aight homie when are you gonna be heading home bc i will deadass set an alarm to remind you
TWO O CLOCK BESTIE
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Not the usual suspect posting Lewis 3 times in his photo dump ☕️
Are we shocked …
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An underrated funny moment is when Peeta is describing to Caesar what happened that last night in the Quell but he doesn't want to incriminate Katniss so when he gets to the end he's just like "and yeah idk the force field just randomly blew out suddenly" 😭 as if the whole country didn't see Katniss shoot that arrow with their own eyes
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It's kind of fascinating to me that towards the end of P&P, Elizabeth has become protective of Darcy and either a) actively tries to insulate him from Situations or b) wishes that she could and gets stressed that she can't.
Darcy deeply loves her and is very ready to do whatever he can to secure her happiness, but narratively, I think the emphasis at the end is very much more on Elizabeth's protectiveness towards him.
It's like:
When Bingley and Darcy first come back to Hertfordshire, Darcy is very quiet and Elizabeth can barely bring herself to say anything—until Mrs Bennet insults Darcy. Then Elizabeth speaks up.
Mrs Bennet enlists Elizabeth to separate Darcy from Bingley with another insult to Darcy. Elizabeth finds this both convenient and enraging.
That day, Elizabeth decides to privately tell Mrs Bennet about her engagement to Darcy, specifically so that Darcy will be spared Mrs Bennet's first unfiltered response.
Elizabeth fiercely defends Darcy's character and love for her, as well as hers for him, to Mr Bennet. She not only says she loves Darcy but that it upsets her to hear Mr Bennet's criticisms of him.
Elizabeth is both relieved by Mrs Bennet's ecstatic reception of the engagement and a bit disappointed by how completely shallow she's being about it, and 100% sure she made the right call in keeping Darcy away.
Elizabeth defends Darcy against Darcy himself, repeatedly.
There's a period where Elizabeth seems to unwind and laugh, but this passes, especially after Charlotte and Mr Collins show up. Darcy manages to stay calm around Mr Collins (I think this is framed as a significant and admirable achievement for him), but Elizabeth does not like him being in a situation where he has to deal with Mr Collins in the first place.
Elizabeth tries to shield Darcy from being noticed by Mrs Phillips and Mrs Bennet, who do seem to make him pretty excruciatingly uncomfortable.
Ultimately, Elizabeth ends up trying to keep Darcy to herself or to shepherd him around to relatives he can handle more easily, and is so stressed at this point that she just wants to get married and escape to Pemberley.
After their marriage, things are actually great at Pemberley and in their married life, despite the occasional complication.
Lydia writes a congratulatory letter to Elizabeth, asking for Darcy to get Wickham a promotion unless Elizabeth would rather not bring it up with him. Elizabeth really does not want Darcy to have to deal with this and handles it by privately setting aside a Lydia fund out of her personal expenses. (IIRC, it's not clear if Darcy even knows about this.)
Elizabeth also is the driving force behind Darcy's reconciliation with Lady Catherine.
This could read as an unsettling, unbalanced dynamic and a very odd ending point for the arc of a woman like Elizabeth, but in the context of the overall novel, it doesn't feel that way. Or maybe I'd see it more that way if I interpreted Darcy (and for that matter, Elizabeth) + their arcs differently? But as it is, I do think that by this point in the story they are genuinely doing the best they can, independently and for each other, and they've both come a long way. They shine in different contexts and support each other as much as they can in the circumstances that do arise.
It seems very them, in terms of their temperament and abilities, that Elizabeth would put all this effort into shielding Darcy, while at the same time, Darcy completely cuts off Lady Catherine for insulting Elizabeth and only ever speaks to her again because Elizabeth wants him to.
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Absolutely sick to death of listening to people insist that all horses should be running free on the American plains instead of being "slaves" for riding and pulling. Firstly, the populations of horses on the American plains are feral and invasive. They originate from domestic populations, and on top of that very few are actually related to the first horses that were brought by colonizers. Most are related to or just straight up are ranch horses that got loose. Secondly, the vast majority of domestic horses would die in a matter of days if you tossed them out there because they don't have the traits that set them up for survival that feral population have due to natural selection. And third, even for the populations of horses that are adapted to that kind of environment, their life expectancy is cut in half compared to domestic horses. When feral horses are adopted into domestication, their life expectancy doubles. That's because being in the wild with little to no human intervention is not the sunshine and rainbows you see when you watch Spirit. Wild populations go through annual periods of starvation where many horses die and survivors are skin and bones (literally emaciated) until the seasons change and there's grass again.
If you think I need to chuck my middle aged horses out to "be free" you best be prepared to throw your dogs and cats out on the streets to live among the feral populations of those animals.
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