Anghraine

An anon asked:

I feel like you've probably been asked this before, but which Austen novel do you most recommend? (I've read p&p and really loved it!)

I replied:

My favorite after P&P is Mansfield Park, but a lot of people bounce pretty hard off of it. It’s longer, more sober, much less classically romantic (I ship the heroine and her rival muuuuch more than the main canon couple), and often considered morally messy.

If that’s not your thing, you might want to try Persuasion. It was written towards the end of Austen’s life in the later 1810s, whereas P&P was first written in the mid-1790s, so it’s very different in some ways. It definitely engages with a changing world where P&P really belongs to an earlier era. But it’s interesting, and IMO very touching in its own right.

heckofabecca said:

my 3 favs <3

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.

elperian said:

why would you leave that golden commentary in the tags?!

I replied:

Heeeh, well, it seemed a bit speculative! But:

#if i had artistic skills i would totally draw tiny fanny vs tiny mary and henry in the same basic positions #like #being led to some fancy door or something #and then young fanny being almost sent away to mrs norris #and then mary sending herself away from the admiral #and then meeting #idk maybe it /would/ make a better graphic novel than film but i can’t do any of these things anyway #but IF I COULD that is how i would adapt mp

heckofabecca said:

I LOVE THIS

I replied:

Thank you, haha. I long for it in my soul!

An anon on Tumblr asked,

sparked from your last elizabeth post with the "what we owe to each other" line - what four austen characters would entertain you in a Good Place-type setup? which four would have the most potential for chemistry and growth as a group? (not necessarily which four could torture each other effectively, because each austen novel already has that dynamic baked in.)

I said:

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