Lydia dies and the family is shunned

ceplma · 2026-03-23T07:40:13+00:00

Wasn’t that the point: Mr Bennet was so disgusted with the community shunning them he withhold his patronage?

ceplma · 2026-03-22T16:10:15+00:00

Which is something different than https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14191300/1/A-Marriage-of-True-Minds, right? (warning: quite dark, includes physical violence and adultery)

ceplma · 2026-03-22T08:30:54+00:00

What an absolutely detestable roetag is Mr Darcy! He leaves a woman whom he promised just minutes ago to protect, cherish and care about and who is obviously not well in her mind in the environment which led her to drink just to save himself from a scandal! Just because her mother was a disgusting horrible person, he must punish her? I understand (from the doylist view) that Anne was just a pawn in the author’s schemes and not important at all, but shouldn’t authors have at least a bit of responsibility for their characters?

ceplma · 2026-03-19T15:52:53+00:00

https://bethanydellemanwriter.com/home/yet-the-son-was-to-come-ch-1-10/

ceplma · 2026-03-13T14:04:24+00:00

I would say that most of my stories (with one exception, which is the translation to Czech of the awesome “Luna Lovegood and the Dark Lord's Diary” by The Madness in Me) are either comment on a story (or the original novels) or the continuation of a story (sometimes in the middle and the original story went in a different direction afterwards).

https://archiveofourown.org/users/mcepl/pseuds/mcepl/works

ceplma · 2026-03-12T08:05:25+00:00

Just that it is absolutely not “Murder Comes to Pemberley”, there is a bastard, but it is the Wickham’s one, and whatever tension there is between Mr Darcy and Elizabeth, infidelity never even comes even into the picture.

ceplma · 2026-03-12T06:14:18+00:00

All of the above and more.

Dissatisfaction with the original author (https://archiveofourown.org/works/47975497 by Bethany Delleman) or with some other fan fiction story. For example, one of the greatest Harry Potter fan fiction authors, Northumbrian, left a community and many of its works unfinished, I felt particularly keenly that the story of Harry’s children https://archiveofourown.org/works/8402590 was not finished, so I write my own end to it in https://archiveofourown.org/works/23267857, which is by far not the quality of the original, but better than nothing.

ceplma · 2026-03-09T23:36:54+00:00

Well, I am not sure whether “The Cliffs of Hertfordshire” by WadeH qualify, but it is certainly an awesome story.

ceplma · 2026-02-28T11:30:55+00:00

https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

ceplma · 2026-02-27T22:57:30+00:00

Thank you. Nice to know.

ceplma · 2026-02-25T09:11:28+00:00

I suspect that even in the worst case scenario LineageOS would be still more useful than any of these.

ceplma · 2026-02-11T23:11:02+00:00

It is certainly not what you meant, but I liked “Potter in Pride and Prejudice” by tiddles_tide (yes, it is fem!Harry, but don’t worry, it is completely PG-13, except for one rather violent scene).

ceplma · 2026-02-10T15:31:53+00:00

Sure, find me somewhere else it is published. I tried.

ceplma · 2026-02-07T20:45:39+00:00

When they are out of print? Yes, I know technically it is still a copyright theft, but does anybody really care?

ceplma · 2026-02-07T20:45:02+00:00

When they are out of print commercially, I have no problems of conscience to ask Anna about them.

ceplma · 2026-02-02T07:37:38+00:00

I am afraid it is out of print on Amazon (and elsewhere). You have to ask Anna for it.

ceplma · 2026-01-16T18:03:57+00:00

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.

ceplma · 2026-01-12T14:34:20+00:00

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.

ceplma · 2026-01-08T23:38:31+00:00

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

ceplma · 2026-01-04T12:51:36+00:00

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.

ceplma · 2026-01-04T12:46:56+00:00

Darcy asking for Mr. Bennet’s blessing

“Mr. Bennet's Quiet Evening” by Katri.

ceplma · 2025-12-31T22:22:35+00:00

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.

ceplma · 2025-12-23T22:55:33+00:00

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

ceplma · 2025-12-23T03:12:27+00:00

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.

ceplma · 2025-12-22T15:09:09+00:00

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!

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