#moll flanders instagram au

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moll flanders instagram au rant part 2/2

rant pt (1)

abstract: in this second post I’ll conclude my rant.. enjoy

au series linked:

“series” 1 - older & younger brothers who both get it on with moll

“series” 2 - draper & moll’s half brother

“series” 3 - the affair w the guy who gets religious & jemy, lohl (love of her life of course)

“series” 4 - the banker & her makeup with jemy

the rant continues: 

ok so where we left off, I was pretty much just ranting about how i justified the idea of making an instagram au for moll flanders. now imma just rant about making it and about the little jokes & inside jokes i put in because i’m sorry i’m just super proud of it and i want to tell everyone about it and i mostly just think it’s funnier if the inside jokes are actually understood

 aight,

so first, i should probably extend an informal thank you to bridget satterlee for being gorgeous and for your selfies that i used in posts showing moll’s face. you saved my ass because i needed a singular face if it was gonna be blatantly shown.

ok now, moll’s story is years years long and I didn’t feel like it would be super practical to create an au that in depth–I decided to shorten the main events to take place between two years - or 104 weeks because this would be sooooo much easier (no aging moll having to be accounted for as well as the oldest post was 104 weeks old instead of 500 something). but this meant I ended up doing a lotttttt of math and I hate math but oh the things I’ll do for tumblr but also for a grade.

then once i had established a rough timeline for each of moll’s 7 men (8 instances though since jemy is with her twice), i gave each two individual posts & each chronological pair of guys would share 6 slots on the main profile page.

and then I got to make the templates for each post & profile. chose which captions I wanted. curate comments and likes. the best thing was choosing handles for each character, especially ones who weren’t necessarily named:

donjuan (older bro) - don juan is a womanizer, what better seemingly anonymous handle for the older brother who (in this au) has a hidden instagram in which he’s tagged in photos by moll that he desperately wants taken down so his family won’t see him in them

robin_ (younger bro) - well he’s called robin in the book, but i wanted him to be kind of an oblivious but well-meaning guy. I mean in moll’s 2nd post he doesn’t even recognize his brother but he’s extremely concerned about who this rando man winning moll’s heart might be and he’s just hopelessly in love with her as alll of his comments show

haber_dasher (draper) - and haberdasher is just a synonym for draper and is imo a more exciting handle

the captain (half brother) - also self explanatory as he’s a captain

the guy she has an affair with doesn’t have instagram but moll does acknowledge him by posting an ‘out to steal yo man’ pic so i mean

nathan.r (the banker) - not insinuating anything but i named him after nathan rothschild as he was an influential british-born banker and it just kinda worked so sorry nathan

j.b007 (jemy) - in the 1996 movie version of moll flanders, jemy is played by daniel craig who I coincidentally happen to be slightly obsessed with (not even ashamed of it) and of course he’s also bond, so the j.b007 handle was never not an option

mary.g (her governess) - i dunno, i feel like mary has been a notable governess/nanny name and the g just stands for governess... at this point I was getting tired

other things I just think are funny include the magnolia tattoo in the fourth series of posts. i once read that magnolias can represent a desire for riches, but more colloquially they also represent nobility, which is something moll definitely desires. also, when she posts about marrying jemy, he comments 'can’t wait to marry you' but “accidentally” posts the money face & a green heart and corrects his “#typo” to heart eyes & the red heart - all of which I find hilarious simply because he was marrying moll for her supposed money just as much as she was marrying him for his.

also, molll posts a ‘paris is always a good idea’ around the time the draper runs off to france so that’s just kind of funny for kind of obvious reasons? and my interpretation of him being bad with handling money was taking her on awesome hermès, chanel, louis vuitton, etc. shopping sprees because that’s honestly the dream and I thought that would be a fun modern rendition of the bad at managing money trait

and she also posts a lot of rather dramatic things like ‘no rain no flowers’ when the older brother breaks it off with her and a ‘goal digger’ one which i think is self-explanatorily funny and an ‘all great changes are preceded by c h a o s’ one which is probably what moll thinks of her whole life. and don’t forget moll posting ‘look who i ran into, we’re going on a vacay and to america’ and then the virginia sign like it’s a grand adventure and not like she’s basically on parole.

also, the thing that probably makes me chuckle the most is j.b007′s random comments on moll’s very first posts. you know when you make a new friend and of course you super stalk them and then once you’r closer you’re just tryna be obnoxious so you go back to like every single one of their posts and you comment on super old posts? or is that just me? I thought it would be hilarious for jemy to go back and comment things like ‘ew’ or ‘gagging’ or just have him generally acting offended because that’s the kinda dramatic Extra™ personality I assume he has

and overall, it was really fun exploring how I imagine moll utilizing instagram to share her story and her crazy adventures through a stereotypical bio & kinda Basic™ captions & hashtags, while also interpreting the unreliable narration that I believe moll presents her readers with & other than that I have no conclusive ending, I just thought I’d try to explain some of the seemingly random things and also have just been dying to get this out there so yeah dude thanks for reading if anyone has made it this far (which let’s face it, if you have you’re an amazing person wow)

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moll flanders instagram au series 4/4

this was my final project in my honors english colloquium class. a 2 part rant to be linked shortly explaining some of the quirks my reimagining of moll flanders and the background/basis of the project (1) (2)

other series: (1/4) (2/4) (3/4)

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moll flanders instagram au series 3/4

this was my final project in my honors english colloquium class. a 2 part rant to be linked shortly explaining some of the quirks my reimagining of moll flanders and the background/basis of the project (1) (2)

other series: (1/4) (2/4) (4/4)

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moll flanders instagram au series 2/4

this was my final project in my honors english colloquium class. a 2 part rant to be linked shortly explaining some of the quirks my reimagining of moll flanders and the background/basis of the project (1) (2)

other series: (1/4) (3/4) (4/4)