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theresabookreviews · 11 months ago
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Black history month
Book Review 15 of 29
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dandelionjack · 8 months ago
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my first Ever review on tardis.guide! decided to fully letterboxd it up. harrowing episode of a show that everybody told me was lighthearted childhood nostalgia. liars
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soulless-angel25 · 1 year ago
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Please reblog for a larger sample size <3 (next part will be up in a moment)
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wah-pah · 27 days ago
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My brother gave me a Jane Austen boardgame for Christmas and in the first game I ended up with negative points and Emma Woodhouse married to John Thorpe!
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dw-companion-bracket · 2 years ago
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DW Companion Bracket - Round 1
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Pick your favourite of these, and remember, the top three from this poll go into the bracket, not just the winner!
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wipbigbang · 2 years ago
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WIP Big Bang 2023 Round Starting April 1st!
What is the WIP Big Bang? Good question! This is a Big Bang with one goal in mind: to clean out your fanfic drafts folder. These are stories that were unfinished for whatever reason, that authors returned to and completed, and the art that goes with them!
Please read our FAQ/check out our schedule for more details.
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bethanydelleman · 2 years ago
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AITA for getting into a little debt?
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I am the heir to a large estate, so of course I engage in some of the best pleasures of life, why not? I might as well get out when I'm young. I am not half so bad as most of my friends too! I don't get in that much debt. Nothing crazy.
My father is always a huge killjoy and bore about such things, and he actually took me aside and told me that my most recent debts (my horse had a bad run, well streak of runs) would need to be paid for out of my brother's inheritance (he sold the presentation of a family living). Now this is only half his inheritance, not all of it, and he's still going to have 700/year, which is really good for a younger brother.
Also, the dude who took over my brother's other living really looks like he's going to have a heart attack any day now. He'll pop off and my brother will get his living back, no fuss required! This is really such a minor problem. My aunt agrees that I did nothing at all wrong.
AITA for getting in a little debt even though everything will be totally fine?
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No regrets! You've got to make the most of your youth before it's dragged away from you. Carpe diem man!
NTA! Live your dreams!
u/RocksAndMountains How is this the top comment? He is clearly YTA
u/RationalCreature u/RocksAndMountains This subreddit is like 50% idle heirs who are in debt and cheating their younger brothers themselves. They can't all admit that they are AHs. (the other 45% is bored housewives and teenagers)
u/RocksAndMountains Yeah, that tracks.
AITA Jane Austen Masterpost
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geekcavepodcast · 7 days ago
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Win or Lose Trailer
Pixar's series Win or Lose follows eight different characters - from kids, to parents, to an umpire - as they prepare for a championship softball game.
Win or Lose is written and directed by Carrie Hobson and Michael Yates. The series stars the voice talents of Will Forte, Rosie Foss, Josh Thomson, Milan Elizabeth Ray, Rosa Salazar, Dorien Watson, Izaac Wang, Chanel Stewart, Lil Rel Howery, Melissa Villaseñor, Jo Firestone, Flula Borg, Kyleigh Curran, Jaylin Fletcher, Erin Keif, Tom Law, Beck Nolan, Orion Tran, and Rhea Seehorn.
Win or Lose releases on Disney+ on February 19, 2025.
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bumpxnthenight · 4 months ago
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scotianostra · 1 month ago
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10th December 1824 saw the birth in Huntly of George MacDonald, the church minister, writer and poet.
His father, a farmer, was one of the MacDonalds of Glen Coe and a direct descendant of one of the families that suffered in the massacre of 1692. He grew up in household that embraced education, one of his uncles was a notable Celtic scholar, editor of the Gaelic Highland Dictionary and collector of fairy tales and Celtic poetry. Both his parents were readers, his father had likings for Newton, Burns, Cowper, Chalmers, Coleridge, and Darwin, to quote a few, while his mother had received a classical education which included multiple languages.
Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W.H. Audent, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. It was C.S. Lewis who wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his “master”: “Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later,” said Lewis, “I knew that I had crossed a great frontier.” G.K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had “made a difference to my whole existence.”
Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, “It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling.”
Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald.
Since we are on the run up to Christmas it is only right to post this poem by MacDonald.
A Song For Christmas.
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Hark, in the steeple the dull bell swinging Over the furrows ill ploughed by Death! Hark the bird-babble, the loud lark singing! Hark, from the sky, what the prophet saith!
Hark, in the pines, the free Wind, complaining— Moaning, and murmuring, "Life is bare!" Hark, in the organ, the caught Wind, outstraining, Jubilant rise in a soaring prayer!
Toll for the burying, sexton tolling! Sing for the second birth, angel Lark! Moan, ye poor Pines, with the Past condoling! Burst out, brave Organ, and kill the Dark!
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Sit on the ground, and immure thy sorrow; I will give freedom to mine in song! Haunt thou the tomb, and deny the morrow; I will go watch in the dawning long!
For I shall see them, and know their faces— Tenderer, sweeter, and shining more; Clasp the old self in the new embraces; Gaze through their eyes' wide open door.
Loved ones, I come to you: see my sadness; I am ashamed—but you pardon wrong! Smile the old smile, and my soul's new gladness Straight will arise in sorrow and song!
With so many admirers it is only natural that George MacDonald has his own web page, where you can read loads more of him and his work.
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best-star-trek-character · 2 years ago
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Official DS9 Character Bracket
And here’s the final bracket! Round One will go live tomorrow, 4/13 at 10 am EST!
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Full List:
Round One:
Left Side:
Alexander Rozhenko vs. Keiko O’Brien: poll here
Mora Pol vs. Lwaxana Troi: poll here
Vedek Bareil vs. Captain Benjamin Sisko: poll here
Sirella vs. Molly O’Brien: poll here
Mirror! Garak vs. Gilora Rejal and Ulani Belor: poll here
Curzon Dax vs. Quark: poll here
Martok vs. Ishka: poll here
Brunt vs. Maihar’du: poll here
Kai Winn vs. Chief Miles O’Brien: poll here
Rom vs. Mila: poll here
Joseph Sisko vs. Joran Dax: poll here
The Klingon Chef vs. Mirror! Kira: poll here
Elim Garak vs. Jennifer Sisko: poll here
Goran’Agar vs. Weyoun: poll here
Enabran Tain vs. Shakaar: poll here
Sarah Sisko vs. Vic Fontaine: poll here
Right Side:
Leeta vs. Female Changeling: poll here
Solok vs. Dr. Julian Bashir: poll here
Natima Lang vs. Legate Damar: poll here
Grand Nagus Zek vs. Keevan: poll here
Sarina Douglas vs. Gul Dukat: poll here
Admiral William Ross vs. Lt. Commander Worf: poll here
Kasidy Yates vs. Pel: poll here
Nog vs. Morn: poll here
Michael Eddington vs. Tora Ziyal: poll here
Jack, Patrick and Lauren vs. Constable odo: poll here
Tekeny Ghemor vs. Lenara Kahn: poll here
Dr. Elizabeth Lense vs. Jake Sisko: poll here
Luther Sloan vs. Counselor Ezri Dax: poll here
Major Kira Nerys vs. Kor, Kang and Koloth: poll here
Mirror! Worf vs. Grilka: poll here
Baby Changeling vs. Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: poll here
Round Two:
Left Side:
Keiko O’Brien vs. Lwaxana Troi: poll here
Captain Benjamin Sisko vs. Molly O’Brien: poll here
Mirror! Garak vs. Quark: poll here
Martok vs. Brunt: poll here
Chief Miles O’Brien vs. Rom: poll here
Joseph Sisko vs. Mirror! Kira: poll here
Elim Garak vs. Weyoun: poll here
Enabran Tain vs. Vic Fontaine: poll here
Right Side:
Leeta vs. Dr. Julian Bashir: poll here
Legate Damar vs. Grand Nagus Zek: poll here
Gul Dukat vs. Lt. Commander Worf: poll here
Kasidy Yates vs. Nog: poll here
Tora Ziyal vs. Constable Odo: poll here
Lenara Kahn vs. Jake Sisko: poll here
Ezri Dax vs. Kira Nerys: poll here
Grilka vs. Jadzia Dax: poll here
Round Three:
Left Side:
Lwaxana Troi vs. Captain Benjamin Sisko: poll here
Quark vs. Martok: poll here
Chief Miles O’Brien vs. Mirror! Kira: poll here
Elim Garak vs. Vic Fontaine: poll here
Right Side:
Dr. Julian Bashir vs. Legate Damar: poll here
Lt. Commander Worf vs. Nog: poll here
Constable Odo vs. Jake Sisko: poll here
Kira Nerys vs. Jadzia Dax: poll here
Quarter-Finals:
Left Side:
Captain Benjamin Sisko vs. Quark: poll here
Chief Miles O’Brien vs. Elim Garak: poll here
Right Side:
Dr. Julian Bashir vs. Lt. Cmdr. Worf: poll here
Constable Odo vs. Jadzia Dax: poll here
Semi-Finals:
Captain Benjamin Sisko vs. Elim Garak: poll here
Dr. Julian Bashir vs. Jadzia Dax: poll here
Finals:
Captain Benjamin Sisko vs. Jadzia Dax: poll here
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unitchiefs-blackbirdphoenix · 7 months ago
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17x06 Reaction/Spoilers Pt. 1 (aka the Jemily Episode of S17/Of All Time)
TW: not much however, there is a blood/gunshot wound warning (around 03:20-03:46) and drug use (edibles in each jemily scene pretty much)
Also if you want my jemily watch thoughts, I bolded them in this post haha (also thanks to @blackbirdsaltzman for our predictions for jemily stuff this ep haha!) I had to split this into two posts bc I have so many thoughts about this ep especially with jemily haha
Tara and Rossi teaming up together again!
Voit's cell
LUKE! MY BOY!
Tara's voice omg 😭
Noooo nooo omg Emily's singing 😭😭
Fuck it's not what we think!!
Voit fuck off!
You let go of her you fucking son of a bitch
Emily's singing is breaking my heart fuck nooooo
I know it's a dream but noooo Emily's pained singing broke me 😭
Why do they have to repeat her singing on the title card?? Damn it CME
Love Paget's voice but fuck
Aww Penelope leaving a bucket for Emily. She was drinking the other night hahaha
I've been wanting to say this since the promos came out but JJ's hair is wavy again, but her sleeves are still long and covering her hands :(
Rossi's seeing a bunch of Voits around the bullpen, including him as the others
Zach Gilford, I hate your character but I love you as an actor
JJ already being worried about Emily and her looking at Penelope
Not Emily's singing again fuck. I swear if her singing this song is foreshadowing the next eps...
JJ following Penelope to her lair. Omg JJ and Penelope's bestieism in this very lair 🥰 I miss them! It's like the early seasons them!
"You profiled that. I did not tell you" but JJ knows Emily inside and out hehe
JJ's little look at Penelope's keys
"Please I'm a mom. I've seen worse" hahahaha
Oh- Tyler's ex huh? Teresa Campos
Garvez!
Hahahaha Tyler calling Luke to talk to his ex
Exes in a room, whatcha gonna do
"She's the woman I dated.... right before you."
The walls shaking in Rossi's office. I'm sorry but the effects is kinda making me laugh
Tara being the second one to call out Rossi on not going to mandated trauma therapy lol
Tara just being there and holding Rossi's hand and talking him through 😭 I liked that moment
Tara's voice is so soothing, hold my hand next please.
Jemily scene #1 wooo!
JJ's cheetos obsession never dies! Also a mutual and I predicted before this ep on something that happens with JJ with these very things... 👀
Damn it. JJ I know you're making Emily comfortable but I needed the lights on!
The sneak peek!
Emily, although high, loves salt and vinegar chips!
Chopsticks is definitely going to be a jemily thing now. I may or may not have a one shot idea about that 👀
"Sooo what have you been drinking?" AJ's giggle is so cute
"Emily Elizabeth Prentiss, are you high?" "I'm not not high" "Oh my god" god I love them
"I didn't know super-hot Latina was your type. My name is Garcia..." Garcia um... I hate to tell you this...
Teresa's got a thing for army guys oh- is this... Luke's also an army guy
I have a feeling that they might set up Luke and Teresa together to try and stop Garvez from happening I fear 😔
Tommy Yates is all I could think of for Rossi rn
It's risky but I guess it might help Rossi
Tyler did that from last season and it got Penelope somewhat in trouble when her uh... predicament with him happened
"Message in a bottle" title mention!
"Sticky chemistry" omg 😭 Penelope
Teresa and Penelope and Luke and Tyler. Ooooh this should be fun!
Jemily scene #2
"I can feel your disappointed stare on my back" Emily knows her wife so well
JJ eating more... cheetos... omg girly you're gonna get fucked up
"Not disappointed, just... didn't know you smoked" JJ, you already knew Emily had some sort of a past with smoking and yet this surprises you? 😂 But also the way she sounded so amused with a huge smile like ahhhh I love them so much
When you need to focus or contemplate life, you just have a bag of cheese puffs with you, Emily? Like at any time JJ comes over to your place or something, you think she wouldn't try to go for that bag??
"tame the PR beast" liaison JJ hello??
JJ the voice of reason yesss
Not Emily talking about the Catcher in the Rye like she doesn’t know wtf that is omg 😭
"We need to talk"
Oh shit. "Why are the walls closing in?" JJ's realization and Emily's realization 👀
JJ's "Emily?"
That bag was like full earlier. Omg JJ 😭😭
Not Emily taking the last one omg. She said "solidarity" lol
"Those are edibles? 🥺" "You're gonna need to lie down" "Nooo" I just- they're so funny and adorable
JJ's on for a ride (or a trip if you will hehe)
Also I'm taking it that Emily has a bag of edible cheetos and a bag of regular cheetos, and hides the edibles from JJ hahaha
Back to Rossi. And this is the elevator scene from the trailer with the walls closing in on him. Ooooh JJ just said that earlier too
"past paramours" Penelope-
Pheromones? I swear... do not cm
Hahaha that's a long story Teresa
Luke and Tyler oooh 👀
Not to be encouraging ideas... but why do I have a feeling some people might start shipping/making fanfics of Tyler and Luke now? hahaha
Ooh they're bonding over movies now??? I might like this actually
I hate hearing Emily's pained voice :( hasn't she been through enough?? Apparently not in this season or ever
Tommy Yates
"Am I haunting you?" Yes
Subtext ok Elias
So only three people know about Gold Star: Voit, Doug, and possibly Gideon’s ex-wife?
Damn. "We build a profile" Zach Gilford
Sebastian Gasper from 17x03
Jemily scene #3
JJ is soooo out of it omg
Her little dopey (stoned) smile when she hears that Emily's reinstated as unit chief. JJ's still a supportive wife through her high world lol
JJ: "hell yeah let's goo🤘" that was 1000% AJ for sure like girl we know you've been high before irl hahaha
JJ already shaking her head and going "no" when Emily said she’s sending an email to reject the offer back
Gideon, Morgan, and Hotch mention
"the longer you stay in this job, the odds is that you're going to lose yourself or someone you love or your sense of honor. It just takes and takes and takes" Emily :(
Omg BAU-Gate mention!
Oh 😭 JJ's deep-seated fear is exactly what we thought. That Henry or his friends come across the website.
I appreciate the mention and I swear if it wasn't the website, I love AJ's delivery of "yeah I found out" like "yeah duh", that was kinda funny actually
"You know what bugs me the most, is that you- you didn't tell me." JJ wasn't mad at her (or maybe she was but not enough to hate her of course) but she was just more hurt that Emily hid it from her since she found out. JJ just wanted answers!
AJ's little shaking hand when JJ says "you didn't tell me."
"Did you think I couldn't handle it?" I had a feeling JJ would say this when she confronted Emily
"No, I knew you could handle it. That doesn't mean you had to." I know I saw some opinions on how Emily said that, but I don't think she made it about herself tbh. I think given their state of mind rn, Emily was trying to say she thought she could try to protect JJ by doing what she did. Ik there's been discourse on if Emily did the right thing or not and I don't wanna get into that either but I think if they were both sober, then it would've delved into a more emotional conversation about the website and Emily could've explained in full why she chose that decision. That's at least my thoughts on it for now.
"It's not about protecting us. It's about being honest with us. With me." JJ 😭 She was so hurt that Emily had to do that and just wanted her to be honest with her. I might have some thoughts on her saying this
Also the way she says "with me." Ohhh I love them 😭 Also the fact that JJ's more worried about Emily having to lie and hide from her. JJ hates when people lie and hide stuff from her (funny enough when she does the same lol)
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disneytva · 7 days ago
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Win Or Lose’ Brings Pixar Television Animation's First Original Series to Disney+ Next Month
Take a look at the new trailer and images just dropped for Win or Lose, which launches February 19 on Disney+. Created, Directed, written and executive produced by Carrie Hobson and Michael Yates, and produced by David Lally, the series follows the intertwined stories of eight different characters as they each prepare for their big championship softball game.
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The series reveals what it actually feels like to be in the shoes of each character—the insecure kids, their helicopter parents, even a lovesick umpire—with funny, emotional and uniquely animated perspectives.
Will Forte stars as Coach Dan, alongside Rosie Foss; Josh Thomson; Milan Elizabeth Ray; Rosa Salazar; Dorien Watson; Izaac Wang; Chanel Stewart; Lil Re​l Howery; Melissa Villaseñor; Jo Firestone; Flula Borg; Kyleigh Curran; ​Jaylin Fletcher; Erin Keif; Tom Law; Beck Nolan; Orion Tran; and Rhea Seehorn. T The show includes music by composer Ramin Djawadi and original songs by CAMPFIRE and Djawadi. a soundtrack of the series by Walt Disney Records will release later in March.
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battyaboutbooksreviews · 11 months ago
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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in February 2024
🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!
❤️ We Ate the Dark by Mallory Pearson 🧡 The Paper Boys by D.P. Clarence 💛 Skater Boy by Anthony Nerada 💚 Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine 💙 A Vicious Game by Melissa Blair 💜 Clarion Call by Cayla Fay ❤️ Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories edited by Sandra Proudman 🧡 The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton 💛 Truthfully, Yours by Caden Armstrong 💙 Outsider by Jade du Preez 💜 Cross My Candy Heart by A.C. Thomas 🌈 The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
❤️ An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson 🧡 The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Ann Older 💛 Never a Bridesmaid by Spencer Greene 💚 The Rewind by Nicole Stiling 💙 Good Christian Girls by Elizabeth Bradshaw 💜 The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha ❤️ The Terrible by Tessa Crowley 🧡 Blood Rage by Ileandra Young 💛 Call of the Sea by Emily B. Rose 💙 Sign Me Up by C.H. Williams 💜 Ways and Means by Daniel Lefferts 🌈 Peaceful in the Dark by A.A. Fairview
❤️ We Are Only Ghosts by Jeffrey L. Richards 🧡 Dead Ringer by Robyn Nyx 💛 Somacultural Liberation by Dr. Roger Kuhn 💚 Stormbringer by Erinn Harper 💙 A Saga of Shields & Shadows by A.J. Shirley 💜 Ghost Town by R.E. Ward ❤️ I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante 🧡 The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor 💛 Remedial Magic by Melissa Marr 💙 Bloom by N.R. Walker 💜 Entwined by Alex Alberto 🌈 Queer Newark edited by Whitney Strub
❤️ Tristan by Jesse Roman 🧡 How to Live Free in a Dangerous World by Shayla Lawson 💛 Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos 💚 Of Socialites & Prizefights by Arden Powell 💙 Lost Harbor by Kimberly Cooper Griffin 💜 Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair by Laura Piper Lee ❤️ Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert 🧡 How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly 💛 Blackmailer’s Delight by David Lawrence 💙 Tile M for Murder by Felicia Carparelli 💜 Impulse Buy by Jae 🌈 Live for You, Die With You by Kalob Dàniel
❤️ Fairest of All by A.D. Ellis 🧡 Goddess of the Sea by Britney Jackson 💛 A Taste of Earth by Nico Silver 💚 The Moorings of Mackerel Sky by M.Z. Emily Zack 💙 How the Boogeyman Became a Poet by Tony Keith 💜 V is for Valentine by Thomas Grant Bruso ❤️ Crushed Ice by Ashlyn Kane & Morgan James 🧡 When Tomorrow Comes by D. Jackson Leigh 💛 Bugsy & Other Stories by Rafael Frumkin 💙 The White and Blue Between Us by Kiyuhiko 💜 Guide Us Home by CF Frizzell & Jesse J. Thoma 🌈 The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett
❤️ Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender 🧡 Heart2Heart edited by Annabeth Albert 💛 No Time Like Now by Naz Kutub 💚 Bless the Blood by Walela Nehanda 💙 Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter 💜 Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops ❤️ Prove It by Stephanie Hoyt 🧡 Mewing by Chloe Spencer 💛 Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault 💙 Born of Scourge by S. Jean 💜 Disciples of Chaos by M.K. Lobb 🌈 To Cage a God by Elizabeth May
❤️ Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly 🧡 What Feasts At Night by T. Kingfisher 💛 You Had Me at Merlot by Melissa Brayden 💚 Turning Point by Cathy Dunnell 💙 For the Stolen Fates by Gwendolyn Clare 💜 Season of Eclipse by Terry Wolverton ❤️ These Haunted Hills by Jana Denardo 🧡 Samson & Domingo by Gume Laurel III 💛 Lies that Bind by Rae Knowles & April Yates 💙 We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller 💜 The Diablo's Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa 🌈 Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
❤️ Out There by Iris Eliot 🧡 At Her Service by Amy Spalding 💛 Green Dot by Madeleine Gray
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anghraine · 2 years ago
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I saw a post the other day about the absence of aristocrats in Austen's novels (in the sense of British peers of the realm, or at least people with titles, and not merely a social elite). I see this raised as a point pretty frequently, both in fandom and academia, and I find it intriguing that it comes up so much because the premise is ... wrong?
There are actually quite a few peers of the realm or immediate relatives of peers in Austen's novels. And that's even considering that knights and baronets are not included in this. Knights and baronets are technically not nobility, and knights especially could be quite low-status compared to the extended families of peers—e.g., look at the dynamic between Fitzwilliam Darcy, untitled grandson of an earl, and Sir William Lucas, a tradesman turned knight.
Some examples of canonical Austen characters who would generally be considered aristocracy in a fairly narrow sense:
Lord Courtland (unknown rank)
Lord Longtown (a marquis)
A viscount and his wife Eleanor (née Eleanor Tilney)
Lord — (Darcy's uncle, an earl, and one of the only peers in Austen's published novels with an openly redacted title, IMO as a reference with plausible deniability to the RL Earl Fitzwilliam)
Lord —'s son, Colonel (the Hon.) [?] Fitzwilliam, and his older brother, the heir
Lord —'s father, the previous earl
The previous earl's daughters, Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Lady Anne Darcy
Lord Ravenshaw, the host of the aborted theatricals mourned by John Yates, and Lady Ravenshaw
(The Hon.) John Yates
A duke also at the theatricals
Lord Stornaway and his wife Flora, Lady Stornaway
Lord St. Ives, a newly-made peer scorned by Sir Walter Elliot
Lady Dalrymple, a relative of the Elliots and widow of a viscount, and her daughter, the Hon. [?] Carteret
Lady Susan Vernon, the spectacular villain of "Lady Susan" (her rank tells us she is the daughter of an earl or above)
Some of these figures (and others) are familiar to most readers. Quite a few aren't. I don't think this is on the readership. Many of the noble characters in Austen are entirely offstage figures, mentioned once or twice. So why is the question even worth bringing up?
Well, I think it's interesting that she does include them in the social world she depicts, but largely relegates them faaaar to the periphery of that world. And the noble or noble-adjacent characters who do appear in person are overwhelmingly the relatives of peers, not peers themselves.
Part of this, I think, is avoiding trouble. I mean, if the person who confronted Elizabeth at the end of P&P was not Lady Catherine, but Lady Catherine's brother the earl (complete with the allusion to Lord Fitzwilliam!), that might register to contemporaries as a lot more confrontational towards the nobility. Aiming the critique of snobbery at the earl's sister (and nephew) threads that needle carefully.
But apart from that, although the nobility of Austen's novels differ in character and background, from Lord St. Ives (son of a curate) to the performing duke, there is something that most have in common.
Most of them simply do not matter very much. They're generally over there, somewhere, doing something that the more major characters don't really care about. Or they simply exist. The ones we know something about either fail to impose their wills on the world around them, or aren't in a position to try. The gathered nobles' play in MP is disrupted by the course of nature, Lady Catherine and Lady Anne's plans for their children fail, Lady Susan has to scrape quasi-victory out of the wreckage of her schemes, etc.
And that's the minority that we know much about at all. Most are just part of the wallpaper of Austen's world. And I feel like that's the point. The nobility are integrated into the background of Austen's novels for verisimilitude. Their existence is part of that social world, as it would be in life. But it's hard not to come away feeling that she neither likes nor cares much about them. And if you exclude just one of her novels, Pride and Prejudice, the impression of the aristocracy's presence in her world goes way down.
I think this is partly why there's a sense that fandom is way more into the nobility than Austen herself was. Partly this is the influence of Regency romance/Heyer tropes. But partly it's because ... like, 90% of Austen fanfic is P&P fic and a bunch of it essentially has to deal with the Fitzwilliams. In Austen's larger oeuvre, though, the shadow they cast is largely an exception to the rule.
Normally, she includes them only to shove them off the stage. And that's kind of fun.
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thefudge · 1 year ago
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Drfudge, I remember you have some book recs posts but I can't find any, so I'd like to ask you what are your all time fave books, if it's okay. Thank you <3
you should check out my "books", and "book rec" tags on my blogs, but here is an updated list of some of my favorites (including essays and short stories):
what a carve up, by jonathan coe
excellent women, by barbara pym
restoration, by rose tremain
invitation to the waltz, by rosamond lehmann
journal d'hirondelle, by amelie nothomb
oblomov, by ivan goncharov
kiss me first, by lottie moggach
the idiot & demons, by dostoevsky
the idiot, by elif batuman
revolutionary road, by richard yates
the girl in the flammable skirt, by aimee bender
out of the woods, by chris offutt
hygiene de l'assassin, by amelie nothomb
memoirs of a dutiful daughter, by simone de beauvoir
chevengur, by andrei platonov
the master and margarita, by bulgakov
the corrections, by jonathan franzen
hamlet & king lear by shakespeare
richard iii & henry vi, part 1, by shakespeare
a midsummer night's dream, the taming of the shrew & as you like it by shakespeare
i capture the castle, by dodie smith
point counter point, by aldous huxley
arcadia, by tom stoppard
stoner, by john williams
eugene onegin, by pushkin
paradise lost & samson agonistes, by john milton
the age of innocence, by edith wharton
katherine mansfield's diaries & short stories
axel's castle, by edmund wilson
the dead, by james joyce
the heat of the day, by elizabeth bowen
pride and prejudice, by jane austen
franny and zooey, by salinger
the stranger, by albert camus
seduction and betrayal, by elizabeth hardwick
the beguiled, by cullinan thomas
girl with a pearl earring, by tracy chevalier
the wine of solitude, by irene nemirovsky
dark entries, by robert aickman
capitalist realism, by mark fisher
the blizzard, by vladimir sorokin
karate chop, dorothe nors
go, went, gone, by jenny erpenbeck
the blind firman, by ismail kadare
actress, by anne enright
genius and ink, by virginia woolf
real life, by brandon taylor
the world of yesterday, by stefan zweig
doce cuentos peregrinos, by gabriel garcia marquez
selected stories by anton chekhov
stories of your life, by ted chiang
ornament and silence, by kennedy fraser
the accompanist, by nina berberova
there are many others, including some romanian faves that i won't mention in this list, but this should give you a good overview!
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