Stuff and Things

[sophia-becketts]

tom + looking at mary

[ecstandsforerraticcowboy]

daemon x 90s dark fantasy

[bigsphinxofquartz]

(source)

[olecap]

one day in the life of the reunited odysseus and penelope on ithaca

[ahhhdownwego]

I really tried to tip the scales in your favor

[ecstandsforerraticcowboy]

100% self-indulgent ‘I need my baby blorbo’

[ecstandsforerraticcowboy]

obsessed with the way you draw daemon

tysm!!!! here’s some more daemon with the same design 💕

[succubusboyfriend]

practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance

[succubusboyfriend]

“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!

[reasonsforhope]

If you do not schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you

[nikoisme]

The beach is always changing. You could go to the same spot every day, you're always looking at a different beach.

[help-me-yes]

[princehoseok]

[bethanydelleman]

One interesting thing about Mrs. Bennet is that she's learned nothing from her experience in marriage, or alternatively, she thinks that despite her husband's inattention and mistreatment of her, her daughters should follow her example. She doesn't seem to care at all about compatibility. She doesn't consider which daughter would suit Mr. Collins, she just shoves him on the next one in line, who is the least suited to his personality, except maybe Lydia. She doesn't ever talk about the character of prospects, only their wealth. She goes from hatred of Darcy to immediately praising him and Elizabeth on her acquisition of wealth. Not even a thought about if Elizabeth likes him or not.

I think this is why she remains a largely unsympathetic character. Mr. Bennet understands that he's in a loveless marriage and he wants to save at least his favourite child from the same fate. Mrs. Bennet seems to genuinely believe that as long as her daughers have money, they'll be fine.

She seems to have accepted a marriage of very little affection for money and she encourages her daughters to do the same.

[thingsidothingsidont]

well, you mustn't forget that when all is said and done - this arrangement really worked out for her. She is valued by her friends, she is among the most important people in her community in Meryton, she dines with 4 and 20 families, for fuck's sake! That's not nothing.

She married for money and position and she got both. With 3 wonderful and 2 strange daughters on top of that bargain. Has her husband prepared their daughters or even herself for the future without him in it? nope. but that's what children are for! either the beautiful or the lively one will marry well and take care of her forever. So yeah, Mr. Bennet isn't perfect. He's a curmudgeon, he doesn't give a shit about her nerves and he always makes jokes nobody thinks are funny. But she is never hungry, she always has new clothes, she can go to balls and goddamnit - she made her marriage work, even if he has become more and more irritating the longer this goes on. She is still a youngish woman, and yes, thank you for asking, she and Jane could be sisters!

Her life isn't perfect - but then again, where does love take you at the end of the day really? love goes away but acres are to stay! And then her strange second daughter refuses that very same security? Yes, Mr. Collins is an acquired taste. But hell, every man is. Lizzy will have her house, 2000 a year and nobody needs to worry another day of her life.

Ungrateful child indeed!

[kamyysh]

FEMALES!!

or how hans capon taught henry to swim (they made no progress)

redraw of this work («Los canales verdes» (Henry Scott Tuke, 1926))

[avi-mation]

Earth’s Scapegoat and her Sacrificial Lamb

[emmaxrosa]

DAEMON & MAEKAR; SECOND SON SYNDROME HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022–) A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS (2026–)

[ondeadpeasantgirls]

thinking about how dragons increase the agency of Targaryen women yet fail to protect them from the control of their male relatives and from - pardon my lack of vocabulary - society in general. Rhaenys the lesbian can feed her 3rd husband to her dragon, yet she still has to marry him in order to continue her relationship with her lover. Rhaenys can disappear following her Aerea taking Balerion to Valyria yet a dragon cannot protect her from Maegor; a dragon rider and the king.

Alysanne can peace out when she and Jaehaerys fight yet she cannot tell him to stuff it when he wants their likely disabled daughter Daella married or sent to the Silent Sisters. The fact she doesn’t leave over this also tells us that she still operates believes in the societal limitations for noble girls; even if she tried to have Daenerys named heir.

Saera goes to the dragon pit after she escapes the Red Keep and her abusers because a dragon is the easiest way to gtfo. But having a dragon would also allow her to defend herself from abuse in the future. Jaehaerys rage as a result is two part 1) he’s definitely controlled who gets a dragon in order to keep dragons limited to the core line is succession and 2) she’s the daughter who humiliated him and threatened the paternal control over his “womenfolk” that he feels he is entitled to due to Westerosi societal expectations.

Rhaenys the Queen Who Never Was is able to take an active role in the Dance of the Dragon and therefore die in battle because she is a dragon rider. More importantly, post Great Council of 101, Viserys has to reintegrate Rhaenys’ family back into the succession partially if not mostly because Rhaenys and her children have dragons. Yet she is still the Queen Who Never Was not Queen Rhaenys because Jaehaerys/Vaegon/The Great Council refused to put a woman on the throne.

so yes while dragons give Targaryen women more agency than their First Men or Andal counterparts, they still live in a feudal patriarchy that limits their personal and political freedoms

[searockwell]

these two♦️

[columboscreens]