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firstsensibility

The Double — Episode 40

puppygirldick

Viktor Lyapkalo Artwork: 'Blowing bubbles' & 'Evening' Painted 9 years apart.

Same woman

asteroidtroglodyte

Yooo I went and looked up the Artist responsible for these masterpieces and holy shit did this guy love Big Women:

[nudity under the cut]

#if i don't reblog this please assume i am dead #just #the joy in these paintings!!

reallyreallyreallytrying

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

hupperts

bluebeetletedkord

lastnightspants

saint-batrick

that photo is one of the sexiest things i have ever seen.

sisterdomina

I think a Negative Kudos button is really pointless first off (ao3 is an archive not a social media site! we don't need upvotes/downvotes to drive some nonexistent algorithm) but also it feels cowardly. like, there already is a way to share your dislike of a fic with the author. it's called commenting 'your fic is bad and I didn't like it.' but then you might look like an ass, and people might say hey that's mean, and you might have to defend your position of unkindness + consider why you feel the need to be rude to a stranger on the internet writing for fun and for free. a quick, impersonal, site-sanctioned Mean Kudos is really just a weenie move

thelittleblackfox

Ao3 already has a perfectly good feature for when you don't like a fic, you just click the back button

pointlesscandies

I really appreciate Nakhun's mom and the way she appears to mostly sit around all day being gorgeous and knowing everything— just unlimited tablet time, watching the gay drama unfold from the couch, making insane comments about potatoes. I strive to be just like her.

depsidase

selfship-quotes

I love soulmates but also this-

qilingxiong

qlfilmnews

THAILAND | The Grim Lover - Poster

spin-the-wheel-polls

you get a breath weapon like a dragon, and the options go from fire to things like gravel or bees

you have this breath weapon! (also you're a dragon)

are you happy with it?

yes!!!!!

a little

it's okay I guess

no.

NO.

result/other

Remaining time: 4 days 3 hours

#stomach acid #i'm assuming my dragon esophagus is made to withstand this #brb there's some powerful people i need to melt

depsidase

stjohnstarling

The reason most indie novels are written like the author is terrified of doing something wrong is because the overwhelming majority of indie novelists get their start by networking in the violent panopticon of the social media indie publishing community, which favours the people who are able to win at the social policing game.

3s-are-green

Okay so this comment got me googling because I hadn't heard of Isabel Fall

And if you also hadn't heard of her go read this because uhh... Holy Shit

headspace-hotel

I had heard of the whole messed up situation with this story, but I hadn't ever read the synopsis of the story before, and WOW

This story sounds like it could have been a brilliant exploration of gender and warfare and violence but instead it was attacked by people who didn't know how to confront a story that made them uncomfortable, and the author faced horrible consequences.

It's so important to be able to deal with stories that give you uncomfortable feelings in other ways than just attacking it. Being shown new perspectives sometimes has feelings of discomfort because it's an unfamiliar way of seeing the world.

mickpin

You can read it Here

pseudophan

made me think of some of you <3

aiiaiiiyo

Ice delivery man in Houston, TX circa 1920 Check this blog!

corporatebigwig

why did he eat this

shorthistorian

#the hip pop… the cigarettes in the hat…#how many kids from pre-electric refrigeration look suspiciously like this guy I wonder…#POV: You are a bored housewife whose husband is constantly away on business trips and barely looks at you when he gets home#and this guy is rolling up to your house on like a weekly basis with a block of ice and his WWI thousand yard stare

Historian finishing a dissertation on the ice industry here. For once, I am not here to take away your joy! “Oh no, the ice man is too sexy and he’s going to fuck my wife while I’m not home” was a legit moral panic for DECADES. So much so that if you were fancy, you could get an icebox built into your wall so the dirty, sexy ice man didn’t have to come inside your house with your delicate, impressionable wife. This pic is going in the diss if I can chase down the correct citation for it.

pressconferencegazebo

I have good news for the lesbians

#i don't know how heavy a block of ice is but its kinda sexy that hes holding the pincer tool with one hand

bethanydelleman

In P&P, do you know/think that the line "failure of perfect symmetry in her form" refers to an asymmetry as in

a) like, one of her eyebrows is higher than the other, or

b) she doesn't perfectly fit the pattern-card of the ideal woman of the time? Or some secret third thing?

I've been thinking about it a lot because facial asymmetry is generally the kind of thing one notices by spending an unhealthy amount of time staring at one's own face in the mirror, so Darcy noticing it about Elizabeth would be very bizarre/telling; and then if it's the second one it would speak to how Darcy views/evaluates women in a way that is quite depersonalising.

Love your writing, thanks for your time :)

I went to check my annotated David M. Shapard edition but it's not very helpful:

A precise examination and evaluation of a woman's physical attributes is typical in Austen's novels [see Jane Fairfax in Emma], both among male and female characters. It also appears in her letters (sometimes applied to men as well). Darcy's opinions on Elizabeth's face give a sense of how sharp he can be in his judgments.

Anyway, it's probably both options. I think this ties into the perfect woman who cannot exist from Ch 8 (which yes, is described by Caroline but Caroline mirrors Darcy's opinions so it's pretty safe to assume this is also his opinion). No woman could have that absurd level of accomplishments and likewise, it's pretty impossible for a human to be perfectly symmetrical. Darcy's standards are indeed way too high, as Elizabeth points out:

“I never saw such a woman. I never saw such capacity, and taste, and application, and elegance, as you describe, united.”

There is scientific research to back up symmetrical faces being perceived as more beautiful, but humans just aren't built perfectly symmetrically. People also show more emotion on the side contralateral to their emotional centre (emotion is more on the right side of the brain, faces are more expressive on the left), so if you are expressing emotion you get even less symmetrical!

What we should take away from this passage I believe is that Darcy is very observant, but his standards are also absurd to a point that no woman can pass them.

amarguerite

This is also my mind in the gutter but I thought maybe the lack of perfect symmetry meant Elizabeth’s a bit more bottom heavy than top heavy from all the walking. Darcy is Noticing Things it’s impolite to be explicit about.

miranda-basset

Just adding a note here to mention that degrees of regularity & symmetry are basically the go-to generic terms which Regency authors tend to use to describe the facial features of characters, especially female characters; it's essentially just their version of discussing conventional versus unconventional beauty. You aren't really meant to take it literally as in 'Elizabeth's nose is crooked' or 'her breasts weren't the same size' etc (although it's true that it doesn't necessarily refute these as possibilities; I think it's unlikely that Austen was attempting to explicitly point her readers' minds in their direction, though).

Anyway I'm not at all an Austen scholar, so I don't speak as an expert or anything, but here's a helpful similar passage from Camilla by Frances Burney, for instance [one of the authors most often cited as an important influence on Austen]:

Indiana was a beauty of so regular a cast, that her face had no feature, no look to which criticism could point as susceptible of improvement, or on which admiration could dwell with more delight than on the rest. No statuary could have modelled her form with more exquisite symmetry; no painter have harmonised her complexion with greater brilliancy of colouring. But here ended the liberality of nature, which, in not sullying this fair workmanship by inclosing in it what was bad, contentedly left it vacant of whatever was noble and desirable. The beauty of Camilla, though neither perfect nor regular, had an influence so peculiar on the beholder, it was hard to catch its fault; and the cynic connoisseur, who might persevere in seeking it, would involuntarily surrender the strict rules of his art to the predominance of its loveliness. Even judgment itself, the coolest and last betrayed of our faculties, she took by surprise, though it was not till she was absent the seizure was detected. Her disposition was ardent in sincerity, her mind untainted with evil. The reigning and radical defect of her character—an imagination that submitted to no control—proved not any antidote against her attractions; it caught, by its force and fire, the quick-kindling admiration of the lively; it possessed, by magnetic pervasion, the witchery to create sympathy in the most serious. --Chapter IV, A Public Breakfast [sorry no page numbers, I just grabbed this off Gutenberg online]

So again, authors like Burney essentially use these terms to describe how conventional the good looks of a character are. Indiana is straightforwardly Hollywood beautiful, a bona fide model, whereas Camilla, our heroine, is unconventionally pretty in a way that doesn't conform to the 'ideal' but that is nonetheless extremely attractive to onlookers. I would guess that Austen was thinking of descriptions like this when she wrote about Elizabeth's looks - Elizabeth is pretty clearly getting modeled after the Camilla style of beauty, ie 'neither perfect nor regular,' but attractive on her own terms, & in large part because of the force of her personality rather than the shape of her lips etc.