#darcy talks

[bunchofjackassesx]

Darcy walked into the room, two steaming cups of coffee from the cafe on the corner in hand. She knew Loki could have conjored his own cup, sure, but she figured it was her turn to supply their daily fix of caffeine. "Morning, Mischief Maker," she said, handing him one of the drinks before settling into the chair across from him. "What's on the agenda for today?" ;; @cosmiclvex

[bairdthereader]

There's one in every friend group (and we love them).

Bonus--Confused Nick is confused:

[daenysthedreamer101]

Rhaenyra and Helaena - sisters on opposite sides of the war

[joohoneyboy]

Idk if anyone reads my silly little life updates but this blog is for my brain worms so idc. I've been scarily unwell all this year and yesterday was the most productive day i've had in 5 months. I've made lots of life changes this year and they're working! I've had so much energy the last week and yesterday alone i cleaned out my closet, donated clothes, vaccummed my car, went for a run and a swim in the ocean. I'm actually happy and feeling myself again for the first time in ages and just wanted to brag a bit

[bunchofjackassesx]

Darcy raised an eyebrow, a knowing grin spreading across her face. “Hypothetically, huh? Sounds like you’re talking about someone very specific. Care to share more details?" She had no intentions of prying, but she had to admit. Her curiosity was getting the better of her though; she hadn't heard Wanda mention any type of mystery man and she desperately wanted to know everything.

She tapped her chin thoughtfully, glancing around the crowded mall. “Okay, okay, we’ll figure this out. First, rule number one: nothing too personal. Keep it casual, but not too casual, like you grabbed it on a whim, but it has a touch of... thoughtful.” Darcy bit her lip, eyeing the shelves around them as they moved through the store. "How about... a candle?"

Wanda snatched the list again with a dramatic sigh. “Mr. Schmidt definitely needs a new vibe at his front door. ‘Go Away’ is bold, but not exactly festive.” She flicked her eyes up at Darcy, a the smirk falling from her face. “Uh… I might have one person left. But it’s tricky. I can’t go overboard. I can’t make it weird, and it has to look like I put zero thought into it while secretly overthinking it for three weeks straight.” Wanda waved her hand dismissively. “And, hypothetically speaking, he might be royalty."

[xeemaee]

not to be on my labru bullshit but Laios opening and closing his hand midair after Kabru lets go and leaves? I’m thanking the animators personally I’m giving them each a visa gift card for their birthdays

[avirxy]

blight art

[hello-eeveev]

I have no evidence to support this, but I like to imagine that when Orym randomly pulls out a rock at breakfast and says, “Mr. Widogast?” there’s a least part of Essek that’s like—

“hehe, that’s me :)”

[heathersapples]

EMMA D'ARCY Cirque du Soleil "Corteo" Premiere, January 15th, 2025

[hurt-over-comfort]

When the story goes so wild that you literally have to make a reference for all the damage your blorbo has sustained. Im sorry Albert I swear that I love you

[sillypenguinwitch]

okay so i'm not trying to make this a ~thing~ or a hot take or whatever, but can we talk about how all the hyped up queer shows still predominantly feature mlm couples? i'm not saying there aren't wlw shows/movies or the mlm-focused shows don't also feature wlw characters/couples, just... they either get nowhere near the same amount of hype, have some other main plot, end with at least one of them dying or experiencing something traumatic, get cancelled after one season in the middle of their arc, or they're not the main couple. And that's not to discount the representation you can get from secondary characters of course but just... ugh I want a heartstopper or rwrb or young royals or skam or love, simon or i don't even know... with girls. And I know I'm not the first person to bring this up and I know it's not that simple, but seeing all the hype for heartstopper and rwrb this week makes my heart ache a little bit so i needed to say this somewhere.

[peach-pot]

I think Catherine Tate could play Lizzie Bennet but idk if David Tennant could be Mr. Darcy.

[feminist-cult-following]

it’s been just over a year since we got alicent’s driftmark monologue and the way olivia delivers the line “where is duty? where is sacrifice?” has never left my mind. that scene alone should have earned her an emmy nomination.

[shinehalley]

I think between the most common misinterpretations of Pride and Prejudice that irritates me the most i can say the one at the top is when they say that the story is about a woman fixing a complicated guy and this becomes references in terrible romances. I've heard this so many times and as a person who grew up with the 2005 film and reads the book at least once a year I need to get it off my chest.

Starting off, Darcy is not a "complicated man". He's not a bad guy who takes out his traumas on other people, he's not a guy who's waiting to be saved by a woman who "silences his demons" and even less a guy who mistreats the women he's with. Darcy is actually a rich man with rude manners and some class prejudices. The point is that Darcy is a man with moral convictions and feelings that make him a good man despite these aspects. His rude manners are a reflection of his class prejudice, but they do not dictate how he treats people for whom he has feelings of affection. The way he would be able to move the world for those he cares about and seek the closest thing to what is considered justice in the temporal context of the story reinforces the goodness of his character. This is even more evident in the comparison that is made between him and Wickeham, where one is unpleasant but good and the other is pleasant but a cheat.

And what Elizabeth does is far from correcting him. Darcy doesn't realize how his class prejudice affects the way he communicates with people and the view he has of himself because everyone always justifies his arrogance as fair because of his wealth. So he believes that Elizabeth admires him when, in reality, she despises him for these characteristics. And what she does is just say it to his face, something no one has done before, and that's it. This is Elizabeth's contribution to any development of Darcy, to say how arrogant and prejudiced he is. It is Darcy himself who reflects on her words and realizes that she is right and that he is not being as fair as he thought he was. He realizes his own prejudice and realizes his own arrogance and of his own free will decides to change because he wants to be a better and more pleasant person.

It could be said that it was fate that put him and Elizabeth in each other's path and made her realize, now with more pleasant manners without prejudices obscuring her actions, what a good man Darcy is and become enchanted by him. But if they hadn't met again, Darcy would still take on this challenge of re-educating himself and being a better person and Elizabeth would still continue to think of him as an arrogant man in whom she feels no interest.

The other issue is that Elizabeth is not perfect. She has her own prejudices that are overcome throughout the book thanks to her coexistence with Darcy and not because of Darcy. The fact that she lives with both Darcy and Wickeham at the same time is what makes her understand how unfair she was in her first impression and how foolish she was in being guided by that to define the characters of both. Kindness and amability are not synonymous with integrity and she learns this the hard way. It's a lesson that if she hadn't learned through her time with Darcy, she would have learned it in some other way because life has things like that.

Finally, they were essential in each other's lives because of the teachings they left to reflect on their actions in relation to the world and not because they depend on each other. Both are confronted with their prejudices and realize that they were not fair and try to change for better people regardless of whether they are together or not. Their meeting after realizing their errors in judgment is purely accidental. They don't change for each other, they change for themselves, because they realize how proud they were and want to be more fair, and after that they end up being placed back in each other's lives by chance. That's what makes them such an interesting couple and makes us wish we had what they have.

Reducing the story of Darcy and Elizabeth to an asshole man who is fixed up by a woman is a mistake so grotesque that it is noticeable that it could only have been said by a person who has never seen the story or seen it with their ass.

[anghraine]

Every time I read it, I'm amused by Elizabeth getting so distracted by Caroline Bingley's uhhh objectively enthralling attempts to flirt with Darcy that she (Elizabeth) stops reading to listen to them. And I do think it's kind of hilarious that the interaction between them absolutely confirms her opinion of not only Caroline but Darcy, even though he's not really doing anything other than getting annoyed at being continually interrupted while trying to write a letter to his sister.

[bunchofjackassesx]

“Oh, trust me, I know. Especially since most of the time, there's someone in the room who can make the coffee appear. If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears.” She tilted her head thoughtfully. “So, how about we sneak away for a bit? I doubt either of us will be missed. And if for some reason we are needed, well... we can just come up with some excuse."

"You need another form of cardio, Lewis." Wanda scrunched her nose at the comment Darcy was most likely going to make and pressed a finger to her lips to silence her before she could. "Nowhere in particular. I just want out of the tower before they make us do something. It's one of those dead days I feel like we'll be forced out if nothing happens."