an unprofitable Dick

Anne: like a 3/10. i think she has many offline pursuits that take up more of her time. she has facebook and instagram accounts but posts rarely. most of her screen time is used on the NYT puzzles, in which she has absolutely ridiculous streaks. also a recovered tumblrina

Wentworth: 7/10. again I think he has other pastimes, but he needs social media because he has a lot of friends that live super far away. he has really cool-looking IG stories but then sadposts about missing Anne on his close friends at 3 AM. also a regular twitter user

Sir Walter: 11/10. cannot live without tiktok. specifically i think he’s obsessed with those color analysis videos and judges people for not dressing for their color season. has a sizable amount of followers for being “that mean old guy with crazy drip"

Lady Russell: 6/10. she likes to keep up with people and she will occasionally get caught up scrolling, but she tries her best not to make a habit of it. liberal with the block button, even with people she knows irl. every time Anne posts she replies with at least a dozen heart emojis

Elizabeth: 10/10. i feel like she’d try to be an influencer. makes a shit ton of “collab” videos with her dad and Mrs. Clay in Bath. she puts about a million things on her story every day. she likes to post herself shopping and tag the store thinking they’ll engage when it’s like. target

Mary: 9/10. she is forever watching those AI animal videos, thinking they’re real and sending them to everyone. shows her kids’ faces online despite her husband’s (admittedly very mild) protests. reposts stories about events she wasn’t at saying “wish I was there :(”

Charles Musgrove: 7.5/10, only because I think he’s slightly more online than Wentworth. spends a lot of time on twitter because Mary’s not on it and sometimes he wants a lil break. will use chronically online lingo around his parents and get blank stares.

Louisa: 8/10. TUMBLRINA. she has other social media but mostly i’m claiming her for us. blogs religiously about musicians she loves (mostly kpop), and her blog aesthetic is gorgeous. has many beloved mutuals that are extremely concerned about her TBI

Henrietta: 7/10. also a tumblrina but in slightly different fandoms. runs a pretty popular heated rivalry blog. she maintains Louisa’s kpop blog after her accident and does a pretty good job. feels obligated to reblog discourse posts she doesn’t fully understand

Mr. Elliot: 5/10. i can’t see him being super online. he does have twitter though, and he does call it x. very much enjoys using the internet to lie and spread misinformation. i think his most used site is linkedin. “this is what mr smith dying taught me about business” and shit like that

Mrs. Clay: 9/10. once again she likes to make tiktoks, with and without Elizabeth. “this is a day in my life as a widow with two kids” and the like. Elizabeth and Sir Walter make a callout video after she runs away with Mr. Elliot and she gets so much hate she deletes her tiktok :p

The Crofts: 4.5/10 as a set. they have joint instagram and facebook accounts and a joint email. they’re not super online though. Most of their screentime is puzzle games. he seems sliiiightly more online than she is though

Captain Harville: 2/10. he strikes me as really not online. maybe slightly moreso than he was before his injury, but he just doesn’t have that vibe to me. the only one that could’ve distracted Anne while Wentworth wrote the letter because everyone else was on their phones

Captain Benwick: 6/10. he’s a tumblrina too tbh. has a very cute blog that’s mostly his extremely sad poetry. he reads Louisa something he wrote while she’s recovering and she recognizes him as her mutual. this is far cuter than what happened in the book i think

Mrs. Smith: 8.5/10. would be far less if she could regularly leave the house. employs herself with puzzle games and wikipedia and likes scrolling through kitchencels and AITA. has an uncanny ability for finding the anonymous social media accounts of people she knows

bonus Dick Musgrove: mostly used snapchat. Charles deleted it off his phone after he died so their parents wouldn’t have to see all that

Sir Walter has a silver fox fan club and he's enormously proud of it.

Mr. Shepherd has one of those advice lawyer blogs to drum up business but it's not very popular

Green Silk Bonnet, 1806-09

There’s also so much terf rhetoric towards this subject of Lou’s identity that I’m almost certain it’s just discrimination…

“She was confused”

“She didn’t understand the world properly”

“She was trying to escape oppression”

I don’t know why people are so convinced trans men/mascs existing is anti-feminist but it’s not, people literally parrot misogynistic points just to take away their identity and that should say enough.

To family and friends, she was Lou, Lu or Louy. She wrote of herself as the “papa” or “father” of her young nephews. Her father, Bronson, once called Alcott his “only son.” In letters to her close friend Alfie Whitman, Alcott called herself “a man of all work” and “a gentleman at large.”

💌Catching Up With Correspondence💌

"yes ere my breeches"

"why"

"i know not, jerry! i know not - in the fervor of the moment, the fancy seemed appealing! but my notions were - forsooth, i nearly yanked certain provisions clean off"

"yanked off your provisions! he yanked off his provisions"