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Wickham: *tries to trick impressionable young women into eloping with him*

Mr. Darcy:

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15 Japanese-Inspired Fantasy Books

Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa

Risuko by David Kudler

Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean

Winter Raven by Adam Baker

Never Die by Rob J. Hayes

The Sword of Kaigen by M. L. Wang

Spinning Silk by T. Cook

Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh

Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn

Blade’s Edge by Virginia McClain

Kitsune-Tsuki by Laura VanArendock Baugh

Nightblade by Ryan Kirk

A Mortal Song by Megan Crewe

The Priestess and the Dragon by Nicolette Andrews

Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff

Which of these books have you read? Did I miss any of your favorites? Let me know in the comments!

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the real victim in Pride and Prejudice is Georgiana Darcy, bc u know her brother spent at least two weeks lying around in his Regency Jammies eating Benjamin and Jerrold’s out of ye olde carton feeling sorry for himself bc his crush not only didn’t like him back but tore him to shreds in the process and Georgie had to deal with that and then said crush shows up at their HOUSE and she has to live w both of them probably stealing lovelorn yearning glances at each other the whole damn day while knowing if she even SUGGESTS to her brother that maybe perhaps his crush doesn’t hate his entire guts anymore he’ll just be all tragic about it bc “you don’t KNOW her Georgiana she dESPISES me and i DESERVE it”

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Anne with an “E” (2019) | Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Bonus:

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Things that seemed funny at 2am

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truly amazing how miss austen wrote a story in 1813 and every romance plot in any form of media ever since has followed the exact same format

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Lizzie, about Mr Wickham: “He told me of his misfortunes.”

Mr Darcy:

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I’ve done some Twitter threads on this topic, so thought it might be nice to do a Tumblr post too. One of my pet peeves is when people act like adult fantasy (or sci-fi for that matter) is just a straight white dude thing and that diversity only exists in young adult fantasy. That’s such a disservice to all the authors of marginalized identities currently writing adult fantasy!

Authors and books below the cut, including links to Goodreads. I’m not providing trigger warnings (if I make the post too long Tumblr starts freaking out about it), but you can use the search function on Goodreads reviews to find more specifics. 

Keep reading

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Need help keeping track of your Character of Color research? 

Well, this free research tracking document is for you!  Each tab intends to help sort your research of a Person of Color.

Go as vague or specific as your needs require. 

There’s rows to jot in race, gender, orientation, country, time period etc.

From there, the categories include slots to fill in everything from hair care basics to common tropes and stereotypes. 

The last page is to collect your favorite writing resources. 

Make a copy of the document to change, add and rearrange as you see fit. 

–Mod Colette, Writingwithcolor

Again, this is 100% Free and for you! 

If you find this chart helpful, noticed categories I may have missed, or have ideas for other Character of Color writing templates please message me on my personal blog: https://lastautumnmaiden.tumblr.com/ 

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Are you gonna tell us to smile now? Call us ‘sweetheart’?

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STOP talking smack about Jane Austen heroines!

Elizabeth Bennet is ICONIC

Elinor Dashwood is INSPIRING

Marianne Dashwood is MAGIFICENT

Anne Elliot is HISTORIC

Catherine Morland is DELIGHTFUL

Fanny Price

Emma Woodhouse is CUTTING-EDGE

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THIS IS A FANTASY BOOK.

It had not been Merik's fault their mother had jumped. Nor had it been Vivia's own doing. Jana had died because she had seen no other escape, and there had been no one there who knew how to help her.

All these years, Vivia had thought that she needed to be stronger than her mother, that she needed to fight the darkness to wear the crown. But that was wrong; that was her father speaking.

Jana had been strong--stronger than Serafin. Stronger than anyone realised, for she had lived with shadows every day and still ruled, still guided, still loved. Rather than nurture that strength, though, Serafin had nurtured the shadows. He had undermined and manipulated, just as he undermined and manipulated Vivia now.

For hye, Vivia had shadows inside her too, but they were not like Jana's. They were all her own, as unique as the foxfire arrangements that glowed beneath the city. And twenty-three years of living with them had made Vivia stronger than anyone realised.

FINALLY. A fantasy book that not only avoids vilifying mental illness, but actually speaks to the people affected by it. That calls out bystanders who do nothing, who don't understand, but still feel like they have a right to judge. That talks about how external influences and the people you surround yourself with can affect a person's inner workings more than anyone will ever know, that talks about how mental illness actually makes people stronger because it's one of the worst things anyone can ever experience, and just because someone fell victim to it in the end, that doesn't make them weak, it makes them strong for surviving as long as they did. Especially without anyone to turn to, to understand, to comfort you, it can often feel like a death sentence.

Yet it reminds loved ones NOT to blame themselves, since people that are truly struggling have worked out how to hide it well, and no matter how much you might want to fight their battles for them, that's something they must do themselves.

THIS IS A FANTASY BOOK, PEOPLE. I've read countless books ABOUT mental illness looking for some modicum of understanding from anybody, and I find it in a FANTASY BOOK where it's not even a FOCUS. Never have I felt so understood and relevant than the two minutes I spent reading those pages.

Oh, plus it points out that each person's mind is unique, and even if two people struggle with dark thoughts or impulses, they are in no way the same.

And despite her demons, she was still capable of love. That's important, too.

Thank you, @stdennard

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Girls of Paper and Fire (2018)

Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It’s the highest honor they could hope for…and the most demeaning. This year, there’s a ninth. And instead of paper, she’s made of fire.

In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate still haunts her. Now, the guards are back and this time it’s Lei they’re after – the girl with the golden eyes whose rumored beauty has piqued the king’s interest.

Over weeks of training in the opulent but oppressive palace, Lei and eight other girls learns the skills and charm that befit a king’s consort. There, she does the unthinkable – she falls in love. Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens her world’s entire way of life. Lei, still the wide-eyed country girl at heart, must decide how far she’s willing to go for justice and revenge.

by  Natasha Ngan

Get it  now here

Natasha Nganis part young-adult author, part yoga-teacher, part habitual nap-taker. She grew up between Malaysia and the UK, speaking Chinese with her mother mainly as a way to talk about people without them understanding. She studied Geography at the University of Cambridge and later worked as a fashion blogger, social media consultant and freelance writer. Natasha recently moved to Paris, where she likes to imagine she drifts stylishly from brasserie to brasserie, notepad in one hand and wineglass in the other, but in reality she mostly spends her time lost on the metro and offending locals with her French.

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the letter in Persuasion is the pinnacle of its heart (and of declarations of love throughout all of literature) but it is surrounded by so many INCREDIBLE scenes and Moments and perfectly executed Angst and Feelings and Truth and Beauty?? Especially the last half of the story.

like- when they first see each other in Bath and he’s the one who’s frustrated, the Frederick/Anne run-in at the concert, their conversation about Louisa, his line about Benwick’s heartbreak (and so his own), “a man does not recover from such a devotion to such a woman, he ought not, he does not”, the scene where they talk about family parties and how much she hates them and she says “I am no card-player” and he smiles and says “you never were, were you”, and the beautiful, heart-felt conversation between Anne and Harville about the nature of men and women’s capacity for love and forgetting which is the spark of the letter ????? I. DIE.

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rest in fucking pieces, mr. darcy

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me, trying to explain why i love pride and prejudice (2005) so much: