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)

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!

Jane Austen characters × Barbie (2023) quotes. A thread. 🧵 (Sublime!)

Marianne Dashwood: "Do you guys ever think about dying?" Charles Bingley: "I'm trained to stand confidently here."

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. 🧵

https://twitter.com/sewistwrites/status/1806299583032463607

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!"

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."

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."

A thread of Mother's Day wishes for the Janeite in your life. 🧵

Happy Mother's Day! I hope your children will have compassion on your poor nerves. Happy Mother's Day! May your day be filled with those little delicate compliments which are always so agreeable to ladies.

Comparing some of the memorable costumes in Gillian Armstrong's 1994 "Little Women" with originals from the 1860s. A thread. 🧵

Some disclaimers: I'm not a professional nor an expert seamstress, just an amateur fashion historian/sewist who loves to read!

Also, my goal here isn't to nitpick the film; I'm aware that costume design isn't JUST about historical accuracy. It's just interesting to compare!

Get in losers, we're gonna bust some corset myths. A🧵

Myth 1: not necessarily in so many words but visual! In the gif below we see a woman self-cinching a corset with, apparently, no chemise underneath (to protect the corset from sweat and to protect the skin from chafing)...

https://twitter.com/sewistwrites/status/1782379923866280221

Or if she does have a chemise, it's not high enough to protect her/the edge of the corset. This is a common mistake in "historical" fiction films and artwork. Corsets were not worn next to bare skin!

The next one is a continuation of What's Wrong With That Gif.

How Jane Austen Characters Would React to a Solar Eclipse (A Historical Impossibility*). A thread. 🧵

Marianne Dashwood would be quoting "Arise, fair sun, & kill the envious moon / Who is already sick & pale with grief" until every body present was sick & pale with hearing it Mr. Darcy would not be in humor to give consequence to any sun so slighted by the moon, thank you.

Jane Austen characters × The Princess Bride quotes: an inconceivable Monday Mashup. A thread. 🧵

Elizabeth Bennet to Lady Catherine: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Mr. Palmer to Mrs. Palmer: "Am I going mad or did the word 'think' escape your lips?"

Jane Austen characters × Napoleon Dynamite quotes. A tater-tot-worthy thread. 🧵

Mr. Bingley: "Jane is *the* best thing that has ever happened to me. I'm 100% positive she's my soul mate. Don't worry Fitzwilliam, I'm sure there's a babe out there for you too. Peace out." Mr. Woodhouse to Mrs. Bates: "I see you're drinking 1%. Is that 'cause you think you're fat? 'Cause you're not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to."

1 like = 1 Jane-Austen-related opinion that no one asked for. Well, technically you asked for it. By clicking the like button 1. Fanny Price is not a prig; she's shy, awkward, and deeply principled to the point of scrupulosity.

Happy Presidents' Day! In honor of the holiday I have chosen a series of Bluey quotes to mash up with various US presidents. This is not serious commentary on any executive. Don't get weird in the comments and make me bring out the cone of shame.

Okay! Here we go. A thread. 🧵 John F. Kennedy to Alan Shepard: "You're a space invader!"

A thread of my favorite Jane Austen film adaptations and why I prefer each one. 🧵

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - 1995, hands down. No hate to 2005 but that one simply does not do it for me. I need detail. I need book-accuracy. I need elegance and beauty. I could do without the lake. SENSE & SENSIBILITY - my favorite Austen novel! The 1995 movie (script, cast, costumes, vibes) and 2008 miniseries (dedication to all the novel's subplots) are tied in my mind, with the tiniest of edges to 1995.

Jane Austen* Recaps 2023 Twitter Drama

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The people of the Internet had long been settled at Twitter. But it is a truth universally acknowledged that a thrice-divorced man with a large fortune must be in want of a platform to bedevil.

*as her spirit revealed to me in a dream Thus it was that after the purchase of the web site for an outlandish sum, Mr. Musk demanded that all and sundry refer to the web site henceforth as "X." As the general population of Twitter are a wild, Beastly folk, no attention whatever was paid to this direction.

Jane Austen characters, but as classic Christmas movie quotes. A thread. 🧵

Elizabeth Bennet to Mr. Darcy: "Your brain is full of spiders, you have garlic in your soul. I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole." Mr. Knightley to Emma: "Why don't I kiss you instead of talking you to death?"

Monday Mashup time! There are just too many good quotes from this show to stop at Austen characters only, SO... Jane Eyre characters meet The Office. A thread.🧵

Edward Rochester: "Any man who says he totally understands women is a fool. Because they are un-understandable." Blanche Ingram: "I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious."

3yo: I want to have a real turkey on Fanksgiving

Me: Yes, Grandma will have real turkey when we go to her house.

3yo: And I will pet him! And him will say "gobble gobble."

😬 Yes, I told it to him straight: the turkey is dead, it is cooked now, and the only gobbling will be done by us. His response: "and I will eat it all up, and it will be dish-wish-ous!"

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Today's Monday Mashup deviates slightly from our regularly scheduled programming, & considers how the characters of the Anne of Green Gables Cinematic Universe (the films by Kevin Sullivan, that is) would have used the internet, had it been available to 1890s PEI.

A Thread. 🧵 Anne Shirley herself, of course, would be on Tumblr, as it encompasses fanfic, pictures of things that are divinely beautiful, jokes that are dazzlingly clever, and opinions that will make her feel angelically good by comparison.

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."