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raskolnikov would do numbers on tumblr

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The fact that everyone who ever came across Gollum, good or evil with no exceptions, spared his life despite everything about him, proves that no one is immune to little gremlins with big eyes and a tragic backstory

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it’s really easy to become obsessed with a shakespeare play you just have to watch one version of it and then read the play and then go mad trying to watch every possible version of it you can find and then study several centuries worth of performance history and controversy

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oh i know the 19th century literature girlies were gagged at this

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sorry to keep on going about this, but honestly, when you actually think about the "jane eyre is 'not like other girls' self-insert fiction" argument, the more idiotic and frankly offensive it becomes.

like as far as i can recall, the only women in the story who jane holds in contempt or actively thinks badly of are women who were her abusers (mrs. reed, georgiana and eliza reed to a certain extent) or who are outright cold and cruel to her due to her social status (blanche ingram). she either feels warmly towards or even practically worships every woman in the story who is kind to her (miss temple, helen burns, bessie, mrs. fairfax, diana and mary rivers, rosamund oliver, etc.)

and even when we get to bertha mason, jane is definitely more sympathetic to her than not (and is absolutely more sympathetic to her than rochester is!!!)

it's true that jane feels (understandably!!!) alienated from victorian femininity in many ways, but like...she never really takes that out on other women??? in fact, it's more often the case that other women take it out on her by calling her plain, insignificant, etc. and like, idk guys if we can't criticize the constraints of victorian femininity because we risk getting into ~not like other girls~ territory or whatever, like what the fuck are we even doing??????????

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“I also become a little fixated on his eyelashes, which ordinarily you don’t notice much because they’re so blonde. But up close, in the sunlight slanting in from the window, they’re a light golden colour and so long I don’t see how they keep from getting all tangled up when he blinks.” (cf 195)

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Mr & Mrs Harker

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jonathan harker on may 12th: i witnessed with abject terror as the count descended the sheer stone wall of the castle face first as a lizard would. the unmitigated horror of the spectacle haunts my waking hours like an inescapable nightmare. this man or this thing shall surely be my undoing.

jonathan harker on may 15th: saw the old bastard do the crawling trick again and honestly fuck him it's not even that impressive i don't even care anymore i hope he falls.

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The last place where I would have thought to find a study in kindness is Dracula

But Mina is kind and Jonathan is kind and Mr. Swales is kind and Sister Agatha is kind and the people of Bistritz are kind and the Captain of the Demeter is kind and Count Dracula is monstrous because he is a bully who loves to fuck with people and Lucy is kind and Quincey is kind and the people on the train from Klausenberg took Jonathan too, even though he was in a state!

It is Human Kindness vs Monstrous Villainy, this book.

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First 3/4 of Persuasion: Anne has to see Wentworth getting progressively closer to another lady and hear everyone else speculate about their future marriage

Last 1/4 of Persuasion: Wentworth has to see Anne getting progressively closer to another gentleman and hear everyone else speculate about their future marriage

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I was trying to type Howl's Moving Castle as a tag on a post and instead.

I typed Howl's Moving Car.

I'm dying at this image. Movie!Howl has a car that moves. How does this make it different from any other car in the land? Uhhhhhhh.

Alternatively, book!Howl takes his junky car from Wales to Ingary, and everyone there goes This Is An Abomination.

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I can't believe it took me this long to get it but Eleanor Tilney is actually living the gothic heroine life (trapped by her awful father in a terrible old house after her mother died essentially from neglect, in love with a penniless man but said awful father has denied the match, ultimately he returns with an unexpected inheritance and marries her) and it's completely glossed over I love this

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The smell of the sea and the smell of the woods are siblings

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My recent find of the delightful @can-they-assemble-ikea-furniture blog inspired me to make another Jane Austen crack poll.

Reblog and share in the tags which piece they're assembling, and if they get the meatballs, hotdog, or soft serve before they leave the store.

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EMMA (2020)

dir. autumn de wilde