If You Are @ed, Do You Need To Respond?

If you are @ed, do you need to respond?

Not at all! To @ someone is simply to open the door to potential conversations, or to let someone know about a post you made, or saw. If you are @ -ed, you don't need to respond unless you want to. There is no more obligation in being @ -ed, than there is in responding to a topic of conversation in real life.

The primary difference is that in real life you might need to change the subject, whereas online you simply need not respond.

I personally don't expect responses to @ -s or asks, it's always nice, but there's a number of reasons why someone might not answer and I only ask if I think it was because tumblr dropped my ask. Which happens a decent amount, but otherwise I'm not concerned.

Obviously I can only speak for myself, but if someone does @ you, you are not obligated to respond.

That mermaid Chase and Omi story idea you mention has me curious, I look forward to it!

Thank you! I'm looking forward to writing it! 😀

Omi, seeing a terrifying shadow pass over him in the middle of the night: AHHHH- Oh, it's just you, Chase Young... *rolls over and goes back to sleep*

If you have small holes in your clothing, those bits of thread can be used to close them. You might need to use more than one bit of thread, of course. But that way there's no waste.

does anyone have any ideas on what to do with the little shreds of embroidery thread snips you have left over from a project when you need to rethread your needle? Like the 3-4 inch bits that are too long to justify throwing away but too short to be usable. I would love a project I can use for these because if feels wrong to throw them away.

maybe this is "grandchild of people who were raised poor during the depression and now hoard everything they receive" behavior but I refuse to apologize for what I"m going to brand as sUsTaInAbIlItY

Could Mr. Bennet have saved money for his daughters?

I am the sort of person who hears that girls would have so many thousand in their fortunes (JA never uses the word “dowry”, fun fact) and I cannot understand how someone with £2000/year makes a £3000 pound lump sum for their daughter. Because my brain doesn’t math very well inside itself. So I made up some tables to see what Mr. Bennet could have done if he was prudent.

First, let’s be realistic, how much can they save? I am giving three different scenarios, £25, £50, and £100 per annum per daughter. £100 each I think might be a little high, since their income is £2000 a year, that would be 25% of their income! I think £50 is well within reason, that would be only £250 per annum and therefore 12% of their income.

I did both 4% and 5% interest. These are both government bonds. I know that both are mentioned in Jane Austen’s works. The 4% might be safer and a better investment for a dowry. But there isn’t a huge difference. Anyway, here is Jane’s dowry, over 21 years:

Even if they saved only £50/year, Jane now has almost £2000 as a dowry. It’s not the £10k worthy of a baronet, but that is certainly a good start! 

If the Bennets tried hard and save £100 per year, she has almost £4000, which is what her mother brought to the marriage. Even the modest £25 per year would give the girls £1000 each by their 21st birthday, which if their father died would be combined with the £1000 stipulated in the marriage articles and give them a comfortable income. Even John Dashwood acknowledges in Sense & Sensibility that increasing his half-sister’s fortunes from £1000 to £2000 would make a big difference in their comfort (and then he doesn’t do it because he and his wife are the worst).

An alternative plan would be to put aside the £4000 that Mrs. Bennet brought into the marriage and only reinvest that income. It does seem that the mother’s money was often locked up in a “life interest” and then given to the children, which is true for the Bennets as well. Just saving the initial £4000 and never adding to it except re-investing the income would have yielded around  £11,00, or £2200 for each daughter.

Also, I really want to know how the son plan would have worked in the first place. Like Mr. Bennet Jr. is going to agree to break the entail and sell off a bunch of his inheritance, when he could just keep the entail and then get the whole pie? Or was the plan just to burden his own son with the care of a mom and five sisters? Not clear. Probably also a bad plan.

I haven't really posted any of my original stuff on here, just fanfiction, but I'm planning on adding my original stuff here soon.

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I mainly write web novels! I have WiPs in other genres/styles as well but web novels get the most of my attention 😁. I'm a freelance editor (formerly for a children's book publisher). I love reading about writing craft and blogging writing journeys and such so anyone that blogs about their creativity hit me uuuup