I think I underestimated how cool it is that Little House books are a "woman remembers her childhood" children's classic by an author from a working-class and rural background. Most working-class books of the genre have urban settings, and most rural girlhood classics come from a family that's in a fairly stable community--maybe not rich, but comfortable enough that they don't have to worry about whether they'll make it through a winter.
Laura Ingalls grew up dirt poor in a family that knew how to grow or build or hunt or make everything that they needed, because they had to. Yet when she grew up, she got into a position where she could publish about it. Which is pretty astounding, because people in her situation are usually too busy doing the farmwork to write about it--they don't have connections to the publishing industry. Yet she did, so we get to hear from someone who knows that farm and small-town setting intimately, and not because she grew up and and ran off to the city as soon as she could escape, but because she still lives it and loves it and advocates for it.
She knows the details of that life and loves it. Like, she genuinely cares about raising the chickens, not as a housewife's hobby, but as an important source of meat, eggs and money for the family. It's grounded, earthy, sensible, but also romantic, because she while she's doing farm work or house work she's noticing the little moments of beauty or thinking about the big issues of life. But it took a long series of coincidences to get this ordinary farm wife into a position of wanting to write, being able to write, and having a national audience for her writing, so I just want to appreciate how amazing it is that it happened.
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From the 2020 Ted Lasso Emmy FYC campaign, or, the only thing that can make season 1 Roy stop insulting Trent:
"'It's because of pricks like you,' he explained to me after Richmond's last-gasp win against Watford on Saturday, reprising his prior description of yours truly -- to my face -- as a colossal prick."
"When I asked him hypothetically, what he would think of not featuring in the first team, Kent replied, 'Hypothetically, if I punched both of your eyes out and stuffed them up your arse, and then told you to walk on your hands, hypothetically, what would you think of that?'"
and actually answer a question is the chance to talk shit about Jamie:
”He doesn’t understand the word ’team’,” said Kent after the match. “For him it’s a dirty word. Whearas dirty words for me are ‘Jamie Tartt’.”
"[...] star striker Jamie Tartt -- who Kent also characterized as 'a f*&$ing prick, even worse than you'."
"[...] if you want to work your way into my 'eart you take, you take Jamie Tartt off the pitch before 'alf time."
"People say fans are there for Tartt, which I find a very depressing thing to hear."
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I FORGOT TO POST THESE EMMA DRAWINGS I MADE A WHILE AGO
It is really badly coloured in with highlighter but that's all I had on me when I made this
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Digimon Survive Week 2023
Day One: Red Spider Lilies
Something for @surviveweek but with my own twist using the Sakuyamon Warrior Mode I designed specifically for Miyuki because I’m in the “Miyuki just wanted to be a normal girl” squad and thought she could be more “feral” instead of going the Miko road :3c
To be honest, I was just going to do this illust for being self indulgent but once I saw the prompt for day 1 decided to use it for it instead :D
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hi everyone!
i'm struggling to put this into words lol
you probably noticed that i've been less and less active on here. the last two months have been very hard on me and i've been in the process of moving blogs for a fresh start to hopefully rekindle my love for writing for myself again.
i don't know what i'll do about this blog yet, i'll probably delete it in march so everyone can enjoy my works for a little longer. i just don't want to be on this blog anymore, it feels tainted with everything that happened in the past few months i've been back on tumblr.
thank you to the 260-something people who follow me and to all the people who gave my works so much love <3 it's very appreciated and i'm hoping that you'll find me on my new blog.
thank you to the mutuals i've made on here, whether we interacted or not, i consider you all my friends. you can still ask for the url of my new blog and for my discord!
i don't really know what else to say.... thank you.
see y'all on the other side <3
lunes
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Fëanorian Week 2023, Day 1: Maedhros
I’m so late with these I’m not even fashionably late. But better late than never (cf. Fingolfin, probably, after finally getting to Middle Earth).
To anyone who went “Hmm I wonder if the theme this year is going to be classical sculpture?”, well, congratulations, you’re right, though I don’t know how you would have guessed that. I was originally going to do something where I based each drawing off the meaning of the name, and since “Maitimo” means “well-shaped one” the first thing that came to mind was a Greek or Renaissance statue. But after finishing it I decided that it had been a lot of fun and I might as well do the rest the same way. And it sort of fit into the whole Fëanorian theme since Nerdanel is a sculptor.
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Why don't you ever reblog other people's art
I do?? All the time. I just do it on a different blog that is reserved for reblogging and personal posts.
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