—haunt me, then!

thomas cromwelllll you have to stop. you have too much street wisdom. your station is too upwardly mobile. you smoke more different. your liturgy is too heretical. your fabric choices are too fine and discerning. your bitch is too bad. they’ll kill you. 

things will work out + it’s still early + not everything is lost + trees

bbc merlin has a lot of faults but i do think the way they blithely ignored the existence of christianity was very funny of them

in a way i am my own dead wife

this makes me think about how i always consdered jane austen’s books to be a lot creepier than ppl give them credit for. they’re cozy favorites of mine, but they’re not without their own horror (all my cozy favorites are a little frightening, a little sad). this feeling of pervasive inescapable imprisonment is part of it, but also most of austen’s happy endings are tinged with a reminder of something horrific. i remember watching the 95 movie adaptation of sense & sensibility with my mom and how we talked about the ending being really horrific, even if it’s a happy one – watching 16 year old marianne learn to love and settle with 50 year old alan rickman and be grateful about it! and knowing that this is indeed her best choice, just like darcy did indeed help lydia by paying for her marriage to wickham, despite what we know her life will be like. austen’s commitment to realism can be very terrifying, especially because she never lets you forget about women’s dependency on men, or all the other social shackles placed on her privileged heroines and their happy endings.

why did no one tell me jeremy irons lives in a restored irish castle