#I THOUGHT

[astermagnolia]

Head in hands. Why does this keep happening to me?

WHY IS MY BRAIN MAKING UP MORE IDEAS FOR STORIES!!!! IM STILL WRTING MY OTHER ONE AND IM OUTLINING THE STALKERS AND CRYPTIDS SOULMATE FIC

IM RATTILING MY BRAIN PLEASE STOP

[graveyard-society]

tell me what possessed me into making this

[fairsweetlonging]

just saw a comment on tiktok saying that the bamboo house is called that because it's set in the bamboo forest, and not because it's made of bamboo, and i uh. i feel betrayed. and very dumb

[devanofficial]

childhood friendships be like, we played pretend everyday in kindergarten, we were mermaid dogs and potion makers and astronaut fairies, you gave me a strange look when i made up an underwater unicorn scenario in middle school, you bit my arm once in elementary school because you didn’t want to share the pirate ship wheel on the playground anymore, i still tell that story because i have a scar from your tooth, we did ballet and tap together but then went to different dance schools and it wasn’t the same, i quit after it messed up my ankles but i still kept your nutcracker christmas cards throughout high school and imagined us dancing together, we watched cinderella iii on dvd together and talked about how much better the prince was in the sequels, that was the last time i went over your house and i wish i had known that then, later i heard you talking about how weird i was to people i thought you didn’t like, you repeated things i said as examples but they had made you fall off the bed with laughter back then, i don’t understand when you outgrew me but i thought we had been girls together.

[themalhambird]

Thinking about how Jane Austen's six novels taken together (in writing order, not publication order) become an increasingly scathing criticism of social class, i.e:

Northanger Abbey: Individual members of the gentry (General Tilney, chiefly) come in for some criticism, but mostly on a personal level: General Tilney is a grasping, tyrannical father to be sure but we hear little (though we might easily infer) of what he is like as the resident landholder. The final crisis of the novel, General Tilney's refusal to sanction Henry and Catherine's marriage, is resolved by Eleanor's marriage to a Viscount.

Sense and Sensibility: The "correctness" and "elegance" of the fashionable members of society- the Dashwoods, Robert Ferras, Lady Middleton- are negatively contrasted to the warmness and frankness of Mrs Jennings- whose kind-heartedness makes her more attractive, in spite of her lower-class origins and perceived vulgarity, than Fanny, Lady Middleton or Mrs Ferras (snr).

Pride and Prejudice: The aristocratic Lady Catherine de Bourgh is an interfearing busy body whose title and money only excuse her officiousness and rudeness. Darcy's pride in his superior situation to the Bennets leads him to act wrongly with regard to Bingley and Jane. Aunt and Uncle Gardiner, in trade, are more respectable- certainly better parental figures- than the gentleman Mr Bennet (and Mrs Bennet too). At the same time - Darcy's strengths are displayed in his undertakings as the resident landholder of the Pemberly estates- he supports the poor, and his situation allows him to shield the more vulnerable when he his spurred to act (Georgiana, to a less successful extent Lydia). Wickham's circumstances - debt, etc- could easily be read as the consequences of his wanting to step out of his place- his desire to be the oldest, or at least the second, son of a Mr Darcy- rather than what he 'is'- the son of Mr. Darcy's steward

Mansfield Park: Hey. HEY. look at the shitshow of a baronetcy. Lady Bertram is functionally useless. Sir Thomas is such a bad father that his daughters marry idiots just to get away from him. Also, having money can't give you intelligence or a personality. Most of "fashionable society" are actually miserable and mercenary and also probably immoralistic. The Church is clouded by corruption and isn't actively benefiting the local parish the way it should. The whole thing is underpinned by slavery, and the hardworking Price Children are ultimatley more deserving than the flighty Bertram ones. THAT BEING SAID: the portrait of Mr. Price is hardly better than the one of Sir Thomas, and Mansfield Park does stabilise- indeed, begins grows stronger with the reformation of its heir, and the implication that Fanny and Edmund go on to have children of their own. There is less of a quarrel with establishment, and more of a quarrel with the people who fill it.

Emma: "Gentility is inherent one can sense it in a person-" no you can't lmao shut up. There is literally no inherent difference marking out a gentleman's daughter and a farmer's daughter. Emma's snobbery as to class leaves her, at various times, both isolated and into some *serious* missteps. Emma and Frank Churchill both have a tendency to treat others as playthings, as their money allows them to do so.

Persuasion: The peerage/nobility are patently ridiculous throw them out in favour of [relative] meritocracy and hard workers. Sure, the resident landowners are supposed to be of benefit to those beneath them but they're not, actually, they take all of the privileges and fulfil non of the responsibilities and are pretty much uniformly selfish and our heroine Casts Them Off.

[giolovesyousm]

Day 9 of Deadboyween Weeks:

Myths/Legends

[The Myth of Pyramus and Thisbe]

Now there is this wall dividing us, while you're in the underworld, and I'm up here harmless and numb.

I search for any kind of comfort in this barrier forced to stand between us, how cruel this sliver of distance.

No matter what side are we on, I'll reach you through the fire of hell if that's necessary; and I'll step into the dark, and call your name, meeting you in the deepest pit of the horrible place you don't belong to.

If I find you lifeless, I might aswell take a knife and stab my stomach until it bleeds, so we could cling into each other in a space far away from blood and agony.

I would press my lips to your pale and still skin, breaking down our last invisible wall, a final act of devotion, before following you into the unknown.

[theandrosaur]

Heyy can I get ann uuuuhh Stable Boys (Wukong and Ao lie) to go ? Thank you !!

Litol nose kiss !

[r04sty]

I'm starting to work on creature again :3

[yourlovelyspace]

You truly are 💝

[cat-bit]

[sunshinemayhem]

i tripped and fell into the marauders fandom and now i keep getting my heart broken

(send help)

[maliciously-bisexual]

no healthy diet or workout routine could bring back the years that misreading ‘Social Stigma’ took off my life

[lovebeing-a-girl]

why does he make me feel like this..?

[axsolotle]

ao3 is still fucking down how am I meant to sleep with out reading about my guys!

[starlooove]

The woobification of Gotham rogues needs to be studied