#austen month

[anghraine]

It's 11 PM, but one of my favorite little Darcy/Elizabeth moments happens while she still hates him and thinks he's a depraved monster, and I find it really entertaining.

It's during the Kent section, when Darcy calls at the parsonage and finds Elizabeth alone. During a longer, awkward conversation in which they both deeply misunderstand each other, they have this tiny interchange:

[Darcy:] “This seems a very comfortable house. Lady Catherine, I believe, did a great deal to it when Mr Collins first came to Hunsford.” “I believe she did—and I am sure she could not have bestowed her kindness on a more grateful object.” “Mr Collins appears very fortunate in his choice of a wife.” “Yes, indeed; his friends may well rejoice in his having met with one of the very few sensible women who would have accepted him, or have made him happy if they had. My friend has an excellent understanding—though I am not certain that I consider her marrying Mr Collins as the wisest thing she ever did."

So: they are in Mr Collins's house. Darcy tries to re-start the conversation with a polite nothing about the house. Elizabeth agrees about Lady Catherine's micro-managing, but can't resist the chance to make a sly jab at Mr Collins (who is not present) to Darcy (a genuine villain, as far as she believes).

Darcy's reply looks a bit like an attempt to redirect the conversation into safer waters (they can agree that Charlotte is cool!). But although his remark is only somewhat related to what Elizabeth said, I think it's a natural follow-up in his mind because he is also insulting Mr Collins, if more subtly.

He could have praised Mr Collins's judgment in choosing Charlotte or just said something nice about Charlotte; he doesn't. Instead, he suggests that Mr Collins's choice of Charlotte was a matter of good fortune—or chance, as Charlotte herself would say!—on Collins's part. Darcy and Elizabeth both know Collins is a fool and that his choice of a woman like Charlotte says nothing about his judgment, only about his good fortune. (Elizabeth has even better reason than Darcy to know how much Collins ending up with Charlotte was lucky for him, but Darcy can see it anyway.)

Darcy's phrasing gives him some plausible deniability, but I think he's generally quite careful with his wording and the implicit insult to Mr Collins is not accidental.

Elizabeth, I think, takes this exactly as intended. She's not at all confused about where this tangent came from or offended by it or anything. She readily seizes on the new line of conversation as encouragement to keep insulting Mr Collins and his appeal to women with functioning brainpower.

Elizabeth is pretty scrupulously polite in general, so I kind of love that she just starts venting about her absolute contempt for Mr Collins and the Collins/Charlotte marriage to Darcy in the middle of a tense and weird conversation in Mr Collins's house. And I love that Darcy, who is otherwise more or less dog-paddling his way through this conversation, is like "yeah, your friend seems really cool, that dumbass is lucky he accidentally chose someone with a brain."

Elizabeth: "Right? And, let me add-"

(Is it a bit of an asshole move on both their parts in the context of that scene? Yeah, I think a little. I also love it! Please trash-talk obnoxious hosts in their own parlours for the rest of your lives.)

#anghraine babbles #deep blogging #i'm feeling a bit 'don't explain the joke' about ... well. explaining the joke. but it's still funny to me! #darcy and elizabeth are genuinely good people but sometimes they can't help statler and waldorfing it up #austen blogging #pride and prejudice #jane austen #elizabeth bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #otp of otps #sidenote: i don't think darcy and charlotte really interact 'onstage' #but i find it interesting that charlotte (who does not like men) sticks up for him multiple times #and is the one to deduce months before the pemberley scenes that darcy is generally different than she's known him #meanwhile darcy is oblivious to charlotte trying to further his romance with elizabeth but is like ... good vibes tbh #charlotte lucas

[villetteulogy]

You don't knock anymore And I always knew it.

#mansfield park #mansfield park 1999 #period dramas #perioddramaedit #perioddramagif #jane austen #janeaustenedit #filmedit #romanceedit #fanny price #henry crawford #fanny x henry #henry crawford x fanny price #mine #the idea for this edit has been bouncing off the walls of my brain for the past two months #and I finally did it god bless

[fauvester]

welcoming cardassia’s newest alien doctor at the docking port!

au where they kept in contact via subspace letters and struck up an epistolary long distance relationship until julian took a position on cardassia prime to be with his bf..

#dee s 9 #garashir #theyve never even held HANDS we are at JANE AUSTEN LEVELS OF PHYSICAL REPRESSION #it’s all been This Is How You Win The Time War ass love letters and grainy space zoom calls #garak going in for a smile and a firm handshake. bashir like haha its spidermonkey time baby. thats love #this just in Castellan elect seen snogging IN PUBLIC with a ALIEN. with TONGUE #anyways I promise I can draw then in other views than Profile. but this has truly been How the cookie crumbles this month #and I do love their silhouettes… oof #i synthesize one meal on this ship and if you dont like it there's always gragh

[poetryofmuses]

"There's a bond between June and July, a bond like none other."

#literature #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #darcy #dorian gray #jane austen #aesthetic poetry #dark academia aesthetic #light academia #art journal #june #july #august #bond #friendship #relationship #relatable quotes #relatable #quotes #months #seasons #2023 #books #romance books #bookshop

[bethanydelleman]

Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena enter the forest. The friendship of the women torn apart, the men rivals for Hermia's heart.

Puck opens their eyes to who they truly love.

Hermia and Helena leave the forest hand in hand, never to return to Athens again.

‘Two Women Kissing in Nature,’ an illustration from ‘Le Poison Des Pierreries’ by Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse, 1903

......

Viola began to think she had never loved Duke Orsino. Here was Olivia before her, begging for her embrace. Did she love only the mask that was Cesario or could Olivia love the soul that had given her life beyond the death of her brother?

"For you, only for you," Viola thought, "Viola could die to the world, and live as your Cesario."

#a midsummer night's dream #very short bisexual fics #something about how they enter a forest where love can change #Shakespeare #Twelfth night #queer #pride month #the only real love triangle in literature #but lets just solve it a different way #not jane austen

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

my bf and i were talking recently about who the modern equivalent of jane austen would be, and it really stuck in my brain. after pondering it for many days, i think my answer is actually the television show succession. i get that austen is usually perceived as more romance-focused/light/frilly fare, but i feel like austen's novels are mostly about coexisting with self-centered idiots whilst striving not to be a self-centered idiot yourself and trying to have principles in a world where it's easy and tempting not to.

anyway, some things that i think austen and succession have in common:

various degrees of fancy people fancying about

succession i.e. inheritance being a big deal

relatedly: family really defining, or threatening to define, your fate in a way that is hilarious but also Bleak

i think the ways that people fail each other are also a big thing in both. like, failing the people you were supposed to honor and do right by.

just a spot on delightfully insufferable portrayal of self-centered weirdos and their daily weirdnesses. connor?? greg???? could have come from the pen of janie a herself. (sidenote: is mr. collins, in a way, greg????)

marriage as serious business, marriage as business, the perilous weight of a match made for the wrong reasons

the feeling that you aren't really on the same wavelength with a lot of the people around you. lots of wry judgy faces happening constantly.

i'm biased but i think romangerri kind of illustrates the austen-y concept of a solid connection of like minds and goals who are in harmony for a time. but roman squanders it in a very willoughby move!

i think the big difference is that usually in austen you have a sensible person as your pov character, whereas the roys aren't quite hinged enough to be sensible. but i just feel like there's a lot of thematic and stylistic and comedic overlap! you're welcome for the highest compliment possible, jesse armstrong et al.

edited to add: also obviously tom wambsgans is mr. darcy. there's that.

#dollsome's deep thoughts #i'm sure there's more i could think of if i pondered for longer #but this is just what immediately came to me #i've been listening to all the austens on audiobook for the past few months so she's really With Me right now

[atailof2kitties]

Just some thoughts on turning twenty.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (the fact twenty-one is the cut off, the time when women must become self-conscious of their age. It’s a different time, sure, but it’s still strange to be on this precipice...), Mitski, ‘Class of 2013′, extract of a poem I wrote (tormented by how birthdays sometimes seem an endurance test, it is a miracle to still be alive, to have outlived others, the privilege of growing up and growing old, and yet it is all so exhausting to know you still have decades of life to get through, joy and pain, etc.), Unknown seventeenth-century painter from the Veneto, Portrait of Angela Adorni Sbardellini, Prioress of the Zitelle (I like the contrast between her and her costume, the complicated creases and folds vs her still young face, she seems a girl peeking out of an adult body), Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals, Florence + the Machine, ‘Free’, picture of Marilyn Monroe at twenty, Luke Hemmings, ‘Diamonds’ 

#web weaving #parallels #literature #music #dark academia #light academia #books #pride and prejudice #Jane Austen #poetry #florence welch #Sylvia Plath #mitski #luke Hemings #marilyn monroe #twenty #20 #pretending I didn’t turn 21 yesterday and this hasn’t been in my drafts for months

[imanes]

"if i loved you less i might be able to talk about it more" is the pinnacle of romance for me jane austen peaked with this quote alone like i haven't even read emma yet and still this quote leaves rent free in my mind

#actually maybe i should read an austen this month #ive been reading academic articles for two weeks straight #i need to inject some fiction straight into my veins...

[itspileofgoodthings]

here’s the thing: jane eyre is important to me as a story and I think it has its own power but people who act like it is not also and at the same time insane melodrama are befuddling to me

#let us not pretend that Jane Eyre has the sanity and realism of literally any Austen because it doesn’t #You can enjoy the ridiculousness AND the very human and warm core #but CB didn’t really know what she was doing #In like. A very endearing way because she lived a wild and strange life #but yeah. Chesterton was dead on in his Jane Eyre assessment. honestly my favorite of his literary views #this has been in the drafts for months #Yes I see the irony of me making this post after the moral judgment one lol #Maria cleans out her drafts #that autocorrected to drags for a second there lol

[clambatch]

my shard of light 🕯️

hi hello posting autry and kai againnnn i hope they kiss some time. also kai is @tendertieflings's silly guy blowing her a kiss

#y2fey #dnd #dnd oc #gay shit #idk #autry's been fake dead for four months too long i want him to have his jane austen reunion with this guy already #please #my art

[readingoals]

Northanger Abbey was the book me and Lauren decided to exchange for christmas this year! It was one of only two Austen books I've not read (the last being Lady Susan).

I was a little hesitant going in because it was unfamiliar and I was annotating it and sometimes classics can be a little tricky to parse but I needn't have worried. Austen is very readable and I ended up having a great time with it! I loved Catherine and Tilney so much. And boy I sure had a lot to say about the Thorpes lmao.

I can defs see myself re-reading this one in the next few years.

#booklr #northanger abbey #jane austen #classics #brigid speaks #read in 2023 #book update #(catching up on the last couple months where i havent posted much #its only 4 books in total and then a book haul post lmao)

[valorums]

STATISTICAL CHARACTER PARALLEL QUIZ

take the linked quiz from the perspective of your muse(s), and share at least ten of your favorite results

SHI’AL FINIS VALORUM

Marianne Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility): 90%

Jasmine (Aladdin): 90%

Amy March (Little Women): 90%

Rose DeWitt Bukater (Titanic): 89%

Rarity (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): 89%

Olivia (Twelfth Night): 89%

Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel): 88%

Buttercup (The Princess Bride): 88%

Princess Ariel (The Little Mermaid): 87%

Mia Dolan (La La Land): 85%

Charles Bingley (Pride and Prejudice): 85%

Princess Fiona (Shrek): 85%

Christian (Moulin Rouge!): 84%

Remy (Ratatouille): 84%

Rapunzel (Tangled): 83%

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#MARIANNE DASHWOOD MY BELOVEDDDDDDD #as a Jane Austen stan i can wholeheartedly confirm that this is accurate #yes i put fifteen results in here and what about it? #i took this quiz several months ago and taking it now to see if results changed was FASCINATING #⠇ dashboard game ⠇ ━━━ the latest gossip in coruscant

[cosmicrhetoric]

you know i miss having ride or die opinions about lesser known austen adaptations. netflix should try and girlbossify mansfield park next just so i can complain about it

#by lesser known i mean like. kandukondain kandukondain which i did end up loving despite the edward analog #picked the novel i think needs a modern adaptation most rn but certainlywon't get a good one #northanger abbey on the other hand........could fr use another whimsical little film #we were all such persuasion warriors for a few months lol but at least it got people to watch the 95 (LOVE) #austen

[anghraine]

I’ve never written it in the way I’m thinking of, but I think my favorite period setting Darcy/Elizabeth AU concept is just “the strange and largely unexplained speculation about a Darcy/Elizabeth match never happens, or at least never gets to Lady Catherine, and thus she doesn’t inadvertently give Darcy hope, so the period of emotional turmoil and intense pining goes on considerably longer than in canon, but everything up to that point is the same and they do end up happily together. Eventually.”

My dream scenario is low on plot drama and high on emotional intensity—years and years ago, I wrote a version that took this as the basic premise but was extremely high on plot drama, but that’s not what I really want. I want them thrown together socially through Jane and Bingley and (especially) the Gardiners and just having very ordinary social interactions that are underpinned by raw yearning that both find frustrating and “I am being ridiculous, I know, but—” and, like, searing UST when they have perfectly appropriate physical contact.

(bonus if hands)

(extra bonus if gloved hands)

In my ideal scenario, this doesn’t give them quite enough hope to make themselves immediately obvious but it’s enough not to give up hope altogether, so there’s just this exquisitely agonizing several months before everything gets inevitably resolved.

#extra ideal scenario: darcy has become a frequent guest at the gardiners even before elizabeth comes for her usual visit with them #some time after the jane/bingley wedding #i think darcy leaves the newlyweds at netherfield to be newlyweds and he and elizabeth have a charged yet excruciatingly polite farewell #until she goes for her usual visit to the gardiners a little while afterwards and they keep encountering each other in gracechurch street #sometimes in bigger social gatherings! sometimes just him and georgiana and maybe fitzwilliam #sometimes he even comes alone and it's just the four of them chatting about politics #they do have complicated nuanced discussions! just with the occasional pause when elizabeth or darcy have to recover brain cells #gazes meeting a little too long... you know. the good stuff. #it couldn't realistically go on for THAT long but a few more months? sure. and that is the fic of my dreams lol #anghraine babbles #deep blogging #fic talk #otp of otps #austen blogging #fitzwilliam darcy #elizabeth bennet

[poetryofmuses]

November is a time of reflection and repentance. Sinners are forgiven if they beg harder. Nobody is truly content in November because it's a realization that the world has completed yet another revolution. The earth has rotated, birthdays are over, present becomes history, reminding us of our sins, and our unfulfilled resolutions.

#literature #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #darcy #dorian gray #jane austen #aesthetic poetry #dark academia aesthetic #light academia #art journal #November #months #January #December #Christmas #sin #earth #love

[bethanydelleman]

Happy Pride Month Jane Austen Fans!

#jane austen #queer #pride month #quotes taken out of context for good #emma