#lgtpap

[sleepyandunmotivated]

If you liked Our Flag Means Death then you should try reading the Montague Sibling trilogy as it has pirates, POC, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ rep

And the same vice versa

[effyeahggtvav]

i need someone to write a fic about monty cutting his hair. i’ve been rereading the series and just realize that between gent’s and ladys guide monty cuts his hair short. after he gets his scars. so either at some point he cuts his hair as an act of self acceptance or maybe he wants it to be that and then it actually brings back trauma i don’t know but PLEASE SOMEONE WRITE ABOUT MONTY CUTTING HIS HAIR 

[1esbrarian]

Have you seen any good aspec content lately?

most recently I read The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy. if you haven’t read it already can recommend.

[agoddamnednerd]

We hate Richard Peele

[thatsverypoetic]

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

[constellated-synapses]

Montague Sibling Duology Heights: Main Trio

I feel like people forget how short Monty actually is, in a lot of fanart and stuff he's not that much shorter than Percy and Felicity.

But. Monty. Is. So. Smol. And. It's. So. Endearing.

Canonically he's 5'4" (Mackenzi Lee confirmed this on her Instagram) and even though people were shorter in the 18th century that's still?? Tiny??

And then because of that we can kinda guess how tall the other two are. For Percy there are a few things that kinda hint towards him being around 6'2". First off he can lean on Monty's head while standing, and secondly Monty needs to stand on his tippy toes to kiss him. (Which just. My heart 😭😭) But I think the main thing that gives it away is in TGGTGL when Percy and Monty jump into the ocean and Percy can stand while Monty can't at that depth.

So all the given info in that scene is:

1) Percy's collarbones are submerged while his head is above water

2) He can laugh without choking on water while standing where he is (which kinda suggests all of his head is out of the water and possibly some of his neck)

3) Monty is just. Drowning. He's too short to stand at the same spot.

So from all of that it's probably fair to assume that at the very least Monty is up to Percy's collarbone, and at the very most Monty is exactly a head shorter than Percy. And after putting all of that info into a height comparer with the knowledge that Monty is 5'4", I can confidently say that Percy is somewhere between 6'1.5" and 6'3.5". So just to give a solid figure I'd say an accurate guess would be that Percy is around 6'2".

Meaning that this is their canon height difference.

As for Felicity, it's a bit harder to judge. I do remember Monty mentioning that Felicity was almost the same height/ the same height as him in TGGTVAV, and Mackenzi has confirmed that Felicity is 15 and Monty is 18 in Gentleman's Guide. (And Percy is also 18, unrelated but just in case you were curious 😂). So I'm gonna assume Monty stays the same height in Lady's Guide because Mackenzi confirmed his height after the release of the book.

Girls normally stop growing about two years after they begin menstruating, and the average age for a girl to begin menstruating in the 1800s was at 14. And it's fair to assume that she'd definitely gotten her first period by fifteen because of her being squeamish about blood retort (which btw like!! Felicity is an international hero). So if we were to guess that she had begun getting them when she was fourteen she still had a year to grow.

Now I haven't gotten around to reading Lady's Guide yet, but when I do I'll update this with any more info I find about their heights. At the moment, I'm guessing that by the end of LG Felicity will be at least a tiny bit taller than Monty, leaving her at 5'5" or 5'6". And maybe if I feel like it I'll make another list with more character's heights 😂😂

So just to recap:

Monty: 5'4"

Percy: 6'2"

Felicity: 5'6"

And that my friends, is some of the most important research I have ever conducted.

[seventeenangrybees]

WE STAN AN ARO/ACE QUEEN

[bookcub]

Unreliable Narrators Book Rec

For @anassarhenisch and @booksforthoughts XD

Obviously, my first rec is The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss because Kvothe, as he is one of the ultimate unreliable narrators. And so charming too. 

It’s been a while since I read The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco, but Tea is telling her life story as well and has a very specific bias in sharing what happened to her.

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz has Isabel Spellman and boy, she is something else. She solves a crime in her life and is a private investigator. But she is also a middle child and very immature and I adore her. She is honest about her experience, but it is very colored by her emotions. Also, she refers to her boyfriends as Ex Boyfriend #8 or Ex Boyfriend #9 and it’s incredibly funny. Her bias is probably the most obvious of these. 

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead is less obvious but Sydney proves while incredibly observant to details, she is oblivious to people’s emotions, which is hysterical. Adrian narrates part of the story and is very good at reading emotion and much less at more environmental details. They compliment each other beautifully. 

Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue and Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee both have unreliable narrators. They live in little bubbles and are consumed by their emotions, which make for great reads, but multiple characters call them out on their self centered perspective. 

The Storyteller by Antonia Michaelis fits this story for many reasons that I can’t say because spoilers. Also, major trigger warnings. 

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo is a wonderful example of this!!!! It’s about a china rabbit who gets shifted from home to home and it is literally one of the most beautiful books I’ve read. First one that I remember crying at too. 

I’m going to read A Conspiracy of Truth by Alexandra Rowland in the next week or so and I’ve been told it fits the bill. Plus the first few pages are hysterical.