This thing has been out of print for like, 26 years and some of us want to make chubby classic pikachu so uh… I figure it’s okay to share bc it’s kinda hard to get your hands on the remaining physical copies.
Bonus points: Aelith made some embroidery/applique files for it too
I’m not well-versed in modern retellings of “Pride and Prejudice” but now I’m curious if there’s a single one of them that has made Darcy into a single father.
A shocking fraction of “P&P inspired” stories / character dynamics that I’ve seen seem to 1) make Darcy into an openly counter-cultural figure (a “bad boy”???) instead of a stiff dad friend type, as though basically all of Austen’s male love interests aren’t Mr. Responsible (she really said, “RAKES ARE ALL PREDATORY ASSHOLES!!!”), 2) leave out both the responsibilities to young Georgiana and Pemberly as crucial elements basically completely. Darcy is attractive to Elizabeth in part because he’s a responsible family man who adores his younger sister, and who is capable of recognizing problems (including within himself and his relationships!) and repairing them with words and action. He makes her want to do the same!
The idea of removing family and professional responsibility from Darcy as a character boggles my mind. This man’s world revolves around his commitments to family and friends. Any P&P “retelling” that completely removes the element of Georgiana (in a queerer adaptation, Darcy could have a younger trans brother or something! You CAN be creative with Georgie here) is probably wildly missing the core themes of Austen’s novel. He’s a BIG BROTHER! He was made a FATHER FIGURE very young! It’s thematically coherent to adapt this man into a GIRL DAD!!!
Taking it out of the tags: my idea for a “Pride & Prejudice” modern retelling is to make Darcy a single father, because I think his care for Georgiana is a really crucial part of his character and how Lizzie views him.
Georgiana COULD still be a much younger sister, true, but I think directly making Darcy a former teen dad keeps the retelling fresher. AND a key part of my vision here is that Wickham in this AU is Darcy’s messy ex turned Georgiana’s deadbeat mom who is supposed to be no-contact.
Narrative tension can be both lost and created through an audience’s familiarity with a story. A lot of people already know or can guess that 1) Darcy is the endgame love interest, 2) Wickham is an asshole. I think it would be fun to therefore disguise Wickham as, idk, Lizzie’s fun new female friend Jojo who 1) has very funny things to say about that asshole Darcy, 2) has some apparently biting criticisms of the patriarchy, 3) turns out to be an asshole abusing “Believe women!” and “Women support women!” slogans to manipulate people.
Jojo here probably gets Lydia embroiled in a beauty product multi-level marketing scheme that’s also a religious cult that’s also somehow a cryptocurrency scam. Lizzie meets Georgiana and Georgie’s like, “Oh… you met my mom… 😐 Did you know she tried to steal my college fund and opened a bunch of credit cards in my name? 🙄 Has she stolen your wallet yet?”
i want to do a painting of a tiger taking a bath to put in a bathroom (bathroom-themed bathroom) and to this end i made a little maquette out of clay and i suspect this will scope creep into having both a painting and sculpture of a tiger or perhaps only a sculpture of a tiger. if i do both should they be displayed together or separately
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Tiger maquette by the way 🐅
Working on cutting out a large piece of wood to do the painting on, which is a constraint that will either be really fun or really annoying. Maybe both
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Wood primed and underpainted and sketch transferred mostly by cutting it out in different chunks and tracing around them. Stripes to be determined. Nobody let me work on this again for at least two weeks
hey you know what i don’t say this often enough or loudly enough so: i fucking LOVE my receding hairline. like okay so on the one hand early balding runs in my family so i grew up around bald&balding men which kinda erased any insecurity i had around the idea. they’re just Guys being Dudes y'know. that’s just what People look like. but also on the other hand i have come to conclude that i genuinely don’t enjoy having hair. it’s a waste of my time. i resent every single minute i’ve spent trying to deal with it. the first time i buzzed my head it was a fucking revelation, okay, like holy shit i could’ve been doing this my whole life??? i’ve wasted so much of my life on having head-hair when this whole time it was completely fucking optional??? my hairline recede faster challenge. male-pattern baldness my beloved.
something funny to me fandomwise is seeing a wildly popular ship EVERYWHERE before you’re in the fandom & fully expecting to ship it yourself but when you finally watch it’s like………them? 🤨
hi guys! discord is doing a survey on how people would like ai to be integrated into discord. take it and say fuck no to every question. when you get to “in general, how do you feel about discord inegrating ai features?”, respond that you would actively get everyone you know off of discord and wouldn’t pay for nitro or other shop items if they added ai features.
14th January 2026
Reblogged From tossawary
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#pride and prejudice#fic rec#not really but damn i'd kill for a modern retelling with these vibes#no really. tell me who i have to murder and i'll do it. i'm SO SICK OF p&p retellings which neglect the emotional commentary of the og work#jane austen said “rakes are shitass losers” and SHE WAS RIGHT.#jane austen please transport to the 21st c. and write more novels we need your wisdom right now#jane austen
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