#Thorpe John

[icecreamkink]

the fact that 200 years ago jane austen wrote a character that perfectly embodies

#When Does John Thorpe Shut Up #anyway im reading/ listening to an audiodrama of #northanger abbey #i feel myself quickly turning into a full fledged austen girlie #it is SO fun #thrilled but not surprised #not but the Experience tm of humouring very annoying men that wont leave or take a hint. still so accurate!

[bethanydelleman]

The perfect text quote for John Thorpe doesn't ex-

#john thorpe #northanger abbey #text posts #memes #I'm sorry about the swear but it's too perfect #jane austen #the reason we hate John Thorpe so much is that we've all met him

[firawren]

Anything is possible when you're the heroine of a novel!

(Here's the original ad, you know you want to watch it again)

#northanger abbey memes #northanger abbey #jane austen memes #jane austen #english lit memes #northanger abbey 2007 #henry tilney #catherine morland #john thorpe #general tilney #old spice ad #my stuff

[thoumpingground]

Okay, obviously I get why Emma gets to be the resident Disaster Matchmaker TM, but really John Thorpe gives her several runs for her money. He beats her in numbers of matches, execution, and production value accidentaly. Emma only managed to get Harriet's heart broken - twice. Thorpe's got it down to the details: he got Cathy the guy and a swoon worthy proposal. Cause if left to his own devices, Henry would have put together something sweet and heartfelt but simple, and Cathy would have been very happy of course, but she clearly doesn't mind a little bit of ✨romance✨. Thanks to Thorpe, she gets to brag forever that her husband loved her so much he bore being disowned and rode 70 miles on a horse to propose against his father's will.

Thorpe might be shooting in the dark, and aiming for the complete opposite goal, but d-mn it, he gets results, and I think he deserves to be the Austen Extended Universe Hipercompetent Matchmaking Menace TM. Not the least because, unlike Emma and every other Austen romantic rival, he has nothing else going for him.

#i can't decide if he was a better friend to Cathy or Henry #accidental bro moves all around #you know who he wasn't a good friend to? James Morland #that match was first and foremost for his sister #whatever she thinks she's too good for #though he did make it happen #Belle blew that up on her lonesome #love a competent king #john thorpe #emma woodhouse #catherine morland #henry tilney #harriet smith #northanger abbey #emma #jane austen

[yellowjackets96]

i just know these four would link up and run the nevermore dead poets society like it’s the navy

(enid is a todd sun, charlie rising, todd moon. change my mind!)

#wednesday netflix #wenclair #gay people are real #horror sapphics #enid sinclair #xavier thorpe #yoko tanaka #eugene otinger #dead poets society #poetry #poems #poets #dps #neil perry #todd anderson #anderperry #knox overstreet #charlie dalton #steven meeks #john keating #gerard pitts #richard cameron #1989 #dark academia #boarding school #aesthetic

[thatsrightice]

THE LEGEND OF BRADY’S CREW AND THEIR CRASH WAGON

The crash landing we see John Brady’s crew conduct in Part 1 of Masters of the Air was not their first. On Christmas Eve of 1942, Brady’s crew took off on a training mission but crash landed in the snowy mountains of Evanston, Wyoming due to inclement weather and a lack of gas. No one was injured thanks to Brady’s skillful flying (and Harry Crosby’s Scottish descent, according to the young woman who found them).

Afterward, the crew received a brand new B-17F, serial number 42-30071. Though officially titled “SKIPPER”, the Fort had immediately been given a name: “BRADY’S CRASH WAGON” in homage to the legend of their training accident.

Their second crash landing, the one we see in the show, actually occurred at an Air Depot in Warton on the east coast due to the landing gear being frozen. Their belly-landing damaged their aircraft so they were forced to take a train to Diss and then a truck to Thorpe Abbotts.

42-30071 “BRADY’S CRASH WAGON” would be repaired and sent to the 96th Bomb Group. It was irreparably damaged in another belly-landing on April 18, 1944 and scrapped.

#real mota #BRADY’S CRASH WAGON #<- wasn’t originally about this but it is now #42-30071 Brady’s Crash Wagon #42-30071 #John Brady #Brady’s Crew #Harry Crosby #SOURCE: A Wing and a Prayer by Harry Crosby #mota #masters of the air #a wing and a prayer #information #crash #belly landing #crash landing #Evanston Wyoming #training mission #Thorpe Abbotts #100th Bomb Group #96th Bomb Group

[phireads]

About a third of the way through Northanger Abbey and can John Thorpe just stop??? I actually despise him

#mine #books #classic lit #phi rambles #northanger abbey #jane austen #john thorpe

[hotjaneaustenmenpoll]

#John Thorpe #Charles Bingley #Northanger Abbey 2007 #Pride and prejudice 1995 #John Thorpe (2007) Vs Mr Bingley (1995) #hotjaneaustenmenpoll #round one #Jane Austen

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Read Northanger Abbey the other day and it is funny on so many levels.

First - imagine, 200 years later, if Twilight has fallen into obscurity but a book satirizing Twilight is still well-known and the source of most of some people’s knowledge of the genre. (Note: Should I read The Mysteries of Udolpho, just out of curiosity?)

Second - I don’t favour modern retellings of Sense and Sensibility or Pride and Prejudice because the plot and characterizations are so fundamentally connected to the time period - to the nature of marriage as an economic arrangement and the lack of options for gentlewomen to earn an independent living - that removing that element to focus just on the romance cuts out something central to the book. (Emma is independently wealthy, which is why a modern ‘retelling’ of the book like Clueless works better than for P&P or S&S.)

Northanger Abbey? Is perfect for a modern retelling. A teenage girl goes on a summer vacation, meets a new bestie, gets a crush, dives into Twilight, becomes convinced on the most flimsy of evidence that her new crush’s family are vampires. The exact nature of General Tilney’s misunderstanding about her can be finessed, and she and Henry don’t marry at the end they just start dating, but everything else works, down to the small details! Deciding which friends you want to hang out with, keeping your commitments to people, the pain of finding out that someone you trusted isn’t trustworthy! Henry Tilney going on a tear about the misuse of ‘literally’ or ‘like’! The main stories and conflicts of the novel fit easily into the present day.

Third - yes, Catherine’s Gothic assumptions and ideas are very funny, but General Tilney makes assumptions that are nearly as ridiculous about her, on just as little evidence, and with the benefit of far more life experience! He decides she’s madly wealthy and assiduously seeks to attract her for his son on the word of one guy - one fratbro no less, that’s not even an anachronism, John Thorpe is a fratbro - and then, when the same guy changes his story to ‘no, she’s practically destitute’, the general, instead of considering that maybe this dude is an unreliable source, immediately takes it as truth instead. Catherine’s credulity is driven by fantasy novels, General Tilney’s by worldliness, but they contrast each other very well!

#jane austen #northanger abbey #catherine morland #henry tilney #general tilney #john thorpe

[claireelizabeth85]

For your morning (or evening) history lesson from the Imperial War Museum.

@rosiesriveter

#IWM #Imperial War Museum #Masters of the Air #rosie rosenthal #B100dy Hundreth #Eigth Airforce #Thorpe Abbotts #Major John Egan #Major Gale Cleven #Major Harry Crosby #rack ‘em up and knock ‘em down #Black Week - 4th- 10th October 1943 #Bremen #Schweinfurt #Marienburg #Münster #Youtube

[bethanydelleman]

If each protagonist was allowed to stab someone, just once, who would it be?

Oh man this is so exciting and I love this question!

So first of all, I really doubt any of Jane Austen's heroines would stab anyone, it doesn't really fit into their personalities. So let's say in English society everyone carries a small knife with a seal and they can choose to stab one person, ONCE in their whole life and that's it, no penalties. Then your knife is taken away.

Elizabeth Bennet, in the midst of Darcy insulting her family while resting his hand on the mantlepiece, stabs him through the hand. She calls him a sorry excuse for a gentleman while he is trying to get the knife out. During the end of the Collins proposal, Elizabeth did motion towards her knife, which is when Collins finally took the hint that she wasn't interested. Later, she deeply regrets not saving the knife for Wickham.

Jane Bennet never stabbed anyone in the whole course of her life and was buried with her knife never unsealed.

Anne Elliot never thought she would use her knife, but when Mr. Elliot came in and tried to flirt with her again after she had learned the horrible truth of his character, she couldn't help herself. She stabbed him in the leg. The truth of his intentions came out far sooner than expected.

Elinor Dashwood never even wore her knife, everyone felt safe around her. However, they did not realize that she had hidden it inside John's favourite easy chair at Norland and it gave him a very irritating poke every time he sat down. The chair had been used by Elinor's father and when it became clear that John did not mean to honour his deathbed promise to his father, Elinor acted.

Marianne Dashwood stabbed Willoughby when he snubbed her at the party in a wild passion.

Catherine Morland's family were always against knives, being a plain-spoken and honest sort of folk. However, Mrs. Morland thought it best to entrust one to Catherine before she went out in the world. Catherine got spooked and nearly stabbed a servant on the way to Mrs. Tilney's room. She was so embarrassed she hid the knife away and never mentioned it again.

Lady Susan has used her knife several times and then refashioned the seal. She's a cheater. She stabbed Reginald for believing the truth about her once he found out. How disloyal!

Emma Woodhouse stabbed Mr. John Knightley early in their relationship after a perceived slight to Isabella. Their relationship recovered.

Fanny Price was always too grateful to justly wield her knife against Mrs. Norris or the Bertrams. However, after Henry Crawford and Maria eloped, she sent the seal of her knife to Henry, a life-long warning that if he crossed her path again the knife was intended for him. He fastidiously avoided her for the rest of his days.

Bonus: John Thorpe has been stabbed 26 times by various women, friends, and fathers of women. He has learned absolutely nothing from these experiences. Catherine might have stabbed him, but she felt like it would be pointless.

#question response #I loved this question #these women deserve a stab once as a treat #elizabeth bennet #jane bennet #catherine morland #marianne dashwood #elinor dashwood #fanny price #john thorpe #JAFF #emma woodhouse #lady susan #anne elliot

[firawren]

Northanger Abbey text posts

#northanger abbey memes #northanger abbey #northanger abbey 2007 #jane austen memes #jane austen #english lit memes #henry tilney #catherine morland #john thorpe #isabella thorpe #general tilney #my stuff

[dimity-lawn]

#meme #created by yours truly #jane austen #northanger abbey #catherine morland #john thorpe

[the-murder]

TMA fans where's the love for the Fathers of the Apocalypse? Out with Simon, Jonah, Rayner and Lukas. Gimmie Trevor Herbert, Raymond Fielding, Arthur Nolan and John Amherst. Daddies of the Apocalypse.

I encourage creation of content for those four boys and also. While we're here. Fit in Hezekiah Wakely and Nathaniel Thorp somewhere.

Also my BF says Raymond and Nolan are the LoneyEyes equivalent so do with that what you will.

#tma #the magnus archives #trevor herbert #john amherst #raymond fielding #arthur nolan #simon fairchild #peter lukas #jonah magnus #maxwell rayner #hezekiah wakely #nathaniel thorp #the dark #the vast #the lonely #the eye #the desolation #the corruption #the hunt #the buried #the end #the web #daddies of the apocalypse #grandfathers of the apocalypse #magnus pod

[major-mads]

Thorpe Abbotts Airbase

Places of Interest in Masters of the Air

Masterlist

The Thorpe Abbotts Airbase/Airfield is located just outside of the village of Thorpe Abbots in Norfolk, England. It was specifically built for the 100th Bomb Group when they came to join the war effort. Flyers with the 100th were set to start arriving in June of 1943, so the engineers and builders had to even out the ground, lay miles and miles of concrete, and build the intricate roads and buildings of the base very quickly.

Many locals did not support the building of the base because it encroached on their farmlands. While the British were happy the Americans were joining the fight, there were definite feelings of animosity towards the 'yanks' (as they call Americans), but most of those faded when the Brits met the airmen who occupied the base.

Donald Miller: Masters of the Air, pgs. 1-2

"Thorpe Abbotts, an American bomber base some ninety miles north of London and a short stroll from the Norfolk hamlet that gave it its name. Station # 139, as it was officially designated, with its 3,500 fliers and support personnel, was built on a nobleman's estate lands, and the crews flew to war over furrowed fields worked by Sir Rupert Mann's tenant farmers, who lived nearby in crumbling stone cottages heated by open hearths. Thorpe Abbotts is in East Anglia, a history-haunted region of ancient farms, curving rivers, and low flat marshland. It stretches northward from the spires of Cambridge, to the high-sitting cathedral town of Norwich, and eastward to Great Yarmouth, an industrial port on the black waters of the North Sea. With its drainage ditches, wooden windmills, and sweeping fens, this low-lying slice of England brings to mind nearby Holland, just across the water. It is a haunch of land that sticks out into the sea, pointed, in the war years, like a raised hatchet at the enemy. And its drained fields made good airbases from which to strike deep into the German Reich. A century or so behind London in its pace and personality, it had been transformed by the war into one of the great battlefronts of the world, a war front unlike any other in history (Miller, 2007, pgs. 1-2)."

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[elenion-et-al]

Northanger Abbey thoughts and summary

Chapter 7

Here we meet John Thorpe... I do not like John Thorpe.

The whole time I was reading the chapter, my eyebrows were furrowed and I realised I had a look of disdain.

This man is the very kind I would like to keep away from at all cost.

Okay, first of all, he had zero care for his horse! Poor horse. Deserved better life than that. Second, we was so quick to dismiss Catherine's interest in novels. Wait, he didn't just dismiss it. He insulted them and thought so lowly of it. Excuse me?!?!?!

Ooooh I was seething reading this chapter. I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO HIS NEXT APPEARANCE.

Bring back Henry 🥲

#northanger abbey #jane austen #catherine morland #henry tilney #john thorpe #isabella thorpe #douchebags like joh thorpe are the reason why red flaga exist #that doesn't even make sense #but i'm fuming at the idea of him