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@cardsagainsttheregency
You remember Jane Austen? Yeah. I'm not gonna forget her in a hurry, am I? The brains behind the 1810 Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery. Brandy smuggler. Master spy. What a piece of work. She wrote books. Novels. Jane? Austen? Yes! Whoa, bit of a dark horse. Novels, eh? Yes. They were very good. Good Omens (2019-) || Pride and Prejudice (2005)
we need ao3 back up for this person’s grandma specifically
@thebibliosphere
Grandma needs to come hang out, the Austen fandom is thriving on here. Or maybe that's just my little microcosm of Austen fanatics.
not mine but hilarious
OH YES
you know what, i don’t really like this whole thing where mr darcy is actually a baby boy that doesn’t ever mean anything bad, just has poor social skills. i love him, A Lot (he’s literally me), but he is fairly egotistical and thinks high of himself when compared with others around him and can be held accountable for what he says because… well… no one is forcing him to say what he says. if it were just up to his bad social skills (and boy, they are baaaaad) he could have kept quiet and he could have gone without the insults. but he learns. he gets better. the whole bit of the novel is to learn from others and acknowledge your flaws and work on them. it’s not easy, but that’s how it works. i mean, it’s called pride and prejudice and both him and lizzie possess both of those bad qualities. let’s not make it a cute romance story and let all the fitz darcys get away with their shenanigans. they do need to catch up with their gossip girl rewatch first, but they (aka all the people who are like darcy aka me) also need to learn a lesson or two. let them do that.
I agree, but I’ll take it even farther and assert that Darcy does not have bad social skills. He was raised well and learned how to do all the social graces perfectly. He can turn it on whenever he wants.
We see more of this in the novel; even the 5-hour 1995 P&P had to cut some stuff out, and sadly a lot of it is Darcy conversation, showing him being polite, witty, and even flirty. Some of it is also his thoughts, when he notices Caroline and Lady Catherine being rude and thinks poorly of them, even well before he proposes to Elizabeth and undertakes some serious self examination. So, throughout the whole novel, he does know how to conduct himself in society and converse in a pleasing way with others.
This is how he made friends with Bingley. This is why his housekeeper loves him and thinks he’s kind. The key is that he cares about them, so he has no problem talking to them properly.
He doesn’t care about strangers through most of the book because he thinks he’s better than most of them, so he doesn’t put in the effort to be agreeable to them.
But we see that he can when he talks so nicely with the Gardiners at his house. They are strangers to him, but he doesn’t have any trouble speaking “with the greatest civility” to them. It’s because by this point he’s learned that he ought not to be a judgmental dick, not because he’s been practicing having conversations with strangers. In other words, it’s not a new skill he’s learned, it’s an existing skill he’s learned he ought to apply in new situations.
Apart from his truly horrible proposal, I suspect that many people think Darcy lacks social skills and/or has an actual social impairment largely because of this one line he says about himself:
“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.”
Note that he says “talent,” not “skill,” and refers to doing it “easily.” I also don’t have this talent, but that doesn’t mean I have bad social skills. It just means I have to put in effort to do it rather than it coming naturally and easily to me. I know how to do it perfectly well and can choose to do it whenever I want. Same with Mr. Darcy.
Even Wickham admits this! I hate to agree with him on anything, but I think he is being truthful when he says this:
“Mr. Darcy can please where he chooses. He does not want abilities. He can be a conversible companion if he thinks it worth his while. Among those who are at all his equals in consequence, he is a very different man from what he is to the less prosperous. His pride never deserts him; but with the rich he is liberal-minded, just, sincere, rational, honourable, and perhaps agreeable—allowing something for fortune and figure.”
Darcy learns a lot of lessons in the book, but how to socialize with strangers isn’t one of them. Instead, he learns that strangers and people of lower status and/or intelligence than him still deserve his respect and effort as fellow humans.
What a great character arc that is! I agree with OP—let’s not take that away from Darcy nor our illustrious Jane Austen.
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This is doubly hilarious because 1. Is he trying to stop Bingley or 2. Is he trying to push the button first?
#I mean...isn't that the scene where chidi tries to push jason out of the way but accidentally presses the button himself? 😂
@bethanyactually please don’t leave this in the tags; some of us haven’t seen it and would miss the incredibly important addtion
Pride & Prejudice (2005), dir. Joe Wright
We don’t talk enough about how part of Jane falling for Bingley is that he thinks Elizabeth is DOPE AS SHIT and openly loves hanging out with her. Cute nice boy has taken Netherfield at last? Great! Cute nice boy who would legitimately be super stoked if Elizabeth ended up being a spinster aunt who lived with them and taught their children to embroider their cushions very ill indeed as long as she kept laying down sick burns? MARRIAGE MATERIAL.
Post-book Mr. Bingley is ALWAYS excited before parties where Elizabeth will be in attendance, because he knows she is going to make some very unexpected jokes and he will be in STITCHES and also in AWE and yay for loving and supporting at least one of your in-laws.
@zombeesknees
#i mean Bingley genuinely LIKES Darcy#they’re a classic combo of golden retriever and aloof dignified cat#so of course golden retriever Bingley is going to meet Elizabeth and go YES GOOD A NEW CAT FRIEND#DARCY COME MEET MY NEW CAT FRIEND#Darcy: HISSS#Elizabeth: HISSS#Bingley: SEE WE’RE FRIENDS
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sir that’s my emotional support unmarried gentleman with 10,000 a year
Bingley whenever he brings Darcy to a party.
A longing for balls.
Cards Against the Regency: If Jane Austen played Cards Against Humanity.
Rampant, socially-acceptable sexism.
Cards Against the Regency: If Jane Austen played Cards Against Humanity.
The fragility of a woman’s reputation.
The fragility of a man’s manliness.
Cards Against the Regency: If Jane Austen played Cards Against Humanity.
The inability to distinguish between multiple female characters.
Cards Against the Regency: If Jane Austen played Cards Against Humanity.
The overwhelming certainty that you need to get laid, but not being able to do anything about it.
Cards Against the Regency: If Jane Austen played Cards Against Humanity.
Private balls.
Cards Against the Regency: If Jane Austen played Cards Against Humanity.
_______ makes the best dowry.
Cards Against the Regency: If Jane Austen played Cards Against Humanity.
You could marry for love, but _______ is a much better reason.
Cards Against the Regency: If Jane Austen played Cards Against Humanity.
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in _______, must be intolerably stupid.”
Cards Against the Regency: If Jane Austen played Cards Against Humanity.