I'm a day late for the Monday Mashup, but I am HERE today with the human form of the 💯 emoji: Jane Austen characters × Brooklyn 99 quotes.
A thread. 🧵
John Willoughby: "You should make me your campaign manager. I was born for politics. I have great hair and I love lying."
Harriet Smith (reading improving literature): "Your theory is wrong. The Greeks did not climb out of the Trojan horse's butt."
Lydia Bennet: "How was I supposed to know there'd be consequences for my actions?"
Marianne Dashwood (nearly dead from a fever): "The doctor said all my bleeding was internal. That's where the blood's supposed to be."
Mr. Darcy: "A place where everybody knows your name is hell. You’re describing hell."
Captain Wentworth: "You can hate people and still think they're hot."
Robert Martin: "All right. I'm gonna go cry."
Mr. Bennet: "Don't get comfy. This isn't an invitation to keep talking."
Mrs. Elton: "Do you know how many basic bitches would kill to have my personality?"
Caroline Bingley: “You think you can just bully people, but you can’t. It’s not OK. I’m the bully around here. Ask anyone.”
Fanny Dashwood: "The only reason I didn’t tell you is I don’t value you as people, so why be honest?”
Jane Fairfax: "I may be a liar, but I've got great teeth and no one can take that from me."
John Knightley: "It has been a true pleasure to watch your distracting childish rivalry evolve into a distracting childish courtship and now into what I’m sure will be a distracting childish marriage. I’m proud of you. And I love you both."
Anne Elliot: "Um, did something awkward happen? I can probably relate.”
Mary Bennet: "Yeah, but that was before I knew I could get up on this high horse. Love the view up here. Clip clop. Clip clop. Clip clop."
Mr. Knightley: "Do you know what it means to clap back? Because 👏 I 👏 do!" 👏
Sir William Lucas: "Why is no one having a good time? I specifically requested it."
Emma Woodhouse: "I do not see you as a father figure. If anything I see you as a bother figure, because you're always bothering.”
Elinor Dashwood: "VINDICATION!"
(applicable in several contexts lol)
Elizabeth Bennet: "Lady Catherine, good to see you. But if you’re here, who’s guarding Hades?”
Fanny Price: "That's right, I am a NARC. A Nationally Accredited and Registered Chaperone."
Charlotte Lucas Collins: "This is horrible. We are not ready for this. This is a level one responsibility. I am a level two at best, and you are not even a level."
Mrs. Jennings: "I've just discovered a new drug too. It's called your relationship, and I'm high on it."
Louisa Musgrove: "I was legally dead for two full minutes. And I met God."
George Wickham: "I’m not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.”
Mr. Woodhouse: "Why are you giving candy to a baby in the first place? Don't give a baby candy! They can't brush their teeth!"
Jane Bennet: "So if it's okay... I'd like to be upset with you."
Miss Bates: "COWABUNGA, MOTHER!"
Lady Bertram: "I've only had Pug for a day and a half, but if anything happened to him, I would k1ll everyone in the room and then myself."
Mary Musgrove: "I am prepared to light Charles on fire in protest."
And this doesn't fit the template I've been using for these, but who cares, it's my party and I'll mess it up if I want to.
In conclusion, Mary Bennet at the pianoforte:
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You've heard me blather on about quotes taken out of context; now let's talk about misattributed quotes! Because these are super annoying, rampant on the internet, and a symptom of unchecked misinformation. 😬
A thread (feat. Jane Austen, but of course), with sources. 🧵
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love you.”
Yes, it’s from the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, but it was crafted by screenwriter Deborah Moggach and doesn’t appear anywhere in the original novel. (Second screenshot is from a search of the e-text)
"Well-behaved women seldom make history" is NOT by Eleanor Roosevelt; it's from a 1976 paper by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a Harvard professor who later wrote a book on the topic. Kay Mills also published her own variant in a book subtitle in 1995, changing "seldom" to "rarely."
Look I know everyone has a hot take about the ballerina farm article but I simply must insist: if you say you homeschool, but you hire someone to teach your children and the parents aren't actually doing it, then you cannot call yourself a homeschooler. You employ a governess.
To be clear since there are a lot of replies: I don't really have a problem with them saying their kids are homeschooled... I *do* have a problem with them saying *they,* as the parents, "homeschool." Or calling oneself a homeschool mom, etc. They aren't doing the work!
"As a homeschooling mom who does it all, and you can too if you comment GRIFT and get a discount code to buy my course/planner/essential oil/toxic sludge drink--" girl shut all the way up
Tonight I shall let my keyboard, if not my pen, dwell upon guilt and misery; let the Austentatious live-tweet of the presidential debate commence. This shall be a Thread. 🧵
Mr. Colleen @Hubby2SewWrites
has just informed me, in a peculiar vernacular I can only imagine must be American, "Well, paint me orange and call me tan. Looks like Trump is actually gonna show up!"
@Hubby2SewWrites I appreciate the generosity of the moderators in informing us which gentle(?)man will stand at each side of the stage. Such obvious information must certainly be necessary for anyone dull enough to still consider themselves undecided at this juncture.
Jane Austen characters × "10 Things I Hate About You" quotes. An irreverent mashup thread. 🧵
Mr. Darcy: "Who needs affection when I have blind hatred?"
Mr. Woodhouse: "All right, wait a minute. No cake, no drinking, no drugs, no kissing, no tattoos, no piercings, *no* ritual animal slaughters of any kind."
Anne Elliot (but not out loud): "I guess in this society, being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time."
Jane Austen characters × Arrested Development quotes. A Monday Mashup thread. 🧵
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: "It's one governess, Miss Bennet. What could it cost? $10?"
Emma Woodhouse: "I don’t understand the question and I won’t respond to it."
Elinor Dashwood, watching her mother and Marianne and Margaret going into various melodramatics: "Okay, is there a carbon monoxide leak in this house?"