#longbourn house

[curiousb]

The Longbourn House Yearbook: Volume IV

Clara throws her disappointed heart into her studies, and tries to get to grips with a problem that her robotics professor has left on the board for his students to tackle.

She’s not sure that the server should be making that noise...

Well, I guess that building robots is sweaty work, but, ermm, that is a public toilet, Clara.

After a hard day at DBIST, Clara gets a warm welcome home from Eleanor. Like Eliza and Lucas, I suspect that she might have ulterior motives.

Yep, I’m definitely sensing some romantic vibes between the two of them.

Romance is also on Frances’s mind, and she invites Green Bean on a date to the Galaxy Bar, the funkiest venue on campus.

OK, I think I know what you two were up to...

Yup!

And we really don’t need to see the photos!

My game seems to like generating NPCs with groovy skin tones - meet Donna Pope!

Frances had a very particular reason for asking Green Bean out today... (the ‘Surprise Proposal’ faces are just too cute)

It’s an emphatic yes!

Time to celebrate!

Back at Longbourn, Eleanor is moving in for her first kiss.

And a romantic twirl in the cafeteria.

Clara gets down on one knee, brandishing a jewellery box!

But it’s her first love Daniel that she’s proposing to!

I’m sorry, Eleanor, you were just too late.

#sims 2 #merybury #clara dashwood #eleanor tilney #eliza bennet #lucas darcy #frances crawford #green bean #daniel bingley #donna pope #longbourn house

[high-school-lit-tournament]

High School Lit Tournament Quarter-Finals

Pride and Prejudice: Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of these—the haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy—irks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, Jane Austen's radiantly caustic wit and keen observation sparkle (source).

To Kill a Mockingbird: The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. [...] Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, "To Kill A Mockingbird" takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

#high school lit tournament #classic literature #pride and prejudice #to kill a mockingbird

[bethanydelleman]

How does Darcy usually act?

Well it's really hard to know isn’t it? Because there is only like one whole scene where he isn’t in love with Elizabeth, the Assembly Ball, and there he is a total jerk. The next time we see him, he’s starting to get interested in Elizabeth and his strategy is Listen to Her Talk to Other People and Stare At Her, which is you know, interesting. But people in love are a little nuts, Darcy especially because he’s struggling AGAINST the love.

At Netherfield we see some epic battles of intellect against Elizabeth and Darcy try to be gallant once or twice, but then he does a 180 because he’s getting too bewitched so he decides to just stop talking to her altogether until she gets out of the house. Interestingly, his friends never say he’s acting weird. Then he dances with Elizabeth and flees to London.

Then we have Hunsford, which is Am I Really Going to Jump Into This Frozen Lake? Darcy. He keeps going to the parsonage to see Elizabeth, but doesn’t say anything, probably because he’s finally decided to propose and the enormity of his resolve is overtaking him. He does some capital testing of the waters, “Well, you wouldn’t mind living far from home, right? Wink wink?”  Charlotte doesn’t know what to make of him and Colonel Fitzwilliam says he’s acting crazy, which means this isn’t Normal Darcy (whatever that is), this is LOVE Darcy, but also a Darcy who feels the need to tell his prospective wife how gross her family is…

Then we have Pemberley Darcy, who is very polite to the Gardiners and who invites Bingley and Georgiana to go see Elizabeth, but barely talks during the meeting. By now, however, Elizabeth has turned into an Awkward Love Turtle and has trouble talking to him, “Hey, I showed up at your house… opps.” So it’s not like two way conversation is even really possible at this point. Then the letter arrives and Darcy SWEARS! And says some very nice words of comfort before he rides off to save Lydia.

Now we have Darcy: The Returning where he goes to Longbourn with Bingley and, you guessed it, doesn’t say a whole lot. But at this point both him and Elizabeth are trying to read each other’s minds without much success and they are both Super Awkward Love Turtles until Lady Catherine yells them into knowing each other’s minds and they get engaged.

Then Darcy says A LOT about how great he’s gotten at introspection and Elizabeth starts teasing him, which he mostly answers in earnest. He is still pretty quiet around her family, which makes sense because how does anyone get a word in edgewise and then Elizabeth tells us he still needs to learn to laugh at himself.

So anyway, the real problem is that Colonel Fitzwilliam didn’t reply back to Elizabeth by telling us what Darcy is really like, because he’s spending the whole book going through a rollercoaster of love and not wanting to be in love and then giving into love and then trying to get a second chance at love and he’s never just having a normal day.

#mr. darcy #fitzwilliam darcy #colonel fitzwilliam #elizabeth bennet #awkward love turtles #a very brief summary of Darcy's journey through the novel #but really we don't know much about him before he falls in love #And then everything he does afterwards is tainted by being in love #And not wanting to be in love #STRUGGLES #good God is a swear if you are religious #we need to interview Colonel F #and discover the real truths #pride and prejudice #jane austen

[transbookoftheday]

The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi

In this delightfully modern spin on Pride and Prejudice, love is a goal, marriage is a distant option, and self-discovery is a sure thing.

Welcome to Bennet House, the only all-women’s dorm at prestigious Longbourn University, home to three close friends who are about to have an eventful year. EJ is an ambitious Black engineering student. Her best friend, Jamie, is a newly out trans woman studying French and theatre. Tessa is a Filipina astronomy major with guy trouble. For them, Bennet House is more than a residence—it’s an oasis of feminism, femininity, and enlightenment. But as great as Longbourn is for academics, EJ knows it can be a wretched place to find love.

Yet the fall season is young and brimming with surprising possibilities. Jamie’s prospect is Lee Gregory, son of a Hollywood producer and a gentleman so charming he practically sparkles. That leaves EJ with Lee’s arrogant best friend, Will. For Jamie’s sake, EJ must put up with the disagreeable, distressingly handsome, not quite famous TV actor for as long as she can.

What of it? EJ has her eyes on a bigger prize, anyway: launching a spectacular engineering career in the “real world” she’s been hearing so much about. But what happens when all their lives become entwined in ways no one could have predicted—and EJ finds herself drawn to a man who’s not exactly a perfect fit for the future she has planned?

#the bennet women #eden appiah-kubi #transfem #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

[arrthurpendragon]

Love Comes Softly Chapter Update!

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                                         Meryton Preparations

                                   └────── ⋆. · ❅ · .⋆ ──────┘

The excitement seemed to hum through the air at Longbourn in preparation for the upcoming assembly at Meryton. Lydia and Kitty ran through the house in a sing-song about the evening's impending dancing and frivolity that awaited them. Mary sat at the pianoforte plunking out a sour tune. Lizzy curled Jane's lovely locks and Beatrice sat in a room by herself, drawing the landscape from the view of her window seat, humming a tune to herself as she went sketched.

It was not that Beatrice Bennet disliked assemblies. In fact, she found them rather gay; but like her sister Jane, Beatrice was painfully shy about the opposite sex. Except, Beatrice was far worse. If a man so much as looked her direction, her cheeks would flush and words fled her mind. She wished she was half as witty as Lizzy when it came to such matters or that her beauty and grace might make up for her lack of words, like Jane. Instead, she was simply forced to muddle her way through, much to the dismay of her mother. Beatrice feared she was forever going to be a burden to her father.

Beatrice knew she should be readying herself for the assembly, but there would be no one there she wanted to impress. Almost all the gentlemen that would be in attendance already had their eyes set on a woman. Well, all but the two unmarried gentlemen newly arrived in the area.  Mama hoped that Jane would catch the eye of one of the gentlemen.  But Beatrice had heard through the grapevine that the other man was rather dour.

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[anghraine]

I talked about it last year, but it's Christmas Eve and I'm going to talk about it again!

We know that Elizabeth and Darcy invite all the Gardiners to Pemberley for the Christmas following their marriage. I suspect Darcy would insist on paying to smooth out the various complications of getting from London to Pemberley with children, and thus the invitation would not impose extra expenses on the Gardiners. (Darcy might have to apply epistolary peer pressure to do this, but he's honestly pretty good at that.)

This may be the first time since Georgiana's early childhood that there were any young children in the family at Pemberley. If so, it hasn't really happened since Darcy and Georgiana's father was alive, so even with Austen's relative unsentimentality about children, it's still probably a big deal on their side.

But also, I occasionally entertain myself by imagining what it would be like for the children, especially the oldest, a girl of eight. The other children are six or younger, and I suspect they're not going to have clear memories of life before their cousins' marriages (especially the boys, but perhaps even the six-year-old girl). An eight-year-old, though?

Miss Gardiner, I think, would have a very clear sense of life at home vs holidays at her aunt Bennet's much bigger house at Longbourn. The Gardiners seem to be quite well-off, but I doubt they're extravagant in the way of Mrs Bennet or living at the edge of their income—there's a reason they continue to live within sight of Mr Gardiner's warehouses. So a middling kind of genteel estate like Longbourn would probably seem quite grand vs her house in Gracechurch Street.

And then she goes to Pemberley.

Note: I've occasionally seen it suggested that Pemberley is a more or less ordinary gentleman's estate that is just really pretty and has a bunch of land attached, which I think is manifestly false. Apart from the architectural and landscaping details which suggest otherwise on their own, Elizabeth does note that the interior is suitable to Darcy's wealth and markedly elegant, yet understated by contrast to the OTT splendor of Rosings; this is a mark of aesthetic taste, not humility.

So I think Pemberley's elegance is about what you would expect from the combination of what they would consider good taste (furnishings along finer lines than the heavier and more ornate furniture of the past, restraint in decoration and semi-naturalistic landscape, that sort of thing) and an income greater than the average lord's. It looks like what it is.

The point is that for this young girl who does not always (perhaps often) accompany her parents' travels, Longbourn is probably a lot. Pemberley is a lot more. She was probably warned that it was much grander than most (or all) of what she'd seen before, but even so, I think that she's just the right age to be really powerfully struck by a place like that, and a place like that being Elizabeth's home. That's the moment, I imagine, when she realizes that things are going to be different now.

Jumping even more into headcanon, I also imagine that later, when Miss Gardiner is going to come into society, the Darcys very much want to do whatever they can for her. Ten years after that Christmas at Pemberley, their own children (assuming they have them) would still be young. Miss Gardiner would be eighteen, though—just the right age to come out. And I kind of love the idea of the Darcys hosting a big winter coming-out ball for the daughter of their beloved relations in trade.

Of course, she'd have gone to Pemberley more than those two times. But I imagine that first, powerful impression in that first Christmas at Pemberley is very much with her as she dances at her first ball.

#anghraine babbles #anghraine's headcanons #austen blogging #lucy gardiner #is the name i usually go with for her #(no connection to the lucyfic; i wanted a period typical name and had used it for a relative of mrs g's in a different fic) #elizabeth bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #otp of otps #edward gardiner #m gardiner #austen fanwank #christmas blogging #long post #i have a lot of feelings about a ball that i one hundred percent made up

[myheadsgonenumb]

Bite and Prejudice: The Noble and Most Ancient House of Pemberley

Chapter twenty of my pride and prejudice and werewolves wolfstar and Jily rewrite is now posted.

Ever since he had left his own parents, when his transformations became too much for them to handle, and had gone to live at Longbourn, Remus had been acutely aware that he lived among a most peculiar, if loving, family. Dumbledore was a genius, as everyone knew, and an eccentric and irascible one at that. He had bucked all convention and much of propriety by inviting Madam Pomfrey to live with him, when they were not married and had no intention of being so, and met any and all objections to their arrangements with a solemn look in his twinkling eyes and a murmured ‘Dear me!’.

The Matron herself, was a worthy woman, a fine healer and more than a match for those who would judge her lifestyle. But where Dumbledore locked himself in his reading room with copies of Transfiguration Today, and experimented with alchemy, the more practical matters of life fell to Madam Pomfrey and  - though she was happy with her position and her charges - all the worrying for their future fell to her, and Dumbledore’s refusal to engage with the problems often drove her to distraction. To this end, she had taken up the occupation of muggle mothers up and down the country and was determined to get her girls well married.  

When Remus had first arrived, there had only been Lily at Longbourn. She - who was all sense and goodness and beauty - should have had enough to recommend her that no wizard would look at her low birth or lack of fortune, and  - though the Matron was not quite sure what would become of the sickly, little boy now in her care, she had at least thought she would have no problems with her eldest. 

But then came Sybil, clutching her crystal ball and tarot cards, and uttering so many doom laden prophecies about the fate of them all that even the sensible Madam Pomfrey could not ignore every one. Next arrived Dorcas, grieving her parents and reluctant to go out in society where she would be stared at on account of her dark skin and finally, in a flurry of petticoats and ribbons, Mary had landed at Longbourn - as beautiful as Lily but without the sense and goodness. Suddenly Madam Pomfrey had a whole host of problems in her hands, each more awkward than the last, and Longbourn became known in the neighbourhood as a large and unusual family, whose very numbers and peculiarity must harm their prospects. 

Remus had never felt more keenly the disadvantage of being a ward, and not with his own parents, of being one of many, and of them all not fitting in one way or another than he had that summer. He had never pondered on what it meant for him and the girls to have eccentrics who lived alternative lifestyles in charge of them until Lily was nursing a broken heart, because Black disapproved too much of her position to let Potter marry her, and Mary had gone to Brighton to make herself even more ridiculous, and Remus himself was starting to wonder how he would look back on Black’s proposal and offer of security once he was penniless and running with the wolfpacks.

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#wolfstar #marauders #jily #pride and prejudice #regency au #remus lupin #sirius black #james potter #lily evans #bite and prejudice #in want of a werewolf

[napo-con-fritas]

Thanks for the tag(s) <3<3<3 @thalias-pine-tree o, @hakkiest o, @virfujiwara o, @fresasconsal o, and @faroresson o, and I'm so sorry it's taken so long!!

(Right so, in all honestly, this is a mashup of various tag games)

Currently reading: Longbourn, by Jo Baker (and like four books more)

Next TBR: hopefully, I'll finish the other books I'm reading, so I'll go with Atonement, by Ian McEwan

Last song: Right Here, Right Now, HSM 3

Last movie: Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Last show: Heartstopper S2

Next on my watch list: not entirely sure, I'm open to recommendations

Currently working on: an interview to a secondary school maths teacher for class and a Tratie fic that was supposed to be a cute and fluffy one-shot but angst and tragedy happened and now it's too long

Current obsession: the power disparity between staff and employers (landed gentry/aristocracy) in big houses between 1900 and WWII, a very niche interest, but I find it fascinating

Current fic: I think it's called "Yours in Friendship", it's a Eloise/Theo Sharpe fic, really nice

Favourite colour: today? purple

Sweet/savoury/spicy: I do love sugar

Tagging (no pressure): @ailec-12 @victas-art @uraniumbunny @the-ghost-king @paddooo @crushing-on-nico-di-angelo

#tag game #the oldest of this was from january #i'm so so sorry it takes so long for me to do these #thefangirlsnewgroove

[curiousb]

The Longbourn House Yearbook: Volume III

Lucas and Eliza have developed an inconsiderate habit of blocking the corridors with their make-out sessions - some people are trying to get to breakfast here!

The inaugural house party doesn’t get off to a good start, with Eliza and Simon discovering that they can’t stand each other - perhaps the guest list should have been a bit more carefully thought out?

Ambrose also makes himself unpopular.

In fact, he ends up with a queue of people wanting the slap the living daylights out of him,

including fiancée Isabella, who finally shows him how she feels about his dalliance with Cassandra.

Ah, a love letter! But who is it for?

Awww!

With love in the air, Beth invites over Benjamin, hoping that he and her cousin Clara will patch things up, given the opportunity.

The attempt at reconciliation is not going well.

Even though Benjamin clearly wants to make amends!

But no, Clara decides that enough is enough, and it’s time to call the whole thing off!

And she’s implacable.

Shall we finish with a much happier couple?

I think Frances’s goofy expression says it all - and Green Bean feels exactly the same!

#sims 2 #gameplay #merybury #de bourgh university #lucas darcy #eliza bennet #clara dashwood #frances crawford #simon wickham #ambrose elton #isabella knightley #benjamin bingley #green bean #longbourn house

[high-school-lit-tournament]

High School Lit Tournament Round 3

Pride and Prejudice: Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of these—the haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy—irks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, Jane Austen's radiantly caustic wit and keen observation sparkle (source).

The Outsiders: The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.

#high school lit tournament #classic literature #pride and prejudice #the outsiders

[bethanydelleman]

Mr. Bennet is such a jerk in Ch 13 of Pride & Prejudice.

He “hopes” his wife has ordered a good dinner, because they have a guest. That guest? The heir to Longbourn. A person who one day can decide to be kind to a grieving widow and her daughters or callously kick them out of the house. Mr. Collins has also strongly hinted even in his letter that he might marry one of the girls (this seems to also be kind of a done thing) so there are many reasons to want this introduction to go well.

So when does Mr. Bennet tell his wife about this important dinner? The morning it’s happening, of course. And Mrs. Bennet, we know from previous sentences, only has a normal dinner ordered, not a “impress a suitor” dinner. (But—good Lord! how unlucky! There is not a bit of fish to be got to-day. Lydia, my love, ring the bell—I must speak to Hill this moment.” this is when she thinks it’s Bingley but Mr. Collins is probably equally important) Not much time to prepare Mr. Collins’s room or make the house look the best. And yes, I realize that servants would be doing all these things, but housekeeping reflects back on Mrs. Bennet. And then what about those poor servants sent into a flurry of cleaning!

And yes, he probably did this so he wouldn’t have to hear Mrs. Bennet panicking/complaining about the visit for a week. Well suck it up buttercup, that’s no excuse not to make a good impression on the guy who will inherit when you die. Unless you really don’t care what will happen to your wife and five daughters…

#mr. bennet is the worst #pride and prejudice #I am offended on behalf of all wives everywhere #I would have some choice words if my husband ever pulled this on me #mr. collins #jane austen #sure he doesn't make Elizabeth marry Collins #But I am not giving him all the points for that #he's as bad of a parent as Mrs. Bennet #if not worse because he actually knows better #And does nothing

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi

goodreads

In this delightfully modern spin on Pride and Prejudice, love is a goal, marriage is a distant option, and self-discovery is a sure thing. Welcome to Bennet House, the only all-women’s dorm at prestigious Longbourn University, home to three close friends who are about to have an eventful year. EJ is an ambitious Black engineering student. Her best friend, Jamie, is a newly out trans woman studying French and theater. Tessa is a Filipina astronomy major with guy trouble. For them, Bennet House is more than a residence—it’s an oasis of feminism, femininity, and enlightenment. But as great as Longbourn is for academics, EJ knows it can be a wretched place to find love. Yet the fall season is young and brimming with surprising possibilities. Jamie’s prospect is Lee Gregory, son of a Hollywood producer and a gentleman so charming he practically sparkles. That leaves EJ with Lee’s arrogant best friend, Will. For Jamie’s sake, EJ must put up with the disagreeable, distressingly handsome, not quite famous TV actor for as long as she can. What of it? EJ has her eyes on a bigger prize, anyway: launching a spectacular engineering career in the “real world” she’s been hearing so much about. But what happens when all their lives become entwined in ways no one could have predicted—and EJ finds herself drawn to a man who’s not exactly a perfect fit for the future she has planned?

Mod opinion: I haven't heard of this book before, but it sounds interesting.

#the bennet women #eden appiah-kubi #polls #trans books #trans lit #trans literature #lgbt books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #trans woman #contemporary fiction #romance

[onevolon]

my love for you is infinite - part11

Santiago Garcia x F!reader(Darcy)

note: pride and prejudice (2005) but with triple frontier boys because why not lol

word count: 854

warnings: angsty... again...

you can also read it on ao3.

part10 - part12 - masterlist

Santiago is in the drawing room; he looks at a book on the table. He puts it down and walks to the mirror and stares at himself. The daylight moves and fades as seamlessly the scene turns to night. Santiago puts his face into his hands and rubs it wearily. When he looks up Darcy is reflected behind him. They stare at each other without speaking for a moment.

“I came to leave you this.”

She places a letter on the table behind him. Santiago does not turn but watches her through the mirror.

“I shall not renew the sentiments which were so disgusting to you, but if I may, I will address the two offences you have laid against me.”

Santiago cannot bring himself to look at Darcy. He stares at the little imperfections on the surface of the mirror.

As Santiago turns, he realizes Darcy has gone. He grabs the letter, tears open the envelope. His hands are shaking when he starts to read.

“My father provided for Mr. Wickham a valuable living. But upon his death, however, Mr. Wickham told me that he had no intention of taking orders and would I recompense him to the tune of 3000 pounds so he could go to town and study the law.

This I did, though by now I had some doubts about his character. These were confirmed by reports that he had sunk into a life of idleness, gambling and dissipation. The money was soon used up, whereupon he wrote demanding more money which I refused, after which he severed all acquaintance…But last summer he unwillingly obtruded on my notice when he connived a relationship with my sister whom he attempted to persuade to elope with him. His objective was her inheritance of thirty thousand pounds. She was fifteen… As to the other matter, that of your brother and Mr. Bingley. Though the motives which governed me may to you appear insufficient, they were in the service of a friend.”

Charlotte walks into the room.

“Santiago! Are you alright?”

“I hardly know.”

***

Santiago arrives back at Longbourn. He climbs down from his carriage and looks at the house from across the moat. He walks around the front of the house, through a window he sees Francisco sitting quietly alone at his needle work. He takes a deep breath and enters.

Mrs. Bennet takes Santiago's coat from him.

“How fortunate you have arrived, your aunt and uncle are here to deliver Francisco from London.”

“How is Francisco?”

“He’s in the drawing room.”

Santiago enters the room.

Santiago and Francisco sit together. Francisco is all smiles, but behind his eyes is a sadness unseen before. Santiago is equally unable to unburden himself.

“I am quite over him, Santiago. If he passed in the street I would hardly notice. London is so diverting.”

“Oh?”

“It’s true. So much to entertain. What news from Kent?”

“Nothing. At least, not much to entertain.”

Santiago tries to smile. There is a crash as the younger brothers enter the house. William rushes into the drawing room crying his eyes out, he is followed by Ben and Mrs. Bennet.

“Santiago, tell mama, tell her!” Will cries.

“Mrs. Forster has invited me.” Ben says smugly.

“Why didn't she ask me as well?”

“William, what's happened?”

“- because I'm better company.”

“I’ve just as much right as Ben”

Santiago looks to Francisco.

“Ben has been invited to Brighton with the Foresters.”

“I shall dine with the officers every night!” Ben sighs with a dreamy look on his face.

An anguished wail is heard from William.

***

Santiago confronts her father.

“Please Papa, don't let him go!”

“Ben will never be easy till he has exposed himself in some public place or other, and we can never expect him to do it with so little inconvenience as under the present circumstances.”

“If you, dear father, will not take the trouble to check him, he will be fixed forever as the silliest and most determined flirt who ever made his family ridiculous. And William will follow, as he always does.”

“We shall have no peace until he goes.”

“Peace! Is that all you care about?”

“Colonel Forster is a sensible man and will keep him out of any real mischief, and he is far too poor to be an object of prey to anyone.”

“Father, it's dangerous!”

“I’m sure the officers will find people better worth their while. Let us hope, in fact, that his stay in Brighton will teach his own insignificance. At any rate he can hardly grow any worse, without authorizing us to lock him up for the rest of his life.”

Santiago gazes at his father - will nothing touch him? He gave up on Ben long ago. For this, just now, he hates him.

“No wonder our family is treated with contempt.”

She leaves while his father looks puzzled at his outburst.

***

Santiago and Francisco lie next to each other in the darkness.

“I saw Miss Darcy when I was in Rosings.”

“Why did you not tell me? Did she mention Mr. Bingley?”

“No. She did not.”

#santiago garcia #santiago garcia x reader #santiago garcia x you #frankie morales #ben miller #will miller #tom davis #triple frontier #triple frontier fanfic #oscar isaac characters #oscar isaac #oscar isaac fanfiction #oscar isaac fic #onevolon fic #oscar isaac hernandez estrada

[arcturusreads]

Traditions

pairing: elizabeth bennet & fitzwilliam darcy word count: 1165 words request: yes/no prompt/summary:  the newly married darcy couple decide to spend their first christmas together... at Longbourn a/n: it's december and all i want is christmas fluff

“William, are you sure you want to do this?” Elizabeth whispered, hoping not to wake her sister-in-law who was asleep opposite them.

“We spent Christmas at Pemberley with the promise that we’d would come to Longbourn for Christmas. We’re only twenty minutes away, there’s no backing out now.” He gave his wife’s hand a gentle squeeze where it was resting on the carriage seat. “Plus, Jane and Bingley are going to be there and I’m sure you won’t want to miss them.”

Sighing, Elizabeth relaxed back into her seat. Fitzwilliam had a point, she was longing to see Jane. When the Bingleys had decided to open Netherfield over winter, they’d also made the decision to spend Christmas with the Bennet’s.

“At least we’ll be staying with them instead of my family,” Elizabeth muttered to herself as she gazed out of the carriage window.

Darcy shook his head with a small smile. “Have heart, Elizabeth. It’ll only be two days and then we’ll be in London for the New Year.”

“Mr Darcy! Miss Darcy! It’s such an honour to host you at Longbourn and much overdue, don’t you think?” The Bennet clan had been waiting outside of the house when the Darcy carriage had come to a stop. “I’ve written to Lizzie on multiple occasions telling her that the three of you simply must come and visit.”

Elizabeth could feel her cheeks start to redden as she knew her mother was about to admonish her in front of her husband and sister-in-law.

“Yes, Elizabeth had told me. I hope she passed on my apologises, my duties at Pemberley have rather taken over a lot of my time. We haven’t had a chance to make it here before now.”

The tension in her shoulders began to ease as Fitzwilliam stepped in and saved her from any further embarrassment. Thankfully Jane had already arrived with Charles and Elizabeth soon turned her attention to the married couple, pulling Georgiana along with her and away from anymore of her mother’s questions.

“Such a shame that Lydia and Mr Wickham weren’t able to come.”

After ten minutes of greetings outside, Mrs Bennet had finally relented and allowed to family to go indoors and take shelter from the greying clouds. They were sat around the living area, Mary sat at her piano whilst Kitty tried to convince her that there was no need to play anything right now and they should really be opening presents.

Georgiana had taken a seat next to Elizabeth. She was still rather shy around everyone else and other than her sister-in-law and brother, the only other people she felt somewhat comfortable with was Jane and Charles.

Elizabeth felt Georgiana stiffen beside her as Wickham was mentioned. The only reason that the Darcy’s had agreed to coming to Longbourn was because they knew that Lydia and Wickham weren’t able to come. Not wanting Georgiana to feel any more uncomfortable, Elizabeth tried to change the subject.

“Shall we open some gifts? Mr Darcy and I got something from London for you Mamma.”

That immediately perked up Mrs Bennet who soon forgot about her youngest daughter not joining them for Christmas. The next half on hour was filled with screams of laughter from the younger two Bennets, Mr Bennet grumbling and complaining in his armchair and Mrs Bennet having to do a running commentary on the gifts her two eldest daughters had bought her and how lucky they were to be married so well.

The five guests had taken a more subdued approach. In their letters, both Jane and Elizabeth had agreed that it would be best for them all to open their gifts at Netherfield when they left that evening. They would have more time to chat and enjoy their gifts without their mother or sisters trying to find out what the present was before it was even unwrapped.

Dinner was yet another loud affair. Bennet dinners were something that Elizabeth knew how to manage well. The noise, laughter and yelling across the table did not make her bat an eyelid and knowing looks shared with Jane helped her to get through it. She felt for her husband though and worried about his discomfort. On Fitzwilliam’s part, he acted as though none of it bothered him. He entertained her mother- and sister-in-laws with all the charm he could muster but Elizabeth could tell that the noise and company was starting to get to him. Early on in their marriage she had learnt that Fitzwilliam could only deal with large group of people and a lot of noise for only a small amount of time before he began to find it too much and longed to retreat to the peace of Pemberley.

After dinner proved to be no respite either. Mary was determined to practice the new music that The Darcy’s had gifted her. As Elizabeth tried to surpress a wince at the attempt she knew that it was partly her own fault for giving the gift but at least she knew that Mary was happy with it if nothing else. Eventually, Mary stepped away and asked Georgiana to grace them with a song. Not one to enjoy the limelight, Georgiana asked Mary to join her in playing a duet which the entire household had found much more palatable.  Kitty had pulled Jane and Charles to dance with her as the music played. With Mr Bennet falling asleep in his armchair and Mrs Bennet clapping along to the song, Elizabeth took the opportunity to stand next to her husband.

“Would you like to leave soon?” she asked, grazing her fingers against his.

Fitzwilliam looked down at her, a gentle smile on his face. She couldn’t help but note how exhausted her looked. They’d been up since the wee hours of the morning in order to get to Longbourn in good time and having to be social for such an extended period of time was bound to tire him. And yet, Fitzwilliam still shook his head.

“You haven’t seen your family in a long time, enjoy this time with them. I’ll be fine.”

Elizabeth didn’t have much time to argue and Kitty tugged on her arm, pulling her in to enjoy the festivities.

It was eleven o’clock before the Darcys and Bingleys had left Longbourn and past two in the morning until they had all gone to bed after exchanging presents and sharing stories. There was no question that Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam were going to share a bed, they hadn’t slept separately since the day they had gotten married. Finally curled up under the blanket, with her head resting against her husband’s chest, the couple felt like they could finally, fully relax.

“Maybe next year we stay at Pemberley?” Fitzwilliam suggested, running his hand through Elizabeth’s hair.

She hummed in response, closing her eyes. “Easter at Longbourn is a much less rambunctious gathering.”

“Are you sure you won’t mind?”

“Not at all. I think it’s time we start our own traditions.”

#pride and prejudice #elizabeth darcy #fitzwilliam darcy #pride and prejudice fanfic #excuse me whilst i rearrange the alphabet

[danielleasbureaucouk]

A few story ideas. Don't steal.

1. Philippe survives, Matthew cannot bear to kill him. Though his mind is injured deeply, when Diana comes to France with Matthew she manages to heal him.

2. The book is not at the Bodleian, or Stephen retrieves it after Diana sees him and hides it at the Madison house. Diana shows it Matthew after they marry.

3. I want to write a P&P crossover with Adow. The Bishops are the Bennet's, the Clairmonts the Darcy/Fitzwilliam family, obviously. Ashmole 782 is in the Pemberley, Netherfield or Longbourn library. I don't have the rest of it yet.

4. ' Beware of the witch with the blood of the lion and the wolf. ' Can you see where I'm going with this? Tysan, GofT.

5. Downton/adow. Henry tells Mary the real reason why he is absent alot and it's not what she thought.

6: Edith tells Cora and Robert about Marigold from the beginning - there's a perfect moment in season three/four, can't remember precisely where - and or Edith brings Marigold back as a Swiss ward.

#adow #a discovery of witches #pride and prejudice #jane austen #story ideas #game of thrones #tysan #downton abbey

[anghraine]

I was thinking about the Pemberley == Chatsworth theory, which has numerous problems and is based on essentially three things.

[Note: all of this assumes a c. 1790s setting for P&P, which I do subscribe to in general.]

Firstly, in the novel, the Gardiners and Elizabeth seem to travel directly from Bakewell to Pemberley (not from Lambton; they go there after first visiting Pemberley). So this suggests that Pemberley is near Bakewell and therefore relatively near Chatsworth (or at it).

That's fairly thin, so the other argument goes that Pemberley's architecture and landscape closely mirror those of Chatsworth as it existed in the eighteenth century (when it was considerably less grandiose than now). This resemblance is argued to extend beyond the ways in which great houses in the same region might resemble each other.

Additionally, it does seem interesting that RL Chatsworth was the seat of a duke named William who infamously lived there (when in residence) with his wife Georgiana and mistress Elizabeth. All were common enough names at the time (esp William and Elizabeth), but add in the proximity of Pemberley and Chatsworth and it could be potentially suggestive.

HOWEVER.

Even in the eighteenth century, Chatsworth was likely too splendid for Pemberley, which explicitly has more elegance than splendor, despite its size/glamour compared to the likes of Netherfield and Longbourn. If Pemberley does noticeably resemble Chatsworth, Elizabeth probably regards the latter as "like Pemberley but bigger and less tasteful" (I'm not 100% convinced of this, but otoh, find it very funny).

In the Netherfield conversation, it sounds like Pemberley doesn't particularly resemble any other place, and it seems unlikely that Bingley (who describes Pemberley as basically inimitable) wouldn't have seen Chatsworth before.

It's also very unlikely that Austen ever could have seen Chatsworth with her own eyes. If she used it as inspiration or a direct model, it would have to have been at secondhand, anyway, and the more ... granular parallels are just not that probable.

And Chatsworth is actually mentioned in passing in P&P, so it definitely exists independently of Pemberley in the world of the novel. It could be a loose sort of inspiration in terms of general appearance, maybe, but IMO is unlikely to be more than that for all of these reasons.

I do think that having a William-Elizabeth-Georgiana and a Fitzwilliam-Elizabeth-Georgiana living quite near to each other and likely to be politically aligned is possibly not meaningless, though.

See, Austen had some kind of thing about the Watson-Wentworth-Fitzwilliam family, which at this point was headed by Earl Fitzwilliam of Wentworth Woodhouse. This was the Whig branch of the family—Sir Walter approvingly mentions the Tory branch in Persuasion, lol, but the names come overwhelmingly from the Whig side. And P&P's Fitzwilliam earl with an unusually (for Austen) redacted title seems an unsubtle allusion to Lord Fitzwilliam. This would make P&P's earl a likely ally to the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. So Darcy might well be in an awkward position, where he has to play nice with Devonshire for familial and political reasons, but also is pretty much certain to deeply disapprove of him.

The Pemberley-Chatsworth similarities, such as they are, could be a mix of ... vague handwaving in the direction of Chatsworth and having Chatsworth actually be right there in the novel. The two mansions are definitely not interchangeable IMO.

And, I mean, it's so much more ripe for comedy with Chatsworth and the Devonshires actually existing in P&P's continuity. The idea of Darcy just having to put up with the local ménage à trois because his family needs him to not alienate an extremely wealthy and powerful ally is incredible. Elizabeth looking slightly down on Chatsworth as Pemberley But With Trash Taste is hilarious to me. Georgiana trying to balance her basic gentle niceness with o_O is great. I love it.

#anghraine babbles #anghraine's headcanons #deep blogging #austen blogging #austen fanwank #lady anne blogging #otp of otps #etc etc #long post