#defending her blorbo

[burningvelvet]

In a letter to W. S. Williams (14 August 1848), Charlotte Brontë compares Jane Eyre’s Rochester to the Byronic heroes of her sisters’ novels, Heathcliff from Emily’s Wuthering Heights and Huntingdon from Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:

“You say Mr. Huntingdon reminds you of Mr. Rochester. Does he? Yet there is no likeness between the two; the foundation of each character is entirely different. Huntingdon is a specimen of the naturally selfish, sensual, superficial man, whose one merit of a joyous temperament only avails him while he is young and healthy, whose best days are his earliest, who never profits by experience, who is sure to grow worse the older he grows.

Mr. Rochester has a thoughtful nature and a very feeling heart; he is neither selfish nor self-indulgent; he is ill-educated, misguided; errs, when he does err, through rashness and inexperience: he lives for a time as too many other men live, but being radically better than most men, he does not like that degraded life, and is never happy in it. He is taught the severe lessons of experience and has sense to learn wisdom from them. Years improve him; the effervescence of youth foamed away, what is really good in him still remains. His nature is like wine of a good vintage, time cannot sour, but only mellows him. Such at least was the character I meant to portray.

Heathcliffe, again, of Wuthering Heights is quite another creation. He exemplifies the effects which a life of continued injustice and hard usage may produce on a naturally perverse, vindictive, and inexorable disposition. Carefully trained and kindly treated, the black gipsy-cub might possibly have been reared into a human being, but tyranny and ignorance made of him a mere demon. The worst of it is, some of his spirit seems breathed through the whole narrative in which he figures: it haunts every moor and glen, and beckons in every fir-tree of the Heights.”

Source: The Brontës Life and Letters (Clement King Shorter, 2013)

[mykatzone]

I want y'all to know that all my fem!Light Yagami drawings where she's drawn looking feminine are her b4 coming out and entering her butch era.

(also for those who wanna read Light's internal monologue I left it below:)

[emyn-arnens]

look at this disgrace

[eff-plays]

"Ugh I can't stand Lae'zel she's the wor-"

I'll kill you. I'll fucking kill you dead fr

[koiwynn]

fang runin core

[feenixmork]

Bapy.

[soulsilversprings]

Ok as much as I feel like Nando was stretched too thin as a character by doing both contests and gyms.... it's also so understated how impressive it is that he had the time and talent to do both within a single grand festival/league cycle?

Like, he speedran that shit. And good for him!!

[angstydiaz]

it baffles me when ppl hate Tai like how the hell are you gonna hate on her LOOK AT HER!!

[scoopsgf]

been seeing a lot of questionable takes on my dash lately, like “mitchum was right to tell rory she didn’t have it” and “rory writing a book about her life is stupid” and I’m just… stunned by them. not only are they flat out wrong, but both of them pointedly insult rory and her capability to perform as an adequate journalist and storyteller. we know rory has it because it’s established throughout the entire series—she does great at the franklin and even manages to put spins on what should be crap stories like the pavement piece; she also rises to the top at the YDN and becomes editor in chief. not only is she great when it comes to writing (which is drilled into the viewer and over—it’s an indisputable, canonical fact), but she’s also great under pressure and defying expectations. when she went to chilton the odds were against her—it was predicted that she wouldn’t be able to catch up and would flunk out. and what did she do instead? she became valedictorian and went on to attend an ivy league university. mitchum’s critique of rory is fucking laughable when you consider all of that, but it’s even more ridiculous when you factor in that he was barely around throughout her stint interning for him, and decided that she “didn’t have it” simply because she didn’t speak up during one meeting, even though doing so would usually be considered incredibly disrespectful. rory has amazing ideas and she’s fantastic at executing them, and we know she was a successful journalist until richard’s death, which is the only reason she was in a rut at all. therefore the idea that she “doesn’t have it” is, again, canonically incorrect.

as for the other thing, rory writing a book about her life is the opposite of stupid. to the people who agree with this: you do realize you just watched an entire show about her life and found it entertaining, right? it’s a memoir about her childhood, her relationship with her mother, and how being the daughter of a teen mother affected her. there’s absolutely a market for that sort of thing. not only that, but this is rory we’re talking about: she’s perfectly capable of translating the magic we see on screen onto the page. in fact, i think it’s kind of implied that the book will play out similarly to the show and have the same kind of vibe—it sucks you in and keeps you coming back for more. anyway, tl;dr, all the rory bashing and complete lack of faith in her ability to be a good journalist is pretty unfounded and unfair. i feel like it’s just another outlet that people are using to put her down, but it has no basis in fact (like most anti-rory takes).

[loganofthenorth]

Es is now added to my list of comfort characters I love her

Facade: You have been seduced by Es

Me: Yes, and? Es is my friend now I love her

[lighthouseas]

manifesting gumball to win that poll because no one gets him like i do and i say he deserves to win so that means he needs to win

[stargleam-star]

I want to pry Frostpaw out of the Erins cold clamy hands so badly. They do not deserve her. Stop making this poor teenager suffer

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

utterly cannot stand the type of post thats like "what are the female characters you like" and i KNOW it's not the fault of the people who make those posts i know they only do it because 95% of this site's blorbos are men. but i hate it anyway. like really the only way you can get fandom people to talk about women is to explicitly tell them to talk about women. and it always comes off so disingenuous because i KNOW most people reblogging those posts would never say those characters on a generic "what are your favorite characters" post. like it's all just so bleak :/

[iaminlovewithducks]

I just finished disco elysium I'll never be the same person as before O-(—(

[francy-sketches]

I think i just found the new funniest discourse

[seek--rest]

what is a very specific scene youd want to see in spm4

Feige, is that you?

If you’re listening you baseball cap wearing clown, I need you to hear me very clearly:

Get rid of the Jones name. I don’t care if that’s what you established in NWH, you’ve never cared about continuity why start now. I don’t care if fandom is attached to the name they’ve created, if I don’t give a shit and I’ve written damn near 3% of the ENTIRE TAG than no one should. I don’t care if people “like Jones” “think Mary Jane is old fashioned” “prefer Michelle”, if any of them have a Tom or Zendaya pfp, they’re not to be trusted anyway.

Fresh start, new trilogy, give the MJ we know and love the Dignity and Respect of the Name Mary Jane Watson. Give me a scene that explicitly states the new status quo. Extra kudos if she’s an actress.

That’s what I want.