#ignore collin

[pikkissis]

im so tickled by how you n oatchi look up at the surveillance drone when it flies over!

ugh i love lisa/pom's model, she is just so cute ;;_;;;;

also oatchi crop bc DUHH!!! his little face thank you silly boy you

God Bless!

[anghraine]

Speaking of the social context of P&P and Austen in general, and also just literature of that era, I'm always interested in how things like precisely formulated hierarchies of precedence and tables of ranked social classes interact with the more complex and nuanced details of class-based status and consequence on a pragmatic day-to-day level. I remembered reading a social historian discussing the pragmatics of class wrt eighteenth-century English life many years ago and finally tracked down the source:

"In spite of the number of people who got their living from manufacture or trade, fundamentally it was a society in which the ownership of land alone conveyed social prestige and full political rights. ... The apex of this society was the nobility. In the eyes of the Law only members of the House of Lords, the peerage in the strictest use of the word, were a class apart, enjoying special privileges and composing one of the estates of the realm. Their families were commoners: even the eldest sons of peers could sit in the House of Commons. It was therefore in the social rather than in the legal sense of the word that English society was a class society. Before the law all English people except the peers were in theory equal. Legal concept and social practice were, however, very different. When men spoke of the nobility, they meant the sons and daughters, the brothers and sisters, the uncles and aunts and cousins of the peers. They were an extremely influential and wealthy group.

"The peers and their near relations almost monopolized high political office. From these great families came the wealthiest Church dignitaries, the higher ranks in the army and navy. Many of them found a career in law; some even did not disdain the money to be made in trade. What gave this class its particular importance in the political life of the day was the way in which it was organized on a basis of family and connection ... in eighteenth-century politics men rarely acted as isolated individuals. A man came into Parliament supported by his friends and relations who expected, in return for this support, that he would further their interests to the extent of his parliamentary influence.

"Next in both political and social importance came the gentry. Again it is not easy to define exactly who were covered by this term. The Law knew nothing of gentle birth but Society recognized it. Like the nobility this group too was as a class closely connected with land. Indeed, the border line between the two classes is at times almost impossible to define ... Often these men are described as the squirearchy, this term being used to cover the major landowning families in every county who were not connected by birth with the aristocracy. Between them and the local nobility there was often considerable jealousy. The country gentleman considered himself well qualified to manage the affairs of his county without aristocratic interference.

"...The next great layer in society is perhaps best described the contemporary term 'the Middling Sort'. As with all eighteenth-century groups it is difficult to draw a clear line of demarcation between them and their social superiors and inferiors. No economic line is possible, for a man with no pretensions to gentility might well be more prosperous than many a small squire. There was even on the fringe between the two classes some overlapping of activities ... The ambitious upstart who bought an estate and spent his income as a gentleman, might be either cold-shouldered by his better-born neighbours or treated by them with a certain contemptuous politeness. If however his daughters were presentable and well dowered, and if his sons received the education considered suitable for gentlemen, the next generation would see the obliteration of whatever distinction still remained. The solid mass of the middling sort had however no such aspirations, or considered them beyond their reach.

"...This term [the poor] was widely used to designate the great mass of the manual workers. Within their ranks differences of income and of outlook were as varied as those that characterized the middle class. Once again the line of demarcation is hard to draw..."

—Dorothy Marshall, Eighteenth Century England (29-34)

(There's plenty more interesting information in the full chapter, especially regarding "the poor," and the chapter itself is contracted from a lengthier version published earlier.)

[iamthejam]

cas as text posts!!

i'm probably gonna be doing alot of these btw.. so get ready tehe

edit: pt 2

[stupidlysunny]

"i love pikmin 4!!!"

"i hate collin"

[superwowvibes]

i just watched s8 finALE HOW ARE YOU GONNA END IT LIKE THAT MY GOD THE WHOLE ANGELS FALLING SEQUENCE WAS SO COOL i can't start s9 tonight bc i have work tomorrow but OMG shaking in my boots rn

[marunene]

What is this man talking about (His biceps seem to be calling me to bite

Can someone transcribe what did he said after said he was struggling to understand what it would be like to have a man inside him

Why is he talking abt it anyway

Omg I love him

[localspaceangel]

heres some malevolent guys

[crackers4jenn]

[mofsblog]

Guys be honest. This isn't about right or wrong. I'm just curious

[superunnaturalsammy]

I'm having a crazy obsession time and I'm fighting my demons. Every time someone posts about Supernatural and they just get all these little details wrong it makes me feel insane like... No the CW didn't scrap tattoo'ed Dean because of budget restrictions... The WB did. Because that's who owned the show first, the CW got it from them. Another annoying one is when everyone is like 'oh I love the aesthetic in season 1 and 2 it's so cool cuz it's on film' IT WAS ON FILM THROUGH SEASON 4 IT GETS A LITTLE BRIGHTER IN SEASON 3 CUZ THE NETWORK ASKED THEM TO DO IT BECAUSE THEY FELT LIKE THE SHOW WAS TO DARK AND DIDN'T MATCH WELL WITH THE OTHER CW SHOWS!!

IDK I know I'm being insane about this show.

[evvie-hamilton]

if i had a nickel for every time a trenchcoat-wearing queer character with a connection to demons debuted on season 4 of a show in their respective universe, i would have 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

[ouliarts]

So I mentioned a ghoul that travels with my sole survivor oc in the previous fallout post, here he is.

This is Collin he's a prewar ghoul that found and released Sunny from the Vault. He lost his right ear and lip in a deathclaw attack a few decades ago. He came from the west but he doesn't really talk about it.

[jacobglaser]

Misha in today's NYT crossword. You know he'll be gutted they did it while he was on a silent retreat.

[flying-fangirls]

His feral street dog energy brings all the horrors to the yard

[definitelynuwonhere]

“The Wolf and The Cowboy”

I know it's late but in honor of Darlin' and Sam's 2nd anniversary, I present you this little vomit of words I managed to pull during the late hours. Eat up pookies, we deserve this after that rollercoaster that was Sam's latest audio.

———

 

You’d know he was up when the aroma of roasted beans danced through the air. 

The low timbre humming, bringing a smile to your face as you walk in the room. He swears he doesn’t sing, even went as far as to compare himself to a grater but you know that’s a lie. 

During the slow days, when he’d work around the house, too focused on a task to notice you’ve entered the room. Watching, examining his every move. You’ve done it so much, you can practically read his expressions. 

The way his eyebrows would furrow when he’d tighten a screw, or puff out his cheeks as he pretends to understand another IKEA manual, and of course, your favorite; when he’d be so focused and then a smile would appear on his face, and he’d picture how it’d look when it comes together. A soft chuckle leaving his lips as he thinks about how you’d react to his newest creation, or how you’d pretend to complain about how the house slowly morphed into his own personal wood gallery, knowing full well you love it. 

Those were your favorite moments, front seat view of your mate breaking a sweat and nothing else mattered and the two of you could just..live. 

But as the saying goes, you can only go so long before your cowboy with enhanced senses notices, or something like that. 

His eyes would meet yours and he’d scoff, shooting you that all too familiar grin. That very same grin the night of your infamous encounter. The very same grin the night he came to take care of you, that you very easily followed with a snappy retort and every precious memory you made to this two years from then. It’s crazy how a lot has both changed and remained the same. 

You laugh, returning his grin with a smirk of your own, making your way towards him. You rest your hand on his shoulder, leaning in and pressing a featherlight kiss right on his jaw. He pulls you in close, pressing his forehead against yours, letting out a content hum, enjoying this quiet moment with his big bag wolf.

[qwertysblues]

also the funniest part of susanne deciding to revive the THG franchise after so long is the fact that she really looked at the reception the og trilogy had back in the late 2000s with nobody getting the fucking point and said you know what im going to wait for these people to fully develop their prefrontal cortex to make more books