#the vibes are zoning out

[waitineedaname]

now that i've finished tgcf i can make memes about all three books! i was tempted to put binghe at the absolute center because he could easily go into any quadrant at different points in his life, and both lwj and hua cheng could swing jock, but i think the most important thing is that wei wuxian is all four at once. somehow.

[clumsypuppy]

someone left me a comment asking abt my pokeask days so....... i drew my old muses ^_^

[damienshaas]

[charliethechandelure]

[bennetsbonnet]

Started reading Longbourn by Jo Baker and ooft... it's a struggle.

What's billed as 'a reimagining of Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of the servants' according to a quote on the cover is actually the author forcing their modern views onto domestic staff in the Regency era that it seems unlikely they would ever have held.

The narrative primarily follows Sarah (who is named in the original novel which furthers my point that the staff do have a role in it) who seems annoyed when she actually has to actually serve the family who employ her to be... a servant? Yes, to us today the concept of being employed by someone else to wash their clothes, help them dress and serve their food seems.... strange... to say the least, but at the time it was a job like any other and part of the strict hierarchical structure of society where everyone 'knew' their place.

While it is true that the Industrial Revolution saw domestic staff leave positions they held at estates such as Longbourn in droves and move to cities in search of better job opportunities and pay... that really began in earnest after this time (particularly when railways began to be constructed and travel became easier).

One of the servants came from a workhouse and as anyone with even a passing familiarity with the plot of Oliver Twist will understand, if you came from such abject poverty and dismal circumstances, being a servant at a country estate would seem like an amazing life in comparison.

There are also a lot of allusions to slavery which are, in my opinion, clumsily done and forced into the plot in an attempt, I think, by the author to subtly compare the suffering of slaves to the situation of domestic servants. Which is not only misguided but also pretty insensitive (to say the very least) given that tens of millions of human beings were forcibly removed across the Atlantic Ocean to work against their will in unimaginable conditions (if they even survived the Middle Passage) to line the pockets of the rich and to construct the nations which they and their descendants have largely been kept from benefitting economically from to this day... whereas servants in Britain worked for a wage and were (largely) treated well by their employers and had agency (obviously within reason, if they were treated badly they could quit but it would be a risk).

But servants spoke to each other, so masters and mistresses of estates knew that they must treat their staff well, otherwise they would never be able to secure decent help as no servant worth their salt would work for them. I don't dispute it was a tough life! But there were definitely more precarious situations than working an estate such as Longbourn for a family such as the Bennets.

Plus, I question the need for such as a perspective as I would argue that Pride and Prejudice actually does draws attention to the servants. We know the name of both Longbourn's housekeeper, Mrs Hill (who tells Elizabeth and Jane about the letter Mr Bennet received with news on Lydia) and Pemberley's housekeeper, Mrs Reynolds (who has an enormous part to play in improving Elizabeth's opinion of Mr Darcy).

In addition, we learn something of the respective companions of Anne de Bourgh, with Mrs Jenkinson ('in whose appearance there was nothing remarkable, and who was entirely engaged in listening to what she said, and placing a screen in the proper direction before [Anne]'s eyes') and Mrs Annesley ('a genteel, agreeable-looking woman, whose endeavour to introduce some kind of discourse proved her to be more truly well-bred than either [Miss Bingley and Mrs Hurst]').

Servants are present in the original novel. They are not described in detail because a contemporary audience would understand they would have been present, sort of like how modern day novels would not have characters charging their phones up or detailed descriptions of them being used. They're just so commonplace and second nature to us that we understand everyone does those things. and it was similar back then with servants. They weren't callously 'ignored' by Jane Austen; it isn't within the scope of the novel for a reason because Pride and Prejudice focuses on gentry families and their personal relationships with each other... rather than the servants who washed their dirty dresses...

[wildstar25]

MiqoMarch Day 6 - Secret

The jealousy that began to bubble up, though likely pointless to hide from her of all people, Arsay desperately tried to keep a secret from her dear friend Krile.

[eldieii]

i know you were way too bright for me - i’m hopless, broken <…> you’re so golden

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[spindle-and-nima]

This madness has got to stop

[bisexual-biohazard5]

Weasleys: Concerned as they watched Percy zone out whilst staring into the fireplace for 5 hours.

Percy: Living the life as he disassociates and appreciates not having to think at all as music played in the back of his head. You've never been to heaven, have you?

[sewellsheart]

Question! Would your detective(s) still be interested in the opposite sex version of their LI?

[friendlygirlswag]

rip gale dekarios you would’ve loved abba

[front-facing-pokemon]

[puckpocketed]

i always feared becoming a toxically mean sports person about rivalries and injuries and fannish expression i never even thought about the kind of person id be in the face of under-researched trade proposals + sloppy player evaluations. is anyone watching the games or do we just clock in at the fantasy hockey factory and go buck wild without regard for the game that is being played in front of our eyes

[urproblematicfav-arsonk]

Crying and throwing and begging Emily Axford to finally drop her concept album about the different monsters in Greek mythology

[sublimati0ns]

absolute love with your drawings of KOSS, by any change you got any great recs of koss fics?

Thank you so much, I’m so happy you like them! ;w; And yes I do!! Just check my ao3 bookmarks here! :D

I’ve recently been thinking a lot about (dead dove cw) “Anatomy of Love” by zombieheroine—the twist on what Knock Out’s ‘present’ was really got me yelling kicking my feet it was so well-executed and (IMO) in-character!! If you like KO being yandere or just generally an unhinged freak I humbly suggest checking this fic out/// (Especially for the contrast of Starscream being weirded the hell out out but going along with it anyway—peak KOSS dynamic to me 😭♥️)

[blueblurseptember]

im actually gonna cry. in my delusional head, lighter helped her wipe the sand off her face