#dr. octavia cox

[princesssarisa]

My post about whether or not Lydia should be saved from Wickham in modern Pride and Prejudice retellings has gotten more likes and reblogs than I expected. It's made me think of another possibility of why Austen didn't save her from him.

Presumably, Lydia and Wickham's marriage could have been avoided in only three ways that would have left Lydia's reputation intact. The first is if they had only been planning to elope, but it was prevented, as with Georgiana. The second is if they had been found earlier and separated before Lydia lost her virginity. Or else Lydia could have listened to Darcy and left Wickham, and then Darcy could have used his influence to protect her honor: e.g. by claiming that she was kidnapped, or by arranging a decent marriage for her.

If Austen had wanted to make any of those choices to free Lydia, she could have done it without drastically changing the plot. But if she had, it might have felt a bit too "literary" and unrealistic.

I've just been re-watching some of Dr. Octavia Cox's literary analysis videos on YouTube. They reminded me that Austen always loved to skewer the tropes and clichés of other literature, especially Gothic melodrama, whether in outright parody or in subtler deconstruction.

Dr. Cox's video on the elder Eliza's fate in Sense and Sensibility particularly highlights this trend in Austen. She argues that Eliza's story is a classic, clichéd Gothic melodrama (a beautiful orphan, an abusive uncle, thwarted romance, forced marriage to a cruel man, a "fall" into a life of "sin," and ultimate illness and death, all narrated by Colonel Brandon in heightened, poetic language), and that Austen's point in including it was arguably to highlight that this wouldn't be the fate of her heroines. Marianne comes close to it with Willoughby and with her near-fatal illness, but in the end she's saved. Austen's point was arguably to say "Yes, I know all about this type of melodrama, I know all the clichés, but I'm relegating it to the backstory, because that's not what I want to write."

(I don't know if everyone would interpret the elder Eliza's storyline this way, but it's how Dr. Cox reads it.)

Maybe with Lydia's fate, and with the backstory of how Georgiana was freed from Wickham, Austen was doing something similar.

I'm not enough of an expert on Georgian literature to know if the rescuing of girls from predatory men with their virginity and honor intact was a cliché or not. But it does appear in late 18th century comic opera. For example, Mozart's Don Giovanni: the title character is the ultimate womanizer, but he has no success with any of the women he tries to prey on over the course of the opera. His seductions are stopped by the timely, chance arrivals of his enemies, his victims get away unscathed, and he pays for his crimes with his life in the end. Or The Marriage of Figaro: the Count's designs on Susanna are thwarted, and he's humiliated and forced to beg his wife's forgiveness.

If stories of womanizers being thwarted and punished, and their female victims saved with virtue intact, were as common in the literature of the day as they are in opera from that era, then maybe Austen used Wickham and Lydia to deconstruct them.

We definitely see some skewering of poetic cliche in the fact that despite Mrs. Bennet's fears/hopes, Lydia's honor is saved with a bribe instead of a duel.

Maybe like the Eliza backstory in Sense and Sensibility, the backstory of Georgiana's near-elopement can be read as a more perfect "literary" example of a girl escaping a cad's clutches. The elopement was thwarted partly by pure chance, as Darcy paid a surprise visit just before Wickham and Georgiana meant to run off, and partly because Georgiana was a “good victim,” whose conscience got the better of her and who chose her family and honor over her whirlwind romance.

But similar luck isn't on Lydia's side, nor does she make the right, “virtuous" choices. Darcy doesn't find the lovers until Lydia has already been living with Wickham, and like a typical reckless teenager, she cares nothing for either her reputation or her family compared to her infatuation with him. So Darcy is forced to bribe Wickham to marry her, Wickham goes unpunished except that he loses his hope of marrying rich, and all the characters have to live with the results of the scandal for the rest of their lives.

By having Georgiana's successful escape from Wickham be mere backstory while foregrounding Lydia's lack of escape, maybe once again Austen was saying "I could have freed Lydia this way – I know the tropes other authors might have used to free her – but I'm a more cynically realistic writer than that, so I won't."

I have no idea if this is valid or not, but it's a theory.

[buddyhollyscurls]

if u ever feel like ur lame, nerdy, whatever just think about how it's Fri night and I am starting Dr. Cox's new video analysing Jane Austen's Persuasion and she's gonna be talking about how the Musgrove's are introduced using prosopopoeic ekphrasis and when she said she's gonna explain it using a passage from Charlotte Bronte's Villette I literally went ooohhhh out loud

so comfort yourself by knowing how lame u THINK u are I will always be lamer

[bethanydelleman]

Not the last anon but Austen is a great pick for ESL people who are into classic lit! When I read pride & prejudice I didn't have that much trouble (googling words here and there ofc) so i decided to fly a bit closer to the sun and got Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. Suffice it to say each scene took me ages lmao.

But yeah Dr Octavia cox has some very very good videos on YouTube about classic lit (most of it ab Austen!) and some useful historical context on rank, letters and other info on relevant British culture. Very useful for those of us on the other end of the world!

Nice to hear! I know even native English speakers can struggle with Austen's language sometimes, but as you say it's nothing to Shakespeare. I find the more I read from a time period the more I am able to understand new texts. However, I will forever be impressed by people reading Jane Austen in a second language because while I can read French on a basic level, I could never attempt to read literature in any language other than my own.

I occasionally disagree with Dr. Octavia Cox, but she is an excellent resource and you are right that there are a lot of helpful resources online about British culture in her era.

[queenofsliferred]

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The Lorax: Cipher, Avalon and Story

Mario: Princess Velvet

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Metalocalypse: Maiko "Manko Kechaman" Roberts

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Naruto: Akiko Haruno, Asuka Hatake, Hoshiyo Kanmuri, Kazuma Hanamori, Subaru Kanmuri

The Office: Cam Keeper

One Punch Man: Sumika Nagisa

Ouran High School Host Club: Bunko Matsushima, Ryunosuke Kanagawa

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SPY x Family: Lyubov

Stardew Valley: Stella

Star Wars: Hiak Ray "Talarth"

Steven Universe: Imperial Topaz, Nokomis Queens

Stranger Things: Heather Ranger

Street Fighter: Neroli

Sugar Sugar Rune: Akiko Sakura, Cerise Incroyable, Sugar Graves

Tezuka: Daiya Mondo, Melody Serendipity

Tokyo Ghoul: Teruko Yumemiya

Touken Ranbu: Kanon Tachibana, Momoe Tachibana, Tokiko Minami

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Twin Peaks: Eden Hill

Until Dawn: Moon n Stars Morris, Rosario Hicks

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XIN: Myth

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YuGiOh ARC V: Shinju Sawatari

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Hazel Nylan , Stephanie McCormick

Nobody of the Luck - A fantasy-isekai story about depressed popular boy getting sucked into a fantasy themed eroge called Nobody of the Luck and saving the world by accident.

Tristan Stark, Aellae, Freya

Fractured Faerie Tales - Tristan is sucked into yet another eroge, this time its fairy tale themed.

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RandoRanger - A team of spandex technicolour clad heroes are here to defeat the hentai tentacle monsters!

Masuyo Kusanagi, Ryota Matsuda

Starry Starry Night - Akiko Valentina constantly wished that she’d take that advice to heart for once in her life. Growing up, it seemed like every wish she’d make would come true. Life should’ve been a breeze… and it was for a while. Her family had won the lottery a few years ago, along with her mother’s seaweed gin distillery taking off which brought the Valentina Family even more fortune. Classes would be cancelled, boys asked her to the dance, her favourite TV shows would suddenly be back even when they were cancelled whenever she seemed to will it. Though, like a bad 90s kids horror series, there was always a cruel twist at the end.

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Team Disatisfaction: Anita, Arlis, Milk, Opal, Rubia, Vesta, The Artist

Lovewave

The Demon Lords: Lovena

Kuroi

Mizuka

Magical Flower Maidens: Anemone, Cassiane, Ione, Renthe, Sayuri, Zinnia

Tristan's Party: Tristan, Akihime, Plum and Peaches.

Story-less OCs:

Stephanie "Desu" McCormick, Stephen "Boku" McCormick, Aisling McCormick

Rhubarb

Mermaid Squad: Arctic, Sea Bunny, Goffik

[feministfandomforever]

Watch "Mr Wickham’s manipulations of Elizabeth Bennet about Mr Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice" on YouTube

[ibijau]

@ the anon who just sent me an Austen inspired prompt: FUCK YEAH

it’s on my (re)reading list, too, as soon as I finish P&P

[sweetfirebird]

Watching the Dr Octavia Cox video about Jane Austen and $$. Every time I read or watch something about a historical writer, it reminds me that writers not getting paid enough from their work is... an eternal problem, a problem that only gets worse if the writer is a woman (and/or non-white). But also, the idea that Jane fucking Austen was supposed to be a proper lady, who only wrote for fun, and didn't take pride in being in author and had no interest in money... versus her actual letters to people discussing the sales she wanted to get and when she got paid and the pride she took in her books being published.

Pay writers.

[vivelareine]

Dr. Octavia Cox: Pamela by Samuel Richardson | 18th Century Novels & the Development of the Novel Genre | ANALYSIS

PAMELA by SAMUEL RICHARDSON | ‘Pamela or Virtue Rewarded’ revolutionised the novel genre. Why did Samuel Richardson write Pamela in the first place? What had Richardson noticed about previous 18th Century novels that he capitalised upon, & adapted, with such extraordinary success? Analysis of the development of the 18th Century novel in English literature.

[thecrownnet]

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Watchmen - 26 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - 20 Ozark - 18 Succession - 18 The Mandalorian - 15 SNL - 15 Schitts Creek - 15 The Crown - 13

Here’s the full list:

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Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series

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Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie

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Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series

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Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series

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Watchmen HBO • HBO Entertainment in association with White Rabbit, Paramount Television, Warner Dros. Television &amp DC Comics Regina King as Angela Abar / Sister Night

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Ramy Hulu • A24 Television Mahershala Ali as Sheikh Malik

Saturday Night Live NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video Kenan Thompson as Various Characters

Schitt’s Creek Pop TV • Not A Real Company Productions, Inc. Daniel Levy as David Rose

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series

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Killing Eve BBC America • Sid Gentle Films Ltd. Fiona Shaw as Carolyn Martens

Ozark Netflix • Media Rights Capital Julia Garner as Ruth Langmore

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[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Doctor Octavia Cox reads an essay / by Virginia Woolf about Jane Austen’s last novel, and what Jane Austen might have written after that, had she lived.

I’m not sure I agree with Virginia Woolf’s speculations about the possible trajectory of Jane Austen’s writing after Persuasion, and what influence newly found fame would have had on her, but I do agree with her conclusion that this is a book that marks a shift in attitude in Austen’s work, and that is is deeply psychological.

Auto-Generated captions of variable accuracy. I’ve found the essay online, and copy/pasted it below (shh... the journal where it’s archived puts its stuff behind a paywall; I’m a pirate -- Yarr!).

Anybody who has had the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of two facts: First, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are 25 elderly gentlemen living in the neighborhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult offered to the chastity of their aunts.

It would be interesting, indeed, to inquire how much of her present celebrity Jane Austen owes to masculine sensibility; to the fact that her dress was becoming, her eyes bright, and her age the antithesis in all matters of female charm to our own. A companion inquiry might investigate the problem of George Eliot’s nose; and decide how long it will be before the equine profile is once again in favor, and the Oxford Press celebrates the genius of the author of Middlemarch in an edition as splendid, as authoritative, and as exquisitely illustrated as this.

But it is not mere cowardice that prompts us to say nothing of the six novels of the new edition. It is impossible to say too much about the novels that Jane Austen did write; but enough attention perhaps has never yet been paid to the novels that Jane Austen did not write. Owing to the peculiar finish and perfection of her art, we tend to forget that she died at 42, at the height of her powers, still subject to all those changes which often make the final period of a writer’s career the most interesting of all. Let us take Persuasion, the last completed book, and look by its light at the novels that she might have written had she lived to be 60-years-old. We do not grudge it him, but her brother the Admiral lived to be ninety-one.

There is a peculiar dullness and a peculiar beauty in Persuasion. The dullness is that which so often marks the transition stage between two different periods. The writer is a little bored. She has grown too familiar with the ways of her world. There is an asperity in her comedy which suggests that she has almost ceased to be amused by the vanities of a Sir Walter or the snobbery of a Miss Elliott. The satire is harsh, and the comedy crude. She is no longer so freshly aware of the amusements of daily life. Her mind is not altogether on the subject. But, while we feel that Jane Austen has done this before, and done it better, we also feel that she is trying to do something which she has never yet attempted. There is a new element in Persuasion, a quality, perhaps, that made Dr. Whewell fire up and insist that it was “the most beautiful of her works.”

She is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she had supposed. We feel it to be true of herself when she says of Anne: “She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.” She dwells frequently upon the beauty and the melancholy of nature. She talks of the “influence so sweet and so sad of autumnal months in the country.” She marks “the tawny leaves and withered hedges.”

“One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it,” she observes. But it is not only in a new sensibility to nature that we detect the change.

Her attitude to life itself is altered. She is seeing it, for the greater part of the book, through the eyes of a woman who, unhappy herself, has a special sympathy for the happiness and unhappiness of others, which, until the very end, she is forced to comment upon in silence. Therefore the observation is less of facts and more of feelings than is usual. There is an expressed emotion in the scene at the concert and in the famous talk about woman’s constancy which proves not merely the biographical fact that Jane Austen had loved, but the aesthetic fact that she was no longer afraid to say so. Experience, when it was of a serious kind, had to sink very deep, and to be thoroughly disinfected by the passage of time, before she allowed herself to deal with it in fiction. But now, in 1817, she was ready. Outwardly, too, in her circumstances, a change was imminent. Her fame had grown very slowly. “I doubt,” wrote Mr. Austen Leigh, “whether it would be possible to mention any other author of note whose personal obscurity was so complete.” Had she lived a few more years only, all that would have been altered.

[buddyhollyscurls]

put P&P 2005 in the background earlier while i did hw and wrote and now I'm watching this analysis video by Dr. Octavia Cox on who snitched on Liz to Lady Catherine when she goes to Longbourn to confront Liz on being engaged to Darcy and she mentioned how there was this book that said Charlotte could have maliciously done it to "get back at Elizabeth (whoever wrote the book is WAAAYYY off doesn't even know Charlotte's character at all -100/10 so i won't be mentioning it) . And Dr. Cox is p much defending Charlotte (obviously) and saying how it was actually Mr. Collins who snitched right? And she's talking about how Charlotte was always keen on how Darcy liked Liz and she quotes the book when in ch 32 it goes, "He (Darcy) certainly looked at her friend a great deal, but the expression of that look was disputable. It was an earnest, steadfast gaze, but she often doubted whether there was much admiration in it, and sometimes it seemed nothing but absence of mind."

Something about this quote was just so funny but also incredibly sweet to me like I'm just imagining Darcy so lost in love with Elizabeth and working so hard to conceal himself that he just stares at her as if he's zoning out but in actuality yk his mind is just going blank from her pretty eyes or seeing her laugh

[orangerosebush]

If you like classic literature, then I really recommend the series “Close Reading with Dr. Octavia Cox”! Although the title of this particular installment may seem like a question to which the answer is abundantly clear, her incorporation of passages into character analysis, her description of historical context and euphemisms, and her general demeanor make for a great watch. 

[astrologieez]

Influential/Talented Black Women and Nonbinary Femmes of the Sun Signs

Aries:

- Aretha Franklin (March 25)

- Ari Lennox (March 26)

- Mariah Carey (March 27)

- Halle Bailey (March 27)

- Maya Angelou (April 4)

- Khadi Don (April 4)

- Billie Holiday (April 7)

- Jazmine Sullivan (April 9)

- Summer Walker (April 11)

Taurus:

- Kehlani Parrish (April 24)

- Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins (April 26)

- Coretta Scott King (April 27)

- Melissa “Lizzo” Jefferson (April 27)

- Shahidi Wright Jospeh (April 29)

- Maria “Rico Nasty” Kelly (May 7)

- Janet Jackson (May 16)

- Lena Waithe (May 17)

Gemini:

- Naomi Campbell (May 22)

- Octavia Spencer (May 25)

- Lauryn Hill (May 26)

- Laverne Cox (May 29)

- Normani Hamilton (May 31)

- Elizabeth “CupcakKe” Harris (May 31)

- Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes (May 27)

- Venus Williams (June 17)

- Phylicia Rashad (June 19)

Cancer:

- Solange Knowles (June 24)

- Gabriella “H.E.R.” Wilson (June 27)

- Missy Elliott (July 1)

- Chloe Bailey (July 1)

- Tia Mowry (July 6)

- Cree Summer (July 7)

Leo:

- Michelle Williams (July 23)

- Maya Rudolph (July 27)

- Winnie Harlow (July 27)

- Whitney Houston (August 9)

- Amber “jstlbby” Wagner (August 10)

- Viola Davis (August 11)

- Simone “Slick Woods” Thompson (August 13)

- Halle Berry (August 14)

- Marsai Martin (August 14)

- Angela Bassett (August 16)

Virgo:

- Ava DuVernay (August 24)

- Cassie Ventura (August 26)

- Keke Palmer (August 26)

- Zendaya Coleman (September 1)

- Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (September 4)

- Misty Copeland (September 10)

- Taraji P. Henson (September 11)

- Jennifer Hudson (September 12)

- Danielle Brooks (September 17)

- Jada Pinkett Smith (September 18)

- Sanaa Lathan (September 19)

Libra:

- Serena Williams (September 26)

- Tessa Thompson (October 3)

- Amara La Negra (October 4)

- Toni Braxton (October 7)

- Ashanti Douglas (October 13)

- Keyshia Cole (October 15)

- Naomi Osaka (October 16)

- Nyadak “Duckie” Thot (October 23)

Scorpio:

- Lala Milan (October 24)

- Ciara Harris (October 25)

- Tracee Ellis Ross (October 29)

- Gabrielle Union (October 29)

- Nia Long (October 30)

- Letitia Wright (October 31)

- Willow Smith (October 31)

- Dr. Patricia Bath (November 4)

- Solána “SZA” Rowe (November 8)

- Dorothy Dandridge (November 9)

- Lisa Bonet (November 16)

Sagittarius:

- Tina Turner (November 26)

- Janelle Monáe (December 1)

- Stacey Abrams (December 9)

- Ericka Hart (December 11)

- Mo’Nique Hicks (December 11)

- Regina Hall (December 12)

- Cicely Tyson (December 19)

- Florence Joyner (December 21)

Capricorn:

- Jordin Sparks (December 22)

- Madam C.J. Walker (December 23)

- Stormé DeLarverie (December 24)

- Donna Summer (December 31)

- Gabby Douglas (December 31)

- Zora Neale Hurston (January 7)

- Mary J. Blige (January 11)

- Issa Rae (January 12)

- Regina King (January 15)

- Michelle Obama (January 17)

- Quenlin Blackwell (January 17)

- Estelle Swaray (January 18)

Aquarius:

- Alicia Keys (January 25)

- Jenifer Lewis (January 25)

- Kerry Washington (January 31)

- Rosa Parks (February 4)

- Alice Walker (February 9)

- Yara Shahidi (February 10)

- Brandy Norwood (February 11)

- Kelly Rowland (February 11)

- Danai Gurira (February 14)

- Megan “Thee Stallion” Pete (February 15)

- Eartha Kitt (January 17)

- Audre Lorde (February 18)

- Toni Morrison (February 18)

Pisces:

- Robyn Rihanna Fenty (February 20)

- Nina Simone (February 21)

- Niecy Nash (February 23)

- Rashida Jones (February 25)

- Rozanda “Chilli” Thomas (February 27)

- Lupita Nyong’o (March 1)

- Wanda Sykes (March 7)

- Jasmine Guy (March 10)

- Emeli Sandé (March 10)

- Simone Biles (March 14)

- Jhene Aiko (March 16)

- Queen Latifah (March 18)

[teachingmycattoread]

Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #2.4

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (all page and chapter numbers are from the Kindle Unlimited edition)

Gothic fiction (wiki)

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

Sensibility (wiki)

“Throw the whole man out” meme

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (our very first episode!)

"Marianne's indignation burst forth as soon as he quitted the room; and as her vehemence made reserve impossible in Elinor, and unnecessary in Mrs Jennings, they all joined in a very spirited critique upon the party". Chapter 37. p.282

" "His own two thousands she protested should be his all; she would never see him again; and so far would she be from offering him the smallest assistance, that if he were to enter into any profession with a view of better support, she would do all in her power to prevent him advancing in it." " Chapter 37,  p.280

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Emma Thompson (imdb)

Fridging (tvtropes)

“what happens next might surprise you” clickbait meme

Epistolary form (wiki)

Dracula, Bram Stoker (last year's halloween episode)

This John Mulaney line:

Note from the editor: Dracula was published in 1897, nearly a full century after Sense and Sensibility in 1811

Our Sense and Sensibility blog post can be found here

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (our episode here)

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously at first (wiki)

The video essay M is referring to is Dr Octavia Cox’s “Eliza Brandon, Colonel Brandon, &Gothic Fiction” (youtube)

Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

Persuasion, Jane Austen (our episode here)

“he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love,” p. 29 of the Vintage Classics 2014, Persuasion, Jane Austen

"Mrs Jennings was a widow with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world." Chapter 8, p. 37

Mrs John Dashwood talking her husband out of giving any money to his sisters takes up the whole of Chapter 2, pp. 7-12

"The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity that crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience." p.399, Chapter 50

Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë (our episode here - please heed the content warnings)

This meme:

The Sexy Lamp Test

Red (Taylor’s version) (spotify)

The specific song Eli’s referring to is “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)

Jake Gyllenhaal (imdb)

"With such a confederacy against her - with a knowledge so intimate of his goodness - with a conviction of his fond attachment to herself, which at last, though long after it was observable to every body else - burst on her - what could she do?" Chapter 50, p.401

The ice-skating event Eli's referring to can be seen here

Temeraire, Naomi Novik (our episodes on His Majesty’s Dragon can be found here and here)

A Monstrous Regiment, AMarguerite (ao3 - you’ll need an ao3 account to view)

She’s the Man (2006)

Ten Things I Hate About You (1999)

Kandukondain Kandukondain (or Priyuralu Pilichindi) (2000)

AIshwarya Rai Bachchan (imdb)

"Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition." Chapter 36, p.267

The elder Ms Steele listening in at the door is from Chapter 38, p.288

What Else Are We Reading

Wheel of Time series reddit

What We Do In The Shadows (2019-?)

What We Do In The Shadows (2014)

The Good Place (2016-2020)

Yin Yang Master (2021)

Leverage: Redemption (2021-?)

Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik

Next Time on Teaching My Cat To Read

Uprooted, Naomi Novik

[theda-rison]

Steno Adventures, Part The Fourth

(Parts 1-3, here)

Hello Kuromi,

Hello Actual Cat,

Hello painted keys taped, to the self-healing mat,

Goodnight moon, you fuck.

We are back at it again in the Land of the Too Much Gene and I am working on this gordtdamn keyboardt again.

I don’t know why I keep doing this to myself.

Actually, I do know why: I didn’t like the spacing between the original keys and the fact that they’re concave, so they sort of have a lip on the left and right sides. It made it hard to mash them quickly (or rather, as fast as I wanted to) and so some more complicated words were hard to type.

*COMPARISON SHOT

It doesn’t seem like a big difference, but when you’re trying to hit like, seven keys at once, it really is.

I actually wanted to work on it over the summer, but the company I bought the keycaps I painted for the S and * keys last time didn’t have any clear keycaps in a 1x1 size. And then they FINALLY (after months) had them, so I ordered them and was surprised that they came way earlier than they were projected to… but only one bag of keycaps arrived and I had to wait for the others so… like…

My reaction to things I can’t control: Trying to remain optimistic but I know there are a lot of things that I can’t account for and I can completely understand the way ancient peoples viewed the concept of Fate. Or maybe I’m just, like, trying to convince myself everything will work out. I don’t know. I’m not sure if this is a reaction meme or a motivational poster at this point, but I’ve been using it a lot lately.

Anyway,

So yesterday was a larger repeat of the S and * keys. I cut out letters. I actually ended up making a stencil with all the letters I needed on it and then using that to draw the letters onto a piece of tape for cutting.

I’m so out of the habit of documenting things that I completely forgot I should be taking pictures until I only had one letter left to cut out.

Oh.

Alphabet soup.

Taped them very gently (meaning: with barely contained anger) to the inside of the keycap tops. An aside: I really don’t understand how people just make tons of like, Gundam models or whatever, I would LOSE my mind with the amount needing to be gentle with it. And then I know that - at some point - I would get frustrated and then the familial rage strength would take over and I would end up breaking something.

Sticking these on was probably the worst part because the adhesive on the tape thinks it’s mozzarella for some fucking reason.

Maybe that’s why I still haven’t painted my mini for my old dnd character lol.

Anyway, anyway,

I watched a bunch of videos by this youtuber, Dr. Octavia Cox:

I didn’t know that “buy a title in Scotland!” was basically as old as the monarchy itself. What a fucking crock lol. (The video explained much more than that, but that was my main takeaway. Also, Sir Walter is an idiot but we already knew that.

I must have watched like…. Four hours worth of her videos? As I cut tape letters, put them on, and then taped up the sides of the caps so I could spray paint them. (You know, without having to be accurate or delicate or anything like that since I’m functionally incapable of doing that without flying into a rage.)

Artistic shot.

Then I went outside and spray painted them, and I did not take a picture.

Told you I was bad at stuff.

Then I came back in and used nail polish to paint the bottom parts of the keycaps to block out all the light except right under the letter.

Goth legacy. I actually had to buy new nail polish because all of mine seems to have gone missing since the time I painted the other keys.

Then I taped them down to the mat so my cat couldn’t steal them in the night because she’s a dirty thief, and I went to sleep.

Ah yes, this picture again.

Woke up this morning and laid in bed going AHHHHHHH internally for a little bit. Sent silly messages back and forth to friends who live in different time zones, and then finally got up.

I also, for some reason, think I’m the type of fancy bitch who deserves to have affogato in the morning when I *always* forget about it and the ice cream melts getting rid of all the trendy uniqueness of the thing. Now it’s just slightly cold chai with heavy cream and a little bit of egg yolk.

And also, marshmallows, because I’m an adult and can live how I like. Truly a hedonist of the modern era.

I then I realized I forgot about the keycaps I had spray painted yesterday and had to run outside to the garage in torrential rain to bring them in and I found what I expected from my last experience:

“Gee” said she, as she saw what she expected to see. (I think all this rhyming is what I get for reading Goethe last night 🙄)

But, no matter, I was going to paint over it with nail polish anyway because the enamel does a better job of keeping out the light.

I have been listening to this on repeat as I give everything a second coat:

A chill morning of keycap painting with four dudes who are way too good at what they do. Stop it.

Now I get to wait a bunch while everything dries. 

And also, hope in advance that I don't’ ruin my DnD figure brushes by using them with the nail polish, since I can’t find that bottle of black nail polish with the detail brush from the older posts. I have a bottle of acetone so I should be okay.