beat with STICKS

[schmerica]

God, Edmund Bertram/Fanny Price is seriously one of the grossest canon het couples ever. Ew ew ew ew EW. I sort of want to beat them away from me with sticks. Seriously, in my head, I'm forced to have this whole big AU for the ending of the book going on, where Mrs. Rushworth disgraces herself with someone else, and it ends with Fanny with Henry Crawford and Edmund with Mary Crawford, just to make the book bearable.

In conclusion, Mansfield Park is really not my favorite Austen.

Comments

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

Or Fanny with Mary Crawford. Or maybe that's just in the movie...it's been a while since I read the book.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I have never seen the movie! I've heard it's way different than the book, and Fanny actually has a personality in it.

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

Fanny gets caught in the rain and Mary undresses her.

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

Mostly the movie tends to annoy me because they do that thing where they conflate Fanny with Jane Austen. But the Mary/Fanny kind of makes up for it.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*adds to netflix queue*

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

And that other thing at the end. That was great.

[j-bluestocking.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I'm not even a f/f fan, but this is brilliance. Now that would be a book and a half...

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

Mary/Fanny is my Austen OTP. Or something. I think I had pages and pages devoted to it in an old notebook somewhere. The letters.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, Mary could do SO MUCH BETTER.

Most of Austen's work tends to be nicely femslashy, really; I guess it's a natural consequence of acknowledging female relationships as important.

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

Dude, Mary could do SO MUCH BETTER.

But does she want to?

Really, Mansfield Park is all obsession and really dry wit. It's such fun to play with.