#Charming Village

[maureen2musings]

Hathersage & Shatton, Peak District

peaklass

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: acalmwalk

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Your beats make me sick

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i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

[littlealienproducts]

Lenox Spice Village Charm Necklace by bbdavisart

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family vacation to croatia, 2007

[michaelmyersbignaturals]

charm/sticker ideas !!

let me know if you would be interested in these + other characters you would want! I already plan on doing the other lords + the baker family as well :)

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[ksjanes]

A small village in France, Viviers. What a charming place.

[maureen2musings]

Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland

johnmurrayjnr

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[cayenne-twilight]

One of my fav gaming YouTubers recently started playing Curious Village after YEARSSSS of fans urging him to get into the series and yeah I kind of forgot how chill the story of that game is compared to everything that comes after. He said CV feels primarily like a puzzle game with a story just added in to tie it together which was kind of the original idea, but when I think back to Layton I’m like yeah, the games where each installment ends in major character death and everyone cries! But no they really do spend a long ass time chasing a runaway cat in the first game.

[motsimages]

As per Tumblr recommendation, I started Kevin can fuck himself yesterday. I see people comment on how the sitcom part makes it look the way people see an abuser and how the abuse can be disguised. People think he is just a funny guy and the abuse goes unnoticed. I personally see it otherwise, although it's similar.

People know he is an asshole. He spends a whole episode being mean to the new neighbours just because. He meets a dangerous guy at a bar, in public. He is an alcoholic who throws weird parties with lots of other people at home. Patty's boyfriend tells her twice in the 3 or 4 conversations we see that he is an idiot. People know, and people avoid him.

And his bubble know, but they justify it and excuse it. And that's the sitcom. The sitcom is the theater of excuses Allison has (and then other characters too) about his behaviour.

"Can you believe it? We were in our anniversary, such a fun party, we were both super drunk and I don't know how it ended, that I was face down on the floor and the table was broken! Anniversa-rager we call it lol"

"He is such a clumsy guy that just as I was leaving the house, you won't believe that I don't know how he managed to cover me in chilli sauce! What a silly goose!"

"He is so helpless without me, he couldn't find the printer and he called me all day because he needed me to explain to him how to work it. And he worries too! He called the cops because he didn't know where I was, maybe I forgot to tell him".

The conversations with her coworker about husbands help drive this point. That's what mariage is. You find ways to justify it and to avoid certain fights and that's it. We got lucky.

But he did all these things on purpose. And the unreliable narrator of the sitcom makes the joke of it and makes the audience consider that maybe it isn't *that bad*. Allison needs to believe that's what it is, so it is. It really isn't that bad, she thinks, he is just like that.

And we can actually see the worrying things and the threatening parts from minute one. It's only a joke because we have been trained to dismiss it. To justify it and to move on. He isn't doing any heavy lifting here.

In episode 1, just the fact that he ends up standing on the table (when she doesn't want him to even put glasses on without protection) says a lot. But then the table breaks and he fixes it poorly and visibly. It would be bad enough just like this, but I personally think there is more to it. It's just that Allison doesn't want to speak about it or look at it so it is just the table, but it's the switch that turns on for her, the last drop. But she did end face down on her living room, on top of the broken table. It's a very elegant narrative tool where we don't see, but if we wanted to see, it's there.

And the more she notices, the more off-putting the sitcom is. It's still played as a joke, with the laugh track, but she is more aware now, so we can notice too.

We start the series with her turning point, but if the series started a year before that, it would only be happening in her house, as it is her life, her only frame of reference, and it would only be a sitcom because isn't he such a clumsy but caring guy?

[luckylunatix]

There is no greater love than that of an autistic bisexual towards a pathetic fictional man with absolutely no rizz

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[michaelmyersbignaturals]

RE8 CHARMS PREORDERS ARE OPEN CLOSED!

after a long wait, theyre finally here!

preorders close on halloween.

etsy is an option here, but i implore you to order on kofi or bigcartel if possible!

Kofi

bigcartel

etsy