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Fanfic I write for Beauty and the Beast, Pride and Prejudice, other Austen novels, other Disney films, and other miscellaneous fandoms. Also check the tag #my writing.

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Memes are the foundation of this blog. Go to this list to find subsets of my memes organized by fandom.

Events that I host:

@janeuary-month - annual event for Jane Austen and Regency fanworks

@beauty-beast-week - annual event for Disney Beauty and the Beast fanworks

My sideblogs:

@regency-monster-love - fics and art featuring monsters in the Regency era, including original monster fucking stories I write

@sir-walter-elliot - send asks to Sir Walter Elliot from Persuasion

Tag guide:

#my stuff - all the stuff I make: memes, charts, gifsets, fic, etc.

#my writing - I have a master list of my AO3 fics, each of which has this tag, but this tag also contains stuff that doesn't end up on AO3: WIP snippets, random little ficlets written for asks, etc.

#fic recs - fanfics I like

Last updated: Apr 22, 2025

#the master list was getting way too long so it was time to make a new one splitting stuff up #pinned post #master list #my stuff #my writing #jane austen #pride and prejudice #persuasion #regency #beauty and the beast 1991 #disney

sidefirth

Background Darcy 1/? Pride and Prejudice (1995)

#i love his bitchy slow blink straight into side eye #masterful #fitzwilliam 'mean girl' darcy #pride and prejudice 1995 #mr darcy #colin firth #gifs

itspileofgoodthings

the passage right after Catherine is invited to Northanger and her spirits are rising up and up and up and she’s like “who has known joy like me my best friend is marrying my brother and I get to go spend several weeks in the same house as the boy I like and his sister and that house??? A mysterious old ABBEY” —it’s so true, it’s so funny, it so exactly positions you as a reader to enter into her joy and excitement and also see the ways in which she will inevitably be disappointed.

#i love her #she is so relatable #even though my personality is not much like catherine's #i can relate to that feeling of excitement when everything seems to be going your way and you just feel so lucky you can't hardly stand it #and yes it's so perfect in the context of the story knowing 'uh-oh this is definitely not gonna go well'#catherine morland #northanger abbey #jane austen

dropsofaninkpen

Parenting according to Mr Bennet - Pride and Prejudice (1995)

#god he's so awful #funny yes great character yes but awful as a father and husband #mr bennet #pride and prejudice #pride and prejudice 1995 #jane austen #video

pemberlian

Gratuitous appreciation post for Mr. Darcy's episode four climax curls. Pride and Prejudice (1995)

#gotta love a wet colin firth #pride and prejudice 1995 #mr darcy #colin firth #hair #gifs

bookstofilms

EMMA. dir. Autumn de Wilde | 2020

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.” ― Jane Austen, Emma

#this is actually good advice on its face #which is the brilliance of emma woodhouse #she can reason out very intelligent and persuasive arguments #that are both right and completely wrong at the same time #emma 2020 #emma woodhouse #anya taylor joy #proposals #gifs #emma #jane austen #quotes

#yet another netherfield ball meme but it's such an iconic scene #it's so funny to me that jane and bingley are just vibing having a fantastic time flirting not a care in the world #meanwhile elizabeth is going through the horrors #p&p ch18 #jane austen memes #jane austen #english lit memes #pride and prejudice memes #pride and prejudice #jane bennet #mr bingley #elizabeth bennet #mr darcy #the bennets #my stuff

nick-nellson

Beauty and the Beast (1991) dir. Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise

#so pretty #beauty and the beast 1991 #belle #gifs

yapodsolnukh-blog

#i really like your style op #and how their personalities come through so well without being overdone #fanart #pride and prejudice #mr darcy #mr bingley #jane austen

taijavigilia

“That looks heavy, can I help you with those?”

“Oh yes please could you take a few off the top?”

“No no it’s ok, I can carry them all”

“You’re sure? Well, okay.”

“No problem at all… hngh! …what the… these are actually heavy!”

Something along these lines happens often to many men I know when it comes to laundry baskets and such…. if it looks heavy it probably is.

angstandhappiness

LMAO Girl be having muscles there!

beauty-beast-week

Seems like a cute vignette for someone to write for the “Power” prompt of Day 2 of Beauty and the Beast Week 2026! 💪

#so funny that belle can carry the books more easily than beast #years of practice i guess!#fic ideas #comic #fanart #beauty and the beast 1991 #belle #the beast

hollygl125

Amanda Root + Ciarán Hinds in PERSUASION (1995), dir. Roger Michell

“I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening or never.”

– Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818).

@pscentral event 49: literature

#themmmmm #anne x wentworth #persuasion 1995 #anne elliot #captain wentworth #amanda root #ciaran hinds #hands #kissing #gifs

mistressaccost

so jane austen was inspired by much ado when writing pride and prejudice and of course she’s brilliant and i love her version of the plot and her very original characters. i mean it’s almost unrecognizable because it’s so original. which is why i love her. she took inspiration from the bare bone plot of much ado with the two couples, and then rooted all their problems in her own time period. it would have been so modern and fresh to read it right when it was published!!

but anyway what i’m trying to say is that i would love to live in a universe where i could see jane and bingley play pranks on lizzie and darcy in a hero and claudio type style. it’s just comedy gold.

hamletthedane

Sorry for the rant OP, but this is one of my FAVORITE lit crit topics:

I have written on here many times how much I LOVE that Pride and Prejudice is an adaptation of Much Ado in a kind of stretchy, fanfic-AU sort of way. Austen definitely used the same characters and their dynamics with one another, but she actively adapted the story by giving them all interesting, English Regency versions of their Renaissance Tuscany/London challenges.

My favorite thing is that you see similarities in a) the scandal of an affair with the heroine’s unwed family member, and b) the willingness of the heroine’s “bitter rival” (Benedick/Darcy) to go far beyond what’s expected of him to save her family’s reputation, even when it might hurt his own

In her adaptation, Austen proposes that even if Beatrice/Elizabeth’s family member DID have an extramarital affair, Benedick/Darcy would still be morally obliged to help the family. This differs from Shakespeare, where Benedick believes that Hero is innocent. Sex scandals are therefore key elements in both plots, but Austen really pushes the original narrative to explore what the characters would do if the family member wasn’t innocent and the sex scandal was real. Would Benedick still have the same sense of duty to remedy the situation at great inconvenience/loss to himself? Would that duty be based in his love for Beatrice, or in his sense of ethics? Would Beatrice and Benedick have even fallen in love without their family’s interference?

So like, not only is P&P a wonderful (and very funny) adaptation of Much Ado, it’s also a refreshing, explicit exploration of the themes and issues Shakespeare clearly wanted to introduce to his 16th century audience. P&P doesn’t get to the violent, verbal extremes of “eat his heart in a marketplace” and “kill Claudio,” but it does push the character of Benedick to much more agency and responsibility as a privileged person in relation to Beatrice’s own (lack of) power. And to me, that makes it an exceptionally challenging and effective Regency adaptation of Much Ado.

(But ignore my meta-izing. Let’s talk about what’s really important: Austen preserving the comedy GOLD of suggesting that Benedick/Darcy is painfully in love with Beatrice/Lizzy from the very beginning, and also fucking furious with himself about it)

bethanydelleman

Obviously it's not one to one, but if we consider the Hero/Claudio storyline, Austen split it into two couples and made it way more realistic (in my opinion)

Jane and Bingley represent the Hero/Claudio "love at first sight" and "separated by machinations" sections, but come to a much more satisfying conclusion because Bingley's folly is based on modesty. He never turns on Jane, as Claudio does, instead he leaves her, but out of a belief that she doesn't love him and therefore wouldn't be harmed by it. Their happy ending is happy to (most) of the audience.

The defence of honour plot, Claudio doing wrong by Hero leading to her social doom and her being defended by Benedick, is all transferred to the trickster, Wickham (Don John?) and his victim Lydia (the other half of Hero). The solution still is marriage, but we are not left with this ambiguous nagging wonder if it's ever possible for Hero/Claudio to be happy, we know Wickham/Lydia is a bad marriage, but that Elizabeth & Jane will help their sister and she'll be okay.

I think if Much Ado About Nothing does have a flaw, it's that Claudio doesn't have his heart eaten in the marketplace. That flaw exists in Pride & Prejudice too, to be honest, but Claudio as Wickham doesn't get what he wanted. He has his ambitions of a wealthy match ruined by Darcy. For me, the ending isn't as uncomfortable, because no one is trying to pretend it's a happy one.