#from mansfield with love

[20genderchild]

#literary inspired web series #headlessseries #nothing much to do #lovely little losers #project green gables #the emma agenda #project dashwood #from mansfield with love #call me katie #rational creatures

[thelastofthebookworms]

Persuasion adaptations' poll

Sense and Sensibility adaptations' poll

Emma adaptations' poll

Pride and Prejudice adaptations' poll

#polls #mansfield park #jane austen #fanny price #2007 mansfield park #1999 mansfield park #stage adaptations #radio drama #1983 mansfield park #from mansfield with love #web series

[bethanydelleman]

Hello! Do you have a post where you go into more detail about your thoughts on From Mansfield With Love? I tried to search but couldn't find it. Thank you!

Here it is!

By the way, I use Tumblr Top to search my own blog. Works better most of the time than Tumblr's own search function.

Also, that post is pretty critical, but I would like to reiterate that the production was amateur and I do appreciate the attempt. Modernizing is hard.

#from mansfield with love #question response

[villetteulogy]

MANSFIELD PARK (1999, dir. Patricia Rozema)

#mansfield park #perioddramaedit #romanceedit #jane austen #filmedit #perioddramacentral #period drama #herny crawford #fanny price #janeaustenedit #henry crawford x fanny price #the yearning!!!!!!! #alexa play betty by taylor swift #Romeo and Juliet ..... literally Romeo and Juliet #he's such a clown #henry doing the absolute MOST to get fanny's attention is something v close to my heart #(I love this moment so so soooo much! idc that the line isn't from Mansfield Park!! it works perfectly!!) #fanny x henry #mine #period dramas #I would defend this film and its choices until my last breath btw

[junewongapologia]

On The Origin Of The Species was feasibly published within the lifetime of Edmund Bertram, and you just know he would have been insufferable about it.

#edmund bertram #mansfield park #i love him!! #i really do!! #also relevant: #he wouldve been like 65 #ppl not known to be open minded: #old victorian clegrymen #this is not anti edmund i love him and fanny #hes not this dick that a lot of ppl make him out to be #loves fanny #is a good person #is also the exact kind of person who was aghast at this book #(mary crawford #reading it from her chaise in her townhouse: #boy do i know somebody who is gonna hate this book lol)

[fictionadventurer]

"It looked like a good day for setting fence posts, and my mother said so while taking the biscuits from the oven. 'Some morning early, when I can get away, I want you to come with me along the edge of the hill in the wood-lot," she continued. "When the shadows of the trees begin to come down the slope, as the sun rises you feel the turning of the earth. You feel the whole globe under your feet rolling into the sunlight. . . . That's something I found one morning when I was driving the calves to pasture. I've been saving it up for you. I wonder if you've seen a more beautiful dawn in any of the places you've been.'

On my fingers I count the dawns I have seen--memorable, just in being dawns. Sleepy-eyed dawn from the Paris markets after a night of dancing; mist dawn against which I was just to late to see the minarets of Constantinople--all the fault of the stupid stewardess who didn't wake me in time; one startling moment of color on the hills around the Dead Sea before they went colorless in merciless heat; sudden dawn like a clap of light over the freezing-cold Syrian desert. Four dawns in twenty years. No, I do not know dawns as my mother does."

-- Rose Wilder Lane, "A Place in the Country" (1925)

#little house #rose wilder lane #laura ingalls wilder #a little house sampler #i dove into the book seriously this morning #intended to read just the first couple of pieces and kept reading 'just one more' until i've got about 2/3 read #most of laura's pieces are familiar from her farm columns #though there's a couple of early versions of little house stories that show a lot of her voice did get through there #rose's are fascinating #i can't quite wrap my head around her #sometimes she'll seem neurotic and restless and judgey and sophisticated and a bit pretentious #and then she writes some of the most beautiful nostalgic pieces #showing so much love of home and family and the simple joys of life #this piece might be my favorite so far because it grapples with those two sides #after four years as a foreign correspondent she's back at home in mansfield #and she has a new appreciation for her parents and the work they do and the life they've built #now that she's had her adventures and is no longer a restless teen looking to get away from rural poverty #even in the other pieces it's fascinating how much love of her family comes through when you know about the difficult relationships #i should share some quotes from the piece about mary when i get the chance #(also i'm very upset that she didn't write down the story of why she and her parents never read the last book in the school library) #(you don't end with a sequel hook and just leave me hanging ms. lane!) #anyway i love the whole essay that this is from and there are other worthwhile quotes #but i like how this one captures the 'noticing beauty while doing farm work' side of laura that i've come to think of as her trademark

[doll-elvis]

For any of my fellow north american elvis fans that weren’t able to watch the new Elvis documentary on amazon, I have found a way to watch it 👀

initially I wanted nothing to do with the doc but then I got nosy and tbh it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be but Alanna Nash was somehow worse than expected 😑

Here’s are the steps:

1. Download ExpressVPN through the app store

2. There are 2 options once downloaded: a free trial, or a one month subscription for $13. Personally I chose the one for $13 just because I always forget to end free trials and this one charges $99 afterwards😫

3. Once you have chosen either the free trial or the one month subscription follow the in-app instructions for the set up and once set up you are going to choose New Zealand as the location and then click the power button

(it should look like the first picture once activated and you will know it worked when it’s says “vpn” next to the WiFi symbol in the top left of your screen)

4. After that, download the app TVNZ+ through the app Store which is a free tv show/movie site only available in New Zealand

5. You will have to make an account on TVNZ+ but it is free and only requires an email and a password

6. On the TVNZ+ app the documentary is called Elvis: Heartbreaker. I recommended not leaving the app while watching because the vpn’s connection can be sensitive and log you out, and then you will have to log back into the app which gets annoying 😭 (also just ignore any error notification that says for NZ residents only, just click out of it and continue logging in)

7. Since Alanna Nash is a spiteful nasty hag, I highly recommend skipping her speaking parts!! 😃

#let me know if it worked for y’all or if you have any questions #also if you watch it I would love to know what your overall opinions were 👀 #honestly the best part of the documentary was the videos and pictures I had never seen before #if anything was definitely worth seeing it was that #I was scared to hear from reeca smith #but her interview pleasantly surprised me #and confirmed everything that I had suspected which was that the relationship was brief and innocent #also my heart is broken for elisabeth Mansfield (Elvis’s Germany secretary) I truly felt bad for her by the end of it #this is an alanna nash hate account #elvisaaronpresley #elvis presley #elvis #elvis history #Elvis’ women #elvis documentary

[omjitskailay]

I love this picture so much

This poor man is so excited about having a beautiful woman on each arm

meanwhile the woman are telepathically making out

#I have no idea where this is from other than something to do with the cast of mansfield park 1999 #lesbians #i love them so much

[constantvigilante]

"Such was the origin of the sort of intimacy which took place between them within the first fortnight after the Miss Bertrams' going away, an intimacy resulting principally from Miss Crawford's desire of something new, and which had little reality in Fanny's feelings. Fanny went to her every two or three days; it seemed a kind of fascination; she could not be easy without going, and yet it was without loving her, without ever thinking like her, without any sense of obligation for being sought after now when nobody else was to be had; and deriving no higher pleasure from her conversation than occasional amusement, and that often at the expense of her judgement, when it was raised by pleasantry on people or subjects which she wished to be respected."

Such a great description of those relationships of convenience we fall into where we have absolutely nothing in common.

#mansfield park #i want to say fanny is stronger than i because i find witty people very likeable #but mary cares so little for anything that fanny likes apart from edmund #she gives a long thoughtful speech about nature and humanity the next page #but miss crawford is untouched and inattentive and says nothing #she's NOT EVEN LISTENING #for all that she expresses liking for fanny she mainly values her because she's bored #and sees that she's good but has never really valued anything she said #she responds with jokes or nothing at all #and yet people think they're friends! #they're not! #they're pushed together by circumstance alone #not without seeing good in each other #but never really crossing that divide #and when someone doesn't care enough to listen and jokes about things you take seriously #yeah you're not going to be friends #even if you aren't also harboring secret jealousy #even if you typically are overwhelmed with gratitude at any kindness #a fanny that can't even love stern uncle despite all her pathetic gratitude #won't be forced into love that easily

[koshka-sova]

rhodes island really does a good job of creating an environment where infected and non-infected are treated (much more) fairly and, most importantly, more humanly (for lack of a better term). from a player's perspective, its not always obvious who's infected and who's not just based on their appearance. in meta terms, the art direction is superb. and in in-game terms? RI treats these operators well enough.

hope this makes sense. read through anthony's files and was shocked to find he's infected. you get conditioned to think that infected Should live better lives, and it makes you not obsess over whether or not an op is infected.

other ak media also shows this relatively welcoming environment RI has, an example being the recent cooking manga. the original character introduced, a rim billiton cautus (sorry i forgot her name) was ultimately exiled from her former mining camp after the other miners found out she had oripathy. now, in RI, amiya bumped into her in the kitchen; she wants the cautus' help in making a rim billiton dish. when the cautus snaps at amiya's supposed preachings about RI's welcoming environment, amiya simply rolls up her sleeve. oripathy. and shes taken aback.

what i like about this bit is that she didnt realise amiya was an infected. its from there, she slowly sees that in RI, there is much less discrimination against infected, if at all.

#catowl rambles #arknights #been a hot minute since i used this tag lmaoooo #anyways yes im now playing arknights #its really swell #already NEARLy a month (heh) #(since i started playing from NL) #(tho my first proper event was mansfield. love that story a lot)

[patrice-bergerons]

📓

Put "📓" or some other version of a book emoji into my inbox and I'll explain the plot of a fanfiction that I haven't written but daydream about.

I've lately been thinking about a ghost fic in which Dench!M and Q hang out as two ghosts—although Q is not dead; he has just ended up in a coma. He is bound to his hospital room and Bond is also there in the story, losing his mind with worry that Q will never wake up or flat out die on him.

Importantly, this is a set up in which Q and Bond hooked up at least once but Q subsequently hit Bond with a 'we can't keep doing this' because even though he likes Bond very much he has too many reservations about getting involved with him.

So the story is one part waiting for godot vibes of Q trying to pass the time, trying to make small talk with his dead former prickly boss (who really does not believe in small talk) and retain his sanity and one part, well-

M agrees with Q's reservations w/r/t Bond you see. In fact, she offers everything Bond does in that hospital room as examples of why he is untrustworthy, dangerous, unreliable, cold. All things Q told himself in deciding a relationship would only end in disaster. But M goes so hard on him Q finds himself...defending Bond, offering alternative interpretations of his actions and related counterexamples from the past.

(And it's only when he wakes up, grateful to be able to reach out to Bond again and still indignant on his behalf, that he realises what a masterclass M pulled in reverse pyshcology, getting Q to realise he has perhaps been too harsh on Bond before.)

Essentially, I just think we see such little of M and Q interact and it would be reaaaaly interesting to explore what their dynamic would look like and also the mental image of Q walking towards the proverbial light only for M to drag him back by the ear with a 'where the hell do you think you are going young man?!' is absolutely hilarious to me.

#00q #james bond #dench!m #olivia mansfield #fic ideas #i just LOVE coma ghosts bc you get all the ghost shenanigans #without the permanency of characters being dead #and then on M's side i think this *is* her looking out for bond from beyond the grave #making sure he doesnt lose someone else important to him #and if she can knock some sense into their heads while entertaining herself- well

[greencarnation]

i love finding things inside second hand books. a note scribbled on the inside of the cover - 'for lily'. someone else's favourite lines circled and written on. a tatty grocery list that must have been used as a bookmark. anything, everything. i cherish every bit of history inside my books, every sign that someone loved them before me

#same with broken spines and crinkled pages #i love preloved books #double the aesthetic and double as beautiful #rn i'm reading an ancient paperback copy of good omens i picked up from the charity shop #charity shop books >>>>> #and the last persons bookmark (a faded sticky note) was still there #someones written on the inside cover: gayle mansfield aug '96 #anyway gayle mansfield i love you #you wrote that 26 years ago. i wonder where you are now. i hope you're happy #books #reading #good omens

[bethanydelleman]

From Mansfield With Love

Someone a while ago asked for my opinion on this series and I hope they see this because I can’t find the original post response.

So I’m on Episode No. 31 and I while I think it’s pretty good for an amature production, I’m really not loving the characterization.

Frankie does not seem super Fanny to me, and I’m sad because I’ve been told this is an in character depiction. The main problem is she doesn’t come off as shy. There are a few other things: she makes a lot of quips/sass (book Fanny is more likely to quote poetry), she speaks up a lot when other people are around, she criticizes people first to Edmund, and she in no ways seems to be in love with Edmund. (And I don’t think she’d say it out loud to Will, but there are no like, longing looks or anything). 

Frankie also just seems whiny a lot, which is something I don’t think we should be getting so much. Fanny accepts her lot in life in MP. When she has a headache from cutting flowers, she doesn’t blame anyone or complain, she quietly lies down.  I think it would have been in character to see Frankie after getting yelled at by Mrs. Norris doing some sort of mantra “I’m lucky to be here and have this job” or something. Instead of insulting Mrs. Norris behind her back which we never see book Fanny do.

As for the Frankie/Bertram dynamic, she seems to be more part of a friend group than a grateful, dependant. And I know this is hard to depict today, I don’t have the answers but the Bertrams really seem to treat her far too much like an equal or like a friend. 

I am also really disappointed by the scene where Frankie accidentally records Henry and Mary and learns that Henry can’t be trusted. It basically erases all of Fanny’s perceptive abilities. She is now an eavesdropper, not a careful studier of the people around her.

I have mostly enjoyed the depiction of Mary, though we are not getting the dynamic where she ignores Fanny until the Miss Bertrams leave, but that’s not a big deal. Mary has been merged with Mrs. Grant which is fine.

I also think Tom is pretty well done.

Henry has been a bit of an issue for me too. He’s actually attractive, which I don’t think is my subjective judgement because a bunch of the characters say that he’s physically attractive which is not the idea. The idea is that he talks his way into being hot. But besides that, he seems to want to go for Frankie right away, but then that doesn’t really happen, and it’s also against the book. He isn’t supposed to pay attention to Fanny at all until the Miss Bertram’s leave. And I think that is important to how in the background Fanny is.

Also, it’s kind of a problem for Henry to have a job. I think a big part of his character is that he’s perpetually bored and doesn’t really have anything to do (I know he’s technically a landlord, but he can manage that through a steward). We know that when Henry actually wants to do something, he does it. It might have made more sense to have Henry be the person who draws up the plans and then Mary actually has to build it or something so Henry can finish quickly and then be bored? I don’t know. 

Rhea and Rory is kind of strange, because they look actually in love, not like Maria is just in this for the money. I know these are amature actors, but I also don’t really see Rhea vying for Henry’s attention. She’s usually with Rory and staring lovingly into his eyes. The skinny dipping thing seemed to come out of nowhere.

As for the Edmund/Fanny/Frankie dynamic, I don’t know if it will become more apparent, but I haven’t seen anything yet that’s similar to “Fanny must have a horse/Can Mary borrow the house?/I ran away with the horse for five days” which is important in how Edmund begins to neglect and forget Fanny. I also am not really getting the “Edmund tells Fanny about Mary’s faults and then talks himself out of them” dynamic.

The one scene that really bothered me, and I’m really confused why they even did it, was when Frankie says she does a book club with Edmund, but then specifies that Edmund won’t read classics. And I was like, what??? Edmund and Fanny have basically identical taste in books in MP: but he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment: he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise. That was just a very strange choice in my opinion.

Also, I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to get out of the little plot where Mary and Henry want to turn Frankie’s attic into a suite but then they back down right away when they realize it’s her room.

Anyway, happy to hear other people’s thoughts on this series! I am really glad it exists, because MP does not get enough love. And I am in no way saying that I could have done it better, these are just my quibbles.

#from mansfield with love #frankie price #fanny price #mansfield park #jane austen #question response #but not the actual one because I can't find it #henry crawford isn't hot #every adaptation is guilty of this except 1983 #that Henry looks like a chipmunk and I was THERE FOR IT #rambling post of things that I didn't like #I loved the episode with the pug

[tadpal]

YESSSSS TOM IS ILL ITS FINALLY ALL HAPPENING

#the pacing is my least favourite part mansfield #i think in general too many things happen all at once and everything wraps too quickly for my tastes in mist austens #this is fine in her other novels but mansfield suffers from it especially since fanny is SUCH an inactive protagonist #i love her tho #im scooping her. darling fanny

[gaygollum]

reading mansfield park gave me the same feeling as reading greywaren. it was bad

#when what u think the book is abt isnt what the book is abt #when greywaren was supposed to be about how niall lynch was a flawed father but declan forgave all of his abuse bc #he found out niall loved him. like what #and when mansfield park was supposed to be about how the bertrams were abusive towards fanny and the rich arent very nice people and thrive #off the exploitation of others but actually sir thomas was great and honorable and fanny is grateful to them for saving her #from her gross poor family. LIKE WHAT #most disappointing reads of my life. fumbled the ball. shat and pissed on all the themes they set up #at least greywaren didnt end with ronan marrying his cousin 😔😔😔😔😔 #mine

[bluebookpoet]

To stop loving you just doesn't make any sense

To walk away from you just doesn't make sense

To live life without you just doesn't make sense

I will continue to love you

Even if it doesn't make sence.

-Blue Book Poet

#blue book poetry #poets on tumblr #writers and poets #writerscommunity #writer #writing #in love with a young women from mansfield ohio #love poems dedicated to Jocilene