So Not Just Me Then.

I want you to imagine a ten year old version of yourself sitting right there on this couch. Now this is the little girl who first believed that she was fat, and ugly, and an embarrassment.

SUPERLUNARY

[adjective]

1. belonging to a higher world; celestial.

2. situated above or beyond the moon.

Etymology: Latin super, “prefix for above, beyond, in addition, to an especially high degree” + lunary, from Latin lūnāris, “of the moon”, from lūna, “the moon”.

[ebineyland]

this is from a real diary by a 13-year-old girl in 1870. teenage girls are awesome and they’ve always been that way.

I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.

PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) >> Filming Locations, part I dir. Joe Wright

1. romeo and juliet on the balcony, julius kronberg 2. the meeting on the turret stairs, frederic william burton 3. la belle dame sans merci, john william waterhouse 4. god speed, edmund blair leighton 5. the end of the quest, francis bernard dicksee 6. la belle dame sans merci, francis bernard dicksee

graves grow no green that you can use.

gwendolyn brooks

TOLKIEN WEEK 2022 Day 6 ➳ Favorite Hero or Villain | Faceless/Silhouettes | Solidarity/Comradery

Austen hands

Hands in Jane Austen adaptations

Emma (2009)

Emma (2020)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Persuasion (1995)

Austenland (2013)

Emma (2020)

Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Persuasion (1995)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Persuasion (1995)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Sense and Sensibility (2008)

Northanger Abbey (2007)

Emma (2020)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Mansfield Park (1999)

Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Austenland (2013)

you know how mathematicians have the journal of recreational mathematics, right? where they publish stuff like, ‘oh i found this cool property of this one seemingly boring number’, or, ‘this is literally nonsense but it sounds ~scientific~’ and it’s all great fun to read?

well

behold, the journal of recreational linguistics

with such delightful papers as ‘tennis puns’, ‘animals in different languages’, and ‘gifts from a homonymous benefactor’

excuse me while i go read all 50 volumes in one sitting