#the jane austen book club

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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)

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There needs to be an "Austen adjacent men" bracket. So many hotties in Austenland (and other properties I guess) and no way to rank them.

it may not be a full bracket but your wish is my command - here are some austen-adjacent men to vote on...

curse my spelling mistakes *Mr Nobley

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grigg is an underrated hugh dancy character

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The Jane Austen book club, 2007

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Challenge: make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters, and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite.

I was tagged by @oh-goodness-loki <3

Will Graham:

Grigg Harris:

Adam Towers:

Galahad:

Bobby Bronson:

Tagging: @victorineb @tcbook @thesilverqueenlady @fragile-teacup @thisismydesignhannibal @wraithsonwingsposts @snazzymolasses

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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)

Good. That's great.

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I totally forgot but

TikTok got me obsessed with Grigg

As HEU enjoyers, YOU MUST WATCH THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB

(It’s a little hard to find online)

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round 2 (31/64)

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Save me Hugh Dancy as Grigg in The Jane Austen Book Club..... Hugh Dancy as Grigg in The Jane Austen Book Club save me....

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Thinking about Grigg Harris🥰🥰

(Totally my husband)

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Amy Brenneman Part 2

The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)

Downloading Nancy (2008)

Private Practice (2007‑2013)

Reign (2014-2015)

The Leftovers (2014‑2017)

Peel (2019)

The Old Man (2022)

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The Jane Austen Book Club

You, me, we all know that books impact our lives in myriad ways, but this book takes that notion in a really beautiful direction. You have Austen, whose novels, as multiple critics have repeatedly said, are very similar in nature, describing and analysing those same twi inches of ivory (i think this was Sir Walter Scott), yet she gives your life twists and turns that you wouldn't perhaps expect from her. She leads you to self-discovery, to love, to betrayal, to disillusionment, to second chances. A handful of Austen lovers gather each month to discuss one Austen novel as the readings guide them through their lives in subtle ways. Just like Austen's novels always end with a marriage or two, here too, you cannot complain about the endings. As Bernadette (married and divorced countless times) says, she still believes in happy endings because oh she's had about a hundred them!

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The Jane Austen book club, 2007

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I'm Lost Too (Markus/Grigg) - Shortfic

Explicit // M/M // Grigg (Jane Austen Book Club)/Markus (Riders of Justice) // Tagged: Post canon Martin, AU Grigg, trans male characters, trans Grigg, canon death (Markus' wife), prequel, Personal reflection, self discovery,  TW for slurs, self hate, Internalised homophobia, self acceptance, confessions, kissing, hand job (on a trans man), squirting, Happy ending. Prompt fill.

Prequel to Couldn't Wait 

Markus and Grigg's individual journeys of discovery lead them to each other.

I'm Lost Too (3.6k):

Markus flicked through the app, not really paying attention to any of the profiles and not swiping for any of them.

It had been three years since his wife was killed and whilst he wasn’t particularly looking for anything or anyone, his daughter kept encouraging him to meet new people. Even if just as friends, even if for a date or two. Maybe nothing more, maybe something.

Just Mathilde insisting on that had made Markus realise how much she must mean it. She'd loved her mother deeply and missed her in ways Markus hadn’t always been equipped to deal with. So for her to suggest that he needed to find someone outside of the weird little circle of friends they had grown since the accident, he had taken those words to heart.

He had made an effort. Partly.

He had set up the app, looking for 'friends, dates, maybe more', but he never really looked at any of the pretty faces that rolled by. It just became a habit for when he was bored. He’d been lucky enough to get set up in a desk job at the local barracks rather than being deployed again, now that he was a single dad and needed to take care of his daughter. So life was very different to how it had been, in so many ways.

It did mean early starts and sometimes he was home before she returned from school, and those were the times that felt incredibly empty. He hadn’t known much outside of the army, it had been his life since before he even met his wife. He didn’t know who he was without it in some form or another. But being stationed at home gave him downtime in a way he never had when deployed. Being on tour was never 9 to 5. He was never lonely, always with fellow soldiers. He didn’t know how to cope with the time he could now spend in his own head.

The time where he could explore why he joined the army, and maybe more importantly, why he’d volunteered for deployment after deployment instead of spending that time with his wife and child.

The thought made Markus’ face flush, his neck burn. Maybe things would have been different if he’d thought for one minute that he could accept who he was back when he’d been younger, instead of fighting against it. He’d done the right thing, though. That much he knew.

There was no way he was a fucking faggot.

The thought made his throat tight and he aggressively scrolled past a few more profiles and then stopped. His thumb hovering over the phone screen. He thought it was an ad or something at first, but then realised it was a profile.

The photo was blank - no image provided. And where most had profile names like “Stacey, 29, looking for fun”, this one simply said, “I’m so lost.”

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