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we think pining is romantic because fidelity is romantic. the reason it pulls at our heartstrings is less the idea of a longing that can never be satisfied and more the idea of someone being faithful to their love even when they’re not getting anything from it

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I’m not even an anti-internet person like I love the internet, I just get so frustrated with the passive way people have become accustomed to using it now. not actively seeking things out or engaging with communities, just turning their brain off & letting the algorithm feed them whatever it wants. & I can’t help but feel like that’s partially to blame for the current state of things (anti-“woke” backlash is easier to digest if you turn your brain off when online)

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Why *did* Austen have Fanny stay tied to Mansfield Park forever? It can't just be that she thought it was a plain and simple happily ever after right? Do you think she was making a point about the gentry and class system as a whole, saying you can't ever really escape it? The rot is too deep? Because if yes, then... I see people say Persuasion is slightly bittersweet because of the "tax of quick alarm," but Mansfield Park makes it a downright Disney ending in comparison.

Yeah, I have many feelings about it.

On the one hand, given Fanny's situation, her marriage to Edmund is a huge step up in the world and what she always wanted. It is a very good outcome for her.

On the other hand, she remains in a family that either abused her or allowed her abuse. She is married to a man who doesn't show a real appreciation of her goodness and intelligence (except we are told he does in the epilogue but I WANT TO SEE!). I have a hard time imagining her growing as a person like she did at Portsmouth once she's married. I guess maybe we are supposed to see that she has grown and started thinking past only Edmund's wisdom, but still.

It's possible to see the story as a restoration of the morals of Mansfield Park itself, but it's Fanny that I love and want to see happy.

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@lgbtqcreators creator bingo: color ★ @pscentral event 09: comfort ↳ Phoebe Buffay, Monica Geller, & Rachel Green

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S03E08 Lovers walk Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1996-2003)

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The Golden Girls – 2.20: Whose Face is This Anyway?

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THE PRINCESS BRIDE 1987, dir. Rob Reiner

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*through gritted teeth* every day i choose to be kind *barely restraining myself from violence* i choose to have compassion *tamping down the vicious bloodlust inside me* i choose to care and to be kind and to love

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Cat: water form

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"I am ready to fall in love with any woman who wants to love me and isn't Anne Elliot," said Captain Wentworth, lying to both the audience and himself all at once

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It is simply not fulfilling to enjoy media in the height of its popularity. You need to show up so late to the party that everybody else is gone and the hosts are asleep so you can rummage through their trash for chip dip and stale hors d’oeurves to eat alone in the dark like a dirty little raccoon secret

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GOOD OMENS "The Book"

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