i'm a female rebel..

elie | 24 | neutral good | rawenclaw 

[charlesleclerrc]

Yeah, I get it. I know you do.

[forestnsea]

You Belong With Me by TS is such a Steven Conklin song this season

[thegirlwithataser]

also this is me officially saying that I do not care about team conrad or team jere, i ONLY care about whatever steven and taylor got going on and that’s it. belly can have her which brother drama but me? i just wanna watch steven and taylor pretend like they’re not fucking crazy about each other until they end up making out against a wall again k thanks

[whetstonefires]

You know what I realize that people underestimate with Pride & Prejudice is the strategic importance of Jane.

Because like, I recently saw Charlotte and Elizabeth contrasted as the former being pragmatic and the latter holding out for a love match, because she's younger and prettier and thinks she can afford it, and that is very much not what's happening.

The Charlotte take is correct, but the Elizabeth is all wrong. Lizzie doesn't insist on a love match. That's serendipitous and rather unexpected. She wants, exactly as Mr. Bennet says, someone she can respect. Contempt won't do. Mr. Bennet puts it in weirdly sexist terms like he's trying to avoid acknowledging what he did to himself by marrying a self-absorbed idiot, but it's still true. That's what Elizabeth is shooting for: a marriage that won't make her unhappy.

She's grown up watching how miserable her parents make one another; she's not willing to sign up for a lifetime of being bitter and lonely in her own home.

I think she is very aware, in refusing Mr. Collins, that it's reasonably unlikely that anyone she actually respects is going to want her, with her few accomplishments and her lack of property. That she is turning down security and the chance keep the house she grew up in, and all she gets in return may be spinsterhood.

But, crucially, she has absolute faith in Jane.

The bit about teaching Jane's daughters to embroider badly? That's a joke, but it's also a serious potential life plan. Jane is the best creature in the world, and a beauty; there's no chance at all she won't get married to someone worthwhile.

(Bingley mucks this up by breaking Jane's heart, but her prospects remain reasonable if their mother would lay off!)

And if Elizabeth can't replicate that feat, then there's also no doubt in her mind that Jane will let her live in her house as a dependent as long as she likes, and never let it be made shameful or awful to be that impoverished spinster aunt. It will be okay never to be married at all, because she has her sister, whom she trusts absolutely to succeed and to protect her.

And if something eventually happens to Jane's family and they can't keep her anymore, she can throw herself upon the mercy of the Gardeners, who have money and like her very much, and are likewise good people. She has a support network--not a perfect or impregnable one, but it exists. It gives her realistic options.

Spinsterhood was a very dangerous choice; there are reasons you would go to considerable lengths not to risk it.

But Elizabeth has Jane, and her pride, and an understanding of what marrying someone who will make you miserable costs.

That's part of the thesis of the book, I would say! Recurring Austen thought. How important it is not to marry someone who will make you, specifically, unhappy.

She would rather be a dependent of people she likes and trusts than of someone she doesn't, even if the latter is formally considered more secure; she would rather live in a happy, reasonable household as an extra than be the mistress of her own home, but that home is full of Mr. Collins and her mother.

This is a calculation she's making consciously! She's not counting on a better marriage coming along. She just feels the most likely bad outcome from refusing Mr. Collins is still much better than the certain outcome of accepting him. Which is being stuck with Mr. Collins forever.

Elizabeth is also being pragmatic. Austen also endorses her choice, for the person she is and the concerns she has. She's just picking different trade-offs than Charlotte.

Elizabeth's flaw is not in her own priorities; she doesn't make a reckless choice and get lucky. But in being unable to accept that Charlotte's are different, and it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Charlotte.

Because realistically, when your marriage is your whole family and career forever, and you only get to pick the ones that offer themselves to you, when you are legally bound to the status of dependent, you're always going to be making some trade-offs.

😂 Even the unrealistically ideal dream scenario of wealthy handsome clever ethical Mr. Darcy still asks you to undergo personal growth, accommodate someone else's communication style, and eat a little crow.

[kiralamouse]

I love the additional points in the tags: #charlotte is a much less sociable person than lizzie#so avoiding her husband most of the time and not seeking out his company is more viable for her!#she also has more patience for people being wrong#partly i think because she kinds checks out and lets them get on with it which lizzie isn't too great at even with her mother#people have different needs like that's a thing okay#marriage#spinsterhood#pragmatism#like if elizabeth had to listen to collins talk for a few months straight she would be nearly insane with rage#he's not just a low-quality man he's a man designed to be the worst for her specifically#also note that because jane's marriage is elizabeth's fallback plan#darcy screwed her over personally by interfering between her and bingley#she ofc does not bring this up how could she#but it's intensifying the anger during the hunsford rejection i think

I hadn’t even thought about Jane being Lizzie’s fallback as an amplification to the anger at Darcy, but yes! I’m sure that “the happiness of a most beloved sister” is indeed foremost in her concerns on that - easily the most important thing - but I bet some subconscious anxiety is aggravating Lizzie’s anger here.

[forestnsea]

Did I watch almost the entire season 19 of Grey's just for the snippets of Jules and Blue? Maybe...

I'm glad Maxine is okay, and I guess that will be a speed-bump on the road still (in terms of conflict between them). But these two are definitely about to be two idiots in love in season 20 and I am so here for it.

I mean Blue only flirted with the nurse because for sure he thought Jules has no interest. and her being jealous was just hilarious to watch.

I also think, that him staying with Jules after her speech was a rather "big" moment for him. He knew he couldn't really comfort her, but he also didn't run away and stayed. And that feels important for his character/their relationship.

[booksncoffee]

if yall arent listening to joshua bassett you need to change that now because sad songs in a hotel room?? MASTERPIECE! smoke slow?? AMAZING! used to it?? sad but make it BOP!

[mymelodypink]

We’re at the sea radish field. We want to walk quietly, so don’t come here. —Ms Choi Ki Peum

[dramaism]

— Hey. My daughter Yumin will come first. Goodness. Whatever. To my daughter, her dad is her God.

— Taejun would die at my command. You know what? Junghwan. He’ll show up within an hour if I call him, no matter what.

[mymelodypink]

I thought you were cool today. And your article too. It was the only one I clicked ‘like’.

SHOOTING STARS EP. 12 — CHOI KI PPEUM & DO SOO HYUK

[its-chelisey-stuff]

THEY NEED MORE SCREENTIME!!!

lmao you two are perfect for each other. MARRY EACH OTHER!!

*SCREAMING*

I’m really gonna take as a pre-confession! lmao

They’re so cute!! And she was talking about work with him! He broke his rule!! Someone needs to tell him he’s falling, how come he figured out he liked Hanbyeol so fast??? Where’s that man now?

This what I consider to be a great redemption for the classic second male lead who is in a love triangle with the main couple. I still think they dragged his storyline with HanByeol a bit, but the scenes between him and Kippeum are so amazing I pften forget he used to like her. And omg they have a lot of chemistry and their personalities just click. They make sense together. It clearly shows that when that person is right for you, it’s easy. It’s simple.

I need this ship to sail soon because I’m in serious need of some healthy couple dynamics that are not overwhelmed with drama. I love main OTP but I need a couple that makes me smile like a fool at their moments, because last I checked, this is still a romcom lol

[silvertons]

[thesevenumbrellas]

Tumblr gifmakers are better than $1mil worth of marketing. I’ll see endless ads for a show and be like meh but I’ll see one good gifset and suddenly I’m on s2 ep10 finding blorbo from my gifs

[just-shower-thoughts]

You’re not useless. You can be used as a bad example.

[namchyoon]

This time, don’t run away.

SH**TING STARS (2022) dir. Lee Soo-hyun

[its-chelisey-stuff]

I’ve boarded this ship’s train. I think they’d be perfect together!

Yes! Fall in love with her. You were never meant to be the annoying second male lead pining for the woman he can’t have, but the second lead who falls for another secondary lead and then prove to be a couple the audience loves lol

The only thing I don’t like about this is that they waited this long to introduced them to each other. I fail to see how it was important for him to like Hanbyeol first. His character served as a trigger for Taesung to hurry the hell up and confess to HanByeol, but how did that help him as a character? On the other side, I think Kippeum was better set up. We knows she is a loyal friend and a workaholic, not even apendicitis was enough to keep her away from work. And now she’s met a man who sets clear boundaries between work and personal life. This dynamic sounds much more interesting and I can’t wait to see more of them!

[koreandragon]

bitch i’m going to lose my entire fucking mind

[seawherethesunsets]

Thank you for loving me. Thank you. 

I ended up saying thank you again. What if my thank you becomes a burden to you as well? What if it eventually becomes a painful memory for you? The thought made me afraid and so I cried again. 

LOVE ALL PLAY - 너에게 가는 속도 493km (2022)