an underrated detail in pride and prejudice is that elizabeth bennett was home alone on the day darcy proposed because she had a headache. can you imagine. this was in the pre-painkillers era. you’re at home with a headache and then this asshole walks into the room and tells you he loves you and wants to marry you even though he hates your whole family and you’re beneath him. imagine having to deal with that while also having a headache. she doesn’t even have ibuprofen
until you said that it never occurred to me that the woman in STEM was the scientist and not the rat. i was just like “hell yeah, this rat is a powerful woman pioneering lifesaving technologies as a rescue ranger”
what would you do if you found out you were illegally cloned and you had genetic identicals living all over the world, living radically different, cooler lives