#because I was reminded of this book

[bethanydelleman]

The best (worst) part of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is that Arthur isn’t hiding his red flags. They are right there. Helen’s aunt can see them clearly, but Helen wants to save him and she’s charmed by him and she just casually walks right by every flag.

He’s toying with my feelings by flirting with someone else? I want him back.

He held me against my will and kissed me? My fault for drawing his picture.

He took my drawings without permission and then is angry at me for it? It was my fault and now he’ll hate me.

He’s severely in debt? It was his father’s fault for being so miserly.

He came to church and mocked my dearly held beliefs? It’s... fine.

He drinks and parties way too much? It’s just his bad friends, he’ll stop hanging out with them once he marries... right? He’ll settle down once he marries someone he really loves.

He uh... dragged his friend back into addiction for shits and giggles? Well I didn’t enjoy hearing about that but I’m telling you he’s going to change and I’m already pretty far into this engagement now...

Because Helen thinks she will fix him, or that love with fix him, despite her aunt telling her that it is a horrible idea and that she should choose someone else. But Helen is 18 and in love.

It’s the same feeling as a woman walking alone in the woods during a horror movie, when you want to scream at the TV for them to turn back. 

And you suddenly know what it’s like to experience every parent’s worst nightmare: watching a child you love walk straight into an abusive relationship no matter what you do. We are all Helen’s aunt and we cannot save her.

And then like that parent, we have to watch the consequences without being able to help, because it takes Helen so very long to finally, finally reach out for help.

And then we learn how extremely hard it is for a financially dependent spouse with a child to escape from a relationship like this. How do you get money, where do you go? Will anyone in your family actually help you? Yes, laws have changed, but this book remains so relevant because these situations still happen every day. How to get away, how to conceal your location, how a person lives in fear that no one will believe that you have been abused because you can’t show them scars...

Anne Brontë just takes us on the most harrowing journey imaginable and it is terrible and traumatic and so important.

[delicioustarong]

"You could've have lived forever!" Continuation! Oh boi, this one is angsty

Creator: @honeqq

(4/7)

Pt 1 | Pt 2 | Pt 3 | Pt 4 |

[lilislegacy]

i feel like we gloss over the first few pages of SoN FAR too much. i mean, take percy’s name out and i would think it’s all about hercules. the book opens by dropping banger after banger regarding percy’s recent escapades, as if this is some epic greek myth.

like how did rick just casually slip in that percy strangled a sea monster with his bare hands (no biggie) and we as the readers were just like “sounds right, anyway—”

[benevolenterrancy]

(Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett) I think Shang Qinghua and Ponder Stibbons should have tea and compare notes about somehow accumulating so much behind-the-scenes power by doing menial jobs no one else wants that they could basically run the show if they wanted...

meanwhile we have Shen "meh good enough" Qingqiu

[tending-the-hearth]

Thinking about when Ponyboy wakes up after passing out after Dally’s death, and it’s just him and Darry in the room, and he probably was all wrapped up in blankets and one of his brothers’ sweatshirts, and looking so young and terrified asking Darry if he was going to get taken away, and Darry just saying “I don’t know, baby”, because he doesn’t know, and things are so uncertain that he can’t help but fall back onto the pet name their mother used so often for all her sons, but also i thought about those videos of older siblings calling their little siblings their baby, and thought about that in association with Darry and Ponyboy, and just…

little six-year-old Darry, upon seeing little newborn Ponyboy, immediately trying to hug him because that’s his baby

Darry introducing Ponyboy to Dally saying “this is my baby, Ponyboy!”

Soda fully believing for two years that Ponyboy was Darry’s baby because of how much Darry called him his

Them growing older, and the nickname being said less and less, but maybe it came out accidentally.

Darry getting sick, and wanting to make sure his baby didn’t get sick

Darry coming home from his first rumble and not wanting his baby to see him hurt

Darry hugging his baby close after their parents died while waiting for Sodapop to get to the hospital from Two-Bit’s house

Darry finding out that his baby had been jumped and immediately running to the abandoned lot to find him

Darry seeing his baby in the hospital, and realizing that he was okay

Darry having to put on a smile and reassure his baby that they wouldn’t get separated, and Ponyboy looking up at his oldest brother who gave up everything just to keep them all together, and in that moment, despite everything that had happened, and every unsaid conversation, having complete and utter trust in his big brother.

[corviiids]

(persona 5 / persona 5 royal spoilers below)

a random assortment of tweets that show up when i search "from:corviiid akechi"

bonus self awareness

[tiffanyachings]

it would have been very beautiful. camilla would have had to cook (horrible bone soup)

[comicdez]

pt2 to Dr, Oswald accidentally finding out Bills' phobias!

pt1 here

[egophiliac]

Have you heard of the "Crowley is Malleus' dad" theory going around? Where Prince Levan (or whatever his name is) didn't actually die and just went out to get some milk and is now known as Dire Crowley, the silly man? The implications of that theory is absolutely hilarious when you think about it

hold on, we can figure this out, we just need LISTS

PROS THAT CROWLEY IS SECRETLY REVAAN/LEVAN/LAVERNE/WHATEVER:

unspecified fae of some kind, with similar coloring to Mal

the animal masks are apparently a Briar Valley thing

has some kind of big blackmailable secret that was alluded to in episode 4, and then as far as I know never brought up again

(unless this was just Azul bullshitting, which is extremely possible)

based on Diablo, which...maybe means something?

has canonically worn Dad Shorts

CONS:

(gestures to Crowley's entire personality)

NO LISTEN Revaan was the guy they sent off on diplomatic missions and to take care of delicate political situations, and...look, I love this dweeb, but would you trust Crowley to be in charge of negotiating your war treaties

despite my brain insisting on reading his name as "Raven", Revaan's title does imply that he was also a dragon (or super into longan berries, I'm not ruling that out)

currently unclear why Lilia "my closest friend Revaan...he is no longer with us...I used to make fun of him for being kind of a priss about eating jerky..." Vanrouge has somehow not noticed or said anything

Malleus' Aloof Anime ~Aristocrat~ vibe had to come from somewhere, and by all accounts it was NOT his mom's side of the family

???:

turns into a bird in the opening, I don't know if that means anything but it's kinda cool, I guess

all that aside, if Malleus and Yuu are any indication, then the Draconias have...questionable taste in their social choices. so anything is possible!

[lgbtlunaverse]

Horrible thing to say but I think there's a real chance Jiang Yanli was both of her parents' least favorite child and knew it and just kinda. Had to go on with her life knowing that.

[astrhae]

"Again," Wylan said, and when Jesper opened his mouth to take another breath, Wylan leaned forward and kissed him.

SHADOW AND BONE SEASON 2 + a definitive guide to all wesper kisses

[roseserpentpress]

In singular deranged days work (where I was supposed to be getting OTHER things done) I made a cipher journal for decoding the ciphers in Gravity Falls, specifically for Journal 3, the Book of Bill and thisisnotawebsite.com. This included (ultimately) three pages of common ciphers used in the Gravity Falls fandom; originally I was only going to do two, but then got to the Blendin page in Journal 3, sighed deeply and made an extra page on the Vignére cipher. The clasps I made myself by hand, and the little white toggle is a raccoon tooth, which I may change out depending on what becomes available. The purple ink, although unable to be seen within the photos, actually glitters and looks rather cosmic to my delight.

Considering I made the most of it within a day, it meant I used the paper I had at hand, which wasn't good paper for actual ink as it bleeds through slightly (and is thus unbecoming), but as a fancy schm-ancy idiot who insists on using actual ink with dip pens for the 'breadth of the experience', this means I'm ultimately only using one side of the paper (to my chagrin) and the letters aren't as clear as they could be when I write on the paper. Nevertheless, I am rather happy about the result; young me from about a decade ago, who began to make a similar journal only to abandon the project would have been immensely excited that I actually made one and am currently using it to decipher things within Journal 3. There is something rather satisfying about it, I do confess.

[official-linguistics-post]

quatre vingt dix neuf how about quatre vingt deez nu [GUNSHOT]

on a serious note, do you know the particular reason why French (and I think some other European languages) structure their numbers Like That? I'm never one to make fun of languages, just the "shifting to base 20" seems unintuitive

also I'm planning to major in linguistics in college. this isn't relevant but you seem to like when people tell you that

the vigesimal (base 20) numeral system is among the common configurations around the world - not sure why french specifically went that direction, when other romance languages like spanish, italian, portuguese, and romanian use a decimal (base 10) system.

does anybody here have more info?

(you're right, you got me, i love when people are gonna major in lx, i'm a shameless propagandist and easy to please)

[origami-butterfly]

Hate it when j&h adaptations give Jekyll a female love interest, like bitch, he HAS a love interest who is introduced on the first page, and his name is MR UTTERSON THE LAWYER.

[hylianane]

And when OPLA calls back to Zeff telling the crew to read stories to Zoro so he can hear their voices and recover faster, by having Sanji sit by his bedside on Thriller Bark and read him a book about the All Blue. What will you do then?

[cormancatacombs]