#catherine moreland

[pemberlaey]

i feel really normal about this

#they dont make men like austen men #the inherent power of the word dearest in an austen novel #pride and prejudice #emma #Northanger Abbey #Elizabeth Bennet #mr darcy #Mr. Darcy #lizzy x darcy #emma woodhouse #mr knightley #emma x knightley #emma 2020 #catherine moreland #henry tilney #catherine x henry #jane austen

[maureend]

Catherine Moreland is so me when I

#Jane Austen #northanger Abby #northanger #northanger abby memes #Catherine Moreland #Henry Tilney #Austen #classic literature #dark acadamia aesthetic #british literature #facebook memes #emma #charles dickens #pride and prejudice

[junewongapologia]

Catherine Moreland is certainly the type to saddle her kid with an unfortunate name.

Even so Albion Tilney is absolutely the name of a future Victorain politician, sorry Catherine.

#mr darcy & miss tilney mysteries #the murder of mr. wickham #the late mrs willoughby #catherine moreland #albion tilney #what a fcking name

[bad-at-names-and-faces]

A Sweet Tooth

@flufftober

It's time for fancy brunch on the Northanger Abbey cruiseship AU...

Catherine sat at the brunch with Henry and Eleanor and their father.

She hadn’t planned on paying extra for food on the cruise, and Mrs. Allen hadn’t thought to make brunch reservations beforehand, anyway. Catherine stared at the options on the buffet, each one fancier than the last.

“I hope the choices aren’t disappointing,” her friends’ father said to her.

“It all looks too wonderful, I just can’t decide what to have first.”

“If you don’t see what you like, you can ask them,” he told her.

“Oh, these will be fine! I’ll take some desserts.”

“A sweet tooth, then?”

#flufftober2023 #day 11 #northanger abbey #catherine moreland #modern au #cruiseship au #100 word drabble

[personagensautistas]

O personagem autista do dia é: Catherine Moreland, do filme Northanger Abbey.

#filme #catherine moreland #northanger abbey #Headcanon Autista #Autistic Headcanon #Autistic Character #Personagens Autistas #Your Favorite is Autistic #Autistic Character of the day

[lynchiangf]

once I've read all of austen's works I should do a ranking of her protagonists based on how "literally me" they are

#I'm an emma-coded catherine moreland girl

[alphacrone]

northanger abbey would be so funny to make into a modern adaption and i don’t know why no one is jumping on that

#catherine moreland would be a fucking bfu stan #jane austen #ok to rb

[ahahhahahahahahhhha]

Catherine Moreland as a true crime podcaster

I went on this strange website called AO3, sorted by kudos, and scrolled past BTS, Sherlock, and Critical Role fanfiction to find a version of Northanger Abbey as a transcript of Catherine Moreland's true crime podcast about the estate in the title. Being obsessed with true crime is basically the modern version of being an 1800s girl obsessed with Gothic Novels. They are both considered schlocky, undignified, entertainment with a majority female audience (although people respect novels now). Morbid girl stuff hasn't changed that much over the centuries. Catherine is your stereotypical, exploitative, sensationalist, true-crime podcast host. However, unlike in the original novel, you can tell the author likes her. A lot of the humor comes from knowing the conventions of a true-crime podcast. In the beginning, Catherine starts her podcast with a cheesy, cliche monologue about the alleged murders at Northanger Abbey. The author was probably channeling the spirit of a true crime wench while writing this part because it had the exact tone and word choice of every melodramatic podcaster. Afterward, we witness Catherine's attempts at coherent conversation and her journalistic facade falters; she is terrible at interviewing people. More: her podcast isn't famous, and she's in way over her head.

#I am a true crime wench (i sound as if i don't love true crime her esdkfsjldfjskdfd) #I LOVE CATHERINE MORELAND #i would the beat up the narrator with a baseball bat for how they treat Cathy

[lizzy-bonnet]

I love Jane Austen's work and I love podcasts, so naturally I follow several JA podcasts (please drop recs in the tags). I'm enjoying Live from Pemberley from Hot and Bothered, but a comment from literally the first episode of the series has been circulating in my brain since I listened to it several months ago: one of the hosts expressed surprise (and disappointment?) in the fact that when we first meet Lizzy, she is "employed in trimming a hat". This comment literally comes right after a conversation about how Austen tells us so much in the very short space of Chapter 1; without wasting any words, we know exactly who Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are (lightly toxic relationship), understand their family situation (need to marry well), meet the main driver of the first act (rich man in the neighbourhood), and understand a social dilemma (girls can't meet him if Mr. Bennet does not make the first overture). So what is Austen telling us when we meet Lizzy in the employment of trimming a hat?

We so often read a sort of modern girlboss feminism into Lizzy because she is smart and stands up for herself, but I think that's something that really gets embroidered on to the text. Lizzy trimming a bonnet is telling us several things about her:

She is frugal - new hats and bonnets are really expensive (my casual hobby is shopping for reproduction bonnets and this remains true), because the straw is braided by hand, the bonnet shape is assembled and blocked by hand, feathers have to be gathered from real (living or dead) birds, ribbons and flowers are hand-finished, the whole situation is fuck expensive. Lizzy is most likely putting new trim on a straw or wool bonnet she already owns to make it work better for this season's fashions, or a new dress, and possibly recycling trimmings from other hats. Contrast this with Lydia's spending all her pocket money on an ugly hat in Chapter 39, just so she can reduce it to parts, even though she acknowledges she'll also have to buy some extra satin too, to finish the project.

She cares about fashion - we don't get a lot of information on sartorial choices in Austen's work, and when characters are discussing fashion, it tends to be a framework for explaining something about their characters; Miss Steele's need to know how much Marianne's dresses cost (rude, crass); Mrs. Bennet's loving description of the lace on Mrs. Hurst's gown (shallow); Catherine Moreland's agonizing over what to wear to the Assembly (young, a bit flighty); Bingley wears a blue coat (has probably read The Sorrows of Young Werther, is fashionable). The fact that Lizzy is trimming a hat tells us she is fashionable, but paired with the fact that she will get a petticoat muddy in order to see her sister, and does not spend a lot of time worrying after fashion like Lydia tells us that she does not live and die on fashion.

She is creative - I've trimmed various hats and bonnets over my years of interest in historical fashion and honestly it's not easy. It's quite fiddly to get a nice ribbon edge, a ruched lining takes forever, and getting sprays of florals and feathers to be nicely shaped and all in a complementary palette is quite fussy. Getting a nice looking bonnet requires some thinking and planning. But it's also great fun! The Regency era is, in my opinion, a particularly good period for hats.

She is normal - I think Austen wants the reader to understand that Lizzy is a young woman with normal cares and concerns. She doesn't have cash for a new bonnet, she wants to look nice, she knows how to put an outfit together, she's not frivolous like her sisters, and she engages in the typical pursuits of someone who is not yet one and twenty who does not have a specific occupation.

A lot of modern readers are expecting Lizzy to be striding around the countryside unconcerned with "girly" things, or reading a clever book because we have come to think of her as proto-feminist in a way that suggests she might be a bra (corset) burner, but I think that comes from an outdated feminist lens that still wants to tell us that girly things are bad, or at least, a bit weak, and I don't see that in the text at all (I think some of this trickles over from the adaptations). Lizzy walks enthusiastically, she enjoys reading (but not to the exclusion of other employments), she dances very well and plays with mediocrity, she cares deeply about her friends and family, she has excellent manners, and dammit, she trims hats.

#jane austen #pride and prejudice #lizzy bennet #regency fashion #bonnets #characterization

[boleynecklace]

Felicity Jones as Catherine Moreland in Northanger Abbey (2007)

#love LOVE this book and this movie #perioddramaedit #periodedit #perioddramasource #userfilm #moviegifs #adaptationsdaily #dailyflicks #cinematicsource #dailyfilmsource #weloveperioddrama #doyouevenfilm #fyeahmovies #northanger abbey #jane austen #janeaustenedit #felicity jones #cathy moreland #cinepix #filmedit #19th century #pdedit #*gifs #*gifset #userrias #userrias gifs #regencysource #regencyedit

[wheresjonno]

Jonathan: hello is this the Gothic Heroine Support Group?

Catherine Moreland: *sniffs* you don't look much like a Gothic Heroine to me

Pamela: doesn't even have Stockings smh

Wolf Matron: *low growl* [translation: whatchu saying about my bald son?]

Christine Daée: oh for fucks sake

#gothic heroine support group #dracula daily

[beautifulscreaminglady]

if Catherine Moreland were alive today she'd be a tumblrina

#northanger abbey #jane austen

[bethanydelleman]

I'm completely impressed that you see so much in all of Jane Austen and enjoy reading your posts. I know that I wish I was Elizabeth for a feminist vibe, or Fanny for being a great writer, or Marianne for putting herself out there with her whole heart even though it might get crushed. When it comes down to it though I am Catherine Moreland because as the world unfolds around me I imagine an extended reality that adds a provocative kick to ordinary situations.

Nothing wrong with being Catherine Morland! She's great, she has a good heart, a wild imagination, and she thinks the best of people. Life is better when one adds a bit of extended reality.

And thank you!

#question response

[bad-at-names-and-faces]

Fault

Some Northanger Abbey cruise AU to finish off fictober23.

The car pulled up. It was an old sedan, and as the dome light turned on, she could see that the front passenger seat had a box of tissues sitting on it. The driver didn’t look particularly scary, though, even if it was two in the morning.

“I’m so sorry for whatever I did,” Catherine repeated.

“It’s not your fault,” Eleanor assured her. “Please send me a message when you get to the bus station?”

“Of course,” Catherine said. 

“Here, take this,” Eleanor quietly put a few twenty dollar bills into Catherine’s hand.

“I can’t take this.”

“Please, be safe.”

#fictober23 #day 31 #northanger abbey #jane austen fanfiction #modern au #cruise au #catherine moreland #eleanor tilney #100 word drabble

[tortoisesshells]

Thank you, @aloveforjaneausten, for the kind tag!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

79, but a pretty significant number are little ficlets with less than 300 words.

2. What's your total A03 words count?

378,686.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Mercy Street, 1899, Pirates of the Caribbean, Timeless, MCU, Turn: Washington's Spies, Band of Brothers, Fallout series, the Blackwell series, Agatha Christie's Poirot, apparently.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Customs and Duties (PotC); Treason Crackling in Your Blood (MCU); Maybe Everything That Dies (MCU); the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war (PotC); Suffer A Sea Change (PotC).

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I do. As others more astute than me have observed, it's not just the gratitude that someone told me how they felt about something I wrote, but because I love hearing about how people are engaging with the source work in the first place. Community, I suppose.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I think nearly every fic I've written ends at least somewhat unhappily, or leaves the door wide open to future problems. Maybe glazed already the eye, yet life struggles hard on the basis of it ending at the absolute nadir of Henry Hopkins' self-esteem and over-arching moral quandary in-show? Or maybe it's just my favorite ending. Who can say?

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I can't think of a fic I've written with an unambiguously happy ending, to be honest - probably (people like me) don't live to feel? sure, the main characters are walking off stab wounds/concussions, but that's a day in the life for that universe.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Here? No. In a past life (high school fic writing account)? Yes. I don't remember the fic, but I remember the comment with pretty exact clarity.

9. Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Either I'm ludicrously repressed, or I'm the most interested in characters who are ludicrously repressed, or both.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Yes, and I think the one that's at least, on its face, the wackiest, is probably the ongoing Mercy Street/Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter one.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I'm aware of!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope.

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

Yeah! Shout-out to the Mansion House Murder Party. <3

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

I can't really say I've got one (even 'ships that I'm very interested in, I'm always willing to split up for the sake of exploring something else in their characters?) - though I suppose I'd probably refuse to read any fic that broke up Catherine Moreland and Henry Tilney, maybe. If that's anything.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

I hate to say Customs, because I'm so close that I can taste it and I have a good outline to the end, but - I've sort of lost faith in sticking the ending, and it really does feel like part of the ending requires Nellie to do something a little out of character. So -?

16. What are your writing strengths?

Details. I'm good with details.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

No one's ever accused me of writing a fast-moving fic. I know my pacing tends towards the glacial.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I wouldn't - I'd have to trouble a native speaker, because even the languages I know enough to string a sentence or several together in will seem, well. Like a non-native speaker wrote them. Plus - hmm. I'd be providing a translation back into English anyway - I'd feel like I was just showing off, in a way. Badly. And I do enough peacocking with historical trivia that I ought to keep the posturing to a minimum elsewhere.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

There's a composition notebook in a landfill somewhere with a handwritten-in-gel-pen Hornblower fanfic that never saw the light of internet publication.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

I hate to have the same answer every time, but - Suffer a Sea Change. It's the cleanest-paced, least insufferable thing I've ever written.

Tagging: @shoshiwrites, @mercurygray, @jomiddlemarch, @sagiow, @theonlyredcar, & anyone else who wants!

#polkaknox talks #fic #my fic #tag meme

[sashasienna]

hello Sasha I think it might please you to know that our Strahd party includes 1) a Benoit Blanc-inspired character named Victor Vert and 2) Catherine Moreland from Northanger Abbey. She’s a warlock ✨