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The Narrator of Rebecca and Jane Eyre of Jane Eyre are so similar in some ways, but in one important thing, completely opposing.
Both come from poor backgrounds, they are women of the fringe of the gentry who must work to live, they believe themselves to be physically unattractive, they fall in love with a much older man, they come to a house haunted by that man's previous wife, and they have a rich imagination (Jane's paintings, The Narrator's flights of fancy). They are also both desperate to be loved.
But then the similarities stop. When Jane Eyre learns that Rochester has a living wife, she chooses morality and flees. She values her immortal soul over earthly love. The Narrator learns that her husband murdered his previous wife and love is all that matters to her. He never loved Rebecca, he loves her. She is willing to risk anything and everything to help him cover that crime. His confession brings her closer instead of tearing them apart.
"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad—as I am now. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth—so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane—quite insane: with my veins running fire, and my heart beating faster than I can count its throbs. Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot.” -Jane Eyre
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Our happiness had not come too late. I was not young anymore. I was not shy. I was not afraid. I would fight for Maxim. I would lie and perjure and swear, I would blaspheme and pray. Rebecca had not won. Rebecca had lost. -Rebecca
It's such a different worldview, and I also didn't feel like Maxim deserved such unlimited devotion given how he had treated her (I mean does Rochester either?), but as a Romantic love story I was down. If it was a real life choice, I have to run for the moors with Jane.
#and then their houses burn to the ground#rebecca#daphne du maurier#jane eyre#charlotte brontë#ride or die
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this, after biden spewed some degenerate bullshit about palestinians lying about their casualties. and the gaza health ministry released a 212 page report detailing the names, families and ID's of every single martyr, including hundreds of palestinians who could not be identified at the time of death and burial.
#free palestine#palestine#gaza#israeli war crimes#death to israel#long live palestine#glory to the martyrs#death to america#i want to see the white house and the pentagon burn to the ground
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i died in that house and I'm buried underneath the floor boards of my childhood bedroom
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watch out for rogue snowballs this winter . happy holidays from emerald trio (: !!
#i dont celebrate but happy holidays to those who do celebrate something today or at this time of year!!#i spent my day gnawing on takeout. playing the forest with friends. and worked on this. a nice day !!#the owl house#emerald trio#toh#animation#animatic#my art#hunter toh#willow park#gus porter#these three mean so much to me. runs around in a circle so much i burn a circle into the ground with my bare feet#barks barks barks barks snarls bites you bites you#yes you reading these tags . bites you#hah! you fool. ive given you seven diseases unknown to science.
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What is it with this Targaryens are blood supremacists bullshit?
Let’s make some things clear right now:
1. Targaryen blood is superior. It’s not some sort of twisted Nazi belief, like some people make it out to be. It’s actual fact.
Sue the Targaryens for constantly pointing that out and lacking modesty. It doesn’t make it less true.
Their blood gives them godly features and the ability to ride dragons. The hypocrisy of Andals never ceases to amaze me: they have a tendency to complain about how Targaryens have ‘queer customs’ but what actually bothers them is that they choose to keep their ‘superior blood’ within their family and not share it with others. Andals criticize Targaryens for being different and yet trample over one another for a chance to marry into their family so that their offspring would have godly features and ride dragons. If Targaryens are so “bad”, then why don’t Andals keep to themselves too?
2. When did it become an actual problem to want to stick to your own kind?
Valyrians are not originally from Westeros. Their home was destroyed. They found another home, of people who constantly judge them and look at them differently despite hundreds of years after conquest.
Despite the many flaws in the show, there is something that actually stuck with me: when Daemon said, “Valyria is gone. We don’t belong anywhere.”
This actually broke my heart a little and got me thinking: how many Targaryens actually felt like strangers in their own home despite having been born and raised there?
I mean, Andals constantly treat them differently and yet blame them for wanting to stick to their own Valyrian kind (Targaryens, Velaryons and Celtigars).
The Conquest in itself is no excuse. The Kingdoms were divided and at constant war with one another, which destroyed the smallfolk. The Targaryens took away their individual powers, united the Kingdoms and gave the people a better chance at peace. The Andals are pissed because they lost their autonomy? Well, considering what they used that autonomy for, they shouldn’t have had it in the first place.
I applaud the Targaryens for taking charge and conquering Westeros for a better future. I mean, do you honestly believe that they would have been accepted in Westeros if they hadn’t? That they would have showed up with their dragons, asked to be a part of the Andals’ world and they would have been accepted with hugs and kisses? Don’t make me laugh. They would have never survived if the Andals kept control of Westeros.
And do keep in mind that if their intentions were actually bad, the Targaryens would have turned Westeros into the new Valyria. They didn’t do that though, did they? They even accepted and converted to their faith.
3. Valyrians are actually attracted to their own kind. So what? It’s their custom and nature. It’s the one thing they asked for. The only exception. To be able to keep their traditions of marrying within their family, not only in order to keep their blood pure for the purpose of controlling dragons, but also because they feel comfortable with one another. They connect with one another. They don’t want to lose ties with their true home, with their history, language, culture etc.
Andals will never be able to understand Valyrians. It’s called having a connection with someone. It can be both physical and emotional (like it was with Daemon and Rhaenyra). Why is that such a crime?
Targaryens are constantly criticized for wanting to stick to their own kind, yet the Andals have been treating them like strangers for hundreds of years simply because they are different.
Who is the blood supremacist here?
Who are the ones who constantly discriminate and create the division lines? Answer: the Andals.
#Let’s keep in mind that Targaryens never tried to impose Valyrian traditions on Westerosi. They wanted those traditions kept for themselves.#And yet the Westerosi couldn’t even let them have that.#To be honest now I am kind of sorry they didn’t do that considering all that went down.#Queen Visenya should have burned the Starry Sept to the ground and Westeros should have become the new Valyria. It would have been better.#house targaryen#canon asoiaf#asoiaf meta#team black#pro team black#house of the dragon#hotd#asoiaf#rhaenyra targaryen#daemon targaryen#pro house targaryen#the blacks#loyalty to House Targaryen!#daemyra
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Countdown to Agatha: Day 753
Agatha: “I’m not going in the water, I can’t swim!”
Y/N: “What do you mean? You’re several centuries old, and you never learned how to swim?”
Agatha: “When people in the 17th century were able to swim, guilt on crimes of witchcraft usually followed!”
Wanda: “…but you actually are a witch”
Agatha: “That’s beside the point! I was trying to avoid being hung or burned!”
#fun fact: a test of witchcraft allegations used to be tried on the grounds of if a woman when thrown in the river would swim#and typically witches in Salem were hung not burned#so some not so fun fun facts!#wandavision#agatha harkness#house of harkness#agatha all along#hahndavision#house of harkness counter#marvel#wanda maximoff#agatha harkness x reader#wanda maximoff x reader#agatha: darkhold diaries#Darkhold diaries counter#incorrect marvel quotes#darkhold diaries#agatha
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Bro i just has to. Credit to @starleska for the Wally Darling x Reader post that inspired this.
#wally darling#x reader#y/n#WTF Wally you burned my house to the f//ing ground.#this is what happens when you leave me unattended for to long
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why does no one talk about how insane it is that 10 year old lloyd burned down the monastery
opening the serpentine tomb? whatever he’s a kid he just thought he was getting a cool snake army.
stealing candy? literally the most petty crime someone can commit.
BUT THEN HE FUCKING BURNED SOMEONES HOUSE DOWN WITH THEIR PETS STILL INSIDE. LIKE WHAT.
#its so much funnier that they don’t show him setting it on fire#like they just get back and they’re like oh the 10 year old burned our house to the ground :/#ninjago#lloyd garmadon#ninjago rise of the snakes
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sketches of my gorgeous beautiful butch girlfriend jan peteh joker out
#LOVE HERRR!!!!!! LOVE HER#JAN PETEH JOKER OUT I WOULD BURN MY HOUSE TO THE GROUND FOR YOU#jan peteh#joker out#joker out fanart
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you burned my house to the ground!!
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my family’s DEAD! WHAT DO I DO??!
*finger guns*
#phighting#phighting fanart#phighting!#subspace#subspace phighting#subspace fanart#medkit phighting#medkit fanart#art#my art#YOU BURNED MY HOUSE TO THE GROUND
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Avatar 2 finale in a nutshell
I had to draw them to this sound👹
#avatar#avatar the way of water#miles quaritch#colonel quaritch#recombinant#jake sully#sully family#neteyam#you burned my house to the ground#i’m so sorry#but its funny
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People can say whatever they want, THIS was the best decision Rhaenyra had made then
"I have been undermined"
"I made a spectacle they whisper about me in corridors"
"We should have left years ago"
Alicent literally made her a stranger in her own home! Who was Alicent before she married Viserys? No one.
She was literally nobody, she was the daughter of a second son (People tend to forget that Otto was not the lord of his house, he was a second son, the only power he had was that he was the hand of the king) with what right a daughter of a second son, a maid to princess Rhaenyra Targaryen house of the dragon, daughter of the king of the seven Kingdoms, the realms delight, the heir to the Iron Throne
With what right Alicent made Rhaenyra's and her children life difficult? Rhaenyra had more power than her, she was of the royal blood, the heir.
The only reason Alicent had power to begin with was because she married to Viserys, as I said before she became Viserys wife she was a maid, but even SHE forgeted that by the way she mistreated the heir to the Iron Throne. If Rhaenyra was a man and the worst human being like Alicent liked to say all the time, she would and her children wouldn't have seen the sun of the next day, they would have been in Syrax stomach.
Alicent for 10 YEARS belittled her in court, she whispered poisons words against her that would have led Rhaenyra and her kids to death. And what did Rhaenyra did to her? Nothing, absolutely nothing.
And after all that they still like to say that Rhaenyra made the worst decision by leaving the Red Keep...
#house of the dragon#hotd#rhaenyra targaryen#anti alicent hightower#Rhaenyra had every right to burn Alicent to the ground#but no#she choose to be the better person in that situation
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Perhaps one of the best parts of aoas is that Goddard chose wrong. He needed someone that he could appeal to all the worst parts of, someone he could manipulate with praise and promises of greatness. Rowan was always too compassionate to become a mini-Goddard, he had a brief bit with "Man, having the people around me acknowledge my accomplishments is actually kinda nice" but he pushes past Goddard's attempts at manipulation because he's just too damn moral!
Now, compare this to Citra. Rowan describes her as competitive by nature, and seeking approval (namely from Faraday). Citra's inner monologue reveals to us that, originally, she despises the thought of being a scythe, but hates losing so bad, she keeps going. Not to mention, Citra kicks ass at diplomacy, and at it's core, and is scarily good at rallying key people to her cause. Several Scythes call attention to her political skills and, even though she had some higher-ups in her pocket, she's very good at picking out dangerous loopholes and technicalities. A tactic that Goddard explicitly uses when he changes the definition of bias!
It goes the same for Scythe Curies as well. Citra outright tells her that, "If you wanted a student of observation, you should have picked Rowan." Citra learns best by doing, she cannot see the dullness Scythe Curie's gleaned have until she practices gleaning with her. Rowan learns by observing and reacting. He's always weighing options and stalling for time to cook up a better plan. Citra eventually learns to mimic this, but it is defiantly not a skill set she possess in the first half of book one. Not to mention, she pushed a girl in front of a bus when she was like, EIGHT. Curie has her rectify this and apologize, but I could totally see Goddard twisting that darker part of Citra.
IN CONCLUSION, Goddard wrote a self-fulfilling prophecy when he decided to be a jackass and try to corrupt one of Faraday's students after pitting them against one another. That you for coming to my ridiculously long TED Talk.
#arc of a scythe#aoas#citra terranova#rowan damisch#scythe goddard#scythe lucifer#just to be clear there also exists a world where Citra grabs Esme and burns Goddard's party house to the ground after a month of his bs#scythe#Citra as Scythe Lucifer au anyone?#seriously though she was one wrong comment away from kicking his ass
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I really, really wish you could recruit Seteth in a Crimson Flowers route-
Like. At the point where you spare him, when the writing on the wall is clear, he strikes a deal (assuming Flayn is still alive) that he'll fight by your side as long as you let Flayn get as far away as possible from the fighting. (Maybe even have 'sparing Claude' as a requirement, you call on his favour to send her to Almyra under the protection of their prince.)
Meanwhile Seteth has the ulterior motive of trying to negotiate a terms of surrender for Rhea... Only to slowly come to terms with the fact that, in Crimson Flowers, his sister has Absolutely Lost It(tm), and won't take any 'surrender' short of tearing out Byleth's heart, and El's head-
Give him some unique, CF only varients on his Supports, let someone who genuinely cares for Rhea side against her and challenge El's stances, let him call out Hubie on not standing up to El and just quietly cleaning up after her from the shadows (in a way that is definitely not him projecting as he watches his sister go insane to a degree that seals her own fate from him similarly not challenging her as much as he should've), give him an angsty ass unique interaction where he pleads with Rhea to see that she can't win against El and Byleth, but she can survive, but she doesn't even care about her own survival at this point she just wants those two dead-
I just think it would be neat.
#Alternatively#Give CF the full route length and let you last minute recruit Catherine if X requirements are met#Play up how unsettled she is by the whole burning a city you refuse to evacuate to the ground to mildy inconvenience your enemy thing#But idk I feel like that would be too angsty Catherine would be Very Not Okay after 'betraying' Rhea like that-#fe3h#fire emblem 3 houses#rhea fire emblem#fe3h edelgard#seteth fire emblem#crimson flower route
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last night's episodes of totnt mostly irritated me with very bad pacing, which is a shame, because I was so charmed by the lead up. there have been too many redundant meetings and also too many people stopping to monologue about how sad it will be if Lee Yeon dies. >:( I was ready to have brainworms for at least two weeks, show. Also, going into the final episodes there has still been no actual explanation for why the main character abandoned his kid brother on a burning mountain with a dead puppy aside from "he was very sad." im beginning to question whether he was locked in a hell dimension at all.
#on the bright side Lee Rang was annoying again like you don't understand people who have not watched this show#this man is SO annoying#did Lee Yeon think the kid was dead after their house burned down?#because surely! surely!!!#when your forest your little brother lives in burns to the ground you try to check up on him#unless you've been locked in a hell dimension which is what I had been assuming happened#it's also weird that they've gone through a lot of trouble to establish that Lee Yeon's devoted bff/nanny is great with kids#and yet!#we never see him with kid Lee Rang in the flashbacks and they don't come across as having been particularly close#like why#if you personally cannot deal with your sadness for long enough to pick your kid up#would you not at least send your bro who is great with kids?#i do like that the dude seems to have learned from his experiences with this family#Lee Rang rocks up sans child and he's just like WHERE IS THE CHILD DID YOU LEAVE THE CHILD ALONE#press says totnt#oooh ok I think I've figured it out#Lee Rang knows where he went#he just never heard from him again after he left#and Lee Yeon did said he tried to come back for him#so sequence of events seems to be#Lee Yeon told Lee Rang he was leaving#for samdocheon#possibly even why he was quitting being a mountain god#he thought Lee Rang would be fine on the mountain by himself with his puppy which#fine ok it seems like he was on his own with the puppy a lot anyway#he was depressed and uninvolved after that point but did not intend to ditch the kid entirely#when he found out the mountain had burned he#went back to look for him but Lee Rang had already booked it#the next he heard of him was when his face popped up on the most wanted list#and he'd either thought he was dead or had been looking for him up to that point
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Some headcannons for fun.
#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#sonic fanart#sth#🌈✨ems#shadow the hedgehog#miles tails prower#trans sonic#tails is aroace#sonic is aroace#shadow is aroace#autistic sonic#autistic shadow#autistic tails#agere#sexualize any of this and I’ll cut you limb by limb and then burn ur house to the ground thank u#agere fandom#rouge the bat#she’s the mom of the group
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