only barely keeping it together

ready to start screaming externally whenever. she/her. melancholic. bisexual. 20's. occasionally i write stuff, which tends to end up on my ao3 account screaminginternally. fucking exhausted by bitter endings these days. either give your characters happiness or get cancelled so we can write it ourselves. we seem to do it better anyway.

[clementine-kesh]

not all character interpretations are valid some of you are sexist

[clementine-kesh]

not all character interpretations are valid some of you are racist

[bethanydelleman]

A Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting continued:

Okay, I just don't get these "born yesterday" historical characters. This is giving me flashbacks to The Other Bennet Sister (book, not drama), where Mary Bennet also didn't know you could only dance twice with the same man. Kitty is born in this era, she interacted with at least one family of local entry, and yet she knows nothing. If you want someone who knows nothing about the historical era, make them a time traveler or a transmigrator, I shouldn't know more about someone's own era than they do!

And also, what in the world was their parent's life plan for them if they were taught nothing about the manners of the gentry class? There are five daughters! This dad is worse than Mr. Bennet. Well he's much worse because he also managed to get into debt but anyway.

And then Kitty really does expect whomever she marries to both save her family home and also maybe live there? Woman, you are aiming for rich and you really think your 5000/year husband wants to go live in your dumpy cottage? That is just insane to me. Also, pretty sure it would be odd for your underage sisters to just live in a cottage together in the country. I think they need a female guardian of some sort. Her discussing property was framed as some like, feminist thing, but heiresses with property existed. Widows with property existed. Come on.

I don't dislike this book but

[bethanydelleman]

And for the record, if I time travelled back to the Regency era, I'd fail immediately. I am 100% certain that I wouldn't move correctly or my facial expressions would be too big or something. They would know. A Russian couple once picked me out as North American on a train in Europe without me saying a word because I smiled too much in public.

But this is why I don't believe Kitty "born yesterday" Talbot would make it. She's not learning the elegance and propriety of the gentry/nobility class by interrogating Radcliffe for two hours and mirroring people. That takes practice over years!

[sawed-on-shotgun]

the human body when you use it and exist in it

[nvpengyou]

“are u okay?” no i need more money

[catchymemes]

[scarlct-vvitch]

one day grace hurts his right hand somehow and he's all upset bc he's like gosh dang it now i have to do everything left-handed. and rocky's like ?????still have other hand?? and grace explains the idea of dominant hands and rocky is like. you only have two hands. the FUCK do you mean only one of them can do anything

[steadynightruins]

Anthony Stewart Head (1954-2026) 🕊️

[catchymemes]

[kellyvela]

Kit Harington and Peter Dinklage - Actors On Actors

Kit Harington: I worked with Sophie again, I don't know if you know.  Peter Dinklage: Yeah, I heard. How was that?  Kit Harington: It was weird. Peter Dinklage: I've heard you, like, a love scene with Sophie. Kit Harington: Yeah, she sent me the script and was like, do you want to do this? And I read it. And I was like, Sophie, there's a lot of, like, us getting it on. And she, like, hadn't seen that. She just said, yeah, Kit would be good for this part.  Peter Dinklage: She hadn't read the script. Typical actress, she hadn't read the script. Kit Harington: But for me, obviously, I've known her since being a child. So I'm like, she feels like my younger sister. Peter Dinklage: She is. Kit Harington: I'm like, this is weird.  Peter Dinklage: Oh, no. Oh, my God.  Kit Harington: We did it and it was it was gross, but it was fine. Peter Dinklage: It was gross, but it was fine.  Kit Harington: It was gross. Yeah, that's how I summed that up. It was gross, but it was fine. She's an amazing actor. Peter Dinklage: She is. Kit Harington: I know we all know that. But, like, she was a child when she came out. Peter Dinklage: I know. Kit Harington: She is phenomenal. Peter Dinklage: Maybe I just say this because we had so much stuff together, the Tyrion Sansa stuff. I sort of would look around the room going, this is like the greatest actress. Kit Harington: Yeah. Peter Dinklage: I think on this fucking show. Kit Harington: Yeah. Peter Dinklage: Because what she was giving me was so still. And she was always so prepared. She knew everything. Like, she was she was so fun to play across. She was so there. Kit Harington: Yeah. Peter Dinklage: But I use that word still because the camera's on you. You don't have to do anything for the camera's attention. Camera's on you. You don't have to move. You know, it's just and she just had that sort of and that's a difficult part. Kit Harington: Yeah. Peter Dinklage: It's a hard part. Kit Harington: Yeah.

[sconesfortea]

RIP Anthony Stewart Head (1954 - 2026)

[films-and-television]

I can't believe he's gone. I've been a huge buffer fan from the very beginning and Giles was my favourite. I'm heartbroken. Rest in peace Anthony

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

if you comment some demanding shit like this on fanfic writers’ works, you don’t deserve the privilege of getting to read fanfiction for free

[killergirlfuria]

Fun fact! Demanding updates is also likely to make authors delay them, either out of spite, or because you bring their mood too low to effectively write!

For me it causes both <3

[mistressaccost]

so jane austen was inspired by much ado when writing pride and prejudice and of course she’s brilliant and i love her version of the plot and her very original characters. i mean it’s almost unrecognizable because it’s so original. which is why i love her. she took inspiration from the bare bone plot of much ado with the two couples, and then rooted all their problems in her own time period. it would have been so modern and fresh to read it right when it was published!!

but anyway what i’m trying to say is that i would love to live in a universe where i could see jane and bingley play pranks on lizzie and darcy in a hero and claudio type style. it’s just comedy gold.

[hamletthedane]

Sorry for the rant OP, but this is one of my FAVORITE lit crit topics:

I have written on here many times how much I LOVE that Pride and Prejudice is an adaptation of Much Ado in a kind of stretchy, fanfic-AU sort of way. Austen definitely used the same characters and their dynamics with one another, but she actively adapted the story by giving them all interesting, English Regency versions of their Renaissance Tuscany/London challenges.

My favorite thing is that you see similarities in a) the scandal of an affair with the heroine’s unwed family member, and b) the willingness of the heroine’s “bitter rival” (Benedick/Darcy) to go far beyond what’s expected of him to save her family’s reputation, even when it might hurt his own

In her adaptation, Austen proposes that even if Beatrice/Elizabeth’s family member DID have an extramarital affair, Benedick/Darcy would still be morally obliged to help the family. This differs from Shakespeare, where Benedick believes that Hero is innocent. Sex scandals are therefore key elements in both plots, but Austen really pushes the original narrative to explore what the characters would do if the family member wasn’t innocent and the sex scandal was real. Would Benedick still have the same sense of duty to remedy the situation at great inconvenience/loss to himself? Would that duty be based in his love for Beatrice, or in his sense of ethics? Would Beatrice and Benedick have even fallen in love without their family’s interference?

So like, not only is P&P a wonderful (and very funny) adaptation of Much Ado, it’s also a refreshing, explicit exploration of the themes and issues Shakespeare clearly wanted to introduce to his 16th century audience. P&P doesn’t get to the violent, verbal extremes of “eat his heart in a marketplace” and “kill Claudio,” but it does push the character of Benedick to much more agency and responsibility as a privileged person in relation to Beatrice’s own (lack of) power. And to me, that makes it an exceptionally challenging and effective Regency adaptation of Much Ado.

(But ignore my meta-izing. Let’s talk about what’s really important: Austen preserving the comedy GOLD of suggesting that Benedick/Darcy is painfully in love with Beatrice/Lizzy from the very beginning, and also fucking furious with himself about it)

[bethanydelleman]

Obviously it's not one to one, but if we consider the Hero/Claudio storyline, Austen split it into two couples and made it way more realistic (in my opinion)

Jane and Bingley represent the Hero/Claudio "love at first sight" and "separated by machinations" sections, but come to a much more satisfying conclusion because Bingley's folly is based on modesty. He never turns on Jane, as Claudio does, instead he leaves her, but out of a belief that she doesn't love him and therefore wouldn't be harmed by it. Their happy ending is happy to (most) of the audience.

The defence of honour plot, Claudio doing wrong by Hero leading to her social doom and her being defended by Benedick, is all transferred to the trickster, Wickham (Don John?) and his victim Lydia (the other half of Hero). The solution still is marriage, but we are not left with this ambiguous nagging wonder if it's ever possible for Hero/Claudio to be happy, we know Wickham/Lydia is a bad marriage, but that Elizabeth & Jane will help their sister and she'll be okay.

I think if Much Ado About Nothing does have a flaw, it's that Claudio doesn't have his heart eaten in the marketplace. That flaw exists in Pride & Prejudice too, to be honest, but Claudio as Wickham doesn't get what he wanted. He has his ambitions of a wealthy match ruined by Darcy. For me, the ending isn't as uncomfortable, because no one is trying to pretend it's a happy one.

[draconym]

i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer

[aj-living-life]

Saving this post to show my boss who I told the AI flier makes us look lazy and ignorant, and offered to hand draw one. She still printed tons of ai fliers and I'm tempted to make a better one just because it annoys me so much.

[aj-living-life]

Fun update: event was canceled because literally nobody rsvp'd to the AI flier.

[aropride]

(so mad i can’t see straight) Yeah i just don’t think chat gpt is a good classroom tool

[buffyscmmers]

BUFFYVERSE FEMSLASH WEEK Day 6: Completely AU

Willow x Tara, as told by Jane Austen

[lgbtqiatext]

I don't usually add actual text to my posts, but I'm going to clarify the meaning of this animation.

Kink has no place around minors or other non-consenting people. If an event allows minors or does not explicitly allow kink, please do not show up in kink gear or otherwise expose anyone there to kink. Kink is an important part of LGBTQIA+ history, but consent is more important. You can make people uncomfortable, upset, or even trigger past trauma. Simply attending a non-kink Pride event does not equal giving consent to witnessing kink activities/apparel/etc. Please be considerate of others, and only engage in kink at events that do not allow minors and explicitly allow kink. It is crucial to be ethical when engaging in kink.

[orpheuslament]

the man pretending to be a dog at the pride event will not harm you my guy

[myfootyrthroat]

People can't decide if Pride is Folsom or The Wiggles, but need it to be both. People aren't fucking at The Wiggles, but why would you bring a kid to Folsom?