#downton abbey    #matthew x mary    #michelle dockery    #dan stevens    #mary crawley    #matthew crawley    #my edits    #!    #modern au    #m!mm    #this is a modern matthew/mary au    #that awesome ships in the night video popped up on my dash again and i wanted more so i did this    #if they would live in our age i imagine mary to be an absolute brat who likes to bitch to matthew about how much people suck    #and he just smiles because he thinks her bitterness is super cute and funny    #and the way she rebels against everyone and everything is sort of attractive to him    #they would probably have sex occasionally but it wouldn't be a love/romance thing or anything like that    #mary is very adamant about this because ew monogamy and commitment i mean who wants that    #not mary    #that is until matthew gets an actual girlfriend (lavinia lol) who treats him right and then mary's like damn    #and then she is all alone and matthew has no idea she is actually in love with him    #and this goes on for years    #so yeah like the show basically    #BUT WITH MORE SEX    #the person in the background is anna by the way    #because even in modern days mary needs a maid to clean up her shit    #anna likes to eavesdrop on matthew and mary's conversations    #it gives her and her husband bates something to talk about when they have time to spare during conjugal visits    #are conjugal visits a thing in the uk?    #also they are smoking spliffs obviously because that's all british adolescents do    #this is according to skins