queerpotters:

#you know this some real shit cause if you’re in the rain for like five minutes in jane austen you get all sick #and have to be ‘bedridden’ and ‘fussed over’ #so he went out after her in the regency equivalent of a shootout just to be like #’I LOVE YOU BUT YOUR FAMILY IS POOR AND EMBARRASSING’

Honestly, the older i get and the more i love Anne Elliot.

Literally the only three things you need to know about Jane Austen

scripturient-manipulator: 1. Her first major novel (Northanger Abbey) was written solely because she was so salty about how dramatic and cliche and formula Gothic novels were. You know what I mean. Every castle is foreboding. Every villain is awful but can’t bring himself to kill the heroine because she’s Too Pure. Every middle-aged female companion…

Tom does not respect Taylor. She put out too soon. He will marry a wholesome girl.

sansacinderellalily: star-anise: sweetsigyn: maevecurrywrites: missviolethunter: My dear Miss Nonny: How do you in Nonnyland? Here we are having a very hot and uncomfortable summer, but thankfully in the last few days we have been blessed with a delicious cool breeze. It pains me to see you so concerned about Miss Swift’s reputation. How immensely thoughtful…

shakeskp: arethouyetliving: bellagerantalii: arethouyetliving: bellagerantalii: arethouyetliving: We all want to be Lizzy, but I’m more Elinor than I like to admit sometimes. Be an Elinor with me. Embrace our sense. And our slightly repressed emotions.  Someone has to be the responsible one, okay. Sometimes you just have to tighten your belt and give up beef…