#jen’s face

[thanager]

I smell like hair dye

[minijenn]

Dressed as literally the stupidest thing I could fucking think of this year, a pumpkin spice latte

[zegalba]

Gabbriette by Jen Wolf (2023)

[borgialucrezia]

— One problem, we're fresh out of African Dream Root. So unless you know someone who can score some...

[romantichopelessly]

I do think that part of the reason that The Dreamer Trilogy is Like That is because the premise is inherently flawed in that The Raven Cycle was originally magical realism, a genre that doesn't rely on explanations for magic and magic systems and actually coasts on them being unexplainable, whereas The Dreamer Trilogy had to expand the world beyond Henrietta and start explaining things, which makes the whole premise begin to fall apart.

[emiko-matsui]

the trinyvale triplets are horrible because it's like okay. here's a pastel goth woman with a hot accent and an mpreg pet unicorn from the moon. here's a male stripper in a maid's outfit and high heels, gay and literally engaged with a prince. here's a well-meaning himbo with a mullet who's never heard of the concept of a shirt. they would ALL blue hair and pronouns you

[mctwinkdom]

obsessed is an understatement

[greys-slippings]

My boy and his swamp gf he met yesterday

[angelnumber27]

rainbow backwood fairy🧚🏻‍♂️

[idontwikeit]

The Newsreader 2.05 "A Model Daughter"

[withleeknow]

GUYS THIS IS SO FUCKING CUTE. I'M AT A MATCHA PLACE AND I WAS OPENING MY ROCK-STAR ALBUM THAT I BOUGHT EARLIER AND THE BARISTA NOTICED AND SHE STARTED PUTTING ON A SKZ PLAYLIST AND WHEN I HEARD THE MUSIC CHANGE I LOOKED UP AND SHE WAS SMILING AT ME. 😭

[thanager]

I liked this makeup I wore a couple weeks ago

[tache-noire]

YOU. MCR TUMBLR. SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT, I NEED PEOPLE TO TALK TO ABOUT LEE JENNINGS.

[lossisyours]

BLAIR WALDORF, JENNY HUMPHREY AND SERENA VAN DER WOODSEN ↳ GOSSIP GIRL 1.01 | “Pilot”

[borgialucrezia]

FRANÇOIS ARNAUD 'How Far Will We Take It?' Music Video by Orville Peck & Noah Cyrus

[cassiebones]

Character Analysis: Jennifer Kale

Jen Kale has such a tragic history, just like the rest of them.

I, at first, had thought that she was pretty young compared to the rest of them, but she was already an established midwife by the 1850's (when the Obstetrics thing came about; yes, I googled) and so I believe she probably already had about a century's worth of experience before that. She probably watched the babies she helped birth grow up before her eyes. She watched their whole lives. I wonder how many of them knew who she was and used her as their own midwife.

I had a thought that she might have been Agatha's midwife, which explains how she was the only one who knew about Agatha's son, but she probably would have remembered who Rio is (though it may have been by design that nobody knew about Rio). I'm not sure, but it would explain the history between her and Agatha.

Regardless, I think she and Agatha have some kind of contentious past. Maybe Agatha was trying to build another coven, but Jen caught wind of what happened to previous covens of Agatha and dipped out.

Then she started to hear more rumors about Agatha's escapades and believed them. Because Agatha was known to be a witch-killer. So she wouldn't put it past this witch to trade her own child for a book of dark magic.

And obviously part of her trust issues come from that invitation to impart her knowledge on a society of male obstetrics who she thought recognized her intelligence and respected her. It's probably really hard to trust after going through something like that; it's probably equally as easy to believe all the bad things you hear about somebody universally acknowledged to be a bad person in general. And then to actually witness Agatha's callousness for herself?

But, at the same time, Agatha praised her knowledge during the first trial. She acknowledged that Jen is a smart person. That, while her power was taken from her, Jen still knows a lot of shit. And she uses that intelligence to her advantage (and, unfortunately, to her detriment at times.) Jen is also the person that Agatha looks to when Teen gets hurt, knowing that if anybody could save him, it would be Jen. She trusts Jen in that moment, and it makes Jen trust in herself, despite her bindings.

I think we're all in agreement that all the witches are some flavor of queer, right? I actually just googled and Jen is canonically bisexual, so a win for the lgbtq+! I feel like maybe she had romantic interest in Agatha in the past, but realized that Agatha was so emotionally unavailable as to be a non-starter.

And then there's the killing witches thing.

Like Agatha, I think Jen tries to come off as more confident than she really is. She acts a bit catty to combat the self-doubt, lashes out at those around her. She is definitely suspicious of everybody when she first meets them, though she tries to act "nice" or polite.

I hope that she makes it through the road (despite last night's episode ending) and that she is able to unbind herself. And I hope the man that bound her is buried somewhere awful and that he's being tortured a lot.

Speaking of the man who bound her; do you think he might have had some kind of infatuation or did he hear about this incredibly talented black woman and immediately go "that's a witch; gotta stop her" and then found out she was a midwife (somebody who ferries new lives into this world and does a Very Important Job) and was like, we cannot allow this to continue?

Remember that Jennifer was likely living in the North during slavery. She was working a job that was well-respected and was invited to Boston, where she still would have been free and probably well-respected in her career. She also came from a long line of root workers, which are essentially healers.

And god forbid a woman have interests and talents. Especially in those times.

Jennifer came off as a bully in last night's episode, but I don't believe that to be the whole story. Maybe she was influenced by something. Maybe it was all Agatha's horrifying hallucination. Maybe Jen was just acting out of fear.

Regardless, she is just as multi-faceted and three-dimensional as the rest of them and I have trust that Jac will show that in future episodes.

Only four more to go!