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I rambled about this a few years ago (and more briefly, also a few days ago), but another P&P thing that I find ultimately very charming is the quiet development of a connection between Jane and Darcy. This is partially very subjective, but also partially … less so.

Anyway:

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#Pride and Prejudice #Jane Bennet #Fitzwilliam Darcy

saltdust-crusader

tbh if you think that "slop" is a societal problem i'm gonna assume you're some kind of nazi

saltdust-crusader

like the whole "slop" thing is literally just the nazi "degenerate art" discourse but slightly rephrased. the talking points aren't even different and the people who coined the phrase literally were nazis and were explicitly blaming it on jews

bethanydelleman

To understand Mansfield Park and Henry Crawford, you must accept that for many men in his time period, sex and love could be completely separate in their heads and Jane Austen, while she definitely didn't agree with this, knew it was a real way of thinking and presents it as such.

Henry loving Fanny is confirmed by the narrator and without irony. He loved her, "rationally and passionately". He also slept with another woman. To him, this is entirely compatible:

He was entangled by his own vanity, with as little excuse of love as possible, and without the smallest inconstancy of mind towards her cousin.

This view is confirmed in In The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer, where the author explains that in that time period, visiting a prostitute for "just sex" was seen as morally better than having a mistress, because it interfered with the emotional bond of a marriage.

Mary Crawford knows this and is expecting it to happen to her, just like it did to her aunt. She is cynically hoping that at least whomever she marries is rich and discreet. It is only in Edmund that she learns to hope for better:

for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir-apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her £20,000, any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learned to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head.

This is a conflict between city/country morals, which has been a theme throughout the entire novel, but it doesn't undermine Henry's claim of love, only the quality of his ethics.

#Mansfield Park

mieliz

Elizabeth Bennet fanart in an art nouveau style - watercolour and ink

Inspired by the ‘95 miniseries design (the only true adaptation yes I will die on this hill)

Prints available!

#Pride and Prejudice #Elizabeth Bennet

firawren

Mr. Bennet: Sure, I haven't taken care of my daughters' financial security, but have I at least taken care of their education? No. But have I taken care of their emotional needs? Also no. But have I been a good protector and supervisor? I'm afraid not. However, have I been a good example for my children of being a kind and respectful spouse, parent, and all around human being? No again. But through it all, have I nailed being funny? Yes. And isn't that the most important role of a father after all?

firawren

I occasionally get people in the tags thinking this is a defense of Mrs. Bennet.

It is not.

Mrs. Bennet sucks too.

The most recent example that a few people have added:

She is not hauling ass. (And poverty is an exaggeration, they'll have £250/year.)

She is screaming "The house is on fire!" while she herself pours more gasoline on it and does not call the fire department even though the cell phone is in her hand.

She says she wants her girls to get married. What effort has she contributed to this goal? Let's review.

❌ She has done nothing to raise her girls to have good manners, accomplishments, or education that would attract good men.

❌ She has done nothing to save money for her girls, again to either attract husbands or protect them if they never marry. (And they were rich, saving would have been very easy, but she and her husband were too selfish and lazy to do it.)

✅ She buys her girls dresses and ⚠️takes them to parties. That is literally it. The only thing she does to help them, and she does it so poorly that she actually makes things worse for them with her poor manners and management of her younger girls.

This isn't even getting into how abysmally she does as a mother in terms of loving, understanding, supporting, and guiding her children in aspects of their lives outside getting married...

She hurts her girls just as much as her husband, just in somewhat different ways.

TL;DR:

Mr. Bennet sucks 🤝 Mrs. Bennet sucks

#Pride and Prejudice #Mr. Bennet #Mrs. Bennet

aqua-regia009

Catherine Morland reading “The Mysteries of Udolpho” Illustration from the 1833 Bentley Edition of Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey (Artist unknown)

#Northanger Abbey #Catherine Morland

“#when people ask me to write Darcy's reaction to Elizabeth telling him she is with child#I'm so so sorry but no” infertility win

(i unironically think that would lead to a very interesting direction for both characters especially bc darcy probably always had the belief that he would father an heir but i know it wasn’t the intention since in this setting and class of people happiness for a couple was defined by having at least one child unfortunately)

oooh, this is such a good & crunchy fic idea

#Anonymous

fluentisonus

sometimes you're genuinely interested in fictional hets but the fan conception of their getting together is so dire & scary [heterosexually married with babies etc] that you genuinely start to feel it would be a happier ending to you if they just died in each other's arms instead

fluentisonus

[about a fictional man i really like & even think is good with the woman in question] i need to kill him before he can get her pregnant

#when people ask me to write Darcy's reaction to Elizabeth telling him she is with child #I'm so so sorry but no

catilinas

*erodes cutely*

dateamonster

can we send up a quick thank you to pdf uploaders, torrent seeders, copy sharers, scanlators, fansubbers, digitizers, paywall dodgers, and various other internet archivers for making niche art and information more accessible in a media landscape where all but the most profitable mainstream are often tossed aside and left to rot

baradragon

speaking from a place of privilege (good url)

charminglygrouped

I recently read a P&P fic set during the French Revolution where Darcy gave Elizabeth a choice that effectively boiled down to "have sex with me tonight or die." at the risk of repeating myself—I don't know what guy you're writing about but it is not Fitzwilliam Darcy

charminglygrouped

Fitzwilliam "or do I ask too much" Darcy? Fitzwilliam "what may, in a mistaken light, have given you uneasiness" Darcy? Fitzwilliam "but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever" Darcy? that Fitzwilliam Darcy?

#Pride and Prejudice #JAFF

ferrantte

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I recently read a P&P fic set during the French Revolution where Darcy gave Elizabeth a choice that effectively boiled down to "have sex with me tonight or die." at the risk of repeating myself—I don't know what guy you're writing about but it is not Fitzwilliam Darcy

animentality

pawpunkao3

(Image description: a screenshot of a tweet by @caranthirs reading "it's very important from a narrative perspective that a story's plot ultimately makes use of the things it introduces like for example if you introduce a beautiful man he should be on his knees sobbing at some point or else it just seems pointless to have included him". End description.)

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