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bethanydelleman · 1 year

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Is Your Heroine a TRUE Heroine?

In the first chapter of Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen lays out all the criteria of being a HEROINE, almost all of which poor Catherine Morland does not meet. I have adapted these criteria into a simple yes or no test, which you can apply to your favourite heroine. Here is the test and the results for some Jane Austen, Brontë, and Gaskell heroines/female characters

Abusive parent/guardian - 1 point for each abusive parent or guardian, Dead parents - 1 point for each dead parent, and then 1 point for each of the following: Great Personal Beauty, Poor family, Heroic care of animals/nature, Taste for gardens, Extraordinarily intelligent, Plays music/sings, Draws/does art, Focused on schooling, Calm and quiet, Reads poetry

There are 12 criteria, though the possible score can be higher (for example, if you have lost a mother, father, and stepmother, that would count as 3 dead parents)

Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Heroine Score: 11

Helen Graham, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë Heroine Score: 10

Jane Fairfax, Emma by Jane Austen, Heroine Score: 9

Agnes Grey, Agnes Grey by Anne Brontëm, Heroine Score: 9

Anne Elliot, Persuasion by Jane Austen, Heroine Score: 8

Mary Crawford, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Heroine Score: 8

Molly Gibson, Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell and Fanny Price of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Heroine Score: 7

Heroine Score: 6, Emma Woodhouse of Emma, Marianne Dashwood of Sense & Sensibility, Elinor Tilney of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, and Cynthia Kirkpatrick, Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

And then with Heroine Scores of 5 or less, we have Elinor Dashwood (5) of Sense and Sensibility, Catherine Morland (2) of Northanger Abbey and Jane & Elizabeth Bennet (2) of Pride and Prejudice

Example Data:

Disclaimer: you must use your own judgement for some answers. For example, does Anne Elliot count as poor since her father is heavily in debt? Also, some data is not readily available, we don’t know if Elizabeth Bennet reads poetry or not (my guess is no).These are my best estimates given the available data in each novel. Also, Jane Eyre is generally calm and quiet, she just has explosions sometimes, so I gave her that point.

Please add ratings of your own heroines if you want! I haven’t read Wuthering Heights so I can’t do the heroine scores.

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tidetospine · 1 year

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CHAPTER 1: Execution

THE EXECUTION OF AVRIL DUBOIS: MORT DU CHARLATANE

Full execution under the cut. Art by: Crow, Moa Written by: Emily

Life had not been fair to Charlotte Fontaine, and Avril DuBois would not be either. She was not enough of a sentimental fool to throw away her life like that. Not after she had gotten this far.

She brings her arm back, preparing her mirror shard, but -

That moment of hesitation was enough to do her in. Charlotte has the upper hand, and quickly pins Avril down to the floor. She lifts up a gleaming silver kitchen knife right above her chest, and the last thing Avril can think is that it’s quaint. Of course it’d be a kitchen knife - that was the only type of weapon a young lady such as Charlotte would have known how to wield, wouldn’t it be?

Charlotte Fontaine plunges the knife into Avril DuBois’ heart, and they are finally back at the start.

She wakes up in a terribly familiar basement.

Avril DuBois has never been here, of course - but she has been trapped here once before, in her past. She’s sat on these tile floors and she’s seen these fluorescent lights and she knows all-too-well what it feels like to be handcuffed against those paint-chipped walls.

Ugh, she thinks. Not this again.

Really, it’s awfully unoriginal. She’s literally already lived this horror story. Is she really meant to go through it once more, now with an even worse ending?

She stretches awkwardly to reach into her pockets, and to her delight, it seems that the answer is a resounding no - unlike the last time, there are bobby pins in her pocket. She started carrying them after the incident, spending a sleepless night on YouTube learning how to pick a lock with one. Even after all these years, she’s kept up her practice.

Her diligence paid off, and she’s able to easily get out of her handcuffs. Once that’s done, it’s just a matter of leaving the room. It seems this isn’t a one to one replica of that little village home, as the door leads her to a new room that she’s never seen before.

The room is large, but almost completely empty. There’s only one object of interest - a grand floor to ceiling mirror with regal gold trim.

She looks into the mirror - her visage is gorgeous, as it always is. But after a few moments, the reflection shifts - changes into a woman who looks almost like her, just with slightly longer black hair and a sleek monochrome outfit.

It’s Fleur le Blanc - the last person she was.

Avril doesn’t move an inch, but Fleur’s reflection gets closer and closer - until she breaks through the mirror all together, the glass shattered into shards that fall around the room.

Fleur charges towards her, and suddenly Avril understands exactly what the game is. She’s not that torn up about it, all things considered. She’s “killed” Fleur le Blanc once before, after all. She had really wanted to dye her hair white, and it would have been so tacky to do that with a last name like le Blanc. She was four months in any way - even if she hadn’t wanted to change up her look, Fleur would have been dead sooner or later.

So she’d have to kill her once more, this time in a less metaphorical way. That was fine by her. What was a third death, after all she’s done? After she’s gotten this far?

She grabs one of the mirror shards, and she lunges towards Fleur. Stabbing her is so easy - and soon, brilliant scarlet bleeds onto Fleur’s monochrome life.

She looks back towards the mirror, and just as she had suspected - Marianne Baudelaire exits from the mirror. Marianne was one of her bolder creations: she wore a striking golden eyepatch, 5-inch silver heels, and stylish brass knuckles. She was so much fun to play around with. Shame she only stayed for two months.

But no matter how dashing - Marianne was still meant to be dead, and Avril would have to remind her of that. Still stained with Fleur’s blood, the mirror shard is soon soaked with Marianne’s.

Past versions of herself keep coming - Olivia, Yvonne, Noelle, Juliette, Sylvie, Aubrey, Valentine, Désirée, Margot, Elodie, Brigitte. All of the women shared her same build, her same basic features - but varied wildly in every other aspect.

She kills them all with ease, because this has always been the fate of her identities. Once they are no longer useful, once they provide too much history and too many burdens, she kills them swiftly. This is what she has done for many years now. This is what has kept her sane.

Finally, Elise Leroy comes out - her first creation. She had never realized just how hideous that haircut was. But it was that shitty haircut that had allowed her to become Elise, and it was becoming Elise that had allowed her to find freedom and happiness. So she couldn’t begrudge her that much. She dies just as quickly as all the rest.

Avril allows herself a sigh of relief, this part of the task now completed. The shard in her hand is soaked with all of their blood, but she doesn’t feel any remorse. It’s all herself, in the end, and she’s always known the price of her lifestyle. She turns to the mirror, ready to face the next challenge, and that’s when she sees her.

Dressed in baby pink, with flowing brown hair - a straw sunhat resting upon her head and a soft smile resting upon her face -

Charlotte Fontaine.

She could be forgiven for being taken aback. She never thought she’d see Charlotte again - not as anything beyond a blurry photograph in a trashy magazine.

Nine years ago, trapped in that basement and surrounded by the stench of death, Charlotte Fontaine died. She had stepped in to take her place - to become Elise, the Brigitte, then Elodie, and so on, until she eventually became Avril.

The two of them shared a past, but little else. Charlotte was never her creation.

It wasn’t fair to kill her, not when Charlotte was the only one who never signed up for this death of identity. But it wasn’t fair when Charlotte was kidnapped and saw her entire family slowly die in front of her eyes. It wasn’t fair when Charlotte had her life and tragedy scrutinized by a vulturous media.

Life had not been fair to Charlotte Fontaine, and Avril DuBois would not be either. She was not enough of a sentimental fool to throw away her life like that. Not after she had gotten this far.

She brings her arm back, preparing her mirror shard, but -

Charlotte Fontaine plunges the knife into Avril DuBois’ heart, and they are finally back at the start.

#danganronpa #fanganronpa #danganronpa roleplay #danganronpa oc #oc rp #drrp #dr rp #tide to spine #chapter 1 #avril #execution

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wikiuntamed · 3 months

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On this day in Wikipedia: Tuesday, 23rd January

Welcome, bun venit, ողջու՜յն (voġčuyn), välkommen 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 23rd January through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

23rd January 2022 🗓️ : Event - Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba Mutinying Burkinabè soldiers led by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba depose and detain President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré amid widespread anti-government protests. "Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba (French: [pɔl ɑ̃ʁi sɑ̃daɔɡɔ damiba]; born January 1981) is a Burkinabé military officer who served as interim president of Burkina Faso from 31 January 2022 to 30 September 2022, when he was removed in a coup d'état, by his own military colleague Ibrahim Traoré. Damiba had..."

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23rd January 2019 🗓️ : Death - Aloysius Pang Aloysius Pang, Singaporean actor (b. 1990) "Aloysius Pang Wei Chong (24 August 1990 – 24 January 2019) was a Singaporean actor managed under NoonTalk Media, best known for his involvement in multiple Mediacorp dramas. Pang died on 24 January 2019 at 1:45am NZDT (23 January 2019 at 8:45pm SST) due to serious crush injuries sustained from a..."

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23rd January 1974 🗓️ : Birth - Richard T. Slone Richard T. Slone, English painter "Richard T. Slone is a self-taught artist residing in the United States. He was born in 1974 in Newton-in-Furness, Lancashire, a northern English town. His work has been commissioned and purchased by many global celebrities, as well as used for large scale events all over the world.Slone's art has..."

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23rd January 1924 🗓️ : Birth - Frank Lautenberg Frank Lautenberg, American soldier, businessman, and politician (d. 2013) "Frank Raleigh Lautenberg (; January 23, 1924 – June 3, 2013) was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who served as United States Senator from New Jersey from 1982 to 2001, and again from 2003 until his death in 2013. He was originally from Paterson, New Jersey. Lautenberg was..."

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23rd January 🗓️ : Holiday - Christian feast day: Marianne of Molokai "Marianne Cope, TOSF, also known as Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi (January 23, 1838 – August 9, 1918), was a German-born American religious sister who was a member of the Sisters of St Francis of Syracuse, New York, and founding leader of its St. Joseph's Hospital in the city, among the first of 50..."

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#OnThisDayInWikiHistory #WikiUntamed #WikiExplorer #WhatDoesWikiSay

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fizzingwizard · 9 months

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found some more cottagecore asks ty op

tagging @prevailing-westerly because you seem to like doing these too, and anyone else who might want to

teacup: what are 5 of your favorite songs at the moment?

Francesca - Hozier Two Slow Dancers - Mitski About Summer - Luli Lee Wish - Olivia Lufkin Hopeless Wanderer - Mumford and Sons

candle: how did you meet your best friend?

I don't have a best friend right now, so I'll talk about my childhood best friend. Not to knock adult friendships, but childhood relationships are so full of firsts and extremes of emotion that I feel like this one will always be special to me.

We were next door neighbors after I moved into the neighborhood when I was eight. I don't remember being introduced. But the other kids on the street included a girl my friend didn't like, a boy I didn't like, and then a few kids we just never interacted with (although years later I got to be friends with one of them through Girl Scouts). So pretty much we got to be friends because we didn't like anyone else :P and we both liked to play pretend. It was so much fun that I used to dread growing out of it, and we kept playing pretend long after most kids moved on.

blanket: what is your sleep schedule like?

Technically healthier than when I was younger, lol. I can't do all nighters anymore, not without paying the price. I get 6-8 hours a night, more of the 8 hours recently because I just pass out around ten or eleven with the lights on and stuff. On vacations I can still get by on less. Since I live alone and don't have kids, I have fewer sleep troubles. Even so, when I'm working I still feel so tired in the evenings.

hot chocolate: do you have a crush / partner / etc? describe them if so!

My boyfriend looks a little bit like Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born. I think I liked the movie particularly because of that, haha. He's quiet but friendly and very gentle and go with the flow. He always has candles lit.

fireplace: what has been your favorite age so far?

Whatever age I'm at. Every stage of my life has had its share of joys and difficulties. So as tempting as it is to say childhood, when happiness was never overshadowed by fears of tomorrow, I don't think it's really true.

cookie jar: if you could be doing anything right now, what would you do?

Swimming in the sea in Okinawa, for sure. And then ice cream afterward.

sweater: do you remember any of your dreams? describe them if so!

The dreams I tend to remember are all disturbing lol. And they fade when I try to think of them. I only remember one, from when I was a kid, a recurring dream in which a deer would approach me in random places. I'd be extremely scared and then wake up. The deer never did anything. I didn't have a fear of deers. Cannot explain.

doll: describe yourself through a mixture of fictional characters

Jo March with a touch of Beth. Right smack in the middle of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Bit of Snufkin, more Moomintroll, even more Moominmamma.

kitsch: what are your favorite books?

Well, the Moomin books obviously. Others: Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien), The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), The Giver (Lois Lowry), His Dark Materials (Philip Pullmann).

lace: list 5 things you like about yourself

Committed 2. Genuine 3. Resilient 4. Accepting 5. Reflective

teddybear: what is your favorite temperature / weather?

70s Fahrenheit/ sunny if I'm outside doing stuff 60s F/ rainy if I'm inside writing

coffee mug: is there someone you miss right now?

My dad, who didn't reply to his birthday message

embroidery: do you consider yourself an artist?

In my opinion, to be human is to be an artist. People who actively try to control, restrict, or limit art have abandoned their humanity.

#meme #idk why i use the meme tag for these games but ive been doing it too long to change haha

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faefins · 3 years

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This handmade mermaid comb is currently on it's way to a beautiful mermaid in Singapore. :)

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payasita · 2 years

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some of my favorite sprites so far!! getting to the fun stuff in ch1 >:)

#oc art #doodles #psychopompous #the headless socialite down there is only tentatively named #i'm stuck between charlotte and marianne #also! i'll be looking for more beta testers soon if anyones interested in testing the first chapter for me #in the next week or so maybe i dont actually know how much of the first chapter i want done #before it is a Demo that is Acceptable For Strangers

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meueknight · 4 years

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Three Houses!Charlotte designs! I started these last November and finished her timeskip outfit, but I just finished coloring in her academy outfit yesterday haha.

#fire emblem #charlotte #three houses #3h #fe3h #my art #i imagine her as a commoner in the black eagles #can A support edelgard/dorothea/leonie/marianne #strength in brawling and axes #weakness in faith and magic

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widvile-blog · 6 years

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Marianne of the Netherlands, Princess Albert of Prussia (9 May 1810 - 29 May 1883)

#marianne of the netherlands #wilhelmina frederika louise charlotte marianne #princess albert of prussia #daughter of william i of the netherlands #wife of prince albert of prussia #history #women in history #19th century #art

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thatscarletflycatcher · 2 years

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What do you think of Rebecca Dickson's essay, "Misrepresenting Jane Austen's Ladies"? As much as I appreciate the art of the 1995 Persuasion and S&S movies, I think Dickson made excellent points--especially about S&S.

Hello, anon!

So, I had to go fish down that book chapter and it wasn't easy XD (I'll link it on notes for anyone interested).

To give everyone else a summary:

- The main thesis of the article is that, while being beautifully crafted pieces, both Persuasion 1995 and Sense and Sensibility 1995 undermine the quiet feminism of those two Austen novels.

- About Persuasion, she says that the portrayal of Elizabeth obscures the suffocating constrictions of gentry women at the time, and eclipses the importance of Mrs. Croft and Anne's speeches and subtle defiance.

- About Sense and Sensibility, she says that the movie flips the script and makes Elinor's restraint into repression and so gives her an arc of emotional liberation that is alien to the book.

- She does mention that the opposite arc for Marianne is still there in the movie... the way it is written sounds a bit inconsistent to me upon a first read, or at least confusing, but she's saying both things.

- Elinor is a complete character that needs no change in the novel.

- The film is not about Marianne's epiphany but about the importance of not being repressed.

- Austen's scene between Brandon and Elinor about Marianne's ingenuity supports Elinor's position in the novel, Brandon's position in the movie.

- Elinor's three outbursts in the movie (Marianne learning of Edward's engagement, Marianne's illness and the reveal that Edward is not married) are a betrayal of the novel's character.

- About Marianne's illness scene, she says that Elinor is promising something to Marianne and apologizing to her (?)

- "America likes its heroines to have no secrets"

- Thompson's translation of Elinor Dashwood has a surprisingly antifeminist element to it. Note that it is the strong woman who breaks, not the immature, malleable one."

- Elinor is dependant of men in the movie (Brandon teaches her about "the wonders of a wilful nature" and the doctor "to prepare herself emotionally for her sister's death")

So... my thoughts?

Re: Persuasion, I don't think anyone disagrees that Elizabeth Elliot is off, but I also think the characterization sticks out like a sore thumb as well. It is out of place within the script and she comes across as disturbed rather than spoiled. I think the criticism is valid, but I don't think it is as dire as the author thinks it is for the audience; ultimately because it is Anne's story and we engage with it in a far more personal --rather than sociological-- way, far more than we do in other Austen stories like Emma or Pride and Prejudice. Persuasion's more romantic vein is the main cause for this.

The author goes in far more detail with her criticism of S&S, and there I disagree more with her.

First there is the underlying claim that S&S is at its core the story of Marianne's maturation and acquisition of sense. I dispute that. I say that S&S is at its core a thesis on what it means to be sensible, and that's why we follow Elinor's pov the closest, and are presented with the contrasts of false sense: being sensible is not being greedy (Fanny) or persuadable (John) or insipid (lady Middleton) or cunning (Lucy) or snobbish (Mr. Palmer) or cold (Mrs. Ferrars). Sensibility is not condemned by itself, but on the pitfalls of its excesses: Sir John and Mrs. Jennings are nosy and unrefined, but it is their open heart and kindness that supports our main characters in their time of need; same goes for Charlotte Palmer's extreme hilarity. Willoughby's problem is not that he's all sensibility, but that he's selfish and self-centered, and the same goes for Marianne and her self-fed misery, and mrs. Dashwood's romantic mind.

I personally think Austen understands virtue in an Aristotelian way, as the golden mean between two extremes that are vices, and I think the paragraph above illustrates this point. It's not a choice between sense and sensibility; it's rather about the way these two things interact to make a balanced, virtuous, flourishing individual. In that light is that we should understand the Elinor-Brandon conversation: Marianne's naivety is dangerous to her and she would be benefited from learning the lessons of experience, but there is some value and beauty to her joie de vivre. That's where Brandon's backstory fits in: he has learned the lesson of the world but it has made him melancholy and that is not a desirable state of things. While I can see that the movie scene does leave the last word to Brandon (because we have not the inner perspective of Elinor), as I'll elaborate below, the movie does not shy from the fact that Marianne's behavior was reckless, wrong, and damaging to herself and her family.

Also, when we are introduced to Marianne we are told twice that she is "sensible and clever", "Margaret... had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense".

I don't think Marianne's arc is diminished at all; the movie makes a point to include and let breath the scene where Marianne talks to Elinor and tells her that she compares her own past behavior with Elinor's, with what it should have been. Besides that, we see Marianne taking up her studies and helping at home with Margaret's learning, plus how she goes from only caring about Willoughby --how she's rude to Brandon when he comes to invite them to visit the estate and how she goes out in the rain ignoring her hosts and her sister-- to how she worries about Elinor's feelings when we get to the Lucy's marriage fake-out and how she says that the gift of the pianoforte is not just for her, but for the enjoyment of her family.

The learning the meaning of true love is also even more emphasized than in the novel; Willoughby brings Marianne wild flowers he carelessly picked from the side of the road, whereas Brandon brings her flowers from the hothouse. On the surface the first choice looks fresh and the second boring, but under the surface it was the second one that involves care, effort and perseverance. Same goes for the symbolism of the sonnet: Willoughby can recite it admirably, but Brandon is the one that actually embodies it: it is his love that does not alter when it alteration finds nor removes with the remover to remove, but looks on tempests and is never shaken. Cold Combe Magna gives Marianne it's cold back, while Brandon, worried, searches for her.

As for the "Elinor is a complete character" I think this is a superficial reading of the novel. A lot like Anne, Elinor is forced into loneliness with her feelings by her circumstances. It is not natural for a girl of 19 to be the more mature person to her mother of 40. It is not that Elinor does not need others, specially her family, to sustain her in her emotions and grief; it's that they are unqualified to help her and she cannot rely on them ("From their counsel, or their conversation, she knew she could receive no assistance, their tenderness and sorrow must add to her distress, while her self-command would neither receive encouragement from their example nor from their praise.").

That is a valid criticism of the movie, that the author does not mention because it doesn't fit with their view of Elinor as a complete character: making Elinor an older woman on the verge of spinsterhood makes it more difficult to see how unnatural her situation is. Another element of the novel that shows us that Elinor is still a girl in a way is how she's persuaded and moved by Willoughby's story; she even comes to the point of finding herself wishing that Willoughby were a widower so that he could marry Marianne. When she finally talks to Marianne about Edward's engagement, she tells her that she was several times on the brink of breaking her promise to Lucy.

Also, a lot like Anne Elliot, we could say that Elinor 'was forced into prudence in her youth, and learned romance as she grew older, the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning'; the key here is a chance in circumstances that allows Elinor a more healthy dealing of her feelings. So I'll concede half a point here to the author: Elinor perhaps has nothing to learn internally, but her situation is not ideal or desirable by any means, so we as readers/audience, I think, are meant to root for a change in circumstances that allows her more freedom of expression. Which leads us to Elinor's three outbursts in the movie, that the author criticizes as "breaking" Elinor.

So, there's the old adage of cinema, show, don't tell. Showing the emotions and thoughts of a character that is not manifestative in a novel setting is very difficult. The most common strategy to deal with this is the voiceover, be it played straight or as the reading aloud of letter writing or diary entries. It is kind of generally frowned upon, though I think it is unjustified. So... how do we convey a character's inner feelings when we don't have either narration or voiceover? The outbursts are at play in 1995, but consider the framing:

- The first one is not internally but externally driven: it's not that Elinor comes to a breaking point, but that she's finally allowed to talk about her grief because she's no longer bound to secrecy. It is important that Marianne understands how deeply Elinor feels about the situation, and we as the audience need to be shown both things. Notice that in this scene Elinor and Marianne are alone. Unlike Marianne's public grief, Elinor's is only expressed in intimacy with her family.

- The second one is meant to show us how deeply Elinor loves Marianne, despite of how different their characters and tempers are. It is important for the audience to see that Elinor's endurance is the fruit of effort rather than a naturally detached disposition. I don't see either the apology or the promise that the author sees here: "Marianne, please, try... I cannot... I cannot... I cannot do without you. oh, please, I have tried to bear everything else... I will try... but please, dearest, beloved Marianne, do not leave me alone". Once again, this demonstration of grief is private: Elinor and an unconscious Marianne.

The argument of Elinor's dependance on the doctor is forced and silly. It's narrative function is to tell the audience that Marianne is in danger of dying. And in any natural situation, it'd be silly to say that a doctor giving someone a diagnosis depowers the person.

The third outburst is another change in circumstances, not in the character herself: Edward has come to visit them and tell them he's not married. In that moment it is clear what his intentions are and what is about to happen. Elinor is finally allowed the relief of her feelings and the expression of her joy. The author says that Austen gives Elinor the privacy of her outburst, but that's something you can do in a novel that you cannot do in a movie. Yes, Austen doesn't show us Elinor crying in detail, but she's telling us she does, which leads us to imagine her crying. The privacy is illusory, and removing the display of emotion is cheating the audience from this cathartic moment. Once again, Elinor's manifestation of emotionality here is still private, in the context of her family.

So, no, I don't think that the movie breaks Elinor, or changes her instead of changing Marianne, or makes violence to the message and themes of the story.

Thank you for the ask!

#Jane Austen #Sense and Sensibility #long post #Persuasion #Persuasion 1995 #S&S 95 #ask #anonymous #meta

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mariannecharlotteart · 2 years

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It's MerMay again, so I'm kicking off the month with this mermaid painting - she's drifting in the dark waiting for ships to sink and sailors to drown. 🧜‍♀️

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theintrovertowl · 7 years

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Meet Charlotte’s extended ‘family’!

or the morons that literally ruined her life except her true mom

So here’s the order of the family members according to the illustration: - Marianne Victoire d'Audibert: the step bitch mother (mocap/VA: Cate Blanchett) - Alphonse Gérald d'Audibert: the stepbrother (mocap/VA: Nicolas Duvauchelle) - Yves-Matthieu Bisset: biological father (mocap/VA: Samuel Le Bihan) - Hélène Valentine Bisset: biological mother, deceased-RIP my dear *sniff* (mocap/VA: Juliette Binoche)

Hope you like it! :D because it took me 2 days dammit

#assassin's creed #assassin's creed oc #personal project #rococo #18th century #french nobility #original characters #marianne victoire d'audibert #alphonse d'audibert #yves-matthieu bisset #helene valentine bisset #mocap #charlotte susanne danielle bisset #my art

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britneyshakespeare · 3 years

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tagged by @david-watts!!! thank you let’s have some fun >:)

name: Diana

nickname: call me whatever you want, but also don’t acknowledge me

gender: womanish

star sign: 🌟🛑

height: 5′6 and three quarters... but that’s bitchy so I say I’m 5′7

time: about 6 pm

favourite band: I like a lot but I’ll just take the L and say the Beatles. I also love like Blondie and the Stones and No Doubt and blah blah. Idk I haven’t been /as/ into music lately. My interest in music goes up and down. I like a lotta weird stuff. I don’t really have taste. I’ve been lapsing back into the kpop I loved as a teen lately though so feel free to tack on Super Junior and Seventeen.

favourite solo artist: Marianne Faithfull for the everything, also love Francoise Hardy and Sinead O’Connor and uh a bunch others. Donovan comes to mind... yeah.

song stuck in my head: I had SHINee - Sherlock stuck in my head but right now I’m playing Express Yourself by Madonna

last movie: uhhh before Christmas I was watching Susan Slept Here on TV w my dad... and I HATED it lol, turned it off halfway, if it has a better ending than middle that’s cool, don’t tell me about it

last television show: Malcolm in the Middle

when did I create this blog: August 2012 ._.

what did I last google: your mom

other blogs: @creatediana

do I get asks: Sometimes on here. Never on my poetry blog lol.

why I chose my URL: I’m a Britney scholar and a Shakespearean popstar

average hours of sleep: more than it feels like lol

lucky number: deux

instruments: can I say guitar if I haven’t taken mine out of its case since I was 18? It’s okay I don’t really miss it. I don’t have the time for it anymore and I don’t feel overly sad about it, I had a good run with it and it served me as much as it could as a hobby when I was younger. Sometimes when I say “I used to play guitar” people look at me with pity like “you can start again!” and I’m like that would be... literally a bore. I’ve moved on lol what is with this Chase Your Dreams Supremacy... not everything is a dream! Some things are good and fleeting and we do not want them back to re-experience joy we have transcended comfortably! Sorry that turned into a rant. I never think about playing music anymore.

what I am wearing: Jake from State Farm...

dream job: I would really love to be a translator of poetry and theater, I’m obsessed with the way art is attached to its language inextricably, and the task of equalizing it into another tongue is a task I find daunting and worthwhile.

dream trip: blaaaaah I just wanna go shopping again but like, safely. I can’t even think. I haven’t even thought about recreationally leaving my home in too long to be able to answer this question.

favourite food: anything I don’t have to cook.

favourite song: Idk but Is Ar Eirinn Ni N-Eosphainn Ce Hi by Mary O’Hara lives in my head when I think about peace and tranquility.

last book I read: Book book as in novel or just anything? I’ve been reading Ugly Music by Diannely Antigua, the Complete Poems of Anne Sexton and the Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara in the past day or two. But if you mean something with a /plot/ then I guess I’m in Act V of Richard III by Shakespeare. I’ve been reading that this whole month when I realized the only Shakespeare play I read in 2020 was King Lear as opposed to like, a lot more in 2018 when I first got the Riverside Shakespeare, and still a good number in 2019. If you mean the last time I read a novel, though... go fuck yourself. I’ve been reading The Professor by Charlotte Bronte on and off for over a year. Haven’t opened it once since like March. I can’t read novels bitch I have ADHD.

top 3 universes I want to live in: Buffyverse, because I wanna be a vampire, duh. I would also maybe like to live in A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a fairy... and. Hm. I wanna live in my dog Sandy’s head, she always seems to be at peace. She’s a sweet and beautiful old lady.

thank youuuuu!!! George!!! I’ll tag some other friends now :) @octopussy25 @sneez @szappan @mylittlehappy @buddyhollyscurls @beatlesgirlfab @sinnamonsam @pavlovers @nebylitsa @mypointremains @aliceic @mirrorball-moon

#anyone i forgot is also welcome to play!!!! tag me. i forget everyone all the time. i miss you all i love you all take care #tag #this was fun #i'll have you all know i'm listening to jesse mccartney now #it's the other guy from 2014... bc i'm a REAL FAN SO I KNOW THIS MASTERPIECE

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Give us some book or poetry recommendations, Please.

This ask has blessed me 💖💖. This is also a long post, promise I'll put it under 'read more' once I turn on my laptop

Hmm let us see. I'll try to get my finger into every pie.

🌸poetry🌸

I am very white in my poetry consumption, I admit this. (And very limited, poetry confuses me) so I'll give you 2 categories: ones that inspired my Quiet Birds AU and poems I know my friends enjoyed).

Quiet Birds Inspo:

Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep (Mary Elizabeth Frye) ~ I read this in highschool and it ended up in every book I own. (Genuinely. It's in my art book of all places).

Caged Bird (Maya Angelou) ~ I just love this poem tbh.

Poems my friends enjoyed:

The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock (T.S.Eliot) - "the poem gay, kids" is the note I have at the bottom of my notes on that poem.

Poetry (Marianne Moore) -- it's a poem about hating poetry.

Mary Szybist's Incarnadine -- this is an anthology I did not enjoy but my friends did.

🌸books🌸

Thriller(s):

Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)-- even if you've watched the movie or know spoilers, this book is a treat. It is so well done.

The Cry (Helen Fitzgerald) -- it's only small (307 pages!) But if you're interested in original work vs TV adaptation I highly recommend watching the 4 part mini series and reading the book, it's interesting how the two approach Joanna (I'm inclined more towards TV Joanna).

History based dystopian(s):

The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) -- i had to make sure I was in a good headspace to read this (it has some very heavy topics and I would NEVER tell anyone they had to read it, it made me very uncomfortable) but I am grateful i did.

The Natural Way of Things (Charlotte Wood) -- is a modern day take on Women's Prisons or "reformation centres" those places for ""troubled girls"" (y'know, they had sex, lock them away) very arty but very good and makes you think!!

Queer Young Adult:

Amelia Westlake Was Never Here (Erin Gough) -- two lesbians take down homophobic, racist and sex offending teachers via an allias in the school paper and accidentally fall in love.

Her Royal Highness (Rachel Hawkins) -- falling in love with royalty at a Scottish boarding school only it's lesbian.

~Queer~:

To be taught, if fortunate (Becky Chambers) -- novella!! 134 pages!! an astronaut sends back her final letter to earth, not knowing if anyone survived. Incredibly diverse, has everything. (A pansexual MC and a trans biologist and an understanding the whole ship is poly?? So good)

Red, White & Royal Blue (Casey McQuinston) -- the president's son falls in love with the prince of England. Has quite explicit smut sometimes, wouldn't recommend reading anywhere someone can read over you shoulder.

Fantasy:

Stardust (Neil Gaiman) -- again, another one that isn't spoiled by knowing the movie or the book. Both stand alone perfectly.

Four Dead Queens (Astrid Scholte) -- this book was incredible. It's got a bad rep on goodreads because two of the dead Queens are queer (not a spoiler) but it's genuinely a good book (i, a queer, say so) and pulls off its plot twists effortlessly and always has you looking in the wrong direction.

Children's fantasy:

Strangeworlds Travel Agency (L.D. Lapinski) -- 11 year old girl and her new 18 year old friend pretend they're in Doctor Who via suitcases and there's a bunch of canonical queers.

Nevermoor (Jessica Townsend) -- you gotta fight through that first 200 pages (it works really hard at NOT being Harry Potter) and then it comes into itself. Townsend was also very quick to speak out against Rowling (also evident in source material that constantly has people pulled up for being mean, and calls out human rights violations, also Queer characters).

YA Fantasy:

The Medoran Chronicles (Lynette Noni) -- 5 book fantasy series featuring female protagonist. I only read them last year, they're brilliant. First book kind of reads like Harry Potter fanfic but it does not continue in that direction.

Authors i would just recommend in general:

Patrick Ness

John Flanagan

Lynette Noni

If you're looking for something more visual:

Illuminae (Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff) -- it's a compilation of ship blue prints, emails, chat logs, classified files, debrief interviews, transcripts and security footage. Such a good book.

Favourite text(s) I studied:

Dracula (Bram Stoker) -- my best friend bought me a collectors edition for my birthday because I ruined my first edition when I read it at the Gardens and it started raining.

Animals People (indra sinha) -- a fictionalised account of the Bhopal Disaster, meant to draw attention towards it.

Swallow the Air (Tara June Winch) -- May sets out the find her Aboriginal identity while her family falls apart after her mothers death.

#long post #book recs #💫gen is a saint (and this is their tag)#. mobile

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waterparchive · 4 years

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Sex, Spongebob and sweaty hands: Inside the wild world of Waterparks fanfiction

By Marianne Eloise

Waterparks have a devout and imaginative fanbase – so asking them for fanfiction might seem like a recipe for chaos. But that's exactly what vocalist Awsten Knight has done with his podcast, Slumber Party

(May 1, 2020)

When I call Waterparks frontman Awsten Knight at 1pm, he hasn’t been awake for long. Since we spoke in February, the pandemic has changed things for everyone. Unsurprisingly, he’s a little less busy than usual.

Despite a familiar-sounding “descent into madness”, Knight’s getting through quarantine the same way as all of us: jigsaw puzzles, Animal Crossing and weighing up subscribing to streaming services. “It feels so wasteful. I was like, man, am I buying a fourth streaming thing? Per month? That seems irresponsible. Eh, fuck it. I’m home,” he laughs.

He’s also been doing DIY – namely deciding where to put his vision boards: “My place is very spacious and clean and the walls are white. I get nervous about putting too many things on the wall.”

Meanwhile, many of Waterparks' fans have been keeping themselves occupied with the latest season of Awsten’s podcast, Slumber Party. The premise is as ingenious as it is cringeworthy: Awsten and his friend Travis Riddle read out Waterparks fanfiction and rate it.

Travis, who Awsten calls a “grammar dude”, is a writer and editor with the credentials to give thorough feedback. Now in its third season, the podcast’s submissions are often erotic, making for awkward reading for its star. Even the PG ones make him shudder: “It’s literally Waterparks fanfiction. That is so gross and weird!” he laughs.

Awsten was innocent to the concept entirely until 2015, when he naively tweeted, 'I hope someday someone writes weird sexual fanfic about me and SpongeBob. That's what I want. These are my goals.'

“Someone wrote the most graphic thing about Spongebob in half an hour, and I was like – ‘never mind!’ That was my intro into fanfic,” he says.

Awsten’s fans often struggle with boundaries, and it seems counterintuitive for him to dip his toe into the murky pool of fanfic. But the idea originally came from him and Travis wanting to do something together: “The very first idea was to read the fanfiction and then talk about it and the validity of it and whether or not it could happen – which usually it couldn’t,” he laughs.

The current season was recorded last year, which Awsten is grateful for: “It’s already a struggle to keep your head right at home, he says. "If I had to read fanfiction all day, I wouldn’t be good!”

For season three, they’ve moved up in the world from Awsten’s bedroom to a set-up in a suite with a fireplace in Beverly Hills. He’s proud of the show’s quality, but ever the perfectionist, he’s looking to ramp it up: “I want to be like, on a horse in the next one,” he suggests – before adding that there’s the matter of financing a fleet of horses to think about. We brainstorm ways to get his Patreon subscribers to pay for it: “We will say your name while we’re on the horse and send you a video!”

He’s laughing, but there’s every chance he might go for it.

I ask Awsten whether he has a favourite submission. “No. Fanfic sucks, I hate it all, it’s all bad, I have no favourites,” he jokes, adding that what he does have is a handful of very least things he's received.

“There’s one where it was me but from every era with all these different colours of hair and then we all fuck each other," he says. "It was really weird. I hated that. I hate all the gross ones where they go over the top."

But his least favourite genre is slash, wherein he and his bandmates hook up: “There’s a lot of weird ones where Geoff and I are banging. I don’t like the ones where Geoff and I are banging, because he has sweaty hands in real life. If I’m getting hurt or Geoff is getting sweaty with his hands on me, then I don’t like those.”

There is something he can stand, though, which is stories with a paranormal twist. “They’ve had demonic stuff happen, there have been fairies, there have been magical horses. There have been a few possessions. They definitely get weird with it.” He adds that this season, they’re leaning into the paranormal with a spooky episode. “The ones that stick with me, the ones I like the most, are the paranormal ones. The haunted ones. There’s an episode in this season that’s not out yet where it’s all the scary ones and we turn out the lights and make it spooky”.

While some of his dedicated fans can be aggressive, many of them are creative in their adoration. Opening the floodgates to reams of fanfiction seems like a recipe for chaos. At first, Awsten and Travis sourced the stories themselves, but after creating an inbox for the podcast, they noticed a shift in the content. “In the next season when they knew they could submit stories, it was a skyrocket of insane, nasty stuff. They were just trying to be shocking so they could get on. We let a few of them go, but not all, because we didn’t want it all to be like: ‘and THEN he put his dick in a pencil sharpener!’”

In recent months, Awsten has been trying to stay offline, both to mitigate the negativity and avoid internalising too much input on his music: “If you tweeted or made songs or art or whatever for your most sensitive followers, you would have the most shitty, bland work ever,” he says. "That’s another reason to just stay away and focus on the reason they’re supposed to be there in the first place – which is what you make.

"Some people say they’ll like it either way, and I’m like, on the off chance they hate it, I want it to at least be something I really love, so I can be like, well, I like it.”

There’s one band in particular whose approach to focusing on their own goals Awsten admires: “Sometimes I wonder if certain things will get liked more in the future. Like the way when Folie à Deux, the Fall Out Boy album, came out, everyone just fucking hated it, but it’s so good,” he says. “But they don’t look back on their past like it’s their glory days, they’re moving forward and I love that. It would be so easy for them to spoon feed people Cork Tree over and over, but if they had done that, where would they be right now? It doesn’t feel trend-chasing, and I really appreciate that.”

He’s quick, however, to not draw too many comparisons: “We’re definitely not Fall Out Boy level so we’re not big enough to be hated that much,” he laughs.

Even when he’s not reading their fanfiction, Awsten has to manage his band’s relationship with a passionate fandom who often express their obsession inappropriately. When he’s so often on the receiving end of adoration, it’s easy to forget that he’s a fan himself. One upcoming episode of Slumber Party, which Awsten calls his “most difficult” to film, will feature Joel Madden of Good Charlotte.

“It’s not cute, because we always have fanfiction of the guests," he says. "It was the weirdest thing ever. I respect him so much. Trying to get him to read that, I was like...uhh.” His discomfort is genuine, and he jokes that whenever someone he admires follows him, he gets “self-conscious” and posts less dumb stuff.

It’s a gentle reminder that no matter how many fans someone has, they’re likely also a fan of someone they admire in a way that makes them feel awkward – it’s just a matter of whether they choose to log off or write fanfiction about it.

Stream Awsten and Travis’s Slumber Party podcast on Patreon

#awsten knight #awsten waterparks #awsten interview #awsten and travis slumber party #slumber podcast

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