#aunt emily

[professorlegaspi]

Everyone who was in that Huperpetra dungeon must know each other so intimately

[chloesimaginationthings]

The FNAF Mikes talk about their extended family..

[theunholyvirginemilyprentiss]

HENRY: What’s that?

EMILY: *sipping an Oreo milkshake* It’s spicy, you won’t like it.

(From Twitter)

[emilysaucyyysonnett]

The mascots of Sonnett and Rose freaking out about Alex😂

[Via: Women’s Football Highlights Youtube]

[emilybarksdaleart]

The Skywalker Mothers - Emily Barksdale, 2024

Here's a mother's day illustration that I just finished - a tribute to the Skywalker Twins' mothers, Padmé, Breha and Beru 💙

I just finished my very intense first year of teaching, while simultaneously earning my teaching license. While art has had to take a backseat to that this year, I'm hoping this summer will bring some more illustration inspiration!

[dykevanny]

thought to myself, what if cunty evil adult Charlie was cool and not a dead six year old. Anyways i think she’s neat

[404-mind-not-found]

Never what, William?

Here it is, a comic page dedicated to chapter 2 of the Hidden Hands AU by @north-noire! I had a lot of fun with this but it definitely took me way too long to complete ^^''

[melodiousoblivionao3]

Emma Jane didn’t post pics of Sonny holding the baby because she knew we’d all explode

[north-noire]

the emily siblings! felt like drawing them after writing Chapter 1 :] aunt jen = jennifer in my AU, but henry still calls her jen sometimes (she's also the older sibling)

[batrachised]

Chapter 6 establishes a dynamic we'll see throughout the series: the E's of New Moon never quite understanding each other. Aunt Elizabeth and Emily talk past each other repeatedly in this chapter because they're essentially speaking a different language. There's an emotional culture clash here that represents a gap never to be bridged. As the previous chapter said, Aunt Elizabeth understands with her head first, not her heart; Emily understands with her heart first, not her head.

The Emily series takes this even further by presenting Emily as some sort of fey child. There's many a thing about Emily that can't be understood with a head or be explained rationally at all. Emily doesn't just feel things deeply; she experiences the flash, a thinning of the veil between worlds. It would be difficult enough for Aunt Elizabeth to understand a sensitive, artistic child, but Emily's second sight tendencies defy explanation or comprehension. I have more thoughts, but they're very spoilery stuff, so see underneath the cut below for them.

From Aunt Elizabeth's perspective, she sees a child who doesn't like the food, and she kindly orders different food. She doesn't want Emily to sleep alone because she thinks that would be bad for her. She knows Aunt Laura won't sleep well if she sleeps with Emily, so Aunt Elizabeth sleeps with Emily instead. You see Aunt Elizabeth trying to be kind in her own way, but it's so stiff and cold that to Emily, it doesn't really matter. (Which makes complete sense - Emily is a little girl who is grieving.) Also, Aunt Elizabeth's attempts to be kind aren't thoughtful. She isn't taking into account Emily's feelings on the matter at all - instead, she's actively dismissing them. On top of this disastrous clash in communication styles, Emily has a tendency to dig up old graves (figuratively and literally, as we'll see!) which does not help one bit.

From Emily's perspective, she's met with a cold, stern woman who views all attempts at explanation as impertinence, a "griffin." It's funny, because Emily is doing exactly what Anne does consistently and repeatedly in Anne of Green Gables. Every time someone like Marilla is mystified at Anne's feelings, Anne explains: how would you feel if you were me? How would you feel is said by Anne so often it could genuinely be used as her catchphrase - and most of the time, it works! Characters are charmed by Anne, and almost without fail, she wins them over. They tended to be amused by her sensitive ways, not frustrated or downright cold.

Emily's attempts, though, are viewed as alien instead of winsome. They also have the unfortunate tendency of forcing Aunt Elizabeth to confront various psychological closet skeletons. Anne's characteristics endear Anne to her community; Emily's isolate her.

Following up on the second sight bit: that's why Aunt Elizabeth's commitment to plumbing the well in face of all logic and reason is the pinnacle of her character arc in this book. It's, at last, the conjoining of the head and heart. It makes no sense to do to check the well from a rational perspective, but also, it's the only rational choice when it comes to keeping Aunt Elizabeth's word and Emily safe - so that is what Aunt Elizabeth chooses. The Aunt Elizabeth at the beginning of the book would have never committed so recklessly; the Aunt Elizabeth at the end is true to her inflexible ways, but in a way that allows room for the side of Emily that will forever mystify her: the sensitivity that allows Emily to know something is at the bottom of that well, and the same sensitivity that Emily uses to write.

[professorlegaspi]

Okay, time to theorize where Celia’s gifts came from

Celia has her own original gifts but also additions from her mom, her dad, and her aunt. Adelle Fincastle has Sight and Mind gifts, with Sight being the stronger of the two. Celia herself had Touch gifts and likely Mind gifts before the Transference. That leaves Speech and Body to be covered by Jacob and Emily.

Because of the sheer strength of Celia’s power it’s very likely each gift worked with overlay, two people’s worth of gifts boosting them to their crazy high levels.

This tells us that with our working theory, Jacob and Emily need to both cover the Speech and Body categories. Also, at least two people had to have had three gifts. My bet is on one of the tri-gifters being Celia.

We know her grandfather had Mind gifts and okay Body gifts, and gifts are hereditary, so let’s say that Celia was born with Touch, Body, and Mind. By the same logic, Shay has Body and his sister Amelia has Touch. Therefore, Emily likely has one of those, if not, both.

That frees Jacob up from having Body gifts, leaving him with Speech. We’ll give him the second portion of Sight to even things out.

In summary, and with highly unscientific guessing, here is the breakdown:

Mind: Inborn, Adelle

Sight: Adelle, Jacob

Body: Inborn, Emily

Touch: Inborn, Emily

Speech: Jacob, Emily/Jacob/Inborn

[isagaiia]

final part of my bachelorette redesigns! (part one + two + full) (boys part one)

emily and abigail ! 🧶⚔️

[lizzy-bonnet]

I love Aunt Laura and Cousin Jimmy right from the start but the seeds of my affection for Aunt Elizabeth are sown here as well. She's worn her best dress as a mark of respect but she's afraid of being snubbed by Emily (which she cannot admit to) and consequently doesn't make any overture. As an adult I really see Aunt Elizabeth as someone who has had very little love in her life and consequently doesn't know how to offer any to Emily.

[margaretofdrum]

Still ruminating on the Brontë seminar I took last year and one of the things I noticed while reading each sister's novels was that there are overarching commonalities between way death is treated in their works. It seems that people tend to think of the Brontës' works as being pervaded by melancholy and a sense of death, which is likely exacerbated by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne all dying so young themselves, but what stood out to me is the way their novels treat death as something that is not exempt from the seriousness of life. Generally speaking, characters' deaths, however dramatic they might be, are only reflections of what actually matters--how they lived. There are peaceful deaths accorded to essentially good-hearted characters like Helen Burns and Edgar Linton, but this trend is most noticeable in the deaths of "bad" characters such as Arthur Huntingdon and Mrs. Reed. In my opinion, the lack of deathbed redemption for these characters is partially explained by the psychologically "real" features of the Brontës' works (not to say that they only depict "realistic" situations or actions, only that characters tend to behave in an un-idealized way that precludes the idea of their being radically changed at the hour of death). Adding to this is that deaths of "bad" characters don't feel vindictive, they just feel sad. In Jane Eyre, for example, Jane's response to her aunt's death is not any feeling of schadenfreude, just sorrow that she lived so poorly: "Poor, suffering woman! it was too late for her to make now the effort to change her habitual frame of mind: living, she had ever hated me—dying, she must hate me still.” A similar situation occurs in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, with Helen writing to her brother about the "miseries" of Arthur's death bed, and expressing regret that Arthur did not take religion seriously during his life, which has led to a situation where he "cannot dream of turning to [it] for consolation now." These scenes are more about how these characters have lived than how they die, and I think that's something that can get lost if death is treated as inherently more serious than life in fiction, be it gothic or otherwise.

[phantomss-pain]

Aunt Jen and Henry have a perfect sibling dynamic to explore but no one uses it and it’s annoying.

USE AUNT JEN YOU COWARDS

[roses-red-and-pink]

Maybe unpopular opinion?? I really like aunt Elizabeth. Granted, we’ve only got to chapter 12. But I’m very invested in her story. I don’t think she’s bad, or even mean, or particularly vengeful (maybe a bit with locking Emily in the room, but the text admits she doesn’t realize she’s being vengeful). Is she severe? Yes. Is she old fashioned? Very. But I think she’s trying to do her best for Emily. Maybe out of nothing more than family pride and duty, but is that not better than shirking your responsibilities?

She obviously doesn’t understand Emily, but she does more than simply clothe and feed her. She buys her a nice dress, sends back food because she thinks Emily doesn’t like it, I mean, she even lets Emily sleep in her bed. Most of what she’s doing has good intentions, though is misguided. I like her much more than ellen greene.

I’m also very interested in her relationship with her father. From brief comments, it seems she might have once been much like Emily. (Maybe still is 👀) Speaking her mind, sarcastic and biting when mad. Full of feeling and emotion. Somehow she’s learned she has to suppress that.

I just really like her. And not just as an interesting character. I like her. I can’t exactly put it into words, but someone please tell me I’m not the only one.