#have my rambling

[eurekavalley]

I'm trying to tease out why I love this little sequence so much, which starts with Anne eavesdropping while Louisa tries to persuade Henrietta to make amends with Henry Hayter. I think it's the stealth protagonist energy that it gives the Musgrove girls while Anne lurks in the bushes. The actress who plays Louisa in particular feels so right - she's fresh-faced and strong-minded (and I keep trying to pick out whether or not it's really her in the Mad Men pilot too? - she has so few credits), but not silly or callous.

I love that the film lets these scenes just kind of roll out of their dynamic. Louisa advocates for Henrietta and her happiness - which no one (Elizabeth...) ever did for Anne - but of course her success means that Wentworth is left for her. The two pairs of sisters in the scene have their own particular dynamics of dependence, dysfunction, control, and care.

I keep reading that Persuasion is impossible to translate to a modern setting because Anne doesn't have agency and seems passive. (Especially sketchy after reading critical interpretations of how Austen purposefully wielded *Wentworth's* inaction and passivity in the Bath chapters!) But imo it's more interesting to think about Anne's agency in relation to how Louisa acts, that they are stretched along an axis of what was possible for youngish women of their station at the time, along with Henrietta, Mary, and even Elizabeth and Sophia, along with all of us. We catch Anne at a particularly low point, but we see how Henrietta is influenced first by Mary, then by Louisa, until it's not certain what she really wants - echoes of Anne's story and how it's not always possible to *know* what the outcome of a choice will be. I think what we (the modern 'we') don't like to engage with, is the idea of Anne's seemingly lost window of opportunity to make her life what she wants, because it still applies more than we like to acknowledge in our era, although it wasn't and isn't absolute.

On top of that, the walk to Winthrop contains a reveal of Anne's agency to Wentworth. Her refusal of a highly respectable match with Charles is a huge strike in favor of herself and her own interests - the core question of the life she wants and the choices she is willing to live with. Anne does not say anything so dramatic here as the speeches Louisa makes to Wentworth, but her choice says, "I'd rather risk living in genteel poverty than commit myself for life to a man I don't love and close off any hopes of my own." (It's the beauty of the storytelling in the novel that we don't know what Wentworth makes of this revelation - whether he takes the Musgrove supposition about Lady Russell to heart or understands that there is more to Anne's choice - until the end of the book, where we learn that he has been living with that very question.

Thank you to Louisa for planting that seed.) So in this, Anne and Louisa are actually more alike than not, like the dark side and the light side of the moon.

I really like the sense of Anne in these scenes as one among many, playing against the ways she stands out to the reader and the moments when Wentworth singles her out with his attention and later with his praise. It brings out the romance in the story - that it's not necessarily virtue or character in the end that is the key to Anne moving on from her situation, she's not being rewarded for anything and there's no moral victory in it, it's just love and communication.

#persuasion 1995 #jane austen #persuasion #idk why this movie still has me in a headlock #oh well!!! #have my rambling #anne elliot #louisa musgrove #blah blah blah

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

#ramble #if you say unalive in front of me i will personally kill you with my hands #you just can't muffle and censor and hold someone's hand through some things #some things are horrible. and they should be spoken aloud and they should upset you. because they are horrible #the second we started kidzbopifying the world was the end of taking anything seriously i think #i'm not even joking i've spoken to people older than me who won't even say the world sex #this isn't the playground you're not going to get in trouble just let us say the word!!!!!! #how am i supposed to listen to you when you won't even say the thing you're supposed to be talking about #yes this is the fault of the platforms with their censorship rules but the fact that we all just go along with it like it's not dystopian #you do know it doesn't stop with cursing right. people are already having to censor queer terms because they get flagged as inappropriate

[goldensunset]

advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love

#peach rambles #you don’t have to get rid of blorbo and squimbus!! they would look great on top of your beautiful new nightstand you’ve been excited about #hall of fame i guess #i get. the sneaking suspicion this post has inspired at least two other posts #to the effect of ‘uhmmm i was ALWAYS excited about these things??’ #yes i did have to do my own chores as a kid prommy. i just didn’t have feelings about stuff yet ok

[cheridraws]

The last character you drew/wrote about is now stuck in the last game you played. How screwed are they?

#what sort of funky crossover do you have!! #my rambles #I’ll go first :] #reigen arataka in scvi. he’s having fun

[whump-it-like-its-hot]

So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?

“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”

And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.

#not whump #more real life ramblings let’s gooooo #EDIT genuinely why is THIS the post that took off #I have muted notifications for this thing mate I didn’t even double check my spelling #and you fuckers ran with it #good for you but also why

[larissa-the-scribe]

guys I had this realization the other day that Redwall works really well for reading aloud, and kinda half-remembered something about the author reading to kids? So I looked it up to see if I had made a connection.

And it turns out, yes, actually, because he read aloud to kids at a school for the blind. But all the books they gave him to read were depressing. So he wrote Redwall, a story about heroism and courage and making it through struggles, and filled it with so many sensory, visual details so he could give them something better and I just-- that's so wholesome-- help

#my theory is that all good childrens books are written with LOVE #and he clearly loved these kids #anyway I got kind of emotional at that #as someone who read Redwall as a kid and was inspired to be brave #also I left this in my drafts for a while oops #but yeah I have feelings #redwall #brian jacques #reading #scribe rambles

[jupiterlandings]

“How is 12 year old Annabeth head of the Athena cabin??”

1. Demi gods have the life expectancy of a lemming.

2. Gifted kids often burn out by age 16 & I doubt any of the Athena teens have the energy or desire to argue with their little sister who willingly takes care of all the family paperwork.

#ramblings #percy jackson #pjo #OMG PEOPLE THIS IS A JOKE I KNOW SHE WAS THERE THE LONGEST #ITS STILL P WILD TO HAVE A 12 YEAR OLD IN CHARGE OF ALL HER SIBLINGS CALM DOWN PLS #I READ THE BOOKS I DID MY TIME LET ME JOKE ABOUT THIS

[liimonadas]

randomly rememebered a very silly maya content creator AU i came up with like 2 years ago. its just dumb fun haha

#this is kind of an extension of my hc/au of having the aa cast be people who grew up in the early 2010s (social media users) #in this au maya is a prolific steel samurai extended universe fandom member and starts making videos in like 2018-2019 #edgeworth also posts online anonymously but it takes him yearsss to show his face online #getting a segment in her massive video essay compels him tho #yea im just rambling abt my goofy ideas atp if you wanna know more i can share #maya fey #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #ace attorney #fanart #art

[ceaseless-rambler]

Being bullied on tumblr dot com (people keep reblogging my awful posts)

#youd think I'd have learned my lesson from spumblr #or shreople #or any of the others #and then the jon h sims post gets 200 notes #it deserved a handful of pity likes #yhe mechanEYEzed joke deserves notes though. reblog that one #ceaseless rambles

[piecesofbrokenrecollections]

AJ: AA is 50% Apollo trying too hard to sound cool in front of Klavier and 50% Klavier twirling his hair in reaction to it

#ace attorney #klavier gavin #apollo justice #klapollo #apollo justice: ace attorney #eleanor's ramblings #i wish i actually had some klav-playing-with-hair screenshots but my klapollo-soup brain can only do so much #anyway have some classic 'hiya' content

[puppyeared]

learned something about myself lately

#i dont think its even the fact almost all my characters are somewhat beasts in one way or another. i just #really like tails and wish i had one myself #and then my oc designs are a little tame theyre mostly human shaped with animal features. but they always have tails #my eyes have recently been opened to the appeal of long whiplike unicorn tails.. so flowy and curly #something about the tuft at the end being long and swirly just does something for me.. #maybe it would make sense to change auggies tail shape so it looks like a meteor. her design is mainly pink with hot pink accent #so it would be cool to use that and orange to make it look like a fire meteor.. maybe itll help complement the blue/green in her design #head full of ocs today so expect a ramble later #if i had a tail i think it would be long with a kink. so it kind of folds over once but not in a curl #when it wags its kind of a swaying motion. i have thought about this a normal amount #yapping

[citricacidprince]

Was forced to get a new phone today

#Bluetooth earbuds are the bane of my fucking existence and I hate them so fucking bad #I NEED those wired buds to fiddle with my hands when I’m anxious #I also like not having to fucking CHARGE the things I’m listening to stuff with #I hate this future this sucks bootyass #prince rambles in this chilies tonight

[goldensunset]

feel free to elaborate in tags of course on how easy or hard cosplaying them would be

bonus question: how much do you WANT to look like your icon. like are they the goal you aspire to

#peach rambles #if i see anyone vote the first option i’m shooting them be warned #hall of fame i guess #<- not often that i get to add that tag a matter of mere hours after posting something #tbh i confess i didn’t structure these options well. i could not have imagined the wide variety of responses i’d get #my bad

[bizarrelittlemew]

i can't wait to be 30+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 40+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 50+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 60+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 70+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 80+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 90+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to look back on my life and know that i loved things deeply and passionately and was inspired to create and was part of communities with incredible people from all over the world brought together by the stories that touched us

#and still be mad at shithead executives for unfairly cancelling my pirate show #also imagine what my ao3 word count will be like. gonna be writing my little fics in the nursing home #sometimes when i get frustrated over my writing i have to remember that i've only been doing it for a little over a year #and not in my native language #there is still so much time and so much to learn and try and discover and explore and i am EXCITED #there is something so ancient and beautiful about humans being brought together by stories #storytelling is what humans have always done and will always do and what will always connect us #to our past to the future to each other #sorry for the 1 am ramblings #fandom #🐭📓

[the-one-who-lambs]

This is a super super gentle reminder not to put your favorite authors on a pedestal. We're real people living average lives and not trying to be influencers. We criticize ourselves enough and we don't want to be held to an invisible standard (we start to worry we fail to exceed our own selves) or compared to other writers (we are not competing) or tailor our craft to cater to a wider audience (the right people will find you).

#hannah's rambles #compliments are great!! #sensationalizing me is making me a little uncomfy. #got an ask that seemed pretty well intentioned but i couldn't tell for sure. #yall dont have to write as much as i do or interpret things the same way or think of my writing style as the ultimate finish line. #writers on tumblr

[caruliaa]

staff still hasn't given me polls, what should i do?

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their moms 69%

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their dads 31%

grace image os i get to look at her

#edit: edited the og post to what i want but to set the record straight i edited to the post to be mathematically correct right after the #first person pointed it out which was like ten mins after i posted the og post. now fuck offf !!!!! the rest of the tags r from the og post #for some reason i feel very immature making your mom jokes about tumblr staff. which i shldnt !! #bc they suck nd they still havent given me polls. but i ig i feel imature bc it a your mom joke 😭 but still i tihnk its kinda funny #EDIT: edited the post to what i want bc yall were getting annoying . but to set the record straight i edited to post to be mathematically #also its *mum* not mom okay i am NOT !! an american . but if i say mum everyone will j be like 'omg british' like i dont know i am #anyway. i want polls please. give me the rigght to force my mutuals chose between the most inane things #also i tihnk it wld b cool for the cs weekly blog. like w each episode #i cld do a poll of like. out of five stars what do u think of this ep #and it wld b a cool thing of which eps r ppls faves #also i cld have like. whose ur fave in team red whos ur fave in acme etc #id prob just have to go with vile faculty bc theres more than 10 ppl in vile. and ppl wld kill me if i didnt include nel the ell or whoever #it wld b fun !!! #oh btw csweekly thats i thing i want to start. prob on uhhh the 11th of feb ill post abt it more but its basically #a tag/blog for watching cs one ep a time watching one ep every saturday #ya !! :3 #flappy rambles #inaccessible #ask to tag #(<- idk. just in case)