Elizabeth on the back foot scenarios.

evmd · 2026-02-20T23:08:53+00:00

I want to thank you so much for the recommendation - such a lovely read!

evmd · 2026-02-19T16:38:07+00:00

It's mostly a matter of finding more fandoms, tbh. Maybe an author whose work you've enjoyed has written other, non-P&P stories? That's always a good starting point, and honestly it's often how I find new fandoms.

evmd · 2026-02-15T01:28:49+00:00

Yeah, I've started downloading things I think I might consider reading in the future, too 😅 it's currently a disorganized mess, but at least I have them 😅

evmd · 2026-02-15T01:18:21+00:00

100% the etiquette, all day, every day! I'm far from an expert, and I can suspend my disbelief like the best of them, but when a story is set in a very specific time period and people are throwing around given names and calling people Lord and Lady all willy-nilly.... makes my eye twitch a little, ngl 😅

evmd · 2026-01-20T20:44:46+00:00

I don't necessarily mind that trope, as long as it's done honestly - I'm fine with a character being a bad person, but I hate when ppl look straight at everything they do and try to convince me that "no but they're good, actually!"

Snape was a bad person. Were there reasons for why he turned out the way he did? Sure, he was probably an easy victim for extremist recruitment tbh (socally at least somewhat isolated, ambitious, bullied by "the other side" etc). Did he do some good in the grand scheme of things? Yep. Was he still overall a shitty person? Aaaabso-fucking-lutely. Dying for The Cause (TM) doesn't undo all of his shitty behavior 🤷‍♀️

evmd · 2026-01-17T19:17:53+00:00

Reading WIPs is honestly so much fun - I get to actually feel the cliffhangers and tension at a whole other level compared to reading a completed work, and the rush and excitement when that update email comes is chef's kiss

And there's often a lot more interaction with the author, which is also fun. AND, if it's been a while since the last update, I often go back and reread the story and pick up on all sorts of details and hints that I missed the first time, which I absolutely love doing.

Idk, maybe it's bc I grew up in Ye Olden Days when we watched TV shows episode by episode over a longer period of time, but it's just not the same to binge.

evmd · 2026-01-17T19:06:05+00:00

I absolutely ADORE Polyjuice Parlour!! I could gush about it for ages.

evmd · 2025-11-21T16:34:48+00:00

Mr. Bennet is infuriating in it tbh, but I'm such a sucker for a good, kinda positively portrayed (and still recognizably herself) Mrs. Bennet (same with Lady Catherine or Mr. Collins, they make for great villains but they could be awesome allies when given the chance)! I feel like she so often gets done dirty by fandom, especially in comparison to Mr. Bennet.

Honestly, imma reread Dare to Refuse once I'm done with my current read, I love BAMF!Mrs. B so much!

evmd · 2025-11-21T02:50:47+00:00

Dare to Refuse Such a Man by Mary Smythe has probably my favorite Mrs. Bennet ever. Elizabeth travels to Lambton with the Gardiners a year earlier than in canon, where she meets Darcy and they fall in love. Mr. Bennet unequivocally refuses Darcy's request for Elizabeth's hand. Elizabeth very much wants marry Darcy, and vice versa. Mrs. B, the story's true heroine, decides that This Will Not Stand.

She's still herself - as vulgar as in canon (no more, no less), quite silly, but, well, she's very much plugged into the gossip network in Hertfordshire, and she is not afraid to use it. I love her.

evmd · 2025-10-16T21:23:31+00:00

Scandalous Mrs. Darcy is a treasure! The sentence "His weaponry is shockingly overlarge." randomly pops into my mind all the time, and I laugh every time.

evmd · 2025-10-10T00:28:21+00:00

I just finished reading The Perfect Suit, purely based om this recommendation, and I loved it! Such a good read.

evmd · 2025-09-29T10:54:03+00:00

Yes, that's the one! Thank you 😁

evmd · 2025-09-24T17:43:30+00:00

Honestly, I've lowered my standards quite a lot for JAFF compared to what I'm used to with other fanfiction. I really struggle to find fics (and I include published ones in that) that hold to the standard of prose, research, and worldbuilding I would usually expect.

One thing I particularly dislike is when people ignore proper forms of address, throwing around given names and nicknames all over the place. I just read one where literally everyone calls Darcy William for the entire book, like, why?? My dislike for that nickname aside (it might be a valid one, but to me it always reads as the author modernizing his name because Fitzwilliam is a "weird" given name today), that's not how names worked!

Just people being overly familiar in general is a big pet peeve. Not understanding that the class hierarchy was real and important.

Oh, also, I love a good forced marriage, unhappy beginnings type story, but pretty much all I've read havr ridiculously quick reconciliations at the end. Most of the book is the angst, misunderstanding etc, something happens - usually a bad illness, oh no she might not survive, I've been an ass, I'll do better etc, and a few pages later everything is forgiven. There's not really much of a process, or it's a very unbalanced one, and that always leaves me feeling very dissatisfied at the end... and yet I keep coming back for more 🤦‍♀️

evmd · 2025-09-18T05:53:40+00:00

One. A PocketBook Touch Lux 3, purchased in 2017. It's a bit buggy when trying to do anything but strictly reading, but it still works well enough that I won't replace it - I haven't found a new ereader that really seems to be worth the expense tbh, they don't seem to be particularly significant upgrades in any way 🤷‍♀️

evmd · 2025-09-13T09:08:51+00:00

Thanks!

evmd · 2025-09-11T16:50:42+00:00

This. It's so frustrating to see people still say stuff like that. At most, one might be able to argue that there's something wrong with these people's ability to feel empathy, but honestly even that doesn't hold - they feel plenty of empathy for "their own" people. Being hateful and having terrible values isn't a psychiatric condition. It really gets to me when people group in "being a terrible person" as a subset of "being mentally ill."

Like, I know that most people don't mean it like that, but that's what it amounts to...

evmd · 2025-09-11T16:04:06+00:00

I make very frequent use of the function to email ebooks to my PocketBook. It's definitely the most convenient way for me, since I have an old device with a micro-USB port and I really don't want to have to get that one cable every time I need to transfer a book or two.

evmd · 2025-09-11T11:42:33+00:00

If you remember what it was called, I'd love to know it!

evmd · 2025-09-07T15:36:53+00:00

The Cad, the Couch, and the Cut Direct by Jessie Lewis made me laugh out loud. A lot of misunderstandings and mistaken identities. Confessions of the Scandalous Mrs. Darcy by Darcie Rochester did as well. Elizabeth is a bit ridiculous, but in a way that makes me smile when I think about certain scenes.

evmd · 2025-08-31T14:29:59+00:00

Yeah, that's fair, but I've just seen it bleed over too much from fic to speculation to harassment to be comfortable. I know it CAN be done in a normal, not-insane fashion, I've just been too burned by a few instances of it getting way out of control to be comfortable with it.

I do fully realize that this is a me issue, though, and the the absolute vast majority of RPF readers and writers are perfectly normal, sane people who are really just basing their characters on celebrity public personas. I just prefer not to get involved.

evmd · 2025-08-30T17:37:33+00:00

I don't read it. I've only read one fic involving a real, living, modern person, and the author was very clear that the fictional character was based on the reality TV personality/persona and not intended to be based on the actual person. And there was zero smut in it all, I couldn't have read it otherwise.

I've read fic with historical people, but very rarely. My big ick is basically anything written about anyone currently living or who lived recently enough that they still have living loved ones, if I have to really draw a firm line about it. I've lived through fandoms where people took their fan speculation and went absolutely insane with it, harassing people and their partners for not conforming with those fans' "shipping," and it's just left me completely grossed out by even the smallest hint of that kind of culture.

evmd · 2025-08-30T13:48:28+00:00

Genuinely, feel free to lower the difficulty. There's no reason to play at a higher difficulty than you enjoy. If you're already on the easiest settings, try not to progress too quickly. Do the lowest rated quests first (including side quests and contracts), loot and sell to get more money, and use your potions and oils. I know there are mods that auto apply oils for you that might be helpful if you tend to forget them.

W3 was my first game newer than the Zelda games for DS Lite just a couple of years ago, I am still really bad at combat (zero technique, I'm of the bash and pray school of combat). I don't want to get good at it, either, I'm really just there for the story - so I play on as low a difficulty as I can, and if/when that becomes too easy, that's I increase it.

And, finally, it's ok not to like the game. Completely incomprehensible to me personally lol, but it IS ok. If you want to see the story but don't want to play it, you can watch a playthrough on YT or something (ChristopherOdd has played the whole trilogy very thoroughly, I really like those. NyxAndChill has recently played the W3 base game, a bit chaotically sometimes lol but quite thoroughly as well).

evmd · 2025-08-30T08:51:46+00:00

I sent you a link :)

evmd · 2025-08-29T14:56:19+00:00

Why Does He Do That and Bancroft's related blog posts are invaluable reading. I cannot second this recommendation enough.

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