No, it's not. P&P&Z is a re-imagining of the original plot, not a sequel. I want to give Elizabeth a gun after the events of the first novel are concluded.
Idk, I haven't actually read P&P since school and I honestly don't remember it all that well, but that's the magic of writing unnecessary sequels to public-domain works. It could be whoever we want it to be.
Lydia comes to Pemberley for a visit, sans her husband because Darcy will not let that man set foot in their house after what he did to Georgiana. And she's just as bubbly as usual, just as chatty. Until Darcy makes his excuses and leaves the two sisters sitting in front of the fire, and after a slight pause Lydia informs Lizzy that she can't imagine how she manages to stay happy with a man so serious and grim as Darcy.
Lizzy, who knows her husband well enough by now, and that he was, in fact, smiling for most of dinner, tells her that they are well suited for each other and she is light enough for both of them.
After another pause, Lydia turns dark serious eyes to her eldest sister and asks in a tremulous, "Is he cruel to you too?"
Because we know George Wickham. We know what he is. He's the man who tried to seduce a fifteen year old girl (Georgiana) for her fortune. He's the man who ran off with Lydia Bennet, then also fifteen and the youngest of five sisters, knowing her family would be forced to give him her dowry and pay for them to marry her or else she'd be ruined. All the sisters would. And Lizzy knew, she knew the man was a rake and a cad. She'd even seen the way he yanked her arm in the carriage that first time they came home after their elopement. But somehow she'd still hoped that he'd try to make her happy. That hope is dead now.
Though not as dead as Wickham's about to be.
It would be quite easy, she thinks, to make it look like a hunting accident. But then she wouldn't get to see the fear in Wickham's eyes. She wants him to know, you see. She wants to watch the charm and bravado drain from his face as he hears the pistol cock and realizes his final fatal error. Because while it might be a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife, there is yet another greater universal truth he failed to recognize.
Don't fuck with the Bennet sisters; they will end you.
when i was in elementary school, i thought that the reason we were supposed to capitalize the first letter of peopleās names was as a sign of respect, so i always refused to capitalize the name of my fourth grade teacher or george bush, because i did not respect them
this was an unpopular take in recent history but i truly believe it is possible to care about your friends and acquaintances and be a good friend while simultaneously hoping their lame ass boyfriend (theres always one) dies in a boating accident or falls into a well or smth
Petition to make this a summer solstice tradition instead, because I need ten hours of sleep to function and at my latitude midsummer nights are shorter than 10 hours. It's 21:10 and still light out there. Fuck the sun.
Old dude came in the shop and when I said "lemme know if you have any questions" he goes "what was the name of Alexander the Great's horse," thinking he was so funny. I told him Bucephalus, and he was so disappointed. Like his whole day was hanging on beating me at trivia. He says "you're only the second person who knew that" and I said "well, probably the third if you count Alexander the Great." He left without buying anything, and did not say goodbye. I think I honestly hurt his weird little feelings! Sorry I'm a bitch, old man!
I had one of these once, bookshop customer randomly challenged me to name, quote, āthe only word in English where two uās are next to each otherā, and when I immediately said āvacuumā he looked disappointed and when I pointed out it isnāt even the only word with two uās next to each other in English and offered ācontinuumā as an example he looked like Iād just punched his ribcage out his back like a Mortal Kombat character
When writing redemptive or villain-to-hero or "person screws up/previously screwed up" narratives, consider using frameworks of redemption that don't fit the standard "badness is wiped out by doing one 'good' act such as dying heroically" or "guilt as equivalent to redemption" systems.
Consider what you see as the point of the redemptive arc or narrative. Not just your goal for "redeeming" or "making good" the character, but the character's goal for changing what they do.
There's a very Christian element to a lot of the ways we talk about redemption, especially in stories: the framework often surrounds a character dying with their guilt lifted from them, often through the nature of their death (see: Kylo Ren's death in The Rise of Skywalker). They have done one act of good and now are dying without the weight of the bad on them, with the usually unspoken implication that this means that they can go to heaven (as is the goal of a lot of Christian viewpoints of redemption/atonement).
Similarly, there's the idea that feeling bad enough for the bad things that were done and no longer doing bad things/now doing good things redeems a character.
None of this is to say that these forms of redemption are bad or necessarily illegitimate, only that they are from very specific religious and narrative traditions but are not the only way to write arcs/character transformations like this.
For example, a form of "making up" for bad things that were done can involve specifically trying to undo the harms that were done by that thing. It's not that "doing good" is enough to make up for "doing bad" but that the goal is to mitigate or reverse specific harms and help the people who were specifically harmed.
That's both a form of action and a potential character goal--it's not that they will be "redeemed" at the end of the story if they do enough harm reduction/reversal but that their goal within the story is to undo their own harms, even if they have to continue past the end of the story.
Another option is for a character to entirely renounce their prior identity and metaphorically no longer be that person anymore. This can be a way of wiping the slate clean, in a way--the harms were committed by the other version of them, and now they are a new person.
There are a million ways to write things like this, and my point is mostly that you shouldn't feel constrained by the common/"standard" Christian forms of redemptive arcs when you're drafting your stories.
love it when people are just a little bit unraveled. hair wisps flying everywhere, wrinkles in yesterday's t-shirt, pockets reserved for useless things only. fingers kissed blue from the last pen that fell in love with you. laugh on the wrong side of raw. smile on the right side of bizarre. bright eyes smeared kohl dark, hungry mouth stained lollipop red. messy messy messy messy. you are blurry like the edges of my favorite old photograph. each second you're born anew. you are beautiful and terrible and the most irreplaceable part of living and i could love you forever and ever and ever
so are there ppl in real life who dont spent all their spare time just thinking about silly little fictional storiesā¦ what do u do when ur listening to music? do u not make amvs in ur head? do u just listen
The movie establishes that the phone lines to the house are down, thatās also why nobody is able to call Kevin at home. The movie also establishes that all of his neighbors are out of town which is why he couldnāt borrow their phones. The movie ALSO BEGINS by introducing the main antagonist as a āpolice officerā which is why Kevin doesnāt trust the cops. Iām so tired of the ignorance. The slander.
Keep in mind that the robbers could have turned around and left at any time. Kevin set up the traps, but they didnāt have to walk into them. They couldāve left and robbed an easier house, but didnāt because they wanted to get the 8-year-old who was beating their asses. At some point, it stopped being about stealing the McCallistersā stuff and started being about killing Kevin, at which point Kevin was justified in doing whatever the hell he wanted to them.
Julie Andrews was known to swear like a sailor in her home life. Her kids set up swear jars everywhere and she had to pay into them every time she swore. They financed a family holiday every year from the jars!
I feel like nobody talks about this but remember Jayās ājob interviewā in the original Men in Black movie? Sure, they play it for comedy, heās a smartass cop surrounded by all these elite military graduates. But he was also literally the only one in the room smart enough to bring the table over so he had something to write on. And he offers it to the other guys too!
And in the shooting test, on the surface it just seems like a goofy joke when he shoots the little girl cutout in the head, but look at the way he responded to the situation.
The test starts immediately without any warning, we can see that everyone is caught off guard. The other candidates immediately open fire on what they perceive to be threats, but Jay takes a second to assess the situation. He sees he isnāt in any immediate danger, and in a handful of seconds heās able to scope out several minor details about the targets and hit one with a near-perfect headshot. Jay showed he was an innovative, quick thinker with situational awareness, attention to detail and high-level marksmanship skills, and they never say it outright but I think thatās probably why Zed picked him. (Zed never actually says anything negative about Jayās performance, just that he has a problem with authority.)
This is highly underrated writing but, then again, this is also the movie where Tommy Lee Jones saysĀ āA person is smart. PeopleĀ are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew Earth was the centre of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat and 15 minutes ago, you knew humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what youāll know tomorrow.ā
Plus, the stuff he says about the alien ātargets?ā You can tell that he isnāt the sort to attack anyone without a DAMN good reason. Which is how we know that the movie is fiction, because an actual cop shoots first and asks questions later.
When Jay is introduced he is running down a fleeing suspect. He chases the guy so long and so far that the MIB are like āWhoa, thatās double-toughā, and I think he threatens to shoot him a couple times, but he never actually shoots him.
In other words, Jay did NOT shoot the fleeing suspect in the back, which 99.99 percent of his coworkers would have done.
I just watched the beginning to check. Jay doesnāt even unholster his gun until the alien pulls a weapon. He doesnāt escalate until the suspect does.
the only thing he shoots is the glass out of a door to continue the pursuit.
not to mention he had the observation skills to identify an alien gun, after seeing it once, for about 2 seconds in the dark, before he even knew aliens were real. Itās easy to miss because Jay spends most of the movie seeming out of his depth with all this alien stuff being so new to him, but heās actually excellent at his job
Having a natural hair color while being fucking nuts is basically just hiding in plain sight. I do not feel the need to advertise whatever is going on here
Once Percy jokingly prays for Poseidon to come to this parent function at New Rome or something and Poseidon... actually comes and everyone's like,,, WHAT THE HELL WHY IS POSEIDON HERE?????!!!
omg amazing.
Also, Percy would 100% regret this. I like to think he didnāt even technically invite him. Heās just rambling in his prayers like āI bet Professor Foyer would stop giving me shit if you showed upā and Poseidon (who has gotten numerous complaints about Professor Foyer via prayers in the past) is just like āletās give it a whirlā and shows up. The following then happened:
- New Rome is FREAKING OUT. Partly bc a major god is here, but also itās Poseidon and Romans are terrified of Neptune so everyone is literally tip-toeing like āIf we donāt move... maybe heāll stay Poseidon and we can at least kept Neptune away. Just...remain...calm....ā
- Percy is baffled. He keeps asking Poseidon what heās doing here but Poseidon is more concerned with figuring out how these mortal schools work
Percy: Uh, dad. You know, mom was going to come to this-
Poseidon: What is a āmidtermā?
Percy: Itās like a final exam, but in the middle of the semester. Did you hear me before? I mean, Iām flattered that youāre here! But, um, also why?
Poseidon, looking around Percyās dorm: Have they imprisoned you?
Percy: What?
Poseidon: This is a prison.
Percy: This is my dorm room.
Poseidon: Not for long.
- So then Poseidon decides to find the chancellor and demand his son gets a better room ( āHe fought in two wars. You could at least give him an apartmentā). Naturally, the chancellor is a Roman who is not going to fuck around with Neptune and agreed. Percy is mortified.
- Poseidon also brings Tyson along, which was a good decision bc Tyson is also the only one keeping Percyās stress levels down.
- However, some Roman said some unkind words towards Tyson and this uh.... did not end well. Weāll leave it there. Poseidon low-key is a PTA parent.
- Percy is pretty āehā about it (he would have taken care of the situation similarly) but he is still getting stressed about literally everything else Poseidon is doing.
Poseidon: This is great work.
Percy: Um, what is?
Poseidon: This... uh, project?
Percy: Dad, I appreciate your confidence in me, but I did not build the student union center.
Poseidon: Nevertheless.
Percy: ...thank you.
- Sally did, indeed, also come and Poseidon is downright delighted to casually be flirting with her on the side. Paul also appears and Poseidon decides to playfully flirt with him too. Percy is wondering if he could just grab Annabeth and leave.
- They run into Frank. Poseidon is THRILLED to officially meet his however-many-greats grandson and insists he ditches his praetor duties and join them.
Frank: Sooooo... how are you doing?
Percy: How does it look like Iām doing?
Frank: Do you know why heās here?
Percy: The Fates are punishing me for somehow living this long
Poseidon, loudly to one of Percyās professors: Heās GREEK! Why would you give him tests in LATIN? Do you WANT him to fail? My grandson is praetor here, you know-
Frank: ...oh no.
- Poseidon does meet Professor Foyer. Percy is terrified about what is going to happen. Poseidon straight up goes āIām getting real tired of getting prayers about youā and yes it gets worse from there. By the end of it, Professor Foyer resigns. Percy briefly considers dropping out.
- Percyās grades are pretty good in New Rome given that it is designed for demigods and stuff (plus Annabeth is a good study partner) and Sally is just SO proud of him (as she should be). Poseidon isnāt too familiar with the grading system but is down to celebrate/brag.
Poseidon: I shouldnāt be surprised that you are the smartest at this school
Percy: Oh. No, I wouldnāt say that-
Poseidon: I knew you could outdo that Athena girl
Percy: NO-
Poseidon: I canāt wait to rub it in Athenaās face
Percy: IāM FAIRLY CERTAIN IT IS ILLEGAL FOR YOU TO EVEN BE HERE RIGHT NOW-
- Before Poseidon leaves, he gives a very generous donation to the school. Percy is just happy the night is over and doesnāt think much of it until later that night when a faculty member comes to talk to him.
Faculty: The administration wants to know when youād like to move?
Percy: Excuse me? Iām not sure what you mean.
Faculty: To the new underwater dorm.
Percy: ...to the what?
Faculty: Your father gave us 5 million denarii to build you a new dorm because he said the one youāre currently in is unacceptable-
Percy: I am so, so, so sorry. You donāt need to do this. I am so sorry. I donāt even know that man-
- Also, Percy learns the next week that he has to resubmit several essays because Poseidon took some back to Atlantis with him. For what? He isnāt sure. He decides to just give in and be flattered that his dad cares lol... but yeah. Heās not telling him about another parent function ever again.
