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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.

Female character meme!

I was tagged by cinefantastiquemitho and princesssarisa.

RULES: name 10 favorite female characters from 10 different fandoms and then tag 10 people.

1. I was just thinking about her, so Mary Crawford for Austen fandom


2. Aravis of Calormen for Narnia fandom


3. Tar-Ancalimë for Tolkien fandom


4. Annabella from ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (which doesn’t have a fandom per se but shhhh she’s great)


5. Avatar Korra for Avatar fandom


6. Leia Organa for SW fandom


7. Lucrezia Borgia for Borgias fandom


8. Lessa for Pern fandom


9. Moiraine Damodred for Wheel of Time fandom


10. Sandrilene fa Toren for Tamora Pierce fandom

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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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.

The date is purely because I posted various short things on the 13th that don't merit separate crossposts, but I am a completionist.

[warning: fic-spoilery references to canonical sibling incest]

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I’m bored and procrastinating, so … coming back to P&P and sortinghatchats with Elizabeth Bennet.

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wyncatastrophe  prompted me to write a fic about one of my anti-ships, and I don't think I anti-ship much more fervently than this one - inspired by a recent debate I peripherally participated in, but I've always hated this ship:

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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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Yes, the one due today. Eh.

( Pairing meme )

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( OTP meme, gen version! )

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