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Heck of a way to start the month, innit?
yuuuuuuup lol
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You know what I realize that people underestimate with Pride & Prejudice is the strategic importance of Jane.
Because like, I recently saw Charlotte and Elizabeth contrasted as the former being pragmatic and the latter holding out for a love match, because she's younger and prettier and thinks she can afford it, and that is very much not what's happening.
The Charlotte take is correct, but the Elizabeth is all wrong. Lizzie doesn't insist on a love match. That's serendipitous and rather unexpected. She wants, exactly as Mr. Bennet says, someone she can respect. Contempt won't do. Mr. Bennet puts it in weirdly sexist terms like he's trying to avoid acknowledging what he did to himself by marrying a self-absorbed idiot, but it's still true. That's what Elizabeth is shooting for: a marriage that won't make her unhappy.
She's grown up watching how miserable her parents make one another; she's not willing to sign up for a lifetime of being bitter and lonely in her own home.
I think she is very aware, in refusing Mr. Collins, that it's reasonably unlikely that anyone she actually respects is going to want her, with her few accomplishments and her lack of property. That she is turning down security and the chance keep the house she grew up in, and all she gets in return may be spinsterhood.
But, crucially, she has absolute faith in Jane.
The bit about teaching Jane's daughters to embroider badly? That's a joke, but it's also a serious potential life plan. Jane is the best creature in the world, and a beauty; there's no chance at all she won't get married to someone worthwhile.
(Bingley mucks this up by breaking Jane's heart, but her prospects remain reasonable if their mother would lay off!)
And if Elizabeth can't replicate that feat, then there's also no doubt in her mind that Jane will let her live in her house as a dependent as long as she likes, and never let it be made shameful or awful to be that impoverished spinster aunt. It will be okay never to be married at all, because she has her sister, whom she trusts absolutely to succeed and to protect her.
And if something eventually happens to Jane's family and they can't keep her anymore, she can throw herself upon the mercy of the Gardeners, who have money and like her very much, and are likewise good people. She has a support network--not a perfect or impregnable one, but it exists. It gives her realistic options.
Spinsterhood was a very dangerous choice; there are reasons you would go to considerable lengths not to risk it.
But Elizabeth has Jane, and her pride, and an understanding of what marrying someone who will make you miserable costs.
That's part of the thesis of the book, I would say! Recurring Austen thought. How important it is not to marry someone who will make you, specifically, unhappy.
She would rather be a dependent of people she likes and trusts than of someone she doesn't, even if the latter is formally considered more secure; she would rather live in a happy, reasonable household as an extra than be the mistress of her own home, but that home is full of Mr. Collins and her mother.
This is a calculation she's making consciously! She's not counting on a better marriage coming along. She just feels the most likely bad outcome from refusing Mr. Collins is still much better than the certain outcome of accepting him. Which is being stuck with Mr. Collins forever.
Elizabeth is also being pragmatic. Austen also endorses her choice, for the person she is and the concerns she has. She's just picking different trade-offs than Charlotte.
Elizabeth's flaw is not in her own priorities; she doesn't make a reckless choice and get lucky. But in being unable to accept that Charlotte's are different, and it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Charlotte.
Because realistically, when your marriage is your whole family and career forever, and you only get to pick the ones that offer themselves to you, when you are legally bound to the status of dependent, you're always going to be making some trade-offs.
😂 Even the unrealistically ideal dream scenario of wealthy handsome clever ethical Mr. Darcy still asks you to undergo personal growth, accommodate someone else's communication style, and eat a little crow.
#hoc est meum#pride and prejudice#elizabeth bennet#charlotte lucas#meta#charlotte is a much less sociable person than lizzie#so avoiding her husband most of the time and not seeking out his company is more viable for her!#she also has more patience for people being wrong#partly i think because she kinds checks out and lets them get on with it which lizzie isn't too great at even with her mother#people have different needs like that's a thing okay#marriage#spinsterhood#pragmatism#like if elizabeth had to listen to collins talk for a few months straight she would be nearly insane with rage#he's not just a low-quality man he's a man designed to be the worst for her specifically#also note that because jane's marriage is elizabeth's fallback plan#darcy screwed her over personally by interfering between her and bingley#she ofc does not bring this up how could she#but it's intensifying the anger during the hunsford rejection i think
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I usually wake up and hate what I had posted the night before but I still kind of like the fat Mac doodles. The way I drew Charlie is so personal to me <<33 favorite Char I’ve drawn so far
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Aaaand I'm not gay anymore. :(
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Last time Luigi took him to pride, he saw that almost everyone else had their own flags, so this year he brought his own.
#pride month#super mario brothers#mario#luigi#bowser#birdetta#yoshi#bowser jr#smb#my art#I know the colors and shading don't look great. but i spent too much time on this that became sick of working on it#that and pride month is almost over. so whatever. here.
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quick PSA before pride month ends
#lgbt#pride month#transgender#cry about it#good will always triumph over evil#the truth will always prevail#hate will always be history's loser#don't let the bastards grind you down
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Guys do not ask how this group is still together.. I'm too afraid to ask (the answer is magic of friendship and ✨Delusion✨)
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#karlach#wyll#astarion#durge#oc: tavis/noon#onwards to act 3 :)#got the bhaalspawn scene and karlach being like 'you're my friend!!😭choose wisely:(!!' I'm like STOPP MY GIRL TRYINA BE EVIL#wyll's greeting also changing to 'always good to talk to you my friend:)' like cmon#will the power of friendship get the best of her?? more at 6#honestly karlach and wyll are having a surprisingly good time if you ignore the earth shattering fundamental moral clashes<3#karlach has like the 2nd most inspiration right after durge and wyll still has over 80 approval😭#they're just vibing#happy pride month
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i am (the rhythm of) the night
#i promised to draw rainbow batman before pride month was over and BY GOD i did it#this was genuinely super fun by the way#im still using refs for his face cause fuck if i get his mask and it takes year off my life#my art#batman#bruce wayne#dc comics#ladies. gentlemen. you have eaten well.
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(Image description: ten square pride flags with white text that reads "you'll never have the comfort of our silence again".)
The flags are: abrosexual, queer, sapphic, bi-lesbian, demiboy, demigirl, polysexual, unlabeled, aroace, and gender non-conforming.
These are inspired by an image of a sign taken at an anti-Anita Bryant protest in 1978.
#lgbtqia#queer#lgbtq#pride#pride month#pride 2023#pride month may be over but pride never ends#op#genderqueerpositivity
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some highlights from buck's instagram ft. tommy, maddie, and the 118
911 social media series 🚨
#911#911 on abc#evan buckley#bucktommy#the 118#pride month#911 social media series#yeah this took over my brain today lmao#i hate making up usernames so some of them are boring SORRY#am i posting this at midnight after saying like 3 hours ago i was gonna write tonight? yes
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anyways happy pride to all my high risk queers out there, to all my disabled queers for whom events aren't accessible to, to my immunocompromised folks who can't risk attending events where people aren't masked or taking covid precautions! happy pride to my fellow cripqueers that want to be out there fighting and celebrating with their friends and family and can't because it's not safe for them to do so– you're not alone and you deserve to celebrate too. we all do.
#s.txt#okay to rb by the way#ngl this is mostly for myself but it's also something i feel strongly about#especially given everything i've seen lately talking about weighing risk vs pleasure as if they're mutually exclusive#or that there aren't high risk queer folks that deserve to access queer joy as well#i would literally kill to be able to celebrate pride with my queer fam this year and i can't bc i can't afford a reinfection#and it makes me so sad#queer#pride month#covid mention#covid isn't over
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happy pride month from your neighborhood gray!! I forget that asexuality has been severely misrepresented and that a lot of people don’t actually know what it is as a result so here is an overview of what asexuality is, what it’s not, and how acephobic is represented. there is so much more to asexuality than just this. I didn’t even mention the medicalization of asexuality!
I highly rec scretspiderlady on Twitter because she writes a lot about the ace experience and has many comprehensive threads. I also rec Yasmin Benoit, a Black aroace lingerie model who is fighting misinformation about asexuality and shedding light on racism within the asexual community. if you’re interested in more resources feel free to dm me!
EDIT: I updated the slide that refers to asexuality as “aspec” to “acespec.” The term aspec refers to the a community as a whole -- both asexuals and aromantics -- while acespec refers to the asexual spectrum and arospec referes to the aromantic spectrum. You can see this mirrored in the terms acephobia (experienced by aces), arophobia (experienced by aros), and aphobia (experienced by both aces and aros). Thank you to those of you who tagged this post with their correction!
EDIT 2: now with a text-only option!
#asexuality#graysexuality#demisexuality#asexual#graysexual#demisexual#happy pride#pride month#if you are being a jerk i will block you#I have better things to do than pay attention to your hateful rhetoric#ace people are queer get over it#it won't let me add alt text#I am REALLY sorry
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Tiny Groom is obsessed with giant Bride who's 2 times her size
#genshin impact#furina#clorinde#furinde#FURINDE BANNER PATCH ON PRIDE MONTH I KNOW WHAT U ARE#side note clorinde is a BASTARD tell me why this mf took over like 250 pulls to come home including her weapon
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It’s that time of year! 🌈
Updated COVID vaccines are mostly for preventing severe acute illness, but it modestly reduces your chances of getting COVID at all! (54% less symptomatic illness in the following 4 months, in this recent MMWR report.)
Best paired with a respirator! People who always wore N95 masks in indoor public settings had *83%* reduced risk of testing positive for COVID, in this 2022 MMWR report.
More info in this zine I made: What's Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition.
#pride#pride month#covid isn't over#covid19#comics#queer comics#masks work#covid caution#covid safety#anti covid
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happy pride month guys
#epic throwback to my first post🔥#ok fine i admit it i fw doubleeye.... a lot...#my other punchline for this was peepers going “captain tim kill him” like the task manager kill him img#but this one fit the occasion better#i have a hc that they ask him “yk what that means” literally every slightly important day#its national enchiladas day peepers yk what that means 😈#thats why hes so done#woy#wander over yonder#save woy#pride month#art tag#meme tag
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