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au where alex and michael run away from roswell after the shed and alex's brothers come home when they hear he's missing all suspicious and none of them willing to say why but they find the bloody hammer and the blood on the floor of the shed they all think that jesse killed alex and is covering it up and they're trying to find his body all while alex and michael are on a gay little road trip

vs

au where michael does lose control of his powers in the shed and accidentally kills jesse and runs thinking he's ruined everything and the secret is out and he's a monster only for alex to cover for him and take the blame for jesse's death saying it was an accident and self defense and just living with the whole town finding out what his dad did to him and with everyone including his family thinking he killed jesse all while not actually talking to michael about any of it or having any clue what he is or if michael even wants to see him again

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THE 9TH (but not final T_T) CHAPTER OF ALL'S FAIR IS UP!

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liz, alex, and kyle's group chat is called "alien fuckers"

when max, michael, and isobel find out, they also changed their group chat name to "alien fuckers"

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All I needed to be happy was you.

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RNM S1.10 | S3.10

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alex holding onto michael’s arm

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So you do love someone

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I'm happy for you, bro!

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-Tyler Blackburn, Cast4Good Panel

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Michael and Alex being protective of each other for @cosmiceverafter

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Hope this friendship will continue even after Malex gets their happy ending ❤️

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ROSWELL NEW MEXICO 2x05 // 4x11 (requested by anonymous)

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I'm at a :.|:; for words.

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never interrupt during a capture the flag strategy meeting or they'll look at you like this

(for @forrpercyy's dtiys! congrats on 4k on instagram!)

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A 22 yr old in my org got drunk tuesday night and kinda shit on the fact that I'm running a community cleanup for our chapter. Said something along the lines of "i didn't join up to pick trash." Which really bothers me and it took me a while to figure out why. The whole point of the community cleanup is that we're returning to the neighborhoods where we knocked doors for A4 to help clean up their streets and provide material improvement for free in an effort to build inroads with those neighbors.

Like... if your socialism doesn't include picking uo trash, I'm guessing it also doesn't include doing the dishes, babysitting, or anything else that is important but not prestigious. Idk man, fuck off with that shit. You'll pick up trash and you'll like it until you understand why picking up trash isn't anyone's job but your own. I hate that attitude. If helping and doing activism was always fun and visible and impressive, everyone you know would already be doing it.

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Adaptations of novels by their very nature are always going to differ from the source material but I find it interesting precisely how they do.

For instance, I find it curious that both the 1995 and 2005 adaptations of Pride and Prejudice feature scenes where Elizabeth declares she will only marry for love, because not only is such a quote nowhere to be found in the novel, I also find such a sentiment unrealistic for a Regency lady.

As stated in Chapter 22,

'[Marriage] was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.'

All women knew they would be expected to find a husband to provide for them, given that they weren't... you know... classed as people in their own right by law. Especially the Bennets, who lack substantial dowries and know as soon as Mr Bennet dies, any unmarried sisters will be entirely dependent on their male relatives, which isn't a secure position.

Of course, it wouldn't be unheard of for a woman to wish for a husband she could respect and who respected her in turn. But she's not an idiot! I think Elizabeth is astute enough to realise that a love match would be a bonus rather than an expectation for her marriage. She doesn't quite sink to the depths of pessimism of Charlotte in asking only for a comfortable home, and I think Elizabeth would still expect a partner to respect her (hence why she refuses Mr Collins and Mr Darcy at his first time of asking) but I don't see her as a hopeless romantic. Not Elizabeth, who voiced her increasing dissatisfaction with the world and the people who inhabit it.

I wonder if these adaptations included such a line because they find the idea that in Mr Darcy, Elizabeth found the true love that she was never expecting to find to be the most romantic idea of all. Personally, I think that not expecting to marry for true love but finding it anyway, especially in the man she least expected, is far more romantic.

These scenes have long frustrated me because I think they fundamentally underestimate the pragmatism of women at the time and make Elizabeth and Mr Darcy's union a little less satisfying! She loved him in the end, yes, but even if they failed to overcome their respective shortcomings and somehow failed to end up together, I hardly think that Elizabeth would have turned into an old maid, sitting at Longbourn and desperately waiting for a true love that would never come...