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I'm Jackie, 30,Sydney 馃嚘馃嚭. Titanorak, feminist, anti monarchist. Love dogs. Lover of period dramas, particularly Jane Austen adaptations. Often posts thoughts I wouldn't share elsewhere. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe
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Magical orb that puts a crime count on everyone's head (while Arthur is king), counting the crimes based on the established laws. (Crime count in brackets)
Gwaine (127): this is an outrage
Arthur(3): I am as distraught as you
Gwaine (127): no, no. You don't get to say that! I've worked my whole life on this crime count and I've got less than THEM?
Merlin (847): *crosses arms* protecting Arthur comes with a cost. What I don't get.... Is THIS!!!!
Lancelot (1084): I can explain
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995)
dir. simon langton
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my assumption is this outfit will be in part 2 but i can't get over how stunning she looks. it's giving mrs penelope bridgerton.
also luke forgot to turn his 'colin bridgerton' off:
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Stop feeding my delulu brain..pleasee. I can't take it anymore 馃槱
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I'm haunted by the beautiful potential in an Edwardian-era Persuasion.
A setting just after WWI, another time of major social upheaval--blurring class barriers, new ideas about gender roles, further crumbling of the aristocracy
Sir Walter blindly clings to the old order, barely thinking about the war except to lament the impossibility of getting good servants these days
Elizabeth Elliot styles herself as a bit of a women's rights activist, claiming this is the reason she remains unmarried
Anne would have served as a nurse if her father had allowed it, but of course he couldn't permit an Elliot of the Elliots to undertake such ugly work, so she stayed at home quietly undertaking the usual home-front charitable work
This war deepens the story's melancholy. There's not the same sense of the men returning home as conquering heroes. The world is changing, but is it worth what we've lost? Can we have hope for the future when all our optimistic dreams led to such slaughter?
The best way to retain some of Wentworth's glamour is to make him a flyboy. However, given their short life expectancies, I'm not sure how realistic it is to have him and several buddies survive the war.
A "band of brothers" in the trenches is also a decent analogue for their relationship
Harville's injury meant he was invalided home fairly early. Benwick's probably a wartime poet suffering from shell shock that only got worse after his fiance died in the influenza epidemic.
Louisa and Henrietta are of a slightly younger generation that hasn't been quite as scarred by the war. Their relative innocence makes them refreshing to a war-weary returning soldier
It's possible Wentworth is so shaken by Louisa's accident (and thus needs Anne to take charge) because it sparks some kind of PTSD flashback. (Though that may not be the best direction to take the character).
There's just so much potential to explore the layers--old wounds and new possibilities, finding ways to heal and grow and rebuild after pain and loss
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Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan answering random questions from Los 40.
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"You can do anything you want but you can't make her laugh" - face
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I cannot get over THIS LOOK from Colin. They way his eyes trace her up and down!!! He鈥檚 enamored with every single world she is saying. In his head, they aren鈥檛 in the middle of London鈥hey are in his house in Bloomsbury. He is planning the honeymoon and hasn鈥檛 even proposed
(Gif credits: @dailybridgerton )
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"If a husband is what you seek, let me help you."
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- I beg your pardon, but I must leave you...I have not an instant to lose.
- Good God! What is the matter?
Pride and Prejudice聽by Jane Austen (illustration by Hugh Thomson)
Pride and Prejudice聽(1995) dir. Simon Langton
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This man wants to be a father so bad.
Look at him in the background here. I don鈥檛 know if you can tell, but he鈥檚 bouncing. HE鈥橲 BOUNCING.
Bonus:
馃槶 馃馃珷
Pen, you鈥檙e needed.
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Agnes Grey, worth a read? Yeah or nah?
Ditto The Tenant of Wildfell Hall?
P.S. The local library had Agnes Grey so I'll start that.
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