I am gonna get whacked for saying this, but:

I don’t enjoy Charlotte Brönte’s self-congratulatory way of writing in Jane Eyre

Would you mind giving some examples of this? What are some of the passages where you notice this quality?

I'm mainly curious because I'm a writer, one of my current fiction projects draws a little inspiration from Jane Eyre, and I'd like to be careful to avoid writing in a self-congratulatory style myself.

i mean this in the gentlest way possible: you need to eat vegetables. you need to become comfortable with doing so. i do not care if you are a picky eater because of autism (hi, i used to be this person!), you need to find at least some vegetables you can eat. find a different way to prepare them. chances are you would like a vegetable you hate if you prepared it in a stew or roasted it with seasoning or included it as an ingredient in a recipe. just. please start eating better. potatoes and corn are not sufficient vegetables for a healthy diet.

Need it to be easier?

Need it in something?

Can't see it:

Can see but disguised flavor (can usually be found store bought or done at home and use different veggies):

Texture problems:

Need it soft:

Needs to be crunchy:

Veggies google says stay crunchy after lightly cooking:

Broad texture tips:

It also really helps to think about why you dislike a vegetable. I found that I am scared of green foods so I like to use those veggies for ingredients in things they are well hidden for. I've also learned that watching something while eating helps because then I'm not looking at the gross green things. When possible, I also like to get help hiding it (ie using cream of celery soup in my chicken and dumplings).

Remember that vegetables are important because they contain nutrients that other foods don’t contain. NOT because they are low calorie.

Eating vegetables slathered in pork fat is always better than not eating vegetables. In fact fat will help you absorb the nutrients. Get those nutrients in your body by any means necessary.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking that you HAVE to eat vegetables raw or steamed or some other diet-culture-approved way.

The buttery, honey-drizzled vegetables you will actually eat are WAY better than the plain steamed ones you DON'T eat. It's not like the butter and honey take AWAY the vegetables' nutrients. They don't.

A Theory on the Periodization of Wicked: Part Four

ANOTHER CAVEAT

i have, at time of writing, not yet seen the newest Broadway company of Wicked helmed by Lencia Kebede and Allie Trimm. all my comments below are therefore only applicable to before they took over.

SEPT 2021 (Broadway Reopening) - PRESENT: POST-COVID

Once again this is fascinating. Since this era in the show's history has only lasted (less than) four years so far, it will be interesting to see how the show evolves in the future.

I'll be especially curious to see how the existence of the movies will change the stage musical. Will characterizations come closer to their screen counterparts? Will any of the blocking or costume design be changed to incorporate details from the movies? Might there even be some changes to the script or the song lyrics? That definitely was the case with Les Misérables: I remember seeing all of the above happen after the 2012 film was released. We'll see...

“heathcliffs race was ambiguous” “it was the 1800s there weren’t many darker skinned people in england she probably meant tanned”

the decrease in literacy and the absolute braindead media comprehension has made you all stupid and unable to see anything outside your own race and privilege. heathcliff is a POC and that is central to his character arc in this essay i will…

you know what actually in this essay i WILL. Let’s look at the text

Heathcliff’s race may be ambiguous but it is in no way shape or form white. Nelly literally says that Heathcliff is not “a regular black” and he’s otherwise described as “Chinese-Indian” and as a dark skinned gypsy. None of which alludes to white skin.

Don’t find that sufficient enough? Here’s some more quotes: “You’re fit for a prince in disguise. Who knows but your father was Emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen” or in chapter one when lockwood called him “a dark skinned gypsy, in aspect” and a “lascar”

It is also said he may be a “spanish castaway” and people use that line to say he may be white passing but that was not an indication of ethnicity that was a racial generalisation because of his dark skin, as a castaway on a ship would be sun-tanned, and a dig at his orphan status.

The line i see the most defending Elordi’s casting is “with a candle dripping over his fingers, and his face as white as the wall behind him.” that is directly following the scene where catherine returns as a ghost. It’s used to describe his shock, not his skin colour

And as to the time period in which the life was written and set, black people and people of colour were not uncommon. The Brontës lived down the street from the Sills family, one of the most prolific slave owning families in england’s. So yes she knew what dark skin looked like.

HEATHCLIFF WAS NOT WHITE

This is a very astute observation.

19th century critics who saw him as a villain were more comfortable with accepting that he is not white:

But when 20th century rolled around and Heathcliff started to be seen as a romantic figure and the novel was adapted into films, he started to be seen as white as well.

@princesssarisa

Two things can be true at the same time.

If you read British literature from the era around when Wuthering Heights was written, there are characters described as "dark" or even "black" who are most definitely, from other context clues in the novel, Caucasians on the darker side of white (see Henry Crawford, Mansfield Park). Whole post about it here.

However, it is also very VERY clear that Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights is not one of these examples. What race he is exactly is ambiguous, but it is distinctive enough to make him feel "other" and to make him crave a change to his appearance to be more respected:

“But, Nelly, if I knocked him down twenty times, that wouldn’t make him less handsome or me more so. I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as rich as he will be!”... “In other words, I must wish for Edgar Linton’s great blue eyes and even forehead,” he replied. “I do—and that won’t help me to them.”

I don't think his whole problem is race, because he's also orphaned, poor, and uneducated (see above quote) which also contribute to his envy of Edgar, but it is a significant part of his character.

Hey, here’s a concept. What if we stopped saying “but autistic people CAN do all those things” (erasing high support needs) and instead started saying “not being able to do those things doesn’t impact someone’s value as a person nor does it make it okay to commit eugenics”.

“heathcliffs race was ambiguous” “it was the 1800s there weren’t many darker skinned people in england she probably meant tanned”

the decrease in literacy and the absolute braindead media comprehension has made you all stupid and unable to see anything outside your own race and privilege. heathcliff is a POC and that is central to his character arc in this essay i will…

you know what actually in this essay i WILL. Let’s look at the text

Heathcliff’s race may be ambiguous but it is in no way shape or form white. Nelly literally says that Heathcliff is not “a regular black” and he’s otherwise described as “Chinese-Indian” and as a dark skinned gypsy. None of which alludes to white skin.

Don’t find that sufficient enough? Here’s some more quotes: “You’re fit for a prince in disguise. Who knows but your father was Emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen” or in chapter one when lockwood called him “a dark skinned gypsy, in aspect” and a “lascar”

It is also said he may be a “spanish castaway” and people use that line to say he may be white passing but that was not an indication of ethnicity that was a racial generalisation because of his dark skin, as a castaway on a ship would be sun-tanned, and a dig at his orphan status.

The line i see the most defending Elordi’s casting is “with a candle dripping over his fingers, and his face as white as the wall behind him.” that is directly following the scene where catherine returns as a ghost. It’s used to describe his shock, not his skin colour

And as to the time period in which the life was written and set, black people and people of colour were not uncommon. The Brontës lived down the street from the Sills family, one of the most prolific slave owning families in england’s. So yes she knew what dark skin looked like.

HEATHCLIFF WAS NOT WHITE

This is a very astute observation.

19th century critics who saw him as a villain were more comfortable with accepting that he is not white:

But when 20th century rolled around and Heathcliff started to be seen as a romantic figure and the novel was adapted into films, he started to be seen as white as well.

@princesssarisa

I love how they used the Rodgers and Hammerstein tune when they sang "Oklahoma."

The Little Mermaid ~ 1918 ~ Harry Rountree (English, 1878-1950)

I need to ask my international friends this:

How do Easter Eggs look where you are from?

Here in Brazil, they look like this:

@ariel-seagull-wings @thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie @mask131 @princesssarisa @tamisdava2 @thelittlehansy @natache @theancientvaleofsoulmaking

If you are talking about chocolate eggs specifically, then I guess we have a bunch of them here? I usually don't pay much attention to them.

It's less about specifically chocolate Easter eggs and more what constitutes an Easter Egg where you live.

Here in Brazil, Easter Eggs and chocolate eggs are THE SAME THING.

As far as I know, since I can remember, Easter Eggs are made of chocolate. We don't use hardboiled, painted eggs.

Chocolate eggs are the only Easter Eggs here

@ariel-seagull-wings @thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie @mask131 @tamisdava2 @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @natache @thelittlehansy

For me, Easter Eggs can include chocolate eggs, hardboiled painted eggs, and plastic eggs filled with candy.

We stopped putting candy directly in the plastic eggs and instead place tokens inside them that are redeemable for candy/other. This allows all kids to participate on even grounds without having to then try and trade for things they can actually enjoy, and ensures that any eggs that are too well hidden don't contain something a person might try to eat years later.

Here in the USA, we have dyed hard-boiled eggs...

...plastic eggs to fill with candy...

...and chocolate eggs of all sizes.

If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.

-- Victor Hugo

Cinderella (1947) | dir. Nadezhda Kosheverova, Mikhail Shapiro

@adarkrainbow @themousefromfantasyland @thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie @professorlehnsherr-almashy @princesssarisa

A wonderful, underrated version of Cinderella!

And the actress who plays the title role was also the voice of Gerda in the famous Russian animated film of The Snow Queen.