#est talks

[emetoandotherthings]

I got sent home from work today because apparently when I'm ill I just can't stop crying...

Feeling utterly miserable 🤒🤢

#est talks #real life illness #it's not covid #that's one thing at least

[whetstonefires]

You know what I realize that people underestimate with Pride & Prejudice is the strategic importance of Jane.

Because like, I recently saw Charlotte and Elizabeth contrasted as the former being pragmatic and the latter holding out for a love match, because she's younger and prettier and thinks she can afford it, and that is very much not what's happening.

The Charlotte take is correct, but the Elizabeth is all wrong. Lizzie doesn't insist on a love match. That's serendipitous and rather unexpected. She wants, exactly as Mr. Bennet says, someone she can respect. Contempt won't do. Mr. Bennet puts it in weirdly sexist terms like he's trying to avoid acknowledging what he did to himself by marrying a self-absorbed idiot, but it's still true. That's what Elizabeth is shooting for: a marriage that won't make her unhappy.

She's grown up watching how miserable her parents make one another; she's not willing to sign up for a lifetime of being bitter and lonely in her own home.

I think she is very aware, in refusing Mr. Collins, that it's reasonably unlikely that anyone she actually respects is going to want her, with her few accomplishments and her lack of property. That she is turning down security and the chance keep the house she grew up in, and all she gets in return may be spinsterhood.

But, crucially, she has absolute faith in Jane.

The bit about teaching Jane's daughters to embroider badly? That's a joke, but it's also a serious potential life plan. Jane is the best creature in the world, and a beauty; there's no chance at all she won't get married to someone worthwhile.

(Bingley mucks this up by breaking Jane's heart, but her prospects remain reasonable if their mother would lay off!)

And if Elizabeth can't replicate that feat, then there's also no doubt in her mind that Jane will let her live in her house as a dependent as long as she likes, and never let it be made shameful or awful to be that impoverished spinster aunt. It will be okay never to be married at all, because she has her sister, whom she trusts absolutely to succeed and to protect her.

And if something eventually happens to Jane's family and they can't keep her anymore, she can throw herself upon the mercy of the Gardeners, who have money and like her very much, and are likewise good people. She has a support network--not a perfect or impregnable one, but it exists. It gives her realistic options.

Spinsterhood was a very dangerous choice; there are reasons you would go to considerable lengths not to risk it.

But Elizabeth has Jane, and her pride, and an understanding of what marrying someone who will make you miserable costs.

That's part of the thesis of the book, I would say! Recurring Austen thought. How important it is not to marry someone who will make you, specifically, unhappy.

She would rather be a dependent of people she likes and trusts than of someone she doesn't, even if the latter is formally considered more secure; she would rather live in a happy, reasonable household as an extra than be the mistress of her own home, but that home is full of Mr. Collins and her mother.

This is a calculation she's making consciously! She's not counting on a better marriage coming along. She just feels the most likely bad outcome from refusing Mr. Collins is still much better than the certain outcome of accepting him. Which is being stuck with Mr. Collins forever.

Elizabeth is also being pragmatic. Austen also endorses her choice, for the person she is and the concerns she has. She's just picking different trade-offs than Charlotte.

Elizabeth's flaw is not in her own priorities; she doesn't make a reckless choice and get lucky. But in being unable to accept that Charlotte's are different, and it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Charlotte.

Because realistically, when your marriage is your whole family and career forever, and you only get to pick the ones that offer themselves to you, when you are legally bound to the status of dependent, you're always going to be making some trade-offs.

😂 Even the unrealistically ideal dream scenario of wealthy handsome clever ethical Mr. Darcy still asks you to undergo personal growth, accommodate someone else's communication style, and eat a little crow.

#hoc est meum #pride and prejudice #elizabeth bennet #charlotte lucas #meta #charlotte is a much less sociable person than lizzie #so avoiding her husband most of the time and not seeking out his company is more viable for her! #she also has more patience for people being wrong #partly i think because she kinds checks out and lets them get on with it which lizzie isn't too great at even with her mother #people have different needs like that's a thing okay #marriage #spinsterhood #pragmatism #like if elizabeth had to listen to collins talk for a few months straight she would be nearly insane with rage #he's not just a low-quality man he's a man designed to be the worst for her specifically #also note that because jane's marriage is elizabeth's fallback plan #darcy screwed her over personally by interfering between her and bingley #she ofc does not bring this up how could she #but it's intensifying the anger during the hunsford rejection i think

[touchlikethesun]

you’re telling me people are doubting the cultural relevancy of destiel, THEE destiel??? the first and the last Great American Queerbait??? that destiel???

#i love aziracrow i do #but in terms of cultural relevancy you have to rendre à caesar ce qui est à caesar im sorry #if the question was gomens vs spn then i think there are strong arguments for gomens being more culturally relevant #spn wouldn’t exist w/o all the inspiration kripke took from gaimans work #but if we’re talking about the ships there’s no contest #destiel #spn

[livetogether--diealone]

local monegasque cat can't tell the difference between blonde alex and dark hair alex

#he is blinded by love let him be #oh you did!! #charles it's a pretty stark difference #charles leclerc #alex albon #also the hair gel talk with este classic #esteban ocon #f1 #british gp 2023 #jo.text

[firstfullmoon]

Tous les jours sans toi sont comme fêlés.

Albert Camus à Maria Casarès, 29 janvier 1950

[Every day without you feels shattered.]

#w #letters #albert camus #this is how much I miss you talking #la terre en est plus vaste

[toplines]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE STOP REPOSTING GIFS.

“bu…bubu- but they’re just wittle pixels and digital images rwight 🥺” no. we spend hours on gifs or even one singular gif to make edits for FREE on tumblr dot com. name a person who asked us to do this. no one!! exactly!! we make gifs bc its enjoyable and fun but people like reposters suck the fun out of it!!! and do NOT go and tell us that “gifs aren’t that hard to make” baby girl what do u think we do? go online and search for a video downloader and download it at like a crappy 720p and go to like literal ezgif dot com and all the gifs just MAGICALLY have their effects, typography, colouring, blending, animation, quality all up and ready? why dont u try and make a gif. hm.

and also, @ all of you “gif collectors” or some fanfic writers. lemme tell u a secret. an itty bitty secret. did u know… theres this really cool thing called PROPERLY CREDITING? im not talking about a stupid “credits to the owners” no. it isn’t that hard to properly source the creators or accounts.

that wasn’t so hard, hm?

also oh my god, do NOT go around saying you made these gifs when it is so obvious you didn’t. no bff, it isn’t a coincidence we have the same sharpening AND colouring settings.

and hey, i’ll stop my angry typing for a minute and just say that if you wanna learn how to make gifs there are plenty of amazing accounts and tutorials that are incredibly detailed. here are a few i recommend:

how to: make high quality gifs by sith-maul

giffing 101 by cillianmurphy

giffing and colouring tutorial by sashafierce

how to fix and avoid orangewashing characters by maxchapman

how to fix and avoid white/pink/yellowwashing by jeonwonwoo

how to: colouring east & southeast asians by blueshelp

pastel gifs: a tutorial by completeresources

how to fix and avoid whitewashing in pastel gifs by fadenet

and for those who don’t want to pay/ t*rr*nt photoshop:

free giffing tutorial by ashleysolsen

photopea gif tutorial by lacebird

and @usergif has a bunch of directories and navigation for tutorials and inspiration!

again, there are so many useful tutorials if you’d just look.

i know this probably won’t stop all reposters (unfortunately) but i hope those reposters that are reading this realise how messed up stealing gifs are. it isn’t funny or cool to see gifs that you’ve spent so much time on only to be reposted here or on other sites without credit or being claimed as someone elses.

we’re just asking for a proper credit on your post or maybe even stop reposting in whole. im sure you had good intentions in making those posts, but you have to understand how much it hurts. at this point, we have to put our watermarks in the middle of our gifs to avoid people cropping them out.

and please, PLEASE reblog edits. you have no idea how diminishing it is to see such a crappy like to reblog ratio. remember this hellsite has such a crappy algorithm so reblogging is essentially one of the only ways to give posts more traction

AGAIN. dont repost gifs. dont steal gifs without credit. dont belittle gifmakers. just stop being so disrespectful and rude and have a brain for once. thank you for reading.

edit: ive noticed ppl asking why i kinda like insulted those who use 720p and ezgif, im really sorry if i made it sound like a bad thing !! i was just very angry writing this aaaadjskdks gifmaking, HQ or not is valid and nobody deserves to get their creations stolen !

#este talks #gifmaking #so tired.

[annabelle--cane]

it's not MY fault that the transdimensional reality portal the web made was described out loud on podcast as a leaking, shuddering, gaping, aching hole >:(

#in the /lh-est way possible #tma #marina marvels at life #so funny that on the post where I pointed all That out I got several responses like 'I thought we all silently agreed not to talk abt this' #you may have silently agreed on that. I did no such thing.

[royalarchivist]

Reminder that today is Fit's deadline! By March 1st, he was supposed to have ALL player data collected for his boss, Madagio.

He only has 8 player's data.

No matter what happens, today is sure to be interesting...

#mod talk #9:30 pst / 12:30 est #He's been hyping this up ao I'm nervous and excited #rip to Pac and Ramon

[evermoredeluxe]

help why is this so funny 😭

#gracie abrams #este haim #taylor’s 34th #arshia talks

[estebanbicon]

ngl, not a fan of pierre oversharing with f1 media considering este is always used as scapegoat already.

ofc we have no idea what really happened between them, but it does leave quite a foul taste in my mouth that este insists on keeping it private while pierre talks about it again and again, and it is gonna be used once again to paint him as bad teammate.

yes, friendship turned rivals is tragic, but he has every right to not rekindle a friendship that hasn't existed in a decade, both have changed a lot.

it just reminds me of rosberg never shutting up about lewis lol

#i already saw thinkpieces talking abt how este sucks for not readily being friends again #people love to paint him as a villain and i am tired #rambles

[emetoandotherthings]

It seems I'm practically incapable of writing a fic without including a heck of a lot of plot too...

On an unrelated note, I'm now currently teaching: an Eden, a Jude, a Ceara, a Silas, a Zara, an Aaliyah and a Xander...

#est talks #ocs #writing #i am writing something i promise

[blatterpussbunnyfromhell]

Vous savez quoi ? Je pense que le SMIC devrait être à 2000€ euros par mois, et que l'âge de départ à la retraite devrait être à 55 ans.

Aussi je pense qu'il faudrait taxer sévèrement tous ceux dont la fortune dépasse 5 millions d'euros et utiliser toute cette thune pour financer les retraites, les hôpitaux, les écoles publiques, etc., et régler les crises de logement, comme ça on éradique les 43 milliardaires en rendant la vie plus juste pour les 67 autres millions de gens vivant en France, y compris celleux qui meurent dans les rues sous -4°C en hiver ou +40°C en été. En fait, en utilisant la fortune de Bernard Arnault uniquement, on pourrait rémunérer tout le reste de la France non pas à 2000€ euros, mais à 2400€ environ. Et c'est seulement la fortune d'un mec.

Imaginez si la fortune des 42 autres était dans les caisses de l'État.

#whatthefrance #par contre il est presque 2h du mat so i might be talking out of my ass #french politics #macron #la réforme des retraites #politique #bernard arnault #taxer les riches #les solutions sont pourtant tellement simples et j'ai salement les boules contre notre gouvernement de droite

[breadandblankets]

Brucie: Well I have at least five kids.

Someone: At least?

Brucie: Yeah ^.^

Brucie, gesturing towards Steph and Duke: I'm borrowing those two

#dc #batfamily #bruce wayne #stephanie brown #duke thomas #Bruce is very happy being Duke's mentor figure so he doesn't have to rank against Doug Thomas #(spoiler something he will lose) #if duke ever called bruce his “mid-est” father figure bruce would combust even if it Is true #bread talk

[firstfullmoon]

J’ai l’impression quand je pense à tout ce temps sans toi de trébucher contre la vie. 

Albert Camus à Maria Casarès, 9 mai 1950

[When I think of all that time without you, I feel like I’m stumbling against life.]

#w #letters #albert camus #this is how much I miss you talking #la terre en est plus vaste

[constellation-skirmishes]

vod of the day: Estes! he's Honeytone's twin. he is stockier than the rest of the clones :D!

estes CT-4666 (he/him) medic

one of cadavre's apprentices/shadows

-bunch of freckles -scruff -eyebrow scar -beauty mark/mole below lip

can beatbox a bit too well

e:"how the kriff do you keep getting into these situtions?" h:"I DONT KNOW!!"

comm always emits an awful static w/ words barely coming through half the time (sounds like a spirit box)

#vod on a log in a bog #clone oc medic estes #clone oc #clone wars oc #star wars oc #hes just a little guyyyyy #lukka's ocs #142nd clone trooper battalion #142nd surge company #also no what are you talking about i totally didnt pass out and take a nap instead of posting estes hahaha totally not #142nd rem pod vod

[russilton]

I deeply enjoy George getting Esteban a cheap, funny, but legit thought out gift bc it let us see Esteban remember George Knows Him even if he would rather die than admit it

The Merc family bond persists even if Esteban acts like he would sell them all for a corn chip now

#the este link to the Merc pack is so- he was with them for such a short amount of time #but they still all mention him #talk about him #tease him #he’s like the dramatic cousin who pretends he doesn’t know his family #but if Pieter tried to slag them off Esteban would immediatly whip round like an angry dog #like that’s his terrible family how dare you- no I don’t know them #anyway that and George’s clip is all I watched #I’m not sitting around for all that but it def confirmed that Kmag and George don’t give a solitary fuck about one another