#educational rb

[ten-cent-sleuth]

I have just finished Chapter 10 of Northanger Abbey. Some thoughts:

I kind of wish I had read this book first out of Jane Austen’s works, if only because I would have related to Catherine more

since I’m mostly familiar with Pride and Prejudice and Emma and Persuasion, and a little knowledgeable of Sense and Sensibility, (I have yet to even touch Mansfield yet, I am so sorry) I was immediately like what the heck do you mean Catherine’s got a brother

who is this man?? what is he doing here???

I’ve read too many P&P fics,,, the state of being brotherless is just so ingrained into the story conflicts and character dynamics in my head, whoops

Mr Thorpe was annoying from the first, and he has only gotten on my nerves even more (and do I smell a fortune hunter??)

Isabella is also hmm

at first I was leery of her and Catherine’s friendship because of how she’s older and more polished; I was sceptical of the sincerity of how quickly they seemed to get attached

also I get the vibe that she’s hiding something from Catherine (has she met Tilney before…?)

but if she’s really James’s love interest, then I see her as more harmless; more of a disappointment, less of a threat, I guess?

still absolutely relieved Catherine’s not overly attached to her now though

Miss Tilney intrigues me

I like her so far

might be my favourite character but we’ll see we’ll see

Mr Tilney also intrigues me but less decisively of a favourable bent

I’m kinda suspicious but idrk why

tryna withhold judgement since he hasn’t actually done anything sus yet (that I can think of)

plus I genuinely enjoy his and Catherine’s tête-à-têtes

so mostly on the fence

I am most curious about General Tilney, idk why but he is piquing my interest

the exposition about the late Mrs Tilney seems very deliberate

the whole family is just intriguing I s’pose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

loving the writing, unsurprisingly

I put off Northanger for a long time because I hadn’t expected it to be as lighthearted as it is due to some reviews I’d read but

there do be plenty of funny parts

and of course Miss Austen’s characteristic wit is ubiquitous <3

Please forgive me for any egregious mistakes, I am no literary academic and cannot spot themes or symbols or meta details for my life. 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[j-saying]

"A single decade" - a new challenge!

After the 7th time of being told why u need a Jewish state? Jews can live everywhere in peace!"* I present you a new challenge -

Give me a decade in history, in which having a Jewish state wouldn't have saved hell lot of people.

*both "everywhere" and "in peace" are wrong, btw.

What do I mean by "Jewish state"?

All Jews can come in, are welcome, and can get citizenship.

A state with actual functioning security (in and out) so, for example, if a massacre start there are people trained and willing to protect everyone around them.

Jews don't have to go to this state, but they can choose to. There can also be dual citizenship (the same way you can be Spanish and German).

What it doesn't mean?

Only-Jews state.

(please rb to get to those who need it)

[saintmachina]

AN EDUCATION IN MALICE

My sapphic, vampiric dark academia novel is coming next year. Add AN EDUCATION IN MALICE to Goodreads for:

gay academic rivals to lovers 

vampire house party exhibitionism

toxic poetry cohorts 

plus size heroines 

kinky, obsessive relationships 

 morally grey antagonists 

professors behaving badly

~Classes start Spring 2024~

[elftwink]

a 14 year old transgender kid who googled "hrt" and read up on medical transition already knows way more about "biological sex" than your average cisgender adult and i am not joking or being hyperbolic. constantly in my higher education i am subject to facts i learned myself as a teenager because i'm trans and constantly i speak to cis people who gun to their head could not tell you the difference between secondary and primary sex characteristics. if you're trans and any cis person tries to school you on gender laugh in their fucking face don't even hear them out unless they produce some qualifications i am being so serious we have to stop letting people who are convinced they can be feminized from plant estrogen think they're smart. #openlylaughatcispeople2022

[vintagestrawberrydoll]

I think the biggest thing I had to come to terms with my bullying was that it wasn’t my fault. No matter how “weird”, I was no matter how “different” I was I didn’t deserve it. I was a human being, I was a child I never deserved it

[gay-otlc]

I need cis people to get some level of multigender awareness because when I told my mom I wanted to be a guy and a girl she asked me if that meant I was fluid. She just could not comprehend that someone can be simultaneously male and female. I don't know why that's such a difficult concept but everyone else seems to have so much trouble with it.

[unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog]

Sorry gamers, got a bit angsty

[ordyneir]

Middle easterners everywhere are begging you to use your voice for something btw lmfao

[quickhacked]

you know they'll never understand || [x]

[damn-it-a-hogwarts-legacy-blog]

lmaooo

[mugbearerscorner]

A very good and educational video from a great channel Dead Domain about the history of antisemitism and its effects on modern society.

[official-saul-goodman]

Google, what will take this weight off my shoulders? When can i be me again?

[succubi-tch]

How are we still, in 2024, typing out full paragraphs intended to be taken seriously in full caps on Tumblr dot com.

[imagineagreatadventure]

i can't even get angry about american zoooomers falling for bullshit bc we see it all the time with boomers and x and millennials and the common denominators are 1) american education 2) the human brain

so we can and possibly should give breaks to people falling for conmen up to a point

[zoekrystall]

Saw certain tweets and here once again a reminder which a twt mutual luckily wrote shorter than I could (plus public so I can rb bc no way I do that myself on that site)

Also

And if you want smth I wrote myself which is longer and not just abt that here you go

[lostandfem]

reason for transitioning #4

a difficult relationship with my breasts. i had larger ones before the mastectomy. they were also p saggy for reasons unrelated to binding. often older women would talk about their breasts about being “a tennis ball in a sock” or something and how they wished they could go back to having younger boobs again, and i just sat there having exactly what they described while only in my late teens. i hated them so much. floppy and useless, unappealing, awful.

at the same time, because they were bigger, they were overly sexualized. going out in public with them in a bra made them look a lot fuller than they were, and it attracted eyes to me. there was no way to go out in public without feeling like i was calling attention to myself for just existing with breasts. for someone with several anxiety disorders, that was horrendous. i didnt want to be sexualized. i didnt want mens attention. i wanted to be left alone

it was the duality of them being unattractive but at the same time too attractive. in every aspect it felt like they betrayed me. i wish i had the chance to reconcile with them, but theyre gone forever now…