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whetstonefires · 11 months

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You know what I realize that people underestimate with Pride & Prejudice is the strategic importance of Jane.

Because like, I recently saw Charlotte and Elizabeth contrasted as the former being pragmatic and the latter holding out for a love match, because she's younger and prettier and thinks she can afford it, and that is very much not what's happening.

The Charlotte take is correct, but the Elizabeth is all wrong. Lizzie doesn't insist on a love match. That's serendipitous and rather unexpected. She wants, exactly as Mr. Bennet says, someone she can respect. Contempt won't do. Mr. Bennet puts it in weirdly sexist terms like he's trying to avoid acknowledging what he did to himself by marrying a self-absorbed idiot, but it's still true. That's what Elizabeth is shooting for: a marriage that won't make her unhappy.

She's grown up watching how miserable her parents make one another; she's not willing to sign up for a lifetime of being bitter and lonely in her own home.

I think she is very aware, in refusing Mr. Collins, that it's reasonably unlikely that anyone she actually respects is going to want her, with her few accomplishments and her lack of property. That she is turning down security and the chance keep the house she grew up in, and all she gets in return may be spinsterhood.

But, crucially, she has absolute faith in Jane.

The bit about teaching Jane's daughters to embroider badly? That's a joke, but it's also a serious potential life plan. Jane is the best creature in the world, and a beauty; there's no chance at all she won't get married to someone worthwhile.

(Bingley mucks this up by breaking Jane's heart, but her prospects remain reasonable if their mother would lay off!)

And if Elizabeth can't replicate that feat, then there's also no doubt in her mind that Jane will let her live in her house as a dependent as long as she likes, and never let it be made shameful or awful to be that impoverished spinster aunt. It will be okay never to be married at all, because she has her sister, whom she trusts absolutely to succeed and to protect her.

And if something eventually happens to Jane's family and they can't keep her anymore, she can throw herself upon the mercy of the Gardeners, who have money and like her very much, and are likewise good people. She has a support network--not a perfect or impregnable one, but it exists. It gives her realistic options.

Spinsterhood was a very dangerous choice; there are reasons you would go to considerable lengths not to risk it.

But Elizabeth has Jane, and her pride, and an understanding of what marrying someone who will make you miserable costs.

That's part of the thesis of the book, I would say! Recurring Austen thought. How important it is not to marry someone who will make you, specifically, unhappy.

She would rather be a dependent of people she likes and trusts than of someone she doesn't, even if the latter is formally considered more secure; she would rather live in a happy, reasonable household as an extra than be the mistress of her own home, but that home is full of Mr. Collins and her mother.

This is a calculation she's making consciously! She's not counting on a better marriage coming along. She just feels the most likely bad outcome from refusing Mr. Collins is still much better than the certain outcome of accepting him. Which is being stuck with Mr. Collins forever.

Elizabeth is also being pragmatic. Austen also endorses her choice, for the person she is and the concerns she has. She's just picking different trade-offs than Charlotte.

Elizabeth's flaw is not in her own priorities; she doesn't make a reckless choice and get lucky. But in being unable to accept that Charlotte's are different, and it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Charlotte.

Because realistically, when your marriage is your whole family and career forever, and you only get to pick the ones that offer themselves to you, when you are legally bound to the status of dependent, you're always going to be making some trade-offs.

😂 Even the unrealistically ideal dream scenario of wealthy handsome clever ethical Mr. Darcy still asks you to undergo personal growth, accommodate someone else's communication style, and eat a little crow.

#hoc est meum #pride and prejudice #elizabeth bennet #charlotte lucas #meta #charlotte is a much less sociable person than lizzie #so avoiding her husband most of the time and not seeking out his company is more viable for her!#she also has more patience for people being wrong #partly i think because she kinds checks out and lets them get on with it which lizzie isn't too great at even with her mother #people have different needs like that's a thing okay #marriage #spinsterhood #pragmatism #like if elizabeth had to listen to collins talk for a few months straight she would be nearly insane with rage #he's not just a low-quality man he's a man designed to be the worst for her specifically #also note that because jane's marriage is elizabeth's fallback plan #darcy screwed her over personally by interfering between her and bingley #she ofc does not bring this up how could she #but it's intensifying the anger during the hunsford rejection i think

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midnights-dragon · 11 months

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is she….. you know…….

#trans gwen stacey truthers rise up!!#and during pride month too #spider man across the spiderverse #spiderman across the spiderverse #gwen stacy #spiderman #across the spiderverse #spider man: across the spider verse

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alastair-1205 · 10 months

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"Is there anything Wukong could do that would break his hold over you?" -Peng

I don't know why more people aren't absolutely feral over this line like I am because like. Holy shit??? Those two are literally trapped in each other's orbits its fucking cannon. I swear i saw this line in a fanfic once but its so fucking true because (at first at least) Macaque had no reason to stay after LBD and even before that honestly but he did and he keeps doing so out of his own free will. There were so many points in the special where it would have made more sense/been safer to just leave but he didn't because he fucking cares, not only about Wukong but about others in general again and Peng can fucking see it.

Macaque and Wukong bring out the worst and (sometimes) best of each other while trying to become better people. Macaque doesn't even deny anything either, this just leads into his fucking iconic "straight up, I never liked you" and like. I'm losing my mind yall.

They have a hold on each other that, despite everything, has remained. So much so that Macaque gets called out on it by somone who knew them at their closest and I'm-

Those two dumbass gay monkeys are so fucking stupid and complex and hurting and healing and I love them.

#lego monkie kid #six eared macaque #lmk macaque #sun wokung #lmk sun wukong #shadowpeach #im mentally ill #this line makes me feel all the things #and during pride month too #the lego show really did that #god i wanna study those twos relationship under a microscope #theyre so interesting and tragic and ahisidksnsbdudj #im normal #i said like a liar #lmk season 4 spoilers #lmk season 4 special spoilers

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tracle0 · 9 months

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Feast your eyes! My pride stars :)!

#pride stars #origami #paper craft #paper stars #handmade #arts and crafts #so it was my cities pride yesterday and I spent the ENTIRE month of July making these lil stars to give out to people!#it went really well actually #I was saying donations appreciated but not mandatory and some people looked so happy just to have some stars!!!#some people were SO generous too like oh my god????#I think there was only one experience I disliked during the event where I was vaguely swarmed and people were helping themselves but #yknow we all get excited haha #got a really cute mushroom bracelet as a trade as well!!!#I have a fair few leftover - lots of aro and ace ones #couple of bi and a couple of pan #ZERO non-binary I should've made more!!#nd obvs some rainbow and trans cause I made the most of them #I'd say lmk if you're near me and you can have some but I am pretty sure none of you know me irl so you can't have any I'm afraid #oh also worth saying - I made the stars I could with the papers I had! Bought purple and pink but I did not try more complex flags cause #I mean. I couldn't really afford to haha?#maybe next year I'll try the lesbian flag too!#ok bye xx #trade-marked

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nesperus · 11 months

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am i the first one to do this probably not

#shitpost #sage doodles #dndads #dndads spoilers #DURING PRIDE MONTH TOO

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ghostdrinkssoup · 10 months

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PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY SPOILERS FOR ANYONE WHO CARES IDK THE BOOK IS OVER A CENTURY OLD GET OVER IT BUT ANYWAY DORIAN KILLING BASIL SHOCKED ME TO MY CORE YOU GUYS WHAT THE FUCK I WAS CLUTCHING MY PEARLS HAND FLYING TO MY MOUTH AND LETTING OUT THE LOUDEST GASP OF MY LIFE OH GOD LOVE DIDN’T WIN

#during pride month too ??????#when will the horrors cease ??????#can’t believe henry stole his boyfriend’s boyfriend #only for said boyfriend to KILL HIS ORIGINAL BOYFRIEND??#henry deserves it but also the UNFORESEEN CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR ACTIONS GODDDD #experiencing female hysteria rn don’t hit me up #the picture of dorian gray #basil hallward #dorian gray #lord henry wotton #ghost speaks

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daofeijet · 2 years

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sketched this on a twitter friend’s online whiteboard!! thought i’d share :3

#kyoshi novels #rok #sok #the rise of kyoshi #the shadow of kyoshi #kyoshi #avatar kyoshi #rangi #rangshi #atla #avatar the last airbender #and during pride month too

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tj-crochets · 10 months

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I finally finished this no-sew fleece blanket I started two moves and several years ago!

#handmade #blanket #fleece no sew blanket #idk what to tag this because I went to tag it sewing and was like wait…no….#shark #being taken on an adventure by a ufo #idk what to do with this the kid it was originally for is now way too tall to use this blanket #also he does not like sharks as much as he did when he was like. 5.#that tractor beam from the ufo is kind of a rainbow so I’m counting this as a pride thing made during pride month #I really wanted to make a bunch of pride stuff for pride month but moving in the middle of it has thrown me off a lot #maybe I’ll just make pride stuff for Canada’s pride month. that’s a month or two later right?

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sillyfudgemonkeys · 24 days

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Queer Eye for the Inaba Guy (results may vary)

#silly colors #persona 4 #souji seta #yu narukami #tohru adachi #izanami #i dunno i thought his eye during the handshake reminded me of marie's funky eye (which looks like big eye ball man)#and then izanami had a similar thing going on later #and obvie I did Adachi's based off the anime too #should post this during pride month but my ass is gonna forget to I know it u_u #Iza's 1st eye is more like sagiri while the 2nd is more like Marie's

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iguessitsjustme · 10 months

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Pat's soul left his body when he realized that Jeng was attracted to men. Can you imagine if he also learned that Jeng liked HIM? He would have died on the spot. Poor guy's heart would have stopped.

He spent all that time and energy repressing feelings for Jeng thinking he was straight and now he knows that he's not and oooohhhhh boy. Next week can't come fast enough.

#step by step #step by step the series #step by step bl #i would like pat talking to chot about this because chot is the best character and i need more of him #also i need to know what the fuck is going on with jaab and jen #and i'm expected to wait a full week yet again #extremely rude and during pride month too

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mana-sama-cult · 10 months

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This quiz add feels targeted…