No Because Pride And Prejudice Isn't "I Changed Myself For You So You Would Love Me Back." It's "your

No because pride and prejudice isn't "I changed myself for you so you would love me back." It's "your blatant rejection and disdain for me made me realize things about myself no one had ever been bold enough to tell me so I sat down and evaluated all my behavior patterns and why they came about and came to the realization myself that I had to work on myself. Also I don't expect you to love me now that I'm a work in progress, so I'm just going to do nice things for you because I don't like seeing you hurt." No wonder P&P fans refuse to settle.

There’s something about fictional men complimenting a laugh “She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”…… watch me go mute for a minute

Dark academic media because it’s autumn

Films

• Harry Potter: boarding school, magic, cozy

• Dead Poet Society: boarding school, forlorn, rich

• Twilight: bitter, terrible, autumn-y (mock it loudly whilst watching to make it worth while)

• Good Will Hunting: deep, cerebral, engaging

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream: classic, dreamy

• The Spiderwick Chronicles: monsters, childhood

• The Black Cauldron: disney classic, creepy, fun

• Kill Your Darlings: Murder, university, morality

• Hocus Pocus: witchy, nostalgic, light-hearted

• Coraline: trippy, weird, childlike, buzzing

• The Corpse Bride: drab, gentle, strange

• Dorian Gray: rich, ben barnes, terrible mentors

• Sleepy Hollow: grim, ghostly, casually haunting

• Crimson Peak: creepy, strange, dim, opulent

Shows

• The Queen’s Gambit: intelligent, new, riveting

• Peaky Blinders: dark, illegal 1910s shenanigans

• Sherlock Holmes (BBC): cerebral, mystery, witty

• Gilmore Girls: nostalgic, private school, literature

• Criminal Minds: mystery, crime, casual viewing

• Sabrina the Teenage Witch: nostalgic, light, witchy

• Scooby Doo Where Are You?: cozy, mystery, kids

• The Haunting of Bly Manor: dark, creepy, engaging

Books and short stories

• The Secret History: university, murder, morality

• Jane Eyre: classic, ghostly, romanticism

• Frankenstein: classic, gothic, sci-fi, morality

• Dracula: classic, gothic, horror

• Stalking Jack the Ripper: gothic, horror, victorian

• Sherlock Holmes: classic, mystery, cozy

• Ninth House: horror, necromancy, morality

• The Yellow Wallpaper: psychologically haunting, short story, morality

• Murder on the Orient Express: classic, mystery, whodunit

• Harry Potter: cozy, magic, boarding school

• The Night Circus: whimsical, magic, romance

• A Deadly Education: boarding school, magic, horror

• Rebecca: psychological, morality, relationships

• Crime and Punishment: classic, heavy, morality

• War and Peace: classic, opulent, heavy

Podcasts

• Spirits (Multitude): drunk mythology

• The Bright Sessions: audio drama surrounding fictional therapy sessions with magically gifted individuals

• Critical Role: DnD with famous voice actors

• Welcome to Nightvale: paranormal small town audio drama told in the style of an evening radio show

• Crime Junkie: true crime

• TEDTalksDaily: short TEDTalks posted each day about a wide variety of topics

• Potterless: grown man reads the Harry Potter series for the first time

Songs

• Master & a Hound - Gregory Alan Isakov: soft, indie, bittersweet

• I Know Places - Lykke Li: heavy, indie, sad

• Since I Saw Vienna - Wilbur: soft, indie, sad

• Cherry Wine - Hozier: bittersweet, cozy, indie

• To Be Alone - Hozier: heavier, entrancing, indie

• Who Will Carry You - Adam Jones & K.S. Rhoads: hopeful, soft, sad

• Scotland - The Lumineers: self-sufficient, indie, bittersweet

• Falling Water - Peter Oren: heavy, sad, deep

• The Night We Met - Lord Huron: soft, kind, nostalgic

• Ms - alt-J: soft, surrounding, nostalgic, dreamlike

• Oh My Dear - The Head and the Heart: soft, lulling, gentle

• Blood Bank - Bon Iver: soft, bittersweet, snowy

• September Song - Agnes Obel: soft, instrumental

• Gnossienne no.4 - Erik Satie: spooky, instrumental

• Golden - Riley Baron: light, rich, juvenile

• Murder Song - AURORA: eloquent, upset, fairylike

• Ella - Myrkur: nordic, elemental, raw

• If I Had a Heart - Fever Ray: dark, roaming, sure

• Who’s With Us - Current Swell: sad, lonely, soft

• Sleep on the Floor - The Lumineers: textured, lazy

• Helvegen - Wardruna: nordic, echoing, thunderous

• Jenny of Oldstones - Ginny Di: old, soft, sweeping

• Nothing Arrived - Villagers: so, so sad…with honey

pov: you survived 2021

He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

To burn the witch is to admit that magic exists.

~ Erin Anastasia