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genuinely one of my favourite details about Bram Stokers Dracula that isn't really transferred to the pop culture is that vampires have irridescent eyes, they appear brown at a glance, however when light is reflected on them they seem to go red!
another thing that pop culture latched onto is this idea that you might use a wreath of garlic bulbs to ward off a vampire, however, in the book there is a popular use of garlic blossoms rather than the bulbs. i think these are a lot prettier and way more versatile for stylisation! you could have a garlic flower crown.
also like the cowboy part can we please stop omitting the fact that there is a real ass cowboy in Bram Stokers Dracula and hes from real ass Texas and he has a fucking gun and he tries to fucking shoot Dracula
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Rating Jane Austen Proposals*
*just the major ones in her main six novels
Edward Ferrars to Elinor Dashwood
- Entirely unexpected (the Dashwoods all thought he was already married to Lucy Steele)
- Elinor cries happy tears of joy and relief
- Owns up to his foolishness from before
- Had surprise and eager acceptance on his side but he could have avoided so much drama and heartache by being honest in the first place. At least he's a man of principle.
- 7/10
Mr. Collins to Elizabeth Bennet
- Wants to get married because Catherine de Bourgh told him to
- Does try to alleviate the Bennet's future financial distress by proposing to one of the daughters
- Doesn't listen to Elizabeth at all
- Refuses to take Elizabeth's clear no and thinks "no means I'm flirting and actually mean yes"
- 1/10
Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth Bennet (#1)
- Proposes because his feelings overcome his "better judgement" and he can't take it anymore
- Insults her family's lack of propriety and connections and how he's degrading himself to marry someone so inferior
- Was completely confident that she would say yes because of his wealth and importance even though he had separated Mr. Bingley and her sister
- Responds in anger from his wounded pride when she says no and insults her family some more
- Rating this higher than Mr. Colin's proposal because we all love the enemies-to-eventual-lovers tension and spit-fire back and forth
- 3/10
Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth Bennet (#2)
- Prompted by Elizabeth thanking him doing everything to solve the crisis with Lydia running away with Wickham, which he didn't even mean for Elizabeth to find out about
- States his feelings for her clearly before asking for hers
- But "one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever"
- He just puts his heart out there but is willing to walk away and take her reply as a final answer instead of forever trying to wear her down or forever bother her!!!
- Owns up to his pride and how Elizabeth challenged him to change
- They continue talking and walking, happy and in love, with Elizabeth too overcome to look him in the eye. Ah restrained regency love!
- 10/10
Henry Crawford to Fanny Price
- Is genuinely in love for once instead of wanting to toy with a woman's affections out of boredom
- Helps her brother William get a promotion and shares this with his proposal (Could be seen as manipulative)
- Doesn't listen to Fanny when she tells him to stop talking because it's distressing her
- Won't take no for an answer
- He and everyone else thinks she's going to make him a better man (Be a better man on your own! It's not a woman's job to transform you!)
- 2/10 - (my apologies to the shippers)
Edward Bertram to Fanny Price
- It happens?
- We don't get many details in the text
- Fanny ends up with the one she wanted even though he's not great
- 4/10
Mr. Elton to Emma Woodhouse
- Insults Emma's friend Harriet, calling Harriet way beneath him, when Emma says she thought he had been interested in Harriet
- Full of empty flattery - he isn't actually in love with her
- Just interested in her large dowry and high social standing
- After Emma rejects him, he writes a petty letter to Mr. Woodhouse saying he's leaving town for a while, purposely leaving her out of the letter
- Quickly revenge-rebound-marries another young lady of wealth
- 0/10
Mr. Knightly to Emma Woodhouse
- Is willing to not say it at first when Emma tells him to stop
- Admits his shortcomings and his tender love for her
- He waits to hear her answer
- "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more"
- 9/10
John Thorpe to Catherine Morland
- Barely counts as a proposal
- "Did you ever hear the old song 'Going to One Wedding Brings on Another?' " (Seriously, what?)
- Say you're bad at communicating clearly without saying you're bad at communicating clearly
- Only wants to marry her because he mistakenly thinks she's a wealthy heiress
- -3/10
Henry Tilney to Catherine Morland
- After finding out why his father threw Catherine out, tells his father in passionate anger that he loves Catherine and intends to marry her, and refuses to go with General Tilney to Herefordshire
- Instead goes straight to Catherine's home to propose
- Combined with mortification and deep apologies for the way his father treated Catherine
- Is willing to part ways with his father over it
- A mix of love and anger and asking for forgiveness
- They eventually get his father's approval
- 8/10
Captain Wentworth to Anne Elliot (#2)
- Puts a note on a table and gives a look and leaves
- The most romantic letter in the history of time
- "I am half agony half hope"
- Confesses his foolish pride and regrets his resentment
- Asks for but a word, a look
- So much relief after so much angst
- 100/10
Bonus: Mr. Martin to Harriet Smith
- Gets Mr. Knightly's advice before proposing
- Short and sweet (A short letter doesn't mean it's bad, Harriet!)
- Is still civil and kind to her after she says no even though it's awkward
- Extra sweet because they eventually end up together
- 9/10
How would you rate these proposals?
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catherine morland would've loved dracula daily
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northanger abbey is hilarious the entire chapter one is jane austen going “look this bitch is basic as hell but you’re stuck with her”
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Okay just throwing this in here:
Henry’s whole “A countrydance is an emblem of marriage” speech is… The whole scene is so delightful and it tells us so much. It tells us that Eleanor 100% told him of her conversation with Catherine, being an A+ wingwoman, even though she probably thought Catherine was a bit forward about it but eh…
But also, Henry is 100% okay with Catherine’s attraction to him. He can absolutely see this going somewhere serious. BUT only if she really means it and won’t flirt with other men. He’s really, at the beginning of their SECOND dance, in chapter 10 of 31, telling her in no uncertain terms that he’d make for a very faithful husband but expects the same of a wife, and thus he won’t be trifled with… but if she’s willing to commit to this he’d be totally game to see where it goes. And he wants her to commit to this ( Now you have given me a security worth having; and I shall proceed with courage. )
It’s common to talk about how hard Catherine crushes on him, but boy, he’s got it bad, too xD Catherine, with her open, accidentally forward, and very loving nature sure made an impression on him. He still needs to really GET her, but he clearly likes what he saw (and obviously heard) of her so far.
Can we study "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith" (2005) by Matthew Stover in English class?
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“Feminist” academia’s reaction to Mina’s devotion in today’s Dracula update is such a perfect example of why intersectionality is vital in feminism. It derides Mina’s loyalty to Jonathan, and chalks her not letting his disability deter her from marrying him up to mindlessly falling into serving the patriarchy bla bla bla
Not a thought spared for what this could mean for disabled people—that loyalty through sickness and trauma is beautiful and romantic, or the worth of love that isn’t conditional on someone being able-bodied. No reflection on why “she should have dumped him because he’s not good enough for her anymore” might be harmful.
Not only that, but later we’re going to see how this unconditional love through sickness and in health is fully mutual. While this book was by no means pro-feminist, treating its moments of beauty re: disability as being backwards and oppressive is not the way to dismantle that.
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Anonymous asked:
#peter pan is one of the most sinister characters in children's literature and you will never convince me otherwise can you explain why?
- sneaks into people’s bedrooms in the middle of the night
- literally steals children and spirits them away
- supposedly all of these children are ”lost” and fell out of their prams and whatnot but he also happily absconded with wendy, michael and john who were not even a little bit lost
- chopped a man’s hand off and fed it to a crocodile nbd
- (peter is supposed to be a child can we bear this in mind)
- at the end when he rescues the lost boys et al he sneaks onto the jolly roger and slaughters ten pirates before they even realise he’s there
- boy is a stone cold killer yo
- and slightly just keeps a running verbal tally through all of it like those children are so unfazed by Peter Pan, Killing Machine
- and a couple of quotes from the text to top it all off:
- and when [the lost boys] seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out;
- peter thins them out
- okay
- and my personal favourite:
- He often went out alone, and when he came back you were never absolutely certain whether he had had an adventure or not. He might have forgotten it so completely that he said nothing about it; and then when you went out you found the body;
- THEN WHEN YOU WENT OUT YOU FOUND THE BODY
- ?????????????????????????
I wrote my undergrad thesis on that little fucker!! Protip: read the original novelization of Peter Pan. It will weird you the fuck out. My favorite part is when he scares Hook by mimicking the croc’s ticking noise. Except, in the book, he doesn’t do this on purpose. Instead he’s swimming along to the ship, hears the ticking, and starts ticking along, compulsively. For a few minutes, he sort of FORGETS that he’s human and his mind goes animal-blank, and he’s just rolling along ticking like the crocodile because HE THINKS HE’S A CROCODILE. Fun times. My thesis was about how he’s a fundamentally amoral character. He does what he likes, and whenever anything happens that could result in character growth, he just FORGETS it. Peter Pan is seriously like the scary child monster in a horror movie.
If you read the first appearance of Peter in Barrie’s The Little White Bird (later published alone as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens), it is fairly apparent that Barrie originally conceived of Peter as a ghost of a child who died of exposure in the park overnight, and who now buries other children who get lost in the park after the gates are shut. It ends: “But how strange for parents, when they hurry into the Gardens at the opening of the gates looking for their lost one, to find the sweetest little tombstone instead. I do hope that Peter is not too ready with his spade.”
Peter Pan: sort of a kid, but mostly some kind of child-shaped GOBLIN OR SOMETHING idk
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dni unless you have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, all the modern languages, all while possessing a certain something in your air and manner of walking, the tone of your voice, your address and expressions-
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In honor of To Be or Not To Be Tuesday, friendly reminder that if you’ve experienced one or more of the following, you may be entitled to compensation or a consummation devoutly to be wished:
- The whips and scorns of time.
- The thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.
- The oppressor’s wrong.
- The proud man’s contumely.
- The pangs of dispriz'd love.
- The law's delay.
- The insolence of office.
- The spurns that patient merit of th'unworthy takes.
- Grunting and sweating under a weary life.