It's better to burn out than to fade away

good morning to these talented husbands who are both called david and wear the same outfits and to them ONLY

from uncle david’s insta:

“thirty years + and counting”

man this year is gonna be the year i either die or become someone else i dont know which one maybe both

Everytime i think of the future i nearly throw up

hate to say it but the cow is right

Oh plush cow we're really in it now

I don't know why, but I find it even more comforting to look at it this way:

Time to buy more King Arthur Flour!

is it just me or does the way people treat like "dopamine" and "serotonin" in modern pop psych context read exactly like balancing the humors

Ah the four humors: dopamine, serotonin, cortisol, and adrenaline

Captain Wentworth had no fortune. He had been lucky in his profession; but spending freely, what had come freely, had realized nothing. But he was confident that he should soon be rich: full of life and ardour, he knew that he should soon have a ship, and soon be on a station that would lead to everything he wanted. He had always been lucky; he knew he should be so still. Such confidence, powerful in its own warmth, and bewitching in the wit which often expressed it, must have been enough for Anne; but Lady Russell saw it very differently. His sanguine temper, and fearlessness of mind, operated very differently on her. She saw in it but an aggravation of the evil. It only added a dangerous character to himself. He was brilliant, he was headstrong. Lady Russell had little taste for wit, and of anything approaching to imprudence a horror. She deprecated the connexion in every light.

It's interesting to me, Persuasion is the last novel Austen wrote and she had this trend prior of "W" being a villain (Wickham and Willoughby) and this paragraph about Wentworth makes me think about her other dubious men. He's gambled or spent all his money away, just like the other two, he's confident he'll get more. Wentworth and Henry Tilney are the only heroes with wit, but only Wentworth has this magnetic charm that seems to draw every woman in the room. Very Wickham of him, recall how drawn every female was to him when he came into Meryton. Wentworth feels a lot like Austen's villains, especially at first.

It makes me feel that Lady Russell was right to be worried. This sort of magnetic person, with very pretty words but no substance to back it up. It could have been a Willoughby-esq whirlwind romance and left Anne with nothing.

Everyone I know seems to misunderstand that Wentworth is both the male lead AND the antagonist. He is the rogue.

Anne doesn’t learn to get over her supposed doormattish ways (which she never had in the first place), flaunt society, and do as she pleases. (Everyone thinks she was wrong to listen to Lady Russell because we know it worked out in hindsight, but she wasn’t. Wentworth was wrong to risk her security on a hunch that luck would favor him.) Anne’s arc is not a rising arc. It’s a flat arc. It’s about endurance. Refusing to change your principles even in the face of pressure and punishment for it. Anne is steady. She’s constant. She never changes. She never needed to.

Wentworth is the one who has to grow. He has to witness the ill fortunes of Louisa Musgrove and the Harvilles in order to see how fickle the luck he relied on is—how much risk he asked the girl he claimed to love to take—before he can outgrow that scent of Wickham that lingers about him. He has to get on her level. It’s why Anne tells him she was right in the final scene if the book.

18-21 is like the middle school of adulthood. Truly the Worst

Life really does start getting better after 21. I'm 30 now and you couldn't pay me to be 19 again.

Nothing screams you’re racist more than being threatened by the existence of characters of color & dismissively calling it “forced diversity.” It actually pisses me off so bad that brown & black people still have to deal with this in fandom spaces, when I’d argue that even when a character of color is involved they’re usually not as fleshed out as their white counterparts are

An all-white cast is already the default for pretty much every franchise ever, and even if it’s not any character of color I’ve seen is usually a secondary figure that acts as a backdrop for the white protagonist. And withstanding even that I can’t remember the last time I saw an Arab character that wasn’t a caricature of every racist stereotype you could think of. There’s a reason people still gape in shock when u tell them not all Arabs are the exact same person?? That we have hopes and dreams and are diverse?? Insane

Here’s a beautiful text Rudolf Du Toit shared on Instagram (x) about his work as Toby Stephens' stand-in and double on Black Sails and becoming Flint.

much ado about nothing (2011)

Did you miss me? We’re gonna have so much fun together.

Wait is this true?? We’ve just been actively lied to by anatomical diagrams this whole time?

this is true of pretty much all internal anatomy, because the real situation is sort of like if you stuffed a bunch of water balloons of different shapes, connected by tubes, into a bag, itd be really hard to tell whats going on! so you make things more orderly when you represent them, and the connections and lengths and stuff are correct. like the former image is what you get if you cut it out of someone's body and arrange it neatly (and also, if their system wasnt aberrant somehow, but most people's bodies are aberrant somehow. so what they show you is more of like an average of everyone's weird aberrations)

Faith. Her name alone invokes awe. ‘Faith.’ A set of principles or beliefs upon which you’re willing to devote your life. The Dark Slayer. A lethal combination of beauty, power, and death.

Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais

Propaganda:

“Also, he was killed in action at 31 by a long-range shot from a British rifle. He stays this young and sexy forever!!!!”

Beau Brummell

Propaganda:

“The elaborate cravat. The immaculate coat and trousers. The champagne-polished boots. The wit. The fashion sense. In short: his status as an absolute icon of style.”

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His father died, leaving behind a widow and 5 children. His eldest brother emigrated. His family property was confiscated. He had one chance

SO HE JOINED THE ARMY AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN!!!!

He looked so young and delicate that his comrades thought he was his older brother's crossdressing girlfriend who had followed him on campaign

But he perservered to become an able soldier and was promoted aide-de-camp of Grouchy, then of Murat (all the big names!!!), with whom he went on the Italian and Egyptian campaigns; he was wounded in action saving Murat from being bludgeoned by a Turk!!

As a 24-year-old colonel, he was sent on a diplomatic mission to confer with Tsar Alexander I, who was so impressed with him he gifted Colbert a diamond ring

Then he was placed under the indefatigable Ney's command as a cavalry officer of the advance guard (dashing!). Ney valued him a lot, making quotable bangers like "I sleep peacefully when Colbert commands my outposts"

At the age of 31, general of brigade Colbert was ordering a charge into the English army during the Spanish campaign. There, a rifleman of the 95th infantry shot in just above the left eyebrow, killing him instantly. To quote his biographer Ojala: "The tall, blond, young aristocrat would never return to his beloved patrie, for some of his hussars laid his body wrapped in his cape in a grave which was hastily dug in a field a few yards from the road." A hero's death!! Just like in the movies!!!

Finally, here is what Marshal Ney says of his death: "What hope extinguished! What good qualities lost to the State and to those who, like me, were able to appreciate them. I will preserve with all my life the tender memory of this unfortunate, brave Colbert."

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