@pabloernesto said:

every browser except firefox runs on chromium. they are just chrome reskins. firefox is the only good browser. install firefox

Firefox does a ton of cool shit but just out of the box, fresh install it does less tracking and dataharvesting than Chrome (in that it does essentially none while chrome's goal is to crawl all the way into your asshole and monetize the data of the unique features of your intestinal lining) and does not contribute to the chromium near-monopoly (Firefox and Safari are the only non-chromium browsers with any notable market share).

Also you know how Adobe fucking sucks and is really annoying and it's frustrating to have to use their PDF reader? Firefox now comes with a built-in PDF reader AND editor. Check this shit out:

Firefox also has a feature called Multi Account Containers that allows you to log in to accounts in different containers so that you don't have to open up an incognito window or log out of various services to use a different account. For instance, I have my Work container and my School container and I can log in to office 365 in either one of them without having to log out of the other, or I can have seven tabs logged in to seven different tumblr accounts (not sideblogs, separate accounts) in the same window if I want to do that for any reason.

Also fuck google.

I've been using Firefox since it launched in 2004. It's great. https everywhere is a default on most browses now, but it was available as an add on for FF long before that. They are way more innovative because their goal is to make a good, secure browser and not to make money off your information.

Firefox has great options for security and privacy built in, but I still use the FF add on No Scripts Security Suite, which lets you limit what scripts run when you load a page because I feel like I can fine tune it better with No Scripts. It's a bit more fiddly though.

Firefox also notifies you when one of your saved logins belongs to a site that has been hacked. I'm also signed up for have I been pwned bc I am low key paranoid about digital security. I think everyone should be really damn careful with their personal information. Use strong passwords. Change them often. Firefox makes this very easy to do and will generate and save strong pws for you if you want them.

FYI: The following has been my experience and it could be a user error problem obviously, but because everything is kind of coded for Google browsers, once in a blue moon a site won't load properly on Firefox, even if I am using the most recent version of FF and turn off No Scripts and other add ons. When that happens I go to Safari to check the site to see if it's Firefox or the website. I have to do this maybe 3x a year and 2 times out of three it's the site and not Firefox. If you're not on a mac it might be worth keeping a chrome browser for that. ymmv.

Pride and Prejudice fanfic recs

UPDATED MAY 29, 2023

Originally posted 2011:

I’ve noticed a lot of Lizzie Bennet Diaries people looking for fic. There isn’t that much for LBD, but hopefully that will change. In the mean time if you are looking for Lizzie/Darcy fic I can make some recs.

I kind of went nuts last year and read every Pride and Prejudice fic I could find. I read Regencies. I read modern AUs. I read everything I could find online. I only read one “published” pastiche and it was so bad. SO BAD. ERIN, I BLAME YOU.

NB: Many of these pages have HIDEOUS yellow or brown backgrounds or layouts. You can use an add-on like Color that Site for firefox. There are probably plugins for other browsers.

UPDATED 7/17/2015 5/29/23

A Most Convenient Mishap, Complete, Darcy/Elizabeth, Rated R, Regency

This was the first P&P fic I read and I found it delightful. It’s pretty standard Lizzy and Darcy have to get married right away (i.e. before they’ve fallen in love) because of an impropriety. But I was excessively diverted.

Happenstance, Complete, Darcy/Elizabeth, Rated R, Regency (TRY THIS LINK)

Another Darcy and Lizzy must get married right away fic and then learn to love each other, despite his massive and eternal hard on for her. I cannot get enough fics liks this. They are like candy. This one is pretty damn good. Not perfect, but good.

When Duty Calls Complete, Darcy/Elizabeth, Rated R, Regencyv (Has been published as an eBook on Amazon etc.)

When Mr. Collins proposes and Mrs. Bennet tries to make Lizzy accept she runs out of the house and hides. Darcy (who is already very taken with her) finds her and helps her hide, but smooches her and they are seen so they have to get married. LA! Delicious candy.

Life is Better with Animals/ Incomplete, Darcy/Elizabeth, Rated R,

Modern Day AU Lizzy is a vet and Darcy is a neurosurgeon. No, I’m not kidding. Now with 50% more yearning Darcy. (although incomplete it’s like 27 chapters long.)

Eye of the Beholder, Complete, Darcy/Elizabeth, Rated G, Regency AU

Darcy is blinded while hunting at Netherfield and this is a little like Jane Eyre mixed liberally with P&P. (It says WIP on the site, but the story is complete.) This is super angsty Darcy.

As Fate Would Have It Complete, Darcy/Elizabeth, Regency AU, Rated R IDEK PEOPLE. Available as e-book, I think

This story has some major flaws, but I enjoyed it anyway. Lizzy and Darcy are alone and injured and have to spend the night in a hut together, which means… DUN DUN DUN They have to get married early on in their relationship.

Mr. Popularity, Incomplete, Darcy/Elizabeth, Modern Day AU, Rated PG?

This one is so weird. Lizzy is a marine biologist. Darcy is Mexican and runs a large Mexican foods company. He builds his house next to Lizzy’s and she goes bonkers. There is a lot that is entertaining and original about this fic, but wow was it also weird and at times mind boggling. The not being finished is deeply unsatisfying here.

A Long Road to Happiness Complete, Elizabeth/Darcy, Regency AU, Rated PG

Florid writing and I can’t even remember why I rec’d this. There’s no summary. Swim at your own risk.

What We Did on Our Holidays Complete, Darcy/Elizabeth, Modern AU, Rated NC-17 MAYBE THIS ONE FOR SALE

Elizabeth and Darcy are both single parents to teenagers and meet on holiday in Spain. I love this fic so much. OMG SO MUCH. It’s delightful. The kids are awesome.

And Very Impolitic Too, Complete, Darcy/Elizabeth, Modern AU, Rated R LOST FIC. If you find it please message me with the url and I will update. :)

Takes place in The Hague. Lizzy is a Dutch MP and Darcy is a British MP and they meet at a conference. Darcy doesn’t really seem that in character, but I don’t think I cared that much. If it’s going to bug you–then maybe skip. I don’t mind if my characters are interpreted differently fic.

Times of the Season, Complete, Darcy/Elizabeth, Modern AU, Rated PG-13 LOST FIC. If you find it please message me with the url and I will update. :)

Lizzy is a horticulturist trying to take over her family’s messy nursery and Darcy is an FHA inspector trying to prevent an outbreak of disease. Takes place in Vancouver. Pretty good.

A Singular Proposition, Complete, Elizabeth/Darcy, Regency AU, Rated R Available as an e-book now.

Jane is forced to marry Mr. Collins and Darcy takes Lizzy on as a paid companion for his sister. It’s all very dramatic, but still enjoyable.

Strange Bedfellows, Incomplete (but 31 chapters), Darcy/Elizabeth, Regency AU, Rated R AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK NOW

Elizabeth has one older brother and that’s it. No sisters. He’s a student at Cambridge, where Mr. Bennet is a professor. Darcy and Jamie Bennet are close friends until they learn that their fathers have arranged a marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth, who is only 13 when she learns about it. There is a duel, and Jamie must join the army and flee to India to avoid scandal. Lizzy is left all alone when her father dies a few years later and she is sent to Pemberly to live. Her first meeting with Darcy there doesn’t go well and it’s refreshing to read a fic where Darcy is not immediately in love with Lizzy. This one is really well done, except it’s missing a last chapter or two. It’s still highly readable as Lizzy and Darcy are together before it cuts off.

Action and Reaction, Complete, Darcy/Elizabeth, Modern AU, Rated NC-17 Available as e-book

This might be my favorite modern AU. It takes place in Ottawa. Lizzy works for the government and Darcy works in publishing.

The Luxury Gap Unfinished but insanely long contemporary AU, Rated R (but probably NC-17)

It takes place in Seattle and there are long wandery passages about Seattle and things that I skip on rereads, but are good on the first read. Lizzie is a costume designer for Opera. Darcy is a corporate guy gunning to be CEO of his family’s company. The tension and differences between them are really great. This whole thing is a super fun read. It does not really follow the P&P plot arc, but it doesn’t matter. It’s annoying that it’s unfinished, but you can read it without dying of curiosity about whats going to happen at the end. NB: This sucker is 900 pages long in pdf and it will EAT YOUR FUCKING FACE.

I have the PDFs if you can’t find it online. And seriously how can you not want to read about a Darcy who went through a goth phase in high school and listened to The Sisters of Mercy???!!!

An Unexpected Song, Incomplete (but updated in 2015 and 77 chapters), Modern AU, Rated R NOW COMPLETE 2023!

Darcy is a concert pianist and old money New Yorker. Lizzy is a music teacher at a conservatory in California. This is pretty epic.

The Muse, Complete, Contemporary, Rated R, but now an e-book. (If you have Kindle unlimited you can read it for free.)

Darcy is maniacal and famous ballet dancer. Lizzy and Jane are dancers. If you’ve ever taken serious ballet–or understand the culture. OMG.

Here are the AO3 stories for Lizzy/Darcy that are rated Explicit. Have not read either, but Siria gets a blanket rec from me.

Here are the ones rated Mature. Have not read yet.

IT SHOULD GO WITHOUT SAYING THAT IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THE LIZZIE BENNET DIARIES-YOU SHOULD. THEN I CAN REC YOU A MILLION OTHER FICS.

Bonus Mary rec:

I’ll Write you in Harmony in C from ladyofthelog. This is a Mary Bennet fic. It’s pretty good and nice to see a Mary fic.

I've gotten requests to update the dead links. I was able to find most of them by googling the story titles. Some are now e-books for sale. Vaya con dios. You can try searching via the wayback machine? idk.

Professor in the year 2092: As you can see denizens of tumblr had their own seasonal meme calendar. Spring in the northern hemisphere was ushered in by a pop singer with ramen hair. The skeleton war began drafting people on October 1st and throughout the month they celebrated by sharing this pumpkin headed man dancing to a jaunty tune from the previous century. And, of course, there was the Spiders Georg meme, but that seems to be an outlier and I don’t count it.

Crap and a half. I forgot this year!

Your daily dose of cat memes

We do a lot of cat blanket forts, but Bertie must have a blanket to lie on as well as one draped over him. He rejects perfectly adequate forts if they do not meet his standards and stares at us until we peons get our act together. Sometimes I don't know he's in one until an apendage or two stretches out and surprises me. He prefers to have a little catnip filled pillow, but will go without it if he must. (these are two different forts)

So as an Antarctic expert I need to add to this that we had not in fact been to Antarctica when it was named. The ancient Greeks decided that because there was an Arctic at the top of the world, with bears, there had to be an opposite at the other end, without bears. Which is kind of ridiculous except that the fuckers were dead on

Bears vs. No Bears

Getting indicted is what is going to win me the 2024 election

Being indicted AGAIN means I’m going to win the 2024 election twice, to become the first ever president to win 4 elections in a row

During the perp walk I will accept my Noble [sic] Prize.

I'll give this much to Americans: we really are impossible to satirize.

Via @sindirimba

God. I am so stupid. I googled Easter Crucifix Coke displays which I find weird, but whatever. And learned that people on etsy make Jesus on crucifx statues that look like horror movies. Part of me rocks in a corner and tries to think of nice of things like kittens and the rest of me is like wtf? What killed him was suffocation not exanguination.

TVTropes is such a weird website because the language (and I guess the 'culture') of the site was codified in an extremely specific era of internet use (mid to late aughties), and by members of an extremely specific and insular subgroup (nerds) that it codified all the tropes in what is effectively a dead language. No one talks like that anymore and yet because there's no renaming or updating, and in the 2000s we thought the future was forever babyyyy etc, it all continues to chug along as part of a world where self-respecting adults use words like "woobie". It's remarkable to me because its not a relic or preserved in amber (an online Pompeii like an abandoned geocities page), people are actively using it! Like finding an island where everyone speaks English in the style of Chaucer. I would be just as surprised if a man on the street greeted me "Hail and well met" as if someone in casual conversation deployed the phrase "crowning moment of awesome".

Except the language was odd and off putting from the start. Posters often made weird assumptions that everyone knows the same thing as long as that thing is anime, Star Named Things, and movies made after 1995. Most of the time there isn't an "Oh, this was done in this major hit TV show many people have seen" or "This movie that was made prior to 1990." 1960 is like The Time Before Chickens Were Invented on TV Tropes.

A Cook’s Tour by Anthony Bourdain

HOW DARE

The Wooster cat is getting a bit senile and hard of hearing. Sometimes he leans over his little water fountain and with his face almost touching the water and screams and screams.

I googled it and seems like many senile, hard of hearing old kitties yowl into their water bowls. (._.)

in l.m. montgomery novels the likability of the male love interest is negatively correlated to the normality and/or attractiveness of his name, hence why her most likeable male characters are gilbert blythe and barney snaith and her worst one is frederick kent

Moody Spurgeon MacPherson never stood a snowball's chance in hell.