#jane by design

[sageandred]

#I think what I've learned is I am bitter #I think I know who will win but we'll see #kinda unpopular ones i think #fandom polls #tv polls #tumblr polls #polls #chasing life #h2o just add water #my mad fat diary #dance academy #how to get away with murder #elite #jane by design #the vampire diaries #shameless

[bonniehooper]

Top Picks of 2023

My Top 14 New Favorite Actresses - #5: Kara Killmer

Introduction to Her: Chicago Fire

#Top Picks of 2023 #My Top 14 New Favorite Actresses #Kara Killmer #Chicago Fire #If I Can Dream #Jane By Design #Beyond the Mask

[claudia-kishi]

I hate camping. I know.

#jane by design #janebydesignedit #rjs*: new #this scene literally was the romance scene for me in high school like i'm literally in tears

[abcfamilydaily]

worst abc family cancellations #5 ➞ Jane By Design 1 season (2012)

#jbdedit #janebydesignedit #jane by design #abcfamilyedit #teendramaedit #dailytvandfilm #tvedit #dailytvgifs #* #*janebydesign #*worstcancellation

[vicontheinternet]

True Jackson VIP 🤝 jane by design

Making me think I was going to be living the dream in high school when in actuality I was stressed out and struggling

#emily in Paris wishes she could be them #true jackson vp #jane by design

[commander----shepard]

Oded Fehr in Jane by Design

Source: getty images

#oded fehr #jane by design #source getty images #Oded Fehr Visual Archive #clean shaven/slightly beard-y oded fehr and characters is The Love <3

[tradedsymmetry]

I kinda hate this but Nick Fadden is one of the best characters on Jane by Design. he's so interesting.

#jane by design #he's bisexual. to me.

[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

[our-future-is-up-to-us-2]

AAAAAAAAAAAA

So here’s the thing. I am too invested in characters. Like, a little too invested.

A couple of hours ago, I was curing my boredom by watching Bryan Dechart videos, since I’ve recently watched some playthroughs of Detroit: Become Human and adore his role as Connor. In the sidebar is a video about Bryan Dechart and his role in another show, called ‘Jane By Design’.

I click it.

It was part 1 of a 3 part YouTube series showcasing all of his scenes! And, because I loved him so much in DBH, I loved him here. He played a character named Eli, who is the boss’ nephew and works alongside the main character in their fashion industry, Jane.

And you know how these things go… They get you invested and then break your heart. I shipped Eli so hard with Jane, and now my heart’s on the floor…

I’m curious if divulging what happened is considered as “spoilers” because there might be people like me out there, finding this show 11 years after its release.

I love getting invested, but sometimes your blorbos fly a little too close to the Sun- So you follow them and get burned 😭

#bryan dechart #eli #jane by design #tv #tv shows #actors #rambles #rants #LOOK I’M SORRY #I hardly ever post and then you get this #out of all things #😭 #my heart 😭😭😭😭

[tvthemesongs]

Jane by Design intro

#jane by design #abc family #2010s

[zan0tix]

1px brush SAVE ME!!!!

rosemary was for @rosemaryyuri 🫶 and the vriska was trying to emulate the one piece art style because cyrus did the reverse and put one piece into the homestuck art style :3

#homestuck #rosemary #rosekan #rose lalonde #kanaya maryam #roxy lalonde #jane crocker #vriska serket #pathologic 2 #tragedian #I HAVENT PLAYED IT YET MY BAD i just.. really like the tragedians designs theyre so perfect to draw #zan0tix #my art

[claudia-kishi]

You think I'm handsome? Oh, God.

#jane by design #janebydesignedit #rjs*: new #plz :( #THEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY #she is literally the cutest person on earth #every time she smiles bc of him she goes from like Extremely Professional Guidance Counselor to giddy high schooler whose crush #just saw noticed her asldkfjasldjk like PLZ

[onlysushicat]

the sillies

#homestuck #413 #john egbert #rose lalonde #dave strider #jade harley #jane crocker #roxy lalonde #dirk strider #jake english #aradia megido #tavros nitram #sollux captor #karkat vantas #nepeta leijon #kanaya maryam #terezi pyrope #vriska serket #equius zahhak #gamzee makara #eridan ampora #feferi peixes #doodles #og art #thats a lot of tags #wanted to do the dancestors too but I only remember the design of 6 lol

[tildexart]

TMA Season 1 Character Lineup

#this podcast has overtaken my brain #I’m on s3 no spoilers #digital art #procreate #digital illustration #tildexart #character design #the magnus archives #the magnus archives fanart #tma #tma fanart #jane prentiss #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #sasha james #timothy stoker #elias bouchard #tw scoleciphobia

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Storyboarding assignment feat. Walter's first day out

#original art #storyboard #oc #original character #walter #monster design #creature design #jane dawson #schoolwork #snake's art #trivia: 1999 Ford Explorer was the reference for the car

[tradedsymmetry]

I think maybe I hadn't looked before because I am SHOCKED to see there's only 6 fics on AO3 about Jane by Design?!?!! and NONE of them are about Ben Quimby and Rita Shaw?!?!?!!! or Ben dealing with Mom Feelings?!?!?!!!?? this show is RIPE for fix it fics (like where the fic fixes the show in general, idk if fix it fics are usually something more specific to a ship but I always thought it was more about anything in the story but wanted to specify just in case). it has such an interesting premise and amazing characters but some of the acting is less than fantastic and sometimes story lines are rushed, and it seems like they avoided concrete details like Jane's age so that they could drag it on for as long as possible by saying she was younger in the beginning, or wrap it up really quickly by saying she was older. I mean, in addition to not wanting to be too blatantly weird about the age when jeremy is flirting with her and other encounters in adult world. it's less weird if it's vague, I guess. and there's other things that miss the mark that I'm still figuring out bc I'm not a story writer or analyst or anything. but so I guess I just expected to find more fics dealing with stuff like that! oh well. I do not need to be reading fanfic today 😅

#jane by design