Pride and Prejudice (1980)
Dir. Cyril Coke

nobodywhoishere:

the twitter migrants complaining about the way tumblr functions are so funny because they will say things like “you mean i have to FOLLOW people? i dont get posts spoon fed to me by an algorithm???” like yeah these are positives on an unrelated note is your attention span doing alright

Reached 3x17 of Sabrina, the episode where Salem takes over Gordie’s body, Wonder Woman 1984 style, and I have two main thoughts:

1. All Valery’s relationships are so cute, IF ONLY THEY ALLOWED THEM TO LAST MORE THAN ONE SINGLE EPISODE.

2. I’m starting to fear this is going to be a case of “came here for Josh, stayed for Gordie”.

green-mug-tomato-juice:

oh my god i try and try to get into new tv shows but nothing calms my nerves like 90s star trek. new shows are so exhausting in their continuity. like i can’t watch an episode of say umbrella academy and feel relaxed because you never get a sense of resolution within an episode. you get cliffhanger after cliffhanger. and i am actually enjoying that show. but i know i will never watch that it again when i’m done because watching it feels like running a marathon where it’s like i HAVE to keep going, just 30 more kilometers until i actually get to feel a little at peace about this world and these characters i’ve invested myself in. what i like about watching star trek is that i can tune in, watch a storyline unfold and resolve in 45 minutes, and still know that it’s not the end. the show trusts that i will tune in for more episodes, not because i need to see a cliffhanger resolved, but because i like the world it’s created and i want to spend time with it again. that’s what i want from serial storytelling, to give me a little excitement and a little peace every evening, not to have my eyes glued to the screen for hours on end because i can’t help wanting to know what happens next.

southfarthing:

the beginning and the breaking of the fellowship…….. im reacting to this in a very ordinary way btw

taciturn-nerd:

earlgreyandanime:

Willoughby: Please, Ms. Dashwood, just let me explain! Maybe then you’ll hate me a little less. You see, when I first met your sister, she fed my vanity, and so I kept paying attention to her for my sake and didn’t care about her own feelings at all.

Me:… In what universe is this little speech meant to help you?

Willoughby:… and I never had a lot of money, but that didn’t stop me from behaving like I did and surrounding myself with rich friends I could take advantage of. I knew I had to marry someone with money to support the lifestyle I wanted, and I also knew that your sister was far too poor to provide that kind of money for me.

Me: Seriously, why are you still talking?

Willoughby:… Then I realized I actually cared about your sister! And I was going to tell her, but then my one rich relative, who I’m supposed to inherit from, found out I seduced, impregnated, and abandoned a young woman. She threatened to take me out of her will unless I married the woman, but I couldn’t possibly do that! And since that meant I would be denied my inheritance, I would have to marry someone rich because I like expensive things. So, I broke up with your sister and prayed I would never have to see her again.

Me: I would love nothing more than to jump into this book and strangle you.

Willoughby:… I remember the day I left your sister. I saw her heart break, and I hated myself for it! I was tortured!

Me: You deserve to be tortured.

Willoughby:… When I found out you were both in town and that she still cared about me, I realized I still cared about her, but by then, I was engaged. So, I decided to avoid you, but I also followed you around the city quite a bit, and I’m so lucky neither of you ever noticed me watching!

Me:…. I have no response to this….

Willoughby:… How miserable I was during that time! In love with your sister but engaged to another! And when we met at the party, your sister, so beautiful, wanting an explanation and my fiance jealous. What agony I was in!

Me: You did this to yourself!

Willoughby:… Your sister wrote me a letter. Remember? Well, my fiance saw it and was suspicious, so she told me what to write as a reply. I hated to do that to your sister but I was already engaged and I needed her money! Don’t feel bad for her, though. She knew I didn’t love her when we married. So, Ms. Dashwood, have I made you hate me a little less? Do you see that I actually did love your sister and suffer for all the pain I caused her?

Elinor: Yes, you’ve redeemed yourself a tiny bit.

Me: Elinor, you are a better woman than I.

Willoughby: Well, it’s time for me to go and continue my miserable life. I will never be happy in my marriage, but it’s nice to know you wish me well. Marianne is completely lost to me, isn’t she? Even if I were to ever become free of my marriage-

Me: Are you serious right now?!

Willoughby: Alright then, I will return to my own life and continue in dreadful suspension, waiting for the day that Marianne marries another. Goodbye.

Me: Again, you did this to yourself.

Willoughby: Woe is me, I’ve had to do things to avoid slight discomfort because of actions I’m solely responsible for! I can’t be with the woman I love because I have needs! Expensive needs!!!

The Jane Austen fandom: Are you kidding me???

Honestly, I think one of the best bits of writing in this novel is how Austen tells us, almost in passing, that for a moment after this conversation, Elinor wishes he were a widower so he could marry Marianne; it’s a great sign that, while Elinor is sensible and wise beyond her years, in some ways she’s still a 19 year old girl, with her own deep emotions and biases.

I also dearly love how this conversation is done in the 4 hour BBC radio drama. The tone the actor uses to say “because I was a libertine, she must be a saint.”… perfection. So hateable.

manywinged:

manywinged:

i like the term “gallows humor” because it always makes me think of someone getting sentenced to death and being like “i have GOT to be the funniest person at my public execution”

ALT

Sir Thomas More, who was a man in all his lifetime that had an excellent vein in jesting, at the very instant of his death, having a pretty long beard, after his head was upon the block, lift it up again, and gently drew his beard aside, and said, “This hath not offended the king.”

Francis Bacon, Apophthegms

brilliantyears:

pangur-and-grim:

funyarinpaa:

pangur-and-grim:

twitter is broken today 😭 are there any other ways that people search for anthologies to apply to?

might not be broken actually! Might be working as intended!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672?t=Vz-o-KCqBCFe4Yn5InM-YQ&s=19

OH FUCK! okay twitter is dead, that’s amazing. this is a death blow. does he not understand that the platform relies on addictive doom scrolling, and that people actively want to quit but can’t because it activates all the right brain chemicals? this is wonderful for me at least, with Elon’s help I can finally kick this particular addiction.

also not sure if anyone noticed, but you can’t look at tweets anymore unless you have an account and are logged in

i’m sure the advertisers are delighted!

warcrimesimulator:

Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile

Photos [1, 2] by Jane Drumsara

catherinegraffam:

I recreated Caravaggio’s “Judith Beheading Holofornes” in Kid Pix Studio from 1995 using a mouse

cuppatealove:

thebirdandhersong:

every time I start thinking negatively about physically aging I remind myself of the time I asked my mom if she would dye her hair like other Asian moms commonly do when their hair starts going grey/white and she just looked and me was like (I’m paraphrasing but this was the general feeling) No. I earned these. I’m keeping them

How utterly glorious

amerlos: