw him in the trash.
Garbage men go in the anachronistic trash can.
Jun 18
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