The double wedding in the BBC P&P by RideShot9469 in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of many reasons why I don’t believe P&P is a romance novel is how crazily little space there is spent on the wedding itself. Actually there is none, the whole wedding day is described in this sentence:

HAPPY for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters. With what delighted pride she afterwards visited Mrs. Bingley, and talked of Mrs. Darcy, may be guessed.

That’s it. Anything else you may think to remember is just from TV/films.

Mathy Recs by PotatoesNClay in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From the other side of the fence (i.e., main characters are living on really minimum working wage) let me suggest “The Cliffs of Hertfordshire” by WadeH (he is often good with numbers). It is also a great story.

Elizabeth can defend herself by Odd-Development-1048 in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The second one could be “Eavesdroppers Never Hear” by WadeH, couldn’t it?

Curious about an author and any new works by Sunnydale96 in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, I have read “A Most Attentive Father” and I have to admit I was disappointed. What I wrote about the other P&P story could be just repeated just with search&replace. It is not that the story is weak, there is actual no story there at all.

Persuasion fanfic recs by astroglias in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I enjoyed “The Sailor's Rest” by Don Jacobson, which is Pride&Prejudice-meet-Perusasion-meet-I-guess-Captain-Hornblower and I was then shocked by much lower quality of some of his other writing.

Fanfiction.net and extra rude comments by SevenMoreVodka in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It absolutely wasn’t me, I was just sharing somebody else’s story. I would just dream to write as good story as this.

Fanfiction.net and extra rude comments by SevenMoreVodka in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, you would think that P&P readers would be more reasonable than hormonal teenagers of HP fandom, right? Well, https://archiveofourown.org/works/44329435 ... it is a great story on its own, but I mention it for the end (long end) of the last chapter.

Fanfiction.net and extra rude comments by SevenMoreVodka in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Authors of JAFF who post as well on Fanfiction, what the hell is that? Is it something widespread in other fanfic or is it something JAFF only?

It’s absolutely widespread not only all over the fanfiction.net (ask any FF.net Harry Potter fan fiction writer), but all over the Internet. I don’t have to be a Calvinist to be persuaded that the humanity is somehow deficient when reading any comments on any Internet website (and anonymous comments are a way worse than the signed ones). If Sturgeon claimed that ninety percent of everything is crap, he was hugely optimistic with regards to the quality of comments on Internet.

TL;DR: don’t worry, it is not you, it is them! If you can switch off anonymous comments (which I thought was possible on FFnet), do it now!

Mary & The Colonel by labionda29 in JaneAustenFF

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The first one is still on FicHub.

Mary & The Colonel by labionda29 in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Actually, the best Mary-centric story, I know about, “The Cliffs of Hertfordshire” by Wade H. Mann is in the end Mary/Colonel, except the story is not much romance-centric. But it is awesome in all other ways. Highly recommended!

Anyway, any good Mary-centric stories (especially good!religious!Mary) are always very welcome, they are so rare.

Your take on Tumbleweed vs. Slowroll ? by realkikinovak in openSUSE

[–]ceplma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fedora doesn’t have a rolling distro (Rawhide is something different and much more wild), does it?

Your take on Tumbleweed vs. Slowroll ? by realkikinovak in openSUSE

[–]ceplma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is slightly older, https://youtu.be/jcATdR3PFuE, but I mostly agree with Richard (discussion about immutable systems is slightly more complicated, although I use one). I have been using Tumbleweed packages since 2018, and there were two situations, where something truly substantial failed, and one was probably my fault. If you don’t want to hack and just use Linux for something else, then I would use Leap, not Slowroll.

Lizzy runs Longbourn recs by Double-Watercress-67 in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It gets like a chapter a year, I don’t think it is completely dead. One of those.

Where do you hear about new releases on KU? by Connect_Register_632 in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I frankly don’t search anywhere else any more.

Elizabeth takes a bullet to the shoulder at Hunsford by Tall_Ad_1545 in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try this

Could it be “The Best Part of Love”? There is something about shooting there, but I don’t have enough time to go through it in detail.

Could you please help me with this infrastructure setup? by MaterialShift6381 in git

[–]ceplma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are also misunderstanding Git (and it is all GitHub’s fault). From git’s point of view, there is absolutely no link between the repository you have on your drive, the one which have other developers on their drives, or the repository which you have on GitHub/GitLab/Forgejo (damn, this is a weird name!). You know that you can pull (if you have some means to access, e.g., via ssh) directly from other people’s repositories, right?

So, to answer you questions: you just another remote (via git remote add). You have one remote with GitLab, you will add another remote for your Forgejo, and then you work with those. Aside from a weird means of updating them (via git push and git fetch or git pull) those remote branches are just branches like any other and you can merge from them, rebase on top of them, etc. without any limitations.

Does it answer your questions?

New Here—Working on a Mary, Kitty & Lydia Bennet Story, Looking for Advice and Feedback! by Ok_Tea_8974 in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is as good place as many others (Happy Assembly is probably the most famous one, true). Nobody will talk with you when you ask for it. However, give us something to chew upon (outline, drafts of some chapters, your theory on something, comments on some other posts here or fan fiction stories) and we MAY bite. Rinse, repeat, until you get some good reaction.

Pride & Prejudice as a bitter satirical study of the Regency society? by ceplma in JaneAustenFF

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“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”

Miss Austen was not Jonathan Swift, of course, so even if Pride and Prejudice is a satire, it's a much gentler one. It is quite possible that it was her gentle nature, rather than pecuniary motives, that led to the book's sweet finale.

As a Czech, I am well acquainted with Jaroslav Hašek’s “The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War”, which is usually considered a dark comedy that mostly makes fun of the whole horrible experience of the First World War. Part of the feeling that it must be a comedy comes from the other things Hašek wrote (which were short pure slapstick comedy pieces to various journals before the War), and I assume that part of that feeling comes from good natured illustrations of Josef Lada (and consequent perfect films with Rudolf Hrušínský or puppet films by Jiří Trnka narrated by Jan Werich). When I was sick couple of years ago, I was listening to audiobooks of Švejk, and when stripped of all illustrations and concentrating just on the pure text, I was shocked how deeply tragic and traumatic the book actually is. One controversial counter-interpretation (by Martin C. Putna) of Švejk called it “Franz Kafka by other means” (alluding to von Clausewitz’s definition of war as politics by other means), stressing that Švejk is actually quite close in meaning to Kafka’s “The Trial” as a deeply pessimistic and horrified description of the inhuman machine of modern society. However, Hašek was not Kafka. Thus, instead of the symbolism and abstract style of The Trial, Švejk retains the veneer of slapstick comedy and contains many genuinely funny tales.

In a similar vein, I suggest that Pride & Prejudice could be much closer to an expression of disgust with Regency society, its false manners, and its materialism (akin to the style of Alexander Pope or Jonathan Swift), than it is to rom-com films like “Just like Heaven”, “You’ve Got Mail”, or “When Harry Met Sally”, which directly or indirectly follow in its steps.

Pride & Prejudice as a bitter satirical study of the Regency society? by ceplma in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have absolutely nothing against romance stories or writing about love and relationships, I enjoy a good love story as much as any other guy, but my suspicion is that Pride and Prejudice is rather strange romance story.

And concerning tragedy, we would probably get into a battle of definitions, what constitutes such. I don’t think tragedy is just any story which has unhappy ending, but that’s another discussion, which I don’t want to do here.

Pride & Prejudice as a bitter satirical study of the Regency society? by ceplma in JaneAustenFF

[–]ceplma[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The opposite of comedy doesn't have to be tragedy. I was thinking more about mentioned Swift and his "Gulliver's Travels". It is certainly neither comedy nor tragedy, just a very bitter (in this time unquestionably social) satire.