I actually had headcanons about this and forgot to say!! Yeah, I definitely think AM has common law marriage. I was thinking of it in terms of marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute, rather than declaration de presenti (probably bc habit-and-repute is the form that common law marriage still takes in most of the US states where it’s legal, of which there actually are some, so that’s what I am familiar with) but I bet both totally exist (apparently you used to be able to do both in Scotland at one point?)
Anyway so I think it’s very common to just move in with your spouse, call yourself their spouse, and live together as spouses and that is one form into which you can enter a marriage (I feel like there’s Fake-Accidentally-To-Real Marrieds potential here somewhere) or you can go up to a couple of witnesses and be like “we’re married okay? okay cool*” and, as you say, Hilarious Misunderstandings
side note but I bet in Lancre, marriage by declaration in the presence of witnesses is the most common thing? if you Really Want To you can get the king to do you a certificate or something but most people don’t bother about it
*i know TECHNICALLY it’s more complex than that but that is, i feel, the gist of most marriage vows
yess i love the lancre one omg!! isnt there a bit when he says nanny was only actually married to some of her husbands? also i bet a witch can marry people and they wouldnt need a piece of paper bc if one half tried to pretend it wasnt real the witch would Remember
if theres a Space Jam 2 it should be Tennis related and star Serena Williams, i dont care how you shoehorn it theres no athlete more deserving or as powerful to protect earth from cartoon aliens in a sports tournament
Were there any books or plays famous for being badly written almost to an archetypal hilarity before My Immortal? Like were there any 19th century memetic gothic romances or?
Even just within SF fandom, The Eye of Argon (1970) is a classic viral example of hilariously bad writing from pre-Internet days; there were contests at cons to see who could get the farthest reading it without cracking up.
William Topaz McGonagall’s poetry was considered hilariously bad in his day (late 19th century); according to Wikipedia, “He found lucrative work performing his poetry at a local circus. He read his poems while the crowd was permitted to pelt him with eggs, flour, herrings, potatoes and stale bread. For this, he received fifteen shillings a night.”
I don’t know much more about the history of memetically bad literature than these two examples, but hopefully people can add more!
Also, “A Tragedy” by Theophile-Jule-Henri “Theo” Marzials, considered by some to be the worst poem ever written in the English language. (Obviously I am in love with it and intend to somehow incorporate it into my wedding vows.) http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bad/Marzials.Tragedy.html
Supposedly the Inklings competed to read her aloud, in the Eye of Argon manner.
A bit more recently, Atlanta Nightsis a collaborative awful novel written to prove Publish America really was a vanity publisher that would accept any manuscript.
i had a dream about fucking… vampire discourse on tumblr like;
“reminder that blood sucker is a slur”
“vamp-born-vamps are valid if u got bitten later in life you’re not part of the vamp community”
“support vamps who drink human blood, support vamps who drink animal blood, support vamps who drink animal and human blood”
“half bloods who are human presenting don’t belong in the community”
fantasy tumblr would be fucking insufferable
god can you even imagine
“If you only have two legs you’re human-passing and don’t belong in the fantasy community”
“What about satyrs?’
“You can wear shoes”
“Just a reminder that if you appropriate mermaid culture you’re a piece of shit”
“Actually we don’t mind because a lot of our culture comes from humans”
“Shapeshifters aren’t valid because they can be human if they want”
Oh my god it gets worse and worse
Listen Sweaty 🙂 🙂 🙂 Bigfoots and Jersey Devils aren’t REAL mythfolk 🙂 🙂 You r just confuused humans :)))
stop fetishizing incubi
stop fetishizing incubi
stop fetishizing incubi
stop fetishizing incubi
stop fetishizing incubi
stop fetishizing incubi
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Why the FUCK did no one tag me in this
Werewolves are still werewolves no matter what form they’re in. We don’t stop being werewolves when we’re in human form, we don’t stop being werewolves when we’re in wolf form. Stop werewolf erasure!
Listen, I’ve been in a committed relationship with a selkie for over ten years. I can tell you that whole hiding-the-pelt-thing is total bullshit. If he wanted to leave he could, I am not holding him hostage. Please, stop spreading this hurtful misinformation.
In 2013, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predicted the film industry as we know it would “implode” if/when, in the near future, too many wildly expensive blockbuster movies flopped. And if ever there were a year for an implosion on that scale to occur it would be 2018, the year when there are nearly as many major studio tentpole releases as there are weeks in the year. Well, here’s the thing …
2018 will see the release over 40 massive, tentpole movies. There are nearly 20 releases that happen exactly a week apart. This means that Marvel’s Black Panther will have only a week to make most of its money before Pacific Rim 2 steals its audience, which will give the unnamed Marvel/Fox movie a week to make its money before Wreck-It Ralph 2 comes out, which will only have a week before The Flash and/or Tomb Raider comes out, because Warner Bros. is dumb and scheduled two of their own tentpole movies for the same day. And all of those movies will be released in February and March, the two months studios usually use as a landfill to dump the movies they think suck. The year isn’t just crowded; it’s a clusterfuck, and there are going to be big casualties. There are too many massive movies and not enough people to watch them.
just a snapshot of some of the blockbusters being released in 2018 so u can actually see how fucking insane this industry has gotten:
Avengers: Infinity War, Ready Player One, Pacific Rim 2, Aquaman, Toy Story 4, Deadpool 2, Black Panther, The Flash, How To Train Your Dragon 3, Ant-Man And The Wasp, Jurassic World 2, The Predator, Fifty Shades Freed, Jungle Book: Origins, Marry Poppins Returns, Tomb Raider, Alita: Battle Angel, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them 2, The Secret Life Of Pets 2, an animated Spider-Man movie, Hotel Transylvania 3, The Wolf Man, Wreck-It Ralph 2, the Star Wars Han Solo spinoff, the Transformers Bumblebee spinoff, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Gigantic (Disney’s next hand-drawn animated musical). Madagascar 4, Independence Day 3, Gambit (an X-Men spinoff), The Invisible Man, Venom (a Spider-Man spinoff), Uprising (Bryan Singer’s big-budget movie about a war on the goddamn moon),Mission: Impossible 6.
The Many Moods of the Ocean Seen at Eye Level Part I by Che Chorley
Award winning photographer Che Chorley has a deep fascination and affinity for the ocean. Chorley experiments with the temperamental subject in its ephemeral and ever-changing environment. He photographs the ocean during various conditions to capture its wild and irregular beauty.
A paradoxical entity, the ocean is know to be both the calm and the fury of Mother Earth. Violent and serene, its heals, nurtures, feeds, but also destroys all in its way. Chorley captures its multi-faceted behavior at eye level to capture the relationship between the sky’s soft hazy hues, which also change according to the ocean’s mood from gloomy to a cotton candy pink sunrise.
The duality of the sea is expressed through a multitude of images, which display drastic changes of its movement, color and strength. Both a vulnerable and rigorous force, Chorley’s seascapes expose its mighty beauty.
having a nice cozy evening with austen’s letters and her letter to cassandra of 24 may 1813 is so funny to me? she’s going to art showings and facecasting lizzy and jane from portraits—the more things change, etc.
…To my great amusement, Henry and I went to the exhibition in Spring Gardens. It is not thought a good collection, but I was very well pleased, particularly (pray tell Fanny) with a small portrait of Mrs. Bingley, excessively like her. I went in hopes of seeing one of her sister, but there was no Mrs. Darcy. Perhaps, however, I may find her in the great exhibition, which we shall go to if we have time. I have no chance of her in the collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s paintings, which is now showing in Pall Mall, and which we are also to visit.
Mrs. Bingley’s is exactly herself—size, shaped face, features, and sweetness; there never was a greater likeness. She is dressed in a white gown, with green ornaments, which convinces me of what I had always supposed, that green was a favourite colour with her. I dare say Mrs. D. will be in yellow.
and later:
We have been both to the exhibition and Sir J. Reynolds’s, and I am disappointed, for there was nothing like Mrs. D. at either. I can only imagine that Mr. D. prizes any picture of her too much to like it should be exposed to the public eye. I can imagine he would have that sort of feeling—that mixture of love, pride, and delicacy.
This is so fucking adorable.
This is an engraving of the portrait Jane imagined as Jane Bennet-Bingley:
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