..Oh no 💀

I caaan't 😭😭

CRYING

Kinda acts like Hitler too... if you think hard enough...

I gasped!

SAME that's how I spend most of my time!

REAL

me

😂

Better one hour than how ever many needed to finish this thicc book. I want in on the tea without reading it. 😂

Notably also when Lizzie refused him, he Backed Off???? Rowan could take some serious notes

I think Darcy was already a decent man internally, just had abrasive manners. But I don't think he had to necessarily learn that it would be good to help the Bennet family. This only enabled Lizzy to see that his abrasive manners were not the only thing to him but that there was an honorable person underneath.

also, at no point was he described with rippling muscles in cringe-inducing ways lmao

istg they should make it illegal for authors of books like this to mention p&p. it's my favorite book and i can't take it anymore (it's like the 3d time ive seen this happen). please make them stop comparing abusive aholes to my mr darcy😭

When I realised this was supposed to be a pride and prejudice retelling, it made me want to burn things 😊

noo you're hot and very rich so it's ok ahaha❤

Honestly she should be grateful

Nta. She’s just ungrateful. Just keep going and she’ll eventually say yes

Nta divorce

Nta and btw if she tries to fire herself don’t let her. She’s just making it better for the chase

fr we're supposed to romantacize evil hyper-capitalist bosses of huge monopoly corporations now? that's our modern age villain we should find attractive? 💀

That's basically indirect murder. I'm sure people would die if they didn't get the correct care. If he was a good business man he could make money without doing crazy crap like that. He could of just laid off 30% of his workforce and used that to cover and increase wages. He's clearly okay with not being liked might as well just fire them instead of this.

So mundane! It's going inside my stupid post apocalyptic original series with sentient deer mice!

Fr, I read books to escape my reality

P❤❤😅 90❤❤❤❤❤❤

He would pull an Icarus and drag Jane Austen's ghost down with him when the wings start melting

Omg,what?? I think I might have trauma-yeeted that out of my memory from when I read it

​@@great.sounding.maracas lmao

I think he'd just need to stand on the tip of his toes no need to yeet himself. He's so tall 😭

According to an interview hozier wrote From Eden about how the idealisation of a young, innocent and moral person as a missing part of yourself is an extremely unhealthy and toxic foundation for a relationship. Asher is either very self aware or very oblivious

Normal people drunk -text, but Zara is so pixie dream girl she drunk publishes

My now-husband registered to a website to troll people when he was drunk and i met him there. 😂

last time i was drunk i wrote a whole book. It's called The Fine Print

Homie, I'm a shit poster when Im sober, I'm not suddenly gunna stop because I'm obnoxiously drunk lol

don't you knowe alcohol is just a plot device to make characters act out of character lol

Now that would be a fun read. Unlike this

Yes!!!! That's what I thought initiatially when I heard the premise

​@@roselover411Even in reverse it would be an interesting read. I'm probably aromatic, so I couldn't care less for the romance _thing._

@@qwertykeyboard5901 I'm aro/ace too lol but I love romance so I would be interested in the reading

@@qwertykeyboard5901 i know its a typo, but the implication that someone's smell correlates to whether they like the romance genre is sending me

adfggh

I just started rewatching avatar and zuko has once again become my roman empire😂

At least we knew Zuko had empathy. Remember how he saved his sailors? No one had to teach him empathy.

There is a thin line between villain and anti-hero

I’ve never related to anything more in my life. I fucking love Zuko

Add some Walt Disney to the list!

STOP

I can't stop imagining him like Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury...

Or what about Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean

@@Arawn2020and they both wear suits that are way too small. he is Mr. Bean.

Tag: Dead Dove Do Not Eat

@@qwertykeyboard5901lol

LMAOOOO

Omg finally someone is writing my favorite rarepair 🎉

underrated comment

Rowan is Bae and would never go to jail

Hey sister, on ME, that look is fabulous...

It pisses me off so badly 😭😭 Like sir, please get a new wardrobe with your millions of dollars

"I hate polyester!" * Proceeds to wear a suit that's clearly made out of polyester*

the "every single muscle" line makes me cringe so hard. A suit can nicely shape the body, especially when it comes to creating the illusion of a broader shoulders/narrower waist. If they wanna make Rowan still look muscular, they should just have him take off the suit jacket and focusing the description on how the muscles look when he's wearing his button-up 💀

The only visual reference I can think of for the 'muscles bulging out of his suit' trope is like, when the Rock or a comparably bulky pro wrestler wears a suit. Is that what this type of romance writer is going for??

LMAOOO😭

Darcy is at worst mildly classist (he won't mistreat people of lower class but he won't consider them his equals either) and somewhat condescending, and that is very much a result of his background as a scion of a wealthy landed family with maternal connections to mid-tier nobility. he was always a genuinely generous and honorable person, he just got a reality check and figured out how to better act like it XD especially to people he didn't have responsibilities to. the absolute clownage of invoking his character on these chucklefucks.

I 100% agree with you. It's like there were waves of people who read the spark notes and based their entire perceptions on it. Or maybe because Jane Austin's writing style is dated, they read the books but didn't pick up what was actually happening.

Not to mention how movies usually kickstart the butchering with flawed and dumbed down views of books.

Modern pop culture seems to think that Darcy's appeal is, "Hot guy is arrogant and rich" and not "Arrogant guy actually has a good heart and, when called out on his behavior by his love interest, determines to be a better person whether or not she ever finds out."

@@Caldella Total inversion of the truth. Girl: "Oh, everybody thinks he's a douchebag. But he's actually a great guy" While originally, the guy: "Oh everybody thinks ME to be an asshole and this girl helped me realize that, so maybe I should not be as such... Because I don't condone with this view of me" Which, by the way, the twisted view of the girl enabled so many toxic and abusive relationships all around

prisoner of rowan’s bad fitted suits

like is that even grammatically correct? prisoner of war? 😶

There's a lot of discourse about men writing women, but like... The way some of these romance authors write men is f-ing hilarious. Or what do I know, maybe men do think like this on the regular?

@@cinnammongirlie uh, yes? POW or prisoner of war are military combatants that have surrended and are taken into custody for security measures

@@yuukibr5959I think they were talking about the fact that “prisoner of war” is singular and so the sentence doesn’t make sense

I know right😭😭the disrespect...

THANK YOU. I was looking for this comment. People missing the VERY obvious point of Pride and prejudice are my personal pet peeve.

@@janus6349 FOR REAL it is right there in the FUCKING TITLE

I'm so tired of authors who completely miss the point of EVERYTHING Jane Austen did in Pride and Prejudice and trying to make parallels with their poorly developed characters.

YES

I was legit just thinking he sounded like Scrooge

Rowan: "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"

@@kathrynmarie9592He’s solitary as an oyster 😔😔

THIS

i wish i could like this comment more than one time

That description sounded so wattpad like, so childish. The description is so so bad

Air Bud! 🦮

He’s just shaq

My brain went to Muggsy Bogues.

He just wants to get the point across that he's tall and hot, because boys in books can't be short because thats "unattractive"☝️🤓

OK, hear me out, what if we get both

@@TheDeadPoet226 excellent idea

He can start off like this (apathetic and nastily inappropriate) but then because of an uprising towards Dreamland he must spend time on charity to gain back the public’s favor through the press. At first it’s just for reputation, but as he spend time with the people who needs help, Rowan actually develops sincere empathy and because we know Zahra also do charity and help like this, can become a major plot device that establish valuable romantic moments without the sexual parts. Despite the public slowly returning to like dreamland again, a major scandal about the industry wipes away Rowan and the company’s efforts , the uprising is getting bigger and Zahra convinces Rowan to run away with her before they enter the building because she saw him changing. At the middle of the escape, Rowan stops and tell Zahra to go on since she will be affected because she was in a high position in dreamland. Cues emotional, angsty goodbye, Rowan stays and the uprising found him, they put him on the thing . End of story. We can actually see Rowan going from smashing his lips on an employee to him through understanding her, is willing to stay behind the boundaries of boss and employee. We can see the longing in both parties (like in persuasion) which makes the climax(the goodbye) even more critical and not situational.

What a horrible ending that would have been

@@TheDeadPoet226french rev

Hey some people are into BDSM. "I took away your healthcare, now I am going to take something else"

😭wattpad

It's unwrinkling my brain. Smoothing it out.

and like. explicitly NOT so that the girl will take him back or something. the only reason he ever presents his suit again is because he heard that she loudly reserved the right to marry him if she wanted to and he was like, that was definitely not what you said to me last time, can I have a status update on the situation?

@@redgoldcrown3990 Exactly! And he even couches his second proposal in the idea of “I respect your right to reject me and if you say no I will not ask again or hound you” Like. Darcy is a king. We Stan.

Why should he change for her at all when he's perfect just the way he is.

LMAOAOAOA NOT MR ADOLF

What? The Namibian civil rights activist? He seems like a pretty cool guy to me, frankly.

@@Zack-xv2ycit’s the German one, silly. The Zimbabwean one is a good man

Sameeee literally yesterday i was reflecting how I'm such a huge sucker for this trope but then i realised how often I've hated how actual billionaires have done stuff which put the normal working class in jeopardy and now I can't look at this trope in the same lens ever again.

The answer is predominantly people who just wanna revel in the shallow fantasy of opulence and getting to 'fix' a villain without really thinking about the implications too much (which whatever, it's media junk food, nothing inherently wrong with liking it) or, alternatively, other morally bankrupt people who are attracted to those kind of qualities.

This genre's succes hinges on one simple principle: "it's not sexual harassment when you're hot and rich."

Same. I hate rich people. Christian Grey was always such a turn off

@@alpha1solace If you could be a billionaire,you would be worse

No he didn’t he talked to her under another persons impression bc he was guilty having a more than work relationship with an employee

Wow now i want a new whole story with your idea

I would sign up for that if it comes out. You should probably go for it. 😂

I agree. This should have been a literary fiction or social justice novel, not a romance novel.

This is basically what gothic romances in the nineteenth century used to be - a brooding, mustache-twirling villain in a big house who is either the guardian of the heroine or otherwise in control of her life and is romantically obsessed with her. But the hero was always the honest, guy-next-door type who swooped in to save her from Lord DeVil or whoever - I don't know when women started to fall for guys who treat them like trash, but it brought us to Reylo in the end, which is just... ugh!

don't tempt me because the third brother actually sounded interesting to me

@@TheBookLeo the other two books are 1000x better and the other brothers more likable. I really didn't like the first book but the second was one of my top reads last year and the third was solid too!!

I wouldn’t recommend the third, it was so weirdly paced and so long that I couldn’t get through it.

@@TheBookLeo The third book is best of the bunch. Book 2 was fine too. But the first book is nightmare to get through.

I read book 2 and it was...fine? It was very mediocre craft-wise

This book is amazing

ifkr😭😭

😭🤣

You mean the father-lord? 😂

@@dopex89 🤣

Eh he’s not any better or worse than most CEO alpha billionaire boyfriends 😂

She doesn't "fit in" and she doesn't want to "fit in" Do you ever see her without her stupid pins? That's wEIrd. 😂

ikr. the first time he saw her she came in the room with "hot pink penny skateboard" in her arm 💀

Sameee

That would have been truly interesting and incredible.

A book about dark academia architects rivals to lovers would have been SO MUCH BETTER than this mess and now I want to read the rival architects book 😭

Oh if only! Please someone write a dark academia rival architects 🙏🏻

I also though it was architecture related. I heard so many good things about it i'm really shocked it's this bad

SAME LMAO

OMG SAMMEEE

I picked up gothikana at Barnes and nobles cause it looked pretty and then I remembered her video vividly. When I tell you,the speed that I put that book down

Ebenezer Scrooge-core 😭😭

I imagine the thought process was: "if he makes them work on Christmas then he'd be unlikeable" like girl did you read what you wrote or what

nahh cause I can literally imaging how this story would go 😭

Me too!

same 😊it helps w my misophonia and i can actually focus

This. Perfectly said. I’ve read several books that I later see are booktok recommended books, but for the most part if I see something hyped on booktok it’s like an alarm goes off in my head and I know to steer clear

Same, if I want to read a book and they recommend it I automatically don't want to read anymore

Assistant to the villain by is just this it’s a slow burn with a second book in works

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He'd definitely be one of those sigma males

what the fuck 🤣🤣

Oh my god!! Noooo don’t say this.

OH MY, THAT'S TRUE. It's exactly that 😭😭 "I hate pronouns" "please this isn't your heart"

I am sober right now and I still make a bazillion mistakes and typo. I have no idea how homegirl published anything literate while drunk.

Thats a much better fanfic that I was imaginging thanks to the evil artist plotline

Roman Roy would never be a Booktok boyfriend. That man is a wet soppy puppy.