Northanger Abbey, SRB-style
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neadodsI love Northanger Abbey - it's actually one of my favorites. But I also love ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sarahtales spoofing on gothic novels (there's link to her Jane Eyre takedown somewhere around here, and again on the link I'm about to give).
So it's two, two, two great things in one when Northanger Abbey appears on Gothic Tuesday.
A couple of reasons why you should read it:
In vain I have struggled. It will not do. You must allow me to parody NORTHANGER ABBEY.
JANE AUSTEN: Catherine Morland, not really heroine material. She was kind of plain and not that bright.
BELLA SWAN: She was just before her time, yo.
...
HENRY’S SISTER ELEANOR: Hey girl, how’s it going?
CATHERINE: I spend my days mostly writing ‘Mrs Catherine Tilney’ in my trapper keeper, and climbing out of windows to avoid John Thorpe. If you see John, tell him I’m washing my hair and I’ll keep washing my hair until L’Oreal is invented, because I’m worth it.
ELEANOR: Got it.
...
(and my personal favorite, out of a tough field of competition)
CATHERINE: Uh, what kind of abbey do you call this? Nothing is mouldering!
GENERAL TILNEY: I’d have serious words with housekeeping if something was.
sarahtales spoofing on gothic novels (there's link to her Jane Eyre takedown somewhere around here, and again on the link I'm about to give).So it's two, two, two great things in one when Northanger Abbey appears on Gothic Tuesday.
A couple of reasons why you should read it:
In vain I have struggled. It will not do. You must allow me to parody NORTHANGER ABBEY.
JANE AUSTEN: Catherine Morland, not really heroine material. She was kind of plain and not that bright.
BELLA SWAN: She was just before her time, yo.
...
HENRY’S SISTER ELEANOR: Hey girl, how’s it going?
CATHERINE: I spend my days mostly writing ‘Mrs Catherine Tilney’ in my trapper keeper, and climbing out of windows to avoid John Thorpe. If you see John, tell him I’m washing my hair and I’ll keep washing my hair until L’Oreal is invented, because I’m worth it.
ELEANOR: Got it.
...
(and my personal favorite, out of a tough field of competition)
CATHERINE: Uh, what kind of abbey do you call this? Nothing is mouldering!
GENERAL TILNEY: I’d have serious words with housekeeping if something was.
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Date: 2012-09-12 02:39 am (UTC)My personal favorite from her Northanger Abbey:
JANE AUSTEN: I hear from the newspapers and dude novelists that ladies are physically incapable of fancying dudes unless the dudes are into them first. Newspapers and dude novelists, you are full of it. Catherine Morland wanted to rock Henry Tilney a) like a hurricane, b) like a wagon wheel and c) all night long. Jane out!
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Date: 2012-09-12 10:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-12 02:18 pm (UTC)GENERAL TILNEY: Hush lad, I’m being SUBTLE.
Yeah, when dealing with Catherine, bless her heart, that IS subtle.
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Date: 2012-09-15 02:07 am (UTC)