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The more I think about it, the more I think that Persuasion has my favorite premise of all of Jane Austen's novels
Anne Elliot as a character speaks to my soul. She feels tremendous guilt for a decision she made eight years ago. Her life is lonely, as she doesn't really have anyone she can truly confide in despite being surrounded by people. So she swallows her pain, the yearning she feels deep in her soul, and vows that if nothing else at least she'll be helpful.
And of course she is reunited with Frederick Wentworth (the one that got away) who seems to hate her now, and she just keeps going. She keeps being kind and supporting her loved ones while slowly carving out a life for herself. There's something about her classic heroism that just feels so attainable. I don't have Elizabeth Bennett's wit, or Jane Bennett's unwavering belief in the goodness of everyone, or even Elinor's constant composure. But I can be like Anne and just keep moving forward attempting to be helpful
Of course it all works out in the end, and Anne is finally surrounded by people who truly appreciate her, even if she had to wait an extra eight years. Others have observed the fairy tale quality of the ending, and perhaps that's why it speaks to me. The idea that if you just keep doing your best and being kind, you'll eventually find happiness
#Would I say that Persuasion is my favorite of Jane Austen's novels?#I don't think ss#Pride and Prejudice is her most well written in my humble opinion#and i do with persuasion had more characters that were fully interesting individuals#and of course I would love more of an actual period of time where Anne and Wentworth are together in the narrative#since we never see what they're like as a happy couple or before their separation#(unlike Austen's other couples where you can see hints of their dynamic before they're together)#but the premise of persuasion is just so beautiful#persuasion#anne elliot#pride and prejudice#jane austen#cottagecore-raccoon
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hello drarry fandom please accept my humble offerings... they are reading together <3
#yes that is a penguin classics book cover hehehehehe#guess which one#this is actually the first time im drawing both of them together like this — still trying to figure them out...#(actually inspired by the p&p AUs and especially pages of you by wolfpants)#draco would love jane austen and we all know it!#happy weekend 👍🏻#kiss my arts ;)#drarry fanart#hpdm#harry x draco#draco malfoy#harry potter
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the thing you gotta bear in mind about Sense and Sensibility is that they're all super young. Marianne is 17, Elinor 19, Lucy is 23, Willoughby 25, and Edward (despite the old man energy) is only 24!
It's basically all young adult friend group drama
And then Colonel Brandon is...also there
#I'm sorry Colonel Brandon stans#but I'm pretty sure it's Alan Rickman you love (understandably!!!!) not Colonel Brandon#you're 35 dude!!#you cannot be mooning over a 17 year old I'm sorry but you CAN'T#get a fucking hobby!#fall in love with Mrs Dashwood instead at least that would make more sense#sense and sensibility#jane austen#posts
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northanger abbey but being a witch is the norm and catherine is like, the most basic type of witch. she collects herbs to make lotion and face cream and maybe something to make headaches go away. she’s obsessed with stories about great and powerful witches and sorcerers, she literally can’t stop reading about them. everything else stays the same, the tilneys come from a powerful and ancient family of powerful magic users. henry doesn’t really gaf about it and he just drags the shit out of the stereotypes of brooms and pointy hats. when she is invited to the abbey, catherine thinks general tilney is THE dark lord that appears in every book she reads that is prophesied to return and bring darkness to the whole world!! however, he is not, and the plot twist of the novel is cathy realizing no amount of magic can make the thorpes less annoying (they don’t have any real powers anyway, they just pretend to know stuff, and catherine is appalled by how terrible potion makers they are omg)
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#jane austen#elizabeth bennet#pride and prejudice#mr. darcy#pride & prejudice 2005#love#mr.darcy#therealelizabethbennet#what excellent boiled potatoes#what would darcy do
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Jane Austen: and here we have the love interest. He might have some issues, but once you get to know him, he's a great guy. Good looking, heart of gold, the works.
Charlotte Brontë: get ready for the weirdest man you have ever met.
#jane austen#charlotte bronte#jane eyre#pride and prejudice#classic literature#textpostsbymellpen#currently watching#jane eyre 1983#and oh my gosh this man is bizzare#i've never read any other bronte books but i get the feeling this is kind of a trend with their love interests#i also feel like#mr. rochester#mr. darcy#and#john thornton#should start a club for seemingly broody initially offputting Single Men of Good Fortune In Want of a(nother in rochester's case) Wife#conversations would be unbearably awkward and they would all wish their wives were there with them#margaret hale#elizabeth bennet#and jane eyre would get along splendidly
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If you're willing, with you I'd like to try
[ never love an anchor, the crane wives // love from a distance, richard siken // simply together, alina malykhina // strawberry wine, noah kahan // the world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire, ritika jyala // emma, jane austen // never alone, sharon cummings // poetry, mine ]
#fun fact i made this last night and he told me today he's been reading emma#and i told my friend and she said hes like a jane austen character -- a jane austen character would read jane austen#anyway#web weaving#love#richard siken#jane austen#poetry#noah kahan#web weave#bangerpost
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RIP Jane Austen, you would have loved korean dramas.
#i been discussing with my sister kdramas and how it would be great if they adapted JA novels#then i realized a lot of kdramas already have the plot of JA novels 🤣#she would have love them#jane austen#writer#kdramas#korean drama#pride and prejudice#persuasion#sense and sensibility#emma#mansfield park#northanger abbey#sanditon
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one of my favorite things about pride and prejudice is that in the last third of the book Elizabeth’s internal monologue about Darcy is her admitting that she’s in love with him but also putting all sorts of qualifications around that statement that kind of ...tamp down the level of emotion (the “feelings, if not as tender as Jane’s for Bingley, at least as just” line, even the whole thing about her and Darcy being well-matched objectively speaking) and as soon as she’s engaged you get the unbridled joy in the narrative about her own joy, cc: “I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
#pride and prejudice#jane austen#this is very obvious but it's in the narration itself#that she's trying to sort of distance herself from the depths of her own feelings in case this DOESN'T work out#i also think the rational stuff is totally true and she would say that after as well but she would say it in a different way#idk i just love it. it's so subtle and it's so true#also very obvious?? i feel like i'm making a very obvious point#but anyway 'elizabeth's feelings soon rising to playfulness etc. etc.'#also this is why i hated the end of a civil contract actually#i felt like she was tamping it all down and for some reason it just made me SO mad#like no. it's supposed to OVERFLOW NOW#adam being like 'and in the end the rational choice was jenny' sir i will FIGHT YOU IN THE PARKING LOT#idk i was student teaching and very emotional at the time maybe i missed something and read it wrong#but my entire spirit REBELED#like. how honestly DARE#i'm avoiding grading can you tell#yes you can I will go now
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RIP Palamedes Sextus, you would have loved Pride and Prejudice (2005)
#he would love Jane Austen you can’t change my mind#the locked tomb#tlt#palamedes sextus#tlt palamedes#nona the ninth
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“Ah.” Roy pushes a scarred hand through his slicked-back hair, which had already begun to free itself from its formal style, but is now mussed beyond hope. He catches her stare, smirking devilishly. “What endearments am I allowed?”
“Let me think.” She drains the wine glass, the spicy-sweet taste washing over her tongue. His dark eyes track her every movement. “‘Riza’ for everyday. ‘My Lady’ for formal events. And -” She taps her chin in mock contemplation. “‘Empress Divine’ - but only on very special occasions.”
Roy chuckles, the sound rolling low in his chest. “And what shall I call you when I'm mad?” He runs a palm along the firm arch of her calf muscle. “Mrs. Mustang?”
- WIP
#RIP Jane Austen you would have loved Royai#I don't write smut but this one is . . . something#*fans self*#roy mustang#riza hawkeye#royai#fullmetal alchemist#fullmetal alchemist brotherhood#fma#fmab#fanfiction#fanfic#ao3#ao3 author#wip#writing#writblr#writer
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rip ponyboy you would have loved pride and prejudice (2005)
#he would love jane austen fight me#mostly cause he could read it to johnny and they’d be so silly with it#having lots of thoughts about it i will yap more later#the outsiders broadway#the outsiders#the outsiders musical#ponyboy curtis#johnny cade
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But does your man buy an entire hawking establishment just because he saw a painting of a hawking party where one of the women kind of resembled you?
#helen by maria edgeworth#is equal parts slog and wild ride#i can see why this would have been popular in jane austen's time#but it's exactly why it's dated now#all these upper-crust people talking about current literary figures and customs#flinging around french all the time#compare that to austen's middle-class country people#who live in a different culture than us but have a lot of the same normal daily problems#also austen's pacing and dialogue are so much better#the number of times characters stop to expound upon some philosophical point!#just in the course of daily conversation!#this story's fun enough for what it is#(digging the 'love triangle' where one of the guys is just going after the girl because the other guy annoys him)#but while i can see why austen might have enjoyed edgeworth i hope she knows she was the better author
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18th century jon so he can wear his hair in a queue and prance around being a silly pretty little guy and when he travels to the usa he sees alexander hamilton and is like 'el-oh-el these 'revolutionaries' who think they're so great while they're actually just colonisers i'm gonna go back to england and fight for abolition while staying silly through the horrors even though the magnus institute doesn't exist yet'
i think that would be pretty delightful if just for long-haired jon
#ignore the anachronisms#and the mischaracterisation of jon i'm a bit delirious i think#and i just wanted to get my feelings about hamilton out that little rat#why'd he get a musical and not an actual revolutionary#sorry to the usamerican patriots that are for some reason scrolling the tma tag but he was a pos#also me personally i headcanon that in another universe 18th century people said lol#i mean they had a whole century to figure it out#actually if jon lived in the 18th century he would get no jane austen and no house of leaves#in this au he can be rich enough to have the aesthetic but also ready to stop capitalism from taking hold#this is what happens when i'm struggling to do my history homework at one am#my homework isn't even about?? the 18th century?? or anything like that??#its about the lavender scare and its genuinely interesting and i love yapping about queer history but i cannot get myself to focus#goddamn it autism brain#jonathan sims#tma shitpost#tma#i will probably delete this in the morning and it will get no notes because its the stupidest thing ever
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“There are Brontë people, and there are Jane Austen people”
Yes, and they’re making out. What’s your point?
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