musings

20 - She/Her - various things

[dusk-muse]

Dusk's Intro Post

Hi! I'm Dusk and I'm 19. I have a serial reblogging problem and I generally write fics. <3

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[ghosttownheart]

Evangeline Fox is finished!!

🎨: maedoetis on instagram

[soapyyyyt]

they shouldve kept their swag im not forgiving anyone

[juiche]

20 years late is still fashionably late, right? So I just finished season 1 of Supernatural and dare I say I have a favourite brother 🫣

get a print here

[shblackwoodart]

[bethanydelleman]

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.

[akajustmerry]

friend sent me an Instagram reel yesterday with 1000s of likes that was basically like "pride and prejudice is timeless actually because it's about an autism4autism romance 🥰" and then the creator proceeded to cite moments in the book and film where Lizzie and Darcy are "socially awkward" and....listen. I'm far from an Austen scholar, but I have taught Austen novels as an educator and this kind of psycho-pop analysis that views characters as individuals with autonomy over their actions, rather than tools in a story written at a particular time to say something about that time, pisses me off more than I can say without sounding like an asshole. I'm sorry but Darcy isn't rude and awkward and even cruel to Lizzie because he has autism, he says and does those things because he's a wealthy upper class land owning man raised to see a middle class woman from a large family with no male heirs like Elizabeth as inherently beneath him which he expresses to her multiple times because it is socially acceptable for him to do so in a society where someone like him is privileged above almost all others. He is "socially awkward" around her because of misogyny and classism (PREJUDICE) and she is "socially awkward" around him because a woman of her standing at that time simply wouldn't have had much to do with the gentry but to actually push back against the shit that Darcy says would be social suicide for her whole family so she protests the only way she can which is refusing his advances (PRIDE). not to be the "context collapse is the death of media literacy" guy. But this is the problem with the kind of head empty, let people enjoy things, if I can't relate to it what's the point type crowd. Youse think you're being so quirky justifying incoherent and anachronistic interpretations with your rampant individualism, ensuring that other people never confront anything that challenges them in these stories like patriarchal misogyny and classism. Pride and Prejudice becomes an "autism4autism romance", completely undermining the historical context of its status as one of the great social satires about the class and gender politics that Austen so expertly observed around her. This attitude is why we have nonsensical historical dramas that actively hate history like fucking edgy bdsm "Wuthering Heights", Bridgerton, The Buccaneers, and even a 2025 Frankenstein movie where the monster is just misunderstood and does no wrong uwu etc. because individual relatability and catharsis is king over anything actually saying anything about anything now. Everything is relatable and nothing is meaningful.

[blossyossyossy]

i can't believe i've turned into one of those people who play silly ass games on their phone

[dusk-muse]

lol I really did disappear until my queue emptied. Welp, I’m back bitches

[bamjjwi]

don’t even talk to me i can’t do this right now.

[bonivers]

pushing back against oldest child stereotypes by making unwise choices and not being dependable

[hoonieyun]

thinking about jay getting outvoted on all the parts he wanted on i-land to getting a daesang

thinking about sunoo who got moved to the underground despite doing well in the performance to getting a daesang

thinking about jake who received the lowest rating to getting a daesang

thinking about jungwon who has had to take on so much responsibility at such a young age to getting a daesang

thinking about ni-ki who had to move away all alone at 13 to getting a daesang

thinking about sunghoon who had to face so many years of being reduced to a pretty face to getting a daesang

thinking about heeseung who was called cocky and arrogant for believing in his talent to getting a daesang

guys im emo as fuck

[antontual]

ENHYPEN “FANS' CHOICE OF THE YEAR (DAESANG)" 2025 MAMA AWARDS

[may12324]

The endpaper artworks I drew for Litjoy crates The Stolen Heir and The Prisoners Throne ❄️🌰🫀

[xo-iceprince-xo]

[orgasming-caterpillar]

I just saw this girl describe Six Of Crows as a "no-smut multi-ship enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, dark fantasy with paying-off-her-debt trope" SHUT UPPPPPPP. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP THE WATERING DOWN OF COMPLEX NARRATIVES INTO SOULLESS CLICHES IS LITERALLY GOING TO BE THE DEATH OF LITERATURE SHUT UPPPPPPPPPP

[xo-iceprince-xo]