Get in losers, we're gonna bust some corset myths. A🧵

Myth 1: not necessarily in so many words but visual! In the gif below we see a woman self-cinching a corset with, apparently, no chemise underneath (to protect the corset from sweat and to protect the skin from chafing)...

https://twitter.com/sewistwrites/status/1782379923866280221

Or if she does have a chemise, it's not high enough to protect her/the edge of the corset. This is a common mistake in "historical" fiction films and artwork. Corsets were not worn next to bare skin!

The next one is a continuation of What's Wrong With That Gif.

How Jane Austen Characters Would React to a Solar Eclipse (A Historical Impossibility*). A thread. 🧵

Marianne Dashwood would be quoting "Arise, fair sun, & kill the envious moon / Who is already sick & pale with grief" until every body present was sick & pale with hearing it Mr. Darcy would not be in humor to give consequence to any sun so slighted by the moon, thank you.

Jane Austen characters × The Princess Bride quotes: an inconceivable Monday Mashup. A thread. 🧵

Elizabeth Bennet to Lady Catherine: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Mr. Palmer to Mrs. Palmer: "Am I going mad or did the word 'think' escape your lips?"

Jane Austen characters × Napoleon Dynamite quotes. A tater-tot-worthy thread. 🧵

Mr. Bingley: "Jane is *the* best thing that has ever happened to me. I'm 100% positive she's my soul mate. Don't worry Fitzwilliam, I'm sure there's a babe out there for you too. Peace out." Mr. Woodhouse to Mrs. Bates: "I see you're drinking 1%. Is that 'cause you think you're fat? 'Cause you're not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to."

1 like = 1 Jane-Austen-related opinion that no one asked for. Well, technically you asked for it. By clicking the like button 1. Fanny Price is not a prig; she's shy, awkward, and deeply principled to the point of scrupulosity.

Happy Presidents' Day! In honor of the holiday I have chosen a series of Bluey quotes to mash up with various US presidents. This is not serious commentary on any executive. Don't get weird in the comments and make me bring out the cone of shame.

Okay! Here we go. A thread. 🧵 John F. Kennedy to Alan Shepard: "You're a space invader!"

A thread of my favorite Jane Austen film adaptations and why I prefer each one. 🧵

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - 1995, hands down. No hate to 2005 but that one simply does not do it for me. I need detail. I need book-accuracy. I need elegance and beauty. I could do without the lake. SENSE & SENSIBILITY - my favorite Austen novel! The 1995 movie (script, cast, costumes, vibes) and 2008 miniseries (dedication to all the novel's subplots) are tied in my mind, with the tiniest of edges to 1995.

Jane Austen* Recaps 2023 Twitter Drama

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The people of the Internet had long been settled at Twitter. But it is a truth universally acknowledged that a thrice-divorced man with a large fortune must be in want of a platform to bedevil.

*as her spirit revealed to me in a dream Thus it was that after the purchase of the web site for an outlandish sum, Mr. Musk demanded that all and sundry refer to the web site henceforth as "X." As the general population of Twitter are a wild, Beastly folk, no attention whatever was paid to this direction.

Jane Austen characters, but as classic Christmas movie quotes. A thread. 🧵

Elizabeth Bennet to Mr. Darcy: "Your brain is full of spiders, you have garlic in your soul. I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole." Mr. Knightley to Emma: "Why don't I kiss you instead of talking you to death?"

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.🧵

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."

3yo: I want to have a real turkey on Fanksgiving

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."

😬 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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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. 🧵 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.

I'm a day late for the Monday Mashup, but I am HERE today with the human form of the 💯 emoji: Jane Austen characters × Brooklyn 99 quotes.

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John Willoughby: "You should make me your campaign manager. I was born for politics. I have great hair and I love lying." Harriet Smith (reading improving literature): "Your theory is wrong. The Greeks did not climb out of the Trojan horse's butt."

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. +

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? 🧵

(Please enjoy my truly terrible graphic design skills. Made with love tho 💕) 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!

This week it's a 2-for-1 mashup! Couldn't decide between Parks and Recreation or The Office, so I did both. A Jane Austen × Parks & Rec 🧵

Mr. Darcy: "When people get too chummy with me, I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don't care about them." Marianne Dashwood: "Oh, I have a medical condition, all right. It's called CARING TOO MUCH! And it's INCURABLE!"

It's time for another Jane Austen mashup thread-- with quotes from The Office! Happy Monday!

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Elinor Dashwood: "Before I do anything I ask myself, 'Would an idiot do that?' And if the answer is yes, I do not do that thing." Mr. Elton: "This one has sort of an oaky afterbirth."

If Jane Austen Characters Used the Internet: A Thread (Part Two)

Colonel Brandon would have a blog, which everybody spoke highly of, and no one remembered to subscribe to. Emma and Mr. Knightley would spend all their movie nights glued to IMDb, arguing over where they'd seen that actor before.

How Jane Austen Characters Would Use the Internet (If It Somehow Became Available to Regency England): A Thread. 🧵

Mrs. Bennet, when not stalking Zillow, would have multiple profiles for each of her daughters on Tinder, and struggle to understand the concept of "catfishing." John Willoughby would also be on Tinder, where he invented the concept of catfishing.

Jane Austen characters, but make them Bluey quotes. A non-exhaustive thread.

Mr. Bennet: "Magic Claw has no children. His days are free and easy." Lydia Bennet: "I don't want a valuable life lesson. I just want ice cream."

A thread on working women's clothes during the American Civil War-- or, if you will, Get Ready With Me for a living history program as a lower-middle-class Pennsylvania soldier's wife in 1863. Summer clothing specifically.

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Getting dressed for even a hot day involves lots of layers. The first step is stockings and boots. If you aren't accustomed to wearing a corset every day, lacing up boots can be easier pre-corset. I have yet to find historical documentation for this "reenactorism," though, and