And that's not even getting into 'she is mooning about 1800s' parts. I mean, I guess it could be worse, she could be fixated on Europe in the 15th century, but still - how on earth? Does she not think about what would happen if she got appendicitis?
I know in the 'good old days' I would be dead by now (and before dying have gone deaf). And if I somehow managed to survive the conditions I had which are minor nuisances now but were deadly back then, guess what? My baby would have been born dead because of a condition which is not even much of an issue now with proper monitoring and inducement if the readings are weird.
My thoughts exactly. I liked Wickham - the idea that him liking Amanda would turn all of P&P into AU was kind of exciting for me for a minute, and then it turns into blah blah Darcy likes her and the story rather dully repeats the Elizabeth/Darcy dynamic whilst lacking Elizabeth, so it all just SCREAMS self-insert rather than interesting twist on the original tale
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Wickham was the only character which didn't bore me to death. Now that would have been an interesting and definitely AU story. The Darcy thing did not even make sense as it came out of nowhere, but it is a Mary Sue after all.
Amanda would so not fit in, you have got to be kidding - she casually says damn which was such a huge deal it would be an unprintable, literally, word. Ugh.
I'll check out Emma even if not a big fan of the story
That lovely time period where you could not vote, where all you owned would be the property of your husband, where you'd probably die in childbirth because the doctor didn't bother washing his hands between calls, where there are no antibiotics, which is rigidly classist, where travelling a 100 miles takes a week.Oh, god, yes. I hate "I wish we lived in another age" stories too. It's much in the same way that I hate hearing people go on and on about how great things were when they were young, how the world is so much worse now, and it is getting worse all the time, etc. I have no problem with people being sentimental, obviously, with people looking back fondly on certain people or events, it's the banging on about the halycon days of old that I find irritating
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No, I agree with every word of that ramble. I get nostalgic for certain events in my past (who doesn't?) but a blind nostalgia for the associated decade seems weird.
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I know in the 'good old days' I would be dead by now (and before dying have gone deaf). And if I somehow managed to survive the conditions I had which are minor nuisances now but were deadly back then, guess what? My baby would have been born dead because of a condition which is not even much of an issue now with proper monitoring and inducement if the readings are weird.
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Amanda would so not fit in, you have got to be kidding - she casually says damn which was such a huge deal it would be an unprintable, literally, word. Ugh.
I'll check out Emma even if not a big fan of the story
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