In Chapter 10 of Pride and Prejudice, when out walking with Darcy, holding his arm, Caroline Bingley rudely abuses Elizabeth and her connections. Mrs Hurst, arriving with Elizabeth, takes Darcy’s free arm, therby effectively and rudely separating Elizabeth from the “In-Crowd’ as the path “will not admit a fourth”:
At that moment they were met from another walk by Mrs. Hurst and Elizabeth herself.
“I did not know that you intended to walk,” said Miss Bingley, in some confusion, lest they had been overheard.
“You used us abominably ill,” answered Mrs. Hurst, “running away without telling us that you were coming out.”
Then, taking the disengaged arm of Mr. Darcy, she left Elizabeth to walk by herself. The path just admitted three. Mr. Darcy felt their rudeness and immediately said, —
“This walk is not wide enough for our party. We had better go into the avenue.”
But Elizabeth, who had not the least inclination to remain with them, laughingly answered, —
“No, no; stay where you are. You are charmingly grouped, and appear to uncommon advantage. The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth. Good-bye.”
She then ran gaily off, rejoicing, as she rambled about, in the hope of being at home again in a day or two. Jane was already so much recovered as to intend leaving her room for a couple of hours that evening.
Here we have Jane Austen her allowing her heroine an opportunity for getting her revenge on the Bingley sisters for their continued rudeness to her. Elizabeth is quite clearly referring to a passage from Gilpin’s Observations on Cumberland and Westmorland. In Volume II Section XXXI he waxes lyrical on the picturesque qualities of the domesticated animals normally to be found in the English countryside; that is, horses, sheep and cows. This is what he has to say about the grouping of cows:
Cattle are so large that when they ornament a foreground, a few are sufficient. Two cows will hardly combine Three make a good group- either united- or when one is a little removed from the other two. If you increase the group beyond three; one of more in proportion must necessarily be a little detached. This detachment prevents heaviness and adds variety…
As you can see from his illustration of this group of cows, three is the magic number as far as he was concerned. A fourth has to be some distance off otherwise it spoils the picturesque.
By allowing Elizabeth to make this one little, seemingly innocent remark (and escape from Darcy and the Bingley sisters in the process) Jane Austen demonstrates that despite the efforts of Mrs Bennet to hinder her education, Elizabeth has, by the advantage of her extensive reading, more awareness of the principles of the picturesque than of the expensively educated ladies before her. As a man of taste and education Darcy is most probably aware of the source for her reference and cannot but be impressed by it. He also knew that she was referring to them as a group of three….cows.
Game set and match to Elizabeth Bennet walking swiftly in the opposite direction…
Second, this means any poor person with a phone and the new Burger King app can literally get food for a penny just by going to McDonalds, which is probably a goddamn lifesaver if you’re regularly worried about where your next meal is coming from
This lasts until December 12, 2018
So, yeah. Save some cash and stay fed.
I have no idea where I”m moving internet-wise yet, so I’ll be hanging around until I’m baleted or I do drift off somewhere else. For now, if you’d like to keep in touch, shoot me a message for my discord or my email?
For the sake of moving your stuff to other places.
First, consider backing up your blog. They’ll send you a back up of every single post on your blog in a file via email, though it takes some time and be a really big file for some. You might not need or want it, depending on your blogging style.
Tumblr Original Post Finder (jetblackcode.com/TumblrOriginalPostFinder/) ((not linked for obvious reasons for tblr’s censoring))
It will look like this when you type in your URL and press enter.
You can then go through and see which ones you’d want to save, or you can go back and filter by number of notes (for example, it can find all posts with 10+ or 100+ notes or whatever you desire). I plan on saving them to a document in order to post later to alternative websites, wherever we end up moving.
There’s not a lot of ways to speed the process up, but this is what I have. I hope it helps.
Honestly, as a librarian interested in archives, it’s not really the potential loss of the platform for future interactions that worries me, it’s the loss of content. Especially from a fandom perspective, the idea of people’s meta, edits, etc. not carrying over, and the lack of conversation history, is just really sad. Specifically for us in the BS fandom, what happens to people’s past doodles of Flint that we’ve left comments on, conversations we’ve had about symbolism and parallels between flashbacks and present, etc. I don’t really care about moving to a new platform so much as I care about starting over at year 0 content-wise. Like, yes, we can personally back up our own stuff, but that doesn’t really do anything for the fan community as a whole (which is really the point of it all to begin with). Migration as it stands now feels like we’re opening a new library with no books in it published before December 2018, and I don’t like it.
I should clarify that, yes, there are absolutely tools for an individual user to backup their content. But that isn’t a specific solution to the problem I’m trying to articulate. The issue is the loss of the communal archive as it exists in its present form. Right now, everybody’s meta, edits, memes, etc are in one place (tumblr) where they can be discovered, circulated, etc.
Sure, we can all archive our own content and keep it stored, but in order for it to continue being discoverable and shareable, there would have to a coordinated effort that saw the entire fan base backing up content, collectively choosing a single new venue to host it, and then uploading/resharing that content in a massive coordinated effort.
My concern is not that we can’t back up or content, it’s that the content is being decentralised. Imagine an open office space that suddenly gets shut down. Everybody walks out with their stuff in a box. Half the people put that box in their basement and never open it. Another half take the box with them to a variety of different new jobs, scattered all over the place. In order for my problem to be solved, everyone would have to get a job at another open office location and agree to bring all of their belongings with them to put back out on their desks, which is at best difficult and at most incredibly unlikely.
I know backups can be made, but it’s the inability to recreate the communal archive that concerns me.
Oh geez, this isn’t half the story. Buckle up kids. This is wild.
The inventor is Paul Winchell, who started off doing Dummy shows on the radio. His star rises, TV happens, and he enters a dancing contest where he WON AGAINST RICARDO MONTALBALN.
Mr. Montalbaln was SO IMPRESSED that he invited Paul Winchell to dinner. At dinner he was seated next to A PRE FAME DR HEIMLICH.
YES. OF THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER.
They hit it off and somehow Paul Winchell is invited to watch Heimlich and others do operations.
AGAIN, HE’S A VENTRILOQUIST AND A HOST OF THINGS. I DON’T KNOW HOW HE WON THE DANCE CONTEST THAT STARTED THIS THING.
Which leads to the following conversation.
Winchell: Hey, what if someone invented an artificial heart so someone can get blood pumped during surgery.
Heimlich: That would be a swell idea.
W: So, uh, as I make my own dummies, a heart can’t be too different.
H: I guess? It’s worth a shot.
W: And as I don’t know anything about, well, how hearts work. Can you answer any questions and help out to make sure it’s all correct?
H: I’d be delighted!
Cue a LONG time working on this. And while Winchell EVENTUALLY gets it patent-worthy (at Hemlich’s suggestion) it can’t actually, well, work. The battery it takes to run it was too large and burnt out easily.
But all modern artifical hearts are based on that design.
Again, this started when a VENTRILOQUIST BEAT AN ACCOMPLISHED DANCER IN A DANCE CONTEST.
(Paul Winchell has several other patents including: a disposable razor, a plasma defroster, and did a lot of work for the Leukemia Foundation and the red cross. He also did attempt to get a medical degree later and did some medical hypnosis)
Spread this message. If you’ve had content flagged you need to check if Tumblr has muted your blog. Your posts will still show up on the dash of followers but your most recent posts will be from hours ago (up to 48 hours prior) on your actual blog URL. Make a test post and post it to your blog. Go to your blog url in an incognito window and see if the post you just made can be seen. If it can you’re good. If not Tumblr has muted your blog.
Okay, so if you’ve noticed that when you go to your front page, a lot of old posts are randomly resurfacing and your new posts are getting buried under them no matter what you do, there’s a REALLY EASY fix for it!
Just go into the resurfaced old post, and edit it in some way. In my case, I added a tag that said “test”. Any kind of edit to the post will be fine as long as you save the changes. Edit: You might not even have to edit it! Just save the post again. If you have Xkit’s mass post tagger that might work as well? I didn’t test it.
Then I reloaded my front page and behold! The old post was back in my archives where it belonged!
(Incidentally, if the theory that this behavior is caused by posts getting flagged and unflagged, then you can see which posts of mine tumblr’s bot thought were nsfw by looking at the test tag)
oh hallelujah, it worked!
And yeah, all I did was hit “edit”, and then “save” without doing anything else to the posts. then when i reloaded my blog, it had taken them off the front page.
I thought about this all day today and I just wanted to let it out in comic form (becoming longer then I originally thought it would be). So, I doodled it up really quickly.
Plot Designing 