Indeed, the critic Patricia Howell Michaelson argues that the way Jane lays out her paragraphs, and the frequent use of italics to indicate which words should be stressed, were all intended to aid someone ‘performing’ the novels aloud. It looks like Jane’s books encouraged women’s voices to be heard: not only as words on the page, but also out loud, in real life, in the drawing rooms of late Georgian England.
Jane Austen at Home (2017), Lucy Worsley.
The Monster at the End of this Book (1971)
Written by Jon Stone
Illustrated by Michael Smollin
Good morning! I’m salty.
I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.
This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.
You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.
“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.
If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.
This needs to be reblogged today.
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, 1888, Vincent van Gogh
Size: 40.5x32.5 cm
Medium: oil on canvas
it’s kinda fucked up that bullying is treated like a “soft trauma” or not REALLY a serious kind of trauma/abuse just because the abusers are generally other kids, because it’s honestly so damaging. it stays with you. it fucks with your sense or self, your self-esteem, your ability to trust people and make meaningful relationships.
like yes those bullies ARE kids who generally don’t understand the consequences of their actions and i don’t doubt that most of them grow up not to be awful people but the damage they cause is real and people just………don’t take it seriously
some studies say bullying triggers the brain the same way childhood neglect does, except it leaves worse effects exactly because there’s just… no sympathy. because victims of bullying are shown time and again on media that their pain doesn’t matter, but the bully’s does (picture every single bully with a sob story behind their bullying, which is woefully inaccurate bc bullying comes from prejudice but lmao). literal children are told multiple times that it really must be their fault that that is happening to them. they learn that they’re not good enough to be treated as human, and, as aforementioned, most bullying comes from prejudice. it’s the autistic kids, the adhd kids, the lgbt kids, the kids of color, and all others whom society teaches us to hate. bullying is just laying ground for these children to think themselves subhuman. something that will be reinforced throughout their lives, time and again, even on media that seems to side with the bullied, because the bully is always absolved for something or another, as if the pain they caused didn’t matter.
You know, every time I see something like this, I feel this sense of relief, like oh here’s someone who’s on my side. Someone understands, someone would believe me about how painful and traumatic it was. A reminder that the dismissive teachers were wrong. This subject is so important. Thank you.
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