Writer, cultural observer, closet medievalist with the prudishness of a Victorian. Everyone secretly believes in the Great Chain of Being as much as I do.
Babylonian Exile
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Real Austen hipsters prefer the 1980 BBC P&P with Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul. Or for a true deep cut, the 1967 black and white TV serial (also BBC.)
The real problem with modern Austen adaptations is that they are mawkish in the extreme. Her books are essentially anti-sentimental but the prevailing sentiment here is soppiness. Her keen observation of human foibles and brutal moral judgement is absent in modern adaptations.
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Happy Birthday to-day to Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), one of the finest novelists of the 20th century. Brideshead Revisited (and its brilliant TV adaptation) gets the lion's share of the glory nowadays, but I'm a sucker for Decline and Fall. Celebrate by reading one of his books!
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Land acknowledgment at the Spirit Halloween but for the store that was there before
Feeling sick and a bit discouraged by a few knocks in life….“Wow, pain at the top of the head? Maybe I have brain cancer and this will be thankfully over soon” is the attitude of the moment.
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Thinking about how Sirius Black bought a 14 year old the equivalent of an F1 racecar
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Fanfic should never be shat out by AI, fanfic should be written by a human being with something wrong with them
Georgette Heyer, the originator of the regency romance genre, was read equally by men and women in her lifetime. Her books often have complex and dynamic male characters. Reprints of her books are now given frilly pink covers that no man would want to be seen reading in public.
