I congratulate myself for finishing a fic, I go to post it, and then, the insurmountable hurdle:

Two Women Asleep in a Punt under the Willows (1887) by John Singer Sargent

Franz Xaver Mandl - "Berchtesgaden region with a view of the Watzmann mountain" (1863)

From the Codex Manesse, depicting the German minnesinger (lyric poet and knight) known as Der Schenk von Limburg.

My absolute favorite comedic gag is when two or more characters are having a conversation and talking about completely different things without realizing it.

I just hit Chapter 40 in Sense and Sensibility. Elinor thinks her and Mrs. Jennings are talking about Colonel Brandon offering Edward a living, Mrs. Jennings thinks they're talking about Elinor now being engaged to Colonel Brandon, and I am dying. 🤣🤣🤣

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Henry Crawford is the most salvageable of Austen's dubious men. Like yes, he has issues, but at least before the affair you could work with them. They haven't doomed him yet.

There are so many reasons. Unlike Willoughby, Wickham, and Mr. Elliot, he has yet to ruin anyone's life. His fall is in his future, not hidden in his past. Unlike almost every negative character in Austen's works, Henry is neither greedy nor in debt. And the benefits! Beautiful house. Good at renovations. Can read you into a Shakespeare trance. Genuinely intelligent.

Sir, if you had just gone home to fix that issue with your steward and not gone to that stupid party, we really could have had it all.

USS Constitution (1797) - Old Ironside

In Arendelle Castle

[Chapter 2]

Mr. Nilsen finally gets off the ship, but first stops to check on his horse at the castle stables, and meets some reindeer.

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Maybe it's naive of me, but whenever I see portraits like this, with just a father and daughter, it restores my faith in humanity a little. Because people seem to love this idea that fathers never loved their daughters in the past and only saw them as bargaining chips for marriage or whatever, but look at the guy in the first portrait on the left, he loves that little girl! And the dad trying to do his work while his daughter bothers him with an Old Timey Barbie. The man teaching his daughter geography, his expression is so soft! The way the man in the last portrait holds the little girl's hand! And none of these are incidental, these aren't photographs, someone (probably the father) paid good money and sat down for hours so that they could have a painting of themselves and their daughter. Probably because they loved their daughter.

From left to right: 1795 Michał Jerzy Mniszech with his daughter Elżbieta - Marcello Bacciarelli; Christopher Anstey and his daughter Mary Ann by William Hoare 1776; A Musician and His Daughter by Thomas de Keyser 1629; The Geography Lesson (Portrait of Monsieur G. and His Daughter), 1812; Jean-baptiste Isabey And His Daughter; Portrait of a Young Girl and Older Man by William Harrison Scarborough

(this is probably somewhat related to my other favourite genre of painting, Husband With Multiple Kids Making Come Hither Eyes At His Wife)

oh I love those! People being people is one of my favourite kinds of paintings and an important reminder that people in past times were not all that different. There were dads who loved their daughters fiercely. There were fathers who happily looked after their babies too. The German reformer Philip Melanchton for example had a cradle in his office. His wife was busy organising a household for 20 people- she was out and about, he mostly worked in his office, it made sense for him to look after their babies too babies while she dropped by at snack time.

in fact often if it was kind of safe dads had the babies in their workshops for just that reason as we can see in these paintings:

The left is “the busy father” by Theodore Weber, the right one is “At the china repairer’s “ by Wenzel Tornoe. All dads who are actively involved in childcare and a painter who thought it was a cute topic rather than anything ridiculous.

I raise you:

First Lesson by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 - 1931)

Un Coup De Main (The Helping Hand) by Émile Renouf (1845 – 1894)

Italian Winegrower And His Daughter by Francesco Baratta (1590-1666)

Adding some Christian Krohg's (1852-1925) paintings because fatherhood is a big theme in his paintings !

This beautifully embroidered costume has been used as both a robe and a dress in several productions.   It was worn by Keri Russell as Jane Hayes in the 2013 film 𝑨𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅.   But that’s not where it originated!   It was worn in 2009 by Carice van Houten as Maria Oldknow in 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆, and the year before by Emma Pierson as Fanny Dorrit in 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒕.   This costume has been used several more times over the years. Visit our website to find out where! Bit.ly/RegRom040

Arrogant reader transports herself into a story, absolutely sure that she would make better decisions and fix everything. Her first change is so catastrophic that she can no longer predict where the story will go. She is helpless and trapped, making even worse decisions than she mocked before.

A fanfic writers puts all her favourite little guys in the same story and makes it completely conflict free, thinking she'll give them a calm little break. She forgot that all her lil guys are completely unhinged; by Chapter 4 they've started hunting each other for sport.

A character gains self-awareness, but as they were written as devoutly religious, they immediately accept the author as god and try to do everything they can to stay in character and keep the story exactly as it should be, even if it means living in preventable misery.

Timeloop, but it's a character trapped in a novel who is about to die. The writer keeps trying to kill their favourite character but then always stops right before death, only to write it again the next day. The character is desperately trying to show the author a better way to end the series.

I started a week ago and now I am 20k words deep into idea #1. A reader transmigrated into her favourite romance novel as the annoying second female lead. She was certain she could fix the character's life and it immediately blew up in her face. Now she's engaged to the main villain and trying to escape the SFL's horrible family.

I haven't written this much in a very long time and it's exciting! And I haven't even made it to the two scenes I first imagined yet! (the wedding night and a bloody murder)

WILL YOU BE PUBLISHING THIS ANYWHERE?!?? I NEED TO READ IT!!! 😍😍😍

If I manage to finish it, I'll probably start posting it on AO3 as an original work? I am feeling pretty good about finishing this one (fingers crossed), once I figure out an ending...

I read the suggestion on Bluesky that Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights movie should be understood not as an adaptation of Wuthering Heights, but of vintage book covers of Wuthering Heights, and I think that might be the perfect way to interpret it.

Day 7 of @janeuary-month - Picnic.

One of my favourite things about Emma (2020, dir. Autumn de Wilde) is the way that servants are (almost) always there, doing the work that frees up the named characters to waft around experiencing emotional crises and character growth.

Allocation of Naval Surgeons by Rate of Ship

in: Michael Crumplin, “Surgery in the Royal Navy during the Republican and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815),” in Health and Medicine at Sea, 1700-1900, ed. David Boyd Haycock and Sally Archer (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009), 72