#historical romance

[bleulone]

Miss Mary Bennet & Mr Tom "Heart eyes" Hayward — The Other Bennet Sister (2026)

[lucylehane]

Trung Le Nguyen's epic Pride & Prejudice thread was so magnificent I had to gif it.

Trung Le Nguyen (@trungles.com)

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

[didanagy]

KATE WINSLET as ROSE DEWITT BUKATER

TITANIC (1997) dir. james cameron

[rosieandthemoon]

from divinationanddiamonds, insta

[bethanydelleman]

Historical inaccuracies in major published novels and period dramas bother me so much because I can't write a fan fiction that I know I'll post for free without being fairly certain I have the major facts right.

I'm writing a story right now that I probably won't post at all and I still spent a good hour and downloaded a research paper to figure out if women in feudal China were allowed to have baths during their periods. The answer is no, as I suspected, but I checked! I also learned about their version of pads which sound much better than European historical period solutions and kept reading long after I'd found my answer. It was all fascinating to learn about because history is interesting.

So I guess what I'm saying is, why write historical fiction or make a period drama if you aren't even interested in or in love with history? When I read Bernard Cornwell, for example, it feels like he's fascinated by the period he's writing about. No one seems strangely modern, but they all feel deeply human. I don't need a female character to point out sexism or patriarchy to me, it's obvious. I'm trusted to think about it for myself. The author trusts that I care as much as he does about the past.

I don't understand why you would produce historical fiction if you don't care about the past. Maybe I'm the wrong audience, maybe most people don't care, but I don't get it. And I don't expect everything to be perfect, we don't even know everything about even an era as recent as the Regency, but it doesn't even feel like some of these people care at all.

[fandom-witch]

Day 5: Arranged Marriage

Victorian historical romance AU with Katara and Aang (plus a watchful Sokka)

🎨Art by @vienguinn

Aang and Katara become childhood friends due to their families' early betrothal for them for joint business ventures. They become young lovebirds, but a war starts, and aang is shipped off and not seen for years. Years go by with no word from Aang, and Katara is heartbroken.

Her reputation is on the decline, and she's being pressured with another engagement. Then Aang shows up back in town and is taking over his family's estate. Taller, more handsome, and a stranger to her. But they meet by chance again during an outing that results in a scandal.

Which pushes them back to being engaged to protect both of their reputations..and then blah blah maybe someone gets stabbed or kidnapped...but they fall back in love but stronger and get married because they want to and run off into the sunset!

[writersisland]

Words of a Shattered Heart

✯ “How dare you stand before me and demand the type of devotion you would not offer me under threat of death.”

✯ “You saw my heart as nothing but a trophy to be paraded around. And I was fool enough to stand in the crowd and cheer.”

✯ “Every love of mine paled in comparison to you... And now I fear I will never see life in color again.”

✯ “The person I gave everything for has betrayed me in the most personal way. How is a heart supposed to recover from such hurt?”

✯ “Do not blame me for your own sentimental tendencies. I never promised to love you.”

✯ “You break my heart and bury the shards, yet you come to ask for a favor?”

✯ “Leave. If I ever see you again, you will know the wrath of a heart left to wither.”

✯ “I never wanted to hurt you, but to say that I regret what I did would hardly be accurate.”

✯ “I do not believe my heart shall ever recover.”