sing out, louise

bread for all, and roses too. often thinking about 18th-century england

[glintglimmergleam]

imagine bridgerton if eloise had a gun

[glintglimmergleam]

my concentration is so shit today. a task that should have taken 45 minutes has instead taken *checks watch* 3 hours...

[glintglimmergleam]

Asking for your Paris muséum thoughts was my fairly unsubtle way of asking for recommendations and I wanted to let you know that we had a really great time at the museum of Jewish art and history today :)

OMG I'm so glad to have helped!!! Were there any specific art works or objects you enjoyed? (Something for me to remember for the future!) Hope you have a wonderful rest of your trip.

[pealeii]

❌ “friends don’t look at friends like that” devalues friendship/platonic forms of love, pushes amatonormativity

❌ “historians will call them friends” devalues historians and forces complex relationships into modern simplicities, also devalues friendship/platonic forms of love

✅ “do they know its legal now” suggests the characters are stupid, poorly suggests that this is the only barrier to their relationship—both of which are funny as hell

[glintglimmergleam]

do you all ever focus on a longform meta draft too hard for too long? by the time i sat down at the computer to type it, i ran out of think.

[vortexstreet]

Saul Steinberg, Mask Series, 1961, Photo by Inge Morath 

[taggsvansen]

[glintglimmergleam]

there's something darkly funny about using page views as a measure of fic popularity given that i've "read" certain fics 29 times according to my account history. when i was simply accidentally refreshing a multi-chapter fic's open tab several times in one day.

and yes since the kudos : hits ratio is pretty large, the number of kudos is not an accurate indicator of how many people have actually READ the fic. but it IS a decent indicator of how many people thought it was good enough to pay their respects.

[thomasmomwell]

can't get over having "is one of the most popular Men’s Hockey RPF writers on Archive of Our Own, with over two million words and twice the page views of the next most popular writer" as your author bio on Penguin Random House dot com. girl at any point as you sat there collating other writers' page views did you doubt yourself or

[madebykyra]

My sister took more photos of my dress. I am very happy with how this turned out :)))))

Only one more weekend until the Renaissance Faire!!!!

[glintglimmergleam]

once again i have failed in obtaining a decent chai latte and instead received frothy cinnamon sugar milk. i live in hope.

[mysharona1987]

[glintglimmergleam]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Arabella is the manic pixie dream debutante romp that every modern Regency romance novelist is trying to imitate, and half of them don't even know it. Photocopy of a photocopy, some of them. When you want that comic zaniness ending in chaste kisses, an anti-child labor subplot, and A CUTE DOG, nothing hits like the original.

[glintglimmergleam]

At the moment my 5 favorite Heyer novels are:

Arabella

A Civil Contract

Cotillion

Devil's Cub

False Colours

These have very different energies and I think reflect the breadth of her approach to romance and to historical setting. Many of her others are great too, these just hit the most for me

[glintglimmergleam]

@devoutjunk here is a "Where To Start With Georgette Heyer" guide written by @tobermoriansass, it is very long (organized by subcategory) and very correct.

If that still feels too overwhelming for you to decide, send me an ask with your favorite dynamic/tropes in romance or in historical fiction and I'll give you a personal rec.

[not-camelot]

okay

[glintglimmergleam]

As for which Heyer heroes I personally find the sexiest, I admit it isn't Avon -- but then the titled dom has never been my fantasy. If he has too much power I don't like it.

No, the hottest hero is definitely Hugo Darracott from The Unknown Ajax, who had a career before inheriting, has class consciousness, can delegate and strategize (army training), knows his limits, is a good listener, can both take a joke and tell a joke, and gets a bit dopey in love. Masquerading like a golden retriever but actually a wolfhound. Would be very fun in bed.

Second best is Kit Fancot from False Colours. The second son with the diplomatic career, loyal to his family but also a pragmatist, observant, can keep his mouth shut, clear sense of duty, manages his money well, treats his mother with respect. Would be very focused on his partner's desires in bed.

And if we must have a man who was to the title born, it's the Marquis of Rotherham in Bath Tangle. One of the only domineering Heyer lords who wants a partner who fights back, not a cutesy little thing who causes chaos and needs cleaning up after. He bites and expects you to bite back.

Ravenscar in Faro's Daughter also superficially resembles Rotherham but it's been so long since I read the book that I don't remember if I actually find him sexy.

I adore Arabella, Frederica, and Cotillion as books but I'd rather be a spinster than marry any of their heroes.