Ranting about classic lit

[dangermousie]

You know how I am the ultimate canon hor, right? If it's in canon, I'll like it OK, shipwise.

EXCEPT.

WTF.

lesbiassparrow reminded me. WTF. Little Women. Why on earth did Jo and Laurie not end up together? Is there anyone out there who ships Jo/Bauer? Seriously. A friend of mine literally threw her book across the room when she got to that point.

Also, Mansfield Park. When I was younger, I even wrote Henry/Fanny fic. Edmund+Fanny are total priggish incest. Though they can preach at each other all day long. Yikes. Come on, Henry is the only one with a sense of humor in that book. I sort of get how Spike/Buffy shippers felt now.

Comments

[tatterpunk.livejournal.com]

Er. I liked Jo/Bauer? Laurie was too much of a brat for me. I was upset when Jo dumped him, yeah, but I thought he proved her right by his idiotic behavior afterward.

I like the idea of Henry/Fanny, but I like the fact that in the actual book he's all, "Fanny, only you can save me and make me a good man!" And she delivers the ultimate beatdown in "If you're really a good man, you can save yourself."

Austen just rocks that way.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of Henry/Fanny, but I like the fact that in the actual book he's all, "Fanny, only you can save me and make me a good man!" And she delivers the ultimate beatdown in "If you're really a good man, you can save yourself."


True, but the thing is, I like Henry and don't like Edmund :)

Re: Laurie. But come on, he just got dumped when he assumed, by weight of literary conventions, he was going to end up with Jo :P