Reminder to be normal today in both Fit and Pacs chat please please please

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.

Hey, do you think I can draw a 9 pages comic in one night ? That would be so silly haha (already 3 pages done and it's a colorless comic)

I mean- what’s a 9 pages comic in like - 4-3 hours am I right????

It’s easy Peezy lemon squeezy —

Sleep is overrated anywayyyyyyy



I've decided I will be fighting Dune and Flowers and Rivers at the same time. I think this can only end well

rivers and flowers would cower because theyre pathetic men. rivers would cower and spit the most pathetic pitiful stuff youve ever heard at you. flowers will Try to hold his position in government over you but once you start hitting him im sure hed just cry or scream or flail or something. dune will destroy you

Guess what

If you struggle with self-care, try this hack:

Don't say things about yourself that you would punch a motherfucker for saying about your friends/loved ones.

"I'm worthless" becomes "they're worthless" and suddenly your blood is boiling, huh?

Suddenly it's not acceptable.

I get it, breaking the habit of self-deprecating put downs is hard! Some of us spent years making that our entire personality hoping against hope that would make the abuse stop.

But if you're somewhere safe now, if you're somewhere you can start on the great task of loving yourself and taking care of yourself because you're done surviving and you'd like to start living? Oh, it's hard! It's hard and you're not broken for thinking it's hard. It's hard and you're not defective because you don't know how and all forms of self-love and self-validation sound fake and impossible.

Listen, brains are assholes and also very dumb. Our thoughts are like water, they flow down the groves we've dug into our heads. If your brain is used to thinking of you in self-deprecating, self-demeaning terms out of habit, it will take a while to figure it out.

But brains are dumb and kind of assholes, so use it against them.

It's okay to cheat your way into self-esteem. It's okay to trick your dumb, asshole brain into self-love. It doesn't matter how you get there, what matters is you do.

You deserve the world.

aroace….. ok….. we will be firends then. thank you

I respect your mission anon 🫡

If I ever met Chad then I would challenge him to a "dad joke off" 😂 and I would win too lmaoooo

I feel like chad has got the most killer dad jokes bro, it'd take some skill to beat his ass

ok thats IT what happened to fundy, what do you mean you feel guilty?? appa im worried what in the name of comma did you do to our boy? ill add a big stick for you to climb around on and some rocks and leafs if you gimme a hint (please appa please please please pleaseeee) if not i will shake this jar aggressively you have been warned /j

All the clues are there in the last chapter, and I know it's possible to figure it out bc one person has done it already

This is the funniest way you could've put it

I need non autistic people to realise meltdowns are a real debilitating thing that has a serious effect on your mental and physical health NOWWWWW!!! The way its been trivialized and lessened pisses me the fuck off. It's not a tantrum and it doesn't come from "being too weak-willed" it's painful and it's embarrassing AND MOST OF ALL IT'S INVOLUNTARY!! Don't claim to be an ally to autistic or disabled people and then make fun of people who have meltdowns. Literally get the hell out of my sight

hey guys if you’re planning on making a vaguepost on the dashboard can you message me with the details and some of the lore behind the vague post you’re making. a vaguepost for the dash and a detailedpost for me. because i like to know what’s going on. if you do this i will automatically take your side because you’ve done the right thing by letting me know what’s up. thanks in advance ❤️

So... a bunch of NFT grifters threw a party in Hong Kong this weekend and reportedly a bunch of attendees are now at risk of permanent eyesight damage because the promoters used unsafe lighting, and people are going to the ER...

Had breakfast with my folks the other day

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S (2023)