an underrated detail in pride and prejudice is that elizabeth bennett was home alone on the day darcy proposed because she had a headache. can you imagine. this was in the pre-painkillers era. you're at home with a headache and then this asshole walks into the room and tells you he loves you and wants to marry you even though he hates your whole family and you're beneath him. imagine having to deal with that while also having a headache. she doesn't even have ibuprofen
This is the English word I want to get tattooed on my wrist. It means “to keep breathing even though the water rises all around you.” English is such a mystical exotic language. They can fit so much meaning into so small a word.
if parks and rec was still being made they’d do a bit where ron swanson has to wear a pronouns name tag and it’d just be “???/???” And it’d cut to a talking head of him going
“I’ve been a fool all this time. It’s bad enough the government knows my name, but now they want to know my gender? So I’m not letting them know my preferred pronouns. As far as I’m concerned, no one in this building should refer to me at all.”
the infamous 'last sighting of a barbary lion in the wild' photo taken by marcelin flandrin (1925) haunts me to my core. there's something so achingly poetic about it.
imagine getting distracted from a live slaughter of indigenous people in the middle east because your government (currently actively funding the current genocide) wants you to celebrate the massacring of the indigenous population on This land that they successfully rebranded as a Holiday About Gratitude. like please be serious. please
seeing carlos being so well received and loved is very personal to me because on social media we get bombarded with absolutely horrendous takes about him, and ppl are their most malicious self when it comes to him so actually hearing the screams and chants and shouts and seeing the marshals with stars in their eyes looking at him is just the most beautiful thing ever.
carlos sainz jr deserves the world, and we all need to give it to him