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GIRLLL THEY RUINED BRANDONNNNNNNNNN OMGGGG.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPPENS WHEN YOU LET AI MAKE ART BITCH.

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after seeing the trailer for the winx reboot it looks just as bad as i expected it would (if not worse) like who can possibly still be optimistic about it

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WHY COULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN HOBBY LOBBY

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Honestly, the thing that bothers me the VERY MOST in the Jane Austen or any classic lit fandom is when someone says, "I'm really struggling reading these novels, it seems like a different type of English, any tips?" And there are always a few comments like:

Austen is modern English

I read these books in high school

It's not that hard

Which I hate because

This is the internet. They may not be a native English speaker. They may be one of the dozens of people who don't live in the US!

Yes, Jane Austen uses modern English, but she has a massive vocabulary, some words she uses have meaning drift or are out of fashion, and having a knowledge of British history can really help in understanding her texts

This is not the time to brag about your reading level in high school, you pretentious, precocious, know-it-all, prick! If you actually want people to read the classics maybe try helping them instead of making them feel like idiots

Helpful things to say would be:

It is hard, though it tends to get better once you get used to her writing style

Try watching an adaptation first or using an audio book, which can help you follow the story

Feel free to ask for help if you have difficulty with a particular passage (and then don't be a dick about it)

Try Northanger Abbey first, the language there is a bit easier

Once I watched Reddit assist a reader all the way through Emma as they struggled with passages and it was beautiful! Please do not shame people for asking for help or struggling! The community will only get smaller. This is not the place to brag about your freaking reading level in your youth

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Story = External Events + Internal Change

External Events = Happenings that change the situation outside the individual character. The characters go to a new place, solve a problem, raise and answer a question, etc.

Internal Change = The character's internal reaction to these events, which changes their beliefs or personality

A story needs to have both. A story with only External Events is just Stuff Happening. A story with only Internal Change is just navel gazing.

Plotting is just figuring out how External Events can drive Internal Change, and how Internal Change can affect the character's approach to External Events.

Steps:

Decide on a starting and ending point for External Events. What is the problem, and how is it resolved?

Decide what the character's personality is at the beginning of the story, and decide how you want them to have changed by the end of the story.

Figure out which External Events along the course of the story will bring about the Internal Change you want to see.

A story can be driven by a character's refusal to or determination not to change, but we must be aware of that interior state and its effect upon External Events.

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bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

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Quote of the day

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breakfast

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Pride and Prejudice S1.E2 | 1995 Adapted by Andrew Davies

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What the hell man

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Can you imagine God creating Golgatha? Can you imagine Him forming the hill where His beloved Son would be tortured and killed? His hand sweeping the dust to form solid ground. The rocks settling, the grass growing in patches here and there. Can you imagine His anguish at seeing His beautiful creation being used to destroy His own Son? The pain He must have felt as the cross stabbed the earth? When Mary fell to her knees in the dirt, did He shudder? Did He weep not just for His Son, but the hill He brought into existence? Can you imagine the despair and pain? Can you imagine?

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