take my hand dear

But I'll let you in on a little secret, I intend to be your last love.

[fitswilliamdarcy]

“My dearest Emma, for dearest you will always be, my dearest, most beloved Emma, tell me at once. I cannot make speeches. If I loved you less then I might be able to talk about if more. But you know what I am. I have lectured you, and I have blamed you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England could have borne it. God knows I have been a very indifferent lover, but you understand me, you understand my feelings. Will you marry me?” - EMMA (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

[twitblr]

My free time includes me time and that means me without you time. (x)

[postergirlwithnoposter]

[cinemove]

Ella Enchanted (2004)

[moviemagiclove]

[books-read-in-nooks]

Lizzie, about Mr Wickham: “He told me of his misfortunes.”

Mr Darcy:

[marvelsmostwanted]

Bernie’s cozy mittens are killing me but also he’s from Vermont and the only one correctly dressed for the weather

[weaver-z]

Me watching two characters in a modern tv show have sex: Huh okay

Me watching two characters in a period drama let the backs of their hands lightly brush in a moment of emotional intimacy so intense they can’t meet each others’ eyes: 

[rodrickheffeley]

[play-doh-slut]

my soul left my body when biden looked into the camera while trump was shouting nonsense and said "do you all see what this clown is doing?"

[morrithal]

When I talk about how tired I am of Disney remakes I’m NOT talking about Cinderella (2015) sweetheart you can stay

[natsujutsu]

Toonami: Black Lives Matter.

[thenamelessdoll]

Disney characters with their live-action counterparts’ looks.

Material used: Colouring pages + backgrounds from the respective movies

[froglit]

imagine if we all just started ignoring celebrities tho

[froglit]

i cant stop thinking about how funny this would be. imagine kylie jenner posting a selfie n it gets 12 likes

[pesmenos]

why is there such a stigma against wearing pads? like why is it that people who wear tampons are seen as ‘strong’ and ‘cool’? y’all know that someone people can’t wear them bc it hurts them or that they just don’t like them? stop making it seem like people who wear pads are childish and weak compared to those who wear tampons 

[postcardsfromtheoryland]

Ok kids buckle up because I know the answer to this question because I am a bitter, vindictive person.

So my first semester of PhD work in a musicology program involved this horrible class with a professor that wanted to suck the life out of all of his students by constantly belittling them. We had to write a short paper each week and present them conference-style and then he would tear us to shreds and do it all over again next week. The purpose of the class was supposedly to have us write papers about materials that hadn’t really been looked at by musicologists yet, and my class had music in advertisements. I was also the only woman in the class and the prof was lowkey sexist so I kept trying to do feminist topics without losing my entire will to live.

So we get to the end of the semester and I am just completely out of fucks, I have one paper left to write and I say fuck it, let’s write about pads and tampons, there must be something there, right? It turns out there IS something to be said there (and this gets back to OP’s question). Early pad and tampon commercials were very similar to each other; basically here’s a product to help you stay clean during your period. But around 1980, suddenly there’s public outcry and panic over tampons due to TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome). At that point no one really understood how TSS worked but they knew it had to do with tampons. So women freaked out and started switching to pads instead. Now the worst offender, Rely, was taken off the market and other tampon commercials got slapped with little warning signs like “This product could cause TSS” so women bought even fewer tampons. This is when the advertising strategies for the two products changed.

Pad advertisements were now about “cleanliness” and “purity” - they knew you couldn’t get TSS from pads and they were going to emphasize that fact. You’ve got women in white dresses with long hair slowly walking through fields of flowers with pastoral-y flutes in the background. And to fight back, tampon companies take it the complete opposite direction - they ignore TSS entirely and start showing businesswomen running to catch the subway, sporty women riding bikes, basically any sort either high-powered position or active woman showed up in these commercials with contemporary pop-song type music over the top. The clear intention was “yeah we know that these could cause TSS but they’re much better for your mobility, both physically and career-wise.”

I got done giving this paper and I look up to see my four male classmates and one male professor in varying shades of pale-ness and they just all sort of looked at me for a couple minutes without knowing how to respond. It’s one of the proudest moments of my PhD career so far.

Anyway the two products have been advertised basically the same ways ever since then. Now pads are much more comfortable and discreet, and we understand how TSS works and how to avoid it, but the commercial strategies are cemented. If you want to be a strong, on-the-go woman of COURSE you’ll wear a tampon because you don’t want to be one of those sissy ladies in the pastoral field of flowers over in pad-land, do you?

[thisauthorisscreaming]

Reblog if you are happily living in the pastoral field of flowers over in pad-land.

[snorlaxatives]

kinda miss social media in 2012 where the concept of an influencer didn’t exist and everyone was using instagram’s premade filters and posting pictures of random shit like a handful of skittles or an overexposed sunset those were the days

[demelza]

May I read a passage from Diderot?