idk something sapphic

[flowerytale]

[mssarahmorgan]

in the age of remote work we should all be visiting friends like they did in jane austen times. is it raining? stay overnight, you'll catch a chill. coming for a visit? why not stay for a couple months, until the roads...get better?

[geopsych]

Minutes before the storm.

[dslur]

life is painful but women are hot

[rneliflua]

my somewhat unpopular opinion is that "famous story retold from female character's pov" is a good concept, actually. it's just that it became gimmicky very fast and spawned a storm of lazy works that refuse to engage with the source material in any meaningful way and flanderize everything into generic YA tropes. but at its core taking a known story and exploring it through the perspective of a female character even, and perhaps especially, when said character is not a particularly active agent on said story, is a way to remind people that women are still people with rich inner lives and that the real life women that we learned to think as pawns in the lives of men were/are still humans whose complex interiority deserve exploration on principle that everyone, but especially the people who live on the margins, deserve exploration. but that's a concept that gets defeated when most people writing those lazy retellings can't write complex interiority to save their lives.

[sarahseeandersen]

[geopsych]

FULL SUN

Always, for millions of years, one longer day. Earth tilts forward and the high sun casts that ray of light deep into barrows or among the stones that ancients placed just so to catch it for a moment.

I don’t know, when they caught it, what it was they thought they had, and even less do I know what this can be to us now.

Maybe just Summer seeming all the sweeter because behind the bloom and buzz, we know now Winter has heaved himself awake, and begun his long slow plod in our direction;

Or, it could be the metaphor that just when we reach our glory— even a little before—we start to fall.

Or could it be (and this year I choose this!) a message that at the exact right moment our glow, however distant and long obscured, even long after we are gone, may yet shine deep into the darkness of someone’s heart, illuminating beauties long forgotten?

And the sun is our example of how to keep shining through the dark.

[geopsych]

The summer solstice poem. Happy solstice whether it’s summer or winter starting for you!

[graceandgirlhood]

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

pride juice (it makes you gay and transes your gender) 🧃🏳️‍🌈

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

and alas, the long-awaited gender fluid ✨

[ur-daily-inspiration]

The inspiration

The result

[fictionadventurer]

Some Underrated Things In Jane Austen's Novels:

Catherine Morland's arc of learning how the world really works while showing that her innocence and honesty are good, worthwhile things

Henry Tilney's arc of overcoming cynicism and learning how to finally stand up to his abusive father

Mrs. Jennings, the vulgar and embarrassing but kind and generous woman

Elinor and Colonel Brandon's friendship

Marianne teasing Edward

Charles Bingley: the Ideal Gentleman who is kind, generous, friendly, and smart, whose only flaw is that he's too willing to give people the benefit of the doubt and thus doubts his judgement sometimes

Fanny Price: The Strongest Female Character in all of Austen

Anne Elliot's and Charles Musgrove's friendship. Actually, the way that all the Musgroves appreciate Anne and she enjoys their company

The deep friendship between Wentworth, Harville and Benwick

[alljaneaustenallthetime]

Both Charles Bingley and Jane Bennet's kind and generous hearts make them susceptible to being badly taken advantage of by other partners, but they are able to find each other and be happy

Sir Thomas Bertram telling Maria that she doesn't have to marry Rushworth and that he would take care of it if she wanted out of her engagement

Anne maintaining her friendship with Harriet Smith despite her family's disapproval. And then because of this she learns the vital information that Mr Elliot is a villain

Anne empathizing with Captain Benwick's heartbreak, and then gently trying to help him move past his grief

When Willoughby comes to try to explain himself to Marianne after marrying Miss Grey, and Elinor completely shuts it down and kicks him out

Fanny and her brother William growing so close for so many years just through letters

[sarahseeandersen]

[geopsych]

St Johnswort before sunrise.

[petaltexturedskies]

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

[geopsych]

“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”

—John Burroughs

[mild-goth-sauce]

An informational comic I drew last year for my Comics 2 class, reposting it to my new account (had to jump ship from the old one unfortunately) with some minor grammar changes and learned my lesson in adding watermarks! Happy early pride :)

[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.