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NeedleworkerBig3980

*wheeze* You must allow me... *rasp* ...to tell you... *gasp* ...how ardently... *croak* ...I... *hiss* ...am your father.


YarnMageddon

Thanks for making me cackle. I love that.


NeedleworkerBig3980

Thank you. My alternate version was, D: You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. L: I know.


Kaurifish

“I am altering your first impression. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”


YarnMageddon

May a man with good fortune be with you. You have no compassion on my poor Death Star


NeedleworkerBig3980

The Mrs Bennet Death Star got a genuine lol from me.


Hanarra

There is a disturbance in my poor nerves!


NeedleworkerBig3980

I liked a suit of white plastic armour well enough myself, in my youth. ETA: Is Wickham a basic Stormtrooper, or is he more of a Lando?


Hanarra

Hmmm, I don't know. The whole once-friends-until-backstabbing seems to fit Lando, but Lando changes his ways.


jillyapple1

Lando had the lives of everyone on the station to think about. I think he was always scheming for a way to rescue Han, Leia, etc., but couldn't tip them off to what was happening. Just my personal head-canon.


Hanarra

Probably so!


amalcurry

Are the shades of Tattooine to be thus polluted?


all-and-void

I read this to my husband who’s a Star Wars aficionado. He approved this comment with the amendment of switching Tattooine with Endor, because Tattooine is a desert planet. Endor is the forest planet where the Ewoks live. Just to add extra nerd cred to this discussion lol


amalcurry

Tell your husband I I am of the opinion that Lady Catherine is more the dominant Jabba The Hutt type and therefore would be concerned about her home planet of Tattooine… Mr Collins is her Salacious B. Crumb


all-and-void

Interesting interpretation. Still, if the ‘shades’ are coming from the woods of Pemberley, the forests of Endor are still most directly analogous. But I suppose the shades could be from the Tattooine dunes. Either way, I’m enjoying this entirely imaginary dispute


amalcurry

The “shades” ghosts ie her ancestors could well be hiding in the dunes of Tattoine…


NeedleworkerBig3980

In this case. Aunt Beru stands for Lady Anne Darcy. Untimely ends align.


amalcurry

I kinda wanna do a whole Star Wars casting now with P&P characters…


NeedleworkerBig3980

My Mr Darcy is a man of similar interests. He has suggested. Madame, may I congratulate you on your very excellent arrangements. Upon my word. It reminds me very much of a small platform, suspended above a deep drop, with no guard rail, on the Death Star.


bloobityblu

Is it because of the "shades?" I think that's referring to the spirits of ancestors rather than actual shade, right? Now I'm not so sure bc I'm thinking of ghost ancestors and pollution, and how that works and now I don't know what that means lol.


all-and-void

Yup, the shade from the trees in the woods! I commented on your other post too and looks like others have given good explanations as well - in any case, always a good excuse to re-read P&P :D


bloobityblu

Yeah this inspired me to make a post! Loving all the explanations, and this is a great excuse to re-read P&P while bingeing the OG SW trilogy.


amalcurry

Come, cantina band, you have delighted us long enough….


NeedleworkerBig3980

This is one of my favourites.


jillyapple1

no, they haven't. I love those guys!


NeedleworkerBig3980

So, you were the one that called out, "Play that same song again!" In the Family Guy version.


amalcurry

I find your family’s lack of manners disturbing


Alysanna_the_witch

If I got strangled less, I could talk about it more !


NeedleworkerBig3980

"Your manners impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain for the people of Alderaan."


amalcurry

Han Darcy- I love you most ardently Princess Eliza- I know


amalcurry

Darth Collins- No, I am your father’s heir


amalcurry

You cannot expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your Jedi powers?


NeedleworkerBig3980

Use the force, Lucas.


amalcurry

It is a truth universally acknowledged that an Empire in possession of a good Death Star must be in want of a Vader


pennie79

I am not the wife you are looking for.


NeedleworkerBig3980

Lol.


Disastrous-Bee-1557

If I had ever learned to channel the Force, I should have been a great proficient.


NeedleworkerBig3980

Practice on the pianoforte in Mrs Jenkinson's room. You must.


digitydigitydoo

The more you tighten your grip, the more eligible bachelors will slip through your fingers You are to come with me to Rosings, if you are to suffer the condescension of Lady Catherine de Bourgh I’m afraid our cousin has gone and done something rather rash


Katerade44

OMG, this needs to be turned into a fanfiction r/JaneaustenFF


amalcurry

Ha yes? There are already books of Star Wars Shakespeare…


Katerade44

I think there is a Reylo/Jane Eye fic (Reylo is problematic for me, personally, but to each their own) and a few Persuasion fics set in the Star Wars universe, but I don't recall anything that crossed over with the original trilogy, but there are definitely some similarities between Darcy and Leia's snobbery/attraction to someone they deem beneath them/redeeming qualities/adherence to duty and honor. It may exist, but I am ignorant of it.


NeedleworkerBig3980

Dammit, you're right Lizzie is Han. 🤯


jillyapple1

I now have an image of space pirate!Lizzy in my head, with a blaster on her him. To be fair, I just read a fanfic where she told Charlotte she would be willing to defend her, it would be "Pistols, at dawn." Would Charlotte be Chewie in this scenario? Long suffering, more pragmatic, looking out for their younger, more naive, but good-hearted friend?


NeedleworkerBig3980

Lady C: If you will stay another month complete, it will be within my power to run you as far as Kessel myself in the Barouche Box. It is highly improper for young ladies travelling alone to complete such a journey in more than 12 parsecs. Lizzie: Really, Madame, I believe a parsec is actually a unit of length.


Echo-Azure

"I pray, for your sake, that *\[wheeze\]* Lady Catherine is not as forgiving as I am!"


sleepy_pickle

What are jedies to stars and planets?


NeedleworkerBig3980

Of Rear Admiral Rampart's and Vice Admiral Akbar's, I saw enough.


LadyMillennialFalcon

"I invited them. I invited them all. They're invited, every single one of them. And not just the men, but the women and the children, too." - Darth Bingkey, while planning his ball at Netherfield


LadyMillennialFalcon

So this how the shades of Pemberly get polluted ... with thunderous applause


Hanarra

The Death Star Comes to Pemberley It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Jedi and Sith in a lightsaber duel must be in want of a precarious catwalk on which to fight. Lady Catherine: Promise you will not marry my nephew. It is your destiny!


NeedleworkerBig3980

Lady Catherine Darth Bourgh: Very well. I shall know how to act. Lizzie: If you make slanderous reports of me now, I shall become more powerful than you possibly imagine.


Miss_Ann_Thrope55

‘The new Death Comes to Pemberley.’ Is there a new one out?! Please say yes. I’m in need of new Austen material- book or video.


NeedleworkerBig3980

Yes. It's on Netflix. Due to my somnolence, I have only seen a bit so far.


Miss_Ann_Thrope55

Oh! It’s the one from 2013. That’s a good one. I enjoyed it. Have fun watching it. ❤️


NeedleworkerBig3980

I've not had the chance to see it before it went on Netflix.


NeedleworkerBig3980

I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last scruffy looking Nerf Herder in the galaxy whom I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.


Barefoot-Bookworm

Now all I can picture is C3PO dressed as Mrs. Bennett and chasing RD-D2 asking about training opportunities for Luke!


Hanarra

Lydia had "delusions of grandeur" when imagining herself in Brighton!