Nullatenus Dubites Vitam

When you're unsuccessfully looking for something and start gradually increasing your It Could Be There range. Like yeah sure maybe the rice cooker pot is in the freezer, idk

friend sent me an Instagram reel yesterday with 1000s of likes that was basically like "pride and prejudice is timeless actually because it's about an autism4autism romance 🥰" and then the creator proceeded to cite moments in the book and film where Lizzie and Darcy are "socially awkward" and....listen. I'm far from an Austen scholar, but I have taught Austen novels as an educator and this kind of psycho-pop analysis that views characters as individuals with autonomy over their actions, rather than tools in a story written at a particular time to say something about that time, pisses me off more than I can say without sounding like an asshole. I'm sorry but Darcy isn't rude and awkward and even cruel to Lizzie because he has autism, he says and does those things because he's a wealthy upper class land owning man raised to see a middle class woman from a large family with no male heirs like Elizabeth as inherently beneath him which he expresses to her multiple times because it is socially acceptable for him to do so in a society where someone like him is privileged above almost all others. He is "socially awkward" around her because of misogyny and classism (PREJUDICE) and she is "socially awkward" around him because a woman of her standing at that time simply wouldn't have had much to do with the gentry but to actually push back against the shit that Darcy says would be social suicide for her whole family so she protests the only way she can which is refusing his advances (PRIDE). not to be the "context collapse is the death of media literacy" guy. But this is the problem with the kind of head empty, let people enjoy things, if I can't relate to it what's the point type crowd. Youse think you're being so quirky justifying incoherent and anachronistic interpretations with your rampant individualism, ensuring that other people never confront anything that challenges them in these stories like patriarchal misogyny and classism. Pride and Prejudice becomes an "autism4autism romance", completely undermining the historical context of its status as one of the great social satires about the class and gender politics that Austen so expertly observed around her. This attitude is why we have nonsensical historical dramas that actively hate history like fucking edgy bdsm "Wuthering Heights", Bridgerton, The Buccaneers, and even a 2025 Frankenstein movie where the monster is just misunderstood and does no wrong uwu etc. because individual relatability and catharsis is king over anything actually saying anything about anything now. Everything is relatable and nothing is meaningful.

This implies a liquid form of bread

Beer

FUCK

Official Bread Post

It’s not just if you live in the UK, by the way! You can sign if you’re a UK citizen or resident. So if you, like us, are a UK citizen living abroad, you can sign as well.

Devil may cry is an excuse to commit bank fraud.

It is--but Dante's probably not even doing it intentionally. You mean you need to do more than just rent a place and put up a sign to have a business?

He did let Nero franchise out...like was that done legit or did he go "here ya go kid, take my old sign" and could theoretically ANYONE open up a branch because Dante is not incorporated?

Oh that's such a good idea (I will never find the will to write it and that is a tragedy)

Devil may cry is an excuse to commit bank fraud.

It is--but Dante's probably not even doing it intentionally. You mean you need to do more than just rent a place and put up a sign to have a business?

He did let Nero franchise out...like was that done legit or did he go "here ya go kid, take my old sign" and could theoretically ANYONE open up a branch because Dante is not incorporated?

You know for the first 18-ish years of your life everyone your age is mostly doing the same things and then all of a sudden every year for the rest of your life somebody your age is getting divorced while somebody else just learned what a leaf is and you have no idea what’s going on or what you’re supposed to be doing

WRITE IT ANYWAY!!! EVEN IF YOU DONT THINK YOURE GOOD ENOUGH!!! WRITE!!! IT!!!! ANYWAY!!!!!!!

DRAW IT ANYWAY!!! EVEN IF YOU DONT THINK YOURE GOOD ENOUGH!!! DRAW!!! IT!!!! ANYWAY!!!!!!!!

If you don't write or draw it, you won't get good enough.