#IT IS DELIGHTFUL

[bethanydelleman]

Why you should read Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey frequently scores second on polls of least liked Austen novel, but I honestly don’t know why because it's awesome. So let me try to convince you to read it...

Northanger Abbey: Everything you could wish for in a novel!

The Most Attractive Leading Man in Austen: I know you think you want Darcy, but do you really want a man who can’t take a joke? How about instead of insulting you at the assembly, he dances with you and makes you laugh! Surveys reveal that “makes me laugh” is a consistently attractive trait in a future spouse. Besides being extraordinarily funny, he also will willingly take you dress shopping, loves his sister, and reads novels. Shall we agree that he is the perfect man?

Most Relatable Leading Lady: Despite having a good education, are you sometimes a little lost in a conversation? Are you reasonably good looking, passably intelligent, and only somewhat accomplished? Catherine Morland is just a normal, everyday girl who stands up against peer pressure and falls head-over-heels in love with a cute guy. If she could be born to be a heroine, than all of us can be!

Villains So Well Drawn You Will Swear you Met Them Yesterday: Have you met a guy who constantly brags about his vehicle, talks without actually saying anything, and who assumes that girls will go for him even though he has nothing to recommend him? I have, and so has Jane Austen, its John Thorpe! Isabella is a classic drama queen who is dating a really sweet nerd but angling for the football star. You knew her in high school, I guarantee it.

Highly quotable one liners:

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

“His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.”

Great life lessons: 

“No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

“Beware how you give your heart.”

“Our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for.”

and best of all, a passionate defence of reading novels from the Narrator, who continues to be sarcastic and hilarious throughout the novel.

Northanger Abbey, honestly, what’s not to love?

[kowaibunny]

Kimetsu Academy could have made Douma a creep to Shinobu (and women in general) and instead they just made him weird and annoying, but especially to Akaza/Hakuji, and I really appreciate that choice

[manfredthewarden]

it probably would make more sense to romance emmrich as a mage who can truly appreciate his craft but there is something incredibly funny to me about rogue rook watching this man reanimate corpses and being like "nice necromancing you got there 😏"

[lupinedreaming]

Me gradually collecting more and more ace spec mutuals:

[mcfungy]

PLEASE i need a “i wanna ride” edit of lin beifong

[haughttopics]

i've been down bad for kathryn hahn and aubrey plaza for years. when i tell you i did not survive agatha all along 😩

[talesfromthenorsesmouth]

The eldest Prof in the department has been having a clear out of his office, so the staff room i s full of books he's leaving for anyone to grab (including some students dissertations from back in the 50s and 60s)

BUT

I snagged this:

1937 puzzle book!

[cryptile]

My tumblr notification activity is the highest when @jonny-b-meowborn wakes up to like and reblog every single thing i posted or rebloged apparently

[animentality]

I can't believe Star Trek Picard stole the most iconic line from Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed???? Hello??? What the fuck???

You think I'd forget that line???

"Think positively- We're gonna die quickly???"

How dare you???

All the good will you built up only to be ruined by stealing a line from Scooby Doo!!!! Ruined!!! Ruined!!!!!

[ennaih]

Not Every Film I Watch In 2024 4. The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)

[goingsparebutwithprecision]

hello everyone it is vitally important that you know that my hair is being held up with a hairpin shaped like an axe right now

[lyledebeast]

I don't know if anyone else has any leftover chestnut puree hanging around from Christmas, but if you spread it onto sandwich bread, fill a loaf plan with the slices, pour custard over, and bake it, you will not be sorry!

[bornetoblood]

I love seeing people find my blog through fanart or something and then go on to like all my Moon Divorce posts.

[flock-of-cassowaries]

I was trying to explain to my friend and colleague why Tumblr is the perfect data set to poison an AI; and I got to clown husbandry, and she was like “So they do all that just to poison the AI?”

tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse

[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱