#p: abbey

[bethanydelleman]

If you got to pick the house, profession, and income (you can have your 10k/year and Pemberley or Donwell or whatever), which Austen hero would you marry?

If you are a man/lesbian/other looking for the "show answers" button, no. No button. You're either gay or or straight or a woman or marrying just for the companionship now, pick a husband.

[pemberlaey]

(some of) my literary roman empires

benedick’s “you” —> “thou” switch in 4.1

the extended portrait metaphor in pride and prejudice

may welland

the repression of female emotions in victorian fiction

henry’s “a country dance as an emblem of marriage” speech in northanger abbey + the way that 19th century dance scenes prefigure marriage in general

the moment in jane eyre when mr. rochester asks jane if she finds him handsome and she says “no, sir”

victorian floriography

ophelia’s final scene

ww1 solider poetry (sassoon, owens, rosenberg, brooke etc.)

the ambiguity surrounding bertha mason

juliet’s “O romeo, romeo, wherefore art thou romeo?” breaks from iambic pentameter because the name romeo has too many syllables so the problem is literally his name

éponine thénardier (just everything about her but especially the “i am the devil” scene)

[currentlyonstandbi]

Pino, 2 seconds after stepping through the doors of the Arche Abbey:

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

Favorite niche book genre

[junewongapologia]

If there’s a universe where Mr Bingley brings Regency Bertie Wooster to Netherfield, do you think the story would hit all the same plot beats??

[lies-of-fox]

Perfection

[meatlesbeating]

Going insane today over the implication that I heard in the above podcast that "I Want You" was not written by John about Yoko originally, and that the song was perhaps instead about how much he wrestled with wanting to be with Paul, as the "she's so heavy" part was originally a separate song that was only combined with it later on during the Abbey Road recording sessions.

In my bones I just feel that this is likely the case. The whole dark, ominous, lusty feeling of the song just seems way more like something you'd write about somebody who you were not already with in a totally reciprocated sense and that you struggled deeply over your desire for, you know what I mean?

[theartofdreaming1]

Happy Halloween from Catherine & Henry! 🧡🖤🦇🧛

I like to think that these two would have fun going as vampire and vampire hunter

[bethanydelleman]

Which Austen Hero is best in bed?

My ratings

I put them in alphabetical order for fairness.

[primaverapeace]

it's about perfect timing 🤣

[cottagecore-raccoon]

Not accounting for fortune, rank, other family members, or any other variables...

(And yes, I wrote them all with their maiden names to make my life easier)

[postcardsfromkrat]

[never-trusthugs]

I dream about a day when there’ll be a time travel machine, and I’ll go back in time and bring Jane Austen my computer with all the movies/series of her books in.

Then we’ll sit down, and I’ll let her know that the scene where Colin Firth jumps in the water in p&p 1995 was obviously needed.

[lies-of-fox]

Do we know what that is?