#ask mr rochester

[mr-rochester-of-thornfield]

You’re in her DMs, I’m screaming her name across the moors and she somehow hears me. We’re not the same.

[mr-rochester-of-thornfield]

My wife about me 🥹

oh you’re insufferable? *suffers you easily and gladly*

[mr-rochester-of-thornfield]

Found on family members’ bookshelf. It’s uncanny.

@tiredtiresias

[softly-and-suddenly]

People are so boring about classic literature sometimes. Like I know it’s cool to be critical of men in books from the 19th century or whatever but it just leads to ripping out all of the nuance in favor of “Uh all of the Brontë men were evil and abusive and that’s all there is to those characters.” Say something interesting. I’m begging you

[mr-rochester-of-thornfield]

whats your wildest story from your time on the continent?

C’mon man, my wife reads here.

[pynkhues]

https://www.tumblr.com/nalyra-dreaming/762934616351031296/theres-something-ive-struggled-to-understand

I always wondered about what the anon asked as well. Care to share your reading?

I more or less agree with the OP's answer that it's about Louis not wanting to be connected to Madeleine, but I think the motivation is probably different?

My read is that episode is really about Louis trying to let Claudia go, and that he's acknowledging the complete dissolution of the family unit. After all, if Lestat and Louis' turning was a wedding, and Lestat turning Claudia was Lestat giving Louis a daughter, Louis knowing that Madeleine and Claudia are a love match in a lot of ways turns him into the father giving his daughter away on her wedding day. Turning Madeleine isn't about love for him, nor about having a child, it's about seeing his daughter as a grown woman ready to start her own family without him.

The acknowledgement of Claudia as an adult is not one he's ever genuinely made before - something s2 makes very clear with Claudia having to pose as his daughter again in wartorn Europe, Baby Lulu being the female diminutive of Louis, and then, even more tellingly, with Dreamstat explicitly referring to her as such - and while she's been pulling away all season and trying to force Louis into independence, it's been something he's pretty clearly very resentful of.

Madeleine though forces his hand, because Claudia finally choosing a companion splinters the last leg of their family unit for good. Madeleine is a stranger to him in the way many children's spouses are strangers to their in-laws, and Louis doesn't have Lestat to share the weight of that with anymore (and he doesn't have Lestat because of Claudia, which deepens the resentment). All he knows - which he discovers through turning her - is that she loves his daughter, and I take Louis trying to get the blood out of himself as a bitter and wounded sort of wedding gift.

He wants to give them their freedom, but at the same time the depression he experienced as an empty nester in New Orleans has already set in, he has to live with the fact that his attempt at a family has ended, and Armand's never been as satisfying to take things out on as Lestat was, to say nothing of the fact that he - as Assad put it - doesn't give a fuck about Claudia. At least Lestat gave a fuck, even if he usually gave the wrong sort of fucks, haha.

So yeah, I think it's a sort of attempt at a resentful wedding present, in a lot of ways, to try and give her this thing without being a part of it, and a real attempt to let Claudia go as his daughter.

Little does Louis know though, Claudia's the gothic heroine of this story, and she's not ever going to get out of her father's (or step-father's) house.

[moonshynecybin]

In the video of Vale in the silver stone post race press conference what did he mean Marc had special treatment was he referencing something. And what did you mean in the tags about Marc with journalists? I’m kinda new to this whole rosquez motogp thing and I’m very behind so I don’t know what vale’s referring to.

because vale thinks marc hates him. which is cwazy considering marc spent years throwing rocks at vale’s window but my girl IS in fact crazy. hitchcock blonde norman bates mommy dearest etc. like the underpinning of sepang here from VALE’S point of view is okay. marc is mad he’s not going to win the title this year as a result of crashing so much and he blames MEEE (because several of those key early season crashes resulted from a clash with vale AND because vale thinks marc is getting malicious in challenging his goat status) so as a reaction to this marc has decided jorge lorenzo should win the world title and as such BETRAYEDDDD MEEEE

and if you’re like hey. isn’t that awful similar to what MARC thinks about vale in this situation. getting mad about losing and lashing out. then you would be CORRECT ! vale is projecting here to an. insane degree. like baby girl that’s YOU who thinks like that, marc would have be your baby tomorrow if you asked…. like he thinks marc hates him! and is sabotaging him! and this hurts his feelings lmao. so you add this to all of the paranoid ego factors feeding into sepang and you get what vale feels is an actual really PERSONAL betrayal. like it’s one thing for a sporting rival to say fuck you im gonna make sure you lose at all costs, it’s another for a FRIEND you invited to your HOUSE to do all that. and vale has basically admitted as much in terms of like. getting over his rivalries with sete and biaggi— he COULD move on and make peace with them because they WERENT friends first (and because he won. lmao). but its different with marc.... now did marc actually do that. no. oh my god no. but vale THINKS he did and he got his feelings VERY hurt about it. to the point where he’s still fucking thinking about it every day ummm EIGHT YEARS LATER

[mr-rochester-of-thornfield]

Has anyone employed this method on a lady and managed to make it work? I have some doubts - asking for a friend, obviously.

IT'S ME GIRL I'M THE ANGEL OF MUSIC SPEAKING TO YOU INSIDE YOUR BRAIN LISTEN TO ME GIRL LEAVE THE BOY WE DON'T NEED HIM COME WITH ME AND SING MY SONGS WE'LL HAVE MUSIC TIMES IN CAVES DO DO DO DO YEAH YOU NEED ME GIRL YOUR FREE WILL IS AN ILLUSION

[tortoisesshells]

the collinsport catboy for bingo

as you wish 😘

Roger Collins

[bohemian-nights]

What are your OTP's?

I’m going from oldest to newest:

Zutara(Zuko x Katara) -Avatar The Last Airbender: This is my OG OTP. I started shipping them back in elementary school(aka before I even knew what shipping was). Seriously, they should have been endgame. Also, I’ve mentioned this before, but Zuko is the reason why I love fictional men who are a hot a** mess and are in desperate need of redemption and a cuddle🤷🏽‍♀️

Theodore(Laurie) Lawrence x Amy March -Little Women: Again another ship I shipped before I even knew what shipping was. I honestly do not understand why anyone thinks Laurie and Jo should be together. Those two were too chaotic and would’ve literally started to resent the other before the honeymoon ended. Laurie and Amy were meant for each other( ahem read the chapter My Lord and Lady which is domestic realness☺️).

Dramione(Draco Malfoy x Hermione Granger) -Harry Potter: Once again should have been endgame🤦🏽‍♀️Enemies to lovers with a sprinkle of a forbidden romance and a dash of solid redemption arc 🙃A missed opportunity 🤦🏽‍♀️(at least there are quality fan-fics for these two🤷🏽‍♀️).

Mr. Rochester x Jane Eyre -Jane Eyre: If Zuko started my love of damaged fictional men then Edward Fairfax Rochester reaffirmed it 🤷🏽‍♀️

This ship is a true gothic romance and a classic and I’m using the supreme on-screen version of Jane Eyre to represent them. It may be old, but if you haven’t watched it please watch the 1983 version cause it is the best 🙌🏽Mr. Rochester is a piece of work, but he would do anything for his Janet and Jane heard him calling her across space(and time?) so definitely OTP material.

Olitz(Fitzgerald Grant x Olivia Pope) -Scandal: Both halves of this couple are in fact a hot a** mess💁🏽‍♀️(Shonda🙃), but they are a beautiful mess and I love them for that. I hope they are in Vermont making jam and babies🥹

Daemon x Nettles-Fire & Blood: They literally hit all the tropes for me, i.e. forbidden romance + unlikely lovers(it gives me Jane Eyre feels which is probably why I love them so much). Daemon is the last person who you’d expect to fall in love with Nettles and she’s not used to someone actually caring. That final scene when Caraxes literally screams and shatters windows because Netty has to leave Daemon for her safety😭 That’s the stuff of romance novels right there.

[must4rds33d]

Can you post more of your Jane/Rochester ship art?? Your drawings give me life every time I see them I beg I beeeeg they are so silly and to me the age gap is not real

WHATTTT no way thank you so much 😭🫂!! i’ll try to make more art of them bc i have nothing else to post anymore (and i’m not proud of my other works bc they were done on a whim heh) the truth is i’m still on art hiatus since last year bc of burnout LMAO but jane eyre inspired me to make silly and indulgent drawings again🗣️🗣️🗣️ it reminded me that i can draw for fun and without pressure. it’s just me and a pair of esoteric fictional characters 🤝

[mr-rochester-of-thornfield]

^my pillow talk with Jane every night before bed

have you eroticized the repulsive today? have you applied an element of carnality to what is considered by most to be gruesome, grotesque, and/or monstrous today?

[gregmarriage]

what if connor and willa are about to get married, but it’s revealed that they can’t, because connor is already legally married and his first wife is in locked in the attic of austerlitz

[nerdyydragon]

Hello again!! :^) I was so excited to see the response!!

I hope the things you're going throw get easier, and that your life is full of ease and joy.🖤

I understand how life gets in the way (my own fics r /neglected/ jaja) but im glad to know the fic wasn't abandoned✨

I'm excited about whats to come at some point <3 thank you!!

can I ask about your original pieces? (if you'd like to share!!)

Hello again nonny!!!

Thank you for the well-wishes! 💚 Things have mostly settled down—it was a combination of previous work stress, a variable schedule, and then starting grad school in the middle but it's under control now at least and I'm looking forward to sitting down with the story again. So not abandoned, and will be receiving some love sooner rather than later.

As for original pieces: I've got a couple and I always want to yap about them! One is a longer fantasy series (sort of inspired by Longing in E as I was writing it, actually!) that's a mashup of Shakespeare and folklore retellings, D&D, and Game of Thrones, which I'm also excited to have more time to sit with, though I'm not expecting much from it any time soon; the thing is beginning to rival Wheel of Time in scope, and has some extensive plot holes at present...

The other is an older gothic scifi manuscript that I'm reworking from a few years ago about a man who has everything and loses it, and sort of resembles House of Usher and Frankenstein (though seemingly unlike anything on the market currently 🤔) with some additional mythology and blurred lines between advanced speculative science and magic. This is the little working blurb:

There are skeletons in every closet, and 23rd Century Industrial tycoon Anthony Rochester knows this better than most: he's put more than his fair share inside Rochester Industries' cavernous closets himself, and would rather they stay in the dark, away from his charmed life of decadence, private parties, fast cars, and faster women.

But after a Manhattan laboratory fire claims the lives of the two people closest to him—younger Rochester twins Christine and William, the only family he has left—the secrets that spill out in the aftermath upend not only his life but the very foundation of the empire he's built, and he wonders whether the fire was really an accident, or if something more sinister is at work. Now haunted by a past bent on fracturing his grip on reality and longing to reassert control over a steadily spiralling present, Anthony must uncover the truth about the twins' deaths before it's too late; the web of lies spun across years threatens to ensnare him the more he tries to unravel it, and in his desire to play God, he was unprepared for God to play him.

It's in the middle of some extensive rewrites, but I'm hoping to be able to query it either at the end of the year or early 2025 if things go to plan.

[mr-rochester-of-thornfield]

Jane has a great day every day, but Edward only has a great day if Jane looks at him.

[pynkhues]

I'm that last anon and I'm all for the long answer :3 love to read your ramblings so don't feel afraid to go overboard. it's very welcomed 💖

Ah, great! I might get to it this afternoon, but we'll see how long I'm in the office for today.