The iBetch

quilleth:

faejilly:

lemonsharks:

alogicals:

lawfulgoodness:

roguestorm:

concept: an austen-inspired tabletop rpg where there are five classes

1. single man in possession of a large fortune who is in want of a wife
   
2. young woman with low connections who must marry so that she can secure her future
3. cad whose main goal is to convince someone to elope with him
4. wealthy, scheming woman whose goal is to ruin the happiness of the aforementioned young woman
5. tiresome & vulgar elderly busybody (can be either a man or a woman)

I’m gonna split this out a little farther, because I feel like we’re blurring the lines between classes and stats. First you should pick your Austen class:

• Bachelor/Bachelorette
• Cad / Floozy
• Husband/Wife
• Matriarch/Patriarch
• Busybody

Then you roll for your stats across the 6 basic Abilities:

• Money
  
• Intelligence
• Connections
• Manners
• Looks
• Snark

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I want to write this manual and it’s accompanying Manuals for Scandals, The Ton, Etiquette…..

slytherin-prince-of-cute:

rustybuckett:

socrappyicoulddie:

gentlekingsmen:

hulksmashley:

Literally nothing will ever be as satisfying as the 4 minute long fight sequence in Kingsman: The Secret Service, in which Colin Firth mercilessly wastes an entire Westboro Basptist Church like congregation as the guitar solo from Lynard Skynard’s 1973 anthem Freebird plays in the background.

Originally posted by lewiebaloo

This was the best career move Colin Firth ever made

absolutely fucking iconic

You are all forgetting some thing:

What he says to a member of the Westboro Baptist Churchy Club when he gets up to leave.

“I’m a catholic whore, currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with my black, Jewish boyfriend, who works at a military abortion clinic. So, hail Satan, and have a lovely day, madam.”

And it just makes me fall in love with him more.

seventeeneblack:

It’s honestly so frustrating how rich young socialites like Kendall Jenner, Gigi and Bella Hadid (who’s family friend is Paul Marciano, owner of Guess), and Cara Delevigne (who’s godfather is the president of Conde Nast which owns Vogue) can just wake up one day and decide to be models or designers while there are literally millions of guys and girls with much better walks or more symmetrical faces who work their asses off every day and have to live in crappy studio apartments with five other people just trying to land one gig to pay the rent while these girls just get richer and richer

Same way I know hundreds of amazing musicians who will never get a record deal or noticed at all, while Taylor Swift’s dad is a part owner of the label that ‘discovered’ her.

elucubrare:

mariusgaaazzh:

elucubrare:

thesis statement: modern fantasy is indebted to the Victorian view of the Middle Ages and is as much a continuation of that view as a reaction to it

pls tell us about victorian medievalism ( + fantasy), this is highly relevant to my interests

So what I’m reading right now is Beyond Arthurian Romances: The Reach of Victorian Medievalism, which is a very good collection of essays. The main idea is that Victorians tended to idealize the Middle Ages, especially as an age of faith, but also as an age of heroism. There are two essays on William Morris, whom Tolkien read and whom I’d include among the founders of modern (heroic) fantasy. The first is on Sigurd the Volsung, which is a verse epic based on the Sagas, and it’s definitely about the Middle Ages being a time of epic in contrast to the capitalist, degenerate 19th century. 

Another point is the sanitizing of the Middle Ages; this is where the reaction to the Victorian view comes in. The kind of modern fantasy that thinks it’s being realistically medieval by having dirt and murder and rape is reacting to the “purified” Victorian Middle Ages, but it’s still taking part in the view of the Middle Ages as age of heroes – as opposed to the modern world, where there’s no room to be heroic. 

Both views, the gritty and the sanctified, simplify the Middle Ages, of course; most fantasy tends to try to write a medieval world without the Church or else don’t sincerely believe in their characters’ belief. And Victorians made the Christianity of the Middle Ages the same as Victorian Christianity. 

But in any case, when people write “realistic medieval fantasy,” they’re demystifying the Middle Ages they grew up with, which is still, to some extent, the Middle Ages of Disney (See the book The Disney Middle Ages), which is definitely a derivative of the Victorian view. 

Obviously, it’s hard to get back to what the Middle Ages really were, but it’s not just dirt and grit, and it’s not just knights and ladies; right now we’re on the dirt and grit side of the pendulum, but it’s more like putting dirt on the pretty Victorian paintings of knights and ladies than getting back to primary sources.    

c-bassmeow:

sodomymcscurvylegs:

sodomymcscurvylegs:

The reason most millennials don’t make a scene when an establishment doesn’t treat them right is because we function more on positive reinforcement than negative reinforcement. For Boomers, they can make a scene because they know negative reinforcement gets them what they want; they want to PUNISH these establishments or workers, but Millennial purchasing patterns are very different.

Growing up in the computer age, we’ve become masterful at filtering junk information, and that includes advertising. It doesn’t matter how much a politician or restaurant or whatever memes, we’ll find them funny, but we’re still not going to shop there or give them our money of we dislike them. The way brands become successful with Millennials is actually just word of mouth.

So when an establishment treats us poorly, we don’t make a scene. We simply never go back and don’t tell our friends about it. Conversely, places that treat us well we immediately go tell others about.

The simplest ways to get Millennials to support your business is to give them good economic value for what you sell (Boomers can think we’re irresponsible, but we’re actually quite thrifty), you have to treat us with dignity, but ALSO, you have to treat your WORKERS with dignity. Unlike Boomers who get off on laughing at someone working at McDonald’s, we’ve all had to work shitty, underpaying jobs and we don’t like when we go to an establishment and see workers mistreated and poorly paid, because WE’VE BEEN THERE, and we don’t want to contribute to that gross abuse of the working class.

These rich CEOs can complain that Millennials have “no brand loyalty” or that we’re “killing XYZ industry,” but the truth is that selling to us consistently requires ethical business practices that most of these companies are unwilling to partake in.

Wow I have a degree in economics and studied this stuff for years and years and read up on it all the time and this still impressed me. This was such an enjoyable read and all TRUE. Fuck