#Darcy don't look

[kabbalicgay]

It's really funny being on the outside of both transsexual & non-transitioning trans spaces because both spaces do Not fucking like me and the way I word my experiences.

[grahamkennedy]

I just read a post that was like trans mascs never experience male privilege and I'm like?????? I mean not every trans masc does but I can tell you as a transmasc people definitely started treating me with more respect when I started passing as male, and I've seen plenty of misogyny from trans mascs. I used to have that problem myself in the reactionary early days for my transition. I've especially seen this kind of behaviour from trransandrophobia truthers like the one who made that dumb ass fucking post. GOD some people are fucking dense as a brick.

[petricorah]

zukka pride and prejudice pt 2

[ID: A comic of Sokka and Zuko from Avatar the Last Airbender acting out the hand scene from Pride and Prejudice (2005). In the first panel, Sokka stares to the right, his face illuminated with light, and his hair blows in the wind. He has a soft surprised expression.

The second panel is a closeup of Zuko and Sokka’s hands, as Zuko holds Sokka’s gloved hand to help him move. Warm light emanates from their touch. Zuko stares, slightly confused at his own feelings, and when he walks away, the panel shows a closeup of him flexing his hand. /End ID.]

[taradactyls]

Something I love about how Pride and Prejudice is told through an omnipresent narrator, aside from the witty remarks and insight into other characters it allows even though it's usually focused on Elizabeth, is how it plays on the audience's own prejudices and assumptions.

The narrator tells us very early on, chapter 4, that Darcy is "haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well-bred, were not inviting." We've already seen that when we meet him the previous chapter, and will see more of it in those following. But it's the readers, along with Elizabeth, who take that observation as not only a list of flaws (despite only the first actually being negative) but presumes even more damaging flaws must be attached to it. Darcy can be off-putting, especially so in the setting we meet him in: he dismissed Elizabeth within earshot of her, didn't engage with people attempting to converse with him, etc. It's easy to assume the worst of him in a world so driven by social niceties, and because we follow Elizabeth, who is so lively and playful amidst the rules which govern society. Elizabeth thinks he's bad tempered? It would make sense - he hasn't shown consideration for others much socially, why would he care when he's angry? He acted from resentment and jealousy and went against his father's will? That's not such a jump after the conclusion of a bad temper, his own acknowledgement of implacable resentment, and evidence of pride. The awareness of one offensive trait so naturally leads to prejudice against it, that we easily assume still worse qualities must exist. We are as mistaken as Elizabeth.

Even the idea that 'No, Darcy was never haughty or rude, he was just shy and misunderstood, the narrator is wrong' is just magnifying that prejudice. Yes, we do find out later that Darcy is not at ease among strangers, and was always intrinsically good; his morals and core values meant he was never as bad as Elizabeth believed. But that doesn't mean he was without flaws, and it's so fascinating that some analysis of his character seek to completely remove the negative traits which he eventually overcame after acknowledging them in himself. The logic seems to be that they feel if he had them in the start that he isn't actually such a good person. It's just another example of being so prejudiced against certain flaws that it's impossible for some people to reconcile that there doesn't have to be more serious failings attached, and someone can still be a good person despite being arrogant and not always nice. It's, ironically, being prejudiced in the exact same way that Elizabeth was at the start of the novel. It's amazing that Jane Austen was able to tap into that aspect of human nature so deftly, and invoke in both in her main character, and readers to this day.

Now, of course, the story is so well known it's rare for anyone to read it blind, so it's less likely anyone will be unaware of Darcy's good qualities despite first seeing his worst. Even if they do, Pride and Prejudice has become so genre defining that new readers who are the slightest bit genre savvy will be more aware than contemporary audiences were. But even if we know the story it's still so understandable why Elizabeth feels the way she does. We see what she sees and feel her conclusions make sense. Just as, even though the narrator tells us Darcy is starting to catch feelings for Elizabeth, we fully comprehend her not noticing and believing there's a mutual dislike. And though that is concrete evidence of Elizabeth not reading Darcy and his motives correctly, we are still so sympathetic of the basis of her prejudice that her continued belief in Darcy's lack of virtues makes sense from her point of view. We can see, as she later will, that she takes it too far, and should have noticed evidence to the contrary, but her prejudice against him based on his early behaviour and her pride at reading people correctly is so understandable.

Basically, in a story about the characters' pride and prejudices, I love, love, LOVE how the narrator's voice brings out those same traits in readers the exact same way we see it presenting in Elizabeth. We're all on that journey with her, and we can likewise learn the same lessons about ourselves as she does. Pride and Prejudice feels timeless, because even though society and thus the nuance changes, the book is about human nature, and that remains essentially the same.

[cloudellesims]

Ruth made a new friend! Her name's Darcy<3

[octobertomarch]

Again with my favorite crosover prompt, finally finished!!!

I certainly should not stick to doing clean lineart and brave myself into doing rough sketches. Because my coloring style seem to fight with my lineart 😅😅 and my laziness with shading and background definitely shows 😂🤣

I originally started this on vellum but eventually gave up (laziness and because watercolor will surely ruin the whole thing) so i converted it to digital 😂🤣

Reference below (don't be shocked lol)

Tadaaaaaaaaa!!!!! 2005 Pride and Prejudice starring Matthew Macfadyen and Keira Knightley

I just loooove doing Pride and Prejudice with Loiyor

And trust me when i say I'm not done making more

[romans-art]

Giramar Windrunner, Heir to the Ranger-General of Silvermoon (from Toil and Strife part 2 of Age of Sail)

[kathinkapng]

Some Doodles I did today <33

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, ed. by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

This has a bunch of authors I already love in it (Stephen Graham Jones, Darcie Little Badger, Waubgeshig Rice, and Rebecca Roanhorse!!), and several authors I've been meaning to try (like Tommy Orange, Nick Medina, and Kelli Jo Ford, to name a few), so I'm really hyped for them all to be together in one volume! Plus dark fiction is very much my jam (especially when it comes in a bright and colorful package).

[shmoo06]

I knew [the Janet(s) episode] was coming, and when Mike told me I was so excited.

[mostofthingsmostofthetime]

No hate to the actor, but season 2 better have Imogen fixing Darcy's roots coz like, both characters have two toned hair, but it's clear that only one of them did it on purpose

[kabbalicgay]

Kinda wish "leftists" would invest more time into actual feminist theory instead of the tired, old "wanting women to have equal rights doesn't mean women have to stop doing traditional woman-ly things" type of rhetoric that's popping up incessantly. Like maybe you should be examining why those "traditional woman-ly things" are associated with women and what the implications of that association are, and furthermore, why, perhaps, the idea of women choosing to participate in misogynist behaviour and patriarchy is something we should interrogate and critique lmao.

I'm editing this to add on: ra/d.fe.minism has never, at any point, given a good analysis of material conditions and does, in fact, completely reinforce gendered stereotypes, misogynist violence, anti-Blackness, colonial gender roles and binaries, and overall is a poor lense through which to examine the world. You mfs are goofy.

[no-naem]

Darcy/the Core, but it's crossovers.

[misclogarts]

consider: darcy with a metal claw

alternate versions under cut

[pinkcadavart]

Elise pinup in the sketchbook for today.... Listening to this while drawing eheheheh

[anghraine]

For some reason, I woke up thinking about Elizabeth and the sort of physical dimension of the novel.

To back up a bit, Elizabeth's physicality as a character is pretty widely acknowledged. We know more about her appearance than that of any other character in the book, to begin with. She's the only character in P&P whose coloring we know anything about (she has beautiful dark eyes with fine eyelashes), while we repeatedly hear about her light figure, her summer tan, and her general attractiveness—she's not stunning, but pretty.

There's also a sense of physicality in terms of her actions and reactions. She habitually walks and runs. She blushes frequently; at Pemberley, before Darcy shows up, she blushes as she admits to knowing him, concedes that he's very handsome, and shortly thereafter blushes deeply again upon encountering Darcy himself. Her impression of Pemberley is powerfully affected by the physical features and aesthetic of it, more than by its grandeur. Upon meeting Georgiana, Elizabeth likes her but also can't seem to help noticing that Georgiana isn't as good-looking as Darcy. Later, when Darcy shows up in Hertfordshire with Bingley, Elizabeth blushes again, smiles with delight, and her eyes shine.

But something else I find interesting is that Elizabeth is also linked to physical things to some extent. There are the infamous muddy skirts that she drops her overskirt down to conceal. There's her book at Netherfield. She preserves Darcy's letter until their engagement and only destroys it for his peace of mind. She rushes to find her parasol for her confrontation with Lady Catherine. She wears a watch.

IDK, this isn't going anywhere in particular, but I find it interesting that we get this paraphernalia alongside a comparatively distinct sense of Elizabeth's physicality and how she interacts with the outside world. At the very least, I think the paraphernalia reinforces the sense of Elizabeth as a very physical presence in the world.