Monday Mashup time! There are just too many good quotes from this show to stop at Austen characters only, SO... Jane Eyre characters meet The Office. A thread.š§µ
Edward Rochester: "Any man who says he totally understands women is a fool. Because they are un-understandable."
Blanche Ingram: "I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious."
Mr. Brocklehurst: "I am instituting some changes to make this more like prison."
Mrs. Fairfax: "Edward and Jane? Absolutely not. He is a sophisticated man. He does not need to go dumpster-diving for companionship, OK?"
Jane to Mr. Rochester after the fortune-telling fiasco: "Identity theft is not a joke, Ed! Millions of families suffer EVERY YEAR!"
Adele Varens: "If I don't have some cake soon, I might die."
John Reed: "John Reed does not lose contests, he wins them. Or he quits them because they are unfair."
Richard Mason: "How many people need to get stabbed before we learn a valuable lesson? One? Two? Three? Four? ...No, no, let me finish. Five? Six?"
Jane to Mrs. Reed: "Well, well, well. How the turntables..."
Helen Burns: "You know what they say in the Bible about forgiveness? Forgiveness is next to godliness."
Grace Poole: "I am the toilet of Thornfield Hall. I flush away annoying problems so others can keep their hands clean, and, just like a toilet, I am essential."
Miss Scatcherd: "You know, Jane, in Spain, they often don't even start eating until midnight."
Mrs. Reed: "Who says exactly what they're thinking? What kind of game is that?"
Rosamond Oliver: "I am one of the few people who look hot while eating cupcakes."
Mr. Briggs: "I declare... OBJECTIONNNN! I didn't say it. I declared it."
St. John Rivers: "Through concentration, I can raise and lower my cholesterol at will."
And finally, Bertha Mason: "Should have burned this place down when I had the chance."
The original thread with Jane Austen characters (and a different set of Office quotes):
Me: Yes, Grandma will have real turkey when we go to her house.
3yo: And I will pet him! And him will say "gobble gobble."
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Yes, I told it to him straight: the turkey is dead, it is cooked now, and the only gobbling will be done by us. His response: "and I will eat it all up, and it will be dish-wish-ous!"
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Strong words from a child whose only meat consumption consists of chicken fingers and meatballs but ok
Today's Monday Mashup deviates slightly from our regularly scheduled programming, & considers how the characters of the Anne of Green Gables Cinematic Universe (the films by Kevin Sullivan, that is) would have used the internet, had it been available to 1890s PEI.
A Thread. š§µ
Anne Shirley herself, of course, would be on Tumblr, as it encompasses fanfic, pictures of things that are divinely beautiful, jokes that are dazzlingly clever, and opinions that will make her feel angelically good by comparison.
Matthew Cuthbert would be a lurker on r/farming and r/fashion. Occasionally he would look at a recipe blog for helpful ideas on what to do with 20 pounds of brown sugar.
On the topic of inequality in domestic labor: short thread.
I was recently talking with a friend, a fellow SAHM, about how we both feel that if we aren't doing the lion's share of childcare, housework, & general Mental Home Load, we ought to feel guilty. NOT bc our husbands...
...have ever intentionally made us feel that, but because the circles in which we grew up (variants of conservative evangelical Christian) placed so much emphasis on the importance of being a good wife & mom, who juggles all the "menial" household duties with grace & aplomb. +
We were taught never to nag or argue or "talk back," always to serve, to sacrifice, to pour ourselves out for our husbands & families & church communities. And to a certain extent, this is a reasonable expectation of a follower of Jesus--we're all, regardless of gender, called...
An answer to a question literally no one was asking: what would Jane Austen characters do on Halloween, if that holiday were marked by people of the gentry in Regency England? š§µ
(Please enjoy my truly terrible graphic design skills. Made with love tho š)
First up, ya girl Catherine Morland would be ALL ABOUT haunted mansions. She and your local Gothic hovel of horrors would seem to be MADE for each other!
Mr. Collins would greet trick-or-treaters with affability & condescension. Each child would receive their own personal copy of Fordyce's Sermons and would be advised of the very great honor that had been bestowed on them as they unwittingly walked past the residence of LADY CATHE