does anyone ever look at recent photos of themselves, loved ones, etc from a retrospective viewpoint? like you pretend for a split second that you’re 50 years old looking at old photos?
Have you ever thought about cross shipping inside the entire Austen universe? Like Emma and Darcy, Eleanor and Wentworth, etc.
Constantly. I am constantly thinking of cross-universe ships.
I have properly shipped Darcy & Anne Elliot and Elizabeth & Wentworth, it's called One Week Late. (and at some point I'm going to edit and publish it but so much to do and so little time!)
I wrote an entire novel where I matched up secondary characters from five of the six Jane Austen novels, Caroline Bingley, Sir Walter Elliot, Elizabeth Elliot, Frederick Tilney, Tom Bertram, and Nancy (Anne) Steele. It's called Prideful & Persuaded.
And I have a great idea for a story where Lucy Steele (jilted by Robert) and Isabella Thorpe team up to try and catch Bingley while he is at Netherfield. I need to actually write this someday. And they bring John and he's trying to catch Caroline... lol
I'm also writing a series where John Yates visits each novel and gets each family to put on Lovers' Vows...
As for main character ships:
I think Darcy would work well with Anne Elliot, Eleanor Tilney, Elinor Dashwood, and Fanny Price (though he might be attacted to Mary Crawford first). He'd probably treat Catherine Morland and Marianne Dashwood like little sisters. His worst possible match is Emma, they would drive each other into worse snobbiness.
Henry Tilney would probably feel very protective of Fanny Price, but I don't know if they would work as a couple. He seems to like Catherine's admiration of him (and her honesty and goodness) and I'm not sure where else he could get that.... I do think he'd like Anne Elliot.
Knightley might be a good match to Elinor Dashwood or Fanny Price.
Edmund... the funniest thing I ever saw was him and Isabella Thorpe! Uh, I don't want to ship Edmund.
Colonel Brandon and Anne Elliot mourning their tragic love lives... Or maybe some Elizabeth Bennet with her lively mind!
Oh, worst ever ship: Marianne Dashwood and Captain Benwick! So dramatic!
I also think Marianne and Fanny Price would be the best of friends and gush about poetry from dawn till dusk.
So yes, I love to imagine that everyone in Jane Austen's novels is in the same England and they might marry each other.
(I have actually married Caroline Bingley off to four different men from other novels, Sir Walter, Mr. Elliot, Rushworth, and William Price)
One of the best things is when I go to send a TikTok to my best friend and see that he sent me a TikTok early but that I hadn’t watched it. It’s like a little treat they leave me for when I see a TikTok they will like
kinda just had a random thought about how sometimes i say things too bluntly or it sounds a bit mean when i don’t mean it to be. i always thought i was a bitch or something, i was like “why do i always sound like an asshole?”
well kids, apparently that’s a thing to do with autism and i can’t control how things sound coming out my mouth and sometimes i have to correct myself or explain bc i feel bad :///
the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again
You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).
Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.