#darcy and lizzy

[howifeltabouthim]

'Maybe he's not as bad as we thought, if he recognizes how special you are.'

Curtis Sittenfeld, from Eligible

[bee-the-whovian]

As much as, of course, one aspires to the romance of Darcy and Elizabeth, main character energy and all that....

But given my current circumstances, I can't help but envy the Bingley/Jane dynamic... head over heels from the get-go, and no doubts whatsoever that they'll be very happy.

I've always had more supporting character energy... not Jane energy, but supporting character nonetheless. It would suffice.

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Not that my author needs critic notes, but... I offer them anyway.

[pemberlaey]

“hey what’s the vibe for the fall?” great question!!

it’s actually this image for the 18th year in a row

[laurenillustrated]

“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me.”

Pride and Prejudice illustration based on the book.

[duchess-of-new-shire]

My favorite ship dynamic of all time, ever, is a little something I like to call anxiety x audacity

Examples:

[gotlostonmywayhome]

This would be so much fun to write. I wish my brain would word so I can write it. So many ships that I love would be perfect for this.

[elizabeth-freaking-bennet]

Lizzie Bennet before she started liking Darcy

[nerdside]

Pride and Prejudice characters + being a mood

[zoltyx]

[userotp]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright

[fceriegifs]

Kiera Knightley & Matthew Macfadyen as Elizabeth Bennet & Mr. Darcy

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

[howifeltabouthim]

She tried to keep her voice steady as she said, 'I'm old enough to know that sometimes you don't get a second chance.' 'My darling—' Darcy lifted his palm from her arm to her cheek, and she leaned into it; she thought she might weep, and closed her eyes. 'I would—I will—give you as many chances as you need. My feelings for you have never changed.'

Curtis Sittenfeld, from Eligible

[itspileofgoodthings]

one of the things that continues to strike me on reread is how much the character of Darcy, and Austen through him, finds Mr. Bennet dead. And how much Elizabeth, in growing and changing and discarding her past blindness, has to move past her way of seeing her father and thus of seeing reality, because the two are connected! Darcy’s letter exposes her father’s flaws to Elizabeth in a way she’d never been able to see before. Most especially the way his laziness and neglect of his own gifts have hurt his family and that ultimately he doesn’t. care. Not enough to change. It literally says that she comes home from Hunsford and tries to laugh at her sisters’ and mother’s folly (the way she used to; the way her father has taught her to by example for her whole life) and she can’t anymore! It sticks in her throat. She is grieved by the failures that she sees in him, all the more so because she IS his favorite and she loves him! And the thing about Mr. Bennet is he never changes. The Lydia/wickham situation exposes to him sharply his own conduct and the consequences and he feels it! Because he is neither stupid nor unfeeling. But he, like everyone, has free will. And he chooses not to change when the opportunity presents itself. He even jokes about how quickly his feeling bad will pass and how soon everything will go back to normal, to his laziness and his selfishness. He is set in his ways and he serves as a contrast to Elizabeth’s personal journey because he embodies a version of a person she could have become and was in danger of becoming if her only goal at all times was to laugh at and judge people from the sidelines.

[pemberlaey]

this sentence is 210 years old today <3

[laurenillustrated]

Mr Darcy and Lizzie 💫

[elinordash]

Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995)

Can you tell me why Mr. Darcy keeps staring at me?