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glad to assist on this at any time ngl

ALL OF THEM???

Just kidding. Hmm okay.

XLH defending DFQC at the wedding

DFQC saving XLH from the trial in Shuiyuntian

the cinnabar scene

Danyin pretending to be Changheng and calling Liyuan "dad"

XLH coming out of the Fuju cave and being called the Moon Queen

That's what I'm feeling rn. Might change later. There's too many great moments to pick!!

@wingsofbadass I don't even know where to begin! I'm not gonna pretend I'm like deeply intellectual abt it bc most of my thoughts on the matter are 'WOW I love Jane fairfax' and not much more but!

she is the perfect foil for Emma and austen addresses this explicitly. Jane Fairfax is, in all intents and purposes, the stereotypical Austen heroine: she is well-mannered but has a mind of her own; ill of fortune and fate. Emma was written to be so exactly apart from all other Austen heroines that I don't think it's any coincidence that Jane Fairfax is named after Austen herself: I think it's a joke, a self-acknowledgment of Austen's predilection of protagonist. We only ever see Jane through Emma's eyes and Emma thinks of her as simpering and frustrating: an accomplished woman. Emma is envious of her, but I don't think it's any reach to say that Jane is envious of Emma too, for Emma has everything Jane wants: social and financial security, openly adored by all. Jane is tossed around in the novel by her companions and relies so much upon the wellbeing of others that she has very little agency of her own, yet we know from her intellect that she is conscious of this and from our understanding of other Austen heroines we can recognise the inner turmoil that might have been explored had it been a different novel, and she states plainly when she is afraid she is destined to become a governess how difficult it is for her to exist within her narrative.

If Emma had been written from Jane's POV, I think it would be painful: more similar to Persuasion than any other work, because she is spurned, ridiculed and reduced (sometimes unconsciously) by those she trusts most. Her story isn't a comfortable one and I absolutely loathe Frank Churchill (Emma x Jane Fairfax retelling WHEN) (also sidebar but I once read an essay that argued that Frank Churchill killed his aunt and I've never been able to stop thinking abt it since) but because it is Emma's story, at the end it is resolved with the two of them reconciling their differences and ostensibly becoming friends.

Anyway I find her fascinating. Her every moment in the novel tugs at my heart strings and I have genuinely cried when I think about her because I love Jane Fairfax so much. I don't really have a concrete conclusion but I do think it's incredibly cool that Austen arguably included her as a way to analyse the way we perceive Austen's traditional heroines and given that, we have a better understanding of how Jane Fairfax probably perceives the world around her.

But yeah. Basically, I ❤️ Jane Fairfax

Posting for Fic Back Friday! 

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I’ve been looking for different things to draw for a large portfolio project I have coming up and my wonderful friend @wingsofbadass (who it’s not letting me tag BOO) asked if I could design an outfit for her DnD Monk Nahi 

Aaaaayyyy