Gorgeous news

I am so honoured, so full-hearted, so excited, to announce that I am now represented by Thao Le of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. Yes, that Thao, the one who represents Ali Hazelwood and Thea Guanzon. (I am all nerves, I am a single nerve, I am screaming, crying, throwing up)

Thao found me through The Mortifying Ordeal, mutual fangirling ensued – and now, this is officially happening. The project we are working on will please the Dramione stans, the slow burn masochists, and the STEM girlies all at once. 

So looking forward to sharing this next chapter with you!

Warmly,

Brigitte xx

Day 34.

My first colab EVER! Written by the wonderful and talented @starsin-motion Thank you for indulging my crazy brain and believing in me!

Please go read this, it’s so heartwarming.

If I Only Had The Nerve.

PACING IS ABOUT LOAD BEARING WALLS.

*staples violently to my own forehead*

Look it’s 100% fine to like Joe Wright’s awkward Darcy, as a new character, it’s just not Jane Austen’s actual Darcy, whose characterization was so important that she put it in the title

How Conservative is P&P?

A few months ago I posted a ramble about Jane Austen’s description of Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice. Got a handful of pugnacious notes reminding me not to forget that Darcy is rich and exploitative. Apparently Darcy’s fatal flaw as a romantic lead is that he failed to invent socialism. *whips out retractable pointer* There’s a great question lurking behind these grumbles! What purpose does Darcy serve in Austen’s canon outside of “giving her deserving heroine a fairy-tale ending”? Because he’s not just a fantasy of a romantic lead, kids. He’s social commentary.

Keep reading

Do you like Matthew as Darcy?

Nope! 

I hate it when you’re reading smut and you can’t figure out what position they’re in.

Funy how tumblr has become the place people go when there is nowhere else. give us your tired, your sick, and your cringe masses or whatever

Wait, what?

Charging for access to APIs? Not on our watch.

Tumblr will always offer free access to our APIs of all kinds. No matter if the APIs are in the water, out of the water, and even half in and out of the water. Adorable Platypus Images are a cornerstone of the internet. It's a mammalian right to gaze upon these billed wonders.

Tumblr won't stop at total access to Adorable Platypus Images. Not only are we highlighting the entire Platypus community on Tumblr, we also hear Brick Whartley’s Crab Emporium (@emporium) may be dropping an entire line of Platypus goods...if that's what the people want.

Controversial opinion, but I prefer Reddit refugees to Twitter refugees.

Reddit was never about clout. No one really follows anyone on reddit. Reddit is barely for posting, as most people are lurkers. Like Tumblr, it doesn't really have a character limit, so users can just go nuts in the discourse. And sure. It can be just bad discourse.

But at least it's not fucking truncated like Twitter and TikTok discourse. At least you can have actual discourse on reddit.

Reddit was also about having a very niche specific weird interest and sharing it with other weirdos and fans of that niche very specific interest.

How is that so dissimilar from Tumblr?

I welcome them more than I welcome Twitter users.

The whole Reddit thing is an especially striking example of corporate brain rot because, like, they managed to build their entire business model on the back of exploiting vast quantities of unpaid volunteer labour, and successfully convinced the entire Internet that this is a normal state of affairs. How do you fuck that up? How do you convince yourself that instituting a de facto demand for your very nearly 100% volunteer workforce to pay you for the ability to use the tools that are required to do their job is anything other than cutting your own throat?

“A Little Mermaid” by Kris Hi

“The Little Mermaid 🫧” by artbysanse

drawing every day day 3/?? live action ariel

A film set to unwinnable expectations. Too “woke” for having Halle Bailey play Ariel; not “woke” enough because it is still a classic fairytale written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1837, where a princess falls in-love with a prince.

What I saw was a fabulous live-action adaptation. The acting & music is truly on-point.

Disney also added backstory to the Prince, which was very worthwhile storytelling. Visually, it was a stunning movie. The water effects on the hair are a sight-to-behold. And if you’ve seen Pirates of the Caribbean, it is that style/mood mixed with Disney magic & great songs.

Though the 2023 live-action will never be our cartoon imagination from childhood, the original film from 1989 will always be there for us to watch over-and-over again.

However, if you watch the other live-action Disney adaptations, this one truly is the best one by far. Some just want to hate it for whatever reason.

Halle Bailey did a phenomenal job as Ariel & I saw many African American kids in the audience at the theatre. Representation matters ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Go see The Little Mermaid!! It is the right film for the moment — a moment where Disney is being banned in Florida.

Sing & celebrate under the sea with this truly amazing film!! Go Halle Go!! Our Disney heroine 🧜🏾‍♀️

a little late for his bday! sketched smth quick