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Who Would You Rather Have on a Pokemon Team?
Shiny Honchkrow
Shiny Slither Wing
Ex Honchkrow
Normal Shiny
Ex Slither Wing
Normal Shiny
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Tournament PSA: Normal Slither Wing won its round and is still in the tournament.
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Hello shippers and readers!
This week, being the week following our anniversary, we took ourselves back to our roots; our members. Our nomination call this week was for fics by current members of the book club that we have not read from in the year 2022.
With that in mind, we picked a Regency AU that slots right into the bodice-ripper loving section of many of our brains. This fic has some ghosts, some class strife and an extremely romantic confession that we all love, most ardently.
We hope you’ll join us out on the lawn with your hats and gloves, as is customary, to sip on some tea and take a stroll through the gardens of Walcot Hall with us as we read A Gentleman of Spirit by breathtaken this week.
Rating: Explicit
Summary:
Newly impoverished and grieving the loss of his father, Mr Shane Madej is only attending Lady Bergara’s ball at Walcot Hall so that he can write an anonymous report on it for one of the gossip columns. He isn’t expecting to find the Baronet of Walcot’s eldest son – as rich and handsome as he is eccentric – attempting to contact a spirit behind the coach house; he certainly isn’t expecting to fall in love.
Book Club Thoughts:
i'm a big fan of how the language of the narration matches the genre and setting and feels really like i'm reading an austen novel
it was so well written and i loved how easily they still fell into their like usual dynamic and banter but within the period
I loved all the period details of this. It just felt well researched and like, you know… researched. Like this felt bigger than a fic
I was sitting in a space of speculation about why this hits different and I think it's because it speaks to most of the saucy steamy regency romance novels I read as a teen which were probably formative for me to the point where the word "prick" had me spluttering with embarrassment lol
I really like the class stuff and while they're not that different class-wise irl, I think they are just enough to make this version really believable and sing
I also need to say that [author] really sells the world of this whole fic, the class system and how all the families know one another
shane loses his money and standing and quickly slips into 'eat the rich' mode, which feels true to life in a way
i like the contrast between what shane thinks he sees when he's first observing ryan at the dance, and then the real ryan that starts emerging as they get to know each other
i'm such a sucker for plonking the ghost stuff down in the middle of an apparently-incongruous setting
i love the like... boundary between what's happening and what Should be happening as is Proper, yknow? i think a lot of potential fics in this kind of world would have the Gay Stuff as the tension etc but i liked the choice to have it Not be that in this.
It has the perfect balance of regency au and also like, modern problems? Like usually you read about people in high class, and here Shane's struggles of having to do things for a living that are not so gentelmanely hits very well
I loved the inclusion of Shane's love of music in this a lot
I like how romantic it is, especially that comparison to the fire in the fireplace, and how they go from calling each other barely by the christian names to calling each other "my love"
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Losers Bracket: Who Would You Rather Have on a Pokemon Team?
Shiny Purrloin
Shiny Glimmora
Shiny Greavard
Shiny Honchkrow
Meditite
Dipplin
Mega Gengar
Gigantamax Gengar
Shiny Gengar
Shiny Gigantamax Gengar
Female Oinkologne
Shiny Male Oinkologne
Ex Purrloin
Normal Shiny
Ex Glimmora
Normal Shiny
Ex Greavard
Normal Shiny
Ex Honchkrow
Normal Shiny
Ex Gengar
Normal Shiny
Ex Male Oinkologne
Normal Shiny
Tournament PSA: Normal Purrloin won its round and is still in the tournament.
Tournament PSA: Normal Glimmora won its round and is still in the tournament.
Tournament PSA: Normal Greavard won its round and is still in the tournament.
Tournament PSA: Normal Honchkrow won its round and is still in the tournament.
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Who Would You Rather Have on a Pokemon Team?
Cursola
Dipplin
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Who Would You Rather Have on a Pokemon Team?
Shiny Greavard
Braixen
Ex Greavard
Normal Shiny
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Losers Bracket: Who Would You Rather Have on a Pokemon Team?
Shiny Magnemite
Shiny Boltund
Shiny Exploud
Nidorino
Igglybuff
Golurk
Original Color Magearna
Gigantamax Appletun/Flapple
Shiny Gigantamax Appletun/Flapple
Ex Magnemite
Normal Shiny
Ex Boltund
Normal Shiny
Ex Exploud
Normal Shiny
Tournament PSA: Normal Magnemite was eleminated in a past round.
Tournament PSA: Normal Boltund won its round and is still in the tournament.
Tournament PSA: Normal Exploud was eleminated in a past round.
Tournament PSA: Appletun and Flapple have identical Gigantamax forms so that is why they are not listed separately.
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Form Bracket: What Form of Shiny Gengar Would You Rather Have on a Pokemon Team?
Shiny Gengar
Shiny Mega Gengar
Shiny Gigantamax Gengar
Ex Gengar
Normal Shiny
Ex Mega Gengar
Normal Shiny
Ex Gigantamax Gengar
Normal Shiny
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Form Bracket: What Form of Hoopa Would You Rather Have on a Pokemon Team?
Hoopa Confined
Hoopa Unbound
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