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[eerna]

Ms. President ma’am, they cancelled Lockwood & co 🥲😭

Figures. Netflix I hate you

[thatscarletflycatcher]

So I finished Evelina! I definitely enjoyed it, although I think we both agree it could do with some trimming down. Now I had heard that Austen was a fan of Fanny Burney, but I kind of thought that the overly-sentimental language would have been something Austen would have mocked. That, and I feel like I saw quite a few parallels between Evelina and Northanger Abbey. What are your thoughts?

I think perhaps my problem was reading it for a book club, a few lettters a week. It felt UNENDING.

My favorite parts were

Everyone is related to everyone

A monkey shows up somehow

The Scottish poet who was going to commit double pistol wielding suicide

Evelina carrying two pistols (I think most Austen heroines would benefit from having two pistols to wield at some point, as a treat.)

The absolutely bonkers anticlimactic drama of finally meeting sir John Belmont. Almost "the wizard of Oz was actually a man" vibes, but, like, "callous byron-like villain was actually a ridiculous dramatic diva all along".

Evelina is definitely a heavy influence in Northanger, specially the Evelina-Orville-Willoughby situation. I do think she actually liked and enjoyed these novels, the ribbing is so in good humor. It helps that most of the novels of the time are also overtly long and telenovelesque.

NOW WHERE IS OUR EVELINA MOVIE I ASK

Edit: one thing I really disliked about the novel, besides the repetitiveness, was this huff of 80s bodice ripper, where apparently horrified by men's universal irresistible attraction towards her Evelina, still keeps putting herself again and again in the same situations that get her harassed as if she actually wanted it, but keeping a veneer of modesty over it all. Which I find extremely jarring (unlike, say, Fanny Price, who is a soft character who learns from experience, and also, Catherine Morland)

[eloiscbridgerton]

any eloise defender blogs like yours i can follow?

idk why but this ask made me chuckle lol

off the top of my head, @torchwood-99 (i dare say THE #1 eloise defender), @theothergal, @social-aphrodite, @dollypopup, @creative-girl, and @miraculoushedgehog !! <3

[captainvatican]

logged on just to say that if you’re considering coming at @miraculoushedgehog for liking makeup pls consider pop lock and dropping your attitude and go step on Lego or four

[vorpalbun]

@miraculoushedgehog you're still right

For the purposes of this poll, assume it is being asked before the Fellowship leaves Rivendell, and thus does not include any experiences on the road or after the defeat of Sauron.

Bill the Pony not included on assumption he would "sweep."

[coolman229]

Happy Birthday!!!

Thank you!

[just-absolutely-super]

Happy Birthday!!!

Thank you!

[coolman229returns-blog]

miraculoushedgehog replied to your post: To be honest I just want staff to be...

Is there nothing else besides constantly emailing support???

I don’t know. I don’t really know what else to do

[schrodingers-blursed-kitty]

Why are you doing these things to us Mary? Why must you tempt fate by posting these atrocities

Why do people climb mountains? because they’re there

[flamingstuffs]

[eerna]

Tbh I couldn’t get into TOG, because I found everything and everyone to be really gimmicky in a not-fun way. I agree with what you said about SJM knowing what sells, but imo she was doing that from the beginning, and I wasn’t a fan of it

You're totally right! She changed her series several times to better appeal to the readers. It started out as a simple, very 2012 book about a teen assassin participating in a deadly competition and kissing a prince. The last book was published in 2019 and was a massive, 1000 pages long epic about fighting demons for a crown with gore and a million characters and graphic sex. She's a businesswoman first and a writer second and ToG proves it

[thatscarletflycatcher]

WHO HAD A SECRET RELATIONSHIP WITH WHOM?!

@miraculoushedgehog replied to your post: I need this info on 81’ Thomas 😂

In Sense and Sensibility 1981, the servants of Barton cottage are not ones coming with the Dashwoods from Norland; whether sir John sent them or they are just a fixture of the place, the series doesn't tell us, but they do get a grand introduction:

Thomas, who is doing some gardening as he awaits the Dashwoodses, with as much or more enthusiasm as Mr Collins' noticing Lady Catherine's carriage, tells the maid when he sees the carriage:

Darcy cannot fix the hour or the spot? Skill issue. This man certainly can, as he ran inside, put on a coat and proceeded to greet them:

What a meet cute! Ma Dashwood is not at all displeased:

She has not withdrawn her hand! she smiles at him!

I know who this woman was voting for on that tournament.

Once she moves past him, he pointedly looks at her as she makes her way to the front door, and then adds:

He introduces Susan, and then:

He's taken with her!

You'd say, Scarlet, you are reading too much into this! these are just some perfunctory introductory lines!

Well, you are wrong, because this sequence hasn't ended yet! I'm tempted to think this is the servant character with the most lines in any Austen adaptation. Which reinforces my theory that this is done ON PURPOSE :P

He shows her the different rooms, and then:

He smiles at her approval, and clearly attempts to prolong their conversation with:

Realizing perhaps this is pushing his luck, as she doesn't answer, he adds:

This is not the last time we see him in this very episode, as he comes in to assuage Lady Middleton's fears that her son might be injured, and informing all that only his cucumber frame has been destroyed, showing with that his great presence of mind.

Episode 2. Tom, who introduced himself last episode as doing gardening and odd jobs, has been ascended to doorman:

After we meet Willoughby, the same way Andrew Davies treated us to some wet shirt Edward, we are treated to some Tom doing physical labour, clearly highlighting how romance is blossoming in parallel between so similar a mother and a daughter:

He stops to listen to Marianne and Willoughby sing a song:

The face of a man in love!

The Queen Maab scene follows this one, and then, as Marianne and Willoughby are singing again another day, what do we see first as background to their singing?

Ma Dashwood! Carrying flowers! This is such an obvious yet subtle romantic parallel. This is the kind of soft romantic storytelling I'm here for.

That's Willoughby's carriage as he's brought back Marianne from Allenham. Would Thomas be complete if he didn't love horses?

Episode 3: We open with some Thomas working in the background:

So that we not forget his real relevance in this story's subtext.

Ma Dashwood not even trying to be subtle.

Another Tom cameo:

And another:

Ma Dashwood's reaction upon hearing that Mrs Jennings has invited Elinor and Marianne to go to London with her:

It is worth mentioning that in this adaptation, there's no Margaret. Ma Dashwood is not sick. There's absolutely no reason for her not to be invited, so why didn't Mrs Jennings invite her? Well, of course, because with her nose for romance she's sniffed her secret out! Ma Dashwood does then demolish all Elinor's objections, is truly overjoyed at the idea of being left behind, and explicitly mentions her having Tom and Susan with her as a reason for Elinor and Marianne to go with a clean conscience.

Ma Dashwood's face after her daughters leave the room:

During episodes 4-5, the series of course focuses on our main heroines in London and Cleveland, leaving us to imagine the full blossoming of this romance happening at Barton cottage, and all the angst and heartbreak that their class separation imposes on these middle aged lovers. Ma Dashwood may be a romantic, but she understands that her daughters come first.

As soon as we return to Barton in episode 6, so returns our favorite gardener-doorman-oodjobman Tom! Without seeing him, Ma Dashwood recognizes his way of shutting the front door, and calls his name, and then smiles at his answering:

♪ So this is love... ♫ (notice Elinor drawing Edward's portrait)

(Then we get the "Thomas tells them Mr Ferrars is married" scene)

Then this scene follows:

It's a really clever piece of writing, where the writers both show us the grown intimacy, respect and appreciation between them, and give us a nice metaphor, where the flowers of the hedgerow, that represent Tom, are picked by Ma Dashwood, beautiful in her eyes, and made fit for polite society. Alas, the crucial question remains: how can they love be, without ruining Marianne and Elinor's prospects?

As we all know, Edward comes and proposes to Elinor, and marries her. We are then treated to a visit of colonel Brandon, where Ma Dashwood sees how much Marianne's feelings and attitudes towards the colonel have changed.

The last line and frame of the adaptation belongs to Ma Dashwood:

That would, to any distracted viewer, seem very odd. Why that? And why that line? But for the attentive viewer who has been able to piece together the little drama behind the curtains, it's patently clear: she has realized that Marianne will marry Brandon, and once that happens, she will be free to have her own second happily ever after herself, with Tom, the gardener of her heart.

[angelrinisadork]

Happy birthday!!! It’s been a bit, but I hope all is well!!!

Thank you it has! And you made it just in time, my birthday will be over in 2 minutes!

[anoptimisticsnarker]

I follow u because ur a NERD

This answer doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Mira, you're getting predictable.

[libraryscarf]

@mokomokuren replied to your post “gaping”

good call

:^>c

@weepycat​ replied to your post “hands, warm, kiss (we all knew my shipper ass was gonna pull out the...”

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we can only get shippier from here

@themusicalbookworm​ replied to your post “Kerto”

a great one, clearly

@handgate​ replied to your post “Kerto”

not the right one, obviously. where's the kerto, scarf

*thoughtful emoji* what Is the Truth?

@miraculoushedgehog​ replied to your post “Vore”

no vore?? then what's the point

@kurisuumakise​ replied to your post “Vore”

you need to fix that

@kiun replied to your post “Vore”

you can never escape the gaping chasm of vore

you know what....you’re right. i’m re-titling my project “The Ink and Vore-acle”

[eilowyn]

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send me a ✏️ and i’ll handwrite your url