frank iero being asked about the my chemical romance reunion approx. 2 months before the my chemical romance reunion x

1.05 -> 1.06 (requested by @rozanovilyas) 💙

Ilya wanted to always make him happy.

Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams at the Vanity Fair x Amazon MGM Studios Awards Season Party | January 10, 2026

I blogged so hard and scrolled so far but in the end it doesn't even matter

1-6 Flowers for Post It Show 21 at Giant Robot in Los Angeles December 7 2025 / 2015 Sawtelle Blvd LA CA 90025

can you put that thing on a fucking leash *pointing angrily at a butterfly with beautiful iridescent wings thats not flying anywhere near you*

is anyone else still just like. oh my god they actually hard launched

1.05 | 1.06

For many, Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice, 1812) and Emma Woodhouse (Emma, 1815) represent two opposing ideals of performative femininity. Elizabeth represents the woman who acts in opposition to society’s surface level expectations of women (e.g. talking long, muddy walks), while Emma represents the woman who conforms to the trappings of traditional womanhood (e.g. wearing pretty dresses and matchmaking). However, both women staunchly refuse to marry for the majority of their novels, and both are, more or less, the masters of their own fates. Despite these similarities, Emma is often codified as a bitch, and Elizabeth is given the “not like other girls” treatment in modern culture. These surface-level characterizations derail Jane Austen’s careful portrayal of multi-faceted women and play into the patriarchal pressure for women to be in competition with each other and to appeal to expectations of acceptable womanhood. I firmly believe if Elizabeth and Emma were to meet in 2020, they would drunkenly run into each other in a bathroom at a downtown bar. Emma would sincerely compliment Elizabeth’s outfit, and Elizabeth would use her impeccable character judgement to help Emma swipe through Harriet’s Bumble matches. In this essay, I will—

THIS.

Also, people dramatically overestimate how much Elizabeth challenges (or wishes to challenge) society’s ideals of propriety. Yes, she had muddy petticoats and walked three miles through the country alone ... but that was also an expression of femininity that was common at the time. It wasn’t high fashion, no, but walking was seen as good and beneficial exercise, and women who lived in the country regularly took long walks, sometimes alone.

The larger rules of propriety--how to behave at a dinner party, or at a dance, or how to behave in relation to men, or literally any other rule of propriety--Elizabeth follows faithfully. She follows these rules playfully, and wittily, but she follows them. And, in fact, she views “how well does someone follow the rules” as proof of their character. When do we see her using her wit to skewer people? When they don’t follow the social rules as they ought. Or when they follow those rules thoughtlessly. Darcy is rude at a dance and doesn’t participate in the social whirl very well; therefore, she is ready to believe the absolute worst of him. Wickham is (in public) the perfect paragon of courtly sociability who follows all the rules, therefore he must be good. Lady Catherine keeps the outward forms of propriety but still manages to be offensive within them, and is willing to break them to be offensive, and that lack of courtesy is a large part of why Elizabeth doesn’t like her.

There is a female character in P&P who doesn’t follow the rules, who doesn’t follow society’s views of propriety: Lydia. Much of the reason Elizabeth disapproves of Lydia is that Lydia is so wild and doesn’t follow the appropriate rules of a young lady. When Lydia runs off with Wickham, the only two outcomes Elizabeth can imagine are “she marries Wickham and keeps her respectability” or “she doesn’t marry Wickham and is lost forever.” In other words, Elizabeth’s entire imagination is circumscribed by the rules of propriety in this instance. It’s Darcy who thinks Lydia shouldn’t marry Wickham and they’ll figure out something else for her; he only helps her marry Wickham because it’s what Lydia herself wants. If she’d said no, get me out of here, Darcy would have figured out a way to do it.

Now, Elizabeth doesn’t believe that propriety is the only part of goodness or the only thing to judge someone on; and she doesn’t believe they should be followed thoughtlessly or with malice or selfishness. But she does believe that the basic rules of society are good, and that good people will follow them.

And in this she's shown as partly wrong, partly right.

She has to learn the difference between real goodness and the "appearance" of goodness, yet at the same time her rejection teaches Darcy to be more courteous and show more of the appearance of goodness than before.

Yet at the same time, there's some unconventionality in Elizabeth's conventionality, and the opposite with Darcy. People like the early Darcy and Lady Catherine think they're allowed to flout good manners because of their wealth and status, and much of society would probably agree with that. But Elizabeth is both conventional and unconventional enough to despise their lack of courtesy and to reject the very idea that their status lets them get away with it.

“Cleaning the House” painting by Sally Welchman.

This fucking series, man...

this show is THE premiere 2010s period piece

fucked up how no matter how much literature you read there’s always literature that you haven’t read. and in fact there’s literature that you CANT read because it’s “only published in a language you don’t read” or “it is translated but every translation is straight up bullshit” or “it’s no longer extant” or something stupid like that and so it’s always going to be literature you’ve never read. you can’t read it all. sick n twisted