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In episode 10, Tom said that he has loved Mary since he caught her playing graces on her own in episode 3. Why do you think that made him fall for her? And in extension, what do you think drew him to her in the first place?

In episode 3, Tom says "I believe that this is the book that will open the heart, Miss Mary Bennet". The fact that he says Miss Mary Bennet with typically one would just say Miss Bennet feels intentional but I can't put my finger on what the significance is. Does it say anything about how he's feeling about her? Like is it supposed to be like that awkward thing you do when you're more formal with someone you have feelings for? But then it's also somehow more intimate because he is saying her first name. So like what does that mean?!

In episode 4, why does Mary says to Tom, "you have such varied ways of expressing your feelings, mine feel frozen or feeble or entirely unknowable." And Tom responds, "I do not know Miss Bennet. Well I use the words of others to puzzle through things I do not understand. But I do not believe you are truly a stranger to strong emotions." I guess what I'm asking is how this conversation fits in with both of their journey's with their emotions.

Later, when Tom is removing a petal caught in Mary's hair and Mary taken aback by the fact that her crush that she thinks is not attainable touches her swats him away, he exclaims, "it was only a petal." What was he thinking she was feeling? Did he think that she was offended by him getting so close to her to pick the petal off her hair?

Directly after that, when Mary told him she will be leaving London and that he will be busy with "social engagements and...Miss Baxter" to notice she's gone, what do you think Tom understood from that interaction? Does Tom know that she has a thing for him? Or does he just think she is upset still and that he's failed at 'restoring her spirits' and is reminded that he can't pursue anything with her despite wanting to because of Miss Baxter?

Why does Mary feel like she doesn't know or understand her feelings? Like what was the significance of that whole conversation they had about being a stranger to strong emotions etc.

Later that episode, after she won the games night, what do you think Tom was going to say to Mary before they were interrupted? He said, "I wanted to say, I felt..." Felt what?!?

And then later still, the poem that Mary reads in bed, I feel like there has to be some deeper meaning or connection with this poem and how she feels about Tom and that whole situation. Especially given her comments on feeling emotions and how they feel unknowable etc. Someone please help me understand. The eye — it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will.

Similarly, in episode 8, she's arrived in the Lake District and narrating a poem. Does this poem have any deeper significance to her situation/arc in that part of the story? Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song; And while the young lambs bound; As to the tabor's sound; To me alone there came a thought of grief; A timely utterance gave that thought relief; And I again am strong.

In episode 8, Mary seems to show that she doesn't think that Tom likes her romantically based on some of her comments/behaviour and seems pretty oblivious to, yet she's pretty keen to try and clarify with him multiple times that nothing happened with Ryder during his visit to Pemberley and that she is not indeed engaged to him. And she seemed even hesitant to even bring him up when she said they went riding. This seems contradictory to me. Can anyone explain to me how this behaviour can coexist?

first names are considered an intimacy in this time period, so he's skirting a line of propriety by saying her full name. including her last name means that she is still properly addressed while allowing him the use of the intimate moniker

She is repeatedly shown to gain the ability to understand/articulate her own emotions through Tom's recitations of poetry. he feels the poetry so strongly and has a sense for where and when to recite certain things in order to truly evoke a feeling, and it allows her to tap into her own emotions, which also makes Tom feel seen. for example, her feelings for london and the person she is able to be in london are fully experienced during that morning recitation and he watches her tear up in response. Tom understands that she is a being of great emotion because she responds to poetry in the same way that he does. so when he recites poetry and she reacts so strongly, he can see her emotion every time and knows that it's the same one that he is feeling and also gains confidence in his own love of/mastery of poetry because he is able to present it to her in an emotionally evocative way that she had not experienced in poetry before him. it's a very circular reciprocity--their appreciation of both poetry and emotion are deepened by experiencing it together.

he just wanted to touch her and she reacted like there was a bug in her hair. so he thought she thought it was a bug and said it's only a petal.

he has feelings for her in this moment and people in love are stupid. i doubt he has any more clarity of thought than "AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he knows he wants intimacies from her that are inappropriate for a man with a fiancee and that he doesn't want her to leave. i doubt he thinks she is leaving because of him but we dont know because neither is really thinking clearly there

talked about this in #3. she doesn't understand her emotions, she's very emotionally suppressed. she doesn't seem to ask herself what she wants at all or consider what would make her happy until her conversation with collins at pemberly.

we don't know and can't know because he didn't say it. but since they were in a group setting, it was probably "impressed" or "amazed" or some other publicly acceptable compliment

yep! it is significant. tom makes her feel and opened her eyes to articulating and understanding those feelings through poetry. she can't choose when and who helped her feel those things & she feels things against her will because he's spoken for.

she had just fully committed to never being married. the imagery of spring (bouncing lambs etc) is of new life and renewal and are connected to new human marriages leading to new human babies. mary has grief because she's just rejected that for herself but she is still strong because she's rejected it for the sake of herself.

people in love are stupid. she's acting contradictory because her logic is telling her one thing (no marriage for me) and her feelings are saying something else (he is so cute im gonna die.) as with tom earlier, I doubt she has any more clarity of thought than AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Darcy’s big brain: it’s nice that she’s so devoted to her sister, who is obviously the only respectable member of her family. I like that in a woman.

Darcy’s little brain: I bet that’s what she’d look like after being tumbled in a haystack. I really like that in a woman.

Darcy’s big brain: shut up little brain. Now I’m worried about whether I should like obvious devotion in a woman in case it leads her to be so overcome by emotion as to be not respectable or endanger herself.

Caroline, loudly: oh my goooooood. She looked so blowsy —

Darcy’s little brain: hot

Caroline: and flushed —

Darcy’s little brain: hot

Caroline: and like she was practically rolling in mud!

Darcy’s little brain: HOT!

Caroline: I bet you wouldn’t appreciate your baby sister whose virginity you just saved not that I know about that tramping all over creation looking like that, would you Mr Darcy?

Darcy’s big brain: what the fuck?

Darcy’s little brain: yeah, gross! Now I’m sad

He sees her at her most dishevelled, far more than he would probably ever expect to see a lady and, indeed, Mr Darcy has likely never seen a lady in such a state. Yet, not only does he find Elizabeth even more appealing... he also defends her to Caroline when, previously, he might well have joined in with her snarking. But Mr Darcy doesn't. Instead, he refuses to rise to the bait and lets everyone know his true feelings, by saying '[her eyes] were brightened by the exercise'!!!!!

The notion of a man seeing you with wild hair and muddy clothes yet still finding you attractive is just... lovely. The modern equivalent would be if he saw Elizabeth straight after she woke up, with a chronic case of bedhead and without any make-up on, and still thought she was beautiful.

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Open Access at the Met. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: “Whether you’re an artist or a designer, an educator or a student, a professional or a hobbyist, you now have more than 406,000 images of artworks from The Met collection to use, share, and remix—without restriction.”

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Posing Sites and Apps:

Adorkastock. Stock photos for pose refs. DeviantArt gallery started in 2007.

FreePhotoMuscle.com. (translated page link click here) Japanese stock photo pose site that includes buff people, but in funny poses and costumes.

CroquoisCafe. (NSFW, nude model poses warning) A stock photo pose site. You should be aware this org has been linked as pro-Trump. I leave it to y’all to decide if you want to use the resources or not. I highly encourage not financially supporting them and trying to support the individual models if you can.

Line of Action. Fantastic site that includes posing refs, community discussions from other artists, figure study, anatomy, etc. So much stuff in here.

PoseSpace. Extensive library of poses. Some free resources others are paid. I’ve not fully evaluated both, but you should be able to use this all mostly free and get great use out of it.

SketchDaily. This one is one of the better ones out there. You can time yourself, search by pose, clothing options, body type, perspective, etc. All real models.

JustSketch.me. A pose app for any device. Has apps for most devices and a webapp. Customize and pose models/props/scenes.

Quickposes. Pose site that gives you timed challenges to become more proficient at poses.

POSEMANIACS. Ref site with anatomical poses. All the ref pics are of 3D models with only the bones and muscles. Can be helpful for seeing how muscles behave in certain poses. limited to two body types tho.

MagicPoser. A wonderful app that’s great on mobile. Lets you choose size of models, number of them, style, etc. Significant features are use of snap point with the physics engine, adjustable lighting, multiple perspective, 360 angle, articulated hand posing.

Clip Studio Paint Modeler. Free 3d tool that works with Clip Studio Paint. You can import your own data or other models you find online. Not quite an alternative to Blender, but the integration with CSP is very nice.

Egg a Zyoutatsu Atarichan Drawer. (requires enabling flash player or downloading and using standalone flashplayer) Drawing tool for pose practice. The developer is working on an html5 version.

DesignDoll. One of the best pose tool apps out there. You can customize so many things. They also have an extensive collection of ready made poses here. You can use the free or pay once for life and have the poses integrated into the client as well as the ability to export your obj to other programs like blender or smt.

Stock Photo Sites:

Unsplash. Giant free stock image site.

freeimages.com. Another stock photo site, less features than some others.

StockSnap.io. Stock photos with a creative commons CC0 license, which essentially means you can use the photos however you want and don’t have to attribute to them. (though its nice if you do attribute)

Burst.Shopify. Tons of royalty free high quality images. Similar licensing to StockSnap.

pixabay. I feel like most people know about this one, but it features entirely free CC0 licensed Photos, Videos, and Music. No attribution required, but still nice to support a giant site with all this content.

Viintage. Big collection of public domain vintage photos.

Gratisography. For commercial or personal use. They specialize in odd, quirky, wild stock photos.

pexels. Great free stock photos and videos. Only a few stipulations of what they don’t allow, but their license info can be found here.

Faestock. An artist and model with a huge amount of fantasy and fae and other types of photos available. Their terms for use are here.

MorgueFile. Old stock photo archive that’s been around a long time.

Museum and Institution Open Access sites:

USA National Gallery of Art. Over 50k works available for download.

New York Metropolitan Museum open access. 490k works to browse. Even codes for Animal Crossing New Horizons patterns.

The Smithsonian Institution open access. Probably one of the largest open access collections available online. Around 3.9 million items available to view.

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senshi stock

croquis cafe

line-of-action.com

quickposes.com

posemaniacs

clip studio paint models

pexels.com

sketchdaily

eggazyoutatsu atarichan drawer

designdoll

Freeimages: You can use the images in digital format on websites, blog posts, social media, advertisements, film and television productions, web and mobile applications. In printed materials such as magazines, newspapers, books, brochures, flyers, product packaging for decorative use in your home, office or any public place or personal use. The rights granted to you by FreeImages.com are: Perpetual, meaning there is no expiration or end date on your rights to use the content. Non-exclusive, meaning that you do not have exclusive rights to use the content. FreeImages.com can license the same content to other customers. Unlimited, meaning you can use the content in an unlimited number of projects and in any media. For purposes of this agreement, “use” means to copy, reproduce, modify, edit, synchronize, perform, display, broadcast, publish, or otherwise make use of.

Stocksnap: Every single image on StockSnap are governed exclusively by the generous terms of the Creative Commons CC0 license. Specifically, that license means you can do any and all of the following: Download the image file.Publish, revise, copy, alter, and share that image. Use the image (as-is or as you’ve altered it), in both personal and commercial contexts. Moreover, you can put StockSnap CC0 images to any of these usages without buying the right to do it, acquiring written permission from the image’s creator, or attributing the work to the image creator. In other words, there’s no fee to download or use these StockSnap images in accordance with the CC0 license. They’re free to download, free to edit, and free to use - even in a commercial project! You don’t even need to attribute the image to the creator, the way you do with other CC or traditional copyright licensing schemes. (However, even though it’s not required, we here at StockSnap do encourage you to include an appropriate attribution. It’s a nice thing to do.)

Burst.Shopify: Burst is a free stock photo platform that is powered by Shopify. Their image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images that were shot by their global community of photographers. You can use their pictures for just about anything — your website, blog or online store, school projects, Instagram ads, facebook posts, desktop backgrounds, client work and more. All of their photos are free for commercial use with no attribution required.

Pixabay: Images and Videos on Pixabay are released under Creative Commons CC0. To the extent possible under law, uploaders of Pixabay have waived their copyright and related or neighboring rights to these Images and Videos. You are free to adapt and use them for commercial purposes without attributing the original author or source. Although not required, a link back to Pixabay is appreciated.

Viintage: All images hosted by Viintage.com are considered to be public domain images, each image is presumed to be in the public domain. It may be distributed or copied as permitted by applicable law. Viintage.com assumes no ownership of the images and they may be downloaded and can be used free of charge for any purpose. They may be downloaded and used for commercial and personal use. Understand “public domain” as the permission to freely use an image without asking permission from the photographer or the illustrator. Thus, the creator of the work will not sue you for violating his/her copyrights. It is your responsibility to make sure, displaying the image does not violate any other law. Viintage.com assumes no responsibility for how or where you use the images found on the site.

Morguefile. Big old free photo archive from the dawn of the web. “We are a community-based free photo site, and all photos found in the Morguefile archive are free for you to download and re-use in your work, be it commercial or not. The photos have been contributed by a wide range of creatives from around the world, ranging from amateur photo hobbyists to professionals.”

Open Access at the Met. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: “Whether you’re an artist or a designer, an educator or a student, a professional or a hobbyist, you now have more than 406,000 images of artworks from The Met collection to use, share, and remix—without restriction.”

Smithsonian Open Access. Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images […] from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Posing Sites and Apps:

Adorkastock. Stock photos for pose refs. DeviantArt gallery started in 2007.

FreePhotoMuscle.com. (translated page link click here) Japanese stock photo pose site that includes buff people, but in funny poses and costumes.

CroquoisCafe. (NSFW, nude model poses warning) A stock photo pose site. You should be aware this org has been linked as pro-Trump. I leave it to y’all to decide if you want to use the resources or not. I highly encourage not financially supporting them and trying to support the individual models if you can.

Line of Action. Fantastic site that includes posing refs, community discussions from other artists, figure study, anatomy, etc. So much stuff in here.

PoseSpace. Extensive library of poses. Some free resources others are paid. I’ve not fully evaluated both, but you should be able to use this all mostly free and get great use out of it.

SketchDaily. This one is one of the better ones out there. You can time yourself, search by pose, clothing options, body type, perspective, etc. All real models.

JustSketch.me. A pose app for any device. Has apps for most devices and a webapp. Customize and pose models/props/scenes.

Quickposes. Pose site that gives you timed challenges to become more proficient at poses.

POSEMANIACS. Ref site with anatomical poses. All the ref pics are of 3D models with only the bones and muscles. Can be helpful for seeing how muscles behave in certain poses. limited to two body types tho.

MagicPoser. A wonderful app that’s great on mobile. Lets you choose size of models, number of them, style, etc. Significant features are use of snap point with the physics engine, adjustable lighting, multiple perspective, 360 angle, articulated hand posing.

Clip Studio Paint Modeler. Free 3d tool that works with Clip Studio Paint. You can import your own data or other models you find online. Not quite an alternative to Blender, but the integration with CSP is very nice.

Egg a Zyoutatsu Atarichan Drawer. (requires enabling flash player or downloading and using standalone flashplayer) Drawing tool for pose practice. The developer is working on an html5 version.

DesignDoll. One of the best pose tool apps out there. You can customize so many things. They also have an extensive collection of ready made poses here. You can use the free or pay once for life and have the poses integrated into the client as well as the ability to export your obj to other programs like blender or smt.

Stock Photo Sites:

Unsplash. Giant free stock image site.

freeimages.com. Another stock photo site, less features than some others.

StockSnap.io. Stock photos with a creative commons CC0 license, which essentially means you can use the photos however you want and don’t have to attribute to them. (though its nice if you do attribute)

Burst.Shopify. Tons of royalty free high quality images. Similar licensing to StockSnap.

pixabay. I feel like most people know about this one, but it features entirely free CC0 licensed Photos, Videos, and Music. No attribution required, but still nice to support a giant site with all this content.

Viintage. Big collection of public domain vintage photos.

Gratisography. For commercial or personal use. They specialize in odd, quirky, wild stock photos.

pexels. Great free stock photos and videos. Only a few stipulations of what they don’t allow, but their license info can be found here.

Faestock. An artist and model with a huge amount of fantasy and fae and other types of photos available. Their terms for use are here.

MorgueFile. Old stock photo archive that’s been around a long time.

Museum and Institution Open Access sites:

USA National Gallery of Art. Over 50k works available for download.

New York Metropolitan Museum open access. 490k works to browse. Even codes for Animal Crossing New Horizons patterns.

The Smithsonian Institution open access. Probably one of the largest open access collections available online. Around 3.9 million items available to view.