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Abbott Elementary – 4.06: The Deli

I've seen classics with "spoil every plot point in detail" introductions.

I've seen classics with "twist the book so I can analyze it through a specific lens rather than letting you come to your own conclusions based on the actual text" introductions.

But I think the introduction to The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, written by some woman (Mary Augusta Ward) who died in 1920, that says "no one would remember this book if Anne Bronte didn't happen to have Emily and Charlotte (actual geniuses) as sisters" might be the worst introduction I've ever seen.

Justice for Anne!

pride and prejudice (2005) dir. by joe wright ↳ if shot vertically

OUAT APPRECIATION WEEK 2024 - FAVE DISNEY ADAPTATION If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love a beast?

AUSTENLAND (2013)

Mmm. Eyeballs, rats, bats, vampire teeth. Boom. Vampire teeth. Good. Spiderwebs. Done.

PARKS AND RECREATION | 4.05

As Rachel Lynde used to say, the sun will go on rising and setting whether I fail in Geometry or not. I think I’d rather it didn’t go on if I failed. Anne of Green Gables (1985) dir. Kevin Sullivan

AU where Belle is Rumplestiltskin's apprentice.

Rumples face

PARKS AND REC 7.09

based on this ficlet by wonderwoundedhearers

I scrolled and thought, huh, this looks a lot like that prompt I filled a couple of months ago. Oh, IT IS.

Just. How absolutely fucking beautiful is this? No, seriously. Trash, you are an amazing artist and I love every single fucking thing you do, and you are perfect and wonderful for doing everything you have done, especially for making this.

I need to start a rec list. You need to be at the top. I don’t know how to thank you.

I need to thank you.

When it comes to Anne Elliot (and Fanny Price), I saddens me how many people completely disregard the value of prudence. Anne knows her father, she knows which arguments will persuade him, and so she often gives up after a single try:

Here Anne spoke—

“The navy, I think, who have done so much for us, have at least an equal claim with any other set of men, for all the comforts and all the privileges which any home can give. Sailors work hard enough for their comforts, we must all allow.”

“Very true, very true. What Miss Anne says, is very true,” was Mr Shepherd’s rejoinder, and “Oh! certainly,” was his daughter’s; but Sir Walter’s remark was, soon afterwards—

“The profession has its utility, but I should be sorry to see any friend of mine belonging to it.” (he goes on to complain for an entire paragraph about the navy, Ch 6)

And then Anne is silent, she leaves persuasion to Mrs. Clay and Mr. Shepherd.

I think a lot of people see this as her being a doormat because she doesn't defend her positions or persuade her father, and I do think some of why she gives up may be depression, but the main reason she stops is because she knows when to pick her battles. Why waste her breath on an argument that she probably had with her father eight years ago to no avail? She lets it pass with prudence.

But later, when she wants to visit Mrs. Smith instead of waiting on the Dalrymples, she stands firm in her convictions and won't back down. It's not that she cannot defend herself and carry out her will, she just knows when it's worth it. She isn't weak, she's wise. And honestly most people on the internet could learn from her.