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sweetercalypso · 3 months

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Okay last one (congrats thrice)

🎬 I would love to see a drabble of Joel Miller as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. Fully inspired by this gorgeous art work.

notes: mentions of drinking, no reader description, no use of y/n, pre-outbreak/no-outbreak Joel being a grump (wc: 0.7k)

When Tommy invited his older brother to join the two of you at the bar, you didn’t think much of it. If anything, the addition of another Miller sounded like a guaranteed good time.

You’d started the evening with high hopes, but quickly realized that the two men couldn’t be more different.

Tommy’s your neighbor and one of your closest friends, and he’s the most likeable person you know. Everyone greets him when he walks into the room, and he’s pulled away to join the party before he can even gain his bearings. You’d be lucky to catch more than a fleeting glimpse of the younger Miller brother before the night’s over.

Apparently, charisma doesn’t run in the family.

One glance at Joel is enough to know that he’s a character out of place. He stands with his shoulders squared and his nose tucked in a glass of cheap beer that had gone flat at least an hour ago. You weren’t sure why he’d agreed to come tonight – it’s clear that he’d rather be anywhere else.

Not wanting to leave him out, however, you’d stuck by his side for the better part of the night, following as he slowly inched himself into the quietest corner of the room. Spending the evening in a tacky, seedy bar might not be everyone’s idea of fun, but surely there’s something that can get Joel to loosen up.

When you move suddenly to stand in front of him, his eyes flicker briefly in your direction before he returns his empty gaze to the crowded bar behind you. He doesn’t complain when you slip his neglected drink from his hands, and he tries not to watch as you lean over him to place it on a nearby table.

“Do you dance?” you ask with a nod over your shoulder.

He chuckles low in his throat, disinterest evident in the way he studies the room. “Not if I can help it.”

You’re not surprised by Joel’s lackluster response, though you were hoping the suggestion might spark his interest. You stare at him expectantly for a moment longer, willing him to change his mind, before returning to his side with a defeated sigh. A subtle glance at the watch on his wrist tells you that the night’s not even halfway over.

Just when you’d given up on the prospect of enjoying the evening, you spot Tommy heading towards you, his most recent dance partner sporting a pleased grin as she returns to her friends.

Before someone else can grab his attention, you’re beelining for the younger Miller brother and leading him back to the dance floor, leaving Joel to simmer on his own in an otherwise vacant corner of the room.

He shoves his now empty hands in his pockets and leans back against the pillar behind him, struggling to keep up with the two of you as you move around the bar.

It’s true that Joel isn’t one for dancing, but a small part of him wishes he’d accepted your offer. He watches as Tommy swings you around the room, his hand pressed tightly to the curve of your spine, his own rich laughter blending with yours.

An unfamiliar heat burns at the back of his neck, a casual resentment for the charm that Tommy had been blessed with. Joel doesn’t dance, but he wants to dance with you.

He finds himself moving before he fully realizes what’s happening, eyes sweeping over endless faces as he searches for you in the crowd that’s gathered in front of the speakers.

To his left, he hears Tommy calling his name, a hint of surprise in his brother’s voice. Finally, he breaks through the sea of tightly-packed duos, swallowing thickly as he meets your wide-eyed gaze. Tommy claps a knowing hand on his shoulder and dismisses himself to find another partner, disappearing just as quick as Joel had appeared.

Wordlessly, Joel stands in front of you, holding his palm out in a tentative request. You place your hand in his with a teasing grin, as if you’d known that he’d eventually have a change of heart. A hokey western ballad plays through the bar as you lean in close to speak.

“I thought you didn’t dance.”

Still, you let him pull you to his chest, one arm wrapped around your waist as he guides you into a slow-moving sway. He presses his mouth to your ear to reply, a newfound liveliness in his baritone voice.

“For you, I’ll make an exception.”

#Joel Miller #the last of us #joel miller x reader #joel miller drabble #joel miller fluff #pride and prejudice #modern pride and prejudice #tlou #tlou x reader #the last of us x reader #joel miller x y/n #joel miller x you

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noodles-and-tea · 1 month

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Back at it with my enchanted merthur shenanigans

#when Merlin goes to work #(I am undecided on what he does but I think he does have a job (probably a librarian I’d that’s not TOO cliche…))#he sets Arthur up with a bunch of history books and documentaries to try get him up to date (as much as he can)#and in the evenings they watch all Merlin’s favourite tv shows and movies #I can’t pick what kinds of movies Merlin and Arthur like #I get the feeling they both like pride and prejudice but I’m also biased #I think Arthur would like murder mysteries #ALSO If anyone’s got any fics where Merlin introduces Arthur to modern society please please PLEASE GIVE THEM TO ME #my art #bbc merlin #merlin #merlin emrys #arthur pendragon #merthur

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rainagainstthewindowatnight · 8 months

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sisters in television and film

camille & amma - sharp objects (2018) / katniss & prim - the hunger games : mockingjay part one (2014) / spencer & melissa - pretty little liars (2010-2017) / daphne & eloise - bridgerton (2020-present) / jo & amy - little women (2019) / elizabeth & jane - pride and prejudice (2005) / tori & trina - victorious (2010-2014) / haley & alex - modern family (2009-2020) / cassie & lexi - euphoria (2019-present) / natasha & yelena - black widow (2021)

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gnocchibabie · 7 months

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This scenario has been living in my brain especially since I recently came home from a bad day of work and just had to watch my comfort movie so…

Imagine you’ve had a horrible, awful, no good day and come back to yours and Simon’s home. You get changed into your comfiest pajamas and flop onto the couch, turning on Netflix and scrolling through the endless lists of shows and movies for something to watch and settle on Pride and Prejudice (the 2005 version ofc). You’ve seen it more times than you can count but it's your comfort movie, so yes - you’re watching it again. Making yourself comfortable on the couch, you get about 5 minutes into the movie when Simon gets home from work. After your usual greetings and a peck on the lips you reach out for the remote to turn off the movie, assuming Pride and Prejudice isn’t exactly his cup of tea.

“What are you doing?”

“Just turning it - I know you don’t care for thi-”

“No, we’ll watch it”

You chalk this up to Simon understanding that you’ve had a bad day - that he’s willing to sit through anything for you. So he shimmies next to you on the couch, him sitting and you laying down, your feet resting in his lap.

You figure that Simon may slightly dissociate during the film as you can’t possibly imagine a man like him would find this kind of thing entertaining. You get further and further into the plot and, despite seeing it time and time again, find yourself giggling and kicking your feet at the infamous hand flex scene.

“What was that all about?” Simon is clearly confused, but amused by your reaction.

“The tension - the way he flexes his hand after touching hers - hell, the way he’s not even wearing gloves - you wouldn’t get it” you finally give up on trying to explain the definition of romance when you hear Simon chuckling at your ramblings.

But when you reach the confession scene, where Elizabeth and Darcy stand in the rain shouting at each other, Simon surprises you.

“The hell?” you hear a gruff voice say beside you.

“What?”

“What kind of confession was that? He just insulted her entire family.”

“Do my ears deceive me, or are you actually getting into this movie?”

“Never said I wouldn’t,” he scoffs.

“Well just keep watching!” you urge.

Throughout the rest of the film, Simon makes more comments. You do your best to hide your amusement - the movie clearly piqued his interest. You both watch as the rest of the story unfolds; Elizabeth touring Darcy’s estate, Lydia eloping with Mr. Wickham (“What a sorry sod that Wickham is.” Simon had said, which had you utterly rolling.), Bingley proposing to Jane, and finally - Darcy proposing to Elizabeth.

Since Netflix happens to show the american ending of the film (controversial, I know), you and Simon watch as the final scene folds out before you two. Tears threaten to spill from your eyes as you hear Kiera Knightley and Matthew Macfayden recite:

You may only call me Mrs. Darcy when you are completely and perfectly and incandescently happy.

And how are you tonight, Mrs. Darcy?

Simon pretends not to notice your glazed eyes as the movie fades to black. Sitting up and stretching with a groan, you look over at the clock realizing it was getting late, then back at Simon, “Well? How’d you like that?”

“S’alright” Ghost shrugs his shoulders

You scoff, “Yeah sure, that’s why you were glued to the screen.”

Simon chuckles and stands from his place on the couch, stretching as you did before turning back towards you. He outstretches a hand and gives you a small smile, “Ready for bed, Mrs. Riley?”

#i also imagine watching Bridgerton with him #and the rest of the 141 #they would be SHOOK #call of duty #call of duty modern warfare #simon ghost riley #simon riley x reader #simon riley x you #simon riley imagine #simon riley fluff #pride and prejudice

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ardentlyinlovedarcy · 2 months

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credit: SparkNotes/Elodie

https: // www. sparknotes.com/blog/pride-and-prejudice-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts/

Darcy ➡️ Elizabeth

Bingley ➡️ Darcy

Elizabeth ➡️ Mr Bennet

Charlotte ➡️ Elizabeth

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nymphpens · 8 months

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Mr. Darcy in a nutshell:

#nymphpens #dark academia #poets on tumblr #dead poets society #relatable #tumblr text post #classic literature #jane austen #pride and prejudice #the good place #friends #arrested development #modern family #mr darcy #in a nutshell #classic literature memes #literature memes #Elizabeth bennet #memes

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sainamoonshine · 8 months

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Okay so I don’t know anything about Pride and Prejudice, okay, I’ve just seen the movie a bunch of times

But I was listening to the Queer Movie Podcast talk about « the problem of Lydia » in an episode reviewing an AU version, and it basically comes down to what her storyline should be in a modern remake. Should she still elope? Should it be a sex tape scandal? Or what?

And I was thinking well, if Mrs Bennet’s insistence for her daughters to have a good future in this modern AU is about getting high paying jobs and going to university, then obviously Lydia should get sucked into an MLM! And Whickam could just be a conman who sorts of floats from MLM to MLM and he brought her in.

She thinks she’s found the infinite money cheat and brags about being a « small business owner » to her sisters. Everyone else is like « oh no, here goes her finances and reputation! ». Mrs Bennet is hovering between « should I torpedo our social relationships by pressing every last family acquaintance to attend sale parties, or should I act like her business is blooming and she doesn’t need help to maintain face? » then Mr. Bennet goes « well it will be good for her to fail and learn a lesson » which she reacts to by going « absolutely NOT none of my girls will FAIL and besides it’s good to have entrepreneurial spirit! » so she pays for Lydia’s starter kit and starts planning sales parties and all the other daughters are like 😬😬😬 « no way mom I’m not asking my facebook friends to buy that stuff are u kidding »

And then the resolution of that whole story arc is when Elizabeth opens a cupboard at Darcy’s house and a bunch of essential oils fall out and it turns out he’s a huge pushover and Lydia has only been staying afloat because he’s been buying her stuff even though he has no idea what to do with it

(He also has a bunch of leggings from when his sister also got involved in an MLM)

#pride and prejudice #mister darcy #mr darcy #elizabeth bennet #lydia bennet #modern au

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chamblerstara · 10 months

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No offense Jane, but that sounds like some hetero nonsense.

@wlwgif‘s pride week - day 2 - movie: Fire Island

#pmcw #fireislandedit #fire island #rcontent tw #smoking cw #alcohol cw #*mygifs #you gave me a queer modern day retelling of pride and prejudice and expected me not to stan?!#me?!#i plotted out an entire wlw modern day fanfiction version of emma until cam torpedoed it #of course i was gonna love this

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carolina-star · 8 months

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They're watching Pride and Prejudice 2005.

Han is suffering because nobody is fighting.

#Star wars #star wars modern au #Modern au #star wars original trilogy #lando calrissian #Han solo #pride and prejudice #cute

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anghraine · 5 months

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petty ranting about the LOTR movies

I've been in various fandoms where an ostensibly "faithful" adaptation was frequently held up as the One True Version of the text, the author's vision brought to life, the one nothing could ever compare to and the reason no others should ever be made, how is it possible to envision the characters or interpretations of them differently blah blah blah. (1995 P&P fandom is very frequently like this, sometimes Faith and Fear fans are, esp wrt The Borgias, etc.)

But I'm not sure I've ever seen an adaptation so uncritically adored by so many as the Jackson LOTR movies. I don't think any fandom is so insistent on an adaptation as people are insistent on the movies as the one true version of Middle-earth, even where they're radically different. Even when people agree with criticisms, it's been really noticeable that people often also add disclaimers about how they love the movies, they're perfect in almost every way, they're super faithful apart from this thing, of course the reason for [choice that was made] was understandable it's just that... etc.

And the thing is, I may hate some of the interpretations in other allegedly faithful adaptations. Like, speaking of the 1995 P&P, I dislike a lot about it and its influence on popular perception of what P&P is, of what adaptation should look like, of the brooding version of my fave hero Darcy, and so on. But I do understand why it's often held up as a faithful adaptation.

It uses a lot of the original text (though it can be subtly or glaringly different in execution), it's able to blur the lines between its own inventions and material from the text in a way that's often convinced audiences that things from the adaptation are actually in the novel, and it's more successful at doing this than any other Davies version of Austen IMO, it has a very convincing cast, blahblah. Like, I disagree that it is as faithful as it's reputed to be (by a long ways), but I get why it has that reputation, at least.

But I genuinely find Jackson's LOTR so different from the book! The movies certainly draw from it in significant ways, but dialogue is heavily altered or manufactured, motivations and characterization are simplified, altered, or just outright transformed into something entirely different, themes are shifted around, the structure is seriously changed (something Tolkien specifically did not want to happen), the relatively compact battles in the book are turned into big action set pieces taking up major swaths of screen time, a lot of the lore is heavily contracted, changed, or simply absent where it casts heavy shadows over the dynamics in the book, and oh yeah, they manage to be even more racist.

Some of this (not the racism) is defensible even if I don't personally agree w/ those defenses in a lot of cases. But there are a ton of differences between them! And you can talk about the films as their own thing cinematically and that's its own discussion. But the conflation of the movies with the actual things Tolkien actually wrote is even more widespread and absolute and annoying than with things like the 1995 P&P, with not half as much reason for it.

#never thought i'd somewhat defend the 1995 pride and prejudice and how irritating fandom is about it but...#whew #youtuber challenge: talk about modern fantasy adaptations without referencing the lotr movies. like. at all.#bc i'm pretty sure most of the youtubers recommended to me are constitutionally incapable of it #anghraine rants #pj critical #legendarium blogging #legendarium fanwank #austen blogging #austen fanwank #andrew davies critical #long post

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northlight14 · 7 months

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Elizabeth: my boyfriend is wearing a fucking suit to his autism diagnosis appointment

Darcy: it’s a special event!

Elizabeth: shut up

#if they existed in the modern world Darcy would be diagnosed with autism I’m just saying #I can’t be convinced otherwise of this. bro had so many symptoms #pride and prejudice #elizabeth bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #mr darcy #jane austen #incorrect quote #incorrect quotes

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misscrawfords · 9 months

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I'm reading Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne, a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice and I'm struggling.

I actually find what Payne has done with the characters and setting really interesting and there are some touches I really like, especially turning Mary into Maurice - an "activist" who changes his activism regularly and lectures others on what they should be doing. (Any interpretation of Mary that isn't "misunderstood, shy, nerd girl who isn't-like-other-girls and is actually just like me, a misunderstood, shy, over-looked nerd girl" gets a positive vote from me.)

However, I really very much dislike her interpretation of Darcy (Dorsey) and Elizabeth (Liza)'s relationship and that is... kinda crucial!

It's waaaaaay over sexualised. Like, I get this is a romance book, but, like, I'm reading along enjoying the story and plot and then suddenly Dorsey is thinking about burying himself in Liza's breasts and I'm like "wooaah!" It's like it's impossible for the author to show them having feelings for each other without it being explicit and I find that out of place both with the source material and with the rest of the narrative.

Secondly, it is sexual... immediately. It commits the cardinal sin of saying "Darcy and Lizzy were hot for each other from the start and all the tension is ~ s e x u a l tension". The 2005 abomination does this too with the near kiss in the rain. And pretty much every single P&P inspired enemies-to-lovers narrative out there does it too. The problem is... this is a really, really inaccurate interpretation of the original book. Darcy is, admittedly, attracted to Elizabeth very quickly. Something that he manages to show not at all to anybody. Only Caroline Bingley, who is intensely interested in Darcy's romantic feelings, spots it. Later on, arch observer Charlotte and good friend Col Fitz also suspect something but by this point in Rosings Darcy has given into his feelings and is trying, albeit terribly, to court Elizabeth. Not that she notices. Darcy is completely able to conceal his sexual attraction to Elizabeth from everyone who isn't thinking about Darcy sexually. He is not quite so able to conceal his romantic interest later on. But crucially, at no point does Elizabeth notice a thing. She has LITERALLY NO IDEA. This is because Elizabeth has no concept of Darcy as a romantic prospect for her at all. She laughs at thinking what a good match he'd be for Anne de Bourgh, a probably sexless in appearance invalid. She doesn't hate him in a ~sexy~ way, she just really does not like him and does not consider him as a romantic option.

If Elizabeth is aware that Darcy has the hots for her, this changes the dynamic completely. If she is actually attracted to him in the first part of the story, that changes the dynamic completely. And both of these changes alter and potentially cheapen Elizabeth's character. If she is aware on some level that Darcy likes her and is interested in her, then she ends up looking like an idiot when the first proposal comes around. Or she ends up looking coy and like she is actually flirting with him. Yes, there is banter but Elizabeth is not consciously flirting or trying to attract him! Elizabeth spends the whole first part of the novel with a crush on Wickham. Austen is perfectly capable to showing to the audience without needing modern explicit language that a character has the hots for another character. Elizabeth fancies Wickham, not Darcy! As the meme goes, Darcy and Elizabeth are experiencing two very different kinds of tension! That's part of the comedy. And if Elizabeth is aware that she is attracted to Darcy, it just becomes a different story, and a less interesting one. Elizabeth becomes yet another romance novel heroine who likes the "bad boy" and tries to persuade herself not to, until the tension is sooooo strong and she ~snaps.

But one of the major points is that Elizabeth doesn't like bad boys! She falls for (well, crushes on) Wickham because she thinks he's good. She dislikes Darcy because she thinks he's bad. She only starts to consider Darcy positively when she understands and sees for herself the truth of his character. That is what she finds attractive, not him being a buttoned up jerk! "One has all the goodness, the other all the appearance of it." That is central to P&P's story and its message.

Unfortunately, in the aims of writing a "romance" novel, Pride and Protest gives us heaving busoms and erections and almost-kisses and therefore completely destroys my interest in Dorsey and Liza's relationship at the same time as well as finding it just a bit tasteless because it feels like there are two stories going on: an interesting exploration of how the context and characters of P&P would work in a highly politised and racially diverse modern USA - and a very generic romance novel story which doesn't do either Darcy and Elizabeth justice. A shame.

It does make me wonder about how to update Austen's novels in terms of sex. Because obviously one of the major changes between the 1810s and now is that having extra-marital sex is totally normal and people date and break up without social repercussions. So unless you are setting the update in a community where that is not the case, you've got to deal with sex being freely on offer. I guess there are different ways around it but I think if how you deal with sex means that the fundamental beats of the narrative and character development are changed, then something's gone wrong somehow. And I feel that Elizabeth's total obliviousness to Darcy having any positive feelings towards her at all until the moment he proposes to her is a crucial part of the plot and a source of unending humour.

#pride and prejudice #pride and protest #modern retelling #jane austen #fitzwilliam darcy #elizabeth bennet #darcy x elizabeth

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acotars · 8 months

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Read in 2023:

Sometimes beautiful things get messy. Mess is okay.

HONEY & SPICE by Bolu Babalola ★★★★

#litedit #nalitedit #honey & spice #honey and spice #bolu babalola #romanceedit #romancelitedit #litofcolor #such a fantastic pride & prejudice retelling!#babalola dug into the social commentary and political dynamics of the novel in a super fresh + modernized way #a+++ i really enjoyed it #edits*#2023*#all

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rainagainstthewindowatnight · 8 months

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father & daughter relationships portrayed on television and film

sweet girl (2019) / the twilight saga : breaking dawn part two (2012) / pretty little liars (2010-2017) / the glass castle (2017) / pride and prejudice (2005) / veronica mars (2004-2007) / i am sam (2001) / black widow (2021) / never have i ever (2020-2023) / modern family (2009-2020)

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bethanydelleman · 1 year

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A Full Defense of Lydia Bennet

Lydia Bennet is not a villain, but she gets a lot of hate for carelessly running off with Wickham and possibly ruining her sister’s lives. The narrator and characters, however, do not blame Lydia very much and I don’t think the author meant for us to hate her. She was failed by her parents, who did not teach her how to properly behave and did not ensure she was properly protected.

Obviously, the real villain is Wickham.

The most vicious takedown of Lydia is put in the mouth (letter) of a character we should not respect, Mr. Collins. We already know that his morality is skewed, as he seems to view the collection of tithes and sucking up to Lady Catherine as his primary duties, he writes this of Lydia, “I am inclined to think that her own disposition must be naturally bad, or she could not be guilty of such an enormity, at so early an age.” (Ch 48). However, even he mentions the real cause, “a faulty degree of indulgence”.

Elizabeth feels this cause strongly, and lays out a good argument for her father on why Lydia should not go to Brighton, “She represented to him all the improprieties of Lydia’s general behaviour, the little advantage she could derive from the friendship of such a woman as Mrs. Forster, and the probability of her being yet more imprudent with such a companion at Brighton, where the temptations must be greater than at home.” (Ch 41). Mr. Bennet dismisses all these great arguments because he is too lazy to deal with Lydia’s disappointment. He’s been a lazy parent and continues to be.

Mr. Bennet then takes on the responsibility for what happened, ““Who should suffer but myself? It has been my own doing, and I ought to feel it… No, Lizzy, let me once in my life feel how much I have been to blame.” (Ch 50). Lydia has been allowed to run around flirting with officers for months, without any check on her conduct. She does not act within the rules of society, and while Elizabeth and Jane have tried to correct her, Lydia knew they had no real authority. She needed parents and neither of them did their duty.

Mr. Bennet also acknowledges that he failed his daughters by not saving money for their future provision, “Had he done his duty in that respect” (Ch 50).

Mrs. Bennet shares this guilt, little as she will accept it: Mrs. Bennet, to whose apartment they all repaired, after a few minutes’ conversation together, received them exactly as might be expected; with tears and lamentations of regret, invectives against the villainous conduct of Wickham, and complaints of her own sufferings and ill-usage; blaming everybody but the person to whose ill-judging indulgence the errors of her daughter must principally be owing. (Ch 47)

Lastly, Lydia was failed by Darcy, who talks about his share of the blame here: “Wickham’s worthlessness had not been so well known as to make it impossible for any young woman of character to love or confide in him. He generously imputed the whole to his mistaken pride, and confessed that he had before thought it beneath him to lay his private actions open to the world.” (Ch 52). We see in Sense & Sensibility Elinor asking everyone who knows him about Willoughby’s character. Character references were important, that is how women knew they were safe in a man’s presence. Darcy knew the truth and he left Meryton and the Bennets in danger.

Lydia did make a choice (and certainly the wrong one), but she does not deserve all the blame for what happened. The narrator makes it clear that no one should be surprised by the outcome. Lydia was not taught was what right, she was not taught to control her impulses, and she was put out in the world too young, as Colonel Brandon said in Sense & Sensibility, “But can we wonder that… without a friend to advise or restrain her… she should fall?”

Related posts: Lydia too young to be out, Should Darcy have warned Meryton?

#lydia bennet #misunderstood villains #though she's not even a villain but people call her one #pride and prejudice #wickham #it is not modern of me to say Lydia is not to blame #It might have been modern of Jane Austen #But it's right there in the book she wrote #though Lydia has free will and she made choices #but she is 15 years old and Wickham was an adult

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ardentlyinlovedarcy · 5 months

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