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ye olde introduction

because i have too many fandoms to put in my description apparently?

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xuanli are GOALS. i mean jzx makes it clear (during wen indoctrination) that working in a field is the Worst thing to happen to anyone ever in his opinion, and yet❗ he personally makes yanli a lotus garden to make her feel more at home. HE. he had to have researched lotuses and how to care for them. he got lotuses. he planted them HIMSELF, for HER. he could easily have got a servant for the job, but no, he's willing to build her a second Lotus Pier with his bare hands and get all over mud. just for yanli

#yap hours #can you tell xuanli are my otp #mdzs #xuanli #jin zixuan #jiang yanli #mo dao zu shi #cql #chen qing ling #mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu

amazing how sophie, throughout the entire book, always manages to focus carefully on exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time and completely ignore everything else

#yap hours #my girl the grey and scarlet suit is hardly a priority right now #howl's moving castle #hmc #hmc book #sophie hatter #diana wynne jones #howl jenkins pendragon #howl pendragon #local woman fails to notice she is a witch till everyone else tells her so #is convinced howl is NOT in love with her up until he kills miss angorian #she's so dense i love her

In Yet Another Attempt At Gaining Male Friend's Favour, Local Woman Calls His Crush A "Pick-Me"—Later Regrets It

—caroline bingley, probably

#yap hours #pride and prejudice #sorry caroline you never had a chance #caroline bingley #elizabeth bennet #mr darcy #jane austen #fitzwilliam darcy #p&p #books

gravelyspicyfamiliar

The sad thing about Mr. Collins is that he is never going to get any better.

In the book he's a young man, like just old enough to be ordained which I think makes him about 24. Obviously that's a full adult but it's still young enough to be young and dumb. Many people in the world who are dumbasses at 24 get sense slapped into them by life. I know I did, at least a bit!

But Mr. Collins never will because he has married a woman who is never ever ever going to be emotionally honest with him (this is not blaming her!!! Just a fact). She's never going to tell him that he sounds ridiculous or his ideas are all wrong. He's basically married to an illusion and that's kind of sad. His own fault and the fault of society that gave Charlotte no other option! But still sad.

My dear Charlotte and I have but one mind and one way of thinking. There is in everything a most remarkable resemblance of character and ideas between us. We seem to have been designed for each other.

Or ... she literally just agrees with whatever you say with 0% sincerity.

as Mrs. Collins had settled it with her husband that the office of introduction should be hers, it was performed in a proper manner, without any of those apologies and thanks which he would have thought necessary.

He's going to spend his whole life being subtly manipulated to be less embarrassing.

And then when Mr. Bennet dies, Mr. Collins will be the gentleman landowner of Longbourn and nobody will contradict him there because he's the boss.

Which means Mr. Collins is never going to improve his character because Elizabeth may be the last person ever to call him out and stand up to him.

But ultimately, this is his fault. Because you know who else usually doesn't get called out by anybody? Mr. Darcy. Elizabeth's one callout was enough to shake Mr. Darcy's misconceptions and inspire him to be a better person. Yes, Elizabeth was (justifiably!!) ruder to Mr. Darcy, but if Mr. Collins were a better person he could have gained some awareness from Elizabeth's rejection. Instead he ran away and soothed his sore feelings by proposing to whatever woman was nearby and being nice to him.

So Mr. Collins's fate is to be ridiculous forever.

#this is exactly it #pride and prejudice #mr collins #jane austen #elizabeth bennet #mr darcy #charlotte lucas

detailedart

Summer walks in nature. The Misty Pond of Villeneuve, 1908. Painter: Henri Biva, oil on canvas.

#beauteous art #can't believe that's not real #looks like a dream i had once #art #oil painting #oil on canvas

bennetsbonnet

Pride and Prejudice (1995) + Text Posts (7/?)

#pride and prejudice #pride and prejudice 1995 #jane austen #mr darcy #elizabeth bennet #pride and prejudice 95 #mr collins #george wickham #no. 3 flatlined me honestly #jane bennet

peppermintsandbones5

RIP Lydia Bennet you would’ve loved watching tik toks at full volume in public

twineathreadofstarlight

and you just know she'd double down on it if anyone asked her to stop

#pride and prejudice #yap hours #lydia bennet #jane austen #p&p

noahczreny

isnt it interesting that two people can read the same book and one will just move on and the other will have their entire dna changed by the characters i just love that reading is such a unique and entirely human experience

#miscellaneous #books #books and reading #this happens with pretty much every book i read with my brother #im the insane one and he just thinks the book is cool

i wonder if news of Dan's ultimate fate ever reached Jo at Plumfield

#and how it must have felt #to her AND teddy #yap hours #jo's boys #little women #louisa may alcott #jo march #teddy bhaer #daniel kean #i am so sick why did dan have to die #was he remembered or did he fade into the grass

thought a little too much about how Jo probably blamed herself for Beth's death and now i am ill

#if jo had gone to the hummels' beth never would have caught scarlet fever #beth would never have been permanently weakened by it #consequently beth might have lived a much longer healthier life #etc etc #yap hours #jo march #beth march #little women #march sisters #louisa may alcott

librarylexicon

dan's fate in jo's boys. tell me about it ;-;

WHY DID HE HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT WAAAAHH

I was already not enjoying the book because Dan just could not catch a break, and then Alcott had to go and throw in that line at the end. WHY. Unable to set down roots, falling into the wrong circumstances, manslaughter, prison, hard labour, isolation and suffering and trauma and despair, topped off by a love that can never be (even though it's not unrequited)... Lou, just say you hate Dan and go! He and Nat were why I loved Little Men so much, and then Jo's Boys went and stamped all over that. I have never wanted a book to not exist as much as the visceral reaction I had when I got to the end of Jo's Boys. Just thinking about it makes me angry all over again. UGH.

twineathreadofstarlight

don't like to think it, but there was probably a hint of racism in Amy's position on Dan. she doesn't know about the manslaughter OR the prison sentence, so all she has against Dan is his poor background and habit of wandering. so what's the problem Amy?? those two things are so unforgivable that you can't even begin to countenance the distant prospect of him marrying your daughter??