#same energy

For many, Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice, 1812) and Emma Woodhouse (Emma, 1815) represent two opposing ideals of performative femininity. Elizabeth represents the woman who acts in opposition to society’s surface level expectations of women (e.g. talking long, muddy walks), while Emma represents the woman who conforms to the trappings of traditional womanhood (e.g. wearing pretty dresses and matchmaking). However, both women staunchly refuse to marry for the majority of their novels, and both are, more or less, the masters of their own fates. Despite these similarities, Emma is often codified as a bitch, and Elizabeth is given the “not like other girls” treatment in modern culture. These surface-level characterizations derail Jane Austen’s careful portrayal of multi-faceted women and play into the patriarchal pressure for women to be in competition with each other and to appeal to expectations of acceptable womanhood. I firmly believe if Elizabeth and Emma were to meet in 2020, they would drunkenly run into each other in a bathroom at a downtown bar. Emma would sincerely compliment Elizabeth’s outfit, and Elizabeth would use her impeccable character judgement to help Emma swipe through Harriet’s Bumble matches. In this essay, I will—

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

NOT RISKING IT

Billelis - Carpe Nocte

Killing Eve (2018-) // paintings I love

foreshadowing done well makes me go feral like there’s NOTHING better than getting to the end a book or an important storyline moment and realising that the author laced information so intricately into their writing that weren’t noticeable upon first read but when you read back sections they’re light giant red flags like wow writing is amazing

You see Sirius talking to me there? He’s asking me to come live with him.

Stephanie Roberts at Chanel F/W 1992

If it kills by looking people in the eye, why is it no one’s dead?

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

TDA Characters as Dwight gifs

JULIAN

EMMA

MARK

KIERAN

KIT

GWYM

TY

CLAVE

whoever said scooby doo isn’t intellectual: explain this then

Just one look and I can hear a bell ring One more look and I forget everything

every film i love ♥ mamma mia! (2008) dir. phyllida lloyd Do you think I’m letting you down? Why would you even think that? Oh, because… of what you’ve done. I mean, the Dynamos, raising a kid… and running a business, all on your own. Well, honey - I didn’t have a choice. I couldn’t go home. You know, when I got pregnant, my mother told me not to bother coming back. And I wouldn’t have had it any other way. My God, look at what we’ve had!

son of the dawn by @cassandraclare and @sarahreesbrennan