#jane williams

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Jane Williams

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Jane Williams

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I'm so excited!! My textbook on tortoises just arrived!! I've been waiting for this book for ages!!

The textbook is "Tortoise Husbandry and Welfare" by Jane Williams, for anyone curious!!

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jane kerkovich-williams from happy endings has ocd (implied)

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*ocd flag by @/lucellion*

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Syd and Carmy’s Ancestors

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jane kerkovich-williams and brad williams from happy endings are bi4bi!

jane is bisexual (implied)

brad is bisexual (headcanon)

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Mary Shelley’s Lake Geneva diary from August 2nd, 1816…

“Friday, August 2. — I go to the town with Shelley, to buy a telescope for his birthday present. In the evening Lord Byron and he go out in the boat, and, after their return, Shelley and Clare go up to Diodati; I do not, for Lord Byron did not seem to wish it. Shelley returns with a letter from Longdill, which requires his return to England. This puts us in bad spirits. I read Rêveries and Adèle et Théodore de Madame de Genlis, and Shelley reads Pliny’s Letters.”

This was the day that Percy, Claire, and Byron discussed Claire’s pregnancy and what they were going to do about custody rights. Shelley had already known about Claire’s pregnancy for at least a month and was most likely the first to know, since after he and Byron almost drowned on June 25th he had secretly written a will that left sums to Claire and any person of her choice — her name being near the top of the list along with Mary, his wife Harriet, and all his children. Considering that Byron later believed the Hoppner Scandal (unconfirmed rumours that Claire had a secret child with Percy which was given for adoption or aborted) — and that historians believe Claire and Shelley were probably sexually involved at various periods — some people believe that the paternity of the child was called into question. Claire’s identity as the child’s mother would be hidden from the public to protect her reputation, and Byron and Shelley both accepted responsibility for the child (though Shelley was arguably more attached), although everyone agreed that the child (Allegra) looked and acted like Byron, and was therefore his.

Byron in a letter to his sister about Claire and the rumours surrounding his time at Geneva:

“. . . as to all these ‘mistresses’ — Lord help me — I have had but one. Now don't scold — but what could I do? A foolish girl, in spite of all I could say or do, would come after me, or rather went before, for I found her here, and I have had all the plague possible to persuade her to go back again, but at last she went. Now, dearest, I do most truly tell thee that I could not help this, that I did all I could to prevent it, and have at last put an end to it. I was not in love nor have any love left for any, but I could not exactly play the Stoic with a woman who had scrambled eight hundred miles to un-philosophize me, besides I had been regaled of late with so many ‘two courses and a dessert’ (Alas!) of aversion, that I was fain to take a little love (if pressed particularly) by way of novelty. And now you know all that I know of the matter, & it's over.”

A decade later, Claire Clairmont wrote to Jane Williams:

“What would I not give to have an unhappy passion, for then one has full permission and a perfect excuse to fall into a happy one; one has something to expect, but a happy passion, like death, has finis written in such large characters in its face there is no hoping for any possibility of a change. You will allow me to talk upon this subject, for I am unhappily the victim of a happy passion. I had one; like all things perfect in its kind, it was fleeting, and mine only lasted ten minutes, but these ten minutes have discomposed the rest of my life.

The passion, God knows for what cause, from no faults of mine, however, disappeared, leaving no trace whatever behind it except my heart wasted and ruined as if it had been scorched by a thousand lightnings.“

Sadly, Allegra Byron died at the age of five due to a sudden outbreak of typhus in Romagna where Byron had enrolled her in a private convent school. This was a betrayal to Claire, as they had promised each other that Allegra should never be apart from one of her parents, due to Claire’s prediction that something terrible would happen if so. However, Byron argued that having a good Italian-Catholic education would give Allegra higher marriage prospects in Italy than any education she could have in England, partly due to her illegitimacy and partly due to the tarnished reputations of the Byron/Shelley/Godwin households, among other reasons. Claire blamed Byron for Allegra’s death, and she felt that while Shelley sympathized more with her, Mary sympathized more with Byron. Three months later, Shelley followed Allegra to the grave, and the already fragmented social circle would further break apart.

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Midnight Pals: Jane Williams

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Shelley: check it out, this is my girlfriend Jane Williams Williams: sup Stephen King: whoa whoa wait a second mary King: I thought you were dating percy Shelley: yeah King: King: well now I’m just all confused

King: oh wait no I get it King: when you say that she’s your girlfriend King: you mean that you’re, like, gal pals right? Shelley: no King: ok but wait Barker: they’re lesbians, Stephen

King: but wait are you sure? King: this is all very confusing Shelley: the fuck is so confusing, nerd? Shelley: [waggling tongue between index and middle fingers] gonna get me some tousy-mousy King: i King: what? Barker: she’s talking about pussy, Stephen

King: but I thought she was dating percy! Shelley: I play both sides, Stephen King: what does that mean Shelley: I’m bi King: ok but what does that mean Shelley: I love dick and I love pussy King: oh but there’s so many ways to interpret that statement Shelley: no there isn’t

King: I’m just so confused about all this King: how come your mom lets you have TWO lovers? Mary Shelley: cuz I fuck like a champ King: Barker: ah ha ha YES Angela Carter: it’s not that confusing steve Carter: mary’s bi Carter: we should all be so lucky Carter: cuz let me tell you Angela Carter: men are trash but just can’t get enough of that sweet sweet dick

King: gosh mary but King: does percy know? Mary Shelley: haha “does percy know” Mary Shelley: percy how do you feel about jane Williams Percy Shelley: ah an angel! An ideal, utopian woman!! Percy Shelley: she’s so good at music Percy Shelley: and cleaning house! Mary Shelley: lol ok percy that’s enough Mary Shelley: get back in your basket Percy Shelley: yes dear