#engposting

[wheelie-butch]

when you download a pdf and it's called like 1328723486basdf12.pdf but then you gently rename it to what it's supposed to be. that's forming a bond with a hurt and wild mythological creature and reminding it who it is.

[hij-hem-lesbisch]

What if I learnt german (crowd booing behind me)

[high-voltage-rat]

One of my favourite things about organic chemistry is how many pages of my notes have "trans > cis" written in them.

[wheelie-butch]

There's been some good criticism done more recently into reading Fanny Price as a disabled character that I think is pretty convincing. Obviously conceptions of disability weren't the same at the time and I don't think it's productive to try and give her a specific diagnosis but there's a lot that supports a reading of her having some sort of chronic fatigue condition. Other disabled readers and I have noted similarities to our own symptoms.

A quick rundown off the top of my head:

Opening chapters compare her to her healthier cousins, she's small for her age and puny, they're strong and tall for their ages

She gets fatigued extremely easily - notably she can't walk the distance Edmund and Mary can at Sotherton, and she doesn't even expect to be able to dance for half the ball (something no other Austen character worries about) and is sent to bed early because she's not strong enough to dance the whole time. There's also a scene early on where she is so fatigued she has to lie on the sofa with a bad headache because her aunts had her running errands and cutting roses in the heat.

She relies on riding exercise for her health - that's why the times Mary borrows the horse too long is significant, it physically damages her health

Her health gets noticeably worse when she is confined to Portmouth with poor food and not enough exercise, Henry notices how much worse she gets

Her physical health is also tied to her emotions, she often feels the fatigue and headaches much worse when she's under emotional strain, as often happens in real life.

Her physical strength and health never gets noticeably better over the course of the book. Even in the happy ending she's still physically weak, like a real chronic condition

Anyway there's definitely more but I don't have time to write a second essay, hope that explains some :)

Thinking of picking up a Jane Austen book, any recommendations?

[wheelie-butch]

they should let you do little ao3 style author's notes when you submit an assignment

[wheelie-butch]

I'm in the Fanny Price Defence Squad but I am also very much in the Mary Crawford Defence Squad. Sorry I'm very powerful.

[wheelie-butch]

literally it's so wild that it passes so unremarked by any of the others?? I'm giving a presentation in class next week and I want to use this passage as a starting point for talking about masculinity in Austen but I can't find any writing on this scene anywhere...

Because I literally never tire of pointing out the gay-ish portions of classic literature, how have I not noticed this passage in Pride and Prejudice all about Lydia dressing Chamberlayne up in “woman’s clothes,” purposefully, and how “well he looked” and how his fellow soldiers “did not know him in the least” because he made such a convincing lady? Even accommodating for Lydia’s…Lydia-ness, still seems notable that this group of young people decided to dress their friend up in drag for funsies one afternoon.

[wheelie-butch]

"Nick Carraway is gay but he is unaware of it" is such a funny academic take, bro he has gay sex on page 34 i think he knows

[wheelie-butch]

when critics talk about like of course the reader hates Fanny Price for being so weak, of course we all want to slap her out of being so pathetic and fatigued... BRO THE ABLEISM IS SHOWING. YOU ARE TELLING ON YOURSELF RIGHT NOW.

[wheelie-butch]

reading the essay the idea of the final girl came from apparently, interesting to see where it goes

[wheelie-butch]

GOT A FIRST IN MY ENGLISH DEGREE HOORAY

[wheelie-butch]

Jane Austen Videogames?

This is maybe a long shot but I'm doing a module that includes looking at adaptations of Jane Austen books and I'm wondering if anyone could recommend any videogames based on Austen novels?

[wheelie-butch]

I finally did it... after 5 years... handed in my last essay i have finished my degree!!!!

[wheelie-butch]

all the arguing about why Ripley goes back for the cat when she's so level-headed and argues to quarantine Kane at the start are so stupid, ALL HER CREW HAVE JUST DIED obviously she's going to hold onto the one rememaining being she has a connection with in this terrifying situation

[wheelie-butch]

One thing that's really struck me so far in stone butch blues is the focus on butches' tenderness in lovemaking etc and like I'm not physically strong or very tough, I'm disabled and stuff, but the descriptions of being tender to a femme and making them feel beautiful and loved and all that.... it's just what I've always felt and always tried to do and I guess I expected to feel inadequate compared to the butches of this novel but I've recognised myself throughout and especially so in the sections about tenderness... idk it just means a lot

[wheelie-butch]

DISSERTATION HANDED IN