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Knitted a moth sweater ✨ bought the pattern for it here!

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there isn't much to draw about fat fish tail

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Okay, so I have had this idea for a crack pairing, and I need to share it. 

The year is 1816. Napoleon has been exiled on Saint Helena and mainland Europe is once again safe to travel. Caroline Bingley, her sister Louisa Hurst, and her brother-in-law Mr. Hurst decide to summer in the Carpathian Mountains, which have been relatively untouched by the recent conflicts. While there mingling with the local nobility at a ball, Caroline meets Count Vlad Dracula. The two marry after a short courtship where others applaud the suitability of the pairing of Caroline’s fortune and Count Dracula’s land and title.

Caroline arrives at her new husband’s castle for the first time and finds it a mess, but Caroline Dracula is not to be daunted. With all the experience of a woman who has been assisting her brother in his estate running for years prior to his marriage, Caroline sets about getting the castle in tip-top shape. New furniture and upholstery is ordered, stonework is repaired, and styles are updated. If the Count is adverse to these updates, Caroline is not inclined to notice. She is mistress of the house now, she need not consult her husband in its appointment. 

Dracula is puzzled by the reactions of his new wife. When she encounters his wolves, she refuses to be frightened and simply cites her prior experience with her brother’s hunting dogs as she tells the wolves to heel, and they actually listen to her. If he crawls about the walls, she chides him for his behavior, saying that he is displaying a lack of manners. No matter what he does, though either a self-centered obliviousness or a prideful and bossy manner that refuses to accept that she might be less than prepared for anything, Caroline will not be frightened by Dracula. The Count is at a complete loss for how to handle her.

Anyway, time passes, hijinks happen, and eventually Count Dracula falls in love with his Countess and ends up changing to conform to her. The two possible endings that I see for this are that either Caroline remains completely oblivious to what her husband is for her entire life or she becomes a vampire and the two of them terrorize the country as equals. 

The end.

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Jack Harlow looks like if they power washed Post Malone

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ladies and gents may i present you with my favorite photo of Ella Fitzgerald ft. that guy

homie was down bad, and can we blame him?

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the walking dead, game of thrones, and breaking bad were just superwholock for men

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Mean Girls (2004) // Conclave (2024)

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JAVIER BARDEM | Gentleman's Journal 2024 Photographed by Penélope Cruz

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Letterman, ‘94

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The emergence of three carollers, two of whom put the harm in harmony.

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When it comes to Marianne Dashwood, I do think she performs some of her emotions, but not in an attention seeking way, more in a "this is what one does in X situation" way. She is not looking for consolation, she is trying to maximize her experience of whatever she's feeling.

When Willoughby leaves for the first time, we get this description:

Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face the next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it. But the feelings which made such composure a disgrace, left her in no danger of incurring it. She was awake the whole night, and she wept the greatest part of it. She got up with a headache, was unable to talk, and unwilling to take any nourishment; giving pain every moment to her mother and sisters, and forbidding all attempt at consolation from either. Her sensibility was potent enough!

...The evening passed off in the equal indulgence of feeling. She played over every favourite song that she had been used to play to Willoughby, every air in which their voices had been oftenest joined, and sat at the instrument gazing on every line of music that he had written out for her, till her heart was so heavy that no farther sadness could be gained; and this nourishment of grief was every day applied. She spent whole hours at the pianoforte alternately singing and crying; her voice often totally suspended by her tears. In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving. She read nothing but what they had been used to read together.

Such violence of affliction indeed could not be supported for ever; it sunk within a few days into a calmer melancholy; but these employments, to which she daily recurred, her solitary walks and silent meditations, still produced occasional effusions of sorrow as lively as ever.

She's following a bit of a script, which is amusing because she's the one who says she refuses to use trite expressions to describe her feelings because she doesn't like hackneyed phrases. Her love is gone, so she tries to be the sorrowful heroine. We might cry in the bathtub with a glass of wine or eat ice cream to Adele, but she's wandering around outdoors and crying on her piano.

Her feelings are 100% real, but like many of us, she seeks to express and feel them through cultural scripts. However, it doesn't feel like what she wants is pity or an audience, her walks are solitary, her meditations are silent. Compared to Mrs. Bennet or Mary Musgrove, who are explicitly seeking pity, Marianne is suffering visibly but not in a way that demands action from others.

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the person asserting the make-a-wish child's right to an aryan doordasher is a she-ra fandom blogger embroiled in callout drama who regularly posts thousand word essays invoking the threat of femicide as the reason taylor swift can't come out as a lesbian. just for the epistemology of the concepts here.

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say something funny

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Songs of naval impressment.

Cover is a caricature by Thomas Rowlandson in the RMG NMM collections.

On Board a 98- David Coffin

The Pretty Ploughboy- Dave Fletcher & Bill Whaley

Sunderland Press Gang- Richard Grainger

The Press Gang- Dave & Toni Arthur

Carried Off to Sea- Joe Stead

Press Gang- The Albion Band

Weary Cutters- Steeleye Span

The Press Gang- Holdstock & MacLeod

The Pressers- Stravaig

All Things Are Quite Silent- Lou Killen

The ‘Nightingale’- Frankie Armstrong

The Press-Gang Sailor- Vic Shepherd & John Bowden

The Spithead Sailor- Roy Harris

Here’s the Tender Coming- The Unthanks

Captain Bover/ Here’s the Tender Coming/ Success to the Fleet- The High Level Ranters

15 tracks; 54 mins. [Spotify]

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explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

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hope the 4 other people who have seen this show enjoy this

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