crosspost: on the 1980 P&P

lexiconallie at Tumblr asked:

What do you think of the 1980 miniseries of Pride and Prejudice? It's on hulu if you haven't seen it and you're interested (add watch/550364 after hulu's url) It seems very accurate to the book and it's my personal favorite adaptation.

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crosspost: Darcy/Elizabeth and Jyn/Cassian

Two otps for the price of one!

ladytharen said in April 2017 (in response to this post):

#‘god bless you’ probably *is* the most romantic thing he says in the text #expressing his desire for her to be well and blessed and loved

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crosspost: important discovery from Jan 2013

Pride and Prejudice, Ch. 44:

Sometimes she [Elizabeth] could fancy that he [Bingley] talked less than on former occasions, and once or twice pleased herself with the notion that as he looked at her, he was trying to trace a resemblance.

Meanwhile, back in Ch. 29:

after examining the mother [Lady Catherine], in whose countenance and deportment she [Elizabeth] soon found some resemblance of Mr Darcy …

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crosspost: UST! [Oct 2017]

An anon on Tumblr asked:

Your p&p posts have such fantastic nuance. I've read them all! What are your thoughts on the sexual tension between Elizabeth and darcy in the book? When do you think the physical attraction starts? Also - who kissed who first? I suppose propriety would have demanded it be Darcy?

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