Freebooter4Ever

Boots (freebooter). Pirate, masquerading as an artist, masquerading as an adult. 37. she/her. bi. FRIENDLY REMINDER: PLEASE dont post my art to twitter/instagram (the evil). Seattle/Pittsburgh/Los Angeles/NYC

[freebooter4ever]

cool boy

[aquarevolt]

© Livia Tsang

[freebooter4ever]

[colins-bridgerton]

#mr darcy being mr darcy #further proof that darcy loves his wife because if it were up to him, he would never allow anyone into his home #the man likes 3 people, his bestie, his sister and his wife

[ormundshightower]

The Other Bennet Sister (2026)

[freebooter4ever]

hmmm, i think what bothers me is that this series agrees with mrs bennet and portrays mary as objectively ugly. which nobody truly 100% is. my hope, as a kid, was always that one day someone somewhere might find me attractive even though i wasnt conventionally so. or that i would "grow up" to be "pretty" (it's amazing how long that hope can last until you realize that instead of ever growing pretty you just grew old)

i guess I would prefer a narrative that defies expectations. where instead of the writers needing to give the men socially acceptable reasons to want mary like her having this "fine mind", they could just want mary. like one of them might just genuinely find her attractive and enjoy her company and talking to her even if she isn't the most beautiful or smartest woman in the world. why does the show need to keep insisting that the male leads are infatuated with her personality and making sure the audience knows its despite her ugly looks. i mean how is that even going to work with sexual chemistry. ugly people are allowed to have sexual chemistry too.

[freebooter4ever]

lizzie and mary's conversation has me crying, fuck, thats what i was waiting for ;_; lizzie made such great points but it was also cathartic hearing lizzie being forced to stop and think that mary's options and experience in life might have been different than her own.

[freebooter4ever]

ok see is mary's mother really kinder getting mary's hopes up instead of just being frank? lol 🙃 of course the handsome rich man didnt actually want to treat mary with the same kind of respect he would a women he is actually interested in.

[freebooter4ever]

the handsome suitors hedonistic "im rich so all i want to do in life is never need to worry about a thing and experience joy all the time" is insufferable.

it is an interesting foil to darcy who was probably much wealthier and yet understood the weight and responsibility of his role in society including his family.

in general though the unequal distribution of wealth based on inheritance and theft of labor is the real evil.

[freebooter4ever]

i confess that maybe part of my problem believing in any of these couples is that they keep referencing mary's "fine mind" but in the original novel and in this she doesn't show any proclivity for studies beyond the basics. if i remember correctly mary was always a little dull and reduced to repeating the words of other minds instead of coming up with new thoughts and critical analysis of her own.

[freebooter4ever]

mary's mother *immediately* flirting with mary's young handsome suitor is so familiar it hurts, ugh. my mom would get so pissy when i, a teenager or even in my twenties, would get any attention from a guy rather than the guy talking to her. and mom would immediately tell me after that i was so ugly the guy must have only been talking to me because i was the only person his age in the room. there is a certain type of mother who simultaneously hates having an ugly daughter in particular but who also would hate having a daughter who draws attention because suddenly the mother isn't the prettiest person in the room. i never really knew if my mom was somehow jealous of me and she didn't actually think i was ugly or if she was just being brutally honest and didn't want me to get my hopes up and then experience rejection. she did quite a good job of making sure i never got my hopes up ever, lol.

the worst part was discovering as i grew older that she was usually right. most of the people i talked to were absolutely not interested in any kind of romance so i learned to just... not do that. i was much happier collecting friends.

[freebooter4ever]

"perhaps underneath that brittle exterior lies doubts and insecurities like everyone else. and she treats you as though you are beneath her to make herself feel good."

i do appreciate the analysis of caroline bingley's character, and how her cruelty is as much a coping mechanism for her insecurity as mary's self depreciation is of her own.

also caroline got some hilariously good insults. her cleverness shines.

[freebooter4ever]

oh noooooo the horror filled look of 'fuck how did i end up stuck with the loser girl'. 🤣🤣🤣 how familiar i am with that look. fond middle and high school memories omfg. the worst ones were during dances/parties or any kind of group conversations. but even the forced school group situations were bad - like square dancing when they would randomly pair you up if you didn't already pick a partner. and until i learned to immediately pick the other loser boy who sucked on his sleeves and never talked to anyon, i was always getting partners who cringed at dancing with me.

i feel like so many movies or shows pretend the female main character is a 'loser' but very rarely is she actually this bad. it's kinda hilarious and validating to see it on screen. like yeah lizzie was "slighted" but it was by one snobby man rather than by her entire peer group for years, lol.

[pingupipit]

omg his hair...

[beehives-indicator]

Rainy Lake, North Cascades

[freebooter4ever]

i do appreciate the well worn trope of 'romantic leads meet and one of them is already attached/engaged'. but i feel like mary, self righteous and pious and rule follower mary would never in a million years even befriend tom let alone allow him to flirt with her while he has miss baxter.

[freebooter4ever]

LMAOOOOO this is perfect! bridgerton was kind to penelope when she orchestrated her transformation. what i found personally was that getting out from the clutches of a domineering mother meant having no clue how to dress myself or what i liked. i had no camera back then but my college years were full of terrible clashing outfit experiments as my mother's bully voice in my head competed with my own instinct and tastes.

i am extremely gratified mary is having to go through an awkward phase unlike penelope who just immediately blossomed. feels more real to me. <3