#redhotfool

[sashayed]

redhotfool replied to your photoset “got home tipsy and tucked her in just to annoy her, turns out she...”

UM IS UR BOOKSHELF OK???

EVERYONE SEEMS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT MY BOOKSHELF!!! IT’S A MIRROR, U GUYS. 

[dragonzair]

redhotfool replied to your post:The mailman called our apt from downstairs to say...

"WHO CARES ABOUT MY CITIZENSHIP WHERE ARE MY DVDS THIS IS CRUICIAL" sara i love you

HONESTLY THO IM STILL UPSET

the mailman was a lot more delighted bc, i guess he got the same packaging many years back. "ooooh are you new citizens??? look, it's for the whole family!!!" and im like, shivering bc im in shorts, and wanting to run away bc there are neighbours i dont know all over the place and i just wanted my dvds  ;A;

[zombeesknees]

i would like to personally thank you for bringing the phrase "the chipmunk of sex" into my life, because it literally could not be more perfect or accurate re: andrew lee potts, the dummy

RIGHT?

[oh-hermione]

Good News

so my psychiatrist and psychologist have decided that I don't need to be hospitalized for now, which is a huge relief.

thank you all for your kind and caring messages - I really can't articulate how much they mean to me.

[alwaysclassynerd]

That time a beautifully bearded man walked past and we couldn’t wolf whistle at him, because society told us we didn’t need to learn that skill.

[dragonzair]

NO STOP YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO RESURRECT MY UGLY BETTY FEELINGS. I STILL CRY OVER GIO SOMETIMES THIS IS NOT OKAY.

IT’S NOT MY FAULT. I WAS ON MY DASH.

[dragonzair]

redhotfool replied to your photo: First glimpse of the tent. Ended up working for an...

AHHHH I KNOW WHERE THAT IS!! STAMPEDE GROUNDS I MISS U .

This area's pretty! But is it usually this quiet? There's barely anyone before 6! We're pretty close to site as well. 15 minutes walk :D So great!

Once we start getting discounts, I'll let you know about it in case your parents are still interested :D

[lulabo]

So, I have the vaguest notion of what "kissing as free indirect discourse" means, but I would love ~some further illumination on certain points~, if you wouldn't mind humoring me. Is it just a sort of "actions express what words cannot say" type of thing?

LET ME ILLUMINATE THE CRAP OUT OF THIS FOR YOU. It’s maybe my favorite thing ever? It may actually be magical? It is sort of actions express what words cannot say, but it is even BETTER.

So, free indirect discourse is the description of what is being said in a conversation without the use of direct dialog or quotation marks. You get the gist, an allusion to the conversation (Elizabeth told Mr. Darcy she was super duper into him and would marry him that day if possible), but the verbatim content of the conversation is left unsaid. In the novel, when Elizabeth tells Darcy how she feels, what the reader gets is this:

Elizabeth now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances.

In the LBD, instead of having Lizzie stammer her way through a confession, we got KISSING. It was a literal translation of one of Austen’s most important contribution to the novel as we know it into KISSING. A lot of the most important conversations in the novel are told through free indirect discourse—when Darcy proposes to Elizabeth the first time, for example—for a lot of reasons, one of which is that it’s drawing attention not just to what’s being said but how and how it’s being received by the listener. So instead of giving us Elizabeth’s words themselves, Austen gives us the impression that they make on Darcy even as Elizabeth can’t meet his eye because she’s so discombobulated. And instead of trying to give Lizzie dialog, instead of trying to write that conversation with the barest of templates, they got at the feeling of what was said, which is what free indirect discourse is all about, and they did it with KISSING.

AND I’M STILL SO HAPPY ABOUT IT.