#epic handshake

[odinsblog]

As much as I see this meme on tumblrdotcom, it feels like there should be a Tumblr memorial devoted to Carl Weathers

Rest well, King 🫡

[friendlylocalgeek]

Meme inspired by my getting back into both Dave the Diver and Delicious in Dungeon

[joemerl]

[galactic-glamour-girl-posts]

[mortamon-saturn]

I'm really happy that this old meme of mine has been finally proven wrong after the reveal of Metroid Prime 4 Beyond! It's surreal to get this sequel after so many years!

...Still waiting for Rayman 4 tho 🥲

[brown-little-robin]

ROBIN!!!! hope u r doing well !!!! i just wanted you 2 know that seeing you mob psycho post has made me rewatch the show and i am almost done with season 2 now. the worms. they're in my brain.

!!!!!! EXCELLENTTTT I'M SO HAPPY >:D

I will sincerely argue for mob psycho 100 as one of the best shows of all time. it's SSOOO good it's a parody it's heartfelt it's got the most fraught brotherly relationship of all time it's got excellent weird female characters it's got. augh. it's got EVERYTHING it changed my brain structure for good

I see you are enjoying Mob and Ritsu particularly. yes. yesssss

(points at them) boys of all time!!!!!

[drama-glob]

1) I honestly just want to see Ozzie says stuff like this at some point, but the eye narrowing really sells it in my opinion. ;) XD

2) Poor Moxxie is just in general underappreciated or at least not told enough that he’s appreciated. :(

3) It was actually really poignant and sweet that they could bond over saving their daughters. ^_^<3

[firawren]

[georgi-girl]

The Santa Clause 🤝 Night at the Museum

Movies about single dads who get magical responsibilities thrust upon them and rise to the occasion while bonding with their sons.

[spider-artdump]

[thanksgiving-in-november]

Santa has appeared in the parade, you're officially allowed to put on Christmas music while you cook.

[everythingisliminal]

🎉💪

ur first and last recent emojis are ur gender now. mine is 🅱👨‍❤‍💋‍👨

[joemerl]

[bebe-benzenheimer]

[amandamadeathing]

A meme many of us can agree upon.

[firawren]

And I will also point out that both parents are equally deficient in taking care of their children's emotional needs, though in different ways. For instance, look at how Mr. and Mrs. Bennet deal with Jane being out of sorts by Bingley leaving. Elizabeth and Mrs. Gardiner are actually the ones who act in the role of a loving parent in that situation! Contrast that with how Mrs. Morland notices that Catherine is out of sorts after returning from Northanger Abbey, gives her some time to be in her feelings, and then takes loving but firm steps to try to help her get out of her funk.

TL;DR of this whole thread:

If none of them married, how desperate would the Bennett girls actually have been?

Well the only dowry they have is £50 apiece from their mother’s small inheritance, per year; so that’s a total of £250 generated by Mrs. Bennet’s inherited investments per annum.

The Dashwoods (four women) are living on £500 a year when they are forced to live in Barton Cottage (with good-will making the rent presumably ridiculously low thanks to Sir John Middleton’s good nature, to say nothing of all the dinners and outings he invites the ladies to, which will help them economize on housekeeping costs for heavier meals.)

So there would be six Bennet women left to live on half as much as the Dashwoods are barely scraping by on. £250 is roughly considered enough to keep ONE gentleman at a barely-genteel level of leisure (presuming he does not keep a horse or estate or have any major expenses beyond securing his own lodgings/clothes/meals at a level becoming of a gentleman.)

None of the Bennet girls have been educated well enough for them to be governesses to support themselves, so…yes, their situation would heavily rely on mega-charity from others to just help them survive, much less maintain them in the lifestyle they’ve been accustomed to. The Dashwood women have NO social life beyond the outings provided by Sir John and the offer of Mrs. Jennings to host the older girls in London–otherwise they’d be stuck in their cottage, meeting absolutely no eligible men, creating a cycle of being poor and unmarried and too poor to meet anyone with money they could marry.

If the Bennet girls don’t at least have ONE of them marry well enough to help the rest before their father dies, they are really, truly, deeply fucked.

They may joke about beautiful Jane being the saviour of the family, but…it’s true. Mr. Bennet failed his daughters several times over in A) presuming he’d have a son, B) not saving money independently from his income to support his family after his death when it became clear he wasn’t going to have a son, C) not educating them well enough to enable them to support themselves in even in the disagreeable way of being a governess, D) not making any effort to escort his daughters to London or even local assemblies to help their matrimonial chances because he just doesn’t feel like it, E) throwing up his hands and shrugging when faced with the crises of Mr. Collins and Wickham.

Much as we are relieved on a romantic level that Mr. Bennet’s support of Elizabeth saves her from parental pressure to accept Mr. Collins, Mrs. Bennet is NOT A DICK for pushing for the match, because on a material level it very much means they get to KEEP THEIR HOUSE and gain a connection to the powerful patron Lady Catherine de Bourgh, which could be VERY advantageous for the other unmarried girls.

And the scandal of Wickham very nearly scuppers the chances of ANY of the other girls, and Wickham is a further DRAIN on the family finances, not a man who is going to substantially be able to support them. It is SUCH a disaster, and of course there’s not much Mr. Bennet can do until they are found, but he’s away in London and doing…what, exactly? Mr. Gardiner takes over and manages everything and Mr. Bennet seems happy to just let him.

Mr. Bennet does the ABSOLUTE LEAST, and actively damages his children’s futures by his inaction AND by his one action to support Lizzie’s individual needs being prioritized over the collective gain, which…I mean, Lizzie is going to be JUST as homeless and destitute as her sisters when he dies, so much good being Dad’s Favourite is going to do her. :/