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inspired by this post

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this is my hand flex

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that’s enough twitter for today 😭💀

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pride and prejudice enjoyers when the main characters make choices based on both their pride and their prejudice

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Pride and Prejudice (2005) + tumblr posts part 2 (part 1 )

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the universal experience of beginning 'pride and prejudice' (2005) with the opinion that matthew macfadyen as mr darcy is perfectly tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt you and ending it bewitched, body and soul.

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pride & prejudice (2005)

joe wright director's commentary

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pride & prejudice (2005)

joe wright director's commentary

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in the 2005 pride and prejudice its so funny that IMMEDIATELY after elizabeth gives him that scathing rejection to obliterate him, darcy instantly almost goes for the kiss like oh my god i’ve been eviscerated pls kiss me under the moonlight

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mr collins is so fuckin funny

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nah cause the fact that jane austen wrote a character like emma woodhouse is still insane to me. she threw all the standards out the window and was like hey, here’s this incredibly complex and nuanced character, she’s selfish, privileged, manipulative and arrogant, but she’s also really fucking kind, she would do anything for those she loves (including sacrificing a lot of her liberties), she is able to admit that she’s made a mistake and grow from it, because those things are not mutually exclusive. and i think the reason why everyone is trying to girlbossify their heroines to make them like lizzie bennet (which is an insult to her character but that’s another story) is because they’re scared to write characters like emma. which is understandable, because she’s unlikeable-ish, and they don’t want to take that risk.

honestly the way jane wrote emma is IMPECCABLE and not everyone can pull it off, but i wish female characters with actual flaws were more popular.

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“First impressions are always unreliable.”

— Franz Kafka

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Pride and Prejudice (2005), dir. Joe Wright.

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I am continually going through Gutenberg’s version of Pride and Prejudice for the fic and the illustrations

Look at these!

Mr. Collins “extending an olive branch” to Mr. Bennet:

Lizzie trying to make up her mind about Darcy vs Whickham after reading Darcy’s letter:

Lydia’s dreams of staying at the camp in Brighton:

Darcy, Caroline and Louisa attempting to drag Bringley away from Jane, and three cupids trying to prevent them:

Lady Catherine going full Lady Catherine: 

They’re by Hugh Thomson, please go look at the others. There’s a list with page links at the start

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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more" is a theme throughout Emma

[ID: text that says "my father told me once to never date anyone who talks smoothly around you from the start because if someone likes you they should be a little nervous and honestly i think that's some of the best advice anyone has ever given me" /end ID]

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more" shows up a few times throughout Emma even before Mr. Knightley proposes. Real love doesn't necessarily look like long dramatic romantic speeches. Sometimes it's, "I'm so in love, I don't know how to say more."

We have Mr. Elton's over-the-top compliments about Emma (that she thought were about Harriet) that didn't fit either of them. Emma thought his showy and saccharine words were ridiculous; "there was a sort of parade in his speeches which was very apt to incline her to laugh." We find out later that Mr. Elton was only wooing out of self-importance. "Sighs and fine words had been given in abundance; but she could hardly devise any set of expressions, or fancy any tone of voice, less allied with real love."

Harriet obsesses about how short Mr. Martin's letter of proposal is, thinking that because it's a short letter, it's a bad letter. It was probably a lovely, succinct, and sincere letter. Even Emma said it was well-written.

And then we have Mr. Knightley who is so overcome and just states plainly that he loves Emma. They're simple words but you know the depths of love that are behind them.

“I cannot make speeches, Emma:” he soon resumed; and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing.—“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am.—You hear nothing but truth from me.—I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.—Bear with the truths I would tell you now, dearest Emma, as well as you have borne with them. The manner, perhaps, may have as little to recommend them. God knows, I have been a very indifferent lover.—But you understand me.—Yes, you see, you understand my feelings—and will return them if you can. At present, I ask only to hear, once to hear your voice.”

And from my own life I can attest, that my then boyfriend (now husband of many years) had a whole speech planned out but when he looked at me, completely blanked out and said on one knee, "You know I love you. Will you marry me?"

Sometimes love isn't long speeches. Sometimes love is a few simple words.

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I would just love to add, the fact that he says 8 and A HALF years. Like you can just tell by the detail of the time frame that he thinks about her so much, to know the exact time frame from then to now speaks so much for his feelings without him ever saying a word. 😭

One of my favourite parts of "Persuasion" is when Frederick says to Anne "You did not use to like cards; but time makes many changes." and then she responds "I am not yet so much changed." and then he says "It is a period, indeed! Eight years and a half is a period!" because this is such an important part of the book. It's when they both truly realise that neither of them is the same as they were 8 years ago. They're not 19 and 23 anymore, but 27 and 31. They both have scars and are more mature with a better understanding of the world and, more importantly, each other. And all part of each of them wants to do is go back to the beginning and rewrite the story from the start so they aren't separated and have to go through over eight years of emotional agony, but they can't, so they have to write a new ending. And they do.