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[duckprintspress]

Calling All Artists!

In celebration of January 1st, 2024, and Public Domain Day, Duck Prints Press is thrilled to announce that we are doing open recruitment for artists to contribute to our next fanfiction and fanart anthology A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”!

Are you an Austenite? Do you love Regency romance but lament how, well, straight most of it is? Do you wish Mary Bennett found a partner? Are you positive Charlotte Lucas deserved better? Do you pity Miss de Bourgh? Do you dream of Darcy and Bingley OT3s? Well you are NOT ALONE! We at Duck Prints Press are right there with you, and we’re here to say: this is your moment to shine! We want your wlw pairings, your new happy endings, your P&P ot3s and ot4s, your “but what if they’re trans,” your queer art and fanart inspired by this beloved story! This story has such a lovely main and supporting cast, the possibilities for taking Pride and Prejudice and MAKING IT QUEER are endless!

This is the third in our Queer Fanworks Inspired By… series, publishing legal fanfic and fanart inspired by popular works in the public domain. It builds on the success of our first two, And Seek (Not) to Alter Me (inspired by Much Ado About Nothing) and Aim For The Heart (inspired by The Three Musketeers). This is a paid arting opportunity; artists will be asked to complete one full-page (A4/210 mm x 297 mm), full-color piece, and we may have space for some artists to complete more than one page and/or short comics. Base pay is $50 per page, with the potential for raises up to $400 per page depending on our success during the eventual crowdfunding campaign.

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[bethanydelleman]

Mr. Bingley is not Weak

A lot of people kind of hate Bingley, which I have discovered much to my surprise. I think Bingley has also suffered from the adaptations which, especially 2005, have made him into something of a himbo. But we are told Bingley is at least average intelligence: In understanding, Darcy was the superior. Bingley was by no means deficient; but Darcy was clever. (Ch 4)

Bingley is modest (a positive trait), but he is not weak. Darcy says this in his letter:

We accordingly went—and there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice. I described and enforced them earnestly. But however this remonstrance might have staggered or delayed his determination, I do not suppose that it would ultimately have prevented the marriage,

Pause here, Bingley does not care about all the reasons which have kept Darcy himself from acting on his admiration of a Bennet sister. This form of attack was useless, which means Bingley is not easily influenced by his friend...

 had it not been seconded by the assurance, which I hesitated not in giving, of your sister’s indifference. He had before believed her to return his affection with sincere, if not with equal, regard. But Bingley has great natural modesty, with a stronger dependence on my judgment than on his own. To convince him, therefore, that he had deceived himself was no very difficult point. To persuade him against returning into Hertfordshire, when that conviction had been given, was scarcely the work of a moment.

The social context here is important, Bingley cannot ask if Jane likes him. You flirt and then you propose. That’s it. Bingley can only decide this from how Jane acts and he is modest. When he's told that Jane doesn't actually love him, he is humble enough to believe that it's possible.

Also, we know Jane is reserved, so Bingley not being entirely sure of her feelings is very possible and not a fault on either side. Jane is doing what she thinks is morally right, instead of flirting openly like Caroline with Darcy. A moral conduct book from the time would uphold Jane as an ideal.

Again, Bingley doesn't just do whatever his Caroline or Darcy say. Caroline can't convince Bingley to cancel the ball and Darcy's early dislike of the Bennets doesn't change Charles's opinion of them. I am pretty certain that Caroline alone could have done very little to make Charles forget Jane, it was only Darcy's report that he took seriously.

Why hate Bingley for this? It's refreshing! Darcy is the opposite of modest, he is so convinced that Elizabeth loves him even though she doesn't. His proposal is supremely arrogant. He expresses no real fear that he will be refused: As he said this she could easily see that he had no doubt of a favourable answer. He spoke of apprehension and anxiety, but his countenance expressed real security. Mr. Collins is also disgustingly self-assured. I would take Bingley’s modesty over either Collins or Darcy #1 any day of the week.

I think the Jane and Bingley relationship is meant to show the flaws in the conduct rules of the time, not flaws in the characters themselves. Jane acts properly, not like a coquette, and still suffers for it. Bingley is fairly sure of Jane’s genuine affection, but is convinced away from her because she doesn’t act like one would expect from a woman in love. They would have gotten along charmingly on their own, it was the world that was against them.

#bingley #Charles Bingley #pride and prejudice #jane austen #probably too much blogging today #and I've even been holding back #putting stuff in the queue and whatnot #whatever this needs to be out #jane bennet #mr. darcy

[richs-pics]

Fish rising and female mallard

#fish #carved fish #wooden fish #fish carving #duck #mallard #st ives country park #st ives estate #bingley #yorkshire #outdoors #outdoor photography #photographers on tumblr #original content #original work #all my own work #photo walk #pond #lake #coppice pond

[strangerpsychofficeparks]

Freaking love Chris Traeger and Ben Wyatt's friendship because they're literally just the modern day version of Charles "golden retriever" Bingley and Fitzwilliam "constipated turtle" Darcy

#parks and recreation #parks and rec #michael schur #mike schur #greg daniels #chris traeger #ben wyatt #darcy #bingley #fitzwilliam darcy #charles bingley #pride and prejudice #chris and ben #ben and chris #darcy and bingley #bingley and darcy

[regulusblack-mybabe]

I swear if Bingley dies, I'm not gonna recover... ever.

#marauders #jegulus #regulus black #crimson rivers #james potter #mary macdonald #Bingley #lilly evans

[hillnerd-art]

That scene from pride and predjuice (the move) where darcy is helping bingy rehearse his speech?

images under cut

#pride and prejudice #darcy #bingley

[ardentlyinlovedarcy]

#mr bingley #charles bingley #bingley #pride and prejudice #jane austen #prideandprejudice #mr darcy's best friend #lost in austen #pride and prejudice 1995 #pride and prejudice 2005 #pride and prejudice and zombie #simon woods #tom mison #douglas booth

[howifeltabouthim]

His easy laugh, the gentleness of his disposition, the consistency of his moods, and his relaxed attentiveness, all had a tonic effect on her rattled nerves. Being with him was natural. With Tony, she didn't have to be anything in particular, and she never felt any pressure to perform; whereas with Gavin, everything had been a performance, including—or especially—sex.

Anna Biller, from Bluebeard's Castle

#healing power of love #healthy relationship #performative #be yourself #companionship #comparison #relationship dynamics #intimacy #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #bingley #good guy #easygoing #gentle #relationship goals #authentic self #anna biller #bluebeard's castle

[bee-the-whovian]

As much as, of course, one aspires to the romance of Darcy and Elizabeth, main character energy and all that....

But given my current circumstances, I can't help but envy the Bingley/Jane dynamic... head over heels from the get-go, and no doubts whatsoever that they'll be very happy.

I've always had more supporting character energy... not Jane energy, but supporting character nonetheless. It would suffice.

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Not that my author needs critic notes, but... I offer them anyway.

#pride and prejudice #pride & prejudice #darcy and lizzy #mr darcy #bingley #bingley and jane #stories #writing #romance #love #troubles in love

[gigforvictory]

Bingley Weekender 2022: Pixies + White Lies + The Hara + The Slow Readers Club + Calva Louise + Sea Power + Kelsey Karter / Bradford & Bingley Rugby Club, Bingley

#2022 #Bingley #Bradford & Bingley Rugby Club #Festival

[wenttworth]

New reaction pictures

#would yuo look at bingley's teefies #rambles #bingley #catblr

[thefollyflaneuse]

Follies and Freaks: a 1908 view.

In 1908 T.W. Wilkinson submitted an article on ‘Remarkable Follies’ to Wide World Magazine. This popular publication was launched in 1898 and was aimed at men, and in particular what one writer has called ‘armchair adventurers’. It specialised in true-life tales of derring-do with titles such as ‘The Underground Pirates’ and ‘Across Africa by Boat’. One wonders what the readership made of…

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#Beckford’s Tower #Bingley #brightling #Charborough Park #Hartwell House #Holnest #mad jack fuller #Ralph Allan’s Sham #Roundhill Tannery #Wide World Magazine

[bethanydelleman]

In Trade and Of Trade

The Bingleys are the Gardiners, in Pride & Prejudice, while both being associated with trade, are pretty clearly not in the same station in life.

We are told that the Bingleys have a habit of “associating with people of rank”. Which means that people of rank have agreed to associate with them.

Mrs. Gardiner admits, “We live in so different a part of town, all our connections are so different.” They are not associating with the same people as the Bingleys.

The Bingleys live as if they are gentry class, “but as he was now provided with a good house and the liberty of a manor“

The Gardiners live as people who work “lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses”

All of the Bingleys have a gentleman/woman’s education, the sisters “had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town”

Mr. Gardiner might be able to put his children in a similar position, but Mr. Gardiner is engaged in trade and works.

Bingley himself has never worked a day in his life, he lives off the income of his inheritance. “Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had intended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it.

Also, Mr. Gardiner was born “middle class” (I know that’s not exactly a class at this time) to an attorney. The Bingleys might well be from a lesser branch of a gentry family, as we hear, “They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother’s fortune and their own had been acquired by trade”. The Bingleys are going to remember something high status.

I also get the feeling that things are much more fluid, in Jane Austen’s works, than modern people like to portray. in Emma, Emma is a massive snob and happily snubs the Coles, but she accepts Mr. Weston as an acceptable person to visit. Mr. Weston, “quitted the militia and engaged in trade”. And yet, once he purchases his small estate of Randalls, Emma will visit him and happily see her former governess married to him. Emma also teaches us to fake it till you make it, “There can be no doubt of your being a gentleman’s daughter, and you must support your claim to that station by every thing within your own power, or there will be plenty of people who would take pleasure in degrading you.” It’s very possible that the Bingleys have made it past a Emma-style gatekeeper and now are accepted into the high class circles.

I also have no doubt that the Bingleys would never tell anyone about their unfortunate relations who remain in trade. They have left that world behind and do everything they can (such as paying for education) to make themselves look like gentry. Mr. Gardiner, on the other hand, is not doing that. And Elizabeth, unsnobby as she is, does not ignore the parts of her family that are below her class. We know that Lucy Steele, when she marries in Sense and Sensibility, actually cuts all of her lower connections.

#pride and prejudice #emma #sense and sensibility #jane austen #It's almost impossible for me to only post about one novel #I've posted a lot recently #Not sure if I should apologize for that #I spend a lot of time thinking about Austen #the bingleys are not in trade anymore #they are collectively attempting a social jump #and it seems like they aced the landing #bingley

[richs-pics]

Lady Blantyre's Rock

#stairs #stairway #steps #rock #lady blantyres rock #st ives country park #bingley #yorkshire #outdoors #outdoor photography #ramble #stroll #walk #phototherapy #photography is my therapy #wellness walk #wellbeing #photographers on tumblr #original content #original work #original photograph #all my own work

[apebook]

#Bennet #bestseller #Bingley #classics #Darcy #deutsch #Ehe #Elizabeth #Frau #Heirat #Jane #JaneAusten #Klassiker #Liebe #Roman #Romantik #Töchter #Victorian

[tokyonymph]

My dog Bingley having a nice Pup Cup from Starbucks!

#my posts #my dog #video #bingley