I bought myself a couple pair of pants a few months ago and they fit me perfectly then, however I have thickened around the middle over the past few months and the pants no longer fit properly. They squeeze my innards up into my rib cage and it is very uncomfortable and I've decided for good that I hate conventional pants
Worst pants.
So to fix that I am going to be making myself a couple of pairs of pants next week on my days off. The best pants are big loose floppy pants, and those go with my comfy Goblin aesthetic anyway. The only thing that I'm going to need to add to the comfy pants patterns I have is many large pockets, so I can still carry all my stuff
Best pants. (Still insufficient pocketry.)
I know part of it is that I've got a more Loaf lifestyle than I'd like, so I'll be adding a couple hours of exercise to my week as well as making comfort pants. And maybe in a few months the icky pants will fit better
But for the immediate future I need pants that don't bisect my body like a rubber band around a hardboiled egg
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I just watched Persuasion (2022) and I am beyond upset. I watched it with my parents so I had to sit through the entire thing. They don't know much about the Regency Era and they haven't watched any other period dramas so they think that piece of trash is actually a good adaptation.
"He's a ten and I don't trust a ten." WTF?????? Persuasion is my favourite Austen novel and the way they literally ruined Anne is sick.
What was your first reaction to watching it? I wish I could wash all of it away. Any words of comfort that will hopefully cleanse my mind?
I'm so happy you sent this because I've been working up a little rant.
The reason Anne is so wrong, with her near hatred of her own family, rolling her eyes at the camera, the fact that they gave her masculine leaning clothes even, is that Book! Anne Elliot is the poster girl for the unseen, unacknowledged, and underappreciated labour of women.
There is something very fundamental to women's experiences from Austen's time to ours (and I'm sure before) where women do the dirty, mindless, emotional, and unpaid labour that keeps our whole society rolling and get zero credit. And yeah, it's getting better but this problem IS NOT FIXED. Now Anne is upper class so she's not mopping the floor, but this is her experience. Anne plays piano without thanks because without her no one can dance. Anne watches the sick kid so her sister can go to a party. Anne smooths over all the little arguments so that the family can function. She visits sick friends (lifted right out of the movie). She gives and gives and gives of herself and she's "just Anne". Because nothing she does is showy or important in the eyes of the world even though it is vital.
One of the worst scenes in Persuasion 2022 (I mean it's hard to pick there are so many), is how Mary basically manipulates Anne into staying back with little Charles. In the book, Anne clearly has the idea first and offers. In the movie, Mary has the idea and Anne rolls her eyes and groans before offering.
No!
Anne in the book is constantly giving of herself without complaint. Also, she does not want to see Wentworth for the first time! It's going to be painful for her, so she does something selfless but also spares herself from distress.
In that scene in 2022, Anne is a doormat giving in to her ridiculous sister. She also deeply regrets not going to dinner. In that scene in the book, Anne is a compassionate sister who after first attempting to reconcile Mary to her duty, offers to take over. She makes the choice of her own volition and she doesn't regret it.
She knew herself to be of the first utility to the child; and what was it to her if Frederick Wentworth were only half a mile distant, making himself agreeable to others?
It's this complex and emotional scene that was just ruined.
The triumph of Anne Elliot is not just getting Wentworth back, it is that people begin to see and acknowledge her labour and value. The Musgroves are absolutely devoted to her after she helps Louisa. Wentworth sees her worth and declares it in front of everyone. One of the best moments in the book is:
"but if Anne will stay, no one so proper, so capable as Anne."
SHE IS FINALLY SEEN! And valued, and loved! Not romantically (though that too) but because everyone (except Sir Walter and Elizabeth) finally realize how much they need her. The woman who stayed back from a dinner party to nurse a sick child becomes the person they need in a crisis. She goes from the last thought of to the first. In Anne, the necessity of women's labour is finally recognized.
Persuasion 2022 DESTROYED that, and it's infuriating.
Everything else sucks too. To finally give us the scene where Wentworth takes the kid off of Anne but then make him call her stupid? Gah! I was cringing so hard it was painful.
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Ya know what fuck it here's the story of how me and Loki got together!
It started when I was like 14 or 15 during the battle of New York and I had Loki confused as hell because I kept using my teleportation powers to fake him out. By this I mean I would act like I was going to punch him from the right, teleport and punch him from the left. He of course got tired of this and threw my ass off of a fucking roof (spoiler alert it didn't work considering the teleporting power). Well Thor took him to asguard and ya know it was cool for a while he was gone I was still on midguard and then Thor randomly showed up with Dr.Foster and asked if I wanted to go to Asguard, which I obviously said yes to. While there we of course were told we couldn't leave because of the dark elves so I spent my time talking to Loki about books and poetry and songs and all that because as much as I love Thor, he just doesn't have the knowledge like that to challenge me in a conversation like Loki does. Well Loki ended up faking his death and we just thought that was it for a while until Thor and he showed up in England which I coiencidentally was in London at the time so I saw them looking at the demolished old folks home and ended up tagging along with them because why not? so we fought a little with Hela and me and Loki ended up getting trapped on Sakaar and the grandmaster was going to have me fight until Loki just randomly said "no their mine" (yes I had an issue with him and voiced it later because at this point he was saving me from fighting which I really didn't want to do) so we ended up having to share a room and had a really loud conversation until we angrily confessed to each other
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Seth shopping for pants: I swear none of these fit bc of my butt.
Boo: we can go to a different st-
Alphonse checking himself out in a mirror: yeah you got a bubble butt, dw it makes you look good.
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