Tag: Jane Austen
imagine the drama if characters from classical literature engaged in tumblr antics
CALLOUT POST for Fitzwilliam Darcy
- did not consider me handsome enough to dance with
- has been the means of ruining, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister
reduced George Wickham to his present state of comparative poverty (I don’t have receipts on this but trust me)
- is full of arrogance, conceit, and selfish disdain of the feelings of others; is ungentlemanlike in general
EDIT: I HAVE RESCINDED ALL CALLOUTS OF MR. DARCY He is now my husband (long story)
magical modern austen: emma
emma woodhouse (jameela jamil) is young, talented, and beautiful. she’s a gifted love witch- she can sense love in the air like no one else. of course, emma has trouble distinguishing between where the magic really is and where she thinks it should be.
family friend george knightley (john cho) is older, wiser, and more sarcastic than emma. (he owns magical farmland that grows the most delicious fruit, emma must admit.) he warns against her using her gifts to set people up, but she thinks he’s just being normal stodgy george. of course, she could be misreading exactly what her magic is telling her about him… // 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12
concept: an austen-inspired tabletop rpg where there are five classes
- single man in possession of a large fortune who is in want of a wife
- young woman with low connections who must marry so that she can secure her future
- cad whose main goal is to convince someone to elope with him
- wealthy, scheming woman whose goal is to ruin the happiness of the aforementioned young woman
- tiresome & vulgar elderly busybody (can be either a man or a woman)
I’m gonna split this out a little farther, because I feel like we’re blurring the lines between classes and stats. First you should pick your Austen class:
- Bachelor/Bachelorette
- Cad / Floozy
- Husband/Wife
- Matriarch/Patriarch
- Busybody
Then you roll for your stats across the 6 basic Abilities:
- Money
- Intelligence
- Connections
- Manners
- Looks
- Snark
10/10 would kickstart
I’ve written this up as a quick-play version! You need a d6, a d20 and 3+ friends who are as into Jane Austen as you are, or at least willing to have a go.
Working title, Sense & Snark-ability.
I’ll make it up into a proper printable with illustrations if I get a chance next week, but in the meantime if anyone wants to playtest it I’d love to know how it goes!
Someone play this with me omfg
I’d be up for running this in January if anyone wants in?
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”
benjamin and gerrold’s
ok here’s a hot take: modern adaptations of pride and prejudice should replace Mrs Bennet’s obsession w/ marrying her daughters off with a determination to see them all be lawyers/doctors/engineers in their own right, and her frustration with Lizzie for refusing Mr Collins should be because she turned down the opportunity to have a lucrative and successful career in order to do what she wants, which is, like, journalism or something
Like it doesn’t help the plot in the same way but within context Mrs B’s motivations can be boiled down to “make sure all my daughters are taken care of and going to be comfortable in their lives” which, back in the day, meant marrying well, but nowadays would look more like a full ride to an Ivy League, and rather than being disinterested in their romantic endeavors Mr Bennet should be completely blase about Lydia and Kitty giving each other stick-n-poke tattoos and failing Spanish and getting arrested. Elizabeth tries and fails to talk him out of letting Lydia go to “leadership camp,” a lie she told her mother to cover up the fact that she’s definitely tagging along with some college kids to Mexico for spring break. Jane is in med school and Mrs B prays every night that she comes to her senses and decides to be a neurosurgeon instead of doing doctors without borders. Lizzie tells her mother she’s majoring in women’s studies over text message and ignores 16 furious voicemails in response, partially cause she doesn’t want to hear it and partially because she’s arguing with Darcy, whose first name she refuses to know because he’s too rich to deserve one, in her opinion. So, yeah, soccer mom Mrs Bennet.
@shakespesre EM
Rebellions are built on hope 