nonasuch:

nervousnotion:

Northanger Abbey is so underrated like no offense but the heroine of that book is into sports and shenanigans growing up and doesn’t learn anything in school or have any accomplishments or interests until she has a growth spurt, gets hot, and reads so many gothic novels that she almost ruins her relationship w her love interest bc she convinces herself his house is haunted and does an inappropriate ghost hunt.

Northanger Abbey is my favorite Austen and by far her meanest book.

If they made a modern teen movie adaptation of it, it would be about a girl who consumes nothing but Buffy, Twilight and Teen Wolf, moves to a small, pleasant town, and continually expects it to be a secret hotbed of supernatural activity. This never happens, but she does make and lose a terrible BFF and eventually starts dating the cute, smart older brother of her other new friend while he’s home for a college visit.

There are never any vampires, no matter how many times she expects them, but her boyfriend’s asshole dad does send her home one night with a dead cell phone and no money for a cab, so she has to take the bus. This is the worst thing that ever happens to her.