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“Villain” this and “deranged” that. Maybe Lady Macbeth was just trying to have her hot girl summer.

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I’m not like other girls 😊 I have the patronage of the esteemed Lady Catherine de Bourgh

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Realistically I could never get rid of tumblr because it gives me the illusion of a community of strange young women all around my same age, all slowly figuring out how to live too

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This is a totally fair take and there’s a big part of me that believes the Frank x Jane pairing is a storyline from a scrapped plan of Austen’s for a full-fledged story she never got around to writing or decided she couldn’t/wouldn’t for whatever reason.

That being said, I disagree that Emma and Knightley are boring. I adore them. It’s a classic friends-to-lovers trope and considering it’s Austen’s funniest, most outwardly comedic novel, I don’t think they are meant to have all the much opposition. That’s not really what this particular novel is about. I feel like it’s more, “let’s laugh at these privileged idiots miss all the signs they should be a couple and mess things up for their friends in the process. (But of course, it’s Austen, so everything works out for just about everyone in the end, so no hard feelings.)”

Granted, you could argue it’s Austen’s least class-conscious novel and was sort of a bone thrown to her wealthier, more well-to-do fans. She’s like, “fine. here’s a story for you people who have no other worries in the world except which rich person this other rich person will marry. Have fun.” Obviously, I’m totally editorializing Austen here. (She even said she didn’t think anyone but her would even like Emma as a character.)

Yet, in a lot of ways, I think that’s the point. It is for her less class-conscious fans. That’s why there’s a bratty protagonist that ultimately gets humbled. Sure, she gets humbled by her rich friend/husband, but it’s a covert way for these kind of fans of hers to discover themselves in a less than perfect (and less than Romantic - and I mean thematically Romantic…as in Romanticism) heroine. They learn a lesson about potentially humbling themselves without really knowing they do. Sneaky, Jane, sneaky…

Ultimately, I don’t disagree with you—hey, Elizabeth and Darcy are still my fave Austen couple (yes, I’m a basic bitch). For all intents and purposes, some could argue (rightly) that they are the least turmoiled Austen couple and if you’re someone who likes that drama in their period pieces, then, yeah, Emma and Knightley aren’t gonna do it for ya.

Me? I love idiots falling in love. Especially when those idiots have been right next to each other all along.

Least Exciting Austen Pairing

The relationship between Emma and Knightley has always come off as less passionate to me. I think one of the reasons is that they’ve known each other for so long and are already incredibly comfortable with each other. But there also isn’t any risk or sacrifice as there is with all Jane Austen’s other heroines. Edward defies his family to marry Elinor, Dacry goes against family expectations to marry the portionless Elizabeth, Edmund marries his poor cousin and originally his father was dead set against that happening; Henry Tilney goes against his father’s mercenary schemes; and Anne Elliot marries down rank wise and Wentworth marries down in fortune. Emma and Knightley is the only marriage that makes complete practical sense.

In fact, there is basically no one else either Emma or Knightley can marry. Frank Churchill is the only acceptable choice for Emam, but she can’t leave home which makes the alliance impossible. Jane Fairfax is basically the only option presented for Knightley that is even half-acceptable, though she has no fortune. I think the story would be far more romantic if Knightley went for Jane and Emma defied her father to fight for Frank, but of course, that story is happening! Frank defies his family when he proposes to Jane and Jane marries high despite her poverty. The romantic story is not experienced by the main characters.

So instead you have a main character match that is boring and predictable. The prom king marrying the prom queen. Knightley is the richest single man in town (besides Mr. Woodhouse) and he marries the richest single woman in town. It’s so obvious! And if Mr. Woodhouse wasn’t so insanely set in his ways and anxious, there would be zero opposition. I’m sure when word got around town, the residents of Highbury were like, “Yeah, I’m only surprised that didn’t happen 3 years ago. What took them so long?”

Emma and Knightley are dull. Sorry guys.

#Rae rambles #jane austen #Emma #emma x knightley #pride and prejudice #sense and sensibility #Mansfield park #northanger abbey #persuasion

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LEGALLY BLONDE: Elle + Emmett + moments

requested by @allthepurpleroses

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I want to live my life so that I’ll be able to read an in-depth biography about myself in later years and not puke.

Liza Weil as Paris Geller in Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)

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favorite platonic relationships: john murphy and raven reyes “Everyone was so surprised when I stayed behind, most of all me. I thought maybe I was doing it to impress Emori, but the more I think about it… I mean, why do you always have to be the one to sacrifice?”

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Shonda is a unabashed, public Buffy fan. There is NO WAY this is a coincidence.

Just a thought.

#bridgerton #bridgerton season 3 #polin #colin bridgerton #shondaland #shonda rhimes #buffy the vampire slayer #spike #spike btvs #spuffy

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you can literally say anything to men, it doesn’t matter

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If it keeps you from killing yourself it's not stupid. This applies to anything btw.

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This makes me so sad and also I'm trying to remember if any of the Discworld books dealt with late stage capitalism

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realizing that sticking to the "do it bad" "do it scared" mentality implies theres also a "do it bored"

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NOTE TO SELF-SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!

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