“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

~ Jane Austen

what a beautiful feeling it is to finally get over someone and realize that it was your adoration of them that made them so special. without that, they’re quite basic. just proof that the magic lives in you, not them.

handsome, clever, and rich.

Emma Woodhouse poster design for fun! Based on the 2020 film.

you know a joke that never EVER gets old is when a character says smth like “I will NOT go to [place] and that is FINAL” and then it cuts to them in that place I eat that shit up every single time

I love it especially when it cuts to them like this:

call it unrealistic all you want but Coriolanus, Haymitch and Katniss never getting over the first person they fell in love with is so funny to me like they met exactly one (1) sassy, free-spirited, artistic diva and that was it for the rest of time

The fact that we don't have a Clueless-style Northanger Abbey adaptation where Catherine Morland is the most heartbreakingly earnest and unselfaware teenage fangirl with one of the longest self-insert fics on Ao3 is actually a tragedy

Elizabeth Bennet when she gets to the part of Mr Darcy's letter where he mentions that her family don't always behave themselves in public:

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Seaweed fabric design by William Kilburn, c. 1788
watercolor on paper