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misscrawfords · 5 years ago
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Honest thoughts on Emma/Knightley and Anakin/Padme?
Emma and Mr. Knightley are one of my favourite Austen ships. They’re one of the most romantic, I think, because you really see them build up - reading between the lines for Mr. Knightley’s feelings and Emma’s subconscious attraction to him as it grows. The proposal scene is absolutely beautiful and you get to see them being together afterwards! I’m also not bothered by the age gap in the way I am a bit with Marianne and Colonel Brandon because Emma is much more mature than Marianne is and her very real social and financial power makes her Mr. Knightley’s equal - not to mention his “sacrifice” of moving from Donwell to Hartfield. She always holds the cards even though she’s much younger than him.
As for Anakin and Padme… *sigh* I accept them as the doomed, star-crossed lovers who set the whole Star Wars saga in motion but on a personal level it’s quite hard to see why on earth Padme would go for Anakin when Obi-Wan is RIGHT THERE. And the dialogue in AotC is… unfortunate, unless you’re a teenager. Like, I appreciate their plot function and mythical relevance so I don’t not ship them, but I can’t exactly feel invested in their execution or find it particularly plausible, at least not on Padme’s side.
Send me a ship and I’ll give you my honest opinion!
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austennerdita2533 · 7 years ago
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Tagged by the lovely @accidental-rambler. Thanks Kate! It’s been a while since I’ve been tagged in a book meme so I relished this. xx
1. Favourite book of all time?
I have way too many favorites so I picked a few from from different genres and even some poetry/plays. 
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty by Christine Hepperman
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
El amor en los tiempos del cólera  by Gabriel García Márquez 
2. What are you currently reading?
I just finished The Immortal Nicholas by Glenn Beck a day or two ago, I’m about halfway through Villete by Charlotte Bronte, and I’m currently scouring my library’s website for another ebook to borrow.
3. Have you ever considered writing a book?
Absolutely? Constantly? I have a children’s book series concept I’ve been playing around with seriously for a few months now.
4. Favourite series?
Harry Potter by J.K Rowling
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Six of Crows & the Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
5. Book you’d like to read?
Lés Miserables by Victor Hugo (I’ve read a lot of classics in my time but I haven’t read this one yet. I’ll get there eventually.)
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
6. What’s on your Tbr pile?
I have 215 books on my tbr pile on Goodreads, another 50-60 on my library wishlist, and probably another 40 on my Amazon, Barnes & Noble and bookdepository.com lists. Do you think I have a book problem, y’all? haha. 
Here are some I’m particularly dying to read...
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
Red Queen by Victoria Averyard
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Guide To Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
7. Favourite fictional character(s)?
Elizabeth Bennet
Anne “I-am-well-in-body-although-considerably-rumpled-up-in-spirit” Shirley 
Jo March
Hermione Granger
Jane Eyre
Scarlett O’Hara
Emma Woodouse
Rhett Butler
Captain Wentworth
Peeta Mellark 
Gilbert Blythe
Aaron Warner
8. Favourite ship of all time?
Darcy and Elizabeth, Emma and Knightley, Captain Wentworth and Anne, Colonel Brandon and Marianne, Henry and Catherine (There’s a reason my URL is Austennerd, after all...)
Anne and Gilbert
Rhett and Scarlett
Jo and Laurie (I’m forever bitter they didn’t end up together in Little Women, okay?!?)
Nessian
Feysand
Warnette 
Everlark
9. Pick up the book closest to you, open page one and write down the first paragraph.
This is from the first chapter of Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence which just so happens to be on my table right now. (Talk about a progressive novel, wow! It’s basically sophisticated, psychoanalyzed smut and is quite the wild read.)
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
10. What’s the 1st fandom you were in?
My first book fandom was absolutely anything and everything Jane Austen.
Tagging: @garglyswoof, @downtonabbeyandausten, @belatrixstrangr, @heatherfield, @purestheartslove Only if you’d like, of course, and sorry if you’ve already been tagged. Also, if any of my other followers see this and want to give it a shot, go for it because I love seeing things other people read. :)
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