Forest, rain and fangirling

Gryffindor. INFP. I love rainy days and too many shows for my own good. Multifandom blog. I love spoilers, so... NOT a spoiler-free blog. I will tag them, though. Welcome!!!!

[pineconely]

has this been done yet

(original image is from @fmamangacaps, everyone say thank u)

[nessa007]

The Other Bennet Sister (2026) + parallels

[useless-catalanfacts]

The first legal signature by a woman in the history of Catalonia

On the 16th of April of the year 1044, a woman named Alba wrote and signed a purchase document about what she and her husband were buying. This is the first time --or at least the oldest time that has survived-- where a woman signed a legal document in Catalonia.

Her name was Alba. You can see her signature at the end of the document: "Alba Femina Scripsit", which means "the woman Alba wrote this".

We know she was from the city of Vic, where her father Guibert was a teacher, having moved to Catalonia from Liège (modern-day Belgium). He taught his three sons and three daughters how to read and write, in a time where very few people knew how to, and even less women. He also taught them Latin, since it was a time where Romance languages (the languages that evolved from Latin, in our case Catalan) were not written down yet, they were the language that people spoke, but when it was time to write a document it was done in Latin. We see that Alba used great Latin, as well as an excellent calligraphy; but it's fascinating to see that she used a few of words in Catalan within the text, like era ("threshing floor"), casals ("houses"), coma ("mountain pass" or tiny valley), and puio (modern Catalan: puig; "hill") to describe the location they're buying. This was starting to become common at the time: the text itself was in Latin, but the specifics could be written in Catalan to make sure it was correctly understood.

This is the only document we have from her. But we know a few more things from other documents: she got married to a man named Jobert, they lived in the town of Santa Eulàlia de Riuprimer and had three daughters (named Guilla, Adaleds, and Magensburg) and three sons (Guillem, Ramon, and Artall), and from her husband's will we can see what they named everything in their possession: they had a piece of land nicknamed Coma Erma ("Waste Mountain Pass"), a house named Rosta, a cuirass named Claramalla, a horse named Giscafred, a mare called Gaçola, and an hauberk (mail shirt) named Omnia bona (Latin for "All Good").

Photos: Episcopal Archive of Vic / Marta Fernández Jurjo, Tània Alaix. Information sources: research from the book Lletres que parlen: Viatge als orígens del català by Jesús Alturo and Tània Alaix via La Vanguardia.

[snow124-art]

Pure chaos and happiness (in the background))

It’s just an accident drawing, juuust a little thought………….

The guys in the background are probably doing something like that "crazy walk-dance in the church" scene from The Office.

[snow124-art]

Pure chaos and happiness (in the background))

It’s just an accident drawing, juuust a little thought………….

The guys in the background are probably doing something like that "crazy walk-dance in the church" scene from The Office.

[creaturey]

i think r/BenignExistence is my favorite subreddit 🥲 i love these pleasant little glimpses into strangers' lives

[sinensis26]

You all need to hear this:

1. You probably dont suck at your craft as much as you think you do, I bet a lot of people are amazed at what you can make, and

2. If you actually are the Literal Worst In The Whole Wide World at your craft... who the fuck cares? What are they gonna do, call the police on you? Keep making your shitty little things, youre the boss of you, fuck the haters.

[selena-soto]

- joyce byers, will you spend the rest of your life with a tired, grumpy, stubborn old man, who loves you very much? - yes. i will.

[sentientsky]

repeating this to myself forever and ever

[didanagy]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995)

dir. simon langton

[sunsetbuddie]

hey so anyone else just, feel thin. sort of stretched. like butter scraped over too much bread. like you need a holiday. a very long holiday. and you don't expect you shall return? or is that just me and bilbo baggins

[borderlyx]

I wonder how beautiful life must be when you don't have trust issues, depression, mood swings, overthinking, paranoia, anxiety, detachment, isolation or fear

[forestflowerrainruins]

Today I realized that I'm done. With everything and everyone. I'm done. I've tried, many times, I was rejected, left aside and forgotten every time. I endured through it all. I won't anymore. I'm done. The person I've been all this 40 years is dead, she was useless and they've proven how useless and insignificant she was. Only a white canvass is left, and don't have the strength to figure it out or replenish it. I guess that's what I'll be from now on. Nothing.

[minuiko]

I saw that ask where you said you that FMA is one of the best series in existence. That's a mighty high praise!! Mind if I ask why you think its so great?

Okay anon strap yourself in because I am about to wax poetic here. FMA is basically everything I could ever want in a series and here’s why:

- a super diverse cast with incredible lady characters (who are not all warriors - we have mothers, doctors, civilians, soldiers, teachers - REAL pEOPLE in other words). Different cultures are not only represented but treated with great respect.- messages about the importance of family and friends - familial relationships in particular are given a weight most series don’t bother with. The romance never hijacks the plot and is developed in the most subtle, beautiful way- discusses genocide and how hate breeds more hate, discusses the horrors of war and the sometimes dubious morality of science, discusses religion and different cultural beliefs, all without getting didactic or preachy - arakawa has the best sense of humor that does not rely on shitting on characters, and she balances humor with drama and somber reality perfectly- Plot. Twists.- the ultimate message is about perseverance and hope despite the horrors of war? It’s about standing on your own two feet and fighting for what you care for, even in the face of enormous tragedy. This is what I like about brotherhood vs the 2003 anime - this message is entirely lost in the latter- excellent worldbuilding and development of alchemy/alkehestry/the Gate and Truth. I love the idea of equivalent exchange and oneness of the universe and how the brothers redefine and topple that concept entirely- arakawa is a master of not only setting up and delivering on plotlines (often setting up several at once without ever getting confusing) but she also has the best sense of narrative irony and use of symmetrical character arcs- every single character is important to the plot. Every one. Yes, even Yoki. She really knows how to create AND develop her minor characters (and make them enormously sympathetic or hateful, depending on which she’s going for.)

I could really go on and on with this series but these are just a few of many reasons why FMA is The Best.

[ellynneversweet]

Darcy’s introduction in Pride and Prejudice is really ‘what if you had just had the worst month of your life because your ex-bestie tried to lover boy scam your baby sister out of her share of your dad’s life insurance and your friend dragged you to a shitty party in a dive bar in the neighbourhood where he’d just signed a short term lease, and you decided to let your bad mood show because you were never going to see any of the assholes in this stupid shitty bar EVER again. And your friend ended up making out with a girl he’d just met there while you were stuck talking to her sister who was less cute and then her mother appeared and started trying to matchmake and started saying how if she was twenty years younger she’d clime you like a redwood and ooooh is that a black Amex, guess the next round is on you hahhahahahaha, while her other sister (how many fucking sisters does she have?!) flashed an obviously fake ID at the bar and ordered six vodka-diet red bulls and no one in her family except the less-cute sister even tried to stop her. And you went home and consoled yourself that you would never see any of these people again but then you met them over and over again because they live next door and your friend and the cute sister keep meeting up to make out but not actually date and then. You fall in love with the less-cute sister because it turns out she’s really witty and charismatic but she already knows and remembers and resents the fact that on a day when you were in a shitty mood you called her mid out loud in a dive bar.’

[bennetsbonnet]

Pride and Prejudice (1995) + Text Posts (6/?)

[angstandhappiness]

LMAO

[bennetsbonnet]

I'm always baffled when I see Pride and Prejudice (1995) held up as the gold standard for adaptations of the novel and encounter claims that it is completely 100% book accurate apart from (mainly said in jest, I know) the scenes of Mr Darcy bathing, fencing and diving in the lake because, while the appreciation for damp Colin Firth suggests we did in fact watch the same series, perhaps we did not read the same book...

While a very very good period drama, Pride and Prejudice (1995) does unfortunately miss the mark on several points. Mr Collins is not a short, greasy middle-aged man; there is far too much Wickham; we miss out on a lot of Mrs Bennet's rivalry with Lady Lucas as well as her reaction to Elizabeth's engagement to Mr Darcy and in my opinion, the biggest disappointment of all, is the handling of the Rosings arc.

Proposal aside (which is to me practically perfection) we miss out on the hilarious misunderstanding between Darcy and Elizabeth of her telling him where she takes her daily walks in hopes he will avoid her (as she believes their dislike to be mutual) while Darcy takes it as an invitation to walk with her (much to Elizabeth's frustration). Instead, we merely see a brooding Mr Darcy on horseback encountering Elizabeth and just... wordlessly riding off?! An interaction which looks all the more peculiar given Colonel Fitzwilliam's hints, upon paying a first visit to Hunsford Parsonage, that Darcy has spoken much of her and Elizabeth wondering aloud why Darcy keeps staring at her. That particular scene makes both of them look a bit stupid, as Darcy hears that Elizabeth might not have such a fond opinion of him yet still proposes and Elizabeth gets a hint that perhaps he doesn't think as ill of her as she wishes him to...

And then the ending is also always a disappointment to me, as the lovely dialogue between Darcy and Elizabeth post-proposal is almost entirely omitted, in favour of more time spent earlier in the episode on Wickham and Lydia. By the time the proposal occurs, there's not time for much more than a protracted double wedding. Sigh.

Listen, there's a lot to enjoy and I am not immune to the charms of a damp man dressed in period costume (or even less...) BUT let's also be realistic about its shortcomings and acknowledge that nothing will ever compare to the wit and charm of Jane Austen's masterpiece.