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Hi, Tumblr friends/followers/general associates! 

I just got stuck grading some 70-odd exams for a former professor, so I'm only half around atm, but it's good to see so many of you here! Welcome to Dreamwidth :)

crosspost: Darcy and the Darcys

...which sounds like the world's worst band name. Anyway.

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further crossposting: the Strafford family

I'm much more concerned about my meta than my fic, tbh.

But Tumblr drama aside, one of my favourite Austen details is this:

“Mr Wentworth was nobody, I remember; quite unconnected; nothing to do with the Strafford family.”

This is Sir Walter Elliot’s dismissal of the Wentworths’ claim to genteel status, but also so much more. See, “the Strafford family” were 100% real.

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Crosspost: fic picspam!

A newish Tumblr thing I noticed going around awhile back: posting moodboards/aesthetic posts/similar stuff for your own fics. It felt incredibly self-indulgent at first, but ... what is Tumblr for if not self-indulgence? So I took it for a spin, except instead of making them for updates, I sorted my fics by kudos and made manips (or some approximation thereof) for the first five.

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