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I recently tested this at Sephora and absolutely fell in love with it, however since $50 for a lotion is diabolical I'm still contemplating whether or not to bite the bullet and purchase it and in the meantime I'd love to hear some reviews about it -

As in, how long does it last and does it actually do anything for the skin? Since tested it on my palm in the store and as a result it wore off pretty quickly. Also, I live in a very hot area so I'm worried that the weather combined with the heavy fragrance will result in irritated skin.

Also, how is the spray version of 91? Bcs none of my local stores have it yet and I tend to stay away from the mists in general bcs a mini version of the 71 I was gifted a year back was oddly alcoholic and maceration didn't fix it.

I am not a parent, just a parentified adult sister with checked-out parents and this problem is related to my youngest sibling, he's 12 nearly 13 and our parents had pretty much given up on the parenting thing by the time he came along.

I'm in grad school now and commute from home and recently I've noticed that he's been using really inappropriate language, he thinks it's cool to use racial slurs against black people and sexist language against women and he's been watching Andrew Tate/PragerU type far-right content.

I've already called him out on it and explained to him why exactly it's wrong before a few weeks ago and I really thought I got through him but it turns out I was wrong, I caught him using white supremacist language on the phone with some friends and I was disgusted by what he's growing up to be.

What do I do about this? A part of me just wants to see him get his just desserts because I'm not a parent and it's not my responsibility but at the same time I'm also worried and I don't want him to get in trouble or cause trouble.

Something like *Disarmed* where Lydia Bennet is Darcy's wingwoman and helps him be less of a jerk.

I want a book where one of the other Bennet sisters has a strong platonic relationship with Darcy. Especially Lydia or Mary.

It was just a couple of drops on the top of the screen. I immediately soaked it up with a damp cloth and then with a soap water drenched cloth for good measure. Should I still take it to the store and get it checked out? It's working fine and my screen doesn't look damaged.

So I was here two days ago complaining about Janice Hadlow's book and the new BBC adaptation and I thought I'd share my favorite piece of Mary Bennet (and Lydia) p&p variation.

'The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet' by Melinda Taub (who's also written some great original fiction btw). It's about a necromancer Mary who singlehandedly drains the supply of leeches in Meryton, gets proposed to by a zombie, falls out of love with bad Christian authors after a very rude awakening, remains a happy spinster, does more highly illegal science, manages to have a half-decent relationship with Mrs B and is very, very gay. There's also some meddling Darcys about...

There's also its prequel, 'The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch' which goes exactly as you'd expect, with sidekick Kitty Bennet who is totally not just a random feral kitten transfigured by six year old Lydia's accidental magic and a 'Wickham' who promptly reveals himself to be a succubus in disguise, the real George Wickham having died during Ramsgate after the Georgiana incident.

I finally managed to watch the new TV adaptation of Janice Hadlow's fanfic and I've gotta say, I have *thoughts* and I have no idea where to even start.

One of the first glaring flaws I noticed was the Mr Darcy character slander. This Mr Darcy is definitely among my least favorite fanon Darcys because his behaviour in the show completely kills all of his character development from p&p! Like, wasn't one of the lessons that he learny in the book something about trying to be nice to Lizzy's family? While here he seems to do the exact opposite by making Mary feel like an outsider in his home, meanwhile Elizabeth is a gold-star sister to Georgiana — who I daresay is even more of a social disaster than Mary — and it just makes Darcy's prejudice against his wife's family all the more obvious.

The Charlotte plotline is another example. While I'll admit I liked seeing a more agreeable Mr Collins I also felt that it was unnecessary to add a Charlotte×Collins×Mary illicit love triangle into the plot. Like, it's 2026, cheating and insecure women are overused tropes and I'd have loved to see a plotline where all three of them were good friends without Charlotte suspecting Collins of infidelity. JAFF definitrly needs more rule 63 stories where women have healthy friendships and learn greek side-by-side without fighting over a man.

Speaking of women, I also found it so frustrating how it seemed like every woman in Mary's life was against her. Again, we need some strong female friendships in this fandom without the interference of men! Is it too much to ask for a supportive Jane who stands up to Mrs B and helps Mary or a more canon-compliant Lizzy who doesn't let Darcy turn his nose up at her sisters? Or maybe some kind of reconciliation with Mrs Bennet?

This show also turned Mary into a Mary Sue and it felt so cringe-inducing at times.

Like, I get it, Mary was bullied by her mother and some of her crashouts were valid but at the same time a lot of the times Mary was, in fact, at fault. The Netherfield ball incident was a 100% on her — she was warned against playing that song and still did and had no right to blame Lizzy for urging Mr Bennet to stop her. So were her fashion choices — Mrs Bennet wasn't the one telling her to dress as drab as possible. Not to mention most of her messed up relationships with her sisters (save for Lydia who was a little brat) were born of her own envy rather than any actual issues. Jane was perfectly sweet to her and didn't deserve to be criticised as such.

I get that the author was trying to model Mary into a middle-chuld stereotype but it just came across as forced and I couldn't pity her one bit — most of her issues excluding Mrs Bennet's judgements seemed to be her own work .

A better Mary Bennet story in my opinion is the *The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet* series which has Mary becoming a spy and a much better self-realization scene that doesn't turn her into a Mary Sue.

Because I'm completely tired of reading tale after tale of the same comically evil Caroline and idiot golden retriever Bingley and need something new to refresh my palate.