#eleanor&park

[chica-efimera]

[mellpenscorner]

A Ranking of Jane Austen Heroines, in Ascending Order of Culpability

Fanny (Mansfield Park): Has done nothing wrong ever in her life (but would never say this as she is far too humble).

Elinor (S&S): Must have scoliosis from carrying the whole weight of the Dashwood family at the ripe old age of 19. Should probably have asked for help by now, but who's she going to ask? Her mother? Unlikely.

Anne (Persuasion): Pros: is the only functioning member of her family. Cons: took some really bad advice when she was 17.

Elizabeth (P&P): So dead-set on hating Mr. Darcy that she falls hook-line-and-sinker for the lies Wickham tells her with no questions asked. Otherwise has good sense.

Marianne (S&S): Throws herself headlong into the Romantic Experience™️ and gets her heart broken by a playboy when Colonel Brandon is literally RIGHT THERE. 

Catherine (Northanger Abbey): Good-hearted, but easily led astray. So obsessed with Gothic novels that she kind of accuses Mr. Tilney's father of murdering his wife and burying her in the basement.

Emma (Emma): Tells Harriet to refuse the nice guy she likes, too prideful to see that Mr. Elton is pursuing her instead of Harriet, gossips about Jane Fairfax, feels like the rules don't apply to her, won't listen to Mr. Knightly. Is a menace.

[catboyglover]

born to be the token sarcastic character in a sitcom, forced to be a real person

[glittter-skeleton]

I am obsessed with the fact that Michael Schur has done the same exact pairing of sunshine protagonist x anxious storm cloud love interest for 4 different shows now and it is wonderful every single time

(The love interest’s level of anxiety also increases with every iteration)

[nickismyspiritanimal]

homoerotic sitcom friendships

[orangeeesstuff]

I love michael schur shows for alot of reasons, but these almost dad and daughter relationships will always be my favourite.

[the-overreactress]

I listened to a Rainbow Rowell book (Attachments) this week, and felt an odd sense of nostalgia. I devoured Fangirl and Eleanor & Park when I was a teenager, but I’m realizing I didn’t *really* have the cultural literacy to truly appreciate Rowell’s stellar work when I was 15/16.

I think most of the Fangirl stuff hit me harder because I was SUCH a massive tumblr user and consumer of fandom content back then, but I started listening to Eleanor & Park this morning and it struck me how many of the references about music and the 80s I got automatically. This is stuff I just wouldn’t have known back then or been exposed to until I went to college.

Also reminds me that, on every Gilmore Girls rewatch, I laugh at and appreciate dialogue and moments I never would have when I was 11, 15, or even 22. I love when popular culture is intertwined so beautifully into a story: when the story just wouldn’t exist without the culture.

I’m so grateful for my growing cultural literacy, and I look forward to rediscovering more things I never knew before in media I once consumed rather mindlessly. This has been one of the largest shifts mentally I’ve noticed after hitting my mid-20s.

[thescotttibbsdocumentary]

[johnwinchestersotherson]

🍤 sitcom shrimp holy trinity 🍤

[whiteintrovert]

No one will ever see this so here is a tier list of the ships I’ve had over the years

[derryallergy]

i am eleanor shellstrop. i am leslie knope. i am britta perry. i am the blonde girl disaster sitcom trope.

[variouspolltournaments]

[whoopsies-daisies]

[tape-deck]

you've gotta hand it to her, rainbow rowell knows how to write a freak in love

[iamcatmansblog]

A very VERY desperate attempt to get noticed by the bookblr community with the books I have read and would cry happy tears if I get to yap about

(I ammma follow you back toooo Cuz no one I know irl is In the same boat as me and the kdrama community on tumblr literally brings me so much joy I really wanna find more people for books too)

Images from Pinterest

[spiritundaunted]

Cover of the children's book Hot Dog! Eleanor Roosevelt Throws a Picnic by Leslie Kimmelman and Victor Juhasz

😂

"FDR was satisfied and all went well. I like them both but what a life! They are happy together and that must make a difference even in the life they have to lead."

Eleanor Roosevelt in a letter to a friend