#love from gratitude

[bethanydelleman]

Lady Susan Readthrough Letters 17 & 18

Summary: Frederica arrives and it turns out she's just very shy but certainly not perverse or as terrible as Lady Susan has claimed. Catherine feels sorry for her almost right away. Frederica can see Lady Susan walking with Reginald from her room's window. Reginald still thinks Frederica is stupid or badly behaved, despite having now met her.

In her next later, Catherine has formed a plan: Reginald ought to marry Frederica! She believes the girl is falling for Reginald and Catherine is smitten herself. She thinks Frederica is awesome and the children all love their cousin.

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I find it interesting that Catherine completely distrusts Lady Susan and yet believed the worst of her daughter. She said before Frederica arrived that she must be "a perverse girl". I guess maybe she just thinks anyone raised by Lady Susan should be treated with suspicion.

Now that poor Frederica has arrived Catherine's already planning to marry her off to Reginald! Complete 180.

Poor Reginald was beyond measure concerned to see his fair friend in such distress, and watched her with so much tender solicitude, that I, who occasionally caught her observing his countenance with exultation, was quite out of patience. This pathetic representation lasted the whole evening, and so ostentatious and artful a display has entirely convinced me that she did in fact feel nothing.

Lady Susan is exalting in her triumph over Reginald and Catherine watches. This must be terrible for her! She knows Lady Susan is bad news but she just can't convince her brother.

Her mother has insinuated that her temper is intractable, but I never saw a face less indicative of any evil disposition than hers

Ah yes, judging character by how people look. Never problematic at all.

Yet Reginald still thinks Lady Susan the best of mothers, and still condemns Frederica as a worthless girl!... O Reginald, how is your judgment enslaved!

Reginald continues to be blind, Catherine to be mortified. This dynamic really mirrors Fanny and Edmund so much!

Thoughtful and pensive in general, her countenance always brightens into a smile when Reginald says anything amusing

That's it, they must marry! She must be in love if she smiles at jokes!

Lol, this is a wonderful resume:

I think, my dear mother, you would not disapprove of her as a daughter. She is extremely young, to be sure, has had a wretched education, and a dreadful example of levity in her mother

We also see the concept of "gratitude" come up here. This is further explained in Northanger Abbey:

She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally knew was already entirely his own; for, though Henry was now sincerely attached to her, though he felt and delighted in all the excellencies of her character and truly loved her society, I must confess that his affection originated in nothing better than gratitude, or, in other words, that a persuasion of her partiality for him had been the only cause of giving her a serious thought. It is a new circumstance in romance, I acknowledge, and dreadfully derogatory of an heroine’s dignity; but if it be as new in common life, the credit of a wild imagination will at least be all my own. (Ch 30)

and with Elizabeth Bennet:

If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth’s change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. (Ch 46)

Seems like it might work Catherine!

Also, the children seem to have inherited Catherine's discernment, they were not mentioned as liking their aunt by they love their cousin:

There cannot be a more gentle, affectionate heart; or more obliging manners, when acting without restraint; and her little cousins are all very fond of her.

But then again maybe Catherine is biased.

[juan-francisco-palencia]

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Well, I think I understand that in some way you ask for help through me and everyone. Honestly, I don't have many resources, but I offer my help by providing first aid to injured people, since I have medical knowledge, and my specialty is channeling those who have suffered first and second degree burns. If you feel that my medical knowledge could be of use to you, I am more than willing to help.

I wish you good luck. ⚘👋

[cheesecake801]

Lear ate all my gems but I got him at least ! This is him but like in fnf kinda. Gholdengo would spit the meanest bars I'm tellin ya

Lear wouldn't even have to say a thing he'd just hand over that golden mic to Gholdengo while looking smug

Also have a low effort Volkner and Lear comic under cut

The statue looks cooler in my head but you get the idea

Sometimes I think about how happy Volkner looks in pokemon masters ! He gets to fight as many strong trainers as he wants, he made new friends, there's cool machines ! Yes he's being a menace but he's having so much fun, he must think Pasio's really great hehe, good job Lear ! Please bear with him during his stay XD At least the upgrade of this statue didn't cause any issue (yet)

[naneki-maid]

it took Diana’s dad less than a summer to read stephen for the lying manipulative trash piece of shit that he is—something that those closest to him, who’ve known him for YEARS have been unable to do. bless him.

[3416]

Marner vs Cabbie | 05.02.22

[crescentfool]

the persona 3 protagonist 25th anniversary nui in food appliances!

[noomyguts]

half way through the vampire armand, and he loves love and god and family and the world, like can't emphasis enough how his love for others is repeated to be the direct connection to his humanity

hope nothing bad happens to rock the foundations of his very being

[thepersonalwords]

Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.

Amit Ray, Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

[bringthekingdom]

[hplonesomeart]

Hey!! So turns out a video I made between a certain “well beloved but highly sensitive/emotionally reactive T.V” and an “orange haired inkling-turned-human” has managed to sweep my YouTube channel and accumulate 100k VIEWS!! THAT’S A LOT OF PEOPLE ACTUALLY?? My most widely viewed video EVER to exist in this moment in time?? AAAAA?? Not even mentioning the various comments and staggering increase in subs! It’s so much more then what I expected or even prepared for—might even be the most impactful thing to happen for me this year <3

…aside from graduating high school + the social connections I’ve been fortunate to make lol

BUT THE POINT IS I’d been closely monitoring the YouTube growth through the entirety of October. It’s make me smile like a dork, gawk in astonishment, dance frantically in my room from the energy boosts, and grow courage to stop being so selective/self-conscious with what I wish to share with the world! It’s kept my ambitions going!

I needed to find some way to celebrate the occasion and express my thanks—because I can’t NOT acknowledge this milestone jksjskp. Typically I try to avoid getting tunnel visioned focusing on the metrics/numbers. Mr. Puzzles had already demonstrated how much those things can mess with the minds of creatives. Caring too much about chasing views or placing your artistic value in attention seeking gets damaging. But at same time…it’s hard to deny the sense of pride the 100k achievement has filled me with. I understand that reaching 100k views doesn’t immediately make me any “better” or “worse” then I was before. I’m still just me! It only helps me feel seen by others—and that’s all I really needed. To hear some nice words & receive reminders that my ideas are cared about. So thank you SMG4 fandom for that, seriously thank you.

Please accept this Mr. Puzzle drawing as a way of sharing the happiness around. He’s so entertaining. Love him for simply existing. So glad we can all collectively be super attached to him (and the rest of the SMG4 cast of course). Can’t wait to see more incredible artworks from the fandom :)

Just incase anyone is confused by my vague description over which “animated video” I’m referring to here—hopefully this photo will help clarify lol. It’s this one!! Sorry about not outright stating the title at the start, I got carried away with writing!!

I’ve been in an odd place mentally when thinking about it. Wondering to myself if any of the attention is deserved considering it’s not even fully colored and could be dismissed as “low effort” content (despite taking several days making it). It’s easy to get into a trap of comparing yourself to others and questioning how much of the videos success is based on your skills, sheer algorithm luck, or only because you used popular characters and catered to a specific fandom. And then judging yourself by looking at other peoples videos. I’ve seen several artists post higher quality works then my own but it somehow gets less views. So why did mine succeed when others (who should have gotten just as much attention if not more) didn’t? Sometimes you feel like you’ve unfairly robbed them of that chance to be seen. However I’ve realized that I can’t ever expect views to be consistent—and comparing is pointless. So why worry about it or feel inadequate? I mean it’s pretty common for funny cat videos to go viral, so who am I to question the system lol. “Popular” YouTube videos can range from a passion project which took 7+ artists…to a clip of Toad singing Chandelier or a nonsensical Vine sketch. Anything can happen when it’s the internet! And just-so-happened my video was chosen. I should stay glad about that and get rid of all the overanalyzing. So that’s what I’ve chosen to do :)

[sin-sidejob]

Pls tell Delaney I’m free whenever if she needs a wife

Maybe in another life~

art credit and many thanks to @olexxx who immediately jumped at the opportunity to draw this after hearing me talk about this specific ask, which btw anon, thank you

[juan-francisco-palencia]

Love, Gratitude, Friendship, Empathy. 🍁 ✉

"Love will come at Christmas." Wishing happiness, health and prosperity to all men along the way. Leaving a large part of it, wherever you are, love will accompany you at Christmas, the bustle in the houses and the trees full of lights and gifts with the joy of children announce and celebrate its arrival. Because before leaving when you sleep he looks at you smiling, he will hug you when you wake up, Never try to hide from him, because he will always find you. Love knows about you, it knows about me. He knows everything, don't be afraid or try to run away. Love and Christmas will come to where you live. Love and Christmas will reach the last door in the world.

I wish you friends from all over the world a Merry Christmas... A big hug to each of you.

Tnx. 🌠

From Mexico City. Juan Francisco Palencia.         Thanks. 👋🎄 🎆 ⛄🎁 🥂 🤗 🎊 🥰

[huellitaa]

i giggle so hard whenever i see one of my posts on someone else's blog like omg..... i'm actually liked by people..... blushing rn

[qourmet]

there are actual differences between novel!chung myung & comic!cheongmyeong but they're so subtle they might as well not exist at all LMAO

you get More of the inner dialogue for cm & his banter back & forth between his moral compass (chung mun/sahyung sect leader), & a bit more of the exposition for world building is handled by secondary characters in the comic very well

cheongmyeong is actually just the Slightest bit more sympathetic & kinder to his disciples & sect siblings in the comic, whereas chung myung in the novel is internally more affectionate. i have Yet to see comic cheongmyeong call any of his disciples Cute, but novel chung myung is so endeared to the mount hua disciples that he can't help but think of them as Cute more than once

[pureseasalt]

the bear season 2 episode 6 has got to be the most uncomfortable i have ever felt watching a thing. i love it. i do not ever wanna see it again. take it away from me. fuck u to everyone involved. with ur consent, please let me kiss u on the mouth with tongue.

[unriding]

EVIE !!!!!

I SAW U USE MY ART AS UR THEME SO I WANNA DO A REMAKE !!! mostly cause the other one was full of mistaks hurrrrr orz

keeping the color palette the same so itd still fit + use softer shading so convey how soft u are + moze is now IN UR HAND !!!! >:3

oh nick :’)