Because Jane Austen SAYS SO
Jun. 25th, 2007 01:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperoh, fandom. Really, I love you.
Someone just posted fic where one character asked if the others were shagging since they bickered/bantered so much.
Other person : Why would you think that?
Original : Well, in Jane Austen novels, you know who's going to be getting together by who bickers/banters the most.
This? This is entirely logical.
Jane Austen? provided the basis for most romantic stuff. Regularly cited as one of the absolute masters of dialogue. You always know who's going to get together (het couples, anyway) in films by which pair spends their time arguing. So now we can pelt writers who protest there's no subtext with the statement that 'Jane Austen says so'.
Someone just posted fic where one character asked if the others were shagging since they bickered/bantered so much.
Other person : Why would you think that?
Original : Well, in Jane Austen novels, you know who's going to be getting together by who bickers/banters the most.
This? This is entirely logical.
Jane Austen? provided the basis for most romantic stuff. Regularly cited as one of the absolute masters of dialogue. You always know who's going to get together (het couples, anyway) in films by which pair spends their time arguing. So now we can pelt writers who protest there's no subtext with the statement that 'Jane Austen says so'.
