Da haj mangs

I made the Candy Shoppe Shawl to display in the shop for last years yarn crawl! Made with cumulus rainbow in mariana trench and plume in Lime.

42 hours and 45 minutes of blood, sweat and a LOT of tears went into this… my wrist hurts.

Good Omens is over. Season 3 broke me (I’m still undecided if I loved it or hated it). But this scene absolutely destroyed me, I loved it.

Anyway, hi x

“Shall we ask your cousin the reason of this?” said Elizabeth, still addressing Colonel Fitzwilliam. “Shall we ask him why a man of sense and education, and who has lived in the world, is ill-qualified to recommend himself to strangers?” “I can answer your question,” said Fitzwilliam, “without applying to him. It is because he will not give himself the trouble.” “I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,” said Darcy, “of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”

This is the big proof that Darcy is shy/socially awkward/whatever. But there are two answers right there! Colonel Fitzwilliam has an explanation that makes Darcy look far worse: he is rude because he doesn't care to be polite.

Darcy likes Elizabeth, and while I'm sure he didn't outright lie because he's a radical truther, he definitely did not tell the whole truth! Because the girl he likes just called his behaviour "very dreadful" and he needs to make himself look better. And then we know what he says later when he feels actual remorse for his prior behaviour (which he does not feel at Rosings):

I was... allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing, to care for none beyond my own family circle, to think meanly of all the rest of the world, to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own.

People will say to me that this is just two extroverts bullying an introvert, but it's not like anyone expects Darcy to be the life of the party, just not to be so rude and haughty that everyone hates him within half an hour of meeting him, despite his extraordinary wealth.