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whetstonefires · 11 months

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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

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adiodont · 11 months

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”Oh I’m not leaving”

(siblings)

#adioart #17776 #17776 nine #17776 ten #17776 football #what football will look like in the future #pioneer 9 #pioneer 10 #siblings #goddddd this kills me every fucking time #the future of college football #possible eyestrain #but GOD I am proud of that starfield #i woulda kicked ass working for George Lucas in the eighties istg #10k

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dumbledorathexplora · 4 months

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The man the myth the gamer

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mardyart · 1 year

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that one pic of a mum helping her kids beat a difficult level of super mario land on game boy but stranger things

#lets pretend this could never be possible as the game boy came out in like 1990 so the kids wouldnt really be kids anymore…….#this was fun hehe #stranger things #stranger things fanart #steve harrington #mike wheeler #lucas sinclair #dustin henderson #will byers #art #fanart

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super-nova5045 · 2 years

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"everyone being gay in the 80s is unrealistic" babes not only do they have interdimensional monsters and telekinesis but they also have songs from 1995 playing in 1983 and 1986 but pop off ig

#yes this is about When It's Cold I'd Like to Die #that anachronism caught me WAYYY off guard #byler #steddie #ronance #elmax #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things #eleven stranger things #max mayfield #lucas sinclair #dustin henderson #steve harrington #eddie munson #robin buckley #nancy wheeler

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riickgrimes · 10 months

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Carmy + Luca

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morganbritton132 · 1 month

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Eddie, posting this TikTok: Uh, excuse me? Why are some of y’all saying I don’t know Erica Sinclair? That I don’t know Lady Applejack?? I know her!

Eddie: Because-

Eddie: *aggressively holds up picture of the Scoops Troop eating ice cream together a week after Starcourt to the camera*

Eddie: I-

Eddie: *holds up picture of Steve giving Erica a piggyback ride so her shoes didn’t get wet*

Eddie: Married-

Eddie: *holds up picture of Sue Sinclair showing Steve how she braids Erica’s hair*

Eddie: Her-

Eddie: *shows picture of Charles Sinclair, Lucas, and Steve moving Erica’s stuff into her dorm room. Erica and Eddie are in the background with no intention of helping out*

Eddie: Dad!

Eddie: *shows picture of Steve and Erica on the campaign trail. Steve’s got a shirt that says ‘you can’t spell America without Erica. Eddie’s photobombing in the background to give them both bunny ears.*

Eddie: Also, we played D&D together *shows picture of a Hellfire campaign*

#Lucas in the comments like: …Dude.#Eddie responds like: Sorry man. Steve and Robin adopted that kid the moment they shoved her into a vent #I wish the writers would give us more of Erica and Steve #because I truly think that he’s the only member if the party that she respects #and if Steve is going to feel paternal with any party members it’s going to be the youngest #eddie munson tiktok saga #eddie munson #steve harrington #erica sinclair

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lilpomelito · 1 month

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i need a fic or something where steve tells eddie "hey you were a dick in high school too. jumping on tables and screaming at people who just want to eat their lunch about their conformism to the man or whatever was annoying as fuck. also why did lucas have to choose between a sport and your nerd game that's normal. people are multidimensional. I'm not alone in this, who wasn't a total dick at 16. where is your redemption arc mister."

#im going off my first impressions of eddie when he showed up in season 4 #i hated him instantly asjhdfjhdsfg WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING AT PEOPLE #also let lucas play!!!!!! dick!!!!!!!#i feel in love after like episode 3 i think lmao #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #stranger things #i feel like people forget steve's ''redemtion'' goes more towards nancy who he was very much an asshole to in season 1

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professional-termite · 3 months

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god i love star trek so much every episode its like "why mr spock ur so silly 🥰😉" "as a vulcan i am incapable of sillines, captain." "ofc ofc 😍😘" "can both of you shut the hell up"

#this is literally my friend group dynamic irl. its so funny looking at it like oghh its me @ ohio. and lucas #spock #james t kirk #s'chn t'gai spock #leonard mccoy #bones mccoy #star trek tos #star trek #star trek the original series #trek adventures with van

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noodles-and-tea · 27 days

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I think that you can cross anything over with gravity falls and it works

#if I like things I will smoosh them together that’s just how it works #dw they work it out and become friends #my art #luca paguro #alberto scorfano #alberto #gravity falls #dipper pines #Mabel pines

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demobatman · 2 years

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some stranger things as textposts to lighten the mood

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artiststarme · 3 months

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Steve keeps brushing off Eddie’s flirting and thinking he isn’t interested while putting his all into flirting. Eddie is losing his mind until eventually he snaps. He literally jumps up in the middle of a movie everyone is watching when Steve tangles their hands together and screams for all to hear.

“Jesus fucking Christ, Harrington! Either kiss the fuck out of me or stop flirting with me like you mean it and holding my hands during a chick flick!”

Steve blinked at him. “So you mean you like me back? Well why didn’t you just say so?!”

“I’ve been flirting with you for months! As soon as you took your shirt off, I started making moves. I was flirting with you in the Upside Down!”

“Well I was a little distracted then! And besides, you should’ve made it more obvious,” he said with all the sass he could muster.

“Holy shit Steve, you’re gonna be the death of me,” he muttered exasperatedly before grabbing Steve’s face and mashing his lips to his.

#meanwhile the entire party is looking at them in shock and disbelief #Robin is just rubbing her hands together like an evil mastermind because this unveiled better than she could’ve ever imagined it #Dustin is horrified and Mike is actively planning Steve’s murder #Lucas is just wondering why seeing Steve’s hairy chest caused Eddie to catch feelings #Max understands #stranger things #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #sappy #ficlet

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nobodywhoishere · 4 months

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE GAY FISH BOYS ARE CANON IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2024

#also yes i am aware that it isnt TECHNICALLY since it is just fanart but hey. someone on production doing that at all is wild #nobody says stuff #luca #luca 2021 #luberto #i had like a month where i was really obsessed with this movie then forgot about it but WHAT

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oceanofflavor · 2 years

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Hear me out on this one, Eddie Munson is about to have his moment. Look at the way everyone is looking at him, intently listening to what he has to say, I don't know what's going on here, but I do know that this is most likely going to be a confidence-boosting moment for Eddie where he gets to shine.