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[bethanydelleman]

I think my feelings about Edmund Bertram and Fanny Price can be summed up in the idea that of all the Jane Austen heroines, she's the only one who has a zero percent chance of getting cunnilingus.

Captain Wentworth thinks there is nothing so proper as going down on Anne. Henry Tilney? You cannot doubt. Charles Bingley? Jane would be completely embarrassed but he'll talk her into it. Elizabeth needs to bring Darcy around but we know she can do it. Edward would go on his knees for Elinor. Colonel Brandon needs to protect his knees but Marianne doesn't even make a single old age joke about it. Emma can ask for what she wants but Fanny Price...

Fanny Price takes what she is given and expresses endless gratitude. And while Edmund is perceptive, he was the only one to help when she couldn't write home to her brother, he bought her the chain when she needed something for her cross... he also has this quietly selfish quality to him (the Portsmouth letter that doesn't ask anything about her and "Fanny think of me!") and a penchant for expecting Fanny to be his mirror and go along with all his expectations ("asking" for advice about joining the play and their conversation about Henry's proposal) which leaves me absolutely certain that he will just do whatever satisfies himself in bed and never think about giving Fanny anything more. And she'll be content, just like she was with his half-written little note and the endless useless gifts from Tom, and never understand that she could have so much more. Mary Crawford could have gotten head out of Edmund, but never Fanny Price.

And yes, I know I know, it was the Regency times, women are not basing their happiness on their expectation for orgasms but I can still want the very best things for them can't I?

(I realize not all people who identify as female want or like cunnilingus, but I just want the possibility to be there)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

never going to be over that time I was trying to explain polyamory to my mum, and she said "I just don't understand how someone could be in love with two people at once" and I gave her my the-cognitive-dissonance-is-causing-me-physical-pain face and she said "what??" and I very quietly said "mother....you had an affair...."

[madlyimmortalnerd]

[liberalsarecool]

The bubble is nigh.

[madlyimmortalnerd]

Who would Daeron have married if Valarr hadn't died young?

Maekar would want a prestigious bride for his heir, but Daeron is a liability. His alcoholism means that scheming in-laws could manipulate h

[victusinveritas]

[radiofreederry]

Lol

[cavegirlpoems]

I cannot stop laughing at the idea that socialism ignores humanity’s highest spiritual ideal: owning yachts.

[xavantina]

Murderbot + text posts [184/∞]

[bideogaymes]

praying for everyone Black in Belfast rn. hella Black ppl lost they homes as a result of this antiblack terrorism.

[bideogaymes]

like ok allegedly the white people in Northern Ireland terrorizing mainly Black people and poc are British loyalists and not “real Irish” but that video stating that is showing more concern for the white Irish people currently hiding in their homes “in fear” of harm, while real life Black people are actively being harmed lmao like??? get up! if you say you’re not like these white supremacists than show up in defense for the Black people currently being mobbed by people who look like you!

paying liberal lip service does nothing but make sure history doesn’t remember you as the “actual bad guys”, just the cowardly bystanders & it damn sure doesn’t make any moves to protect anyone Black!

[ellewantsrevenge]

i don't believe in god anymore really but i prayed for them

[bideogaymes]

history repeats and repeats and repeats…

[madlyimmortalnerd]

Plot Bunny:

Somehow Duncan becomes a noblewoman’s sworn sword. The noblewoman and Dunk have crushes on each other, but they’d never act on it because of shyness, societal expectations etc.

Ser. Lyonel Baratheon meets them and is immediately obsessed. He courts both of them before making a scandalous proposal. He’ll marry the noblewoman and they’ll be a throuple.

[bethanydelleman]

Important research for a story I'm writing! Not real life, never real life.

You are transported back in time and into the body of a young noblewoman in the 1400s. Your parents have married you off to an awful, abusive, rapist husband whom literally no one else would marry despite him being very high nobility because he's that terrible. You successfully produce a baby boy and then plan to murder this man for the good of everyone and yourself. Here is the question: do you think you could murder him in a way that is undetectable to the historical people around you? Note: they aren't stupid, you are the prime suspect as the battered wife AND you can't just say poison. Where are you going to buy poison? Do you know anything about poison actually? NO GOOGLING! You were sent back without a plan!

Do you think you could murder someone in the 1400s and get away with it with your modern know-how?

Yes, I totally have a plan (tell me for research purposes)

No, I realize that I'm very uninformed about murder

I have some ideas but I'm not sure they would work

Voting ended onJun 18

Edit: my notes are full of murder. I love you all

Edit: to clarify about the poison, you can use poison if you actually know how to identify it, I'm saying you can't just go "Poison!" with no knowledge about poison. Buying it probably means they know that poison and you're caught. Your personal knowledge when you read this post is all you have.

Another point of clarity: You went through all that trouble to have a baby without modern medicine so you could get the sweet house after your husband died. That's why you can't be caught. No disappearing.

Edit again: Air embolisms are going on a high shelf because the syringe won't be invented for 350 years. Prove to me that you could make one from scratch, lol

I promise to stop making edits (lol): I left the country vague because I just wanted to see ideas for modern vs. past. Whatever place you are most knowledgeable about

Oh no, she edits again: This man is like 25, not very old. He's not dying of natural causes or even alcohol consumption any time soon. Imagine a university student liver.

[bethanydelleman]

Due to way too many people thinking that they, in the body of a noblewoman, can suffocate a drunk nobleman no problem, or push him down the stairs, I had my character try this. Unfortunately, he is way stronger than her and was not suffocate-able. You know people thrash if you cover their airways? Drunk or asleep doesn't stop that. He also became increasingly violent with alcohol. This is a very dangerous plan, in my opinion.

I have started to really wonder if the people suggesting this have ever fought a man as a woman. I have three brothers and I wrestled with them a lot as a kid. They are way stronger than me. They started to be able to overpower me pretty young and I was six years older. Maybe I'm just a weak person, I'm not very athletic, but neither would Miss Noblewoman here be athletic.

I don't know, maybe this isn't everyone's experience, but I find the confidence in this sort of plan baffling. Also, if you try to push him down the stairs and he catches you? You are going down those stairs. You are dead. Game over.

Maybe it's because I didn't specify an age and everyone is imagining this guy as like, old and bloated. He's young and healthy. He will fight back. He's violent! Alcohol and violent man are not a mix you should encourage!

Unrelated note: You aren't making the food. Nobility. Nobility is an important part of this equation.

[raspberet]

this is starting to sound a lot like one of those "high% of men believe they could beat serena williams at tennis/believe they could successfully land a plane" things

some people here v confident in their ability to (hypothetically) murder

[bethanydelleman]

Yes this. I was thinking of that poll that found 6% of men think they could fight a bear

Surprising Number of Americans Feel They Could Beat Wild Animals in a Fight

Newsweek spoke to experts about some of the most fearsome animals to see whether these Americans were right.

[madlyimmortalnerd]

There a lot of fun options but my first instinct is to take inspiration from Cersei Lannister.

First, I’d weaken him by giving him a host of comorbidities. Buy lead pewter and ceramics. Encourage him to eat high quantities of foods that cause chronic inflammation and lower white blood cell count. Salt, unpasteurized dairy, unpasteurized honey, sugar, red fatty meat, alcohol. No vitamin C no folate, no vitamin B-12.

Once I’ve tampered with his immune system it’d be time for the fun part. The next time he goes on a hunt I’d make sure that the whole hunting party was dangerously over served. Maybe he’d make a drunken mistake and get killed by an animal. Maybe one of his buddies would accidentally shot him with a crossbow.

Even if he didn’t have a fatal accident, he’d probably come back wounded. Between his shitty health and the terrible medical care of time he could easily die of complications later on.

[devincastro]

[tguzz]

I will always reblog this

[bradspace3000]

still remember how revolutionary this ad felt 10 years ago

[annesophiewashere]

excuse me but it still feels revolutionary

[stevviefox]

Keep reblogging until it feels normal everywhere.

[ruffboi-mags]

For context: this came out in 2011 in Australia. Same-sex marriage would not be legalized until December 2017.

It was only legalized in 8 US states (the 8th only a few months before), and wouldn’t be legalized nation-wide until 2015.

It was only legal in TEN COUNTRIES in 2011. We wouldn’t hit 20 countries until 2017. (Australia was 23rd)

As of today (April 14, 2026), I believe only 38 countries have fully legalized same-sex marriage. Out of somewhere around 200 countries in the world. That’s only ~19% of countries.

This is still revolutionary.

[bundibird]

[prokopetz]

Yes, you've successfully dodged allegations of monarchism by having the heroic princess decide to abolish the monarchy and institute representative democracy in the last five minutes of the game. Bravo.

Now give us the sequel where every prospective heir in a thousand-mile radius comes out of the woodwork claiming she's not allowed to do that and her actions should simply be construed as abdication, five different people declare themselves King, the nation plunges into civil war, and the ex-princess has to ninja around murdering all of her would-be successors in order to make the transition stick.

[bethanydelleman]

The way that France ping-ponged between monarchy and republic for so long after the Revolution. That one time the British got rid of the monarchy and then just brought it back. This is so real.

[madlyimmortalnerd]

Lyonel in the Game of Thrones Generation

I was thinking about what would've happened if Lyonel had been born in the Game of Thrones timeline. There are a lot of things that we just can’t know. We just don’t have enough information about him.

But I know he would fall for Brienne of Tarth fast and hard. I know it in my bones. He would make Tormund and Jaime look aloof and uninterested. He’d have a real shot with her. Unlike Tormund, he actually has emotional/social intelligence.

If Renly made her part of his King's Guard, Lyonel would see it as the ultimate betrayal. He’d lose his shit on that cock-blocking little bitch.

What the fuck is he supposed to do now?

Does Renly think lady knights with hearts of gold just grow on trees? Because guess what, they fucking don’t!

[madlyimmortalnerd]

Thank you @themirokai and everyone who got me to 25 reblogs!

[paper-mario-wiki]

do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

[apollos-boyfriend]

the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire

icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down

cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)

feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated

[sherbertilluminated]

Promethean task: opposite of a Cassandraean task. You have the right information, and SOMEONE has to share it. But it's all in the delivery and if you're the person to identify the problem you WILL be hated forever.

[thearrogantemu]

Oedipal Task: (1) Attempting to avoid an unspeakably awful outcome and in doing so creating the circumstances that will bring it about. (2) Trying to solve an problem and discovering that you are in fact the problem you are trying to solve.

[theoppositeofprofound]

Odyssean task: you’ll complete it but it’ll take 20 times longer than it should and involve multiple side quests and mini-adventures

[paulinedorchester]

Tarfonian task: when it is not your duty to complete the task, but neither are you free to desist from it.

[theconcealedweapon]

Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.

[slowburnlover]

Mel and her ED friends, the two black cat coded sarcastic assholes that are softer with her and hate each other 🤝🏻 Trinity and her ED friends, the two blondes that look like victorian sickly children who can't catch a social cue or pop culture reference to save their lives