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what if suho transmigrated into royalty though? Would he still not actually like that? Afterall if let's say he is the son of a king or rich duke will he be ok with being tied to royalties since he is rich from the beginning? Excluding if the royalty family is horrible and people are planning to revolt against them?

i mean. i guess?? lloyd's main issue with royalty or being close to it is the danger it inherently involves.

he doesn't like the idea of being involved in any politics and that's exactly what happens when you're close to or part of the royal family. he'd much rather be the son of baron in the middle of nowhere that a well-off aristocrat.

sure being rich is nice, but if it comes with the dangers of being involved in a rebellion or a conspiracy it simply isn't worth it.

i think people overestimate how money oriented lloyd is. like. yes he does want to be rich, yes he does want to get as much money as he can, but it's not really about the money itself. it's about the safety and security it represents.

going into debt and losing all their money is what killed his parents and sunk him into a life of misery back in korea. lloyd is genuinely traumatized by that. him wanting to gain as much money as possible is all about him desperately trying to avoid being in the same situation that caused him so much pain. i joked about it before but it's literally the trauma that makes him have so many back up plans when it comes to his income sources.

i think if lloyd had been isekai'd into a family that wasn't on the brink of bankruptcy he wouldn't have tried to get rich nearly as hard as he did in canon. he woke up in a very triggering situation, where he was given the chance to avoid letting his new family fall apart the way he couldn't with his original one. of course he went over board with it.

but being rich and in danger isn't really any better in his mind. he wants a stable and comfortable life, not a particularly lavish one. being part of the royal family or the son of a rich duke maybe very comfortable, but there will always be a part of him worrying about whether he's about to be involved in a political mishap or a rebellion or what have you.

lloyd wants security. safety. to be able to protect his family and keep them happy. just that.

“It will be just burdensome for me to obtain more power, larger territories, a stronger military, or something along that line. I’ll be kept away from leisure to deal with it all. Doesn’t it seem like a lot of work? Thus, my only wish is for my family and the people around me to be at ease and happy. I want to live the rest of my life surrounded by their warmth without another day of work.” “And that is why the Jewel of Truth is a burden to you?” “Yes, since I already have everything necessary to make my dream come true. Nothing more is needed. So long as I stop the restoration of destiny, I’ll be able to achieve my goal. Anything beyond that would just become a stumbling block to my dream.”

i guess if there was a way for him to be absolutely sure that there was no danger at all for the family he was born into then he wouldn't mind? which i suppose he could use the ending spoiler for that but. i think a part of him would always worry. a part of him would always be on guard.

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every-chopper · 6 days

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#One Piece #Tony Tony Chopper #Ch: 313 #Arc: Long Ring Island #with: sanji #with: zoro

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everyroronoazoro · 2 years

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#one piece #roronoa zoro #arc: long ring long land #ch: 313 #with: nami #with: sanji

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crabapplebread · 1 year

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both ran and shinichi are pretty well spoken and insightful

AWWWW ❤️

i love this shot, it's so picturesque and shows haibara's development as well, just so beautiful overall

Vol. 31, Ch. 313

#dcmk #mouri ran #haibara ai #detective conan

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annasolowalker · 1 year

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"Live however you want."

Black Clover, Ch.313☘

#black clover #black clover manga #yami sukehiro #black clover asta #finral roulacase #vanessa enoteca #gauche adlai #grey black clover #henry legolant #manga coloring

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leportraitducadavre · 1 year

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Naruto re-read XXVI

Chapters covered: 209 - 217 Twentyfourth Volume of the manga

Site used: https://manga4life.com/manga/Naruto (VIZ translation of the manga)

Disclaimer: This is intended as a list and simple observations of the topics that particularly interested me in the aforementioned chapters, in that sense, do not expect a linear -or totally deep- analysis.

Tumblr’s update doesn’t allow me to attach more than 10 pictures, therefore, all of them will be LINKED. Apologies.

306) Hinata appears on the Chapter’s cover, her hands are dispositioned in her usually anxious manner but she’s seen smiling, she seems to be waiting. It’s unclear what she has to do with it.

307) Shikamaru states that it’s “against his code” to strike a lady (x), despite her being a kunoichi and the one that’s confronting him and keeping him from reaching and helping Naruto. Yet, because Tayuya doesn’t fit the “definition” of what a woman is (she’s on her Lv2 stage, which shapes her human form to something more monstrous), he’s okay with using violence to defeat her (she blocks his attempt regardless).

Now, I know that this particular aspect of his character is, as I’ve said before, to establish Temari as his romantical interest (x), she doesn’t break his preconceived notions, as some believe, she simply becomes the sole exception to his mentality, yet having a shinobi not willing to take an enemy seriously nor strike them down for the sole premise of their gender it’s strategically dangerous, and a person with such “moral code” can’t be leading an entire platoon of people (x).

308) Shadow Paralysis consumes a big portion of the user’s chakra, and again, it works by how much chakra the enemy possesses (x), as Tayuya increases her horns’ size (she increments her chakra by accessing further stages of the seal) and his shadow-strangle-technique is forced back.

309) Sasuke’s body, which has been sealed inside a dark fog to prevent him from dying after taking Seishingna Pills, seems to be ready and re-emerges (x):

“Seishingan pills (x), apparently, the Curse Mark Orochimaru gave his pupils (including Anko, likely she never took Seishingan pills and that’s why we never see her transformed into a “monster-like” figure like the Sound Four or Sasuke) boosts their strength but it’s only in the First Stage. This medication awakens the Seal’s power, raising it to its Second Stage, but the moment the Seal develops, the Curse eats away the user’s body, which if left unattended will surely kill them. To prevent this from happening, the user must acclimatize their body to the Seal’s power and Cursed effect for an extended period of time; the Sound Four want to prevent Sasuke from dying using a barrier Jutsu to control the side effects -inducing him into a comma of sorts.” (x)

310) When Sasuke wakes up, he ignores Naruto’s attempt to return to Konoha. Naruto, remembering Sakura’s plead, tries to follow (x), gets almost killed by Kimimaro and saved by Lee (x), whose shinobi career was saved by Tsunade (x).

311) Ino is the next one, appearing on the cover of CH 210 (x).

312) Kimimaro states that Lee isn’t as “easy” as the others, it’s unknown if he’s referring to the rest of the team or to Naruto specifically (x)

313) A little explanation of how a Jönin squad lost against the Sound Four (x), Tsunade sent an entire group of Gënin (with no backup) against a team that she was told won against full-fledged shinobi. She even attaches Sasuke’s value as a Sharingan Wielder (she doesn’t even mentions him by name, but the doujutsu he possesses); Jönin and Chünin were sent either to missions to gather wealth for the realm or to Konoha’s border to monitor possible dangers to avoid war –strange how a village decimated by destruction and whose numbers dwelled considerably after the invasion relies on small groups of shinobi keeping guards to avoid armed conflict instead of trying to solidify a political nexus in between Konoha and potential invaders. It’s likely more a plot device introduced by Kishimoto to give the gënin squad a chance to fight strong enemies without Konoha’s elite interfering but it doesn’t change the fact that, bureaucratically, Tsunade made a mistake as not only she sent gënin with immense potential (the Hyuga prodigy, the Nara and Akimichi heirs and the nine tails Jinchuuriki) to a dangerous situation that goes beyond their capabilities but also compromised further Konoha’s military and political situation.

314) Lee escaped Konoha’s hospital and found Naruto fighting Kimimaro (x) so following the trail of the team is possible and more gënin could be sent as support to guarantee a better success rate at recovering “the Sharingan”, is Tsunade unaware of how many gënin Shikamaru took? Lee consumed Tsunade’s alcohol which makes him particularly violent (x).

315) Kimimaro is very beautiful (x) and his Kekkei Genkai is incredible: It gives him complete control over his osteoblasts and osteoclasts (x); while the human body is composed of two hundred bones, Kimimaro can grow more from every part of his body and pierce his skin in order to use them as weapons against his enemies or defend his organs against attacks; it appears that his skin regenerates as he’s seen without open wounds after the bones disappear. Apparently, according to Kabuto, the Kaguya clan was whipped out by the nation of Kirigakure and Kimimaro was the last survivor (x), Orochimaru states that the clan never left behind the prototypical behaviour of the families during the Warring States Period (x) and when trying to go against a “well-governed body” that likely surpassed their numbers, they found their demise. It’s unclear why they went against Kiri, albeit it wouldn’t be strange if it was a response against the Kekkei Genkai cleansing.

Kimimaro’s death is all the more tragic when we learn he thought Orochimaru will keep him alive by remembering him and having him in his heart (x), yet that turns out to be a wish he will not have, as Orochimaru doesn’t care for him (x). Later on, it’s Juugo the one who keeps his memory alive, as he follows Sasuke when he becomes a cage for him, reminding him of Kimimaro.

316) Continuing from point 314. Tsunade did send reinforcements when she asked for the Sand siblings (x) and they were able to reach all of them in time to save them: Kiba, Shikamaru, and Lee did not win against the Sound ninja, rather, they lost and were saved by the siblings; and while them three are particularly strong as all of them reached the third stage of the Chünin Exams, while the rest of the Konoha Gënin didn’t, why rely on someone at least three days away?

317) “I owe Konoha a great debt.” (x) Considering Shinobis’ nationalistic mindset and how the individuals are linked to their village of provenance it’s not strange that Gaara associates the place of origin of the one that actually saved him to Naruto himself, so by helping Konoha, he helps Naruto by direct association. He likely ignores the fact that hadn’t been for Hashirama, he wouldn’t have become Shukaku’s jinchuuriki, as it was Konoha’s first Hokage the one that decided to cage the tailed beasts inside vessels to distribute their power amongst the newly formed ninja villages.

Temari admits that her actions during the invasion (and her actions now) weren’t of her choosing nor personal preference, as she was/is simply “following orders” (x). It’s established that shinobi do not compromise their moral parameters when performing a mission, as they simply justify their conduct by establishing another person in a higher rank or the structure in place as directly responsible for everything they do; in the same manner, these principles are never to compromise the village’s political gain and military power, so they either morph to fit Konoha’s, get repressed as to them not interfering with the mission at hand, or grow to become a direct opposition to the village’s.

Gaara’s sentence about “how sad it is” that Orochimaru brainwashed Kimimaro (x) is paradoxical considering how his devotion to the Sannin is no different from his devotion to Naruto, Suna, or even Konoha. He gloats about how an entire kin will cease to exist as he’ll kill the last member in lieu of the mission he was given; Kimimaro dying regardless as a consequence of his disease (x, x) –and he did as they admitted they won by mere luck, does not modify Gaara’s overall antithetical behavior as he did not eliminate nor reduced his manners but rather he modified his violent conduct to be in favour of his village and those he considers allies (x) while Naruto, on the other hand, refuses to use killing force.

318) Temari has a summon: a kamaitachi (x) –The kamaitachi, translated from Japanese as the sickle stoat; is a Yōkai from Japanese folklore with a mustelid-like appearance and extraordinary speed. "Kama" is a kind of Japanese sickle, also used with some modifications as a weapon by the peasants of the time. Itachi means weasel. He is always armed with a sickle or according to other versions of such shaped claws, occasionally inflicted cuts or scratches on people for no reason.

Summoning: Quick Beheading Dance (Kuchiyose: Kirikiri Mai)

Ninjutsu, B-rank, Offensive, All ranges User(s): Temari

Roaring whirlwind!! The rampaging and slashing dance of the Kamaitachi!!

Temari of Sunagakure controls the wind with a massive fan!! She whips up a tempest, and summons a Kamaitachi that rides the winds slashing through everything it touches!! The effects of the jutsu stretch outwards for several hundred metres. The swirling winds also whip up the mowed-down trees and boulders which rain down on the helpless enemy!! It is highly effective when surrounded on all sides or when the enemy is hiding behind a shield. The sole weakness of the jutsu is that it exposes the user’s position.

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"I may not look the part, but I am quite devout. So, since it would be a pain to have to NOT kill you… why don't we just solve this via negotiation? Come on, just surrender already and come along quietly.” - Hidan to Yugito Nii, ch. 313

Hidan’s negotiation skills are truly legendary.

#about tag tbt.#( canon facts baby. she came along… not so quietly.#Hidan failed his charisma roll on this lil speech. )#( yeah Nero. he’d be SOOOO persuasive. truly. )

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Is the S6 anime going to end uraraka's speech? Tbh I'm really looking forward to the tdbk shoulder touch and bakugo wearing his tie if animated.

Not sure.

Ep 14 adapted only Ch 296, but half of it was recap.

Ep 15 is called Tartarus and looks like will adapt 297 and 298 (including the hospital scenes)

Then this is where I get a bit hesitant - whether they will just dump both Hawks and Touya backstories into the same episode - it feels a bit much. If they pad it out Ep 299-300 could make Ep 16 and then 301-303 could be Ep 17.

Then the Vestige world episode leading to Deku leaving UA would be Ep 18 (Ch 304-306)

Ep 19: Muscular fight (307-309) - this one will probably have some flashbacks to who Shindou is and then maybe the first fight

Ep 20: 310-312/313? - Maybe Ink flashbacks, Vestiges and the mutant girl plus a cliff-hanger with Nagant

Ep 21: 313-315 -Nagant exploding

Ep 22: 316-318 - Villa, ditching All Might, Kamino and Bakugou arriving

Ep 23: 319-321 - Class A, first half of the Class A vs OFA - though this could be padded to be just 319 + some anime original content

Ep 24: 322- 324: "It's his hero Academia"

Ep 25: 325 -327: Maybe ending with the bath chapter

I feel like we definitely won't get to Star & Stripes - max as a teaser.

But I think also that "Rest" is a really good chapter to end the season on.

The timing greatly depends on though how much flashbacks they'll do. Unfortunately, there is a risk in the Class A fight, that they'll just pad it with scenes that the kids mention when they talk to Deku (sort of like how the JTA arc went). There is also a possibility of them adding some anime-original content to the Class-A side of things. Usually there is a "filler" episode, so the kids patrolling around UA, training with the pussycats or helping their parents move into the evacuation center would kind of lend itself to filler kind of content.

#c1a asks #bnha s6

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11th August: News of another engagement makes the rounds

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Read: Vol. 3, ch. 18; pp. 309–316 (“Time passed on” to “which this comparison produced”).

Context

Robert Martin visits Mr. Knightley in the morning and shares the news of his engagement. Mr. Knightley brings the news to Emma at Hartfield. In the evening, Emma and Mr. Woodhouse go to Randalls, where they meet Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill.

We know that this occurs a “few” days before the party from London arrives in Highbury (p. 309); two days after Robert Martin proposed (given that he “came down by yesterday’s coach” after proposing in the evening, p. 310); and “five weeks” after Harriet learned of Mr. Knightley’s engagement (vol 3, ch. 18 [54]; p. 313).

Readings and Interpretations

Some News

Soon after he has arrived at Hartfield from London, Knightley sets about telling Emma of Harriet’s engagement. He first makes a failed attempt at getting Emma to ‘read his mind’ (“‘Does nothing occur to you?—Do not you recollect?’”); he then asks if Emma has heard the news from Harriet herself, concluding from Emma’s reaction to the mention of Harriet’s name that “‘you have, I believe, and know the whole’” (p. 309). This latter failed attempt at ‘mind-reading’ gives the lie to the state of perfect openness that Knightley had formerly praised, pointing both to the specifics of Emma’s secrets regarding Harriet and to the general imperfection of “human disclosure”—but it also points up the estrangement that has caused Emma to hear this news from Knightley, not Harriet.

Still mistaking the matter, Knightley tries to avoid the topic of what he assumes will be Emma’s displeasure: “‘Time, you may be very sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject’” (p. 310). In part, Knightley’s magnanimity may be due to the fact that this argument is old ground. But some critics also suggest that Knightley has better manners and a more active sense of sympathy at this point in the novel (see Larrow, Kenney).

When she does hear the news, Emma, who has lately mistaken Harriet about the subject of their discourse, half-jokingly suggests that Knightley may have done the same in his conversation with Martin (“‘might not you, in the confusion of so many subjects, mistake him?’” (p. 311)). Juliet McMaster writes that this scene provides an example of “Jane Austen’s consummate artistry in dialogue,” and demonstrates “Emma’s developed sensitivity to other people’s talk” (p. 40):

The two sides [genders] specialize, as they both recognize: women in relationships and “particulars,” men in business, farming, and the general and abstract. When Mr. Knightley tells Emma of Harriet’s engagement to Robert Martin, after her initial disbelief she prods him: “‘Well, now tell me every thing; make this intelligible to me. How, where, when?’” [p. 310]. He responds succinctly, and adds, “Your friend Harriet will make a much longer history when you see her.—She will give you all the minute particulars, which only woman’s language can make interesting.—In our communications [that is, men’s] we deal only in the great.” [ibid] He is being playful, but he means it too. And sure enough, Harriet does later provide “every particular of the evening at Astley’s” when Robert received the encouragement he needed [vol. 3, ch. 19 [55]; p. 317]. And presently Emma proceeds to parody male discourse to Mr. Knightley: “Did you not misunderstand [Robert Martin]?—You were both talking of other things; of business, shows of cattle, or new drills. . . .—It was not Harriet’s hand that he was certain of—it was the dimensions of some famous ox.” [p. 311] How dare she suppose him such a blockhead? he proceeds. It is lovers’ talk, playfully continuing the stimulating opposition that has characterized their relation throughout. And despite the characteristic gender differences, each can enter the discourse of the other to some extent. Emma can convincingly ask her question about the bailiff when keeping the peace in the early family gathering [vol. 1, ch. 12; p. 68]; Mr. Knightley does provide some interesting particulars on Robert Martin’s courtship of Harriet. (p. 39)

To Grow More Worthy

Emma’s and Knightley’s conversation is followed by this controversial set of lines:

The sole grievance and alloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet’s welfare, she was really in danger of becoming too happy for security.—What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him, whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own. Nothing, but that the lessons of her past folly might teach her humility and circumspection in future. (p. 313)

Emily Rohrbach writes that, at this point in the novel, “the counterfactual imaginings have been reined in, rendered unthinkable,” and so “the narrator summons the reader’s active participation in imagining the nuances of Emma’s joy in ‘what was to be’”:

With ‘nothing’ to wish for, that ‘nothing’-ness—the qualifications of which only emphasise further its lack of pull—takes all the air out of the counterfactual imagination. The sole imaginable life is the one she has with Mr Knightley of whom she can ‘grow more worthy’. There is nothing to think back on that could pain her: ‘[N]o remembrances, even connected with Mr. Elton […] could impair’ Emma’s enjoyment. Hardly a dramatic turning point anywhere, the plot unfolds as a gradual dissolution of the barriers (rather light ones in retrospect) between Emma and a life without imaginable alternatives, devoid of regret. Emma affords its protagonist a point-of view—a socially and materially privileged one, necessarily—from which choicelessness can appear as the ‘perfect’ form of happiness. (p. 485)

Some readings see the chastening of Emma’s imagination as fitting. Howard Babb writes: “In her advance toward integrity, as the passage suggests, Emma becomes capable of attaching herself to Mr. Knightley and of orienting herself to the real world” (pp. 193–4). Other critics see this close as conservative, melancholy, or otherwise a let-down. Frances Restuccia writes that, “[l]ike Emma, Emma begins to sound pious, preachy, hollow […]. We are informed flatly, didactically, that Emma has been tamed” (p. 464). For Daniel Cottom, the passage illustrates that “[s]hame is essential to the development of the heroine” of an Austen novel,

because it is only through an admission of shame that she can be brought to the attitude of deference demanded by the command of society over desire. All of Austen’s heroines are brought sooner or later to this point of shame at which the heroine takes upon herself responsibility for the enigmatic errancy of social forms and signs. Once this violation is thus accepted as a fault of personal character rather than an instability and partiality in the character of society, the education of desire can proceed along its proper path […]. (p. 166)

Read in this way, Emma “is not a love story in any conventional sense, but rather a lesson in ‘humility and circumspection’ directed to a heroine who had failed to realize that education is […] primarily concerned with the discipline of desire” (ibid.).

Yet this portrait is immediately lightened somewhat by Emma’s “laugh” “in the very midst of her” resolutions (p. 313), and by her “arch[ness]” in speaking to Frank (p. 315). Edgar Shannon argues that “the author, eschewing the temptation to overstate her theme, does not mar the portrait by converting Emma into a long-faced paragon”:

“Serious she was, very serious in her thankfulness” that her past folly had not prevented both herself and Harriet from eventually attaining felicity and in “her resolutions” of “humility and circumspection in future”; but she has not lost her sense of humor. She can admit that if she had been Frank Churchill, she might have found “some amusement” in “taking us all in”—and indeed how can anyone have failed to be entertained by Emma’s deluded antics? She can give herself a “saucy conscious smile” that she no longer feels any sense of injury to Henry as the expectant heir to Donwell Abbey, and finds “amusement detecting the real cause of that violent dislike of Mr. Knightley’s marrying Jane Fairfax, or anybody else, which at the time she had wholly imputed to the amiable solicitude of the sister and aunt” [vol. 3, ch. 15 [51]; p. 295]. She must laugh at Harriet’s vagaries that have persuaded her she was in love with three men during the course of a few months [vol 3, ch. 18 [54]; p. 313]. (pp. 643–4)

We should also recall that amusement has followed Emma’s overweening self-deprecation at other moments in the novel. John Wiltshire writes that Emma’s determination to “grow more worthy” of Mr. Knightley represents her “thinking—vivaciously, but also extravagantly—as usual” (p. 75).

Being Frank

John Mullan reminds us that, “[w]hen Frank meets Emma after the announcement of his engagement, he is smiling and laughing on this ‘most happy day’, but suited, we should realise, all in black”:

We are not told this: Austen’s first readers would have “seen” this garb, and registered the clash of official sorrow and private happiness. The deaths of close kin required a period of full (or “deep”) mourning—in which clothes were predominantly black—followed by an equal period of “second” or “slight” mourning. […] On hearing of Mrs Churchill’s death, Mr Weston shakes his head solemnly while thinking—Austen cannot resist telling us—“that his mourning should be as handsome as possible”. His wife, meanwhile, sits “sighing and moralising over her broad hems”. Austen’s satire is entirely tolerant. (n.p.)

Frank Churchill, effusive now that he need not hide his regard for Jane, gushes about her complexion and states an intention to “‘have some [of his aunt’s jewels] in an ornament for the head’” (p. 315). John Wiltshire argues that this is “a conversation that is designed to be compared with” Mrs. Weston’s and Mr. Knightley’s earlier discussion about Emma’s appearance, in which Mrs. Weston emphasizes Emma’s air of good health (vol. 1, ch. 5; p. 24):

Throughout the novel Frank Churchill has commented on Jane’s pale looks to Emma, often in a snide and critical fashion, but when their engagement is public and Jane has recovered, he is free to enthuse. ‘Did you ever see such a skin?’ he exclaims—’such smoothness! such delicacy! […]. He resumes: [quotes from “Look at her” to “in her dark hair”]. ‘The head’! For the moment Frank seems to be thinking of Jane as an artefact to be decorated and enjoyed as a prestigious possession. Mrs Weston, despite the term 'picture’, is not thinking of Emma as a specular object. (p. 135)

This difference in their viewers’ attitudes is mirrored by the difference in what the two women’s bodies seem to signify:

Jane Fairfax is the shadowy background, the obscured antithesis to the heroine […]. Jane’s health is frail, and her beauty, unlike Emma’s, is no assurance of vitality. […] Although she acts and speaks directly in the text, her position within it, her reserve and her secret forbid access to her inner life. What is therefore understood of her is constructed on the site of her body, her ‘look’, which depending on the observer, can signify either propensity to ill-health or beauty and distinction. In the absence of open speech, Emma, like her neighbours, is perpetually reading Jane’s body. Her prejudice against Jane (and her own abundant health) make her unresponsive to certain aspects of the sensitive and cultivated woman whom she ought to have made her friend, but the proneness to illness, the precariousness of Jane’s condition, is discernible, even though, after her introduction by the narrator in the second volume, Jane is perceived—glimpsed would be a better word—largely through Emma’s eyes. The narrator introduces Jane as an orphan, whose mother died ‘overcome with consumption and grief,’ and it is the fear of TB, ‘the standing apprehension of the family’ that apparently motivates her aunt’s continual fussing (‘Did you remember your tippet?’), Highbury’s neighbourly concern over her walks in the rain, as well as Knightley’s urgent action to prevent her overtaxing herself by singing. […] Consumption was conceptualised as a peculiarly romantic disease, one in which artistic talent fed off and in turn fed, the exorbitancies of feeling, the sudden and irrational changes of mood, characteristic (or so it was thought) of the consumptive’s condition. So early in the century, Jane Austen makes this triad of talent, passion, and illness the substance of this minor theme counterpointing the major of Emma […]. (pp. 135–6)

For Howard Babb, Churchill’s “‘ornament for the head’” speech is damning: “Frank Churchill never loses his tone of fatuous vanity, for in one of his very last speeches, after all has come right between himself and Jane, he can still appear far more interested in celebrating and adorning the beauty he has won than in praising Jane’s merits” (p. 191).1 Similarly, Joseph Wiesenfarth argues that Frank’s incivility and lack of sympathy hold true “to the end of the novel where Jane Fairfax, who tries to be ‘deaf’ to Frank’s reminding Emma of their ‘blunders,’ says that he shamelessly ‘courts’ shame (Ill.xviii.[316]). Jane Austen here drives the last nail into the coffin of COURTSHIP that haunts this novel as a revenant charade” (p. 11).

Footnotes

See also Kirkham (p. 142).

Discussion Questions

Are we to believe that Emma has been ‘reformed’ at this part of the novel? Would such a conclusion be a desirable or an undesirable one?

Has Frank really remained, as some critics claim, unchanged throughout the whole course of the novel? Is his behavior really ‘bad’? What is the ‘moral scale’ of the novel?

Bibliography

Austen, Jane. Emma (Norton Critical Edition). 3rd ed. Ed. Stephen M. Parrish. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, [1815] 2000.

Babb, Howard S. “Emma: Fluent Irony and the Pains of Self-Discovery.” In Jane Austen’s Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue. Columbus: Ohio State University Press (1962), pp. 175–202.

Cottom, Daniel. “The Novels of Jane Austen: Attachments and Supplantments.” Novel 14.2 (Winter 1981), pp. 152–67. DOI: 10.2307/1344850.

Kenney, Theresa. “‘And I Am Changed Also’: Mr. Knightley’s Conversion to Amiability,” Persuasions 29 (2007), pp. 110–20.

Kirkham, Margaret. Jane Austen, Feminism and Fiction. London: The Althone Press (1997).

Larrow, Michele. “‘Could He Even Have Seen into Her Heart’: Mr. Knightley’s Development of Sympathy.” Persuasions On-Line 37.1 (Winter 2016).

McMaster, Juliet. “The Critics of Talk in Emma.” Persuasions 38 (2016), pp. 30–40.

Mullan, John. “Ten Questions on Jane Austen.” The Guardian. 18 May, 2012.

Rohrbach, Emily. “‘Without You, I am Nothing’: On the Counterfactual Imagination in Emma.” Textual Practice 32.3, pp. 471–48. DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1442396.

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Wiesenfarth, Joseph. “The Civility of Emma.” Persuasions 18 (1996), pp. 8–23.

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#Emma #Jane Austen #Emma Woodhouse #Mr. Knightley #Harriet Smith #Jane Fairfax #Frank Churchill #e

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dassandre-00qpidsarrow · 2 years

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Dassandre’s Masterpost 2022

Wow! Another amazing 007 Fest has come to an end already! I’m in awe at all the fabulous fan works created by everyone on all the teams. I was again honored to be a part of Team Q-Branch this year, and I think we pulled together some darn good stuff! Go Team Q-Branch! I want to give a particular shout out to my partner in writing crime, @boffin1710. Not only was he an amazing writing partner, but the graphics he generated this year had many of us sobbing in the wings with No Time to Die angst. Anyhoo ... on to my Masterpost, and this year’s is a doozy!

Dassandre’s 007 Fest 2022 Master Post - 1811 points

Written Fiction - 860 points (additional categories noted, and their points totaled in those categories below)

Rings (rare pair)

Château de la Résurrection: Part One (Fix-it Day, Story Header Graphic)

Château de la Résurrection: Part Two

Château de la Résurrection: Part Three (Prompt Exchange Fill)

Alone at Last (Queering the Character’s Day)

Without Being Told: Chapter 130 (rare pair)

Without Being Told: Chapter 131 (rare pair)

Death Ends Life, Not a Relationship (rare pair)

Life is Pushing Past It (rare pair)

Calamity (rare pair)

Other Fan Creations - Graphics - 150 points (additional categories noted, and their points totaled in those appropriate categories)

Not Even Death

The Boffin and the Bureaucrat (plus meta)

Ellery’s Garden: Tomatoes (head canon)

Ellery’s Garden: Tomato Jam (recipe)

Ellery’s Garden: Courgettes (head canon)

Ellery’s Garden: Courgette Fries (recipe)

Ellery’s Garden: Brussels Sprouts (head canon)

Ellery’s Garden: Crispy Brussels Sprouts (recipe)

Ellery’s Garden: Pumpkins (head canon)

Ellery’s Garden: Stuffed Pumpkins (recipe)

Things James and Q Never Thought They’d Say (head canon, rare pairs, Head Canon Day) x 10 Note: These were originally posted individually on Tumblr during Fest, but this link is to their new collective home on Ao3.

Best Memory of Partner (head canon, rare pair, Polyamory Day)

I Love Boffins (Q-Branch Day)

Villain Walk-Up Songs (Villain Day; Scav Hunt Fill)

The Agent (Meta Day; Scav Hunt Fill)

Dad Jokes (Scav Hunt Fill)

The Ties that Bind (head canon, rare pair) Note: This was originally posted on Tumblr during Fest, but this link is to its new collective home with other WaterVerse head canons on Ao3.

Family of Five (head canon, rare pair) Note: This was originally posted on Tumblr during Fest, but this link is to its new collective home with other WaterVerse head canons on Ao3.

Til Next Year

Scavenger Hunt Fills - 120 points

Bond Actor/Actress Crossword - #10

Collaboration with a Teammate - #2

Anime Character - #65

Five Songs for Bad Guys - #4

The Raven Pastiche - #22

Bond’s Business Ad and Logo - #88

Dad Jokes - #15

Find the Difference - #54

Animal Newsletter (Animal of Bond Day)- #97

Gift to Member on Another Team #83 - Life is Pushing Past It

Theme Days - 15 points

Fix It Day

Head Canon Day

Queering the Character’s Day

Polyamory Day

Q-Branch Day

Villain Day

Meta Day

Animals of Bond Day

Miscellaneous Points - 340 Points

Beta - Day One Photo Prompt Writing - for @boffin1710

Beta - Harry Potter and the Fucking Audacity - for @ato-the-bean and @anyawen x 10 chapters

Productivity Hours x 3

Piece of Meta x2

Head Canons x 15

Recipes x 4

Round Robin Writing - Juggling Act

Comments - 182

Prompt Fill Sheet Bonuses - 13 points

2002 Prompt Exchange - #8 (Write a circular fic in which the story must end how it began) Château de la Résurrection

2018 Prompt Exchange - #31 (Poly Relationship; plus previous year fill bonus) Death Ends Life, Not a Relationship

2022 Prompt Exchange - #99 ("I don't know what any of that means.") - Without Being Told - Ch. 131

Additional Bonus Points - 313 points

Collaborative Prompt Table ( @ato-the-bean) - Things James and Q Never Thought They’d Say (30 points)

Theme Day Bonus (15 points)

Featured a Rare Pair x 17 (85 points)

Comment Bonuses (80 points)

Head Canon (28 points)

31-Day Challenge (75 points)

And that, I believe, is that. Looking forward to next year’s Fest already!!

#007Fest 2022 #Team Q-Branch #QB-V4 #Dassandre #Masterpost #MI6Cafe

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ajollybirdcollector · 2 years

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my year of 2022 in books, movies, tv shows, albums & fan fictions.

{books}. 13 books, 4440 p.

1# sharp objects, gillian flynn ~ 321 p.

2# pride and prejudice, jane austen ~ 389 p.

3# my year of rest and relaxation, ottessa moshfegh ~ 289 p.

4# a deadly education, noami novik ~ 313 p.

5# gone girl, gillian flynn ~ 555 p.

the last graduate, naomi novik ~ 388 p.

the silent patient, alex michaelides ~ 339 p.

the cruel prince, holly black ~ 370 p.

the wicked king, holly black ~ 326 p.

the queen of nothing, holly black ~ 305 p.

hood feminism, mikki kendall ~ 258 p.

dark places, gillian flynn ~ 424 p.

convenience store woman, sayaka murata ~ 163 p.

{movies}. 4 movies, 522 m.

elvis (2022) ~ 159 m.

death on the nile (2022) ~ 127 m.

top gun: maverick (2022) ~ 131 m.

fear street, part 1: 1994 (2021) ~ 105 m.

{tv shows}. 7 tv shows, 54 ep.

1# reservation dogs, season 1 (2021) ~ 8 ep.

2# stranger things, season 4 (2022) ~ 9 ep.

3# heartstopper, season 1 (2022) ~ 8 ep.

young royals, season 1 (2021) ~ 5/6 ep.

my umbrella academy, season 3 (2022) ~ 10 ep.

bridgerton, season 2 (2022) ~ 8 ep.

peaky blinders, season 6 (2022) ~ 6 ep.

Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, season 1 (2022) ~ 8 ep.

{albums}. 18 albums, 214 songs, 776 min.

1# strange trails, lord huron (2015) ~ 14 songs, 55 min.

2# the stranger, billy joel (1977) ~ 9 songs, 42 min.

3# igor, tyler the creator (2019) ~ 12 songs, 39 min.

4# favourite worst nightmare, arctic monkeys (2007) ~ 12 songs, 38 min.

5# superache, conan gray (2022) ~ 12 songs, 40 min.

6# harry’s house, harry styles (2022) ~ 13 songs, 41 min.

7# carrie & lowell, sufjan stevens (2015) ~ 11 songs, 43 min.

8# pony, rex orange country (2019) ~ 10 songs, 33 min.

9# cleopatra, the lumineers (2016) ~ 11 songs, 33 min. 10# dizzy up the girl, the goo goo dolls (1998) ~ 13 songs, 45 min.

my head is an animal, of monsters and men (2012) ~ 12 songs, 53 min.

stratosphere, duster (1998) ~ 17 songs, 53 min.

titanic rising, weyes blood (2019) ~ 10 songs, 42 min.

heaven or las vegas, cocteau twins (1990) ~ 10 songs, 37 min.

cape god, allie x (2020) ~ 12 songs, 43 min.

2, mac demarco (2012) ~ 11 songs, 31 min.

lonesome dreams, lord huron (2013) ~ 13 songs, 58 min.

young the giant, young the giant (2011) ~ 12 songs, 50 min.

midnights, taylor swift (2022) ~ 20 songs, 1h & 09 min.

awaken, my love (2016) ~ 11 songs, 49 min.

{fan fiction}. 37 fan fictions, 3M 702k

1# art heist, baby! {hp; jegulus, wolfstar, dorlene & rosekiller} ~ otrtbs, 38 ch., 219k, completed

2# choices {hp; jegulus, jily & wolfstar} ~ messermoon, 56 ch., 624k, completed

3# evitative {hp; drarry} ~ vichan, 29 ch., 222k, completed

4# you belong to me (i belong to you) {hp; tomarry} ~ child_otkw, 18 ch., 104k, wip

5# quite like us {hp; jegulus} ~ alarainai, 16 ch., 67k, completed

6# the miseducation of draco malfoy {hp; darry} ~ magpie_fngrl, 7 ch., 37k, completed

7# after everything, always {hp; jegulus, wolfstar & dorlene} ~ reggie4dayzz, 32 ch., 236k, wip

8# the bucket list {hp; drarry} ~ gallaplacidia, 17 ch. 32k, completed

9# just lovers (like we were supposed to be) {hp; jegulus, wolfstar, marylily & dorlene} ~ zeppazariel, 24 ch., 321k, completed

10# crimson rivers {hp; jegulus, dorlene & wolfstar} ~ zeppazariel, 40 ch., 403k, wip

intermission {hp; rosekiller} ~ zeppazariel, 4 ch., 43k, completed

redivider {hp; drarry} ~ vichan, 12 ch., 75k, wip

tea, cigarettes, and whiskey {the secret history; francis/richard} ~ jorsten, one-shot, 3k, completed

teenage wasteland {hp; drarry} ~ gallaplacidia, 9 ch., 51k, completed

adventures of a suicidal gentleman {hp; drarry} ~ gallaplacidia, 23 ch., 47k, completed

cassiopea lily malfoy {hp; drarry} ~ gallaplacidia, 15 ch., 37k, completed

lessons in grace and decorum {hp; drarry} ~ gallaplacidia, 21 ch., 48k, completed

goodnight from your future husband {hp; drarry} ~ gallaplacidia, 5 ch., 13k, completed

code name L {hp; drarry} ~ gallaplacidia, 17 ch., 32k, completed

“dad says” {hp; drarry} ~ gallaplacidia, 13 ch., 39k, completed

you’ve got the antidote for me {hp; drarry} ~ kandakickass, one-shot, 20k, completed

ship of theseus {hp; drarry} ~ gallaplacidia, one-shot, 18k, completed

dwelling {hp; drarry} ~ aideomai, 6 ch., 83k, completed

lumos {hp; drarry} ~ birdsofshore, one-shot, 41k, completed

lily’s boy {hp; drarry, snupin, ninny & sirius/charlie} ~ somewheressword, 109 ch., 746k, completed

how miraculous {hp; jegulus, jily, wolfstar & dorlene} ~ flipp, 12 ch., 37k, wip

house colours {hp; jegulus & wolfstar} ~ buttons_n_bose, one-shot, 3k, completed

operation keep black in the dark {hp; jegulus} ~ arctiinae, one-shot, 6k, completed

i am yours {hp; rosekiller} ~ heyhoessslol, one-shot, 2k, completed

don’t blame me, love made me crazy {hp; jegulus} ~ coup_de_foudre, one-shot, 14k, completed

like a balast {hp; jegulus} ~ orphan_account, one-shot, 4k, completed

never have i ever {hp; jegulus} ~ moonymoment, one-shot, 3k, completed

you fell apart like a stone {hp; jegulus} ~ kaedeeee, one-shot, 5k, completed

till forever falls apart {hp; jegulus} ~ nikipa, one-shot, 5k, completed

from now you love me {hp; jegulus} ~ orphan_account, 5 ch., 14k, completed

delenda est - rebooted {hp; harry/bellatrix} ~ lord_silvere, 6 ch., 44k, wip

i’m only here because of you {hp; jegulus} ~ miriammt, one-shot, 4k, completed

#2022 recap

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