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bethanydelleman · 1 year

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Could Mr. Bennet have saved money for his daughters?

I am the sort of person who hears that girls would have so many thousand in their fortunes (JA never uses the word “dowry”, fun fact) and I cannot understand how someone with £2000/year makes a £3000 pound lump sum for their daughter. Because my brain doesn’t math very well inside itself. So I made up some tables to see what Mr. Bennet could have done if he was prudent.

First, let's be realistic, how much can they save? I am giving three different scenarios, £25, £50, and £100 per annum per daughter. £100 each I think might be a little high, since their income is £2000 a year, that would be 25% of their income! I think £50 is well within reason, that would be only £250 per annum and therefore 12% of their income.

I did both 4% and 5% interest. These are both government bonds. I know that both are mentioned in Jane Austen’s works. The 4% might be safer and a better investment for a dowry. But there isn’t a huge difference. Anyway, here is Jane’s dowry, over 21 years:

Even if they saved only £50/year, Jane now has almost £2000 as a dowry. It’s not the £10k worthy of a baronet, but that is certainly a good start!

If the Bennets tried hard and save £100 per year, she has almost £4000, which is what her mother brought to the marriage. Even the modest £25 per year would give the girls £1000 each by their 21st birthday, which if their father died would be combined with the £1000 stipulated in the marriage articles and give them a comfortable income. Even John Dashwood acknowledges in Sense & Sensibility that increasing his half-sister’s fortunes from £1000 to £2000 would make a big difference in their comfort (and then he doesn’t do it because he and his wife are the worst).

An alternative plan would be to put aside the £4000 that Mrs. Bennet brought into the marriage and only reinvest that income. It does seem that the mother’s money was often locked up in a “life interest” and then given to the children, which is true for the Bennets as well. Just saving the initial £4000 and never adding to it except re-investing the income would have yielded around £11,00, or £2200 for each daughter.

Also, I really want to know how the son plan would have worked in the first place. Like Mr. Bennet Jr. is going to agree to break the entail and sell off a bunch of his inheritance, when he could just keep the entail and then get the whole pie? Or was the plan just to burden his own son with the care of a mom and five sisters? Not clear. Probably also a bad plan.

#pride and prejudice #mr. bennet #save some money for your daughters #jane austen #I know it takes like a tiny amount of effort #but I believe in you #except I don't because you didn't do any of this #Mr. Morland did more with a small income #this was like Mr. Bennet's one job #and he totally failed #not even a basic emergency fund

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bigfatbreak · 5 months

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I just had the thought of Fang dragging Penny and Jagged to Marinettes since he is also not a person

mutual panic was had by all

#dad villain au #marinette dupain cheng #jagged stone #my art #fang the crocodile #i promise you this was supposed to be the episode at the hotel #and one of the students was put in charge of entertaining fang and totally failed #so he wandered out of the hotel... into the streets of paris...#lone ranger... off on his own...

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bluehairperson · 5 months

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I'm not immune to propaganda 😔

#5e strahd? I don't know that bitch that's not my man #sorry ireena he's my cringe fail homie he's my bro he's my middle aged riddled by syndromes fam #please read that damn book it's so good #it's so good in fact that I'm using that as tome of strahd in my campaign #with slight fixes obviously but still #a++ characterization #I would advise it to anyone even if you don't know anything about curse of strahd or dnd in general honestly #curse of strahd #strahd von zarovich #my art #totally not have been obsessing over it since july or anything

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braimin · 2 months

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I don't think that zosan would ever really be the type to be easily jealous. Like sure Sanji can get 'jealous' over Zoro's swords but that's like the only time Sanji is ever worried about the attention his marimo is giving to something else. And Zoro knows how the love cook can be and that the way he treats women is just how he's always going to be. They're both very secure in their relationship and have never had a time where they felt like they had to protect it from another person.

However, I do think that Sanji tries to get Zoro to be jealous sometimes. It's just nice to be desired and what better way for Zoro to show that than public displays of jealousy? It never works though, as previously mentioned, Zoro knows Sanji. He trusts him and knows whatever attraction he shows to someone is usually all for show.

There is only one time where Zoro has ever gotten close to real possessiveness and it was like, the one time Sanji wasn't trying. He and Usopp made a stupid bet on some island and the loser was supposed to wear a dress to some little party the straw hats were invited to. When Sanji loses, he figures he might as well go all out and really dress up for it. It's been a long time since he's had to wear a dress and he does find it fun if he's in the right mood. So he has Nami and Robin help him pick something out and do his make up. When they show up everyone is kind of in shock because wow Sanji looks really good.

No one is used to him looking like that and it's not like Sanji really told them how he spent those two years apart from them. But the night goes well, he basks in all the compliments he gets and dances around and shows off. He doesn't really pay attention to what Zoro is doing until they get a few hours into the night and suddenly he's looming over Sanji where ever he goes. He keeps a hand on Sanji at all times, either on his back or his hand and he pulls Sanji in to sit with him constantly. At first he thinks that maybe Zoro is just tipsy and in the mood to cuddle, but then he starts to notice the way he'll interrupt someone if they've been talking to Sanji for too long, or he'll drag Sanji back to the crew and try to get him to stay at their table.

It makes Sanji want to see how long he can drag it out, see if Zoro can get jealous over the amount of eyes on him. Zoro puts up with it like a champ. Because at the end of the night, he knows who Sanji is going home with. But when the night does end and they get in bed Zoro is very clingy. Sanji wakes up late the next morning and everyone politely ignores the fact that he's wearing a turtle neck despite the heat.

#zosan #one piece #sanji #zoro #i think when sanji's plans to make zoro jealous fail he's a total drama queen about it #he goes into what i like to call *damsel mode*#he whines around for a while and zoro is just like 'you love me too much to cheat'#seeing him in a dress triggers something in zoro's monkey brain tho #it's less of like a jealous type of possession and more so a pride in how gorgeous his partner is #he wants to make sure he's right next to sanji at all times so he can be like 'yeah look at this pretty boy he's allll mine'

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havenotwillnotreadthebooks · 9 months

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Lmao imagine if a couple wanted to get married in Lindon or Imladris and saw Elrond and was like “sure why not” and just, asked him to witness their vows in place of any actual maiar or valar.

Like the relationship between the elves in the Valar-Only-Mildly-Care Place and the Valar/Maiar themselves has got to still be stiff since elves are stupidly stubborn about holding grudges, so imagine if a couple just went “fuck the valinor glowsticks, Lord Elrond has been feeding us well and sheltering us for over a century. He’s got some ainur blood anyway.”

So they ask Elrond to be witness and he agrees thinking they just want a lord’s blessing or something and then-

“[Elvish Marriage Vows] we swear in the name of Lord Elrond Peredhel and Eru Illuvatar [More Marriage Vows]”

And at this point Elrond just has to roll with it but he bluescreens later while Erestor and Glorfindel laugh at him (Celebrian and or Gil-Galad too if they’re around)

Bonus points if It becomes a tradition in Imladris/Lindon even though he neutrally suggests a vala instead every time like

Elrond, trying not to get smited as soon as he steps foot into Valinor: hey Lady Yavanna is pretty cool though, right?

Elven Couple, exiled thousands of years ago and still frost-bitten: yes, pity there were no flowers in the Grinding Ice, my Lord. Anyways, would you mind being a witness to our wedding ceremony?”

Elrond starts glowing slightly and never lives it down. He goes to Valinor and people still ask him out of tradition or genuine respect and the Valar just have to put a small tapestry of Elrond as a patron of unions or something so they can claim some sort of control over the situation.

Elrond is mortified, and nobody lets him live it down.

#silmarillion #silm headcanons #silm hcs #elrond #elrond peredhel #tag.words #eldritch peredhel #somewhat #elrond is so done #the valar are determined to seem in control #and totally not blinded by this sorta-maia gaining more followers than tulkas #Tulkas the Useless as the middle-earth elves say #is rlly trying not to look offended #he is failing

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anghraine · 3 months

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Darcy's role in P&P would work for me anyway, but tbh it works for me 10x better because he halfway reverts back to form towards the end of the book.

#so many takes on darcy seem to think his presentation of himself at pemberley is a permanent radical transformation of his personality #and the end point of his character arc #and it's explicitly not a static end point in that way #his inwards change is real but how much that translates into outwards presentation depends on the context #like late-novel darcy trying to compliment mrs bennet and doing it in a way that reads as icy and brusque is just peak darcy #the difference isn't that he's become personable in this social context; he's not! but he's doing his best now #and this being an ongoing struggle at which he sometimes comically fails is so much more austen #than the total transformation into a perfect dreamboat narrative #but yeah i love that austen goes out of her way at the end to yank him out of his fulfillment enclosures and underscores his foibles #anghraine babbles #austen blogging #austen fanwank #lady anne blogging #fitzwilliam darcy

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beatcroc · 9 months

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pest control TWO!!!!! heres the first one

adn heres the obligatory bonus bc i can't help myself :')

#i already threatened that little basard twice in these i may as well make good on it #pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #fake peppino #the noise #fp ''oh god wait that is not a real rat and also tastes awful'' moments. he doesnt actually have any interest in eating that thang ok #even if seeing a small scampering little guy like that WILL activate his prey drive without fail #peppino loves it he thinks it's the funniest shit in the world for fp to go after noise. so he is always encouraging this.#but anyway yeah. fp is *really* not the one noise should be worried about.#arting #pizzaposting #i still have lots of tag room thjis time so im gonna do some tangential nonsense rambling. e #fp gotta be like crazy good at hunting i think. not just for strength and predator instincts but also bc like #he doesn't have much in the way of a scent or body heat or anything that would give him away as an alive thing #not to mention he's uh... not particularly organically-shaped a lot of the time #so esp. to smaller prey that don't like... memorize a landscape; if he holds very still he's like completely undetectable #total ambush king. though i'm sure hes also very good at #persistence and pursuit hunting since he has peppino's speed and no way of getting muscle fatigue. ultimate beast #fortunately he doesnt care that much and doesnt really need to eat so hes not devastating the local ecosystem or anything #except for the rats.

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sentientstump · 8 months

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And now i try again my hand

At taming ghosts and counting sand

#whos normal and okay? 💥💥💥meeeeee💥💥💥👍🏼#won't elaborate. i just thought its a powerful line is all #hylics #wayne hylics #artstump #after pondering a bit i like the idea of him failing miserably at taming ghosts that he is sent to the afterlife instantaneously xD #like yeah ok weird alive moon man. get sent to death land!!#and hes like ok damn i will chill with the fish instead screw yall guys #totally not what i had in my head when drawing this but hey different interpretations are nice! 😂😂🙈

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jewishjon · 1 year

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Look, I love Jon as much as the next person but I think some of you have gone so far along the ‘Jon is a sad little man who did nothing wrong’ route that you’ve genuinely forgotten all the times he held power in a situation or like. Made a decision that hurt people

#yes Jon was in a terrible situation where he was manipulated and was often powerless and blamed for things he had no control over #yes there have been times where the fandom has been overly critical of Jon and it’s ok to try to combat that #but that does not mean Jon is completely powerless and ‘stupid’ and did nothing wrong!!!!#the entire Point of tma is that the morality of your actions and their results cannot be simply defined as good or bad #Jon was just a person who tried and sometimes failed #also it was a pretty big part of s5 that Jon was the most powerful person in the world. like. did we forget about the murders or #AND the stalking AND him being a totally arse to Martin in s1 #anyway I understand where the poor little meow meow characterisation comes from but to me it’s just doing a disservice to Jon #ugh I can’t believe I’m kinda engaging in discourse #gonna be brave and maintag this:#tma #the magnus archives #Jon sims #be nice to me pls

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ghost-bxrd · 5 months

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Prompt:

Titans Tower Au!

Tim is showing a starstruck Bernard around the Tower when the Red Hood breaks in.

Jason doesn’t know what happened, but there’s a civilian kid charging at him just when he was about to get to the good bit and clip the Replacement’s wings, screaming and crying to stop hurting Robin.

He’s never been so confused in his whole damn life.

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yuki119 · 2 years

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the Dreaming’s number one babygirl 💅

#my art #the sandman #the corinthian #corinthian #obsessed with him #the way he wants to live up to his title of dream's perfect masterpiece #only to fail and disappoint him #im totally normal about this piece of media

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lesbianangeldust · 1 month

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huskerdust fic where angel has a flashback/ptsd moment during sex and husk helps him manage it (I am totally not projecting nor do I want to read this for my own mental wellbeing)

#the brackets are sarcasm i am absolutely shamelessly projecting #please cuz angel would feel awful for 'ruining' the sex and embarassed for being vulnerable #and he would feel bad about himself cuz he failed at the thing he sees as his only source of worth #and husk would want to help but not really know how but somehow manage to make things easier anyway #just by being respectful and not a total dickhead #i will write this but i still have my current fic to finish #huskerdust #hazbin hotel #hellaverse #helluva boss #vivzieverse #vivziepop #angel dust #husk #my posts #hazbin hotel angel dust #husk hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanfic

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starryluminary · 3 days

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Dating sim where Noah’s the playable main character and the goal is to get with one of a wide variety of campers on the island (to his protest)

#I started thinking about how life and dating sims tickle my fancy #and as you do I tried forcing total drama into the mold #this is the solution I came to. most shippable man who ever lived #I don’t know why I’m entertaining this stupid little idea but. there should be an even ratio of boys and girls #for the boys Cody Owen and Alejandro are obvious choices #for the girls I propose Izzy Heather and Gwen #if eight is a better number throw Duncan and Courtney into the mix #there’d be a good route where the romance works a bad route where he tries and fails and a neutral route where he either makes a good-#friend or finds happiness with solitude #that’s it. aaaand post #total drama #Starry speaks #no emma cause this is on the island she doesn’t exist yet

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castieldelamancha · 6 months

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cas developing a music taste of his own and even if half the music is dean influenced music the other half isn't and you best believe that even if it's not his usual stuff dean sneakily starts adding cas' favourite songs to his own playlist for when they listen to music together

#destiel #and cas is totally into weird stuff i am sure of that #he complains a lot tho dean just to avoid the smitten way cas looks at him every time #he looks up and asks the universe when did he musically fail cas for this to happened to them

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whetstonefires · 7 months

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A fantastic thing about Wangxian is that they both have vast, bulletproof, towering edifices of self-esteem.

They know they're hot shit, they know almost nobody can compare; nothing changes their minds about this at any point. Even at their lowest they think highly of themselves; they're confident in their capabilities and judgments, and that they can outperform their peers.

They're arrogant, and they can back that shit up, and they have backed it up so often they're unshakeable on the subject of their own excellence.

This enormity of self-esteem is not at all incompatible with compromised self-worth, especially on Wei Wuxian's part, because the titanic self-destructive hubris that combination instills is the engine that drives his epic tragic backstory. But that's different! Thinking you're expendable and thinking you're inferior are separate judgements, that can certainly influence but don't force one another.

And one of the reasons this is cool is how the story holds them up against characters that are mostly pretty confident if not necessarily secure about their own value, but have very fragile self-esteem.

In varying ways, this is more or less what's up with Su She, Jiang Cheng, and Wen Chao.

Xue Yang also, but he's so weird about it it feels wrong to group him with those three.

Jin Guangyao is hard to place on this scale, because he shares wangxian's overweening sense of being better and more capable than other people as a rule, but he's not quite secure about it, and he shares Xue Yang and Su She's insane levels of conviction that he deserves to get what he feels is his due, at any cost to anybody.

But he definitely has a more complex relationship to that belief than either of them; su she's just like 'it's not fair!!!!!!!!!' about literally anything that doesn't go his way and xue yang is like 'obviously my finger is worth more than hundreds of lives because. it was mine.'

#hoc est meum #when jiang cheng's self-esteem totally cratered it took his self-worth with it and he just kind of. stopped.#but the rest of the time he knows he's a high-value person even if that awareness is tied so so tightly to his position in society #but his self-esteem is Brittle As Fuck #meanwhile lwj's sense of himself as among the best is very solid and secure and not vulnerable to being shown up #probably because he wasn't *emotionally abused* about not living up to lan xichen asd;lkfjfadkl #but his self-worth is definitely capable of taking hits when he fails to live up to his own high standards #in basically any way #he mostly grows out of this as he grows up #jiang cheng probably grew out of the insecurity SOME by proving his capability all that time #but definitely less because he was not able to make peace with his demons at all #(wwx is his demons)#mdzs #meta

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alfazoings · 9 months

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revisited my old butcher design bc of the new ep!!!! But also i had to make him more eldritch now 💔

#malevolent #malevolent podcast #the butcher #butcher #butcher malevolent #i am normal about this totally straight man #(lie)#i love him but i hope he fails his audition for a musical bc he murdered the director or smthn

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