WIP Wednesday Game

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Flavors of the week:

(While not a BB fic, Strident is one I can't shave publicly, so I'll write 3 sentences on that one and 3 on another that I can share)

This week's snippet is from Tunnels of Love:

Reverse Lil Wayne…

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A third red state BLOCKS anti-trans legislation from becoming law.

Kudos to all the brave activists fighting their states hard on their bigoted legislation.

this hylian boy has been conditioned to think this was statistically impossible give him a minute

Glow in the dark - Baiona, Spain

@focsle I had this in my drafts until you were on my dash again because i couldn’t remember your handle offhand. 🩵🐋

Why is this heat so hot 😩

It’s the heat

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Okay two things

1) every time I see something like this, or photos of wild unrealistic landscapes that really exist, or spectacular architecture, whatever it is, I think again that when we write fantasy, we NERF REALITY. That is, here’s some dude with a special interest and a brain that somehow lacks basic self preservation mechanisms, and he’s out here looking like a super hero. Regular humans are capable of things we seem super human. Real landscapes are more fantastical than our fantasies. Reality is more fantastical than our fantasies.

2) how the fuck did he not kick out any windows that’s the most impressive part of the whole video.

this man is his own zombie apocalypse team, adding anyone else would just slow him down

So as someone who used to teach parkour back in the day, this dude isn’t just talented. His technique is amazing.

It’s not just about not kicking out windows. Controlling how you land is about shock absorption, about minimizing the strain on your joints. It also makes you quieter when you move. A good landing should be as silent as possible, because loud landings hurt. That’s the foundation of everything else you do in parkour. So by the time you’re climbing buildings, if you’re breaking windows it means you don’t have enough control to land safely and it’s time to go back to your ground basics.

A real Spider-Man lol

some beautiful graffiti downtown

You know what I realize that people underestimate with Pride & Prejudice is the strategic importance of Jane.

Because like, I recently saw Charlotte and Elizabeth contrasted as the former being pragmatic and the latter holding out for a love match, because she's younger and prettier and thinks she can afford it, and that is very much not what's happening.

The Charlotte take is correct, but the Elizabeth is all wrong. Lizzie doesn't insist on a love match. That's serendipitous and rather unexpected. She wants, exactly as Mr. Bennet says, someone she can respect. Contempt won't do. Mr. Bennet puts it in weirdly sexist terms like he's trying to avoid acknowledging what he did to himself by marrying a self-absorbed idiot, but it's still true. That's what Elizabeth is shooting for: a marriage that won't make her unhappy.

She's grown up watching how miserable her parents make one another; she's not willing to sign up for a lifetime of being bitter and lonely in her own home.

I think she is very aware, in refusing Mr. Collins, that it's reasonably unlikely that anyone she actually respects is going to want her, with her few accomplishments and her lack of property. That she is turning down security and the chance keep the house she grew up in, and all she gets in return may be spinsterhood.

But, crucially, she has absolute faith in Jane.

The bit about teaching Jane's daughters to embroider badly? That's a joke, but it's also a serious potential life plan. Jane is the best creature in the world, and a beauty; there's no chance at all she won't get married to someone worthwhile.

(Bingley mucks this up by breaking Jane's heart, but her prospects remain reasonable if their mother would lay off!)

And if Elizabeth can't replicate that feat, then there's also no doubt in her mind that Jane will let her live in her house as a dependent as long as she likes, and never let it be made shameful or awful to be that impoverished spinster aunt. It will be okay never to be married at all, because she has her sister, whom she trusts absolutely to succeed and to protect her.

And if something eventually happens to Jane's family and they can't keep her anymore, she can throw herself upon the mercy of the Gardeners, who have money and like her very much, and are likewise good people. She has a support network--not a perfect or impregnable one, but it exists. It gives her realistic options.

Spinsterhood was a very dangerous choice; there are reasons you would go to considerable lengths not to risk it.

But Elizabeth has Jane, and her pride, and an understanding of what marrying someone who will make you miserable costs.

That's part of the thesis of the book, I would say! Recurring Austen thought. How important it is not to marry someone who will make you, specifically, unhappy.

She would rather be a dependent of people she likes and trusts than of someone she doesn't, even if the latter is formally considered more secure; she would rather live in a happy, reasonable household as an extra than be the mistress of her own home, but that home is full of Mr. Collins and her mother.

This is a calculation she's making consciously! She's not counting on a better marriage coming along. She just feels the most likely bad outcome from refusing Mr. Collins is still much better than the certain outcome of accepting him. Which is being stuck with Mr. Collins forever.

Elizabeth is also being pragmatic. Austen also endorses her choice, for the person she is and the concerns she has. She's just picking different trade-offs than Charlotte.

Elizabeth's flaw is not in her own priorities; she doesn't make a reckless choice and get lucky. But in being unable to accept that Charlotte's are different, and it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Charlotte.

Because realistically, when your marriage is your whole family and career forever, and you only get to pick the ones that offer themselves to you, when you are legally bound to the status of dependent, you're always going to be making some trade-offs.

😂 Even the unrealistically ideal dream scenario of wealthy handsome clever ethical Mr. Darcy still asks you to undergo personal growth, accommodate someone else's communication style, and eat a little crow.

I love the additional points in the tags: #charlotte is a much less sociable person than lizzie#so avoiding her husband most of the time and not seeking out his company is more viable for her!#she also has more patience for people being wrong#partly i think because she kinds checks out and lets them get on with it which lizzie isn't too great at even with her mother#people have different needs like that's a thing okay#marriage#spinsterhood#pragmatism#like if elizabeth had to listen to collins talk for a few months straight she would be nearly insane with rage#he's not just a low-quality man he's a man designed to be the worst for her specifically#also note that because jane's marriage is elizabeth's fallback plan#darcy screwed her over personally by interfering between her and bingley#she ofc does not bring this up how could she#but it's intensifying the anger during the hunsford rejection i think

I hadn’t even thought about Jane being Lizzie’s fallback as an amplification to the anger at Darcy, but yes! I’m sure that “the happiness of a most beloved sister” is indeed foremost in her concerns on that - easily the most important thing - but I bet some subconscious anxiety is aggravating Lizzie’s anger here.

Yeah, and it's like--the fucking audacity of the man, right?

If Jane and Bingley had been married, Jane would have had everything she deserved, and Elizabeth would have been safe.

Better chances of finding someone she wanted, with access to a wider society and Bingley's web of contacts, and free to refuse anyone she didn't, because Bingley is sweet-natured and wealthy and there would have been no obstacle to staying with them as long as she needed to. (Other than his sisters not liking it lmao.)

Mary-Kitty-Lydia would have had better odds of escaping the trap their parents carelessly raised them into, as well. Mrs. Bennet would have had less to be horrible and anxious about. Mr. Collins wouldn't matter anymore. Bingley was literally going to save them all.

And Darcy took that away. Because he thought that they, and Jane by extension, weren't good enough. That Jane wasn't good enough!

He took away Elizabeth's other options and now he says she must endure his proposal? The hypocrisy. The gall.

The same presumption as Collins that of course she would accept, what choice did she have? To ask is to obtain. He has the means of survival in the palm of his hand. What could any woman in her position do, but go along with his life plan?

It's practically economic coercion, if you believe he thought it through, and awful even if you think he didn't. It fits perfectly into her Wickham-sourced understanding of the man, that he throws around his power and takes other people's chances away and assumes everything is his by natural right.

That he's the only person qualified to make choices, and that therefore no one else should.

(And enough of this is accurate that Darcy's mortified regret and determination to work on himself is founded in the reality of his fuckups and bad habits, but enough is wrong for Lizzie to feel bad and be more inclined to forgive him the rest, especially since he's helping and trying to be better. It's an effective romance!)

So yeah I think the the 'how dare he!' at Hunsford after he contributed to getting Bingley away from Jane runs deep, because of the money on the table. Lydia's indiscretion threatens the whole family; Jane's success would have helped them all just as much.

In a way I think, in addition to all the other things that are going on there, Darcy patching over the devastation of the elopement is him paying back the opportunity he carelessly took away because he thought he knew best, before.

Just stepping out of the way of the match wouldn't be enough to show that he understood he'd acted against the Bennets previously for no sufficiently good reason, and Elizabeth was right to be offended that he expected her not to care about that if he dangled himself and all his assets in front of her.

Maretarium, an aquarium with Finnish fish species in Kotka, Finland had a cat day. People could bring their cats to watch the fish. Both the cats and the fish were fascinated.

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When you mess up real bad but things still work out

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young just us in a nutshell

i think his love language is physical touch 🤷‍♀️

a cool thing about tumblr is that when an absolute dog shit dud of a post shows up in my feed i know it's not because of some nebulous algorithm, it's someone's fault and i can find them immediately

Most bittersweet thing I’ve ever learned is that most animation is not affected by the writers strike so we get to keep cartoons, but it’s only because animators aren’t making enough fucking money to even qualify for WGA

Just to clarify here, it’s not that there is some kind of income range where an animator could “qualify” for the WGA; animation writers fall under a different union’s jurisdiction, The Animation Guild or TAG, which it itself under IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, representing many crew members in various departments).

Some TAG people are members of both the WGA and TAG, and TAG is currently honoring the WGA picket lines and picketing with WGA members! Aand to make things more complicated, there are some animated shows covered by the WGA (complicated history here). But the two unions mostly cover different things, and this dates back to the way Hollywood was organized in the early days.

TAG having lower pay rates and weaker union protections are definitely current issues, though, and there is hope that if the actors’ guild (SAG-AFTRA) and the directors’ guild (DGA) strike, we could see some big changes happen with IATSE too. (You may have heard of the averted 2021 IATSE negotiations, when a strike was narrowly averted. They definitely achieved some gains in the negotiations but not TAG/WGA pay parity!)

You can read more about the animation guild wage disparity here, discussing TAG’s 2021 negotiations. At the time they stated “Animation writers make a minimum of $2,064 per week, while WGA weekly minimums range from $4,063 to $5,185"—I think we can all agree that’s an absurd difference when TV writing from animation to live-action is really not that different!

There is also currently a petition to unionize Disney animation production workers who currently do not have TAG membership—please add your name if you haven’t already!

prayer circle guys prayer fucking circle

This redditor wins Internet Points:

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Massive Minnesota W read em for yourself

I was planning to drop the items from the linked tweet thread onto this post, but there are SO MANY new bills that it became a wall of text - line after line after line of incredible things Minnesota has enacted in a single session.

I'm.... actually blown away. the political landscape often feels so hopeless, but the DFL pulled themselves together, getting every member on board for these changes - real changes that are going to protect health, keep people out of jail and housed, and improve work conditions massively. this should be a beacon for every other state democratic party - change doesn't have to be incremental. things can get better and they can get better right now. get crackin'.