ok feel free

this only works if you don’t phone it in, though. so watch out

the thing is that he could be lying about this and if that’s the case. well. hot to me. unfortunately

your mistake was not putting him in his slutty little french swimsuit for that scene. balance in all things

you get it

one must pretend that there is no second submission deadline in august 🙈

stevie is unmoved 😔

as the kids say. i must stand on business

to be clear, it is the romance novels that disconnect the two. and i sit there thinking “connect them….won’t it be even sexier…..commit!!!”

i get that this is a preference thing. this also plays out differently in lgbt historical romance because that history is even more obscured to us. but the pleasure of the reading for me is when you sit down and say “okay what if we take this entirely seriously” and then you write the consequences

the big annoying key to me is the apparent disconnect between your latter 2 points which is 1) love the fun of arbitrary rules, and 2) those rules are not entirely arbitrary and they are inherently linked to the class system and the geopolitical reality of the time

i meant god-fearing but i was distracted by my own hypothetical peasant thing. also lord-fearing i guess