[undertheponderosa]

Jane Austen fandom @volcanicmudbubbles

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[backlogbooks]

"In the Western tradition there is a recognized hierarchy of beings, with, of course, the human being on top--the pinnacle of evolution, the darling of Creation--and the plants at the bottom. But in Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as "the younger brothers of Creation." We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn--we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way that they live. They teach us by example. They've been on the earth far longer than we have been, and have had time to figure things out."

-Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

[undertheponderosa]

In the northern European tradition they say: Look at how the animals behave or feel like us (eg Aesop)

But in the Native American tradition they say: Look at the animals, we behave like them and we can learn from them

There’s rehabilitation work being done on waterways in the West where humans are deliberately playing the role of a beaver, until the beaver themselves come back. There’s a lot of examples, this one just came up first in my search results

Stream restoration evolves to include beaver imitation, gets boost from Colorado Legislature

Over the course of two decades, David Cooper, a senior research scientist emeritus of wetland and riparian ecology at Colorado State Univers

[goosemedoosa]

not to um actually but um 🤓☝️ actually 🤓🤓🤓 aesop was greek which is Mediterranean/southern europe/maybe eastern europe if you wanna piss them off

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

with a little help from his older brother, Hank Green has invented an absurdly enjoyable word-spelling game called smush.

[undertheponderosa]

“Astrid wants to be useful and she wants to achieve quiet contentment. But quiet contentment is starting to feel like the highest boss level in the game of life.”

Sherry Thomas, The Librarians

Chapter 1. Promising to be a good book!

[gizkasparadise]

[papayajuan2019]

must feel so good to be soil absorbing rain

[dirt-secret]

Shared Electricity

a piece for a friends bday <3 If you want a print of this piece, you can get it HERE !

[earhartsease]

[kosmogrl]

what they don’t tell you is that the urge to just leave and start over somewhere far away only gets stronger the older you get

[astronicht]

Another top tier moon happening tonight on planet earth lads

[disorientation]

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

[caffeinatedopossum]

Me when I remember something I said ages ago that was wrong or my values no longer align with

[feral-ballad]

Taylor Byas, from I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems; “The Therapist Asks Me, “What Are You Afraid Of?””

[Text ID: “The remembering hurt / more than the living because shame dials / in. You hearing me? I was naive enough / to think I could control a life. Even mine.”]

[oysters-aint-for-me]

there’s a used bookstore in rural western massachusetts (the montague book mill) whose motto is “books you don’t need in a place you can’t find” and i just feel like that summarizes tumblr too

[oysters-aint-for-me]

posts you don’t need on a site you can’t search

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[breadandm]

somebody posted this Calvin and Hobbes strip and i cannot overstate just how topical this fuckin thing is

[flameeyed]

Me watching a Chinese drama and understanding the sentence without looking at the subtitles:

(It was "I also want to know.")

[bethanydelleman]

There is this common rebirth storyline I see in Korean/Chinese webtoons and dramas that goes like this: woman does what her family wants and gets married; she spends x years with her husband being the perfect wife but never getting anywhere/any thanks; then he kills her/she dies miserably and she is reborn before marrying her husband. At this point, she either gets revenge or just does her best to avoid her original timeline husband entirely and have a much better life.

What I love about this story line is it seems to solve what Anne Brontë with The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other authors were trying to figure out in their feminist works: how can you prove that a woman has done all she can to fix her marriage before leaving a terrible husband? It's hard to argue against, "She did everything perfectly and still died for it." I feel like when the woman is still alive, people want to argue that she could have tried harder, or done something better instead of accepting that no woman is obligated to or really able to fix a man. Or they want to see a groveling reconciliation between the couple no matter how unrealistic that may be.

Also, it's a far better repudiation of the mercenary side of arranged marriage to have someone who has been there and done that and now rejects it, rather than having a whiny teenager who dreams of true love. Her family's political schemes aren't worth more than the death she knows is coming.

I love this narrative. I love watching a woman follow all the stupid, hollow rules that society created and failing anyway, because it turns out that it was always a lie that being a perfect wife would somehow produce the perfect husband. I love women waking up from that lie, and from their death, and changing the entire narrative to alter their circumstances. And I love the writers screaming at every defender of the patriarchy in the audience.

If Anne Brontë lived today, I feel like she would have appreciated these stories.

(Some examples: Marry My Husband, Blossom, The Double, Perfect Marriage Revenge)

[volcanicmudbubbles]

I started watching these shows because you posted about them ❤️ I’ve enjoyed them so much! Although the 40-episode season is killing my sleep schedule.

(So far I’ve watched Blossom, The Double and a similar one you didn’t mention, The Princess Royal.)

I hadn’t thought about them as a redemption arc for the woman. My experience of them was more like fate saying oooooooops! In American terms we might phrase it as, “This timeline has gone so horribly wrong that we’re going to cut it off entirely.”

All of them so far have exquisitely capable women, and men who love and respect them for it, which ⭐️