#first haircut in 3 years was a success

[lauryn-order]

I did the damn thing (again).

#my hair feels so good #I’m going back in a week to start coloring it #I’m so excited! #first haircut in 3 years was a success #me #mine

[malusokay]

2023 reset guide

Glow up

2023 vision board. Visualize your dream 2023 and write down your goals!

Daily Hot girl walks. No excuses, babes; let's get moving!

Reflecting on 2022. Look back at what you've accomplished and what you could have done differently.

Make a Bucketlist. Write down places you want to visit and things you want to do.

Extended self-care. Take some time to yourself to recover from the stressful holidays and get back on track. <3

Buy a good SPF. Do some research and find something that works for you!

Start Investing in yourself. Money, time, and energy. Put yourself first!

Annual check-ups. Make a dentist appointment, go to the optometrist etc...

Buy a Silk pillowcase. Protect your skin and hair!

Set clear boundaries. And make sure that people respect them!

Less screen time. Self-explanatory.

Manicure, lash lift, haircut. High maintenance to be low maintenance! ;)

Wellness

Daily vitamins. Visit a doctor to discuss which ones you should be taking for the best results.

Morning stretches. Wake up your body and drink some water!

Skin/hair care. It's time to find products that actually work for you.

Reading more literature. Set yourself a daily reading goal.

Planned grocery lists. Make a grocery list that aligns with your dietary needs and goals to make shopping less stressful. <3

Less coffee. Especially if you struggle with anxiety!!

More greens and protein. Let's give our body what it needs.

Journaling. Truly helps with overthinking!!

8 hours of sleep. Beauty sleep. <3

Cooking for yourself. Such a cute form of daily self-care.

Yoga. Or just any low-impact exercises in general.

Deep cleaning

Organizing your closet. Only keep things that make you feel beautiful.

Budgeting. Check your bank account and plan ahead.

Clean your hairbrushes. Trust me...

Donating clothes. Donate the items that you don't wear anymore.

Clean your make-up brushes. The first step to clear skin!!

Fresh sheets. Wash your pillows too.

Charge your electronics. IPad, Mac, Camera etc...

Get rid of expired make-up and skincare. Step 2 to clear skin, lol.

Declutter stationary. No need to keep dried-out pens.

Delete old emails. I currently have 1840...

Delete unnecessary apps. Anything you don't need.

Clean your camera roll. Making some space for new memories! :)

Cut out toxic people. <3

Mindset

Pretty, smart, kind, and prioritising myself.

Positive affirmations!!

Your daily habits play a huge role in your mood/life. Be mindful, and take care of yourself.

It's okay to outgrow people!!

Decide what kind of life you actually want and start saying no to everything that won't get you there.

"I'm attracting opportunities that align with my dream life."

A girl who will do big things can't let small things bother her.

Honestly, reinvent yourself over and over again until you are satisfied with who you are.

Do you want to be comfortable, or do you want to grow?

"Am I doing this for me, or am I performing for others?"

very high standards. VERY HIGH STANDARDS.

Be obsessed with yourself.

2022 has been such a life-changing year for me, not only personally but also regarding my social media! As I already said on Twitter, I'm incredibly grateful for this little community that has formed this year, and I'm excited for all the things that lay ahead of us! I wish everyone a successful 2023 with many beautiful moments and lots of growth!!

✩‧₊*:・love ya ･:*₊‧✩

#2023 #manifesting #mindset #malusokay #glow up #new year #mental health #high maintenance #angelic #health and wellness #wellness #pink pilates princess #green juice girl #feminine aesthetic #light feminine #feminine energy #femininity #self growth #self love

[rileyslibrary]

Masterlist:

Simon “Ghost” Riley x Reader

📙gn!reader📗f!reader

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Multi-chapter works/Mini Series

Living with Ghosts (9/9)📗

The new Lieutenant (3/3): Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3📗

Be gentle, man! (2/2): Part 1 / Part 2📗

Lazy Sunday with Simon (2/2): Part 1 / Part 2📙

The hot seat (2/2): Part 1 / Part 2📗 (fanart by @hanjyukutamago)

The Log Cabin (3/3)📙 (fanart by @23652 and 3D render by @gamergirlbonestaskforce141riot)

Oneshots/Drabbles/Requests etc. (sorted: new to old)

Mary Mart📗

First Solo Mission📙

Go away Mr. Reaper📗

Bravo Unit has barracks?!📗

New Year’s Resolutions📗

Operation “Santa”📙

Ghost’s secret collection📙

Taking the piss out of Ghost📙

Ghost is jealous📗

Non-verbal communication📙

The captain’s birthday cake📙

The after effects of alcohol📙

This or That📗 (Render by @gamergirlbonestaskforce141riot)

Sensing something is wrong with you📙

Weighted Blanket📙

Killing Bugs 📙

Assembling Furniture📙

Seeking comfort in the command tent📙

Pickle jar troubles📗

The wedding📗 (fanart by @hanjyukutamago & render by @gamergirlbonestaskforce141riot)

Career fair📙

Hangry📙

Nice haircut📗

Heat Exhaustion📙

Elevator chat 📙

Chest candy📙

Happy birthday, Lieutenant📙

Penny for your thoughts📙

Ghost forgets reader’s birthday📙

Peppa the dog📙

Ghost teaching you how to ride a bike📙

No fun allowed📙

Take a deep breath📙

Team-building exercise📗

Moving in together📙

One for one📙

Taser training📙

Snack Attack📙

Somebody’s something📙

Soldier down📙

Paper cranes📙

Get well soon, Captain!📗

Interrogation shenanigans📙

Lift and learn📗

Invincible📙

Easter Bunny📙 (fanart by @hanjyukutamago)

One bed📗

Taking initiative📗

April Fools📙

Succession prompt📙

Promise me📙

No, soldier, no📙

Your opinion isn’t part of the recipe, Sergeant📙

Here’s a rose, now piss off📗

Ghost and the kitten📙

Aggressive mimicry📗

Ghost showering (imagine)📙

You spy with your little eye…📙

Campfire kisses📗 (render by @gamergirlbonestaskforce141riot)

Meal, Under-the-Stars📗

An unlikely duo📙

Temptation📗

Eyes on the road📙

Nice shot📗

Simon’s armchair📙

What a lovely way to burn📙

The smile behind the mask📙

Pull my hair📗

Where’s my pen, Lt.?📗

Mirror📙

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#simon ghost riley x reader #simon ghost riley x gn!reader #simon ghost riley x f!reader

[herb10]

What are your personal favorite facts about justin? Like little niches and sweet little things about him? This is my favorite question to ask blogs since it’s so sweet so i hope it makes sense!

This is such a great question! Thank you so much for sending this ask 🥰

The following is a non-comprehensive list of some facts & stories about Justin that I find poignant and contribute to why I think he's a great person:

He's got a dry, sarcastic sense of humour. One of my favourite Justin quips came during a post-practice presser. Interviewer: "How is Zion fitting into your Offense?" Justin: "...hopefully at Right Guard".

Honorable mention: that time a reporter asked Justin during a presser if he lifts weights and Justin replied "Does it not look like it?" after a hilariously awkward silence. 😂

He seems to love and care for animals. I love the story of him rescuing two kittens whilst at Oregon and nursing them back to health before rehoming them. He did that all whilst seemingly juggling his academics and football which I think is pretty darn incredible and shows his nurturing side.

Also, according to his Mum, Holly, as a kid Justin would try to bring various animals home as pets. I just find it super adorable to imagine a little Justin eagerly presenting some creature to his Mum asking if he can keep it, promising to take care of it. This is even more cute to me knowing how he rescued those kittens.

He cares deeply for his family and seems very family-oriented. I absolutely love that during a PAC-12 Media Day interview where he was asked about some of the things he wanted in life, the first thing he said was "get married, be a great father, take care of my family". No mention of wealth or any materialistic things - only love and relationships.

He puts his shopping trolley back, which is the ultimate human goodness litmus test. I also find it hilarious that he straight up made Gabe his son by scolding him and telling him to go get his trolley and put it back after seeing Gabe try to abandon it in the car park. Justin just appreciates when things are in order and people do the right thing, as do I.

Also see that bit of Justin's mic'd up video where he calls out Cortez Broughton for his shitty parking lmaooo.

The fact that he moans softly after every throw and you all know damn well why I love that 👀.

He has an eclectic taste in music but favours Classic Rock which is due to his Dad's influence. I love this bc I too have a soft spot for Classic Rock bc of my Dad. Basically what I'm saying is that we're soulmates.

The fact that he's a literal millionaire and still thinks that Whole Foods is too expensive 🫰

Also that time Justin said fuck it to getting a professional haircut during his rookie year bc he deemed that "too expensive" too. Someone take this man to an ATM and show him his account balance please!

His penchant for movie quotes. I relate to this seeing as my entire sense of humour consists of pop culture references and silly movie quotes. I grew up with 3 brothers, can you tell?

He loves fishing. I love fishing. In fact, I spent my entire childhood in waders fishing Scottish rivers with my dad. I'm also dating a man whose father runs a successful fishing tackle business so you could say that I'm a bit obsessed.

So that's just a few things that I love about Justin with a few facts to go with. I hope that was along the lines of what you were hoping for 🩵

#elle asks #justin herbert

[fruitchouli]

Isabelle Adjani on Perfume

Her first emotional experience

"I am certainly not the only one to be bewitched by the famous N°5 by Chanel, which must have marked a whole generation of girls. It has such a strength that it has made me aware of scents for life, and it is certainly thanks to it that I can't go a day without wearing perfume. It is also and especially the perfume of my mother... The one who wears it becomes a little bit my mother, that is to say! As a little girl, I was forbidden to touch it, and before I dared to wear it myself, I got drunk on Cristalle and N°19, such pretty young girl perfumes! Now I sometimes wear N°5 when I miss my mother... "

Her memory box

"Like Marilyn's beloved elixir, Guerlain's L'Heure Bleue is another magical fragrance. I was 17 years old and making my theater debut at the Comédie-Française. I liked fine boutiques, so with my first money I went to Guerlain, at 68, avenue des Champs-Elysées, their mythical address. I remember first trying Vol de Nuit and Mitsouko, then Après l'Ondée (of which I kept a bottle) to adopt L'Heure Bleue. I wore it to play a few years later in L'histoire d'Adèle H. by François Truffaut. It followed me, it is a sensor of "moments" and a source of memories. It symbolizes my roles in the theater and is essential for my films in costume. It is a perfume that I rediscover all the time, I fall in love with it each time, without any feeling of use or wear, it is an absolute for me.

Her adrenaline triggers

"Between the ages of 25 and 30, I discovered Passion and Heure Exquise by Annick Goutal. By always wearing them together, without separating them, a crazy alchemy occurs, it is the love equation par excellence. Each time, it's amazing and ecstatic, as if I hadn't been looking for them but they had found me. It's amazing that fragrances like this exist and overwhelm me every time."

Her other self

"Aromatics Elixir by Clinique: I smelled it one day on a friend and it was a shock, something crazy, intimate and irrational. I like it when it's strong, it doesn't scare me. A bit like Tom Ford's Jardin Noir collection, right now it's Café Rose, a singular statement to the Damask rose, captured in its black-clad bottle. I wear them when I want to surprise myself, to have that feeling of an unusual other self. It's as powerful for me as changing my haircut."

Her eternal obsession

"Since I was a teenager, I have been fascinated by Eau Sauvage by Dior, my father's perfume. Although it is impossible for me to wear it, I have several secret weapons that bring me back to him, such as Escale à Portofino, still by Dior, Eaux 1, 2 and 3 by Sisley, and the very successful Jardins du Sud by Fouquet's. Some smells act on me like spells and confuse me without me being able to explain it. Whoever wears Dior Homme, for example, is bound to be irresistible!"

Her troublemakers

"I love layering scents. There was a time when I would stop by Comptoir Sud Pacifique and mix currant and vanilla, cocoa and grapefruit... I think I contributed to their inspiration! For the same reason, I have a thing for Jo Malone who has reinvented the art of combination. I am a fan of Blue Agava & Cacao and Jasmine & Mint. I love that incongruous side of the mix, I love that people are a little confused about how I perfume myself and wonder what I'm wearing."

Her mystical trips

"I had a long period of Angel by Thierry Mugler, an incredible fragrance where sugar was treated in a new way, and another under the seal of Serge Lutens, especially for his Daim Blond and his Rahät Loukoum, a concentrate of sweetness. His creations intoxicated me, they are like mystical ointments that come from afar. I often go to Jovoy, a store where everything makes me dream, and I found Misiones de Fueguia 1833. Beyond the incense scent that I look for everywhere, there is the refined bottle, the wooden box... A pleasure found for more than ten years at Frédéric Malle, I have a soft spot for his Lipstick Rose, a delicious interpretation of the powdery smell of a lipstick.

Her recent conquests

"I wear my perfumes in cycles but I keep them all in very strong cases where nothing breaks, I don't throw anything away. Always on the lookout for a new olfactory coup de foudre, I'm like a little girl in the luxury boutiques. In the duty free shops, I try absolutely everything I don't know on my skin and when I get on the plane, it's all over! I read all the articles on perfumes and I do some scouting. I recognize myself in the world of Terry de Gunzburg and particularly in his Ombre Mercure, but also in Diptyque's Eau Duelle which echoes my preferences. I don't understand women who don't wear perfume, it's impossible for me and it depresses me for them!"

[canonicallysoulmates]

J2 Hawaii Con Gold Panel 2023

What sticks out to them from the final days of filming?

Jared says so much, that he remembers it vividly. He remembers the two weeks they had to spend in quarantine and some of the crew would leave them care packages, and they would all text each other and have Zoom parties. He also remembers very vividly the bridge, and the barn, and he remembers when they were shooting the last scene in the middle of the Bunker and being told it was going to be taken down the next day- he was in tears, he says if we think we cried during the barn scene we should have seen him in the Bunker when they were gonna tear it down. And then he took things, there were a lot of real books in there which he took and fake books which he also took and a bunch of stuff that he had seen for the past three years that he has no idea what he’ll ever do with but maybe he'll donate it to a charity auction.

Jensen says that in the bunker there were two library tables that they sat in, he didn’t take a table but one of the tables had some initials carved into it and he had asked what was going to happen to the table and was told that they were gonna break it down so he asked them to cut that part off 🥹

Jensen also remembers the whole crew being masked up, and normally in most shows actors work very closely with their team but they all got separated because of safety measures so if you were red you could get close to the actors but if you were yellow you couldn’t and for them being forced to not interact with their crew, people they had known for 15yrs and considered family, it was really heartbreaking. It was a big deflated aspect of the show coming to an end when it did. x

What is next for them project-wise? And how long does Jared think Walker will last?

Jared replies those are conversations that are happening now that the strikes are over. He’s been very lucky and fortunate in Austin to have a great cast and crew. He has said this for many years and he feels he has been made a liar but he really does want to get off camera, he loves reading, and he loves to read a lot so he’d love the chance to make stories more available to people like adapting books; there are stories that mean a lot to him that he’d love to help get made but man plans God laughs. Boy ain't that the fucking truth.  

Jensen says probably a haircut. He doesn’t know, there are a few things on the horizon and this is something he mentioned in his M&G but those conversations are happening now with the strikes over, and he has had conversations happening the previous week about some upcoming possibilities but nothing is happening this year it’d be popping off in Spring. He thinks the soonest anything would happen, assuming it's not a project that's already locked and loaded and ready to go like for example Walker, would be in springtime so he'd say in March he might have a call sheet.

Not gonna lie friends first place my mind went to after hearing this man say Walker and March in the same sentence is him and Jared planning things out so they can spend his birthday on set together again 🤞 x

Question for Jensen: what was it like working on Smallville?

He jokes he doesn’t remember that. It was cool because the show was going and it was a success, and he came really close to getting the role of Clark, and he thinks the writers always kept him in the back of their minds so for s4 they pitched him the idea to make bring him in as a coach and he was like 'Tom’s older than me you want me to play his coach?' So he went on and it was a good time, it was filming in Van, made some good friends, and he was supposed to do two seasons but then like 3/4 of the way through the season SPN came up so both he and Jared got pulled from their shows to go to SPN. Jensen's character had a horrible death while Jared's just vanished. But he had a good time, it was a lot of fun, and he also remembers telling Tom when the Pilot got picked up to have fun working in Van thinking they were going to be shooting in LA 😆

Jared also shares a quick story about how they had wrapped up early one day and they were gonna go to Morton's to get some steak and invited Tom along, and after dinner, Tom told them they didn't have to do this for his birthday. And they were surprised because they had no idea it was his birthday they had just invited him along. x

What was it like after 15yrs to move on to Soldier Boy and Walker?

Jared says he started to think about it as something everybody does every day so when you’re with x person you’re this person, we’re all multifaceted some aspects overlap but we all do it without having to think about it. You kind of lean into different aspects of your personality. 

Jensen replies he had an advantage because he went from doing Dean to Soldier Boy in front of the creator of Dean. Kripke and Sgriccia had seen him play Dean and knew intimately the aspects of that character so when he played Soldier Boy he would ask them to tell him if his Dean came out. It's something he was very conscious off, he tried to highlight a different aspect of his personal character but also maybe parroting some other types of characters that he had witnessed and he used a couple of old actors from the 40s and 50s like Lee Marvin is one that he would watch his interviews to see how these guys would carry themselves and speak so he used that as inspiration for how to mold this character.  x

What is their character's biggest regret?

Jared answers it rhymes with jemilia aka Amelia. He thinks Sam felt best when he was in a relentless pursuit of his brother and so obviously they have an instance where his brother implores him to not relentlessly pursue or bring him back so he thinks that's for Sam- and the actress is lovely so it's not that but the story aspect. He's an actor so it's like an anchorman you read what's on the teleprompter so he did it and tried to make it make sense for Sam but it didn't feel right for him. He says it was great writing, they hadn't gone there in eight seasons and it was interesting to explore, it helped him flesh out the character but he would say that's probably his biggest regret.

Jensen says probably not being more promiscuous as Demon!Dean. But Dean has no regrets. x

How do they think the conversation between Sam and Dean after the bridge scene in the finale played out, and how do they think the scene would play out if Sam's son was in Heaven and got to reunite with his dad and meet his uncle?

Jared has some ideas and he hopes now that the writers are back we all get to see it together.

Jensen says stay tuned on that cause there are conversations regarding that conversation. x

J2 Gold Panel Hawaii '23

#j2 tinhat #non iwtv #mine

[aldieb]

tag game

ty for tagging me @dykekakashi! love these

Are you named after anyone?

not my first name, but my legal middle name (which i hate </3) is after my maternal great grandma

What sports have you played?

soccer, swim team, tennis, horseback riding, and (briefly) fencing. my dark bougie past is revealed here lol. i didn't take any except tennis and riding particularly seriously

Do you use sarcasm?

a bit? i think i flag "i am joking" pretty hard when i say one thing and mean another, generally

What is the first thing you notice about people?

i'm kinda faceblind so i typically focus on haircuts. i would say dress sense, but given that i wfh, most of the new people i meet on a daily basis are just floating heads on a screen

What’s your eye color?

hazel

Scary movies or happy endings?

happy endings bc i was too scared to watch any kind of horror movie until a few years ago. now i've enjoyed a few

Any talent?

no, i just grind away at various things that interest me until i achieve a lack of failure or occasionally moderate success (see immediately below if this question is actually "what abilities do you cultivate?")

What are your hobbies?

reading, writing, drawing, hiking, yoga, and cross stitch/embroidery. welcome to my dating app profile i guess

Do you have any pets?

macintosh the cat =^._.^=

How tall are you?

short answer: 5'8"

long answer: maybe 5'7" (and a half?) but when i rode competitively in college the system was that you got placed with a randomly drawn horse and you could ask to be reassigned if you got a pony and were 5'8"+ or above a certain weight. i look like a clown on ponies so i decided to be 5'8". height IS a choice

Dream job?

editor of sf and fantasy books at [loud train goes by]. it will happen

sorry i'm being a spoilsport and not tagging anyone bc i always end up agonizing over who to pick forever and ever. but you can be tagged if you so desire

#text tag

[thenebuleuse]

Thoughts (since I don't write on Tumblr often

I've been following Jeff's career since like...mid-Kinnporsche airing, I don't remember exactly when but like he had the first 3 songs from his new chapter phase. And honestly, I'm really proud of the guy, like from the cutesy songs he started with to working on a well-defined style and universe, to his now international stardom...Congrats!!

I'm also wondering about the album since he said there was 12 songs, (and we're missing single 9) and Stranger might be released inside the album but there's at least 1-2 new songs. He basically gave himself the opportunity to promote for a long-ass time with all these MVs (and thanks the sponsorships+the money he made for this clip budget) but that also means very little new songs. Like for album 2, is it going to be a mini-album? Or a normal-sized one? Is he going to go the one MV one song way again?

I don't know how thaï music industry works but it's going to be interesting. I hope there's Covid precautions in place at his concerts because I would hate for him to have his career shortened that way. Like fans, please wear masks. I wanna hear the high notes, and he's basically set himself up by having one high note per song (no, you don't need it Jeff) and that makes it hard to not to have public, embarassing false notes (is it how you say it in English? I'm French btw)

The studio posting in advance the Cartier Paris event schedule is funny, I've visited the museum and it's absolutely a visit during opening hours on a normal opening day. They probably privatized it with lots of money, but if they don't it's gonna be funny to see random art students going "who's that guy/why is there so many celebs??"(Paris museums are either closed on Monday or Tuesday, depending if they're state museums or city museums)

He's made quite a lot of connections last year, going from the first partnerships (the cat food one was mandatory) to high-end partnerships with luxury brands. I would love to know what made him choose these ones and reject the others but we will never know what has he been offered.

Also, Chuang! Except for one of the mentors I didn't know, it feels weird to see people I've seen being rookies listening to seniors becoming the judges of today, when the judges used to be people who weren't known celebrities to the idol fan watcher. Now my idols are another idol's idol! Like I'm going to watch a show (on and off because I'm busy) because of the judges and not the contestants! In terms of the competition, I wonder how they're going to be promoted, especially since it's a girl group. Like, when Produce/Chuang was created, it looked unrealistic, and here we are! I think the girls version of the show tends to be the first, and idol girls seem less "guaranted success" than the nth boygroup. Idk about thai music industry again, so idk how idols survive, because the only idol girls I kow in Thaïland are Sizzy from GMM..We'll see, but I hope the show fulfills its role of career launcher without scandals or evil editing.

Back to the actual topic, seeing the Jeff pyjama pic for the show's filming is making me wonder if he's going to be styled in Valention the whole time. If it's the case, we could literaly have a guessing party before the episode teasers, though he's a wild card since he picks women's clothes too. Please show, make him wear a skirt! A pantaskirt?

Also, his haircut, an actual discussion topic (but kpop idols announce comebacks by hair colour, so why not?) is making him look like he's somewhere between 18-22. Like it's only when he styles it back that it doesn't give him too much of a baby face. For his movie, I think they're filming backwards or not in order in terms of time period, because I don't think they're going to do bald cap if he needs to have no hair. We might get short military-like (I hope he doesn't keep it, I love the long hair). But also, is it me or he's started working out the Dorito back way? Like, he's got more arm and shoulder muscles than without workout, but last singing appearance he really looked "guy who works out to have a triangular back" and that may be movie-related as well? Again and again, idk.

I don't really write about stuff a lot, the thoughts often stay in my head, but yeah, here they are!

For his next career moves, I'm mostly curious about how much space he's going to give to acting or being in reality shows, since he's a singer first. I think Wuju is going to be his last work with Barcode as a partner, but I'm curious about where he's going to be casted if he does series again, like he has more options than just the BOC productions (unlike Barcode) and he may become a "pass-around, no fixed ship actor. But we're making plans on a comet now, and I really should go back to working, so bye for now!

#jeff satur #chuang asia #career thoughts

[tabithwaslost]

30 Ace Attorney Headcanons!

1. We know for a fact that a lot of women had crushed on Miles, but people worldwide had crushes on Nahyuta because he is absolutely gorgeous. They know nothing of his past and some people had crushed on Simon.

2. Kristoph didn't give forged evidence to Phoenix so that Zak can plead guilty or anything of that sort, he gave him forged evidence and told Klavier so Klavier becomes popular in the world of law. He actually cares for Klavier in his own strict, weird and slightly harsh way.

3. Whenever Miles is flustered, he loses his British accent and reverts back to the American accent he grew up with when speaking English.

4. Klavier calls girls "Fräulein" which means "Missy" or something like that, and gives boys nicknames such as "Herr Forehead" or "Herr Samurai". But whenever he's stressed, anxious, nauseous or REALLY nervous or scared, he reverts back to first names or "Mr. ______" or "Ms. ______"

5. Nahyuta REALLY loved geography and history. He has memorised/memorized all countries, their capitals and a few other states by heart. And he has memorized/memorised the histories of about 5-6 countries.

6. Larry, Maya and Franziska have became uncle and aunt figures to Trucy. They take their roles very seriously because they know that Phoenix and Miles feel safe enough to let their daughter be around them, so they make sure not to be bad influences.

7. Simon is the least getting arrested because Athena was around and they didn't want her picking up on any bad habits. And after getting released, he got used to cursing in prison but upon seeing Athena again, he reverted to his old self.

8. Klavier and Simon are a duo of destruction in the prosecutors' building and they are best friends.

9. During AA4, Phoenix Wright is a recovering alcoholic.

10. Rayfa calls her older brothers "Braid Head" and "Horn Head" and acts more comfortable, natural and informal around them so they can feel a bit more comfortable with her. But they don't realize/realise it and they stick with the name "Your Benevolence" and they try not to get too comfortable or informal around her in fear that she'll dislike it which makes her feel alone and pretty sad.

11. Nahyuta, Apollo, Pearl, Athena, Simon, Kay, Beanix, Trucy and Zak are all ready to throw hands anytime, anywhere.

12. Lamiroir's latest music video is filled with hints of her real identity.

13. People in universe make theories about Lamiroir's real identity but whoever believes in those theories is called stupid. The biggest theory right now is her being Thalassa Gramarye.

14. Phoenix's beanie in AA4 was knitted by Trucy with the help of Franziska.

15. Phoenix got a long-term heart condition when Manfred tasered him.

16. In Turnabout Succession, when Vera looked at Klavier, small portion of her brain mixed him up with Kristoph and she thought that Klavier IS Kristoph. And that small portion manifested her whole, but when Klavier was being sweet and nice to her, she started doubting that he is Kristoph.

17. During AA6, Klavier was back in Germany and he couldn't look at himself without being reminded of his brother. He never knew his brother actually cared for him, and because of that he has a breakdown and cuts his hair. The same haircut for when he was 17.

18. Apollo's sprites in AA5 resemble Kristoph a LOT. Especially when he was testifying. Phoenix felt so disgusted because of that.

19. Miles doesn't care at all about his mother because she abandoned him and his father when he was about 4 years old. [Younger or older if you'd like]

20. Guy Eldoon became a doctor again after the events of AA4.

21. Out of everything that Apollo experienced, the worst event was Clay's death.

22. Miles tries not to get mad at his prosecutors because he loves all of them very dearly.

23. Apollo had black psyche locks regarding the death of his father and Phoenix has black psyche locks regarding his emotions.

24. Apollo and Clay were huge fans of The Avengers, Harry Potter and ANY fantasy series there is.

25. Clay and Mia know each other. They've met before and she was kinda like an older sister figure to him and a mother figure after his mother died.

26. Kristoph was actually friends with Dahlia and Matt.

27. Kristoph knows the real identity of the phantom.

28. The phantom was involved in the smuggling ring case in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

29. Apollo actually had a teeny weeny eeny meeny shrivelled little small crush on Clay but didn't tell him to not ruin their friendship. Or vice versa if you'd like.

TW: IMPLIED 4BU$3, MENTIONS OF KN!V3$

30. This is a long one and I'll need an image for it. So you know how I have a headcanon that Kristoph and Klavier and half-brothers from mother and that their parents decided to play favorites/favourites with them because Klavier's parent [father or mother, you decide] that is Kristoph's step-parent hated both the kids [3 if you headcanon a sister] and the parent got so mad because of an argument that they slashed Kristoph's hand with a knife. It was so bad that he got stitched up.

Yes he has a cut and here it is:

#ace attorney #klavier gavin #Kristoph Gavin #Phoenix Wright #simon blackquill #nahyuta sahdmadhi #zak gramarye #larry butz #maya fey #franziska von karma #miles edgeworth #athena cykes #apollo justice #rayfa padma khura’in #pearl fey #kay faraday #beanix #thalassa gramarye #lamiroir #manfred von karma #vera misham #clay terran #mia fey #matt engarde #dahlia hawthorne #ace attorney investigations #aai #aai1 #aa

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My 2023 Recap!!

January:

▫️got a 2nd job that’s a WFH job!

▫️went to the library

▫️139 day streak for duo French!

Febuary:

▫️actually started my new job!

▫️read 3 books! (The first three in Shadow and Bone series!)

▫️169 days for my French streak!

▫️went to the library more!

March:

▫️made some yearly goals

▫️189 French streak!

▫️started new workout plan!

▫️started my Saturn Return 🪐

▫️learned how to use printer at the library! (Game changer for me!)

▫️got a new hairdresser and haircut!

April:

▫️216 for French streak!

▫️follow up for anxiety program referral.

▫️continued workout plan!

▫️finished reading another book!

▫️started paint-by-number

▫️started growing cucumbers!

May:

▫️wrote my resignation letter for my first job.

▫️quit one of my jobs!

▫️went to a surprise party!

▫️finished majority of my YT script

▫️244 for French streak!

▫️survived a cold

▫️bought gel plate for art

▫️got $20 for completing surveys

▫️bought a backdrop + tripod

June:

▫️had fun at one of my friends b-day party!

▫️worked my last day at my first job.

▫️made some art with the gel plate!

▫️another $20 for doing surveys

▫️spending a lot less on transportation and ordering out because of my job.

▫️worked more hours at my WFH job.

▫️269 french streak!

▫️bought the book “the Artists way”

▫️cooking more!

▫️found a scam in my bank account!

July:

▫️still growing tomatoes and cucumbers!

▫️continued workout plan!

▫️cooking and making food more!

▫️deleted my Flo app to track more on paper!

▫️saving more money!

▫️saw the Barbie movie with some friends!

▫️bought BEYONCÉ tickets and planned a whole trip!

▫️290 for french streak!

August:

▫️finally got reimbursed for the scam in my bank account

▫️planned my outfit for the RENAISSANCE TOUR! (Are you ready?! SHAWHAM!)

▫️finished a sewing project

▫️did a mini photoshoot for my sewing project

▫️309 days for french streak

▫️made pasta salad!

▫️got a new phone!

September:

▫️329 french streak!

▫️went to Vancouver by myself!

▫️had an overall successful trip to and from Vancouver!

▫️went to the Blodel conservatory in the van Dusen Gardens in Vancity!

▫️WENT TO BEYONCÉ!!! 🪩

▫️got my picture taken for a CBC article!

▫️got Beyonce merch!

▫️went to the aquarium!

▫️found a real fur scarf at the thrift store!

▫️had a going away party with former co-workers!

▫️finished a journal & started a new one!

▫️had movie night with a friend!

October:

▫️347 French streak!

▫️several Halloween movie night with my friends!

▫️bought two new journals!

▫️bought new headphones from warranty!

▫️bought my own candles and birthday balloons

▫️cleaned out a lot of my Twitter likes and hopefully deleting soon!

▫️got a call from a psychotherapist to determine next steps for therapy.

November:

▫️cleaned out two shelves in my room and reorganized a bunch of stuff!

▫️cleaned/reorganized desk and bought a desk mat!

▫️1 year french streak!

▫️cleaned out mini fridge and tea area!

▫️got a gift card from my work!

▫️got a refund from an Astro reading I didn’t get earlier in the year!

▫️enjoyed Kurtis Conner special! (Damn he’s funny!)

▫️started Christmas shopping!

▫️finished one of my yearly goals which was Reading 10 books!

▫️printed more from library like my workout sheets and debt tracker!

December:

▫️380 days for French streak!

▫️went to see the Renaissance movie!!

▫️finished Christmas shopping!

▫️made a friend a bucket hat!

▫️turned 29!

▫️got myself two bras and a sweater!

▫️found an Oleg Cassini wool skirt set from the 60s at the thrift store!

▫️started holidays with my WFH job!

▫️got some Oh doughnuts for my birthday!

▫️got most of the stuff I wanted/needed for Christmas!

#2023 #new year #2023 recap #goals #list #learning French #books #reading #june and July were busy months #personal #job #wfh jobs #Beyoncé #travel #trip #friends #events #money #sewing #let’s see what next year brings #happy new year

[gaykarstaagforever]

It was the 1960s, and they were just four poor teenagers from Liverpool with goofy haircuts who decided to start a rock band. That mostly just covered Motown songs. But they played in Germany and got huge, until their adult personal lives tore the band apart. They were only together for a relatively short time, but they changed the face of blue-eyed rock'n'roll forever.

I am of course talking about The Liverbirds (or Liver Birds, pronounced "Lyverburds"), an all-female rock band who were directly inspired by The Beatles. They are considered one of the first successful all-female rock bands, and I have never heard of them until today, because they didn't get popular in America (because their only tour offer here was that they play Vegas topless. They declined).

Here they are covering The Vibrations' "Peanut Butter," live in Hamburg in 1965.

(You'll be tempted to assume this song is a veiled metaphor for a sex thing. It absolutely is not. It is literally a song about how peanut butter is tasty. Go find the lyrics. No I'm not joking. No song has ever been more about exactly one thing as this.)

They attempted to sign with The Beatles' manager, but he didn't think they would amount to much so they abandoned the idea. And, to be fair, they only had like 3 original songs, so he may have had a point.

One of them is this:

It's good. But The Beatles were pumping stuff like this out like a factory. It was a competitive time.

Speaking of The Beatles, they met John Lennon once, and he was a sexist dickhead to them. Because of course.

They also met Jimi Hendrix. He was chill and awesome to them and they got high together. Because of course.

Lineup changes began when one of them got pregnant, and another one quit to take full-time care of her husband who was injured in a car accident. The band replaced them and toured Japan, but they all apparently felt the writing was on the wall and broke up soon after.

Two of the original members are still living and are part of this great mini-documentary from 4 years ago by The New York Times (blegh, but this specific thing is good).

There is apparently a stage show based on their story that had a limited run in the UK. Which is shocking that that's it, because this is like the most perfect story ever for an Oscar-bait, feel-good movie biopic. As usual, you suck, Hollywood.

It even has some limited lesbian stuff! Come on!

I wouldn't say they were a great band, and now as then, they were understandably compared to and vastly overshadowed by fellow "Merseybeat" titans The Beatles. Which isn't fair because The Beatles were The Beatles. But as The Liverbirds were directly inspired by them...what can you do?

They are at any rate an historic band that should be more well-known and celebrated for what they were. And who they are.

Plus it is always good to take any opportunity to remind everyone what a shit human being John Lennon was.

#the liverbirds #merseybeat #british invasion #rock'n'roll #1960s #rock #youtube #lesbian #gay #queer history #feminism #feminist history #girl band

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rules: list eight shows for your followers to get to know you better.

tagged by @alethiometry!! thank u bestie <333

tagging: @wolfhalls, @godsopenwound, @derelictship, @avgustea, @besukhov, @wolveswithoutteeth <3

(lets see if i HAVE 8 shows)

elementary. SHOW OF ALL TIME. it is truly the only sherlock holmes adaptation i've watched from the last 20 (30? 40??) years that feels like a modern adaptation and not a self-parody (miss sherlock excluded — i've yet to watch!). i never got the hate towards nyc being the setting except i guess america bad?? but it makes total sense imo and it breathes light into one of the most adapted books ever. jlm's sherlock is SO treasured to me, lucy liu's watson is just as dimensional as sherlock, girlboss moriarty, BEES, also the focus on recovery throughout the series gave it so much heart, its truly such a good adaptation. i know fundamentally its just some procedural crime show (and its biggest flaw is obviously the inclusion of ny-pd, s03 e08 you mean nothing to me) but i love her and i rewatch the first season pretty much every year. literally where would i be without her

the x files. mulder and scully have had an IRREVERSABLE impact on my fashion sense. i am watching every single episode with a notepad by my side and taking detailed notes of what they're wearing. i love this show so much, every other episode is outrageously problematic even for its time, but i'm obsessed. iconic theme tune (my dads ringtone btw). scully is one of my ultimate pop culture heroes but i think i'm more like mulder (my hero for being irritating). i think my favourite episode is wet wired. i've never seen anything past season 7.

the sopranos. WAIT! wait before u (understandably) judge me i promise its more than a dudebro mafioso show, i think the characters are all some of the best written characters i've ever encountered, and idk i don't watch a lot of similar shows but i don't get the impression that its about justifying the mafia lifestyle, quite the opposite. also the introspection that you see develop is phenomenal. what really floors me about the show is that the female characters are ALL so incredibly written, carmella soprano i love u 💍 i'm actually only half-way through this show so maybe the inclusion to this list is premature but i trust my judgement

succession. this show is constantly rotating in my mind like a slow roast. i'm also quite convinced that 90% of the fans are watching an entirely different show. is tom my favourite character YES but i hope shiv leaves him and he gets nothing in the divorce and he has to move back to iowa or wherever. he's the worst. marcia i love you

it's always sunny in philadelphia. embarrassing how many times i've seen seasons 2-10 but my brother and i's lexicon are primarily references from this show. i think my favourite episode is the cereal defense, it's so stupid.

1899. netflix i am gonna get you bitch 🔪 daniel crawling out of the atlantic ocean changed me

ummmm. i don't have 8 shows. can i leave this as a placeholder for yellowjackets because i see potential my loves <3 if not um. earth's greatest spectacles, the 3 part documentary series narrated by domhnall gleeson that changed my world. i think about it all the time. i love u new england i love u svalbard i love u okavango.

how to get away with murder.

this show has done so much psychological damage, charlotte and i watched it together and i've not been the same since. i don't even know where to start; why is your penis on that dead girls phone. season 1 part 1 being the best few episodes of television ever and immediately going downhill after. annalise keating will send anyone to jail. bonnie killing a 22 year old because why not. whatever the hapstall case was. michaela pratt's villain era (ilu). laurel's flop era. connor's haircut. michaelasher breakup on some random crossover episode in favour of a character who gets about 2 minutes screentime. guy murdered at the gay wedding. michaela growling at someone in a grocery store. connor being the ONLY person to get arrested for murder(conspiracy?) out of the k5, while arguably being the person most removed from committing actual murder (flop king). gay divorce. frank incest reveal based entirely on the ''foreshadowing'' of some throwaway season 1 line. franklaurel girlies found dead. whatever the fuck was going on in the series finale. i'm not the same

#beehive whispers #tag games #everyone point and laugh at my bad taste! #i tried to tag people i know watch some tv <3 but feel free to ignore if you don't fancy it!!

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Stranger Things Thoughts

The other half won’t approve, but as your humble narrator has access to binge watching the entirity of ‘Stranger Things’ from start to finish, decided to see what the fuss was all about.

First impressions?

It’s kind of a crossover between the video game Half Life and Goosebumps, and get the suspicion it was aimed at the Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Stephen King fans type target market.

It’s definitely a ‘binge watch’ series - just don’t see how it would have survived as a traditional one hour and one episode a week to hold people’s attention span, as some of the cliffhangers are weaker than train station cafe tea.

Will is really Fiver from the film version of Watership Down. Or Harry Potter’s scar. Just the scar.

Finn Wolfhard and Noah Schnapp were definitely recruited for reasons other than their acting abilities (ie. appealing to Jimmie Savile/Mrs Robinson types), because both are incredibly piss poor. It becomes quiet frightening as the show progresses how often Caleb McLaughlin’s over-the-top angry guy stuff appears to be to overcompensate for both being so insipid. Finn Wolfhard in particular seems to have the acting abilities of a blobfish.

By contrast, Gaten Matarazzo may have a face only a mother could love, but he carries a frighteningly large number of scenes without anyone really noticing it. He’s the Cartman of the gang, but all in a good way. Aside from being the originator of some of their most ‘cunning plans’, he’s the only one who appears to have learned good real life lessons from playing D&D: that is, to succeed against adversity, you need to stick together as a team, each playing to their strengths to compensate for other’s weaknesses.

Millie Bobbie Brown’s acting chops are formidable, but her constant use as a Deus Ex Machina becomes a little wearing after a while. On the other hand, her transformation into David Vanian of the Damned in Season 2 was hilarious.

Natalia Dyer’s jawbone is made from tungsten. There can be no other explanation.

Charlie Heaton is the reincarnation of Déagol from The Lord Of The Rings movies.

That Billy character had the worst case of being closet gay and aggressively in denial about it since Vaas Montenegro in Far Cry 3.

When Will suddened declares that the Big Bad is back in Season 3, right after his fall out with his buds not wanting to be stuck in his D&D timewarp, isn’t it jarring that no one questions it? After all, mega-convenient way of getting the gang back together on his terms, yes?

David Harbour’s Angry Dad routine gets wearing REALLY quickly in season 3.

Why does Winona Ryder’s character give the constant appearence of being a recovering alcoholic?

Steve Harrington’s reaction to Robin admitting she was a lesbian (while turning him down) is ludicrously out of context with what would actually have happened to any woman admitting as much in the 1980s, especially slap bang in the very year the AIDS panic took off in the U.S. (largely after haemophiliac teen Ryan White contracted it via a dodgy blood transfusion, bringing out into the open American’s utterly f**ked up pay-for-blood donation system into question).

Why are none of the kids playing computer games? At all?

The music is meant to be 80s, but they have some real issues with it as much as the supposed 80s clothes and haircuts.

(Here comes the Madame Lee bit, concentrate!)

Season One - It’s Meant To Be 1983, but ....

Jefferson Airplane - 'She Has Funny Cars' and 'White Rabbit'

By the 1980s, Jefferson Airplane were Jefferson Starship, and the drugged out hippies like so many psychedelics and prog rockers had gone down the AOR/Cock Rock route.

By the timeline of 'Stranger Things' the band was falling apart as their brief period of late 70s success burned out - ironically they were to score their biggest hits as plain old post-court case Starship were forced to go even more commercial, with global No.1's with 1985's 'We Build This City (On Rock 'n' Roll)' and 1987's 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now' (the latter the theme song to the hit movie 'Mannaquin') - after which they all but vanished. Jefferson Airplane's back catalogue meanwhile was virtually unsellable at this time.

The inclusion of 'White Rabbit' may have been a scriptwriter's brick joke - as during Eleven's brief runaway in season two, she changes her look to one resembling to a remarkable degree David Vanian of the Damned during the period when, in sheer desperation for a hit outside of the UK, the band did a cover of Jefferson Airplane's most famous track (it flopped, as all covers of this song tend to do).

Toto - Africa

The song which has become an internet meme was released in 1984 ... a year after the events of season one.

The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

The other 'theme song' for Season One, played umpteen times during the series. A hit in the summer of 1982, rush released in panic by CBS after the original taster single flopped.

Contrary to historical revision, The Clash were never a major band in the punk era and largely enjoyed only a few minor hits: the major exception was this Mick Jones written track and drummer Topper Headon's 'Rock The Casbah', both for 1982's 'Combat Rock' - when the band had been told by CBS to write a commercially sellable album or have their contract terminated (contrary to the name, it sounds more like a funk record

But by 1983, The Clash were effectively no more: band 'leader' Joe Strummer's ego couldn't handle 'his bass player' and 'his drummer' getting the band's first two truly global selling singles (the two Strummer singles from the album, 'Straight To Hell' and 'Know Your Rights' flopped), and sacked Jones in a fit of pique, after which Headon resigned.

Brotherhood Of Man - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree

This one is positively embarrassing. Brotherhood Of Man never recorded this song until 2002.

To be fair, a lot of people do get this Brit band (punk's most famous victims: a former Eurovision song contest winner dropped by their record company abruptly after scoring their final No.1 'Figaro' because they were 'old hat') mixed up with Tony Orlando's Dawn, who did the original global hit.

The Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter

The Bangles may have covered it in concert, but it was never released on record until 1987.

Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You

From 1981, two years earlier.

Peter Gabriel - Heroes

Oh FFS! Gabriel's murdering of the late David Bowie classic only happened in 2010 for his cover versions album 'Scratch My Back' aka 'Utterly Out Of Ideas'.

Joy Division - Atmosphere

Four years too late, or five years too early, depending on your point of view.

By the timeline of this, nazi bigot Ian Curtis had done the world a favour and hanged himself four years prior (this song was released as a post-suicide cash in, but flopped), and Joy Division had changed name to New Order precisely to cleanse its association with him (ironically they had a mammoth global hit with 'Blue Monday', one of the songs of the 1980s, in 1983, but it never made the show.

A remixed and cleaned up version of 'Atmosphere' was released as a successful standalone single in 1988, as Joy Division's back-catalogue became more critically reappaised with the success of New Order and the moribund far-right no longer being considered a matter of wide scale concern.

Season Two - It's meant to be 1984, but ...

Devo - Whip It

From 1980. Even more ironically, by 1984 the band were virtual pariahs in the United States having 'sold out' their sound for the sake of their New Zealand fanbase (the only place they were ever truly successful). New Zealand wasn't long in following suit ...

Duran Duran - Girls On Film

Arguable. Three years too late - but the song did very heavy rotation in 1983 and 1984 on MTV, bringing them to mass attention, but never became a U.S. hit - it was the follow up, 'Hungry Like The Wolf' which broke the U.S. for them.

The Clash - This Is Radio Clash

Flop single from 1981, except in Sweden where it reached No.9 - a year later.

Shock Therepy - Can Do What I Want

One year too early.

Fad Gadget - Back To Nature

Again, one year too early.

John Carpenter - The Bank Robbery

One of the most infamous show howlers. The song comes from the 1981 movie 'Escape From New York' ... except it never made it to the soundtrack and indeed remained unknown to the general public until making it on a collection of 21st century 'lost' soundtrack tunes.

The best known example of the show's producers self-indulging rather than keeping things on theme.

Season Three -  It's meant to be 1985, but ...

Stray Cats - Rock This Town

Not only was it four years too late, but the band had split two years earlier and were by that time in the zeitgeist regarded as something of a joke - an attempted reunion in 1986 ended in near empty halls and humiliation all round, as by this time more visually appealing bands like King Kurt and The Cramps had taken up whatever rockabilly audience remained.

Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight

This walking abortion of a song from a walking abortion of a band encapsulated everything bland and faux about the 1980s, but it wasn't until the summer of 1986 it appeared.

Go-Go's - Get Up And Go

From 1984 - by which time the Go-Go's had messily folded and were already forgotten. By the following year, the success of Belinda Carlisle further hastened their erasure from the zeitgeist, and it’s only in recent years their ‘legacy’ has been reappraised.

Foreigner - Cold As Ice

Those involved in the show seem to have a major hard on for Foreigner, but putting this song, which sound dated enough upon its release in 1977 - never mind 1985 - was beyond belief.

Trevor Jones - The Pod Dance

Taken from 1983's 'The Dark Crystal' soundtrack - just about the only time having a tune vastly out of place song worked, during the painful to watch sequence where Will attempts to get two of his friends to play a session of Dungeons & Dragons, unable to accept that their interests have moved on to girls - Will's timing being especially poor as both are suffering crises in their respective puppy love lives.

Will - already silly looking enough with his pudding bowl haircut - appears utterly ludicrous to the point of disturbing in a purple wizard outfit complete with hat and starry cloak (he looks like the sort of children's entertainer that gets arrested on child molestation charges), trying aggressively to get his friends to care less.

You'd have to go back to the film 'Ghostworld' for a better sequence of watching childhood friends drifting apart, and 'Stranger Things' succeeded in five minutes what it took a whole film to do, and the choice of music was perfect.

By contrast ...

Dame Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again One of the songs of World War Two, especially to armed forces personnel being sent across the world with the very real prospect of never seeing their loved ones again, it's often been used ironically (eg. the multiple nuclear bomb ending of the film 'Dr Strangelove'), it was also the first single to feature a synthesiser (yes, really!)

Its use at the end of the episode where evil Billy has escaped back to the spider monster thing's lair, knowing now Eleven and the rest of the meddling kids are onto them, is jarring.

Possum River - Stand Up and Meet Your Brother

From 1971 - complete self indulgence. Didn't even go with the carnival sequence.

Yello - Goldrush

A full year too early.

Hmmmmm, onward to Season Four, which is all about The Ginger One, well it will need to have a bloody amazing script to pull it off, as she was someone only stomachable in small doses at the best of times ...

#stranger things #finn wolfhard #noah schnapp #gaten matarazzo #caleb mclaughlin #millie bobby brown #natalie dyer #charlie heaton

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10th June: Mrs. Elton plans an outing

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Read: Vol. 3, ch. 6 [43]; p. 230–231 (“but a little consideration” to “none of it in private”).

Context

Mrs. Elton decides to go ahead with her Box Hill plans sans Sucklings. Emma had previously been inspired by these plans to think of her own, exclusive Box Hill outing; Mr. Weston proposes to Mrs. Elton that they combine the two parties.

We know that this occurs before the “middle of June” (vol. 3, ch. 6 [43]; p. 231); enough time passes before now and the middle of June for Mrs. Elton to have grown “impatient” (ibid.).

Readings and Interpretations

It’s a Small World

Emma’s reflection that she “had never been to Box Hill,” and “wished to see what every body found so well worth seeing,” emphasizes something that has been discussed in earlier write-ups—namely, the insularity of Highbury’s environs, and of Emma’s world in particular. Francis Hart writes:

The world of Emma is most severely restricted [of Austen’s novels] in social size and mobility. Its places are remarkably close together; Emma is Austen’s village novel. Hartfield is set on the edge of Highbury; its grounds are small—there is no protective estate. Harriet’s school is so close that she can come and go twice in a day, and the same is true of Elton’s vicarage. Randalls is a half mile away, Donwell Abbey only a mile off, London at sixteen miles’ distance is close enough for Frank’s supposed haircut jaunt. Yet Emma has not been to the Abbey for a long time; she has never been to Box Hill (seven miles away); she must visit her neighbors the Coles for the first time in ten years. The novel is the steady and often painful expansion and complication of world for one who has arrogantly assumed the sufficiency of her home and her rigidly fixed social station and has found larger spaces only in “that very dear part of Emma, her fancy” (214). (pp. 328–9)

Douglas Murray similarly connects the smallness of Emma’s world with the self-sufficiency and complacency of its heroine:

Emma’s preference for clean, orderly, familiar social environments explains why she has travelled so little. The novel makes clear that she has never visited Box Hill (a short drive of seven miles away (p. 367) or seen the sea—only a day’s journey distance. As far as we know, she has never visited her sister and brother-in-law in London, a mere 16 miles away (p. 91), a distance Frank Churchill travels twice in a single day. During the time of the novel—about a year—Emma visits Donwell Abbey only once, though it lies just one mile from Hartfield. (p. 958)

Secret Severity

Mr. Weston’s enlarging (and thus in effect eradicating) an outing which Emma had intended to be “done in a quiet, unpretending, elegant way, infinitely superior to the bustle and preparations, the regular eating and drinking, and pic-nic parade of the Eltons and the Sucklings” (p. 230), is another evidence of what she terms his too “general” friendship (vol. 3, ch. 2 [38]; p. 208) (see “General Benevolence, Specific Friendship”). Emma, though she does not protest, finds the forbearance difficult: “her outward submission left a heavy arrear due of secret severity in her reflections on the unmanageable good-will of Mr. Weston's temper” (p. 231).

This incident makes up one example called forth in “Regulated Hatred,” D. W. Harding’s famous essay on Jane Austen’s style. James Edward Austen-Leigh’s (Jane Austen’s nephew’s) 1870 Memoir of Jane Austen had promoted an image of his “dear Aunt Jane” as “a homely spinster, an amateur, who avoided literary society, whose writing was squeezed in between the household chores”—overall, as a gentle writer who quietly reproduced the mannerisms which she observed, but had no pretensions to literary greatness or commercial success, and no conscious craft as such (Southam, p. 3). D. W. Harding argues, against this conception of her which had continued largely uncontested through the rest of the 19th and early 20th centuries,1 that Austen is far from “a delicate satirist, revealing with inimitable lightness of touch the comic foibles and amiable weaknesses of the people whom she lived amongst and liked” (p. 347): in fact her work is full of “[u]nexpected astringencies” calculated to allow the “comfortable reader” to “overlook[]” or “misread” them (p. 347). Austen thus gives vent to the satiric views on her society that arise from her “sensitive intelligence,” but without “indulging an exaggerated bitterness” (p. 348): she is motivated by the need to “find[] some mode of existence for her critical attitudes” without causing “open conflict with the friendly people around her […] whose affection she greatly needed” (pp. 351–2).

Harding argues that Emma mirrors Austen’s situation in having friends who “make up the available social world which one could neither escape materially nor be independent of psychologically,” but who are not fulfilling to the intellectual self:

The impossibility of being cut off from objectionable people is suggested […] in Emma, where Mrs. Elton is the high light of the pervasive neglect of spiritual values in social life. One can hardly doubt that Jane Austen’s own dealings with society are reflected in the passage where Mr. Weston makes the error of inviting Mrs. Elton to join the picnic party which he and Emma have planned: [quotes from “Emma could not but feel some surprise” to “agreed to none of it in private”].

This well illustrates Jane Austen’s typical dilemma: of being intensely critical of people to whom she also has strong emotional attachments. (p. 355)

Harding’s reading had a profound influence on subsequent criticism, which was thereafter more voluble and comprehensive on the subject of Austen’s “less congenial tendencies” (Lee, p. 995). Other readings of this scene published after Harding’s also emphasize Emma’s difference from those around her, and her countervailing determination to be able to live with them.2 Linda Bree writes:

Highbury life is largely refracted through Emma, in her speech, her thoughts or in the narrator’s account of her thoughts, as she negotiates a society in which she is half-absorbed, half-stifled. Set above her neighbours by her social position, she is yet further above most of them in her intelligent observation and speed of thought, positive qualities which are leavened by her self-centredness and her ignorance of her own limitations. […] She is often at variance with an ‘official’ view of Highbury life; but while for the most part she makes no active objections—‘Emma denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private’ (p. 383)—her views are revealed to the reader, if not to her neighbours, in explosive asides and subordinate clauses. (p. 93)

Other commenters also point up the combination of Emma’s private severity and overt forbearance. Jan Fergus argues that an “important” “connection” exists “between Mr Knightley’s willingness to keep his ill-humour to himself and such incidents as Emma’s readiness to repress her discontent when Mr Weston injudiciously invites Mrs Elton to join their expedition to Box Hill”:

[Quotes from “so it was to be” to “Mr. Weston’s temper,” pp. 230–1]. Touches like these make Emma the miracle it is. The complexity of response required of a reader is immense. He must register Emma’s faults and virtues at every line, for her snobbery and her consideration are perfectly intermixed. The reader also, sharing Emma’s hearty dislike of Mrs Elton, will be equally indignant at Mr Weston’s ‘unmanageable good-will’, and is as likely as Emma to wish some outlet for this indignation. But annoyance, irritation, ill-humour and indignation are not allowed free expression: they must not be permitted to hurt others. Forbearance is, therefore, of great value in this novel, although not the greatest. Emma’s forbearance here is admirable, and does make one love her. (p. 137)

Joseph Wiesenfarth centers his reading of this incident, not on Emma’s feelings or behavior, but on Mr. Weston’s. For Wiesenfarth, civility is a major concern in Emma and involves navigating similarity (such as all humans’ desires for food and sex) and difference (in rank, class, birth, fortune, and temperament) with respect to others’ situations and feelings. Mr. Weston is uncivil because he fails to account for others’ temperaments:

He so loves company that he invites his son Frank to Mr. Knightley’s strawberry party and invites the Eltons to what Emma thought was her Box Hill party. This leads Emma to comment on “the unmanageable good-will of Mr. Weston’s temper” [vol. 3, ch. 6 [43]; p. 231], which causes problems. […] The domestic John Knightley and the sociable Mr. Weston both fail in amiability as the feelings of others fall victim to their humors. (p. 18)

Discussion Questions

Why has Emma never been to Box Hill, despite the fact that it is a mere five miles from Highbury? Why does she decide to go only after Mrs. Elton has made plans to do the same?

Why does Mr. Weston propose to Mrs. Elton that the Box Hill outings be combined? Is this action morally culpable?

Footnotes

Wendy Lee notes that “The novelist’s less congenial tendencies had been observed by earlier commentators, including Alice Meynell who dubbed her a “mistress of derision” (1894) and Reginald Farrer who described her as “the most merciless, though calmest, of iconoclasts” (1917). While Harding failed to acknowledge such contributions, “Regulated Hatred” comprehended and intensified their readings to such an extent that their views became not only hard to ignore but almost impossible to controvert” (p. 995).

In Harding’s subsequent discussion of Emma, he argues that Emma is in fact less different from her surrounding society than the heroines of Austen’s earlier novels: in Emma, Austen “faces the […] conclusion that even a heroine is likely to have assimilated many of the more unpleasant possibilities of the human being in society” (p. 359).

Bibliography

Austen, Jane. Emma (Norton Critical Edition). 3rd ed. Ed. Stephen M. Parrish. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, [1815] 2000.

Bree, Linda. “Style, Structure, Language.” In The Cambridge Companion to Emma, ed. Peter Sabor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2015), pp. 88–104.

Fergus, Jan. Jane Austen and the Didactic Novel. Houndmills: Macmillan (1983).

Harding, D. W. “Regulated Hatred: An Aspect of the Work of Jane Austen.” Scrutiny 8 (March 1940), pp. 346–62.

Hart, Francis R. “The Spaces of Privacy: Jane Austen.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 30.3 (December 1975), pp. 305–33. DOI: 10.2307/2933072.

Lee, Wendy Anne. “Resituating ‘Regulated Hatred’: D. W. Harding’s Jane Austen.” ELH 77.4 (Winter 2010), pp. 995–1014.

Murray, Douglas. “Donwell Abbey and Box Hill: Purity and Danger in Jane Austen’s Emma.” The Review of English Studies 66.277 (November 2015), pp. 954–70. DOI: 10.1093/res/hgv046.

Southam, B.C., ed. Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage, Volume 2 (1870-1940). London: Routledge, 1987.

Wiesenfarth, Joseph. “The Civility of Emma.” Persuasions 18 (1996), pp. 8–23.

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For Shion

glance: At first glance, what stands out most about your OC's appearance? What's their distinguishing feature?

wardrobe: How big is your character's wardrobe? Do they wear things threadbare, or can they afford new clothes often? Are they any good at mending and repairing their own clothing?

change: Has your OC ever drastically changed their appearance? Significant haircuts, big tattoos, complete wardrobe swap, etc? Why? How do they feel about the change?

Thank you for the ask! <3

glance: At first glance, what stands out most about your OC's appearance? What's their distinguishing feature?

When she was with Rena, Shion's smile stood out the most. She wore her emotions on her sleeve and learned not to fear showing her enthusiasm whenever she felt it. She lost that after Rena's death, and now, five years later, her distinguishing feature is her thick black braid that cascades most of the way down her back and the scar on her left cheek from a wound she received on her first Survey Corps expedition. She's been slowly bringing joy back into her everyday life, but in small, deliberate, hard-won steps.

wardrobe: How big is your character's wardrobe? Do they wear things threadbare, or can they afford new clothes often? Are they any good at mending and repairing their own clothing?

Shion has a limited wardrobe, having lost most of her belongings when humanity abandoned Shiganshina. Pay isn't great in the Survey Corps, but they do receive clothing and gear to support their service, so she rarely needs to purchase additional outfits. Shion's quite good at mending clothing, a skill she learned from Rena -- she actually used that as an excuse to spend more time with her before they started dating. She's also been able to apply that skill (albeit with varying degrees of success) when stitching up wounds in the field.

change: Has your OC ever drastically changed their appearance? Significant haircuts, big tattoos, complete wardrobe swap, etc? Why? How do they feel about the change?

Shion chopped off her hair with a knife in the most acute phase of her grief after Rena's death. She allowed it to grow back without caring for it beyond basic washing and brushing as if its length somehow marked the time she's survived without her. She developed a habit of braiding it back once it got longer, which has worked well enough that she's never bothered to do anything different since then. Hange did insist on a trim when Shion first joined their squad to reduce the chance of her braid getting caught in Things It Should Not Get Caught In (fire, contraptions, etc.). But it's still long enough for Shion to braid as noted earlier.

#thank you for the ask! #OC: Shion Miller #character design OC asks #oof you got me in my Shion x Rena feels here

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Defensiveness

In my work with couples, I often lean on the work of Dr. John Gottman, a clinician and researcher with 40 years of experience studying what makes marriages successful…and what makes them fall apart. Gottman and colleagues cite the practices of curiosity, mutual affection, and turning toward our partners’ bids for connection as relationship strengtheners. Across research, Gottman has identified what he calls the “Four Horsemen of the Relationship Apocalypse,” the behaviors that create the most marital strain1. In this, Part Three of a 4-part series, we’ll be talking about Horseman 3: Defensiveness

We cannot feel ooey-gooey toward and satisfied with our partners all the time. Healthy complaining and grievance-airing (and successive collaboration and/or repair) is a normal part of marriage and partnership. When there’s excess tension or stress in a relationship, a family-of-origin or former relationship history of unhealthy conflict, or if partners air grievances in a critical or contemptuous way, however, it’s common for the recipient of the complaint or grievance to feel attacked or accused. When we feel threatened in this way, it’s easy to jump to martyrdom, victimhood, or excuse-making; this is defensiveness.

Defensiveness in conversation can look like:

Mary: Hey, you said you’d do the dishes after poker night last night and they’re still in the sink. Why didn’t you do them?

Maxine: I TOLD you how tired I was when I got home from work, and you know that poker night goes late sometimes. I’ve been stressed as hell lately and I already do pretty much all the chores around here anyway.

*or*

Joe: It hurt my feelings when you teased me about my haircut in front of your friends.

Devon: It was just a joke! It hurts MY feelings when you act like you’re better than me when we go out with people.

*or*

Sam: Did you get a chance to make Moira’s doctor’s appointment?

Lucy: Why are these things always MY responsibility? I’ve been busy getting the house ready for your parents and I don’t understand why the kids’ appointments always fall on me!

Defensiveness is never productive during conflict because it both reverse-blames our partners and also communicates that we’re not listening to what they’re saying. Defensiveness puts others on the defensive; when we’re both feeling attacked, we get dysregulated, and when we get dysregulated, all bets are off for connected, collaborative conflict resolution. The next time you find yourself feeling ready to defend during a conversation, first, notice your physiology. Relax any tense muscles, breathe into your belly, unclench your jaw. Next, commit to yourself not to speak until you can a.) do so without turning the grievance around on your partner (“but YOU always…”) and b.) without saying “but” or making excuses. Then, own your behavior or, at the very least, find a piece of the complaint for which you can take responsibility. You partner will be far more likely to hear “I’ve just been so tired lately” if you begin with “you’re right. I said I’d do that and I didn’t—let me take care of it right now.” Remember: good communication begins with really listening to one another and letting our people know that we hear what they’re saying. Defensiveness is a fast-track to escalation and devolution, even if we feel like our partners are being overly critical or unreasonable. It’s easier (and feels better in the moment) to jump to excuse-making or counter-attack when we feel threatened or cornered, but here’s the thing: we are always responsible for our own behavior, no matter what our partners say or do. If we take a beat to settle, pause, and own our parts, we’re opening the door to healthier, more effective communication and faster, more connected repair.

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