"Fear is the original sin" is such a metal quote let's be real here
Oh but we can’t neglect the full passage!
“Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.”
Being 20+ in fandom environments and constantly seeing discourse about shipping etc is basically just this meme
Something I always thought was funny for Montgomery to write was her description of Anne. Anne is definitely described as the “not like other girls” a lot, however, Montgomery twists this trope because among her peers Anne isn’t as attractive or popular as her friends. Her quirkiness doesn’t attract anyone, much, except Gilbert - the only person who’s opinion mattered to Anne.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! I love Anne because she's unique compared to the people around her, and it's both her strength and her hardship. It's reflective of LM Montgomery's work writ large, where she'll present a romantic/dramatized scenario and then cheekily pointing out what it would actually be like. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's somber, but it always seems to hit the nail on the head by sketching how people are people.
Yep, despite the “not like other girls” trope, you never get tired of Anne or feel like she’s some chosen one. She’s just one character in a myriad of entertaining characters, and each character gets a story that fits them.
THAT PART. Anne is “not like other girls” in an invariable sea of other girls who are also not like other girls. Montgomery writes everyone so exquisitely individualisticly that there’s not a single female character (okay, fine, I’ll give you Josie Pye) that isn’t main character coded. Leslie Moore? Phillipa Gordon? Cornelia Bryant? All these women (and many more!!!) are so drastically different from one another, but each are still beautiful, and feminine, and keeping in their hands dozens of their own exceptional gifts and special qualities… all without holding themselves above the other. They’re all also enraptured with one another, and pointedly devoid of the ugly cattiness that typically comes to couple with the “not like other girls” trope. Instead? Montgomery gives us sisterhood; these women are all essentially iron sharpening iron. Their diversities are celebrated. It’s a lovely thing to read!
“Women 😌.” – L.M. Montgomery, probably.
IM SO HAPPY YOU'RE BLOGGING AGAIN 😭😭😭
This is absolutely so true and one of my favorite things about LM Montgomery. Each of her female characters stands on their own and I love how you put it, they're main character coded!! Just like Emily and Ilse in Emily of New Moon. This also applies to lm Montgomery's older characters in a way I love. We have Katherine from Windy Poplars, Miss Lavender, MARILLA, queen mother RACHEL LYNDE. The women are brilliant, stupid, kind, cruel, virtuous, and flawed - so real women.
the 2024 met gala theme will be ovid's metamorphosis to respect the importance of greek classicalism in fashion aesthetic principles of construction. lil nas x will be dressed as actaeon's hounds, a metaphor for the punishment of black men's existence being seen as predatory. kylie jenner will wear a crimped taffeta toga. florence welch will be in dior as medusa, veiled and weeping. she is a statement about the destruction of intent and story in the face of achronistic politics: medusa can't be a monster if she's a woman, medusa can't be a woman if she's a monster. drake wears a tailored black suit with a black tie and white shirt. seventeen different women dress as botticelli's venus in some form and rip each other to shreds in rage and divine madness, watched over by dionysus, who is dressed as jack black
I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.
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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?
Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.
Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.
What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.
Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.
You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.
When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.
Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.
It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!
I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.
Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.
Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.
Was explaining to my friend tree law and when I talked about how the trees improper trimmed were immature and he then responded
“Oh my gosh they actually groomed minors.”
The studio executives next statement for the tree cutting:
