Sep 26, 2019
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I think I like Persuasion better than Pride and Prejudice, it has something very humanly ridiculous about it that makes the characters more likeable.
Half of them are just lowkey caricatures of everyday life extended family dynamics, and the other half are caricatures of snobby brits and it’s great.
Ah, to think that within the next year episode IX will have come and gone, its peak heyday will be a thing of the past, and hopefully most of the Shipping Discourse (TM) finally dying with it!
Oh joyous occasion, oh wonderful day, when we get back to the usual cesspit levels of being part of the Star Wars fandom, without any of these extra trimmings.
2019 reading challenge
I completed my 2019 reading challenge with 54 books: here they are!
It was the first time in years that I upped my yearly amount from 24 books and I’m pretty pleased. :)
Check out my goodreads profile if anyone wants to be pals there, I love seeing book recommendations!
Rewatching The Last Jedi on TV and I am really fond of that scene where Yoda and Luke sit down together against the bonfire of the vaguely Jedi Order-shaped tree library.
Very cosy, very visually pleasing.
I’m generally very fond of the muppetesque liddol creacher charm of Yoda.
Reading David Copperfield and Titus Groan at the same time, and I feel Uriah Heep and Steerpike are basically the same character, but one is stuck scheming in a realistic period drama while the other gets to discover rooftop parkour.
I think I actually like the younger Mr Elliot from Persuasion.
1) Some of the things which are presented as awful in the book, like how he talks disparagingly about his family name and thinks poorly of his frankly silly relatives, well, all that is not such a bad or unusual thing at all in modern times.
2) His whole scheme was apparently a ploy to secure his position as the heir by either a) marrying Anne so he can supposedly watch his uncle’s decision-making more closely, or b) by doing away with the risk of his uncle marrying the cunning young widow who is hanging around them.
But then Anne basically ignores/rejects him, and instead of him marrying Anne’s sister (who actually is a way better choice if you’re looking at his mercenary motives), he... runs off with his uncle’s potential lover.
3) Now, you’d think he’d later leave his new lover after she was done being useful, and it would provide a Firm Regency Moral about why it’s bad to go off with a sneaky gentleman, but no.
The two of them apparently stay together from then on. And it’s hinted they might actually marry one day, depending on whose superior cunning prevails. It is a form of his ‘n’ hers matching towels, a male/female complementary slyness.
Antagonist love. Aww. It’s... really kinda cute.
One thing that isn’t necessarily any indicator of a good or bad story, but that I keep thinking about, is this:
If a story has a group of characters with cool abilities/unique traits, and a group of ‘ordinary’ characters, are the ‘ordinary’ characters written as equally interesting and complex as the ‘special’ characters?