Jane Austen Men and a Meme About You

[allyndra]

The BBC wins at all kinds of things for posting dating profiles for their Jane Austen Men. Go here and vote for your favorite guy. I was surprised by some of them. I know for a fact that I've seen the BBC's Persuasion, but I don't remember Captain Wentworth being so yummy. Obviously, my memory has betrayed me. They somehow left Charles Bingley off the list, but otherwise, it's chock full of Austen men, both virtuous and villainous.

I'm swiping this meme from dancinbutterfly. If y'all have a couple minutes, fill it out and tell me about yourselves.

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
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2) What was your dream growing up?
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3) What talent do you wish you had?
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4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
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5) Favorite vegetable?
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6) What was the last book you read?
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7) What the most embarrassing thing you're willing to admit?
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8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
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9) Worst Habit?
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10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
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11) What is your favorite sport?
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12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
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13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
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14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
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15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
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16) Do you have any pets?
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17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
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18) What was your first impression of me?
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19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
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20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
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21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
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22) What color eyes do you have?
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23) Ever been arrested?
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24) Bottle or can soda?
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25) If you won $10,000 US (or your local equivalent: £5000 in the UK, $12,860 in New Zealand. Do I have people from other places on my flist?) today, what would you do with it?
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27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
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28) Do you believe in ghosts?
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29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
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30) Do you swear a lot?
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31) Biggest pet peeve?
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32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
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33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
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35) Do you believe in God?
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36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
A.

Comments

[allyndra.livejournal.com]

There are plenty of people who don't like Jane Austen. Mark Twain regretted he couldn't dig up her body so he could beat her with her own thigh bone, he hated her writing so much. But I just ... I got Pride and Prejudice as a gift when I was 13 or 14, and I've been hooked ever since. I don't like Emma at all, and Northanger Abbey doesn't do much for me, but Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park are all favorites that I keep rereading.

[shoshannagold.livejournal.com]

Austen is one of my mother's favourites (along with Hawthorne! Who likes Hawthorne!?!?! Not that there's anything wrong with liking Hawthorne /blatant attempt to cover my ass should you be a massive Hawthorne fan) and we had an epic battle of the wills from the time I was about ten until I was about sixteen, because I wouldn't read Pride and Prejudice. I didn't really have much to rebel against as a child, because my parents weren't big on rules, so it manifested in odd ways. I did read it eventually, but I didn't love it. Persuasion strikes me as a lot more intriguing, actually, because I like books about trying to put back together a relationship that has fallen apart.

[allyndra.livejournal.com]

I firmly believe that the reason I hate Emma so much is one fourth because I don't like the character and three fourths because I was forced to read it when I didn't want to. It makes a huge difference.

Persuasion is one of my favorites. My sister hates both it and Mansfield Park, because the heroines are quiet and feminine, which she reads as weak. I think of the time they were written, and see that strong, moral women in love, and I don't see that as weak. I do get a bit bugged by Persuasion being labeld an "autumnal romance," because Anne was 28 years old, for heaven's sake! That's not gray old age. It's a beautiful book, and the BBC version was really well done, iirc.