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The three Tilney siblings drinking together sometime after Henry's wedding.
Henry: Hey, did I ever tell you that when Catherine first visited our house, she got it into her head that our father either murdered our mother or had her locked in the attic?
Frederick and Eleanor look at each other
Eleanor: He isn't... that bad.
Frederick: I wouldn't put it past him.
Henry: Yeah... my only real defense that was someone would have noticed if he murdered her.
Frederick: Facts
Another silence
Eleanor: So... given our current situations, what do you think is the least number of days we can visit the abbey without being seen as outright rude?
#jane austen#henry tilney#general Tilney#eleanor tilney#who is now free#i dont see all the siblings exactly getting along except on this point#northanger abbey
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Shoutout to the man-shaped plot device that is Eleanor's husband. They had an *actual* gothic romance complete with forbidden love, and sudden wealth resolution, and Jane Austen doesn't care. Cause considering Northanger Abbey is all about how gothic tropes play out in reality, we have to consider the real life tragedy behind the "character conveniently comes into money by sudden death of rich relation" trope. At least one, most likely several, members of that young man's family died a sudden early death. And what is Jane Austen's interest in the matter? It is joy over El being able to leverage his score or a husband's tragedy into a love marriage and mending Henry's and General Tilney's relationship. Otherwise he's only incidentaly of interesting cause it just so happens in his servant who left the disappointing laundry list Cathy found in that cabinet. RIP El's husband's family. You will hardly be remembered.
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The Tilney Family Album: Volume XVII
Time to meet the nooboo!
As it happened, Eleanor was already pregnant when the alien menace whisked her away, and the baby boy is Esther's, with her deep blue eyes. They name the new arrival Ellis.
(I confess I was a little disappointed by the lack of alien progeny, but I guess there’s still time!)
What more could Esther want from life? She has just married the love of her life, and now she's a mother too!
The new parents take it in turns to stay at home with their young son. One afternoon - shortly after Eleanor has put Ellis down for his nap - the family has an unexpected visitor. Lillian - the fiancée of Eleanor's cousin Nathan - drops in while mysteriously in character.
She's not really known to the family, but it seems that Lillian just happened to be in that part of town, and decided to take the opportunity to introduce herself. And wake up the baby.
Being the curious soul that she is, Eleanor can't help wanting to know just how much Lillian identifies with her llama persona?
Lillian tries to explain that it's not so much about being a llama, as channelling the ineffable spirit of llamaness into everyday life. Well, it's certainly an interesting philosophy.
Lillian has fortuitously coincided her visit with Ellis's first birthday.
No, it's not just Ellis's stinky nappy that is causing Eleanor's nausea...
There's another unexpected arrival, and this time it's a new baby sister for Ellis - welcome to the family, Esme!
He's quite happy to have a new sibling, but can't wait for her to grow up a bit, so that they can play together properly.
~ Gemini 5 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 9
~ Friendly / Slob
~ OTH: Games
Perhaps as a result of being exposed to Lillian's extravagant headgear at such a young age, he also won't do anything or go anywhere without his green monster hat.
#sims 2#gameplay#merybury#sanditon#eleanor tilney#esther dashwood#ellis tilney#esme tilney#lillian bryant#tilney family
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I LOVE this passage from Northanger Abbey. It’s one of the funniest parts of the book!
“And now, Henry," said Miss Tilney, "that you have made us understand each other, you may as well make Miss Morland understand yourself—unless you mean to have her think you intolerably rude to your sister, and a great brute in your opinion of women in general. Miss Morland is not used to your odd ways."
"I shall be most happy to make her better acquainted with them."
"No doubt; but that is no explanation of the present."
"What am I to do?"
"You know what you ought to do. Clear your character handsomely before her. Tell her that you think very highly of the understanding of women."
"Miss Morland, I think very highly of the understanding of all the women in the world—especially of those—whoever they may be—with whom I happen to be in company."
"That is not enough. Be more serious."
"Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.”
The not-quite-so-subtle-but-still-charming flirting..... “I shall be most happy to make her better acquainted with them....” , “... especially of those - whoever they may be - with whom I happen to be in company.” AGHHH! I adore his facetious, flippant sense of humour, the way his love for Catherine is veiled in these great quips!
And the exaggerated amendments and apology to his sister killed me. “No one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do.”
AND
“Nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.” I tell you, this last bit had me giggling for a good five minutes 😂😂😂😂
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Catherine Morland and Eleanor Tilney — Northanger Abbey - definitely girlfriends. 🏳️🌈❤️💖💜🏳️🌈
Catherine is a daydreaming disaster gay ofc. Eleanor must always be saving her from herself.
(In which I continue to read into old novels with modern queer eyes.)
Referenced portrait of Charlotte and Sarah Carteret-Hardy by Thomas Lawrence
#jane austen#northanger abbey#lesbian#catherine morland#illustration#art#eleanor tilney#pride#in which i read into old books with a modern eye
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Me: Wait, who did Eleanor marry?
Jane:
#i'm crying#like what the fuck jane#alright then keep your secrets#eleanor tilney#northanger abbey#liveblog of me reading jane austen if you wanna laugh
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Austen ask: 2 & 25
2. Favorite Austen Man
Hmm this is so hard to choose! Darcy is wonderful because he's such a snobby dick at first and goes through so much growth, and what he does for Lydia shows what an incredible man he is.
Wentworth is wonderful because his passion and devotion to Anne for so many years is swoon-worthy.
But I guess I have to say Henry Tilney is my favorite. He's got it all! He's charming, funny, witty, silly, kind, honest, loving, playful, doesn't take himself too seriously, is handsome enough to be nice to look at but not so gorgeous that he's intimidating to us normal looking folks, he likes to read, he likes to dance, he likes going on walks, he knows muslin!
(This is my most used gif on Tumblr)
25. Favorite family connection
Henry and Eleanor Tilney are sibling goals! Their relationship is just a delight to read about. They are sweet and supportive and sassy to each other, and I love all of their little remarks and looks to each other that go right over Catherine's head but that they get because they know each other so well. They're so fun.
Thanks for the ask, I love both of these questions!
Here’s the list of questions if others would like to ask me one!
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#northanger abbey#eleanor tilney#northanger abbey memes#northanger abbey 2007#mr darcy'sister#georgiana darcy#prideandprejudice#pride and prejudice#jane austen#janeite#pride and prejudice 2005#jane austen confession#pride and prejudice meme#Catherine Walker#Tamzin Merchant#austenconfession#jane austen characters#jane austen meme#jane austen memes#family#sister in law
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good morning to: novel readers with vivid imaginations, sassy men who know about muslins, eleanor tilney, horrible girls who cheated on their fiance because he wasn't rich enough, dumb brothers who aren't entirely horrible, dead mothers, and everyone in Bath except for Mr. Th*rpe.
#he can choke#northanger abbey#jane austen#catherine morland#henry tilney#eleanor tilney#isabella thorpe#james morland#john thorpe#txt#lyndeth post
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Northanger Abbey Readthrough, Ch 8
Some hints that Isabella's affection for Catherine may not be all that it seems, starting with this, "Isabella having gone through the usual ceremonial of meeting her friend with the most smiling and affectionate haste" and then Isabella taking an entire three minutes to abandon her friend to dance.
I love this part:
She could not help being vexed at the non-appearance of Mr. Thorpe, for she not only longed to be dancing, but was likewise aware that, as the real dignity of her situation could not be known, she was sharing with the scores of other young ladies still sitting down all the discredit of wanting a partner. To be disgraced in the eye of the world, to wear the appearance of infamy while her heart is all purity, her actions all innocence, and the misconduct of another the true source of her debasement, is one of those circumstances which peculiarly belong to the heroine’s life, and her fortitude under it what particularly dignifies her character. Catherine had fortitude too; she suffered, but no murmur passed her lips.
This sentiment is so real, it's like assuring the waitress that you aren't at the café alone and your boyfriend is coming. Catherine wants people to know that she has a partner! She's not unselected and unknown. It doesn't matter that she may never see these people again, the disgrace is real.
Then worse (!) she finally sees Mr. Tilney again but she can't dance with him! The horrors! I love how Catherine doesn't fall for the "mistakes sibling for spouse" trope, which continues to happen in fiction to this day, but instantly realizes that Henry is with his sister.
Thorpe finally appears (ug) and he doesn't have any good excuse for keeping Catherine waiting. However, this reminds me of three other men:
of the horses and dogs of the friend whom he had just left, and of a proposed exchange of terriers between them
We know that Mr. Rushworth of Mansfield Park also annoyed a woman by talking too much of horses (his "sport" would include this) and dogs:
Maria, with only Mr. Rushworth to attend to her, and doomed to the repeated details of his day’s sport, good or bad, his boast of his dogs, his jealousy of his neighbours, his doubts of their qualifications, and his zeal after poachers, subjects which will not find their way to female feelings without some talent on one side or some attachment on the other Mansfield Park, Ch 12
Also, Sir John and Willoughby are arranging the exchange of some terriers:
Such a scoundrel of a fellow! such a deceitful dog! It was only the last time they met that he had offered him one of Folly’s puppies! and this was the end of it! Sense & Sensibility, Ch 32
Now I'm sure a big part of these quote aligning is just the era and being gentry, them with their fancy horses and fancy dogs, but both Rushworth and Sir John notably can't really talk to women, I think we can easily argue that Thorpe is in the same camp. And inconsiderate Tom Bertram delayed another woman from dancing with concern about horses:
He came towards their little circle; but instead of asking her to dance, drew a chair near her, and gave her an account of the present state of a sick horse, and the opinion of the groom Mansfield Park, Ch 12
The real problem here is that men are putting their concerns above doing a duty or a kindness to a woman. Sir John gets away with his devotion to hunting because he is very kind and accommodating otherwise, but John Thorpe, Mr. Rushworth, and Tom Bertram especially really show their selfishness and self-absorption in these scenes.
ANYWAY, joy of joys, Catherine is introduced to Eleanor Tilney, who seems like 10,000,000% more rational and genuine than Miss Thorpe:
Her manners showed good sense and good breeding; they were neither shy nor affectedly open; and she seemed capable of being young, attractive, and at a ball without wanting to fix the attention of every man near her, and without exaggerated feelings of ecstatic delight or inconceivable vexation on every little trifling occurrence.
Catherine does not immediately become friends with Eleanor, but engages in the very small talk that Henry spoofed back in Ch 3.
The faithless "faithful Isabella" reappears, but she's far too absorbed with James to really focus on Catherine, no matter what she claims. Both Catherine and Isabella refuse to dance with their partners more than once, though like Willoughby and Marianne, Isabella and James don't find new partners but instead talk with each other. Poor Catherine barely spends any time with Mr. Tilney as he got bored and danced with someone else.
Now, we know Catherine is already half in love with Henry at this point, but what is he thinking about her? He does seem to have sought her out and he asks her to dance again. This may just be polite, and he certainly feels that nothing is keeping him from finding another partner. I would say he probably enjoyed the first dance and is happy to see her again, but I doubt he's been dreaming of her...
#northanger abbey readthrough#ch 8#northanger abbey#henry tilney#eleanor tilney#john thorpe#james morland#isabella “faithful” thorpe
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An adaptation of Northanger Abbey in which every character besides Catherine gets at least one scene in which they look at the camera like they're on The Office and Catherine gets more and more frustrated about not knowing what they're looking at but finds it too awkward to ask
#jane austen#jane austen meme#classic lit#classic lit meme#northanger abbey#catherine morland#henry tilney#eleanor tilney#at least 5 times the Tilney siblings look at Catherine then look at each other then look at the camera in perfect unison
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The Mansfield House Yearbook: Volume IV
Back to school - or uni - today! And it's a bed-hopping bonanza, I warn you.
Let's start with a game of whose buttocks are these, shall we?
To put you out of your misery, they're Elliot's. And Olivia, I thought you were with James (as much as anyone is)?
Well, these two look quite cosy together, so I guess Olivia has moved on, not wanting to compete with three other girls for James's attention?
The next day, she decides it's time to put a ring on...
James! OK, well - I guess you know your own heart best. Perhaps Elliot was a just a rebound thing?
I think Elliot's expression says it all.
Martha is none too pleased either - she thought she had first dibs on James - but Olivia swiftly puts her in her place! Semi-resident Llama Guy thinks it's the perfect time to celebrate with a school cheer though.
But before I know it, Martha has already caused a rift between Olivia and her intended (I didn't see exactly what happened here), and seems rather delighted with herself as a result.
It's not all about romance - sometimes there's some studying too! Actually, I lie, it is.
When Eleanor drops round, Hester seems bent on creating domestic strife too.
And Eleanor looks like she could very well be tempted to stray from her long-term partner Esther. I guess Esther's persistence in trying to tie Eleanor down is perhaps having the opposite effect, and driving them apart.
Yup.
James doesn't seem too concerned about being estranged from new fiancée Olivia, and hooks up again with Henrietta at the first opportunity.
Disenchanted Olivia seeks solace with Elliot once again.
And I just have no idea who is with whom any more!
#sims 2#gameplay#merybury#elliot wentworth#olivia elton#james morland#martha knightley#hester fairfax#eleanor tilney#henrietta wentworth#esther dashwood#llama guy#de bourgh university#mansfield house
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Your favorite Northanger Abbey or S&S OT3 isn't there ? Tell me and I'll make a poll with them later
#jane austen#northanger abbey#sense and sensibility#19th century literature#catherine morland#henry tilney#john thorpe#isabella thorpe#eleanor tilney#elinor dashwood#marianne dashwood#colonel brandon#poll
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A Strange, Wild Scheme
Day 6 (yes, it's the 7th as I write this) with the prompt "time loop" and Catherine Morland and Eleanor TIlney from Northanger Abbey...
Eleanor Tilney bid farewell to her new friend, Miss Morland, as she and her brother Henry left.
“Remember, twelve o’clock!” Miss Morland called out as they were leaving.
“Provided it does not rain, of course!” Eleanor called back.
“She is a sweet girl, is she not?” she asked her brother on the way home. He said nothing, only giving the slightest smile that none but his sister would notice.
The following morning was cloudy, which did not bode well for a walk, but Eleanor and her brother agreed that by noon, the weather would most likely improve.
The days in Bath were often quite indistinguishable, so it was a pleasant diversion that morning to look forward to a walk like this.
Much to her dismay, however, later in the morning, it began to rain. The walk might have to be postponed.
“It’s noon now,” she lamented to her brother. “I’m afraid we won’t be able to see Miss Morland today.”
“Perhaps it will clear up soon enough,” he declared.
As if by the power of his own words, the rain cleared up within half an hour.
“Perhaps Miss Morland will still be at home,” Eleanor said.
They gathered their things quickly, and walked to the house where their new friend was staying. Upon arrival, they learned that she had left with the Thorpes only a few minutes prior.
“What now?” Eleanor asked her brother as they left disappointed.
***
Eleanor woke up and looked outside.
“Another grey morning,” she sighed, remembering the previous day’s disappointment. Perhaps she would call on Miss Morland this morning. It had been raining at noon when they were to meet, so that may have been the source of the confusion.
She found her brother alone downstairs reading.
“I think I shall call on Miss Morland this morning,” she said.
“I believe you had agreed upon noon,” he replied.
“What?” she asked. “Have you spoken to her? Are we going to attempt the walk again?”
“Again?” he asked, perplexed. “I believe the first you spoke of the arrangement was last night at the party.”
“Last night?” She thought for a moment. “That is a relief. I think I had a dream that we had not been able to get to her house on time, and we did not see her the rest of the day. It was a very dull and disappointing dream.”
“You are anxious that the social call will go well, that is quite understandable,” he smiled.
***
Catherine Morland found Mrs. Allen downstairs.
“I think I will call on Miss Tilney this morning,” Catherine announced. It had been disappointing not seeing her new friend the day before, and she had never made it to the castle, and all in all she would have much rather stayed home doing nothing.
“But I thought they were to come here,” Mrs. Allen said. “I believe you agreed on noon, did you not?”
“Oh,” Catherine said. “I had the oddest dream, I suppose. I’m very glad it was only a dream, though.”
***
“This is so odd,” Eleanor said as they left the house where Miss Morland was staying. “The servant said the very same thing in my dream.”
“Perhaps it is merely that there are a limited number of things a servant will say to callers,” her brother suggested. “It is not his job to think of original prose, but to let visitors know whether someone is home or has gone out.”
Eleanor nodded. That must be it.
***
Catherine Moreland sat in the carriage as the began the journey, wondering at how the day had gone nearly the same as the dream she had. As they left Bath, Catherine wondered if they would actually see the phaeton that Mr. Thorpe had told her he had seen Miss Tilney and her brother driving.
The rest of the day went much like the previous day, and she returned home even more disappointed than she had been. She would definitely want to find Miss Tilney the next day.
***
Eleanor looked out the window. It was another grey day, except something about the clouds was too similar. It wasn’t simply that it was another cloudy day, but the clouds and the sun seemed to come at the exact same times as the day before, and she was quite sure it was the same as it had been in her dream, if that even had been a dream. This was too strange.
She ran downstairs as soon as she could, and found her brother reading.
“What are your plans for today?” she asked him.
“We were planning to go on a walk with Miss Morland, were we not? You agreed on that with her last night.”
***
The rain had cleared exactly as it had the prior days, for Catherine was quite certain that it was not a dream now. What it was, she did not know, but it did not seem to be a dream. She dreaded hearing the familiar voices approaching the door. They would be asking her to go with them, and would not care that she had plans. But, of course, if Miss Tilney and her brother had left without her, that was very well. Still, if it was going to be the same day, she wished to avoid going with them if she could, though she was not sure if her will was strong enough.
***
Eleanor looked around as they left the house where Miss Morland was staying. They had turned to the left previously, but perhaps if they headed in the other direction, it would at least be something different.
“Why are you going that way?” her brother asked as she pulled on his arm.
“I simply wish to,” she replied.
With a shrug, he followed her. She heard a carriage in the distance, and looked over.
“I believe that was Miss Morland,” she said. “But she is too far to see for sure.”
“Well, I suppose she will have an enjoyable day,” her brother said, sounding slightly annoyed at the idea.
***
Once again, Catherine’s party did not make it to the promised castle, and once again, she had not seen her new friends. She began to wonder if perhaps this was all a dream, but what then?
She found a sheet of paper, and wrote a note to herself. She hoped she would find it in the morning, and as she awoke, she remembered the note, but found that everything was it had been every morning.
After so many days, Catherine had now given up on anything changing. She waited for the rain, and then the inevitable call from the Thorpes. Aside from a comment from Mrs. Allen that she seemed particularly out of spirits, nothing was changed.
On this day, however, as they were going along, she saw Miss Tilney and her brother walking along the street, not, as Mr. Thorpe had told her, driving in a phaeton.
“Stop!” she shouted.
***
Eleanor had tried for days now to get closer to the carriage in which she had seen Miss Morland, and some days her brother was just slow enough that she missed it entirely, and other days she got close enough to see, she was sure, Miss Morland looking distinctly unhappy to be there. Eleanor did not like that she was finding some joy in this fact, but it did provide some diversion to the days that were otherwise so difficult to tell apart.
Today, her brother had allowed just quick enough of a pace that the carriage passed directly by them, and she saw Miss Morland turning around and waving. She could have sworn that she heard her telling Mr. Thorpe to stop, but her brother did not seem to have noticed.
Still, it was different. Different was good.
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Catherine woke up and noticed the clouds. They were different. She had almost forgotten that the clouds could be different, though she wasn’t entirely sure if she could trust this.
As soon as she found Mrs. Allen, Catherine inquired about calling on Miss Tilney this morning, expecting the answer that Miss Tilney and her brother were to call on her.
“Go, by all means, my dear; only put on a white gown; Miss Tilney always wears white.”
#FFC 2024#jane austen fanfiction#northanger abbey#eleanor tilney#catherine morland#canon divergence#time loop
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Always wondering how Eleanor would have reacted when she would have found out about Catherine's suspicion
Would she be shocked? Understand it? Be disgusted? Cry?
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The first half of chapter 14 (the walk at Beechen Cliff) I managed to program for my Northanger Abbey Visual Novel project - what do you think?
This is my first foray into working with Ren'Py, so I'm stilling getting used to it, but I'm quite happy with how it's turned out so far - (for a work-in-progress, I mean)
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