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Re: Just out of curiosity - - 17 days ago
Awww, thank you! I quite like it too, but at the same time, it's a reminder of this horribly messed-up universe I created, which some days I'd like to completely redo just to make better sense of it ;-)by Mari A. - Tea Room
Re: Just out of curiosity - - 20 days ago
Actually, I think it sounds rather fascinating! Especially the bit about how canon shapes the storytelling ... I suppose it also works vice versa, that once you have the world you told in your head, it's difficult to get rid of it when you return to reading the original canon? I know I sometimes have to remind myself that the events I thought of didn't really happen in the book (in fact, probablyby Mari A. - Tea Room
Just out of curiosity - - 21 days ago
- why did you make it between 2008 and 2011? Was it an arbitrary decision because you had to narrow it down somewhat, or was there any further reasoning behind it? Also, since I'm very bad at narrative theories (took a lecture once but the lecturer made it a right snoozefest) if you have the time, could you explain what you mean by storyworlds? Do you mean worldbuilding in the classical sense, aby Mari A. - Tea Room
Grand Prix d'Eurovision de la Chanson - Eurovision Song Contest!! - 4 weeks ago
Yes, that time of the year is upon us again! Is anybody interested in doing an ESC chat & snark party on Saturday night? (I think the time would be 8 pm GMT/ 9 pm CET but I'm not 100% sure.) I also want to apologise, this post was supposed to be very sparkly, but I forgot the code. So sorry.by Mari A. - Tea Room
First video is up! - 5 weeks ago
So I, uh, still haven't read the last two chapters (*blushes*) but I wanted to give you a heads-up that the first video is up! Clara appears, and an ice-cream parlour!by Mari A. - JAFF Library
Lookin' good! - 5 weeks ago
Now the next time your abigail comes to dress you, you can say, "no, no, the green one!" :)by Mari A. - Tea Room
Re: Caroline Lamb had a VERY public affair - 5 weeks ago
Well, there is the point that there are people involved, not necessarily laws. So while there might be some rules of decorum, those were more, as popular culture will put it, guidelines. In the end, what mattered were the people involved. As you say, in the end, it depends on the husband involved. You mentioned Caroline Lamb's very public affair and the mild repercussions she suffered. Georgianby Mari A. - Tea Room
Re: Charles swayed by Caroline? A fanfiction myth? - 6 weeks ago
Oxbridge means either Oxford or Cambridge. Since there were no other universities in England at the time, if Bingley went to one, it would have been either of the two. At least Bingley doesn't strike me as the type to go to, say, Padua, Prague or the Sorbonne.by Mari A. - Tea Room
Re: real feelings? - 6 weeks ago
But people in Regency times could have a multitude of reasons for accepting a proposal, only Bingley apparently wanted to marry a girl he loved and who loved him in return. Was the poor man to say, 'Are you expecting a proposal from me? But please only say yes if you love me!' There was - from Bingley's point of view - the very real possibility that Jane might accept him, once he asked (for matby Mari A. - Tea Room
To clarify ... - 6 weeks ago
When I spoke about Jane and Bingley being alone together, I did not mean in the sense that Marianne and Willoughby were alone together, merely of occasions where they might have had conversations that wouldn't have been overheard by the whole room - dancing together, or sitting together in a corner, or the like. If they had been frequently alone together, Bingley would have been much more of a cby Mari A. - Tea Room
Re: don't disagree, but still... - 6 weeks ago
I agree with you, Suzanne, in all you said. Yes, it might have been better if Bingley had found out for himself whether Jane cared about him or not. But he could hardly do so without raising expectations with her and the rest of the neighbourhood and more over, his good friend, who is known to give good advice, and probably his sister also, who is friends with the girl in question, both weighedby Mari A. - Tea Room
Everything? - 6 weeks ago
Okay, not everything .... but most of it. For me, it's mainly maintaining the pace - i.e., not suddenly rushing the end, nor drawing it out for ages. If it's a fast-paced story, it needs a quick resolution and no dragging in the end. If it's a slow story, it needs the end to take time to tie everything up. And I often don't get that pace just right. It's not the ending per se that is difficultby Mari A. - Tea Room
Re: How old is Miss Bingley, opinions? - 6 weeks ago
Yes, I agree that the only certain thing we can say is that she's younger than Louisa. Personally, I like the idea of her and Charles being twins (because of the names) but I don't think there's any evidence for that. When I write her, I make her whatever age works best ;-) - I needed her young in the Caroline Diaries so she was only barely 19, whereas in A Matter of Secrecy I needed her a bit oby Mari A. - Tea Room
Re: O--o-o-kay - 7 weeks ago
QuoteI have also seen it argued that no male child of a daughter could ever inherit, that it would always have to be the male child of a male child of a male chilld.... Frankly, I have never quite followed that argument, and it usually rests on assuming that the reason Collins and Bennet are different surnames is NOT because Collins' is the son of woman in the paternal line but rather, because hiby Mari A. - Tea Room
Re: Being entailed did not always mean it would go to a man - 7 weeks ago
Quote If Collins has only daughters, Longbourn falls back into the hands of a male who is the eldest grandson of Mr. Bennet. I'm quite sure that that is only a fanon belief, since we don't know the actual terms of the entail, nor the exact degree in which Mr Bennet and Mr Collins are related.by Mari A. - Tea Room
More examples ... - 7 weeks ago
Then there's Rosings, which seems to be held in trust by Lady Catherine for her daughter, instead of having been inherited by a male relation. There's Hartfield, which the Highbury people in general assume should pass to Isabella and her family because Emma is already having Donwell Abbey - no mention of there being any sort of fixed inheritance. There's Allenham, which Willoughby's aunt (the nby Mari A. - Tea Room
Re: Looking for a story - 2 months ago
It is still available on another site; you can find it through the JAFFI if you have a login that also displays stories on sites with potentially adult-rated material. I know because I looked it up just the other week to recommend it to a friend - it's one of my favourite stories ;-)by Mari A. - Tea Room
Re: S&S - happy couples or not? - 2 months ago
Quote Absolutely. Good-looking guy. Pretty girl. Both single. Both spending a lot of time together. Gotta be just friends, right? Get real! I am being real, thank you very much. I've been in that very situation, where someone I valued as a friend because of the time we'd been spending together thought that because he felt more for me, it followed logically that I would feel the same. The faby Mari A. - Tea Room
Re: Ah! - 2 months ago
Oh, I wouldn't bother with reading Udolpho ... it gets really, really tedious. It's downright ridiculous in places (such as when Valancourt, the "hero" is carving a poem into a rock (no comment)) but the number of times you want to run your head into a wall from Emily's sheer stupidity and from all the monologues about her superiority and the sheer sublime beauty of the Alps on the Mediterraneanby Mari A. - JAFF Library
Congratulations, mummy! - 2 months ago
And of course also to the daddy & big brother!by Mari A. - Tea Room
Re: S&S - happy couples or not? - 2 months ago
QuoteI get that he was bound in honor to Lucy, but if he had feelings for Elinor, it was likely she had feelings for him, and he should reasonably have been expected to have realized this, and done something so Elly could guard her heart. I don't see how her having feelings for him follows logically from him having feelings for her ... as it turns out, it was the case, but I don't think he can cby Mari A. - Tea Room
... oh and those asses! - 2 months ago
Forgot to say, but I actually find her constant attempts to sell her asses' milk to anyone most annoying! She's like Sir Walter with his wonder-Gowlands, but with a more mercenary turn ... I wonder what sort of profit she expects to make from half a pint of milk? (Or does she intend to convince people to bathe in that stuff, like certain Egyptian rulers?)by Mari A. - JAFF Library
Re: Edit function - 2 months ago
So far, no one has really been on the beach, in the actual sands, yet, right? Not what you'd expect from a sea-side novel at all!by Mari A. - JAFF Library
Re: Bernie Su and Margaret Dunlop on Sanditon, etc - 2 months ago
I had been thinking that they might create a Charlotte so that she could then talk about the other characters and what's happening with Gigi, but I suppose it makes sense to have it streamlined thus. I do wonder if they'll add some romance of Charlotte/Gigi (Chargi?) or if she'll stay purely an observer. Also I can't wait until June to find out what's up next and I'm tickled pink at the half-prby Mari A. - JAFF Library
Re: Sandpit on Group Read, chs. 7&8 - 2 months ago
I agree with your assessment of Lady Denham! At first I thought her a Lady Catherine-wannabe, hindered in true grandeur by her petit-bourgeoisie attention to monetary details, but she's rather more spiteful and vile where Lady Catherine would just invite the Denhams and bask in her own magnanimity. Lady D is too hung up on being validated by others and by the perceptions of others to be a true vuby Mari A. - JAFF Library
Samuel Richardson, of Pamela fame - 2 months ago
I haven't read Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded yet, but it's Richardson's most well-known work, an epistolary novel describing the love affair between a gentleman (using this in the loosest meaning of the term) and his maid-servant. Basically, the "hero" tries to seduce his young servant girl because she's so pretty, she however refuses him because she values her virtue, this makes her even more interby Mari A. - JAFF Library
More ... - 2 months ago
So, I found my notes, quicker than I thought. In the 1530s, monasteries in England held about 10% of the English lands, and were thus rather rich. Henry was lusting after their money even before the split from Rome. In 1532, the Act of Conditional Restraint of Annates was meant to make sure that the English monasteries didn't give too much to their wealth to Rome, but it wasn't enforced then. Thby Mari A. - Tea Room