damn good coffee

I have written on here many times how much I LOVE that Pride and Prejudice is an adaptation of Much Ado in a kind of stretchy, fanfic-AU sort of way. Austen definitely used the same characters and their dynamics with one another, but she actively adapted the story by giving them all interesting, English Regency versions of their Renaissance Tuscany/London challenges.

My favorite thing is that you see similarities in a) the scandal of an affair with the heroine’s unwed family member, and b) the willingness of the heroine’s “bitter rival” (Benedick/Darcy) to go far beyond what’s expected of him to save her family’s reputation, even when it might hurt his own

In her adaptation, Austen proposes that even if Beatrice/Elizabeth’s family member DID have an extramarital affair, Benedick/Darcy would still be morally obliged to help the family. This differs from Shakespeare, where Benedick believes that Hero is innocent. Sex scandals are therefore key elements in both plots, but Austen really pushes the original narrative to explore what the characters would do if the family member wasn’t innocent and the sex scandal was real. Would Benedick still have the same sense of duty to remedy the situation at great inconvenience/loss to himself? Would that duty be based in his love for Beatrice, or in his sense of ethics? Would Beatrice and Benedick have even fallen in love without their family’s interference?

So like, not only is P&P a wonderful (and very funny) adaptation of Much Ado, it’s also a refreshing, explicit exploration of the themes and issues Shakespeare clearly wanted to introduce to his 16th century audience. P&P doesn’t get to the violent, verbal extremes of “eat his heart in a marketplace” and “kill Claudio,” but it does push the character of Benedick to much more agency and responsibility as a privileged person in relation to Beatrice’s own (lack of) power. And to me, that makes it an exceptionally challenging and effective Regency adaptation of Much Ado.

Jane and Bingley represent the Hero/Claudio "love at first sight" and "separated by machinations" sections, but come to a much more satisfying conclusion because Bingley's folly is based on modesty. He never turns on Jane, as Claudio does, instead he leaves her, but out of a belief that she doesn't love him and therefore wouldn't be harmed by it. Their happy ending is happy to (most) of the audience.

The defence of honour plot, Claudio doing wrong by Hero leading to her social doom and her being defended by Benedick, is all transferred to the trickster, Wickham (Don John?) and his victim Lydia (the other half of Hero). The solution still is marriage, but we are not left with this ambiguous nagging wonder if it's ever possible for Hero/Claudio to be happy, we know Wickham/Lydia is a bad marriage, but that Elizabeth & Jane will help their sister and she'll be okay.

(the beatles x reader)

john: cheats on you

paul: cheats on you

george: cheats on you

awww this is so nice!

1. Next Level - aespa

2. Opalite - Taylor Swift

3. In My Bed - Sabrina Carpenter

4. Sympathy Magic - Florence & The Machine

5. We Are Family - Sister Sledge

2. "The Passenger" by Iggy Pop

3. "Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones

4. "Ave Maria" by Franz Schubert

5. "People Are Strange" by The Doors

Tagging the last 10 people in my notifications that I am allowed to:

1. “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails

2. “Big Dog” by The Last Dinner Party

3. “w-w-w-w-w” by hemlocke springs

4. “Bait & Switch” by KMFDM

5. “White Knuckle Jerk (Where Do You Get Off?)” by Will Wood and the Tapeworms

Tagging 10 people in my notifications that I can!

1: Soothe Me - Sam and Dave

2: Daily Nightly - The Monkees

3: Salesman - The Monkees

4: The Guitar - They Might Be Giants

5: Listen to the Band - The Monkees

The last ten people in my notifications!:

Autumn Leaves - BTS

You Still Believe In Me - The Beach Boys

Porpoise Song - The Monkees

Evil Ways - Santana

Long Time Gone - Crosby, Stills & Nash

The last ten people in my notifications:

@cyanpalette @headlesskat @jacksragingboner @walruspeppermint @oerflink @sevryn @lifeisgrooovy @tender-tomorrow @mihidesuntverba @fruity-jpg

1) Going to California- Led Zeppelin

2) Ser brigada - Leon Benavente

3) Black Magic Woman - Santana

4) Don’t Delete the Kisses - Wolf Alice

5) For No One - The Beatles

From left to right: 1795 Michał Jerzy Mniszech with his daughter Elżbieta - Marcello Bacciarelli; Christopher Anstey and his daughter Mary Ann by William Hoare 1776; A Musician and His Daughter by Thomas de Keyser 1629; The Geography Lesson (Portrait of Monsieur G. and His Daughter), 1812; Jean-baptiste Isabey And His Daughter; Portrait of a Young Girl and Older Man by William Harrison Scarborough

in fact often if it was kind of safe dads had the babies in their workshops for just that reason as we can see in these paintings:

First Lesson by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 - 1931)

Un Coup De Main (The Helping Hand) by Émile Renouf (1845 – 1894)

In fall and winter 1889–90, while a voluntary patient at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted twenty-one copies after Millet, an artist he greatly admired. He considered his copies "translations" akin to a musician's interpretation of a composer's work. He let the black-and-white images—whether prints, reproductions, or, as here, a photograph that his brother, Theo, had sent—pose "as a subject," then he would "improvise color on it." For this work of January 1890, Van Gogh squared-up a photograph of Millet's First Steps and transferred it to the canvas.

Charles Edward Perugini

English (Italian born), 1839-1918