mustbeawitch: (laughing)
Did Lydia know where the nation of Afghanistan could be found on a map? Not at all! Was that going to stop her from picking an Afghan restaurant for Supper Club this week? Also not at all! And everything smelled fantastic, which had led her to decide she'd chosen correctly before even trying a bite.

Assuming other people liked it, that was...

Welcome to Supper Club, everyone who found their way to this corner of Baltimore!
mustbeawitch: (smiling and nervous)
Lydia must confess to a total ignorance of the cuisine of Ethiopia--and, indeed, of the nation of Ethiopia--but she had thought, upon stumbling across an Ethiopian restaurant in her search for the Supper Club's next destination, that that was what Supper Club was all about, wasn't it?

So here she was, at Tabor, waiting for her friends and fellow Supper Clubbers to join her. It smelled fantastic in here, she must say, although she did so hope Ethiopia wasn't one of those nations that was enamored of the chile pepper.

Welcome to Supper Club, everyone!
mustbeawitch: (smiley)
The food of India was not, of course, unknown in Lydia's time, but it was the sort of thing one found at a very few establishments in London, not in the likes of Meryton, so she was rather excited about today's destination for Supper Club.

She was less excited about the anticipated spice levels, but she was sure she would be able to find things on the menu that wouldn't burn her delicate English taste buds off.

She had sent out a message with their destination well in advance, so hopefully everyone would be able to find the place, and inform anyone new who might want to come along of where they could be found.

Welcome to Supper Club, everyone!
mustbeawitch: (smiley)
Lydia had in effect spun the wheel and landed on Korean food this week, which she was both excited and nervous about as it was entirely new to her. Hopefully one of the other supper clubbers would have some familiarity to share...especially once it became apparent you were supposed to cook the food, as she was at present completely ignorant to that.

She did hope everyone was able to find the place without any trouble. Perhaps she should start arranging portals? Something to think about.

Welcome to Supper Club, everyone!
mustbeawitch: (bundled up)
Lydia had, during her research for a restaurant for this week's supper club, remembered how nice the food had been in Vietnam in her class last semester...and possibly also how warm it had been in Vietnam. Alas, the conditions had not been replicated for her, but hopefully the pho would warm everyone up? So she had sent a message to everyone who usually came (and hopefully anyone new who might want to join in had gotten word somehow) to meet her at Pho Bac at the appointed hour.

Welcome to Supper Club, everyone!
mustbeawitch: (mad and maybe about to cry)
Anyone who was surprised to hear a shriek coming from room 303 on Sunday morning honestly shouldn't have been...at least, not if they kept slightly more up to date on news regarding social media apps than Lydia did.

"What? Why? Where has it gone?!" How was she supposed to learn anything about anything now? School? School wouldn't teach her the ideal 15-step skincare routine, and it was woefully lacking in cute cat videos.

Several minutes of frantic googling later had led her to, "I have to learn Chinese?!"

(I had to. Closed door, post open to anyone who might hear Lydia's TikTok ban-induced distress.)
mustbeawitch: (smiley)
Lydia, remembering how much she had enjoyed Athens in Mr. Raiden's class last semester, had selected Estiatorio Plaka in Baltimore for the Supper Club's first venture off the island. She had sent messages to all of the usual members a few days in advance, and she hoped that if anyone new wished to join them they had somehow been made aware as well. The island did work in mysterious ways, after all.

Welcome to Supper Club's first off-island meeting. This week the cutlery will not be dancing for us, alas.
mustbeawitch: (laughing)
Now that there were four people from the Regency in town, one might have thought a real effort would have been made to attend church, but no: Wickham was a demon; Kitty, despite being a clergyman's wife, hardly could have cared less; and Georgiana was an atheist (and slept late). Instead, after a sleepover last night with Kitty, once she'd been prised away from Boston, Lydia had had a long, luxuriant soak in her hotel room's bathtub, then done her hair with the Dyson Air Wrap whilst Kitty looked on in fascination and Wickham prepared a bundle of herbs and such under her direction.

Just a little bit of magic )
mustbeawitch: (well all right then)
With fall approaching, Lydia had decided to take an afternoon (since it wasn't like there was anything else going on in town today that might have drawn her attention) to go through her wardrobe to evaluate which of the dresses she already had from last winter could be made over to be more in line with local, modern fashions, and to make any repairs or minor alterations she had been putting off.

The door to her room was closed, as some things needed to be tried on to see if they still fit properly, and while she doubted anyone would knock she would be most pleased to answer if they did, provided, of course, that she was modest.
mustbeawitch: (reading)
Lydia had spent much of the day painstakingly writing out a fresh copy of her primer on the 21st century for Captain Flint (with rather less of a focus upon the functions of the Dyson Airwrap, but featuring new information like the importance of sunscreen), and then catching up on her correspondence. She had read and written responses to several letters she had been saving up, and now she had one more she wanted to get to, which she had left for last because, well, writing to her family was always a struggle. Most of what she could tell them was information Wickham had dutifully, if somewhat laboriously given his own difficulties with the written word, relayed to her from Sainte Josephine, but if she didn't write to them at all she knew they would worry--and Elizabeth would grow suspicious of her robust correspondence with Georgiana.

Dearest Father )

There. That should suffice. She folded, addressed, and sealed it, and set it with the stack that would require special processing at the post office, since they would need to arrive via Sainte Josephine, 1810, and not directly from Fandom like the ones for Wickham and Miss Lambe could. Lord, but her hand ached! If only she had some magic she needed to do at present.

(Mostly establishy, but the door to her room is cracked and she's available for calls or texts if you like!)
mustbeawitch: (well hello there)
Everyone please welcome Miss Lydia Bennet, hailing from a few years after the events of Pride & Prejudice and roughly eighteen months after the events of The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch, a Pride & Prejudice variation, or published fanfic, by Melinda Taub, which addresses the burning question I know we've all asked ourselves: "What if Lydia Bennet had magical powers?"

And if you're now going, "Wait she's coming from post-canon? Didn't Lydia get married in Pride & Prejudice? Shouldn't she be Lydia Wickham?" don't worry, I will clear that misconception up, along with some others you may have.

Like how many Bennet daughters there are. )

So. Lydia Bennet. )

About that witch thing... )

And that's Lydia! For info on my other on-island characters, Gray is over here and Raiden's over here.

Wow, this got long. TL;DR: Lydia's a witch; any differences from Pride & Prejudice that come up are likely deliberate. Questions? Comments? Pie?

Voicemail

Jan. 4th, 2024 05:24 pm
mustbeawitch: (Default)
Is this how it--oh, I think it's--Yes, hello, you have reached the "voice mail box" of Miss Lydia Bennet. Please leave your particulars and I shall return your call just as soon as I have finished figuring out how this thing works. Thank you.
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