i'll take the meta-drenched parodic fluffy one every time.

[cimorene]

There ought to be some sort of personality test (or at least reading personality test) based on which is your favorite Austen novel. Of course this only applies to people who have read all of them and in general like Austen, or at least definitely liked one of them.

My favorite is Northanger Abbey, which is an extremely uncommon preference in the field of Austen fans. I've never met anyone else who agreed with me about that (not that I've looked especially hard. Your typical community of Austen readers is not my kind of people. They know way too little about lolcats, for one thing).

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[lotesse]

*raises hand* NA's my favorite, too. I love it when Austen lets her snide get that close to the surface!

[cimorene]

Oh, yay! High five!!

I wrote an awesome essay about NA one time, but then it got lost in the computer-shuffling later when I had a nervous breakdown/reached my limit of unmedicated depression.

[damned_colonial]

Wollstonecraft icon love!

[damned_colonial]

Austen fans who do not know LOLCATs? A crime! Did you see the Austen crackfic over on the age_of_sail kink meme? There's Willoughby mpreg and P&P foursome spanking and ummm some other stuff I think, less cracky.

[cimorene]

I did not even know about it; I haven't followed any age of sail fandoms in years! But the idea of Austen crackfic sort of rubs me the wrong way. I like her voice too much to tolerate any but the most exceptionally note-perfect pastiche.