“Em dashes are a sure-fire sign that a work is AI!”
I’m holding your hand when I say this. Where do you think AI steals em dashes from. Where does AI steal from. AI didn’t invent it. It has been stolen from Real People who use the fucking em dash—it’s a staple punctuation, ESPECIALLY high level academic writing.
Give your characters glasses. Give them big thick glasses that change how their eyes look. Give them flattering glasses they couldn’t imagine their face without. Give them glasses they take on and off. Give them permanent glasses they wear at all times. Give them chains they use to hang their glasses around their neck. Give them transitions lenses that get dark when they go outside. Give them those sunglasses attachments that clip onto the front of their regular glasses. Make their lenses fog up in a cloud of steam or mist. Make them fidget with their glasses, push them up or rub the lenses on their shirt. Make them forget their glasses and have trouble reading or seeing far away. Make them go looking for a new pair of frames that’s more comfortable or more flattering. Make them want glasses. Make them like themselves with glasses. Keep making your characters visually impaired. Give them glasses.
I think it should be illegal for jobs to dictate if you can have long hair as a guy or dye your hair unnatural colors or just generally manage your appearance beyond safety and hygiene reasons
You always see people talking about research for other diseases but never for Epilepsy. I'm not saying ther's none at all, but it's almost unheard of. I've seen a million different charities for cancer research, which is a good thing because people with cancer need all the help they can get. But what hurts is that I haven't seen even one advertisement for a charity for Epilepsy.
Opinion: Things that include Gwen 10 and Albedo in among an 'entire' collection of Bens should at least allude to Argit 10. Like, at that point you aren't doing Bens- Gwen is not Ben and Albedo is extremely not Ben- you're doing canon Omnitrix wielders, and while most of them are Bens, we do have three that aren't. Not two, three.
Very well thought out!!! I wonder what your thoughts would be on P&P Mary and her relationship to the other sisters. She just seems to be put on the backburner so much, especially when Mr. Collins comes along.
I am not very fancy with Tumblr yet, but I shall endeavour to answer this question:
We most often see the Bennet girls in pairs, Jane & Elizabeth and Kitty & Lydia. However, with five sisters, we are drawn into wondering why there isn’t a trio. Why is Mary alone? From all evidence, it seems like Mary excludes herself, not that she is excluded.
When Elizabeth wants to go visit sick Jane, she announces her intention. Mary basically calls her foolish, Lydia and Kitty offer to accompany Elizabeth as far as Meryton:
“No, indeed. I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing, when one has a motive; only three miles. I shall be back by dinner.”
“I admire the activity of your benevolence,” observed Mary, “but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”
“We will go as far as Meryton with you,” said Catherine and Lydia. Elizabeth accepted their company, and the three young ladies set off together.
Elizabeth is happy to walk with her younger sisters, but Mary is not happy to accompany them.
Later, Kitty and Lydia go to an Inn to pick up Jane and Elizabeth, afterwards this exchange happens:
“Oh! Mary,” said she, “I wish you had gone with us, for we had such fun! ...”
To this Mary very gravely replied, “Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures! They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me—I should infinitely prefer a book.”
But of this answer Lydia heard not a word. She seldom listened to anybody for more than half a minute, and never attended to Mary at all.
Now Lydia doesn’t seem to actually care about Mary’s company, but it does seem like it was offered. Mary appears to be purposefully distancing herself from Lydia by calling her pleasures silly. And unlike Elizabeth, she proclaims that she prefers a book to company.
Mary seems either to dislike society or affects to:
Lydia’s intention of walking to Meryton was not forgotten; every sister except Mary agreed to go with her.
“While I can have my mornings to myself,” said she [Mary], “it is enough—I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements.
About the Netherfield Ball: And even Mary could assure her family that she had no disinclination for it.
Asked to go on a walk: Mary could never spare time; but the remaining five set off together.
We know Mary is proud of her accomplishments and it seems she devotes far too much time to them. Kitty and Lydia probably enjoy society too much and study too little, while Elizabeth does read, but she also interacts with society and enjoys people’s company. Elizabeth is balanced. It seems like the sisters continually try to include Mary, which reminds me of Henrietta and Louisa Musgrove constantly trying to include their sister-in-law, Mary Musgrove, but Mary is the one who declines.
Mary also shows a lack of compassion for her sisters. She callously suggests that Elizabeth should treat Lydia as an object lesson, she won’t visit sick Jane, and she doesn’t relieve Jane when she is caring for her mother.
Lastly, she is happiest in the prologue, when all her sisters leave. Which seems telling to me.
Additional Notes: Mary was the only sister who might have accepted Mr. Collins, but we are not told she was jealous that he proposed to Elizabeth or that she liked him, it says, “Mary might have been prevailed on to accept him” not that she was attracted to him or something of that nature.
As for the Bennet parents, while it seems that Mr. Bennet favours Elizabeth and Mrs. Bennet favours Lydia and admires Jane, both parents largely ignore all of their daughters. Mr. Bennet seems to bring Elizabeth over for a shared joke and then gently shoes her away. He calls all of them silly girls. Mrs. Bennet might have been the one bragging that Mary is the most accomplished in the neighbourhood, but she doesn’t seem to actually know her daughters very well, or she wouldn’t have tried to push Mr. Collins on Lizzy.
Thank you to my favourite Mary resource, the Mary Map
