#austen anon

[citrinesparkles]

hi! it's austen anon dropping by! 🌟

i've devoured your writing master list and reread some of my favs like 2+ times already!!

p.s. i hope my messages don't make you feel pressured to chug out content or anything like that!! i know that writing isn't always a consistent thing!!

instead, do you mind dropping some fic recs? i figured you're probably the best person to ask!! i'm open to any dc fics, i'm not super picky ♡

DARLING HI <3 im so so glad you're enjoying omg!!!! the idea that anyone but me rereads my stuff is so. its mind boggling in the BESTTTTT possible way im so touched :)

not at all- and you are SO sweet for thinking about that! i'm very very touched that you enjoy my work, and i do want to finish and post some more SOMETIME, but i'm also trying to be gentle with myself as i come out of a bit of a bleak spot mentally and physically <3 thank you for checking, but don't worry at all sweetheart!

HEHEHEHE boy did you come to the right place omg. i LOVEEEEEE giving recommendations!!!!!! i have so many omg.

(just a heads up, while these fics are pg13. the blogs linked may contain 18+ content! please proceed with caution + respect their rules <3)

masters of none is a brilliantly written multi-chapter ongoing jason x celebrity!reader, and is one of my favorite fics ever.

shades of red is a oneshot, but that seems like underselling it. it's a beautiful analysis of a relationship with jason and i think about it all the time.

baskin robins commercial as unsent love letters is similar, in that it's a another montage style look at jason trying to be in a relationship. it's, again, beautiful.

jason_the_midnight.mp3 is possibly the best songfic i've ever read, and got me hooked on the midnight! it's the angstiest on the list i think, but i absolutely adore it.

and if you want more, i'd highly recommend checking out my recommendations tag. it's where i keep all of my favorite work by other writers, and there is some GOLD in there!

(it's worth mentioning that the four fics i linked are from absolute rockstars, so i'd DEFINITELY check out the rest of their work, too! <3)

[anghraine]

what happens to charlotte lucas if mr. collins dies early (before he inherits longbourne)?

That is the worst possible scenario for her, basically.

Mr Collins's living with regard to Hunsford only lasts for the duration of his life, so she gets nothing from it. Unless her child (she's implied to be pregnant at the end of P&P) is a son and, iirc, falls within a set number of generations as laid out by the original entailment, she also gets nothing with regard to Longbourn (and if the child is a girl, she now has another dependent to worry about and provide for; I think Mr Bennet's daughters would receive preference over Charlotte's if Mr Collins never inherits and there's no son).

There would have been legal documents accompanying their betrothal that laid out exactly how much property or money Charlotte and her potential children would receive during and after the marriage (this is what is meant by references to pin money and jointure; pin money is what the woman will regularly receive for her private expenses during the marriage, and jointure is what she gets if she survives her husband). There's a straightforward example of this with Mr and Mrs Bennet, for instance.

Mrs Bennet brought a dowry of four thousand pounds to the marriage. Mr Bennet or his family settled an additional one thousand pounds on her at the time (23 years earlier). So there's five thousand pounds attached to Mrs Bennet and her children specifically that is essentially secure—the income from it can only go to her or her children. Since her children are all daughters, however, this pretty much automatically includes her daughters' husbands as well, since women were legally and financially subsumed into their husbands' identities upon marriage and it took some legal shenanigans to protect their resources. Lydia's share of Mrs Bennet's fortune, one thousand pounds, effectively goes to Wickham as part of the marriage arrangements, and it's not clear if Lydia's money is legally secured to her in the same way since it was part of bribing Wickham to marry her at all.

(Tangent: a lot of analysis tends to assume that income from a lump sum of this kind would generate an income of 5% of the principal via low-risk, low-reward government investments. Mr Collins himself explicitly estimates that Elizabeth's portion of Mrs Bennet's settlement would generate an income at a 4% rate, leaving her with a mere 40 pounds a-year. This might seem Mr Collins-style negging, but in reality these kinds of safe government investments could and did drop to rates closer to 3% due to various economic upheavals at the time.)

Returning to Charlotte's situation, eighteenth-century advice urged men (even much less affluent men) to set aside a significant portion of their incomes every year to add to what was settled on their wives/children, so that if they died, their children and widows would have more to live on. The original settlement, as in Mrs Bennet's case, could be pretty small, especially for multiple people to live on. Mr Collins is enough of a rules guy that he might set aside the suggested percentages of his income, especially if Lady Catherine considers it proper. But even if we assume he's setting aside, say, 20% of his income, I doubt that would amount to very much if he dies soon; the Hunsford living is good, but not that good, and he's only 25, so there just hasn't been much time. Charlotte would essentially be a poor cousin by marriage of the Bennets and dependent on her own family (already in straitened circumstances) for anything more than her settlement, which given the circumstances wouldn't amount to much.

People often kill Mr Collins young to given Charlotte a chance at a better life, but in reality, this would likely be a disaster for her.

[linusbenjamin]

Jack. This place is crazy. It's just... I can't... It's driving me nuts.

[bethanydelleman]

I was wondering about Darcy asking Lydia to return to her family without marrying Wickham. So Darcy was willing to destroy Elizabeth's reputation if it means Lydia does not marry Wickham. Austen should have told what he was thinking about here. Even if Lydia does not marry Wickham, she still belonged to her father. So it's simply throwing Lydia from a terrible man to an another terrible man. Mr Bennet can send her away if he wanted to an isolated era and shun her so she does not harm their image even if it's against her will which could lead to her eloping with some other dude . Darcy has no control about how Mr Bennet deals with Lydia because legally daughters belonged to their fathers. But with Wickham, Darcy holds his debts, he can put pressure on him . The five sisters would have their reputation restored and not condemned to spincterhood. I mean if Lydia return unmarried, no man would want them for wives. The best solution is to let Lydia marry him, but not to live with him, considering the power he has over Wickham, he sends him away in some place with really difficult conditions and they could simply claim Lydia's husband fears for her health and doubt whenever she would be safe living with him or something.

I don't think Wickham would agree to that, it also wouldn't fully restore Lydia's reputation if she never lived with her husband. Mostly though, I think your premise is flawed.

Mr. Wickham is not equal to Mr. Bennet in terms of horribleness, not even a little bit. Mr. Bennet may not save for the future and I hate how he treats his wife, but he does feed and clothe his family, something Wickham never proves himself capable of doing. And we know (and maybe Darcy knows) that Mr. Bennet gives into his wife when giving in will grant him peace. Mrs. Bennet isn't going to allow Lydia to be cast aside. Mr. Bennet is a bad father, but Wickham is on an entirely different level.

We don't know what Darcy's plan was if Lydia agreed to marry him, but I really doubt a man as intelligent as Darcy was going to let the entire family be ruined by Lydia's mistake. He knew what he was working with and he also knows that money is the strongest bleach. He would have done something.

[jewishbarbies]

I feel like she chose the 1830s in her song to sound cultured or educated. That or it’s like those privileged white girls who fantasize about the 1950s because they’ve bought into the narrative of being a perfect peak feminine woman taken care of a man while ignoring the fact that they literally would’ve been seen as their husband’s property 💀

definitely said the quiet part out loud with that lyric 💀

[frikatilhi]

i miss the person i was before the first story 😪

I know, we were all so used to being just another sad bojere bitch with no money, no prospects, already a burden to our parents, but at least we knew what the world expected of us

And look at us now, lost and confused, no idea how to navigate in this world

[marzipanandminutiae]

Is there any time travel fiction you enjoy? If so, do you have any recommendations?

I really like The Jane Austen Project, which is about a doctor who goes back in time to recover one of Jane Austen’s lost manuscripts and figure out what killed her. The time travel aspect is very good since the Regency parts are scrupulously researched, and it features a time traveling character who actually has done research and prepared (so very little secondhand embarrassment).

But what I really love about it is that the main character comes from the world in which climate change has ramped up to an extreme degree, but people are still living happy, fulfilled lives. The environmental consequences are mentioned, and they are implied to have been devastating to the world as we know it today – the “present” world of the novel is very different and in many ways worse. But humanity has not completely collapsed, and therefore I find it to be a hopeful take on the subject. Even though most of the book is set in Regency England.

[walkingnorth]

I finally got Love & Gravity, so I re-read the entire volume starting at volume 1. It's just as great now as when I followed it on Webtoons, and I love having it in printed form. However, I am the teensiest bit disappointed by the fact that the 4-koma special comics aren't in the books. The one about Austen's childhood and her fairy tale book is one of my favorite parts of the comic. May I ask why it's not in the physical release?

Yeah, I was disappointed by this too :(

Unfortunately the nature of print comics publishing is that someone important decides on a page count (in my case, 250 pages for each book) and then you have to stick to the page count, because printing more pages messes with the budget.

250 was fine, if a bit tight, for book 1.

It was not enough pages for book 2.

The team fought hard to get me more pages and we did get a longer page count, thankfully - I think it ended up being 268 pages? - but it was still really tight, and so we made the (very sad) decision to leave out the 4koma special.

But I fully agree that the fairy tale book is important, and while adjusting the panels and dialgoue for page viewing, I managed to squeeze a mention of it into chapter 21. So it's still there, just not in exactly the same way. (Thank you for reading, and caring, and getting the print book!! Much appreciated!!!)

[literatureloverx]

What are your favorite books?

(Also i'm the anon that requested that chuuya dazai dynamic analysis :3 great work btw. And could I take the '🎪' as my emoji?)

Of course, 🎪-anon!❤️ I actually have many "favorites," but Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment tops the list for me—at least for now. I can rank some others for you, though.

I should note that I haven't read The Brothers Karamazov and Demons yet, so there’s a high possibility that my list will change once I’ve read them. (Apparently, The Brothers Karamazov is even better than Crime and Punishment? We’ll see.)

1. Crime and Punishment (I just love it so, so much. No words needed. It changed my life.)

2. The Idiot (The book might seem boring, but it parallels a perfect Christian man with a pure soul against an impure world. [Prince Myshkin is literally me.])

3. White Nights (It broke my heart, and it’s melancholically beautiful.)

4. The Children of Hurin (Tolkien is obviously a Fi-Ne user, which makes his works a little confusing and structured in an unstructured way, which is tolerable for me. There are many things that are simply there just because, without explanation, so one can try to find the meaning behind them. My favorite aspect of the book was the Curse of Túrin.)

5. Anna Karenina (This book seems boring at first too, but there are some very good quotes and situations one can learn from.)

6. Pride and Prejudice (The OG enemies-to-lovers story—I like Jane Austen's delivery.)

7. The Crocodile (This is one of Dostoevsky's short stories, but it’s not as well-known as White Nights. It made me chuckle now and then, and it’s truly an admirable work.)

[amethvysts]

alguma possibilidade de fazer headcanons de bridgerton com o cast de lsdln??

pior que eu não sei te dizer diva kkk eu já iniciei uns headcanons sobre lsdln!príncipes da disney, e não tem muita fantasia, então eu acho que é quase a mesma vibe. pretendo também fazer alguns sobre enzo!principe, mas com uma pegada mais moderna

[citrinesparkles]

citrine!!! it's austen anon stopping by to say that they are extremely late to the party and have just now watched the queen charlotte series!! i wanted to ask if you had seen it yet and your thoughts if so (because i have MANY).

AUSTEN ANONNNN my beloved HELLO <3

OOOOO i have not actually!!! but ive gotten some of the plot from a good friend of mine and i've heard it's just the bee's knees. from what few clips i HAVE seen + her summaries it looks like it could be very good!! i think it could be a really interesting look into relationships and how they're impacted by mental illness and how people might choose to navigate that, which i think is very interesting. (plus, both the leads seem INCREDIBLY compelling!)

i may get around to it someday! i've been catching up on a lot of media lately so who knows 🧐

im trying to work through my comics backlog at the moment and get back into reading (im most of the way through a novel As We Speak 😤and im very proud- it's a star trek novel, but it still counts, okay?)

i hope you're doing well, lovely <3 <3 <3 <3 im sending you the world's biggest hug rn MWAH

[anghraine]

hi sorry if this is a silly question but is lizzie in pride and prejudice canonically pretty? i know she's not as pretty as jane, who is very beautiful, but she's described as bright-eyed and having a pleasing figure i think, but darcy at the very beginning says she's not handsome enough to tempt him (lol) right? was he 100% being a snob or is she really just "cute" but not really pretty? thanks :]

No problem!

Elizabeth is canonically pretty. She's generally considered the second most attractive of the Bennet sisters, all of whom are narratively described as pretty/handsome except Mary. Elizabeth is described as "Mrs Collins's pretty friend" and even Darcy himself very quickly realizes that she's attractive. She's not a striking classic beauty like Jane (or Darcy himself!), but she's good-looking enough.

I think Darcy's initial insult sometimes gets weighted a bit too heavily in discussions of Elizabeth's canonical appearance, tbh. Only a few scenes later, he admits that he never dances at all when he can avoid it. He particularly dislikes dancing with strangers. He's in a bad mood. And he's already a fish out of water in Meryton, a backwater village he's never been to before when he's used to far more elite and/or urban environments. He's behaving poorly that night, but IMO it's a perfect storm of factors that have almost nothing to do with Elizabeth at first. She could have been Jane's identical twin and he'd have still come up with a reason to be an asshole about it.

In fact, Darcy shows no interest in dancing with Jane either despite his mention of her; he doesn't actually want to dance with anyone, and the only reason Elizabeth comes up at all is because Bingley brings her up. I think Darcy's annoyance is primarily with Bingley, rather than Elizabeth. In Darcy's view, Bingley immediately pursues the only vaguely high status woman in the room and then publicly tries to peer pressure Darcy—who he's got to know hates dancing and who admits to being in a poor frame of mind—into dancing with a much less attractive reject.

In the moment, the whole thing reads to Darcy as just kind of insulting. He's lashing out at Bingley to make that clear and to get him to back off. I suspect he realizes it was shitty and his private insistence that Elizabeth is objectively undesirable is a weak attempt to justify his behavior.

Elizabeth isn't strikingly beautiful or anything, but Darcy's main priority is defending himself. It doesn't seem to take more than a few days for him to decide Elizabeth is actually pretty and cool and charming; he was just too annoyed to see past her unconventionality initially. He finds this deeply embarrassing (not the only thing he should!), but he was never being objective about Elizabeth's appearance. He just didn't want to dance with a stranger and was aggravated with Bingley.

[linusbenjamin]

We have to go back, Kate.

[bethanydelleman]

Merry Christmas to you!

On this day, 208 years ago, Emma spent the day thinking and being miserable over her big mistake over Mr Elton and Harriet.

And a belated Happy Birthday to Emma, which was published on 23 December 1815! Cheers.

Happy Birthday to Emma! And what a Christmas that poor girl had, oh dear!

[dear-ao3]

mr knightly is mid to me im so sorry 😭😭😭

to my dearest anon: i sincerely hope that one day you will find yourself a dear friend and soulmate that resembles mr knightley, and i hope that then you realize what a true gentlemen is.

ps: i believe its knightley, with an e

best wishes,

katya

[missielynne]

Favorite and least favorite Jane Austen novels and adaptations? I was psyched to see you reblog Northanger Abbey :)

Favorite novels:

Northanger Abbey (obvs)

Sense and Sensibility

Mansfield Park

Emma

Least favorite novels

Pride and Prejudice (because I grew up around so many people that LOVE it and it wore me out)

Adaptations

Favorite:

1995 P and P (it's more enjoyable when I can hear how the lines are said because I especially have trouble figuring out when things are funny when I'm just reading it on my own.)

Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility

2007 Northanger Abbey

And I am also counting Clueless and Bridget Jones as adaptations that I love.

Least favorite

2005 P and P

Netflix Persuasion

The Emma with Gwenyth Paltrow