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[mariacallous]

[ellynneversweet]

Darcy’s introduction in Pride and Prejudice is really ‘what if you had just had the worst month of your life because your ex-bestie tried to lover boy scam your baby sister out of her share of your dad’s life insurance and your friend dragged you to a shitty party in a dive bar in the neighbourhood where he’d just signed a short term lease, and you decided to let your bad mood show because you were never going to see any of the assholes in this stupid shitty bar EVER again. And your friend ended up making out with a girl he’d just met there while you were stuck talking to her sister who was less cute and then her mother appeared and started trying to matchmake and started saying how if she was twenty years younger she’d clime you like a redwood and ooooh is that a black Amex, guess the next round is on you hahhahahahaha, while her other sister (how many fucking sisters does she have?!) flashed an obviously fake ID at the bar and ordered six vodka-diet red bulls and no one in her family except the less-cute sister even tried to stop her. And you went home and consoled yourself that you would never see any of these people again but then you met them over and over again because they live next door and your friend and the cute sister keep meeting up to make out but not actually date and then. You fall in love with the less-cute sister because it turns out she’s really witty and charismatic but she already knows and remembers and resents the fact that on a day when you were in a shitty mood you called her mid out loud in a dive bar.’

[wizardarchetypes]

song of the summer (via muco_0 on tiktok)

[enigma-absolute]

You can’t just leave us without translation!

[kirkwallhellmouth]

And have some additional nerdery about the song (includes pictures of the original manuscript—and where a scribe decided to change some notes, but the original notes were still obvious):

Sumer is icumen in / Perspice Christicola: silencing the cuckoo

Sumer is icumen in is the earliest surviving complete English secular song, sung in this article’s video with all six voices indicated in th

[bethanydelleman]

Why do you think Jane Bennet has no accomplishments? It's wild that her less-smart sister, Mary, managed better than she did.

I personally headcanon that Jane has no accomplishments because it took her several years to teach Lydia how to read, but I think there are a few possibilities:

Mrs. Bennet convinced a younger Jane that she could skate through on looks alone, now it's kind of too late

While masters were provided when asked, Jane was too nervous to ask so it wasn't until Elizabeth requested it that a piano teacher was brought in

Jane helped with her sisters and didn't have time to focus on her own education (okay I wrote that twice but I'm kind of convinced)

The Bennet education "system" is very laissez-faire, so very uneven learning would be expected in my opinion. I don't think Jane would have been lazy, but it does seem like she's acquired zero accomplishments and I think a prudent parent would have encouraged her to learn more.

[fortuitousraven]

I think it’s mostly 1, that is definitely the message Mary was taught and I doubt the other girls missed it.

“Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, was always impatient for display.”

Plus Mary, unlike Jane, would have the bonus of things already having been arranged for Elizabeth’s lessons. I think it’s likely Elizabeth just enjoys music more than Jane does, and that is why she was the one who took the initiative to learn.

To be fair, I don’t think Jane had no accomplishments though:

“To Jane herself,” she exclaimed, “there could be no possibility of objection,—all loveliness and goodness as she is! Her understanding excellent, her mind improved, and her manners captivating.”

Darcy even said that that was the most important accomplishment in his snobby list ;)

[everythingfox]

Autumn princess

[everythingfox]

He is browsing the shops for christmas goods

[mephistopheles]

sorry

[contact-guy]

Digging into the Holmes timeline for Reasons and the fact that “a combination of events, into which I need not enter” caused Holmes and Watson to leave London literally DURING Oscar Wilde’s trial for “gross indecency” (aka having a boyfriend)….. Doyle was friends with Wilde…………..I’m connecting the dots

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

Okay, so I wanted to find more information on Doyle’s friendship with Wilde, and I didn’t end up needing to look very far, because I’ve been listening to Stephen Fry’s Sherlock Holmes collection and he brings it up it in the foreword to The Sign of Four.

Doyle and Wilde met at a dinner hosted by an American businessman who wanted them both to write books for his magazine. Wilde immediately won Doyle’s heart by complimenting one of his historical novels, which was especially thrilling for Doyle as Wilde was already famous and he (Doyle) hadn’t expected Wilde to have even heard of him.

They did both end up agreeing to write for the magazine. Doyle wrote The Sign of Four and Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The most interesting part of this whole thing is that Doyle would later go on to gush about Wilde in a memoir written after Wilde’s trial for gross indecency, and in this memoir describes Dorian Gray as “a book that is surely upon a high moral plane.” Which was an incredibly bold stance, given that Dorian Gray was famously cited as evidence against Wilde in his trial.

Fry speculates that some of Holmes’ eccentricities in later books, such as his “murmured elegance of phrasing, dressing gown-lounging bohemian habits, and range of intellectual and artistic reference” may have been inspired by Wilde. He also notes that Langham Hotel, which is was the venue where Wilde and Doyle first met, is name checked in The Sign of Four.

In conclusion, we do NOT ask Holmes and Watson why they left London in 1895.

[wheresthewater]

[Image ID: The “Never Ask a Woman Her Age, A Man His Salary” meme edited so the last panel shows an illustration of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson captioned, “Holmes and Watson, Why they left London in 1895” END ID]

[bethanydelleman]

What sets Pemberley apart from Rosings? Darcy has good taste! My latest post on Always Austen

Why the Tour of Pemberley Matters: Part 2

Pemberley as imagined by Pride & Prejudice 2005 Elizabeth is not mercenary, the tour at Pemberley did not sway her in regards to wealth, but

The other two entries to this series, Part 1 and an explaination of why the portrait at Pemberley is so important:

Why the Tour of Pemberley Matters: Part 1

Pemberley in the 1995 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice It’s funny how often I read people online treating this line from Elizabeth seriously,

Darcy Smiles a Lot Actually (even before Pemberley)

And it’s important to the plot (Darcy is almost always portrayed as very stern, even in illustrations) A friend of mine, Firawren, on Tumblr

[nevver]

Stood with reluctant feet where the brook and river meet, Rebecca Chaperon

[everythingfox]

Disciplined

[bethanydelleman]

I hate being told that I'm a snob, a racist, or a purest for not liking Persuasion 2022. The Jane Austen fandom does contain problematic elements, but to paint everyone who hated that movie with such a broad brush! I am not. Clueless is my favourite Emma adaptation. You can stay true to themes and characters even in a high school modernization. I enjoyed Sense & Sensibility 2024; casting the Dashwood sisters black and John & Fanny Dashwood white felt like it actually meant something instead of a cheap gimmick. Bride & Prejudice is another wonderful modernization that actually did something with different races and cultures, loved that one as well.

Call me naive, but I think the vast majority of Jane Austen fans who hate Persuasion 2022 just think it's a terrible adaptation; a destruction of Anne's character and therefore the entire narrative; and a bad movie. It's not that deep, it's just a horrible movie.

The only widely said fandom comment that I really see as problematic is that one about Dakota Johnson having a face "that has seen an iphone" because it seems vaguely sexist in a way I can't quite articulate. Can we protest a movie without resorting to attacks on a woman's appearance?

[smolfangirl]

I'm astonished people think we hate that movie for the colorblind casting. The actors of color all did a great job! (I will say I think there are downsides to casting people of color as sailors in Regency times, given the navy's role in colonialism, but that's a nuanced discussion with no purely right or wrong outcome imo)

When I complain about this movie, it's not because of colorblind casting lol. It's because it completely butchers the characterization of Anne, doesn't understand what the novel is about and why it appeals to readers, and wants to be a period movie without wanting to actually create a period movie.

As to Dakota Johnson... for me she does have "an iPhone face". She's conveniently beautiful in a way that, in combination with the very modern styling and directing of and acting by her in the movie, ruins my immersion. It seems to me like another example of Hollywood being unable to grasp the concept of different beauty ideals. Regency beauty ideals were different, no way around that, and I'd like to see that reflected in the casting. Or - if they're hellbent on casting someone who fits modern ideals, at least give me accurate styling. Then I don't think I'd mind the "iPhone face" half as much...

[whatthewatergaveher]

finished reading PnP and now i officially hate all the literary references that modern romances (like The Fine Print) make to PnP. Like no. Darcy was not a cold-hearted, empathy-devoid asshole like your male lead, maam. He was a little awkward, obstinate, prideful and *successfully* reflects that by HIMSELF and works on himself, not just to get the girl, but because thats what good men do.

Seriously, the only modern PnP reference i like anymore is probably like, good omens or something.

[indie-navarrete]

Clueless // 1995 — Cher, Tai, & Dionne

[firawren]

Sense and Sensibility 1995 text posts

[janefrigginausten]

What book from my TBR should I begin reading this week?

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The Watsons, Lady Susan, and Sanditon by Jane Austen

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Voting ended onApr 3, 2025

[dabeth-is-dead]

"I am ready to fall in love with any woman who wants to love me and isn't Anne Elliot," said Captain Wentworth, lying to both the audience and himself all at once

[literaturevalkyrie]

Reading Jane Austen and thinking, 'woah. Fresh breath, the way she writes romance. Love as not just an emotion, but a choice. Kindness being the most precious qualities.' And then realizing her stories are centuries old.

Her works were way ahead of her time. They understood what most people still fail to grasp these days. Just. Timeless.