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Now you can try to adapt that into some completely different plotline that isn’t abjectly horrifying but like. Why? What’s the point? The book is a historical artifact. It’s time-bound. You can write a Different Story Altogether but you’ll lose all the fucked-up, halfway-subversive, internally contradictory, grimly compelling things Austen has to say about gender and class in a very specific moment in time.

And these things are essential to the romance, not just to Austen’s message about what it is to be a woman (although Austen’s messages about women are frankly much more interesting than the romances anyway) because Darcy’s rescue of Lydia is a necessary demonstration of his love for Elizabeth and his integrity of character precisely because he has himself slut-shamed Lydia, to Elizabeth’s face. “Saving” Lydia (from a total and irreversible fall from society, and her family from a damaging social disgrace) redeems his behavior during his first failed proposal, where he threw Lydia’s “impropriety” in Elizabeth’s face. He used the thing that scares Elizabeth and Jane the most in the world (because they have elder sister syndrome) as a justification for having broken Jane’s heart (read: destroying Jane’s financial future and the family’s economic salvation.)

In his first proposal Darcy unintentionally positions himself as Elizabeth’s enemy. By insulting her family, bringing up her class status, and blaming Lydia/Kitty/Mrs Bennett for his decision to wreck Jane’s life, he affiliates himself with every danger Elizabeth has been taught to fear and defend against. His rescue of Lydia rolls that back. Darcy pivots from the position of “Lydia’s behavior means your family of women should sink like a stone once your father dies” to “I am going to rescue your family from the consequences of Lydia’s behavior.” It’s that transition that finally makes him a truly viable romantic prospect. He demonstrates that he will leverage his wealth and maleness to help protect Elizabeth and her sisters from the brutal way their world treats women. That is when she understands that her only hope of long-term happiness is marrying him.

There is simply NO equivalent modern way for Lydia to so utterly and completely humiliate herself and her family and destroy her sister's prospects. A sex tape comes close, but it doesn't have the LIFETIME of consequences that marrying a philandering gambling addict does. Where the best option possible is MARRYING the horrible man who's so completely ruined everything. It's genuinely fucking awful, made all the more awful in that this poor dumbass 16yo girl doesn't ever truly understand how close she came to utterly ruining her family and herself forever.

And in a way, that makes reading pride and prejudice in the modern day a strange kind of relief. The whole book is underscored by this quiet desperation, the knowledge that they are entirely dependent on their connection to men to have any hope of survival in the world they live in. It's only ever alluded to what might become of them if Mr Bennett did die without any of the girls marrying well, but it's a threat that hangs over everything (and Mr Collins kind of leverages it as a threat a few times)

The happy ending for the whole family is Lizzie and Jane's happy marriages to two very wealthy men, sparing the entire family from the dire and deadly consequences of Mr Bennetts poor parenting and financial management and Mrs Bennetts incredible social awkwardness and obnoxious behavior.

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Shane lifts one eyelid again to look at Rozanov. His eyes are red-rimmed. Like he’s been crying. “Why…why aren’t you in Boston?” Rozanov’s brow furrows. “Why would I be in Boston?” “You, you’re captain. Raiders. Boston.” The room is silent except for the beeping of monitors.

In 2023, Shane takes a bad hit on the ice. When he wakes up, the last thing he remembers is a tuna melt.

There’s a lot to get used to.

For all you WONDERFUL FIC WRITERS who made the mistake of following me

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