today in trivial pet peeves

I'm trying not to be deeply annoyed by 'prev' reblogs, since it's basically the equivalent of leaving a like on my tags, but something about it grates on me. It's such a weird trend for this era of widespread deactivations, too.

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something good ... happened ... ?

#a 6-3 vote too!

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In response to this post, heckofabecca said:

share timeline pleasssse, and i love these posts of yours so much ahhhh

I replied:

oh, it was a joke

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An anon said:

Emma: ... and that's when I learned that I shouldn't interfere in other people's relationships
Elizabeth : *gives Darcy a look*

I replied:

Ha, I’m not convinced that either Emma or Darcy learned that lesson tbh! But they’re very alike in some ways.

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An anon asked:

Have you ever played around with gender-swapped Pride & Prejudice?

I replied:

Oh, bless you, haha.

I wrote 36k of f!Darcy/m!Elizabeth here. There are some other fics in the ’verse that you can see if you click on “Series.”

I brainstormed a fully genderbent P&P with tulina and hl, but then couldn’t do my part for personal reasons, so they wrote the whole thing. It’s here.

I also have a f!Darcy/Elizabeth femslash fic in scraps. The longest piece is here [Tumblr link].

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An anon said:

Hello! I just wanted to pop in and thank you, from the bottom of my heart. It's been about 2 years since I read your P&P fic "Anomaly" and I was rereading it recently. I cried the first time I read it, bc I was so surprised to read something that spoke so similarly to my own experiences w attraction, and you had tagged it as "demisxual" and it was such a cathartic moment to find a word for it for the first time. So. Thank you :) it's a story that remains really dear to my heart.

I replied:

Oh, thanks! “Anomaly” was definitely a labour of love on my part, so it’s very nice to hear in general, and also, that it was specifically helpful.

<3

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With regard to this, I added:

tbh I’ve moved from incredulous joy to pure schadenfreude

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More of Elizabeth’s takes on Darcy, from the second half of P&P:

Elizabeth re: Darcy’s feelings at finding her at Pemberley:

Her coming there was the most unfortunate, the most ill-judged thing in the world! How strange must it appear to him! In what a disgraceful light might it not strike so vain a man! It might seem as if she had purposely thrown herself in his way again!

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“I am almost afraid of asking what you thought of me when we met at Pemberley. You blamed me for coming?”

Darcy:

“I felt nothing but surprise.”

Elizabeth re: Darcy’s response to Lydia’s disgrace:

He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation, his brow contracted, his air gloomy. Elizabeth soon observed, and instantly understood it. Her power was sinking; everything must sink under such a proof of family weakness, such an assurance of the deepest disgrace.

The reality:

she soon learnt that his resolution of following her from Derbyshire in quest of her sister had been formed before he quitted the inn, and that his gravity and thoughtfulness there had arisen from no other struggles than what such a purpose must comprehend.

Elizabeth re: Darcy’s response to Lydia’s marriage to Wickham:

Had Lydia’s marriage been concluded on the most honourable terms, it was not to be supposed that Mr Darcy would connect himself with a family where, to every other objection, would now be added an alliance and relationship of the nearest kind with the man whom he so justly scorned.

From such a connection she could not wonder that he should shrink. The wish of procuring her regard, which she had assured herself of his feeling in Derbyshire, could not in rational expectation survive such a blow as this.

Darcy:

“If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged.”

Elizabeth re: Darcy’s response to Lady Catherine’s visit:

it was certain that, in enumerating the miseries of a marriage with one whose immediate connections were so unequal to his own, his aunt would address him on his weakest side. With his notions of dignity, he would probably feel that the arguments which to Elizabeth had appeared weak and ridiculous contained much good sense and solid reasoning.

Darcy:

Lady Catherine’s unjustifiable endeavours to separate us were the means of removing all my doubts. I am not indebted for my present happiness to your eager desire of expressing your gratitude. I was not in a humour to wait for any opening of yours. My aunt’s intelligence had given me hope, and I was determined at once to know everything.

sweetie

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I was looking at my GoogleDrive, and within the last week, I created/edited:

• three pages of a new chapter of tolerably well acquainted
• notes on Utopia
• the original fantasy novel
• a f!Darcy/Elizabeth fic where they meet at Rosings (it’s a direct what-if rather than a retelling à la First Impressions)
• more f!Faramir fic, this time with bonus Denethor
• the original Regency novel, about a young woman who has to turn to her two glamorous, but self-absorbed and semi-estranged half-siblings to escape a terrible marriage (I meant it to be a romance, but it’s predictably about 10% romance to 90% family drama)
• eleven pages of notes on Machiavelli >_<

phew

all glory to Dreamwidth!

Not to be overly sentimental or anything, but there's nothing like backing up my posts from a dying, pornbot-infested website full of counter-intuitive features to remind me of just how much I love Dreamwidth. I use Tumblr more because it's where most of my friends are most active, but its days are obviously numbered, and it's always a relief to come back to Dreamwidth and have things work the way I want without depending on extensions and community norms to make it usable. And DW is reliable, which at this point is probably the *squint* #3 thing I look for in my social media experience.

(#1 and #2 are f-lock and multiple icons.)