Have A Nice Week, Everyone! And Remember To Something Fun Tomorrow, Because Monday Is The Hardest For

Have a nice week, everyone! And remember to something fun tomorrow, because Monday is the hardest for many people.

I'm going to study, visit my grandma, knit, and read.

I really do think a big part of Austen's works is examining what happens when a lot of wealth and a lot of leisure brings out the worst in people. Most of her characters are Trust Fund Babies who never have and never will work a day in their lives. Even good landlords like Darcy can take two month vacations at their friend's houses without consequences beyond writing a few letters of business. Even some of the real jobs were hardly work, clergymen could (and did) hire dirt cheap curates to cover their sermons, landlords had stewards.

What sort of terrible behaviour results? A ton of greed, a lot of social envy (trying to get higher and richer in society), a lot of men and women treating love as a game (either for giggles or to marry up), a lot of indolence/laziness (Mr. Bennet and Lady Bertram), and a ton of pride despite having done nothing for their wealth and position except you know, being born (and often being born male).

How could a man flirt with women just for fun? He doesn't have anything else to think about or do! Why is that woman trying so hard to manipulate a rich man? It's her only way to attain wealth since it's uncouth for her to dirty her hands.

These people need actual jobs. I'm convinced Henry Crawford would be like an 80% better person if he had something to do with his life.

And then you have the fact that almost none of the actions of men have any real consequences, at least for themselves...

Oooh! I would love to try do something like this!

spider activities

its been a full 12 hours and I still can’t get over whatever smartass wrote this “translation”. They are trying to get a traveling bitch KILLED. 

I have deep love for the cat.

It's so irritating hearing things like: "All countries are just imaginary, those are just lines on a map. Why would anyone care about that stuff?"

Bitch, gender is imaginary, race is imaginary, days of the week are imaginary, but all of those things are impacting your life nonetheless. Money as a concept are as legitimate as those lines on the map; does that mean that wealth inequality magically doesn't matter anymore?

Like, I'm glad you're existence is so safe you can barely care about the country you're living in, but for some of us the movement of those lines on the map is the matter of life and death.