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Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy being like, "I am 100% committed to respecting your 'no', but I heard you wouldn't promise my aunt not to marry me so I had to come and check just one (1) more time."

let’s be real the pressure to use AI as an adult is exactly what they said the pressure the do drugs as a teenager would be like but the people that told us that caved immediately for the AI and definitely did not just say no

"Agreeable" in the general sense of "women must be more agreeable to men/society" that the original question implies is maybe the silliest blanket misreading of Austen I've ever seen. It isn't that Lizzy Bennet needs to be more "agreeable" to Darcy, it's that she mistakes Wickham's surface charm as evidence of a good heart and Darcy's pride and arrogance as a sign of a cruel one. She has to work on her judgement of people so she won't be conned or make mistakes like her parents, who made a bad marriage and continue to mess up, re: their daughters' lives (note that it's Lizzy who tries to correctly advise her father about Lydia's safety). Darcy has his own independent character arc of evolving from more flawed to less. Knightley isn't asking Emma to be more agreeable as a woman, he's asking her to be better towards the poor as his peer and not treat people as her playthings because she has power. As the two leaders of their community (Emma is the wealthiest person in town and her father has abdicated his leadership to her; Knightley owns the most land), he directly says the Regency equivalent of 'it's fine for us to joke about other rich people or be open with each other about our petty annoyances in private, but not okay for us to make life harder on the people making $7/hr to their faces, Emma.' It's about Emma's privilege, not her gender. Anne Eliot isn't rewarded for being agreeable; she yields to the person she regards as a surrogate mom on the (not unreasonable) point that she shouldn't marry the young, impulsive guy with no savings and then spends most of the next decade being miserable and horribly lonely. The lesson is that she should have valued her feelings more, not less--but that doesn't mean Austen negates the original difficulty. There are several characters who follow their hearts and meet with misfortune, anyway (Mrs. Smith, the Harvilles aren't as lucky as Wentworth and the Crofts). Ultimately, Anne realizes she'd rather have that risk with someone she genuinely cares for like Wentworth than a "safer" life as Lady Eliot with a man she doesn't love or respect. How's that being more agreeable? If anyone becomes more agreeable, it's actually Wentworth. He comes to regret his pride and pettiness towards Anne because he held onto resentment from the original rejection.

its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy.

i always reblog pro wasp propaganda to spite my phobia

writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months

This is GOLD! You just saved me like thousands of therapy costs lmao

When I was writing my fic last few months the strategy I used was "just skip all the scenes I don't want to write" and it worked great in my opinion

I think about how in To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf put in a short chapter called “Time Passes” and just zoomed over a bunch of years. I aspire to that level of “whatever it takes.”

I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it

I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally

Also how funny would it be to see a completely normal regular bear cast magic missile outta nowhere

Dogs can also cast Magic Missile but every time they do the projectile is shaped like a bone or a stick and they chase after it

group of wizards who ask this in-universe, and after extensive study learn to their surprise that animals are casting spells all the time, just that their magic is so fundamental as to be unrecognizable to humans. turns out the only reason acorns grow on trees is because squirrels keep wishing for them.

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

even if trans women did have a notable advantage in sports i wouldnt give a fuuuuuuuuck. wahhhhh wahhh what if minorities start playing games too good! society could crumble! we just have no choice but to unperson them to avoid that from happening. absolute loser behavior.

This is exactly the kind of fandom mashup I love to see.