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I've had painful periods (cramps) and they've been extremely irregular all my life. I've gotten ultrasounds that have shown polycystic syndrome. But since the last two cycles I have started to experience this new kind of debilitating pain that after looking it up, sounds identical to endometriosis.

Can endometriosis happen suddenly at this age? I've never had this pain before up until two cycles ago.

Was watching the horror movie "The Awakening" and the outside shot of the haunted boarding school immediately caught my eye. I looked it up and sure enough, it was Pemberly from the 1995 season.

Ofcourse P&P is not the only show/film that used Lyme Park but it just felt so fun so spot this. I was surprised at how easily recognizable it was. Made me happy.

Has anyone else stumbled upon P&P visuals like this in other films?

Lyme Park as the haunted boarding house in \"The Awakening\"

Lyme Park in P&P

I'm looking to build a platform through which I can attract readership and get my work discovered by readers. My writing is a mix of fiction and non-fiction (I write short stories, small social articles, and a bit here and there on geopolitics as well) and so I want to curate a writer's profile of sorts where people get to know me through my work without limiting my writing to one genre/box.

My idea is to post the title of each work and a small excerpt, with a link to read the full short story or article on a wordpress site.

Has anyone successfully built visibility through instagram? If so, would appreciate advice/pitfalls to look out for.

Furthermore, what are your thoughts on building an audience on instagram vs building an audience on dedicated writing sites? My concern is that writing sites have more a dedicated reader-based audience whereas a social platform like instagram might not have that.

I saw the 2005 adaptation first, then the 1995 one (which then became a favorite), and now I'm reading the book, and I've noticed something that I think the adaptations fail to communicate.

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‎Elizabeth had prejudice against Darcy for how he had behaved and how he had wounded her pride by rejecting her at the first ball. This made her see and judge Darcy in a more severe light. Her growth as she recognizes her own prejudice and feels mortification at her own error of judgement is not depicted in the adaptations quite as well.

The book, on the other hand, dwells on this realization quite heavily as she reads and studies the letter Darcy gives her after the proposal. And then goes on to explore the contradictory nature of her feelings about it: she feels angry at being insulted for her family but understands the logic behind the insult, feels angry for jane but comes to eventually understand what drove Darcy to pull Bingley away, feels torn about the completely different accounts given to her from Darcy and Wickham but after thinking over it extensively begins to see that Darcy had to be right. And all of this makes her feel absolutely terrible about HOW she refused him, although it does not make her regret the decision itself (likely because at this point Darcy is still the proud person with bad manners which later on he goes to fix and redeem himself for).

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‎The adaptations (I'm primarily speaking of the 1995 one but it would also apply to 2005) depict Darcy's growth well, but all the above that I've mentioned - that is, the growth on Elizabeth's part - I feel does not get as much attention as the book gives it. I saw the film and the series before reading the book and it always gave me the impression that Elizabeth had a more a stable character who Darcy's character improves to meet. And although Darcy's growth is definitely greater than Elizabeth and his actions are the primary instigator of the conflict, Elizabeth's growth is also a major part of the story that the adaptations miss representing fully.

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‎To be fair, the 1995 series does have a brief mention of it at the end (I believe) when Elizabeth apologizes to Darcy, and the 2005 film mentions it during a scene when Elizabeth admits to Jane that she has been wrong about Darcy. Despite that, the growth aspect on Elizabeth's part and the recognition of where her prejudice began, and the heavy implications of it in her judgement of Darcy just doesn't seem to be communicated clearly. And this growth on both their parts makes the story so much more interesting than just Darcy being the proud peacock who learns to be human.

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‎Does anyone else feel this way too or did I just not watch the adaptations properly?

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