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White. Genderfluid. Queer. 🇵🇸Free Palestine. Mental health and Jane Austen memes. Needed some lightness in life.
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An old favourite :)
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
An old favourite :)
Do you feel empathy for the Wickhams and Willoughbys and Mr Eltons and John Thorpes and Mrs Ferrarses and Aunt Norrises of the world? If you do I want you to sit with it and examine why.
September 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Do you feel empathy for the Wickhams and Willoughbys and Mr Eltons and John Thorpes and Mrs Ferrarses and Aunt Norrises of the world? If you do I want you to sit with it and examine why.
When you realize that you set your standards based on Austen heroess
And you remember Austen was happily single and told her niece “Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection.”
And you remember Austen was happily single and told her niece “Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection.”
May 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
When you realize that you set your standards based on Austen heroess
And you remember Austen was happily single and told her niece “Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection.”
And you remember Austen was happily single and told her niece “Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection.”
As a therapist schooling my face is a very important skill… I often wonder if my face is LOUD. I’ve been told I’m maybe better at this than I thought… maybe it’s because I pay so much attention to my face and what it’s doing. Wheee!
#janeaustenfan #janeausten #austentherapy #janeaustenforever
#janeaustenfan #janeausten #austentherapy #janeaustenforever
May 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
As a therapist schooling my face is a very important skill… I often wonder if my face is LOUD. I’ve been told I’m maybe better at this than I thought… maybe it’s because I pay so much attention to my face and what it’s doing. Wheee!
#janeaustenfan #janeausten #austentherapy #janeaustenforever
#janeaustenfan #janeausten #austentherapy #janeaustenforever
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Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth are the hottest Lizzy and Darcy - Fight Me.
April 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth are the hottest Lizzy and Darcy - Fight Me.
April 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I actually prefer tea but since working in mental health I start the day with a cup (or two) of coffee… this was a bad week to try and go back to tea… maybe it will always be a bad week to try the switch. Sigh!
April 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I actually prefer tea but since working in mental health I start the day with a cup (or two) of coffee… this was a bad week to try and go back to tea… maybe it will always be a bad week to try the switch. Sigh!
Aunt Norris might be another character. She not only tries to align herself with power… she uses what little power she has to make Fanny, someone with less power, miserable. She doesn’t gain anything from it, but she creates a narrative where Fanny’s misery is required for her to retain her power.
April 16, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Aunt Norris might be another character. She not only tries to align herself with power… she uses what little power she has to make Fanny, someone with less power, miserable. She doesn’t gain anything from it, but she creates a narrative where Fanny’s misery is required for her to retain her power.
Wake up every morning glad I was able to divorce my Mr Wickham, embrace my inner Fanny Price, and fall in love with the stars and trees!
March 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Wake up every morning glad I was able to divorce my Mr Wickham, embrace my inner Fanny Price, and fall in love with the stars and trees!
Happy Valentines to all the Janeites out there. Remember that love is family, it’s community, and it’s friendship. I hope you have many different forms of love in your life and in your world. ♥️
February 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Happy Valentines to all the Janeites out there. Remember that love is family, it’s community, and it’s friendship. I hope you have many different forms of love in your life and in your world. ♥️
Do you think they know they’re embodying Mr Collins? It’s weird (but not surprising) how mediocre white folks haven’t changed much in 212 years.
January 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Do you think they know they’re embodying Mr Collins? It’s weird (but not surprising) how mediocre white folks haven’t changed much in 212 years.
Posting a day late over here. But Happy belated Birthday Pride and Prejudice!
January 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Posting a day late over here. But Happy belated Birthday Pride and Prejudice!
I appreciate the conversation neurodivergent folks are having right now to say hell no. This is a whyte suprem@cist narrative that we see repeated over and over again. That mental health gets blamed when some individuals cause harm or that neurodivergence is used as an excuse for harm.
January 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I appreciate the conversation neurodivergent folks are having right now to say hell no. This is a whyte suprem@cist narrative that we see repeated over and over again. That mental health gets blamed when some individuals cause harm or that neurodivergence is used as an excuse for harm.
Just some Monday morning thoughts. We could all do to be a little more like Fanny Price. Nature is beautiful and we need to do more to be protecting the world around us. This is a good time (as it always is) to make sure we are listening to, uplifting, and engaging with Indigenous voices.
January 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Just some Monday morning thoughts. We could all do to be a little more like Fanny Price. Nature is beautiful and we need to do more to be protecting the world around us. This is a good time (as it always is) to make sure we are listening to, uplifting, and engaging with Indigenous voices.
It was worth it though…
January 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
It was worth it though…
Please remember that not everyone celebrates the same holidays. Please remember not everyone has access to celebration (both abroad and near you). Please remember to call out your bigoted relatives this year (if you do not fear for you physical or financial security and are generally safe).
December 25, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Please remember that not everyone celebrates the same holidays. Please remember not everyone has access to celebration (both abroad and near you). Please remember to call out your bigoted relatives this year (if you do not fear for you physical or financial security and are generally safe).
Jane Austen is still an amazing space for understanding the complexities of human nature. She wrote about the human experience - the hypocrisy, the heartache, the betrayal, the foolishness, the selfishness, the growth, and the capacities for change.
December 16, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Jane Austen is still an amazing space for understanding the complexities of human nature. She wrote about the human experience - the hypocrisy, the heartache, the betrayal, the foolishness, the selfishness, the growth, and the capacities for change.
Then: Austen wasn’t political!!!
Austen: “What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?”
“Grandeur has but little,” said Elinor, “but wealth has much to do with it.”
Austen: “What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?”
“Grandeur has but little,” said Elinor, “but wealth has much to do with it.”
December 10, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Then: Austen wasn’t political!!!
Austen: “What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?”
“Grandeur has but little,” said Elinor, “but wealth has much to do with it.”
Austen: “What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?”
“Grandeur has but little,” said Elinor, “but wealth has much to do with it.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
What are you currently reading? I’m working one Abhorsen by Garth Nix and Healing the Soul Wound by Eduardo Duran
What are you currently reading? I’m working one Abhorsen by Garth Nix and Healing the Soul Wound by Eduardo Duran
December 6, 2024 at 3:21 AM
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
What are you currently reading? I’m working one Abhorsen by Garth Nix and Healing the Soul Wound by Eduardo Duran
What are you currently reading? I’m working one Abhorsen by Garth Nix and Healing the Soul Wound by Eduardo Duran