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bookhoarding · 1 year

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#16DaysOfJane is back! Post anywhere you want about Jane Austen as a lead up to her birthday using these prompts and hashtag.

Reminder that you can have fun with this, are not limited to the prompts being used the day in order, and if you’re racist (or support racist orgs) you should not participate.

[ID: Dec. 1 - First Dec. 2 - Potatoes Dec. 3 - Letters Dec. 4 - Love Dec. 5 - Hate Dec. 6 - Favorite Dec. 7 - Adaptation  Dec. 8 - Gothic Dec. 9 - TBR Dec. 10 - Rakes Dec. 11 - Family Dec. 12 - #IntersectionalAusten Dec. 13 - Dance Dec. 14 - Quote Dec. 15 - Freindship (not a typo) Dec. 16 - Last]

#jane austen quote #jane austen fans #jane austen books #jane austen humor #jane austen fan #jane austen #jane austen letters #16daysofjane #bookhoarding #books

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highwaydiamonds · 2 years

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#jane austen humor #austen related #jane austen #made me giggle - the once in a blue moon i look on reddit #bookish humor #i would also like to note i would be very happy with a frederick wentworth or a henry tilney ...#or even an edward ferrars or colonel branndon #oh and i guess george knightley would be okay too #though the first three are my faves - wentworth are more of the strong and somewhat quieter types #i do love henry's wit and sociability - and the way he helps guide catherine

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thatscarletflycatcher · 2 months

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The @hotjaneaustenmenpoll tournament has inspired me to finally write this post, this more than a post, this bit of FUNDAMENTAL Austen adaptation research.

It is well known that there was a Mansfield Park adaptation in 2007, for which the reception went from "eh?" to "huh?", but what most people around here probably don't know, is that this was the cover for the DVD release in Spain:

And you'll naturally ask, who is that handsome blonde man on the right? He definitely isn't Michelle Ryan, we know what she looks like.

He's Baddeley. The butler. The butler at Mansfield Park. Emma's 2020 class commentary this, and Emma 1996 (ITV) social commentary that, but has any of them put a servant on the cover? Thought so. And people have the gall of calling this a bad, unfaithful adaptation :P

So, in honor of Baddeley and his being the only servant I can think of in the Austen canon of whom we have some pov writing, and what is better, that pov is inner snarky thoughts about Mrs Norris, let's have every time Baddeley shows up in MP 2007, witnesses iconic events, and wins his spot on the DVD cover.

Here we have Baddeley serving some refreshments during Henry and Mary's first visit to Mansfield:

Here we have him also serving some wine to sir Thomas during the very awkward dinner that followed his return from Antigua:

Here we have Baddeley making sure Fanny's special picnic goes perfect:

That includes making sure nobody is dying of thirst (dancing is a very taxing activity!):

Here we have him at the zenith moment of his telling Mrs Norris that she's not wanted:

Evil never rests, and neither does Baddeley's commitment to keeping people hydrated, in this case, during a mouth-drying reading of Shakespeare by Henry:

Sometimes Baddeley's work involves improvising, and taking on jobs others would have considered beneath their title, such as carrying Edmund's bags:

Or helping sir Thomas get out of his traveling coat:

But this also has its rewards, as door watch duty allows him to witness the moment sir Thomas yeets Mrs Norris out of Mansfield:

Alas, in a clear commentary on the class issues of the regency era, despite his relevance to the plot and constant presence at life turning moments of the family, he was not invited and nowhere to be seen at Edmund and Fanny's wedding, while absolute strangers got to witness the momentous occasion instead.

Baddeley, friend, don't be sad. You were there, in our hearts.

#Jane Austen #Mansfield Park #Mansfield Park 2007 #Baddeley #humor #long post

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guinevereslancelot · 2 years

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he's a 10 but he's the last man in the world i could ever be prevailed upon to marry

#im sorry to make another one of these fjjffhdhsa #pride and prejudice #mr darcy #memes #humor #jane austen #literature #p&p #this has been a shitpost #part 2 #he's a 10 but he has ruined perhaps forever the happiness of a most beloved sister #1k

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fatimazainab · 3 months

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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk.

Jane Austen, Emma

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tossawary · 3 months

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Reading Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" was a good choice because it is a funny, interesting, culturally significant book. Reading "Pride and Prejudice" was also a bad choice because I am now cursed to know exactly how wrong people are constantly being about "Pride and Prejudice".

#anyone who sincerely refers to Mr. Darcy as a “brooding bad boy” owes me and like a million other people compensation #like I was vaguely aware before but now it's like oh you are so wrong; ms austen I am so sorry these people cannot recognize humor #jane austen #tossawary reading

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wronghands1 · 13 days

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#jane austen #inspiration #writing #literature #books #authors #reading #regency #novels #writers #wronghands #john atkinson #webcomic #humor

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writebackatya · 3 months

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My top tier comedy is wasted on my sibling chat group

#texts #pride and prejudice #writebackatya #comedy #humor #jane austen

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thelittle-lady · 2 years

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There are three types of fictional men:

“You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.”

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

“What excellent boiled potatoes!”

#jane austen #pride and prejudice #emma #mr. darcy #fitzwilliam darcy #mr. knightley #george knightley #mr. collins #literature #literary quotes #prose #books #book quotes #movies #movie quotes #quotes #i’m pretty sure i’ve seen this or some permutation of it somewhere but i can’t seem to find it anymore #fictional men #literary humor

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bloodsuckingviolet · 2 years

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Mr. Darcy: yeah, i'm single

Mr. Darcy: single handedly destroying my family's expectations

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bookhoarding · 1 year

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Save us, Wentworth!

[image description: Wentworth in Santa hat. Says, ”hey lady, my gift to you this year is a vacation. By sea!”]

#jane austen #Wentworth #persuasion #jane austen letters #jane austen fans #jane austen books #jane austen humor #jane austen fan

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myfandomistingling · 5 months

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Lydia: "Papa, I am going to marry Wickham."

Mr.Bennet: "It's your life."

Elizabeth: "Papa, I am going to marry Mr.Darcy."

Mr.Bennet: "HAVE YOU LOST YOUR GODDAMN MIND!!!"

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thatscarletflycatcher · 14 days

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WHO HAD A SECRET RELATIONSHIP WITH WHOM?!

@miraculoushedgehog replied to your post: I need this info on 81’ Thomas 😂

In Sense and Sensibility 1981, the servants of Barton cottage are not ones coming with the Dashwoods from Norland; whether sir John sent them or they are just a fixture of the place, the series doesn't tell us, but they do get a grand introduction:

Thomas, who is doing some gardening as he awaits the Dashwoodses, with as much or more enthusiasm as Mr Collins' noticing Lady Catherine's carriage, tells the maid when he sees the carriage:

Darcy cannot fix the hour or the spot? Skill issue. This man certainly can, as he ran inside, put on a coat and proceeded to greet them:

What a meet cute! Ma Dashwood is not at all displeased:

She has not withdrawn her hand! she smiles at him!

I know who this woman was voting for on that tournament.

Once she moves past him, he pointedly looks at her as she makes her way to the front door, and then adds:

He introduces Susan, and then:

He's taken with her!

You'd say, Scarlet, you are reading too much into this! these are just some perfunctory introductory lines!

Well, you are wrong, because this sequence hasn't ended yet! I'm tempted to think this is the servant character with the most lines in any Austen adaptation. Which reinforces my theory that this is done ON PURPOSE :P

He shows her the different rooms, and then:

He smiles at her approval, and clearly attempts to prolong their conversation with:

Realizing perhaps this is pushing his luck, as she doesn't answer, he adds:

This is not the last time we see him in this very episode, as he comes in to assuage Lady Middleton's fears that her son might be injured, and informing all that only his cucumber frame has been destroyed, showing with that his great presence of mind.

Episode 2. Tom, who introduced himself last episode as doing gardening and odd jobs, has been ascended to doorman:

After we meet Willoughby, the same way Andrew Davies treated us to some wet shirt Edward, we are treated to some Tom doing physical labour, clearly highlighting how romance is blossoming in parallel between so similar a mother and a daughter:

He stops to listen to Marianne and Willoughby sing a song:

The face of a man in love!

The Queen Maab scene follows this one, and then, as Marianne and Willoughby are singing again another day, what do we see first as background to their singing?

Ma Dashwood! Carrying flowers! This is such an obvious yet subtle romantic parallel. This is the kind of soft romantic storytelling I'm here for.

That's Willoughby's carriage as he's brought back Marianne from Allenham. Would Thomas be complete if he didn't love horses?

Episode 3: We open with some Thomas working in the background:

So that we not forget his real relevance in this story's subtext.

Ma Dashwood not even trying to be subtle.

Another Tom cameo:

And another:

Ma Dashwood's reaction upon hearing that Mrs Jennings has invited Elinor and Marianne to go to London with her:

It is worth mentioning that in this adaptation, there's no Margaret. Ma Dashwood is not sick. There's absolutely no reason for her not to be invited, so why didn't Mrs Jennings invite her? Well, of course, because with her nose for romance she's sniffed her secret out! Ma Dashwood does then demolish all Elinor's objections, is truly overjoyed at the idea of being left behind, and explicitly mentions her having Tom and Susan with her as a reason for Elinor and Marianne to go with a clean conscience.

Ma Dashwood's face after her daughters leave the room:

During episodes 4-5, the series of course focuses on our main heroines in London and Cleveland, leaving us to imagine the full blossoming of this romance happening at Barton cottage, and all the angst and heartbreak that their class separation imposes on these middle aged lovers. Ma Dashwood may be a romantic, but she understands that her daughters come first.

As soon as we return to Barton in episode 6, so returns our favorite gardener-doorman-oodjobman Tom! Without seeing him, Ma Dashwood recognizes his way of shutting the front door, and calls his name, and then smiles at his answering:

♪ So this is love... ♫ (notice Elinor drawing Edward's portrait)

(Then we get the "Thomas tells them Mr Ferrars is married" scene)

Then this scene follows:

It's a really clever piece of writing, where the writers both show us the grown intimacy, respect and appreciation between them, and give us a nice metaphor, where the flowers of the hedgerow, that represent Tom, are picked by Ma Dashwood, beautiful in her eyes, and made fit for polite society. Alas, the crucial question remains: how can they love be, without ruining Marianne and Elinor's prospects?

As we all know, Edward comes and proposes to Elinor, and marries her. We are then treated to a visit of colonel Brandon, where Ma Dashwood sees how much Marianne's feelings and attitudes towards the colonel have changed.

The last line and frame of the adaptation belongs to Ma Dashwood:

That would, to any distracted viewer, seem very odd. Why that? And why that line? But for the attentive viewer who has been able to piece together the little drama behind the curtains, it's patently clear: she has realized that Marianne will marry Brandon, and once that happens, she will be free to have her own second happily ever after herself, with Tom, the gardener of her heart.

#ask #kajaono #Jane Austen #Sense and Sensibility #Sense and Sensibility 1981 #humor #things people are missing out on by not watching the older adaptations :P

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guinevereslancelot · 2 years

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she's a 10 but not handsome enough to tempt me

#why am i memeing so hard today goodbye #pride and prejudice #p&p #jane austen #memes #humor #she's a 10 but #this has been a shitpost #literature #part 1

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puppyduckster · 8 months

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Everytime I reread Pride and Prejudice, I appreciate more and more just how funny that book really is

#jane austen #pride and prejudice #I didn’t quite get her humor when I first read the book #but now I see that Jane is just incredibly witty and that definitely shows in her writing

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anghraine · 1 year

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I think one of the reasons that I've always been deeply annoyed by the conception of Darcy as a brooding, humorless love interest (and inferior because of it) is because I actually really enjoy his sense of humor.

Maybe it's because I don't have much of a sense of humor, myself (so I also find this annoying because of the assumption that not liking most humor is some kind of moral failing). But when I do find things amusing, they're often dry and understated asides that I find really funny. I love, for instance:

“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”

Miss Bingley immediately fixed her eyes on his face, and desired he would tell her what lady had the credit of inspiring such reflections. Mr Darcy replied, with great intrepidity,—

“Miss Elizabeth Bennet.”

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“I am afraid, Mr Darcy,” observed Miss Bingley, in a half whisper, “that this adventure has rather affected your admiration of her fine eyes.”

“Not at all,” he replied: “they were brightened by the exercise.”

I think my other favorite Darcy-Caroline interchange is even simpler, but I do find it entertaining:

“Tell your sister I am delighted to hear of her improvement on the harp, and pray let her know that I am quite in raptures with her beautiful little design for a table, and I think it infinitely superior to Miss Grantley’s.”

“Will you give me leave to defer your raptures till I write again?”

I also always laugh at the book version of this scene:

“That is a failing, indeed!” cried Elizabeth. “Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh at it. You are safe from me.”

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”

“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.”

“And yours,” he replied, with a smile, “is wilfully to misunderstand them.”

Here, I also enjoy the use of a quite serious contemporary philosophical point (and the fact that he references it in a conversation with a woman at all, tbh), but the sudden shift to banter is what makes the interchange to me.

None of these are like ... haha-funny jokes, but I wouldn't find those amusing, anyway, while these always make me giggle.

#and i think it's evident that he does like elizabeth's sense of humor once he figures it out #so even though yes he's a fundamentally quite serious person #it's not that he doesn't find anything funny or never says anything that's funny #(and i don't mean in an unintentional way—he's obviously sharp-witted and knows what he's doing)#(most of the time anyway)#so the whole humorless brooding hero thing is just... meh #it's the mix of witty banter and fundamental seriousness that makes the ship!#(the brooding thing is weird in its own right wrt /book/ darcy bc he's described as usually calm and frequently smiling)#anghraine babbles #austen fanwank #austen blogging #lady anne blogging #fitzwilliam darcy #pride and prejudice #jane austen #long post

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