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My pastor quoted someone saying, “love considers the fitness and propriety of things, it is careful of what would touch painful feelings, it is attentive to the courtesies of life” and it struck me as a very Austenian take on 1 Corinthians 13. So many modern adaptions of her work miss the mark entirely by having the romantic couple in question drop all ceremony and/or custom—all those allegedly outdated, suppressive, and stuffy modes of behavior that get in the way of free and wild declarations of love that finally break through the patently trite, silly, ye-oldey culture in which the characters must inevitably feel trapped! (Cue running towards each other on the beach! Meeting at sunrise in one’s nightclothes! Throwing oneself on the floor of one’s extensive library in a fit of toddlerism!) But Austen was a contemporary writer in her time, and there’s no intellectually honest reason to believe she was trying to smuggle 21st century ideas and Hollywood values into her work. She wasn’t sticking it to the man, she was sticking it to the Romantics—the ones who would overlook the conscientiousness of characters like Darcy, Mr. Knightley, and Colonel Brandon, in favor of the passionate emotionalism of Marianne and Willoughby, the naivety of Catherine Morland, the performative melancholy of the Byronic James Benwick. Anyone really paying attention to her stories will see that discourtesy and lack of propriety are always the real heart of the conflict, and characters prove their worth and win the day by putting things right, doing things properly, and reestablishing sound reputation and goodwill to the best of their ability. In this essay I have.

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“I am going to the palace prison to indulge myself. I think I deserve it.”

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The King of Attolia, pg. 245 of the 2005 paperback

I do not have the words to describe how much I love the fact that our whiny, arrogant, sometimes vindictive, lying, thieving, horrendous son is nearly mortally wounded and decides that the one thing he can do to make himself feel better is to return to the scene of his worst nightmares to bring freedom and relief to the man who once tortured him because they are both wholeheartedly and irrevocably devoted to the same woman and our boy knows he can save the man from himself.

(via shaelit)

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Rewatching the extended fellowship of the ring compelled me to make this shitpost video of Legolas and Aragorn being besties

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this is what went on inside their heads

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“ ‘Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe Gen’s a family name. The title of King’s Thief is a hereditary one now in Eddis, and I think the current Thief is named Eugenides.’”

The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner

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why didn’t gandalf just carry the ring to mordor himself with these tongs

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resting 🥱

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hey so I’m in love with this

finally drawing again, so here’s this weird piece

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Austen men holding their first child for the first time

Darcy: beams for a second. Feels tears pulling up. Panics. Chain of throat clearing. Silence.

Bingley: starts talking to the baby stream of consciousness style. Yes, he knows the baby doesn't understand a word. It doesn't matter to him. They are gonna be so close!

Mr. Collins: tells the baby how fortunate it is to be born under the esteemed patronage of Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

Edward Ferrars: holds baby. Starts hyperventilating, too many feelings. Delicately gives back the child and power walks out of the room. Spends a full hour in the garden crying and trying to calm down.

Colonel Brandon: big smile. Sits down. Cannot take his eyes off the creature. There are tears running down his face but he makes no attempt at concealing or drying them at all.

Mr. Knightley: deep breaths. Smile. More deep breaths. He's fine. He's fine and don't you dare assume otherwise.

Mr. Elton: high fives Augusta for making the best baby in the world.

Frank Churchill: people know him too well to let him hold a baby below the age of 2. He sits by the side of the crib and tries to catch the baby's attention. He does not understand that the baby cannot do that. He loves his child anyways.

Henry Tilney: a natural at baby-holding. That's it. Everybody else go home.

Frederick Wentworth: vid. Darcy.

Edmund Bertram: stares incredulous that he and Fanny could create such a thing. Gets lost in thought. Has to be asked to give the baby back 3 times before he reacts.

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I… I was reading Hark a Vagrant… for like the 50th time… I’m so sorry cosmere fandom

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"‘Are you injured, sir?’ I think he was swearing, but am not certain; however, he was pronouncing some formula which prevented him from replying to me directly."

— "Jane Eyre"; Chapter XII

Art: https://www.twitter.com/Paigumondus

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never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"

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gen/irene is a crazy relationship dynamic btw like hes the first person to smile at her without a double meaning and she cuts off his hand, the first time we see them meet he thinks shes a demon from hell, but hes already in love with her by the second, she spends the entire second book wishing she had executed him, and it ends with them married, she softly comforts him when he wakes from nightmares about her gouging out his eyes and cutting his tongue off, their inside jokes are about murdering eachother, they both cried on their wedding night, they love each other truly, neither of them are able to tell when people like or care about them, she tried to have a whole guard squad beheaded for not protecting him and then slapped him when he stopped her

i like them a lot

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the best part of this post is Megan Whalen Turner herself reblogging it

when i was little and i went to church people would talk about “fearing god.” they would use ‘’fear’ to describe like a way of respecting him while understanding his power and i never knew what that  meant until i met a fucking horse 

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tbh your dad had the right idea, now I just want fan art of Arab Kelsier

i was talking to my dad about mistborn and somehow he managed to hop skip and a jump over all descriptions of kelsier because he imagined him as arab and handsome and was visibily upset/confused when i had to break to him he is a blonde hair blue eyed white man

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Elizabeth's reaction to Darcy's first proposal

Saw a post about how Elizabeth crying after she refuses Mr. Darcy, when she doesn't cry after refusing Mr. Collins, shows she has repressed feelings for Darcy.

I see no evidence of this. I trust Elizabeth's avowal of what her feelings for Darcy are at this point. She genuinely hates him.

She cries as a stress response, not because her sub-conscious regrets turning him down or wishes he hadn't done despicable stuff so she could have had him. This was a much more stressful proposal than the Collins one. Darcy insults her whole family, proudly proclaims that he destroyed her favorite sister's happiness, and keeps rudely pushing back at her attempts to politely tell him off until she's forced to lash out at him with the angry "last man in the world I would ever marry" speech. Then he leaves her right at this peak of her anger, so of course she then breaks down and lets everything out and cries as she stews over all the hurtful shit he said to her.

The Collins proposal wasn't stressful because she knew it was just a silly annoyance. She literally has to stop herself from laughing during it. She eventually gets frustrated with him not listening to her, but he acts friendly and praises her throughout, so she's never pushed to strike out at him. She can just leave and move on and not have to stew over anything he said because everything he said was just silly romantic nonsense. She also knows she can go to her dad for help.

Even more importantly, she knew the Collins proposal was coming and had five whole days to prep her mind for it. The Darcy proposal hit her like a freight train out of nowhere, and it came at the worst possible time, when she was already in emotional and physical pain. She was literally crying right before the proposal. You think after that nightmare proposal she's going to be more calm than she was before it and stop the crying?? No way! She's going to go right back into crying mode! And unlike with the Collins one, she doesn't have her dad for backup or fave sister for emotional support or even her own familiar bedroom to retreat to. She's all on her own with her distress and a freaking headache on top of it.

With all this, I'm honestly impressed she doesn't cry during the proposal. I wouldn't be able to hold it together as well as she does, and I'm not even much of a crier. I would have a screaming, sobbing breakdown right in front of Darcy.

Let's please not be like stupid Darcy and think that if only he had been nicer, he could have gotten her secret feelings out and gotten a yes from her. She has no secret repressed feelings for him at this time. Crying is not evidence of love or regret here. Let's trust Elizabeth on this.

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1/3 of the Fellowship

The Dwarfs are very clearly inspired mainly from Old Norse, so that's the main reference for Gimli's dress. There's also some other influences, like some Bronze Age Mediterranean influences and Iron Age Eastern Europe.

To me Tolkien's elves are very high Middle Ages and Gothic, but for Sindar I mixed in plenty of Celtic and especially Irish influence, and based Legolas' dress heavily on Irish léine.

Boromir's dress I based on mostly Byzantine but also some Medieval Arabic influences as I did for Faramir.