#rather than a significant other

[robinsbanduniform]

mike approaches conversations with el the same way a parent approaches conversations with their angsty teenager

[canisalbus]

gothic lolita machete came to me in a dream

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[anghraine]

melyzard replied to this post:

You know, given that P&P was published in 1813 before the 1696 window tax was repealed, she might just be admiring both the outdoors AND the expansive and numerous windows themselves. I mean, good windows really were a big sign of wealth and consequence until 1851 when the tax was finally repealed. But yeah,also,yeah, she's definitely more interested in the outdoors than the Great Chimney Places of the Wealthy

It's true that windows were a major status symbol at the time and long before, but I don't think Elizabeth much cares about that, in all honesty! That is the relevant historical context for Mr Collins's rhapsodies over Rosings' windows, for instance:

she could not be in such raptures as Mr Collins expected the scene to inspire, and was but slightly affected by his enumeration of the windows in front of the house, and his relation of what the glazing altogether had originally cost Sir Lewis de Bourgh

He's silly but he's not mistaken in identifying the windows as a significant status symbol (which without that cultural context can seem like just another Mr Collins absurdity). But Elizabeth specifically, as a person, is consistently not very interested in these kinds of status symbols (though she knows they're there and understands what they signify). She is attracted to natural beauty and unassuming elegance, which is the overwhelming note at Pemberley:

She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.

Even when it does come to Pemberley's expensive interior, she focuses on the aesthetic dissimilarity to Rosings and, even more, about what is suggested about Darcy's relationships to other people dependent on him (Elizabeth's takeaway from the pretty interior decorating project for Georgiana is "He is certainly a good brother" and not how much disposable income this represents, say).

The fuller quote when she first approaches the window is pretty clear about what Elizabeth is focusing on, IMO:

Elizabeth, after slightly surveying it, went to a window to enjoy its prospect. The hill, crowned with wood, from which they had descended, receiving increased abruptness from the distance, was a beautiful object. Every disposition of the ground was good; and she looked on the whole scene, the river, the trees scattered on its banks, and the winding of the valley, as far as she could trace it, with delight. As they passed into other rooms, these objects were taking different positions; but from every window there were beauties to be seen.

[pwurrz]

being obsessed with yakumo is a job and baby i’ve never called in a sick day!!!!!

[constantvariations]

Adam takes a very specific stance over his fallen foes: boot on their chest, weapon in his hand, and a smirk on his face

You think that's the last thing he ever saw with two eyes?

[maxellminidisc]

Perhaps mean but idk I find it very funny the way white people who turn hippy dippy conspiracy heavy always end up believing in some new age utopia bullshit but it's never grounded in the idea of ever doing anything in this world to do better for others, tellingly that free love never extends to unlearning racism. It's always about some white ass idea of enlightenment to get somewhere they deserve to be for being big brained and "aligning the right chakras" aksdkdkdl. And that's like not even getting into how so much of it always has some white supremacists basis if you scratch the surface even a tiny bit.

[maddieandangel]

Had a weird Hollow Knight-related dream a couple days ago, so I decided to draw a major scene I remembered from it dgsgshf

More context will be in the tags, for those interested!

[chamerionwrites]

My half meta-crack, half deadly-serious opinion is that Cassian Andor’s two tall sandy-haired shady bastard spymasters should meet in fic and fight it out.

Problem is I can’t decide if that meeting would go down like this

Or like this

[supercantaloupe]

i got a survey to fill out about my experience of antisemitism on my university campus and while i'm cool with sharing my opinion for data purposes (the results are all anonymized anyway) i wish there had been a field somewhere to clarify that my university has a vanishingly small jewish population (could probably be counted in the low teens, if even that high, in the entire university), absolutely zero jewish life on campus like hillel or chabad or even an interfaith club, and is, in terms of social/political climate, very out of the ordinary when it comes to the majority of american schools

[pasiphile]

You know that thing where you reread gtn after having read the entire trilogy and you keep going, oh, this is fucking foreshadowing for htn/ntn?

I'm now having the slightly paranoid experience of rereading gtn and constantly going squinty eyed and wait, is this gonna be foreshadowing for alecto?

[deathdxnces]

and if i tell you irelia would very much like to not remember the placidium. if i say she is always as far away from it as possible unless she has to be there, and that she'll leave as soon as she can.

[windor-truffle]

just noticed recently that compared to other tales games, graces doesn't have many long-lasting antagonists besides the obvious final bosses (richard/lambda and the little queen/fodra). there's no subordinate group of the main antagonist like you see in Xillia, Berseria, or Abyss with the Chimeriad, Abbey Legates, and the God Generals respectively. There's no recurring rivals like Ivar(ToX), Zagi (ToV), Chalcedony(ToHr), Zaveid(ToZ) etc. (although there IS an optional second boss fight with Bryce as a sidequest in graces f). The rest of the bosses or antagonists are either monsters in a local area or only last for an arc (Cedric, Kurt) rather than getting a buildup across a significant chunk of the game like Alexei from ToV or the Renan lords from Arise. I don't think this is a bad thing, im not sure what it means other than that a majority of of graces's conflicts stem from individual situational crises rather than massive overarching goals. what can i say it's a friendship-driven game

[successiontheshow]

really obsessed with the myth-making that surrounds logan roy’s character as being grander, wiser, all-knowing being when it comes to his business. constantly his character is called a beast, a legend, kendall is said to worship him like a god, because it’s logan’s will that always seems to come true and never anyone else’s, therefore, he is more than mortal, more than man. and yet, it’s never mentioned how much logan’s manipulations and heavy handedness force reality to bend to his will. he is no god, and he is no beast. he does not know more than anyone else in the story but it’s easy to be seen as a prophet when you’re the one pulling the strings.

[czolgosz]

it's kind of annoying how all three of the fl revolutionary factions are bad

[hephaestuscrew]

It seems like both of the Funn parents have been dead for a while when Wooden Overcoats starts; Rudyard and Antigone have gotten used to living at and running Funn Funerals on their own, and there's no indication that the absence of their parents is a recent development. But the Funn twins are only thirty-five at the beginning of the series, which suggests they were fairly young when their parents died.

And Georgie, who is younger than the Funns, seems to have been raised by her Nana and doesn't appear to have any other family. (In the flashback to their first meeting, Rudyard asks Georgie "You have family?" and she says "Just my Nana.") If she does have living parents or other relatives, she doesn't appear to feel connected to them.

And I think it adds to that undercurrent of loss and grief in the show that, although it isn't ever really talked about, three of the central characters have probably lost both their parents at a relatively young age. It also gives extra weight to the Funns becoming Georgie's found family too, if they've all experienced that specific kind of loss, and if they all start the series with limited familial (or even friendly) connections.

[pupkou]

can we come together as a community and be honest with ourselves .. because i’m tired of seeing everything turned into an egg roll. not everything needs to be an egg roll