#and never very old

[bethanydelleman]

Can I please ask? In persuasion, how is Sir Walter Elliot living beyond his means? I mean he must've been very rich with loads of lands if he was a baronet, isn't it? Are there any particular references in the book which could point towards the particulars is his overspending? Thank you.

It is stated that Sir Walter's debt is what we would call "consumer debt", as in, Gucci handbags and Mercedes cars, not something like gambling debt which did plague the aristocracy and the gentry. Sir Walter wants to look the best and most fashionable in every situation.

In Ch 1:  

the heavy bills of his tradespeople... The Kellynch property was good, but not equal to Sir Walter’s apprehension of the state required in its possessor. While Lady Elliot lived, there had been method, moderation, and economy, which had just kept him within his income; but with her had died all such right-mindedness, and from that period he had been constantly exceeding it. It had not been possible for him to spend less; he had done nothing but what Sir Walter Elliot was imperiously called on to do; but blameless as he was [LOL!], he was not only growing dreadfully in debt, but was hearing of it so often, that it became vain to attempt concealing it longer, even partially, from his daughter. He had given her some hints of it the last spring in town; he had gone so far even as to say, “Can we retrench? Does it occur to you that there is any one article in which we can retrench?” and Elizabeth, to do her justice, had, in the first ardour of female alarm, set seriously to think what could be done, and had finally proposed these two branches of economy, to cut off some unnecessary charities, and to refrain from new furnishing the drawing-room

Sir Walter wants to live in the first style, probably he is always buying a new carriage, new clothes, new furniture etc. and also serving extravagant dinners. Not to mention all the mirrors! Since Elizabeth is running the household, she has probably helped run the ship into the ground, the opposite to Lady Elliot, who was keeping the ship afloat.

It's heavily suggested that the Crofts have far fewer servants than the Elliots. Admiral and Mrs. Croft moved the mirrors themselves and they put the umbrellas by the door because they aren't calling footmen to get the umbrellas for them. Both of the following quotes are said by Admiral Croft:

You can slip in from the shrubbery at any time; and there you will find we keep our umbrellas hanging up by that door. A good place is not it? But,” (checking himself), “you will not think it a good place, for yours were always kept in the butler’s room So I got Sophy to lend me a hand, and we soon shifted their quarters

And the dinner quote:

She [Elizabeth] felt that Mrs Musgrove and all her party ought to be asked to dine with them; but she could not bear to have the difference of style, the reduction of servants, which a dinner must betray, witnessed by those who had been always so inferior to the Elliots of Kellynch.

Also, according to a very interesting thesis I read about the economy during Jane Austen's time, there was crazy high inflation during this era. So Sir Walter might have trouble maintaining the lifestyle of his youth on the fortune of the present. For example, Jane Austen's family could afford a carriage on about £500 a year and then suddenly they couldn't because of price rises. The price of common consumer goods doubled.

Sir Walter also has an entailed estate. The phenomenon of “house poor” was common among the gentry and even happened to the aristocracy. Because you can’t sell your land or house, one has a large house but very little money to keep it running or to live on. For this reason, many heirs needed to marry a wealthy woman, to cover the debts of the estate. This is what happens with Eliza Brandon in Sense & Sensibility, the Brandons were far in debt and they needed her fortune to cover it so they forced her into marriage. Poor Eliza!

Now, this is purely conjecture, but Sir Walter might also have been maintaining some sort of mistress since he is so honourably not marrying for his daughter's sake. The price varied a lot depending on what kind of woman you wanted and how exclusive they were to you, but I think we can all agree that Sir Walter would demand the very best in paid companionship.

(There is this Canadian show called Princess where a financial advisor helps women, and a few men, who have fallen into deep consumer debt. So whenever I think about Sir Walter’s debt I sing the theme song in my head.)

[kedreeva]

There's some dude (derogatory) on FB who is PISSED people are pricing their farm fresh eggs at $2 and $3 a dozen instead of $4+, saying it's "disrespectful" and "undignified" and "I'm trying to feed my kids" like Sir, you are on a Facebook group page bitching about your neighbors egg prices because your pet chickens aren't earning you a living wage and you think it's your neighbors' fault, you do not have a leg to stand on here wrt dignity.

Also half the answers are like "I give them to friends and family free" or "I donate them to food banks" or "I'm making them affordable to folks who might not otherwise be able to get them now that they're so expensive in the store" and "if you think you're going to turn a profit keeping backyard chickens you have been wildly misled" and so on, and so forth, and I'm so living for it.

and I can tell you right now, he did NOT like my answer of "if you're trying to feed your kids, I hear eggs are edible."

[mangozic]

archivist be upon ye

[nova-rpv]

amys :33

dont forget ur daily clicks!!

[mischievous-thunder]

Eyes on the road, Logie Bear!

[knightofleo]

Angela Orosco Silent Hill 2

[harriertail]

reflection of a reflection of a reflection

[dclovesdanny]

Dcxdp

Bio fam 3/5

Klarion never forgot the few kids he got close to. Klarion enjoyed chaos and laughter, but he wasn’t cruel. He refused to disrespect the dead, especially his friend.

(He kept one thing from each of his friendships. Young Justice never questioned the shelf of trinkets in his lair the few times they worked together.)

Klarion never forgot his friends.

So when he saw the ghost of his friend running from men in white suits, adults who were threatening to hurt his friend and cut him open…..

Well, Klarion was a Lord of Chaos.

Time to show these fools just how powerful he could be.

[bungobble-my-balls]

OK correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like the main 'yin/yang' parallel with Atsushi and Akutagawa is not something like 'this one is bad but secretly has a good side and this one is good but secretly has a bad side'.

I feel like it's more about 'who they are at their core vs who they choose to be'.

At his core Akutagawa is kind and at his core Atsushi is not. But despite this Atsushi tries every day to make the kinder choices and I love him so much for it. He has to work so hard to be good.

He wants to be a bitch SO bad I know he does but he tries his best to help people and be nice (sometimes he fails but that's OK <3)

Atsushi doesn't always WANT to help people, a lot of the time he's selfish and scared, but he does help people anyway. He keeps helping people over and over again. There's still some selfish motivation to it, and his initial motivation for helping people was because the headmaster told him that's all he was worth, but overall he does care about the people he helps and it weighs on him if he fails to save them. And of course, as the series goes on he starts helping people more because he can rather than because he feels like he needs to.

In Akutagawa's case, he's still capable of being kind but his environment led him into being someone who chooses to hurt people. But he's always been a protector at heart. In the start he was bad compared to Atsushi because he was choosing to hurt people and keep the cycle of abuse going. Just like how Atsushi developed in why he saved people, Akutagawa starts to get redeemed when he chooses to not just act on his rage. Not only does he start to spare people, but he speaks more kindly to them (apologising to Higuchi and telling Kyouka he's proud of her). It all culminates into the moment he chooses to help Atsushi and sacrifice himself for him, going back to his core value of being a protector. Even when he's finally revived, he keeps this role in his new position as Aya's Knight.

I kind of see the streaks of white in Akutagawa and the streaks of black in Atsushi not as their 'hidden sides' but as their fundamental selfs. That's who they are at their core, and their main colours (black for Akutagawa and white for Atsushi) are how they're presented to everyone else and how they try to have people see them as.

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl

[kriffin-ink]

You’re telling me Dick “I’m two seconds away from fighting the government” Grayson would be a cop?

+ I made Haley an ESA for the firefighters (she loses her leg during the Chemo explosions)

[pangur-and-grim]

Grim went off her food today. vomited up breakfast, and then refused to touch anything further. I thought the vomit was Pangur’s at first, so I spent the whole day babying her and hand feeding, until dinner when it became clear Grim was the one with nausea.

I’ve been doing my best to keep Grim from the kitten food, because the high fat content can give adult cats pancreatitis, but there’s been a couple times where I’ve put the food somewhere I thought was inaccessible only to find Grim up there accessing it. I didn’t think she’d stolen more than a couple mouthfuls, but her symptoms today seem very pancreatitis-y.

I’m so angry at myself for not having done a better job keeping the kitten food out of reach. I took her to an emergency vet (my regular one was closed) and they’ve decided to keep her overnight. the bloodwork tomorrow should show whether it’s pancreatitis.

[juniemunie]

[Abandoned by the Lightners, his heart became cracked with hatred.]

Hitting a lil' too close to home?

[tanatola]

pathologic 3 announcement made me return to the classic game and finally play it properly! i think my favorite part of the bachelor's route is when he talks to maria kaina (or whoever's in her body at the time) and they explain that their planned Utopia isn’t even supposed to be a 'perfect' place but instead 'the mystical manifestation of a world inscrutable and inaccessible to men' going back to the original meaning of the word irl and instead of despairing Daniil fervently agrees that this kind of unimaginable leap is worth it, no matter where it actually leads

[aunmenosheteroenespanol]

2.12 Chimney Begins - 2.09 Hen Begins - 2.16 Bobby Begins Again - 7.04 Buck, Bothered and Bewildered

Tommy's family arc

[mischievous-thunder]

Wade Wilson's love language is so eloquent that it leaves the Wolverine speechless