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On the one hand, there are plenty of potential reasons for Elfwinë’s name, in-story and out of it.

But on the other, Lothíriel naming her ~impure~ son ‘Elendil’ is such a power move that I refuse to accept any other interpretation.

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After I said (for the unpopular opinion meme) that I think Mansfield Park is her best novel in terms of vision and execution, mairesmith on Tumblr replied:

Mansfield Park has fabulous vision, but the execution suffers in having one-dimensional characters mixing with more fully realised ones. Fanny’s cousins are just not fleshed out enough to make the plot of the end of the novel work. I hesitate to suggest it needed to be longer, but maybe if she’d had more room to show Maria, Julia, and Edwards’ actions in more detail, we’d have had reasons for their relationship decisions beyond keeping Fanny from Mr Crawford.

I said:

Obviously, I completely disagree.

I don’t think of MP as a love-story, to be sure, but IMO Tom, Maria, and Julia are as realized as fairly minor characters need to be (I think the girls in particular are more authentically written than say Lucy Steele or Isabella Thorpe). I find Edmund quite complex—his combination of real virtues and very significant flaws is what makes him so difficult as a character, and I find that interesting (not always likable, but interesting).

Also, I don’t think any of the other books’ rival characters are even slightly comparable to Mary Crawford, and Henry is the most nuanced of the rakes by a mile. Sir Thomas, too, is interestingly difficult. That’s the book in a nutshell for me, and I wholeheartedly respect it for that.

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Two months ago, the whining over my final paper was still ongoing:

After this paper, getting my wisdom teeth pulled is feeling less daunting.

crocordile replied:

Is it done?? :D

I said:

Tragically, no! It has to be twenty pages ;_;

But 14 is a lot closer than 8, so at least there’s that.

(#i just want to write fic and put together exam lists #/sigh)
 

(Note from the future: since completing the paper, I have done neither of those things.)

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I just got a lovely rec on like a storm in the desert and looked at it again, and … ahhhh I’d forgotten how much that fic was my happy place. Thanks to everyone who’s ever recced it <3

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He [Darcy] saw Wickham, and afterwards insisted on seeing Lydia. His first object with her, he acknowledged, had been to persuade her to quit her present disgraceful situation, and return to her friends as soon as they could be prevailed on to receive her, offering his assistance, as far as it would go. But he found Lydia absolutely resolved on remaining where she was. She cared for none of her friends; she wanted no help of his; she would not hear of leaving Wickham. She was sure they should be married some time or other, and it did not much signify when. Since such were her feelings, it only remained, he thought, to secure and expedite a marriage

Darcy has a lot of iconic moments as a character, and this isn’t usually considered one of them, but tbh this letter’s after-the-fact summary of something he said offstage is probably the single most important moment for his character for me.