#the lady afterwards

[jasonsjrawings]

You're growing a tree.

[inverswayart]

so, half a year ago I had some fun time playing the Lady Afterwards with my friends, and finally, i gathered enough strength and interest back to finish the party lineup i started in July. Better late than never, as some say!

so here's our lovely team of 3 different shades of socialites and one grumpy working dude. it was fun

btw Arthur belongs to @vio-lenceee

[birdlimes]

Family got the ttrpg Lady Afterwards, and I made this guy to play the physician role! His name is Dr. Dante Columbo :)

[witchcatcreations]

Two different sketches of my medium from The Lady Afterwards, Mme Olivia Garnier. At the end of the campaign, she has suffered from three fascination, and has gone mad, but isn't dead! Really loving her character development, and even though the campaign has ended, I'm going to keep her character concept around, for writing and possible future TTRPG ideas!

[hoofpeet]

Sneasler getting a little bit jealous over time when Ingo starts battling full-time and DOESN'T beg her to be on his team--> Enlisting herself in a battle to prove that she's good at fighting too

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

So, I started watching Link Click...

[thistransient]

Taipei is not hosting the big national lantern festival this year but there are still some cool things set up around the city, this one is outside Songshan Station 松山站

[faun-buns]

the last unicorn

[anghraine]

I've been moving and navigating further departmental nonsense etc (my pseudo-dissertation got approved for defending, though! l o l). But it was interesting to see the Worst P&P Takes poll I reblogged accumulating more results and the general tenor of responses in the notes.

I mean, the results are definitely to be expected if you're familiar with the side of Austen fandom doing a lot of the reblogging etc. But still, interesting!

Many Tumblr polls specify that they're asking about personal preferences that may be irrational—favorite/least favorite, coolest/most annoying, or something like that. This one, though, asked for the worst interpretation of P&P, not the most annoying one—and the current leader is "Darcy is never really proud, he's just shy and probably has anxiety" against some very steep competition on the Bad Takes front.

I was thinking about why that seemed a kind of tediously predictable choice even though I agree that the take is wrong, and realized that while I do disagree with the shy Darcy interpretation and I particularly disagree with the specific formulation where he is never proud at all, it ultimately feels to me like a failure of nuance rather than just completely wrongheaded like some of the others. And this is probably my fundamental difference with a lot of Darcy takes I see!

In my opinion, a character who is introverted and who feels awkward in various social situations and who doesn't like common social activities and who has to work himself up to talking to his crush and who is repeatedly suggested to behave very differently in contexts where he's more comfortable being interpreted as shy and anxious is not that big of a leap.

Yes, it's important that he is actually fundamentally confident and haughty, that he makes his personal feelings of discomfort other people's problem, and that he thinks he's such a unique and special butterfly that he doesn't need to even put in an effort outside his personal social circle. But it's a misreading that is easy to follow (and long predates the 2005 P&P, as I've mentioned before!).

The additional misreading that a shy and anxious Darcy is also never proud at all is a much more drastic leap, and in my experience, condemnations of shy Darcy interpretations rarely differentiate between "Darcy is shy as well as arrogant" and "Darcy is shy rather than arrogant" as interpretations (although their basic arguments are quite different). But even that as the worst possible misreading of P&P when Darcy is not even the main character is ?????????

I mean, for one alternative (not even the one I voted for!), the idea that Elizabeth is an author avatar Mary Sue seems a far worse misreading of P&P than basically anything to do with Darcy at all. The center piece of the entire novel is Elizabeth's epiphany of self-knowledge about her own shortcomings that do not particularly resemble Austen's at all, but were ethically a concern for her, and she's a complex, interesting character in general whom Austen correctly regarded as a major achievement. Inverting that into Elizabeth as an improbably perfect, reality-warping self-insert is deeply wrong and frankly pretty misogynistic as well.

(ngl though, it's a little funny to see such a blatantly terrible reading of Elizabeth rank so far behind the shy Darcy votes. I've gotten "does anyone actually think/say that?" so many times on my posts about Austen fandom's prioritization of Darcy's character development over Elizabeth's and yet...)

And even just going with the Darcy-centric misreadings, the idea of Darcy as a "bad boy" seems easily the most absolutely wrong take on him. His pride is at least complicated and the finer points can be fairly debated and it's a quality that actually changes somewhat throughout the novel, and you can have discussion over what happened when, whose testimonies should be weighted more, etc. But there is no point at which "bad boy" isn't utterly wrong for him. However, there's definitely a tendency in some wings of the fandom to find the idea of Darcy being misread too favorably more objectionable than him being read too unfavorably, regardless of the particulars, so it's not a surprise.

I suppose you could argue about what "worst" means in the context of variously bad interpretations. Like, is an interpretation that is about a fairly trivial aspect of the book but extremely wrong about it "worse" than an interpretation that is pretty bad but at least comprehensibly so about something very important?

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price

A Royal Scandal (1944)

[rebouks]

Previous // Next

Hana: If you keep feeding that cat, it’s-… Wyatt: You’re late for work. Hana: Wouldn’t you rather do something else today? Wyatt: Not really. Hana: Tch-.. what’re you doing? [Wyatt scowled as Hana snatched his phone away, her features mirroring his as she hastily dropped it] Hana: Seriously? I know we’re not exclusive, but-… Wyatt: Exactly. Hana: You could’ve waited until I left before gawking at random women. Wyatt: I’m waiting… Hana: You’re such a jerk. Wyatt: Have I ever denied that fact? [Hana scoffed as she began gathering her clothes, throwing Wyatt’s shirt at his face indignantly in the process] … Hana: I don’t think we should see each other anymore. Wyatt: Okay. Hana: [pauses] Okay..? Wyatt: Did you want me to say something else? [Wyatt squinted with amusement as Hana fumbled for words, her shoulders drooping as she realised he was grinning] Hana: You think you’re funny? ‘Cause you’re not. Wyatt: Oh, I don’t know.. I’m quite entertained. Hana: Well, you’re the only one! Wyatt: You thought you’d be different, didn’t you? That you were special enough for me to change my ways. Wyatt: But you’re too stubborn to admit that, aren’t you? It’s much easier to blame someone else than accept that you were wrong, isn’t it? [He was right, of course, but Hana wasn’t about to agree that he’d figured her out so succinctly-.. unnervingly so] Hana: Go fuck yourself, Kaito. Wyatt: You’re angrier at yourself than you are at me. Hana: SCREW YOU!

[jasonsjrawings]

Average book of hours player experience

[inverswayart]

Dedication: Union

We have dedicated ourselves to the pursuit of immortal union. The House is no place for lovers, but the Twins are still there.

cooked up an icon for Blanche's (and her beloved husband Raymond) possible ascension path

I imagine her zeroing in on "fusing with your dead lover" part of variant Sensation ascension and in doing so attracting WItch-and-Sister's attention over Grail's. Raymond might be long dead by that point, but his Heart is still full of desire (and Blanche will make sure he endures till the end)

she's also like. 80 or something by the time she actually gets to work :.D

[clonerightsagenda]

Tried and failed to make a coherent post about this but the Granny Weatherwax moment that lives with me forever that I never see quoted is the “what has he ever done to me, that I should hurt him so”

[amazingdeadfish]

Day Twenty One: Memory

People depict Chief as serious, because of how he was shown in the flashback scene. But maybe he is more or less similar to the Mayor. A silly guy, trying to be positive while the empire he lives in suffers.

But the moment a certain someone comes and says they can save everything and create a better world, especially when the emperor has been nothing short of an arsehole... Well... The Chief would certainly take the only chance to make his empire a better place, right?

[scintillyyy]

tim bothering helena at home is delightful, but have we considered

tim bothering helena at sunday mass