#austen gentleman

[lily-s-world]

Thanks to @hotjaneaustenmenpoll I decided to watch Persuasion (1995) for the millionth time this weekend, and inspired me to create some propaganda on why you should vote for Captain Wentworth as the Hottest Austen Man:

Anne's face the moment she saw him after eight years screams "Oh, no, he is hot!" and she is right.

He makes one snarky comment towards Anne and immediately shows a regretted puppy face, because he realized he can't hurt her in any way. Gentleman as it finest.

Life of the party charms the pants off anyone. Not literally, except for Anne.

Mister "I don't care about Anne", but will gladly listen to anything other people has to say about her and won't stand seeing her struggle in anyway. Pure gentleman behavior.

Also, will give deadly stares to the men that approach Anne in a romantic manner.

Ciaran Hinds in a Marine Uniform. Even Lady Dalrymple said he looked fine as hell in that uniform.

The letter with that voice, perfection.

The yearning and longing on his eyes is worthy of an Oscar, this man embodies that character perfectly.

I know you love Darcy, I do too, but that is the obvious choice; Wentworth is as good as he is (if not even more).

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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[dabiconcordia]

“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.” ― Jane Austen

[tethrawke]

What about a canon AU where Hawke needs to somehow buy her way into Kirkwall after fleeing the Blight with her family, but working for the smugglers isn't enough? What if Varric needs a wife ASAP before Bianca's family kills him and he hears about this newly washed-up refugee from a formerly well-respected noble bloodline who's been working odd jobs for questionable people to keep herself and her family afloat? What if he decides to take a look for himself and watches her for a few days and realises she's EXACTLY what he needs to deal with dwarven politics? What if he makes her an offer she can't refuse and they're married before the day is over and the Hawke family is moved into Varric's mansion? What if Dragon Age 2 becomes a green card AU?

[foolishlyzephyrus]

2005’s pride and prejudice this, 1995’s pride and prejudice that. where’s the love for ang lee’s 1995 adaptation of sense and sensibility?

[lulu-cat-princess]

If YouTube exists in the early 1800s, I will pay big money to see:

Jane Austen

Lord Byron

Dr James Barry

John Keats

William Wordsworth

Percy Bysshe Shelly

The Brothers Grimm

Anne Lister aka Gentleman Jack

Eliza Hamilton

React to Thomas’ poems. Also I like to see these fictional people who would be alive at the same time as Thomas react to his poems:

Dr Henry Morgan from abc forever

Horatio Hornblower

Richard Sharpe

The bridgerton and featherington families

[bethanydelleman]

The Obstinate Elizabeth and Bossy Darcy Cycle

This is something I notice a lot in JAFF and it’s so strange to me. Mostly because it involves Elizabeth being “obstinate” to the point of stupidity and Darcy being “bossy” which I can’t even tell if it’s good or bad because Elizabeth is being so stupid.

So here is an example from an extremely popular published JAFF: Elizabeth falls into a frozen river. She gets mad at Darcy for saving her (I’m a strong, independent woman!) and then Darcy offers her a ride home. Elizabeth, soaked to the skin, is like, “Nah I’m an excellent walker, my house is only a mile away.” And then Bossy Darcy says something using an animalistic descriptor and basically forces her into the carriage.

Okay, so 1. Elizabeth would have died. That isn’t stubborn, that’s stupid. I don’t care how “good of a walker” you are, I live in Canada and this is nonsense. Do you like having feet, Elizabeth?

2. I don’t know if it counts as “bossy” if you keep someone from dying/killing themselves with stupidity. I’m pretty sure a non-bossy character like say, Bingley, would have done the exact same thing. (Not that we ever see Darcy be “bossy” at all much less to a lady)

So in my mind you haven’t shown their characters, you’ve made Elizabeth into a manic-pixie-dreamgirl who was fortunate to make it past childhood and Darcy is just a normal dude who doesn’t want a girl to die.

book!Elizabeth would have accepted Darcy’s help without question, because she isn’t an idiot. In the event that the hypothermia is making her delirious and she somehow refused, I think book!Darcy would be very polite in his entities that she get into the carriage to keep from dying. He might have just resorted to walking with her until she collapsed/accepted his help. 

Also, The Gentleman Known As Darcy does not make any speech which can be described using animal sound descriptors (bark, growl, howl) because he has impeccable manners and modulating your voice was like, the whole idea. In my personal opinion, when he is angry his voice would be the most even. That’s the scariest angry anyway; anger with control.

Now, please disregard everything I just said because... this cycle is incredibly popular in JAFF and people clearly like it. 

[ehlnofay]

sorry but apropos of nothing I am pondering pride and prejudice once again (regular occurence). saw someone describe elizabeth bennet as "middle class". if the internet inexplicably vanishes in the next few hours it's because I blew it up

[beautifulscreaminglady]

I think I appreciate Jane Austen more as a woman in my 20s than I did as a teenager.

[tadpal]

but also the country gentleman look the buckskin short pantaloon the boots the cravat im. i love men

[thenotcanadian]

Also OP (not to add on) Mr Knightley is more than just a friend who will call you out, he is literally a consummate gentleman. And he takes that role very seriously! He's an incredibly privileged man, among the wealthiest in their area/society, and he looks after his tenants (see Robert Martin) and those who have fallen into a lower status (Miss Bates).

He doesn't like Frank Churchill because everyone bends over backwards for him and frankly (no pun intended), Frank Churchill does not take his role as a gentleman seriously. He calls Emma out when she's not behaving as befits a woman from her station because he expects better from her.

Anyway I'm just having a lot of feelings about Mr Knightley.

I feel like when people talk about Knightley in the canon of Austen heroes it’s always “he’s the friend who will call you out” and he IS but he’s also has soooo much like, social grace?? not in the shallow way of “manner” that Austen is always undermining, but in a deeper way that has real compassion at its root! he puts people at ease!! he takes care of them!! he thinks about what people’s needs are and then he finds a solution, without being asked! put him in a group situation and he won’t be witty and charming and make everyone laugh, but he WILL find the person suffering and quietly make their troubles go away

[austenreusedcostumes]

This Striped waistcoat is worn on an extra at a ball in Sanditon Season 1 Episode 6 (2019) and later worn on Rupert Vansittart as Charles Lawton in Gentleman Jack: I'm Not the Other Woman, She Is (2022)

[kachnajs]

OMG, is that her?

Who?

Mrs. Elton in her BAROUCHE-LANDAU!

I heard it has FOUR seats!

No way.

She's amazing, hope she never gives up music...

[russellius]

George and the country

Gentleman's Journal: George Russell is a glass-half-full kind of guy // Wikipedia // Farmer with a Pincher by Winslow Homer + George on the mini-mic in Spa // Szentgyörgyi Albert // George in his 2024 season review with Petronas // Twilight in the Wilderness – Frederic Edwin Church // Sportweek Magazine, issue nr 36 // George at the end of the 2022 season // Sportweek Magazine // George and his granddad (screenshots taken from the cribs video with SkySports) // Harvest by J.R. Eastwood // Green Wheat Field with Cypress – Vincent Van Gogh // Emma by Jane Austen // George is interviewed at Wimbledon // Farmhouse in Provence – Vincent van Gogh + Heart of the Country by Paul McCartney // When April Comes by Virna Sheard // Man Reclining beside a Stream – Eliphalet Fraser Andrews + Mother Nature's Son by The Beatles // Early Summer by Ellwood Roberts // Q&A with Tommy Hilfiger

[theunvanquishedzims]

Look at this fella and his little necklace

White-throated Magpie-Jay (Calocitta formosa)

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