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#pride and prejudice #mr bingley #mr darcy #elizabeth bennet #jane austen #my apologies to mr. darcy #because i've made him a disaster gay #he cant talk to girls #be cant talk to boys #absolute disaster with his feelings #i actually have 3 OC's here #yumeship #Bartholomew Joseph Vaughen #B.J. Vaughen #haha his initials are BJ #Sitting here making a jane Austen fic with my Shakespeare sensibilities brain

besotted-with-austen

Fitzwilliam Darcy: *flatly* it is not my fault if others cannot handle a gentleman of high status and proper manners-their hurt feelings are not my concern.

Elizabeth Bennet: do not worry, when a gentleman of high status and proper manners arrives we will call you.

Fitzwilliam Darcy: *shocked, shocked I say* that’s-I-you hurt my feelings!

Elizabeth Bennet: how is that my concern?

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?

waitingforthet

optimysticals

I am laughing so hard I scared the cat.

houseflyy

archy and mehitabel, don marquis (1927)

may12324

Dyke Knights ⚔️

meowmeowpspsps

Reblog and put your evil name a la Darkiplier and Antisepticeye in the tags

#Malekzander

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

claudio would 100% make an AITA post

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

AITA for killing my fiancée?

not as bad at it sounds. i (25M) recently got engaged to this awesome girl (23F) who is probably like the sweetest lady that ever i looked on. my friend (31M) set us up and we just immediately hit it off and pretty soon we were talking about getting married. her dad (55M) and cousin (26F) liked me a lot, i got along with them well, everything was going great until a few days before the wedding. my friend’s brother (29M) came to me privately and basically told me that my fiancée was cheating on me. i could not believe this but we went outside her window THE NIGHT BEFORE OUR WEDDING and i saw her making out with some other guy. obviously i was devastated. i didn’t confront her then because i decided to do it at the wedding. i decided everyone needed to know exactly why i wasn’t marrying her. so when the priest asked if i came to marry this girl I said “no” and explained in front of everyone that she had been cheating on me with absolutely zero shame. obviously i was really upset about this and yelling and kind of pushed her to the ground. she was freaking out and said she had no idea what i was talking about but i literally saw her with my own eyes. she kept telling me she did not know what was going on and she was crying and then she passed out. i left. a few days later i run into another friend (28M) and he tells me that my fiancée fucking DIED after i left the church. how was i supposed to know that would happen???? i thought she just passed out!!! he is FURIOUS about this i guess because now he’s dating my fiancée’s cousin (??) and now my fiancée’s dad wants me to marry his niece (??) to make up for what I’ve done??? tbh guys im really lost but i saw what happened!!! she was literally with another guy!! i feel like i wasnt at fault here.

AITA?

NTA

YTA

NAH

ESH

Voting ended onApr 27

archouai

INFO: did you see her face or just her dress

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

so I actually couldn’t really see her at all but it was her house and the guy was saying her name so like what else would the situation be. lol. like would my friend’s brother lie to me?

5yin

*closed eyes clenched fists* maintain hope maintain hope maintain hope maintain hope

nereies

jane austen, probably, about northanger abbey's catherine morland: she thinks she's in a gothic horror novel, but really she's in a romcom.

toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account

one thing I love about pride and prejudice is that wickham marrying lydia is never portrayed as a "well they deserve each other" situation. even while lydia is loud-mouthed and arrogant and conceited the book still makes clear that she's young and naive about wickham's intent and her running off to marry him is consistently portrayed from elizabeth's point of view as an awful thing. the "joy" and relief surrounding the confirmation of their marriage comes from the fact that it was the only way the situation could have ended in a way perceived as "respectable" and not because it was actually a good thing. for all of her flaws and negative character traits lydia is still a teenage girl being manipulated and groomed by a horrible worthless man and the book doesn't shy away from that. thank you miss austen

wren--bee

There’s a bit more to it- none of which undermines this point! I want that to be clear. Wickham is never treated as “punishment” for Lydia and the fact that many people are taken in by him is important- including another similarly aged character who nearly did what Lydia did, but we are only supposed to see her with sympathy.

But that isn’t the point I want to make. The point is that, in my opinion, there was another good outcome- and that was what Mr Darcy attempted, and that it was doomed before he even could try tells us more about the failure of the Bennet parents.

We are told explicitly- albeit briefly- in Mrs Gardiner’s letter that Mr Darcy tried to get Lydia to leave Wickham and go back to her family. Now, he would of course know that the outcome of that would be massive damage to the family- if, IF her running away with Wickham was public knowledge. But in such a situation the intelligent thing to do would be to avoid rumour spreading. Much harder if she’s left home- but she didn’t, nobody in Meryton would have questioned her absence, nor would it have been weird if she’d come back from seeing family in London. Hiding it would have been very possible- and in the eyes of Mr Darcy, a far better alternative than a young woman being stuck with Wickham.

What Mr Darcy doesn’t know- at the point that Lydia was refusing to go home- was that hiding it would be impossible by then. The Bennets have done as they always do- not handle parenting remotely well. It explicitly says that Mrs Bennet didn’t have the prudence to hold her tongue in front of the servants. I’m of the opinion that the natural expectation from readers of the time would be that the family tries to hide it and that it’s another failure on the part of Mr and Mrs Bennet that that was completely impossible.

Wickham’s behaviour was… you know. He was a 30-ish year old preying on 15/16 year olds. I’m not trying to diminish his actions- rather to paint the scale of how badly failed by her parents Lydia was, and this was just another example of that.

yapodsolnukh-blog

fungi-maestro

Hm. Your interpretation of this character displeases me. Guards! Take them away! Make them read the source material once more, and if that fails, the stocks.