jsyk i moved my bingley to my multi over at @timetear!!!!!
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glow: 1.09 - the liberal chokehold
but we do have a ballroom at the hayworth. unless that’s too fancy for wrestling.
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Laughing at Bingley in public is a social slight only marginally worse than splitting one’s pants. Even a regular night out with him is like watching a television show or running into a celebrity, except Spirit knows him simply by Charles and can fade into the background to drink and judge people who do their best to earn his favor and match his charm.
Now, though, more than a few judgmental eyes are on them–her– as she finishes her drink and takes slow steps towards him.
“–can’t imagine how you ripped your pants. That’s what you did. They’re ripped. Ruined. You should get a better tailor. Come on.” She stands in front of him, three parts uncomfortable, one part reluctantly protective friend, shielding his vulnerability. “Let’s go to the bathroom. You’ll be okay. But if you cry, I’m leaving you here.”
A goofy, admiring smile wriggles on his face like a caterpillar. If his pants weren’t ripped and if she weren’t so touch adverse, he’d hug her. As it is, his pants are ripped and Spirit is touch adverse. So, he folds his arms (with his hands beneath his armpits) in some sort of self-hug, pretending in his mind that his body is hers.
Bingley keeps his arms like this (to make himself small and not bump into anyone) as they make their way to the bathroom. He stops in the middle of two doors: Men’s and Women’s. He gulps. He can’t make Spirit go into the Men’s restroom with him! But he can’t intrude on the Women’s restroom either!
“Uhm...”
He looks to Spirit, panic-smiling, for guidance.
why does everything spirit do and is something bingley is literally incapable of audibly saying.
@metuere continued from here.
Fairly flabbergasted:
“I--! I am no such thing, Spirit! You very well know that of me! You know that, don’t you? You--! You’re not--! You’re not actually--!” he will not even think the word “Are you?”
He doesn’t know how one checks for... impairment. Do you put your hand to their forehead, like you would a fevered person? This is all he can think of. He does it. Bingley gently lays the back of his hand to her forehead. Except he doesn’t know what it is he should be feeling for: hotness? coldness? sweatiness? dryness? He pulls his hand away; he is as clueless as he was before, except now the back of his hand has a bit of black on it. That’s not some sort of... stimulant, is it? Or is it just mascara? Oh dear! He doesn’t know what to do with his hand. He can’t wipe it off on his pocket square and risk having some illegal substance now on his person! He holds the blackened hand away from him, the kind of awkward-holding-distance you do when someone’s asked you to hold their baby and you don’t feel comfortable with the responsibility but don’t want to be impolite either.
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Strangely (strangely, given his current hole-shaped predicament) he cannot help but smile at Spirit’s smile. Bingley quite enjoys seeing her happy (even if it’s at his own expense).
Spirit has pointed out the... the... situation directly and undeniably to him, yet Bingley still looks surprised. In disbelief.
“My-- my pants-- but I have all my pants tailored! They fit, well, uhm-- they-- yes! Well: They fit well. Perfectly well, in fact! I can’t imagine how--” Bingley really doesn’t want to gesture to the rip let alone verbally acknowledge it (how embarrassing!), so he settles on a vague: “this, uhm, happened!”
so it's obvious that both Darcy and Bingley have anxiety, but I just realized that Darcy is the one with the Mom Friend override
RIGHT?!
darcy is... a messy mess but he will (he does!!!) do anything for bingley’s happiness. he will admit to being wrong, march right up to a whole family despite his reserved nature and throw himself in the same house (the same room!!!) of a woman he’s complexly avoiding/giving-space all b/c he wants bingley to be happy.
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my response to “trends men hate”
Source: lerosier
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To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive information, he was the person to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just as what Jane felt for Bingley.
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shittowatch
Masculin Féminin (1966)
Source: shittowatch
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My milquetoast fave.
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Charles the Modest
Charles Bingley is noted for his modesty.
Austen notes early on that Mr Bingley’s modesty often leads him to rely on his friend Mr Darcy’s judgement:
“On the strength of Darcy’s regard Bingley had the firmest reliance, and of his judgment the highest opinion. In understanding, Darcy was the superior. Bingley was by no means deficient, but Darcy was clever.” - Volume I, Chapter IV
Mr Bingley freely admits to his faults, such as the careless appearance of his letters, leading Elizabeth Bennet to say:
“Your humility, Mr Bingley, must disarm reproof.” - Elizabeth Bennet. Volume I, Chapter X
Mr Darcy takes advantage of his friend’s modesty to convince him that he is mistaken in Jane Bennet’s returning his affection:
“Bingley has great natural modesty, with a stronger dependence on my judgement than on his own. To convince him, therefore, that he had deceived himself, was no very difficult point.” - Mr Darcy. Volume II, Chapter XII
Although Mr Bingley loves Jane, this persuasion of her being indifferent to him prevents him initially returning to her. Elizabeth notes:
“He made a little mistake to be sure; but it is to the credit of his modesty.” - Elizabeth Bennet. Volume III, Chapter XIII
Mr Darcy later corrects his interference, assuring Mr Bingley that Jane does in fact return his affection:
“Bingley is most unaffectedly modest. His diffidence had prevented his depending on his own judgment in so anxious a case, but his reliance on mine made everything easy.” - Mr Darcy. Volume III, Chapter XVI
Jane praises her fiancé’s diffidence:
“a panegyric from Jane on his diffidence, and the little value he put on his own good qualities” - Volume III, Chapter XIII
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Charles the Unaffected
Charles Bingley is noted for being unaffected (without artificiality or insincerity).
When the Hertfordshire society meet Mr Bingley for the first time at the Meryton assembly, he is introduced as unaffected:
“He had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.” - Volume I, Chapter III
Mr Bingley is absent from the story for several months, but when Elizabeth Bennet meets him again in Derbyshire, he remains as unaffected as ever:
“The unaffected cordiality with which he expressed himself on seeing her again.” - Volume III, Chapter II
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Simon Woods as Charles Bingley in Pride & Prejudice (2005) (for anonymous)
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Freddy Frenzy Friday | a gentleman
Now Freddy is young, practically twenty years younger than Higgins: he is a gentleman (or, as Eliza would qualify him, a toff), and speaks like one; he is nicely dressed, is treated by the Colonel as an equal, loves her unaffectedly, and is not her master, nor ever likely to dominate her in spite of his advantage of social standing.
- “Pygmalion”, George Bernard Shaw, 1916