anghraine | Entries tagged with ch: henry crawford

heckofabecca asked:

Who are your favorite Austen sibling pairs, and how would you rate them in order of most to MOSTEST favorite?

I replied:

Hmm! Let’s see … some of the ranking is easy, and some not so much, but I’m inclined to go:

7. Jane and Elizabeth Bennet—there’s not much to say, it’s just a sweet and strong dynamic that functions perfectly within the wider novel.

6. Elinor and Marianne Dashwood—never mind the love interests, their love is the beating heart of S&S.

5. Sophy and Frederick Wentworth—it’s really enjoyable to see 30-something siblings who are frank and upfront and affectionate, even with their differences.

4. James and Catherine Morland—both rather sweet and refreshingly normal, lol.

3. William and Fanny Price—the “no subsequent connection” passage about them is one of my favourites in all of Austen! <3

2. Mary and Henry Crawford—I like me my morally dubious schemers, and morally dubious schemers who are loving family and loyal friends (to each other) are like catnip.

1. Fitzwilliam and Georgiana Darcy—there was absolutely no other possibility for this slot, I adore them individually and I especially love them as a pair.

Of Georgiana: Her brother’s recommendation was enough to ensure her favour; his judgment could not err.

Of Darcy: There is nothing he would not do for her.

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I’ve been trawling my headcanons tag, and like… 99.9% of them are still dear to my soul.

[Later that day]

Eh, pulling them out of the tags:

- #1 at all times: Darcy is on the autistic spectrum (this is a pretty common headcanon, for kind of obvious reasons).

- Luke Skywalker uses the Skywalkers’ ancestral language with Anakin on the second Death Star; Anakin uses the language when he proclaims “I am your father,” but resolutely sticks to Basic on DSII until he’s reclaimed himself and is dying (I wrote a fic about it here).

- The Stewards’ origins as 1) a family of ultimately royal origin and 2) the descendants of a Faithful family in Númenor come together with the House of Húrin originally going back to a Faithful family established by Númenor’s first princess, Tindómiel.

- Vanozza dei Cattanei in The Borgias is Castilian, a courtesan out of Toledo originally named Juana de Castañeda.

- Darcy and Elizabeth have separate bedrooms along the lines of Congreve’s Millamant and Mirabell.

- The Elvish aesthetic of the First Age is primarily ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek (to go with Tolkien’s Egyptian-Byzantine-Roman influences with the Dúnedain).

- Kuvira from Legend of Korra chose to call herself ‘Kuvira’ after she was abandoned by her parents, guided by her quasi-foster mother Suyin Beifong.

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I’m ambivalent about the Romola Garai Emma, but I would murder a kitten* for a MP adaptation that treated Fanny and Mary along the lines of the way that Emma did with Emma/Jane/Frank.

Like … both are brought to live under the guardianship of a rich and powerful uncle, both are enormously shaped by their upbringings within their foster families, but those upbringings are very different and Mary and Fanny are wildly different in personality yet attracted … and I think it could also raise the emotional stakes for the audience, which is sometimes difficult for people with MP adaptations.

I can just imagine seeing tiny Fanny vs tiny Mary and Henry, but in the same basic positions—like, being led to a fancy door or something. And then there'd be young Fanny being almost sent away to Mrs Norris, leading to Mary sending herself away from the admiral, to the two meeting at last ... okay, that's probably more of a graphic novel than a film, not that I can do either. But if I could that is how I would adapt MP.

*not my kitten

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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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I recently listened to some guy reviewing ATLA, which was … okayish, but I found myself getting progressively more annoyed as he talked about Azula. He looooved Iroh’s “she’s crazy and needs to go down” and went on a tangent during “The Beach” about how her preoccupation with her mother couldn’t explain much if anything about her development, because she was evil even as a small child, so obviously she’s just an inherently awful crazy person for no reason.

Then he kept going BAD FANDOM, STOP WOOBIFYING HER when she did awful things, and completely ignored her collapse in the finale, which is actually where she wins the most sympathy. There’s a brief reference to her paranoia, but not to “you can’t treat me like Zuko,” not to mirror!Ursa, not to her sobbing on the ground.

I’ve talked before about why I’m uncomfortable with a lot of anti-woobification arguments, but I have to say, a man railing against fandom woobifying a teenage girl is a different dynamic, and far more uncomfortable than the usual.

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Ignore if I have!

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Dear Yuletide author,

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Crossposts: http://elizabeth-hoot.livejournal.com/143931.html

I'm going to try and do this one properly. Bless you, tumblr, and your meme-spawning ways: thirty days of Jane Austen!

Day 1: Who is your favourite female character?

This might surprise a few people (though maybe not):

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Crossposts: http://elizabeth-hoot.livejournal.com/141313.html

I don't remember if I ever posted these - I think I intended them as the beginning of a longer fic (lol), but it turns out to be one of my favourite things.

title: remains of attachment
verse: canon-compliant (the longer fic segued into a more elaborate P&P verse, but was also canon-compliant)

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Crossposts: http://elizabeth-hoot.livejournal.com/138963.html

Yes, the one due today. Eh.

( Pairing meme )

( Cinderella meme )

( Five things meme )

( OTP meme, gen version! )

( Asexuality meme )

( Fanfic meme )

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Crossposts: http://elizabeth-hoot.livejournal.com/97207.html

Because I don't already have enough fanwank to go around.

Okay, that sounded really gross. Anyway.
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[reposted from wordpress]

Back when I was in high school, my entire class had to take these tests for a health class – I was an INTJ, to my utter non-surprise. Then, when I went into college two years later, I took it again – INTP. Since I was always a borderline J anyway, and also a bit off my head at the time, also not surprised. The other day, I took it at work, again, and I was back to my old INTJ-ness. Which was awesome, because I get – er – more P-ish when I’m not quite well. Anyway, I took the link over to the ‘these are what INTJs are like, and these are some examples’. The RL examples were pretty cool, but not half as much as the fictional ones.

Hannibal Lecter, Fitzwilliam Darcy, and Gandalf the Grey. It just doesn’t get cooler than that.

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To go with my MP post . . .

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[reposting from wordpress]

I’m re-reading Mansfield Park. It’s the best of the Austen novels, IMO, but I haven’t really read it for awhile. I’d forgotten that it’s enjoyable as well as admirable.

Of course, even more than all the others, it isn’t a love story. I think if you try to read it like that, you’re inevitably going to be disappointed. Mansfield Park is just — people. People being people. That’s what makes it so great, really. It all fits together and makes sense and is also a good story. And it’s almost painfully true to life. A girl like Fanny was never going to be a spirited young thing. And why should she be? It’s difficult and complex and dark, and yet I think far superior to Sense and Sensibility, where a similar tone is never satisfyingly resolved.

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