#Harvill

[simonh]

Dackel. by Kultur : ) Via Flickr: These make me smile! Saucy wiener dogs on the end papers of a vintage book: "Dogs" by Ylla Harvill Press London 1950

[elmorinn]

Janeuary Day 6 - Restraint

@janeuary-month

THE scene from Persuasion but from Frederick's pov do i even need to say more

I will never not love this book D:

[fukutomichi]

Persuasion (2007) directed by Adrian Shergold Sam Hazeldine as Charles Musgrove & Joseph Mawle as Harry Harville

[bethanydelleman]

What about the Austen heroes?

So the current professions of the Austen heroes are Trust-Fund Baby (Darcy, Bingley, Knightley, Colonel Brandon) and clergyman (Tilney, Ferrars, Bertram) and of course, naval officer (Wentworth).

Darcy's personality and insane degree of stable wealth makes his character pretty hard to write without him being a trust fund baby. So I will not assign him a profession, he's managing the generational family wealth.

George Knightley - runs a small but successful factory that is basically the only industry in his small town. Cash poor because he's always reinvesting in the company. Robert Martin is the floor manager.

Charles Bingley - his father struck it rich in the dot.com era and then died. He's inherited most of the fortune. Has no idea what to do with it, so he's been in university for 6 years.

Colonel Brandon - did four tours in Afghanistan before his brother died and he took over the indebted family chain of hardware stores. He's finally gotten the finances straightened out and the chain is once again profitable (with 100% less tax fraud).

Edward Ferrars - went to a super prestigious university because his mother donated to it, has a degree in Environmental Science much to her chagrin. Wants to work at a non-profit or do his PhD but his mom won't help him with the cost of living so he lives at home, doesn't work, and is miserable.

Edmund Bertram - clergyman or civil servant

Frederick Wentworth - I'm not sure what to do with him, because he needs an uncertain, dangerous career that can also strike rich, not sure if we have a modern analogue... oh it's athlete. He's an athlete who actually made it big and got rich. You pick the sport.

Henry Tilney - this one is so tricky! Because you see Henry Tilney is a nepo baby, but he seems to actually enjoy his profession. So I guess he has a corporate job at Tilney Inc. but he does like it (despite the CEO)

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HP rarepairs ship battle

Submitted Propaganda

Harry Potter/Neville Longbottom

I think the two prophecy boys deserve each other<3           

they're so cute I swear. the chosen ones that see each other not for what society makes them into, but for what they truly are <3 bonding over losing their parents and growing up in abusive environments and finding comfort in friends and animals and they can grow into old men constantly trying to shield each other from the public eye whilst living in a secluded cottage together 

their interactions in books/movies are just cute idk

Severus Snape/Mulciber

“Snape wanted Lily, and he wanted Mulciber too,” to quote JKR

[hotjaneaustenmenpoll]

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

Plymouth Superbird

Sportscaster Charlie Harville interviewing Richard Petty with arrival of a Superbird.

[thesarahshay]

[firawren]

Inspired by the @captainsvscaptains tournament, I'm doing a single poll which is simply to pick the best captain that I post about on my tumblr. What's the criteria? Whatever the heck you want it to be.

Yeah I put Captain Swan on here even though it's a relationship not a character, sue me

[marilythscales]

So, I've been thinking about something the last couple of times I've engaged with the many flavoursof Persuasion.

They go on about how Cpt Benwick is so broken hearted etc, but I don't think anyone's ever like "hey, Harville. How are you doing since YOUR SISTER DIED??"

Is it because it doesn't suit the story?

Is it because siblings died all the time?

I just always feel so bad that they're talking about how sad Cpt Benny is TO Harville himself.

[evmorfiad]

Look what the AMAZING @aidelon made of my commission idea 💕

I am SO in love with it!

It’s our dear @realjosephmawle and some of my favourite portrayals of his.

#JosephMawle #Adar #JedediahShine #JackFirebrace #DeanWhittingham #Odysseus #CaptHarville #Jack #Michael #SirTificate

[thoumpingground]

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Thoughts: Chapters 38-42

Helen is plotting her escape, let's gooo!! But first, drama. I knew Lowborough would end up suicidal. The way Helen describes him struggling not to kill himself in the room the night after he discovers the adultery is bone-chilling. He's pretty serene all things considered, though. Forgives Helen fairly quickly for keeping him in the dark, turns out Hattersley's plot to "take care" of Huntington (lol), by the looks of it gives Annabella a generous alimony if she's able to keep partying in London. It made me sad that he's happy to keep his son but not his daughter (because she looks like her mother, I guess? idr what Annabella looks like) but the story is bleak enough as it is and unless I'm contradicted later I'm choosing to believe he gets over it for both of their sakes.

Hargrave... vindictive little scumbag. I'm so mad at myself for feeling bad for you. In a book full of hateable men it's impressive how quickly he made top of the list. I wanted to scream when Helen told him about her escape plans. For a second I thought he might help her... but of course not. I have to go back to the Gilbert parts and see if he calls Helen "his angel" because that's clearly a red flag (Huntington did it too, that much I remember). I hope he goes back to Paris and some french opera girl drains him of all his money.

Hattersley is all over the place in these chapters. Such a chaotic redemption arc. Offering Lowborough to be his fucking hitman (again, lol), defending Helen from Huntingdon when they think she's cheating with Hargrave (so many bloody H's in this book), encouraging Huntingdon to turn a new leaf while they ply his son with alcohol... I know he had that conversation with Helen about Millie not feeling anything a few chapters back, so it doesn't exactly come out of nowhere, and he loves his kids, and he's still a dick through his good moments (plying toddler Arthur with alcohol, calling Helen names even while defending her...), but it still feels sudden. And when did he start loving Millie to the point the idea of making her happy pushes him over the edge into reform? He only married her because she was a doormat, and he's been deluding himself into thinking she was dead inside (that or she has a poker face that would put Vegas out of business), and I know he's been strugggling with that, but still. I'm glad Millie gets a reformed husband by the end of this section, but wow. What a trip.

Huntingdon commitment to get worse is impressive. I was surprised he pawned Helen off to his friends. Again, I'd read Arthur wasn't phisically abusive, and it appears he never rapes her, but this sounds an awful lot like he's giving his friends leave to. I have a half-formed thought about how Huntingdon keeps making masculinity and power about viciousness. He's making a show out of corrupting little Arthur to hurt Helen, but I think he sincerely beleives it's making a man out of him, and if they were on better terms he'd be doing it covertly. "A Misadventure"... Hooly shit, if there was ever understatement. And a reason to title the following chapter "Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast"! If the book hadn't started after Helen made her escape it might have made me cry. The bitter, sinister delight Huntingdon takes in stripping Helen of every mean of escape, and how casually he's able to do it, how ties his masculinity to it... I don't understand how this book isn't better known. This should be taught at schools.

I hate the way nobody's allowed to talk about the abuse. I swear, this is 1984 with petticoats. Helen and Millie urging Esther to be careful who she chooses while insisting that they're happy themselves... It reframes all Helen's and Aunt Margaret's interactions from early in the diary, though Esther seems more receptive than Helen (thank god...). Helen trying (usuccesfully) to hide her unhappiness from Aunt Margaret is so sad. So is her guilt over giving her aunt grief in her old age. On brighter news, Frederick to the rescue! I knew something good would come of Huntingdon fucking off to London for half the year! I knew Lawrence was Helen's brother! It's gonna be fun when she finds out that Gilbert struck him in the face. It's gonna be fun when Gilbert realizes who he struck in the face!

[rotzaprachim]

looking at my andornatural draft and Alderaan being a roadhouse and Puerto Rican diner and leia being the 19 year old community college dropout freak with a knife collection rocking nonstop to “brutal” by Olivia rodrigo….

[bethanydelleman]

...But let me observe that all histories are against you—all stories, prose and verse. If I had such a memory as Benwick, I could bring you fifty quotations in a moment on my side the argument, and I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.”

“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

-Persuasion, Ch 23

“I am sorry it went off. But these things happen so often! A young man, such as you describe Mr. Bingley, so easily falls in love with a pretty girl for a few weeks, and, when accident separates them, so easily forgets her, that these sort of inconstancies are very frequent.” (Mrs. Gardiner)

-Pride & Prejudice, Ch 25

Jane Austen, taking the pen into her hands and fixing the record.

[albi-bumblebee]

HP rarepairs ship battle

Submitted Propaganda

Harry Potter/Neville Longbottom

I think the two prophecy boys deserve each other<3           

they're so cute I swear. the chosen ones that see each other not for what society makes them into, but for what they truly are <3 bonding over losing their parents and growing up in abusive environments and finding comfort in friends and animals and they can grow into old men constantly trying to shield each other from the public eye whilst living in a secluded cottage together 

their interactions in books/movies are just cute idk

[hotjaneaustenmenpoll]

Can't believe Rupert Penry-Jones' Captain Wentworth is barely winning!!!! It's Wentworth - the man is half-agony half hope - writer of the most romantic letter in existence! He has lovely fun friends and you'd get great in- laws!!! He looks like Rupert Penry-Jones!!! Likes music! remembers you don't like to play cards after 8 years!!! Speeds back to his friend regardless of how hard or relentless the journey to make sure he's not on his own when he gets bad news!! Has great stories!!! He looks like Rupert Penry-Jones!!! Loves the sea!! Is Rich!!! Notices you're tired and makes sure you get the seat in the gig even when he wants to hate you!! Is so deeply in love that even after 8 years he can't get over you!! Self-made man!!! Looks like Rupert Penry Jones!!! Look at these besties!!!!!

https://youtu.be/QXt5GhR8lXs?si=Ju4C-DGGiSJ7rSaB

Captain Wentworth (2007) is only ahead by 0.8%!!!

Mr Palmer (1995) Vs Captain Wentworth (2007)

Edward Ferrars (2008) Vs Captain Harville(2007)