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Bingley and Darcy are doing great in their new home and in typical cat fashion, have shunned the kitty beds and sleep in the laundry sink.
The laundry sink has been let at last!

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feminist retelling shoulsnt be the woman does some girlboss shit femist retelling is she does the same stuff except u actually give a shit abt her perspective and thoughts and feelings as a human being this time
Do you ever wonder what Darcy thought his marriage with Elizabeth would look like when he proposed the first time?
Like, did he think she would just keep insulting him and that would be fine? Or what?
That is indeed fun to think about! Because the narrator gives us a few glimpses into his head, but not too many, so we get to imagine a lot.
Elizabeth has never insulted him to his face before the first proposal, though, so he's definitely not gonna think she'll do that in their marriage. That's why he's so shocked when she does insult him in her rejectionβshe has never done it before.
Unlike the rest of the Bennets save Jane, Elizabeth is polite and follows social etiquette. She only skates on the line of impertinence in a way that simply comes off as playful banter and teasing. She openly disagrees with Darcy sometimes, but that is not the same thing as insulting him, and never does it to him in an overtly rude way. Even when she tells him his flaw is to hate everyone, I don't think that has to be read as an insult, just flirting, because he smiles at her when she says it and immediately afterwards thinks he was too attentive to her. To him in these moments, they're either just having a discussion or flirting, and at worst she seems annoyed with him a couple times, no big deal.
Now, Elizabeth herself does insult her manners at the end, but she's doing it in a playful self-deprecating flirty way, and Darcy obviously doesn't agree with her read of herself, nor do I:
βMy beauty you had early withstood, and as for my mannersβmy behaviour to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now, be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?β βFor the liveliness of your mind I did.β βYou may as well call it impertinence at once. It was very little less...
The only characters that think that Elizabeth has bad manners are Miss Bingley, Mrs. Hurst, and Lady Catherine, and we certainly can't take their reads as being fair ones!
In fact, not only does Elizabeth not insult Darcy, but there are times when Elizabeth actually says seemingly nice things about him in front of his face, such as when she calls him "a man of sense and education," says he is "all politeness," or comes to his defense when Mrs. Bennet starts insulting him at Netherfield during Jane's illness. Elizabeth also says things to him which seem very flirty, like when she turns down his offer to dance a reel in the cutest way possible.
So, to go back to your original question, OP, about what Darcy thought his marriage with Elizabeth would be like, he probably thought they would continue to have spirited discussions in which she sometimes disagreed with him and sometimes teased him, which sounds fun, and overall she would be affectionate to him because he's seen she has a loving heart toward her family, and thus everything would be unicorns and rainbows π
Which makes it sooo delicious when she turns him down and he gets to find out he was utterly wrong π
Ironically, I think their marriage would indeed be like that fantasy version after the second proposal though!
How many kids do you think each Jane Austen couple would have and what would they name them?
I'm a realist, and so was Jane Austen; no one romantic will like this answer:
The couples, who are in love, lack birth control, and believe children are a gift from God, will have as many children as their fertility allows. The average in the era for a gentry family was 6.7 children. Anne Elliot, who may not always be able to travel with her husband, may have bigger gaps as a navy wife (I always have speculated that Mrs. Croft's one time away from her husband was because she was pregnant and maybe miscarried.)
As for names, Jane Austen adheres pretty closely to naming children after their parents, in almost every case where we know the parents' names and then using other very common names for the era. So it's going to be a whole crowd of Elizabeths, Annes, and Marys, Charleses, Johns, and Williams. The most exciting you'll get is a mother's maiden name being used as a boy's first name (like Fitzwilliam Darcy) and maybe Marianne Brandon using names from poetry.
You can see this in Jane Austen's use of female and male names.
Anne Elliot is also at least 5 years older than all the other heroines (though Iβm not fully sure how old Elinor is), so that also makes them likely to have less children as they simply have less time.
It is interesting though that I donβt believe we see many very big families in Austen, the largest are the Bennettβs with 5 daughters (maybe Fanny has more siblings though?), would this be because of child mortality? Or would Jane Austen just not have wanted to come up with names for many children?
Fanny Price is the second eldest of nine (MP)
Catherine Morland is the eldest daughter of ten (NA)
The Musgroves (P) and Lucases (P&P) seem to have very large families, but not all children are named. We know Charlotte Lucas has multiple brothers and sisters from the text, including Lucas Wine Boy. The Middletons in S&S I think have quite a few children already and they wouldn't be done.
The Bennet girls are so close I don't think it's possible to have deceased siblings between them. It's possible there were miscarriages or otherwise after Lydia. We do know of one stillborn, Sir Walter's son from Persuasion and we know of a single deceased sibling, Mary from Mansfield Park.
Secondary infertility would have been more common without medical intervention. We also know that couples who didn't marry for love did stick to that addage of "a heir and a spare" which may explain some of the smaller families.
Elinor Dashwood is 19 during the major events of the novel and when she marries.
I can see Fanny and Edmund having fewer children than the average bc she's considered sickly, whether it's bc her health actually does affect her in terms of having more miscarriages or stillbirths, a very scary near-death in childbirth, or just the fear of her poor health making them more cautious so they have less sex than would be normal. Them having a less active sex life also seems in keeping with them as people who are more restrained and a couple that comes across as less passionate than others.
I will say that some forms of birth control did certainly exist and were accessible - condoms (animal skin ones, at least) had been around Europe and used as contraception for at least two hundred years. From what I know it's likely the men at least would've encountered them if they'd ever had a mistress or visited a sex worker. Whether the married couples would've been using them is another question entirely, and I don't have enough background or information to judge on that.
I love how Sense and Sensibility has a melodramatic Gothic hero who traveled the world as a soldier and had an angsty backstory and even during the events of the novel participated in a duel. But all of it's off-page so every time he appears he's just Some Guy. Kind of serious, doesn't talk much, pretty boring. His biggest passion is flannel waistcoats

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no jane austen character has filled me with rage and revulsion the way john fucking thorpe does dear god like i know that guy he cornered me at a party once sky-high on cocaine and made me listen to him describe the entire plot of the odyssey and when i pointed out heβd gotten some pretty important details wrong he called his sister over and she told me i was the βsweetest thing [sheβd] ever seenβ then spilled her drink on my dress on purpose
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontΓ«
ok i finished persuasion last night and iβm not okay about it. hereβs how chronically online i think all the characters would be
Anne: like a 3/10. i think she has many offline pursuits that take up more of her time. she has facebook and instagram accounts but posts rarely. most of her screen time is used on the NYT puzzles, in which she has absolutely ridiculous streaks. also a recovered tumblrina
Wentworth: 7/10. again I think he has other pastimes, but he needs social media because he has a lot of friends that live super far away. he has really cool-looking IG stories but then sadposts about missing Anne on his close friends at 3 AM. also a regular twitter user
Sir Walter: 11/10. cannot live without tiktok. specifically i think heβs obsessed with those color analysis videos and judges people for not dressing for their color season. has a sizable amount of followers for being βthat mean old guy with crazy drip"
Lady Russell: 6/10. she likes to keep up with people and she will occasionally get caught up scrolling, but she tries her best not to make a habit of it. liberal with the block button, even with people she knows irl. every time Anne posts she replies with at least a dozen heart emojis
Elizabeth: 10/10. i feel like sheβd try to be an influencer. makes a shit ton of βcollabβ videos with her dad and Mrs. Clay in Bath. she puts about a million things on her story every day. she likes to post herself shopping and tag the store thinking theyβll engage when itβs like. target
Mary: 9/10. she is forever watching those AI animal videos, thinking theyβre real and sending them to everyone. shows her kidsβ faces online despite her husbandβs (admittedly very mild) protests. reposts stories about events she wasnβt at saying βwish I was there :(β
Charles Musgrove: 7.5/10, only because I think heβs slightly more online than Wentworth. spends a lot of time on twitter because Maryβs not on it and sometimes he wants a lil break. will use chronically online lingo around his parents and get blank stares.
Louisa: 8/10. TUMBLRINA. she has other social media but mostly iβm claiming her for us. blogs religiously about musicians she loves (mostly kpop), and her blog aesthetic is gorgeous. has many beloved mutuals that are extremely concerned about her TBI
Henrietta: 7/10. also a tumblrina but in slightly different fandoms. runs a pretty popular heated rivalry blog. she maintains Louisaβs kpop blog after her accident and does a pretty good job. feels obligated to reblog discourse posts she doesnβt fully understand
Mr. Elliot: 5/10. i canβt see him being super online. he does have twitter though, and he does call it x. very much enjoys using the internet to lie and spread misinformation. i think his most used site is linkedin. βthis is what mr smith dying taught me about businessβ and shit like that
Mrs. Clay: 9/10. once again she likes to make tiktoks, with and without Elizabeth. βthis is a day in my life as a widow with two kidsβ and the like. Elizabeth and Sir Walter make a callout video after she runs away with Mr. Elliot and she gets so much hate she deletes her tiktok :p
The Crofts: 4.5/10 as a set. they have joint instagram and facebook accounts and a joint email. theyβre not super online though. Most of their screentime is puzzle games. he seems sliiiightly more online than she is though
Captain Harville: 2/10. he strikes me as really not online. maybe slightly moreso than he was before his injury, but he just doesnβt have that vibe to me. the only one that couldβve distracted Anne while Wentworth wrote the letter because everyone else was on their phones
Captain Benwick: 6/10. heβs a tumblrina too tbh. has a very cute blog thatβs mostly his extremely sad poetry. he reads Louisa something he wrote while sheβs recovering and she recognizes him as her mutual. this is far cuter than what happened in the book i think
Mrs. Smith: 8.5/10. would be far less if she could regularly leave the house. employs herself with puzzle games and wikipedia and likes scrolling through kitchencels and AITA. has an uncanny ability for finding the anonymous social media accounts of people she knows
bonus Dick Musgrove: mostly used snapchat. Charles deleted it off his phone after he died so their parents wouldnβt have to see all that
please feel free to add on if you have other ideas!
I could see Lady Russell being staunchly offline, and needing Anne to do online tasks for her every so often, because the old way is better and proper.
Sir Walter has a silver fox fan club and he's enormously proud of it.
Mr. Shepherd has one of those advice lawyer blogs to drum up business but it's not very popular
The Musgroves Sr. are exclusively on Facebook to see photos of their kids and grandkids. They forward spam emails.
Agnes Grey, or its more accurate title, I Should Be Allowed to Beat These Children With a Sock Full of Quarters Shillings by Anne BrontΓ« (a cover redesign by me)

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"This is my beloved sister Georgiana, of whom I am guardian. I have hugged her once, after Ramsgate. That's enough."
ishmael using a pseudonym is so funny. like what are you in witness protection? from the whale?

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