#daring and the duke

[fated-mates]

We’re talking about gaming hells! Is it residual Derek Craven love? Probably. Why does Sarah love a casino so much? Why are we so into ladies being wagered by the idiot men in their lives? What makes these places that are so not sexy in real 2024 life so incredibly hot in a) James Bond movies, b) heist movies, and c) historical romances? We’re getting to the bottom of it—or at least, we’re going to talk about books we love. That’s the Fated Mates promise.

S06.23: Casinos, Gaming Hells, and Clubs in Romance Novels

(Thanks to 1001 Dark Nights and Olivia Dade for sponsoring this week's episode.)

#Casinos #Gambling Romance #Derek Craven #Waking Up Married #Rules Of Scoundrels Series #Taylor Swift #Lisa Kleypas #Dreaming Of You #Devil In Winter #Kresley Cole #The Player #Sarah MacLean #A Rogue By Any Other Name #One Good Earl Deserves A Lover #No Good Duke Goes Unpunished #Never Judge A Lady By Her Cover #Daring And The Duke #Joanna Shupe #The Prince Of Broadway #Anne Mallory #One Night Is Never Enough #Caroline Linden #An Earl Like You #Lorraine Heath #Between The Devil And Desire #Sophie Jordan #The Rake Gets Ravished #Sabrina Jeffries #A Hellion In Her Bed #Renee Rose

[petiteblasee]

"(...) Como nomear o vazio lancinante que senti com sua ausência? O tempo todo? Todos os dias? (...) Que nome damos àquela solidão, como se metade de mim tivesse partido, para nunca mais retornar?"

*:･ﾟ✧ A Traição do Duque [Bastardos Impiedosos #3] - Sarah MacLean.

#daring and the duke #a traição do duque #sarah maclean #romance de época #serie literária #romance #childhood friends enemies to lovers #livros #aesthetic #aestheticlit

[miceenscene]

New book off to a VERY strong start 👀

#please note he is bound on his knees before her while thinking this #daring and the duke #mice reads

[sarah-maclean-completist]

#sasrah maclean #bareknuckle bastards #wicked and the wallflower #brazen and the beast #daring and the duke

[readtilyoudie]

“I felt you,” he said, low enough that only she would hear. “I know you touched me.”

Impossible. He’d been dosed with laudanum. Still, she couldn’t stop herself from saying, “Not me.”

“It was. It was you,” he said, softly, advancing on her with slow, predatory grace. “You think I would forget your touch? You think I wouldn’t know it in the darkness? I would know it in battle. I would walk through fire for it. I would know it on the road to hell. I would know it in hell, which is where I’ve been, aching for it, every day since you left.”

- Daring and the Duke by Sarah MacLean

#romance wednesday #book quote #daring and the duke #sarah maclean #the bareknuckle bastards #grace condry #dahlia #ewan condry #historical romance #regency romance #quote #quotes #booklr #bookblr

[dogstarblues]

who CARES if Ewan killed people. so what if he's a lil insane. he's sex worker posi and wildly devoted. what else do you need. 🤨

#daring and the duke #text #i still think abt this book its been 8 months.

[batfamhyperfixation]

The Batkids: *all sitting on the floor huddled around a phone*

Bruce, walking up: What are you guys doing?

Tim: We're playing a new game. Its like truth or dare, except it is only dare, and all the dares are decided by a random word generator set for verbs, if we need more context we can randomly generate a noun too. Here, Steph is next, watch.

Steph: *clicks the generate a word button* 'appreciate'? *Clicks for a noun* 'Scene'? Am I supposed to go to a play? Look at the top of a mountain?

Damian: you have to get to the top of the hill, adequately appreciate the scene, and get back before your next turn, otherwise you are out

Steph: *gets up and runs out of the house*

Jason: My turn *presses the randomly generate a word button* Request *presses to randomly select a noun* cookies. Fuck yes! Alfred!

Cass, soaking wet, signing: not fair

Bruce: hey, I saw Dick's car out front, where is he?

Duke: he got 'vanish'

Tim: Still better than that time Jason got 'die'

Damian: me next, 'read'

Jason, walking in with a plate full of cookies: you gotta read and finish Pride and Prejudice before your next turn.

Damian: That's impossible! Without Dick that is only 5 people before me.

Tim: Impossible if you sit here complaining. Better hop to it.

Damian: *running to the library*

Duke, stealing a cookie: you wanna try, Bruce?

Bruce: maybe just once *clicks the button* 'grin'

Tim: Batman has to smile for an entire day fighting bad guys and dealing with the Justice League

Bruce: I don't like this game

#lets just say they didnt trust the other batkids to give them dares so this seemed like a safer option #still laughing that when i was clicking a random one for Bruce it came back with grin #like could you imagine all the villains getting creeped out when batman swoops in to stop them and he just has a huge plastered on smile on #or worse the justice league having to sit through a whole meeting with broody batman forcefully smiling the entire time #dick's laughter can be heard in the background the whole time but no one has seen him for a week #batfam #batkids #incorrect batfamily quotes #incorrect batkids quotes #bruce wayne #tim drake #jason todd #dick grayson #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #damian wayne #duke thomas

[skawdia]

"Well, you look like yourself, but you're somebody else, only it ain't on the surface"

(flora cash - You're Somebody Else)

Vampire-Ascendant-Astarion always shows up to Grand Duke Wyll's parties uninvited. Wyll is not amused that his ex keeps trying to seduce him.

close-up under the cut!

#wyllstarion #bloodpact #wyll ravengard #astarion #wyll x astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #skawdia #wyll would probably try to please astarion after the ascension but deep down he knows that all efforts are in vain #because who is this person in front of him? definitely not the man he fell in love with #so they break up and astarion turns into a vengeful and sour mess #because how DARE the lawful good duke of baldur's gate reject a power-hungry vampirelord who doesn't have the city's best interest in mind?

[vosveti]

Miguel O’Hara being a soccer dad (part 1)

#I get why everyone dresses Miguel in like mafia boyfriend clothes but #he’s a dad #he’d be dressed like Winston duke in Us #complete with dad sneakers #dare I say khakis #miguel o'hara #miguel and gabriella #dad miguel o'hara #across the spiderverse #spider man across the spider verse #atsv fanart #atsv miguel #spider man 2099 #atsv miguel o’hara #gabriella o’hara

[letojessica]

we are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. that is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

#duneedit #scifiedit #fyeahmovies #tvandfilmsource #dune #dune 2021 #leto atreides #duke leto #duke leto atreides #jessica atreides #lady jessica #leto x jessica #gurney halleck #oscar isaac #my stuff #my gifs #yeah um. asoiaf brainrot time #sorry about the thufir erasure but i don't like anyone who dares insinuate that jessica of all people was a traitor... #anyways. thoughts many but i am resorting to giffing #please don't let this flop and let the 10gb shady file i downloaded go to waste lol

[sunnycanwrite]

Things the Batfamily has used instead of ice packs:

A head of broccoli

A whole cabbage

A frozen spoon

Fish

An attempt was made to use a freeze ray, it was stopped in time

An attempt was used to convince super man to use his freeze breath, stories vary on the result

Milkshake that Steph had left in the freezer

a chunk of ice from the side walk in the middle of January

Laid on the cave floor, and claimed it was cold enough to fix them

#I feel like I haven't posted enough Batman stuff lately #Like I want to post more #I just be in pain #And it be hard #How dare chronic pain #batfam #batfamily #batman #dc comics #batgirl #batman and robin #dick grayson #stephanie brown #tim drake #duke thomas #dc characters #robin dc #dc universe #jason todd #bruce wayne #damian #damian wayne #dc comic #dccomics #alfred pennyworth #dc headcanon

[bibibusinessman]

At the Manor game night can end dangerously

#bruce can just pay bail #Alfred wouldn’t dare play #cass doesn’t want to open that can of worms #batfamily #nightwing #dick grayson #jason todd #red hood #tim drake #alfred pennyworth #kate kane #stephanie brown #damian wayne #cassandra cain #duke thomas

[petiteblasee]

SARAH MACLEAN CONTINUA ME MATANDO!Até o fim da leitura eu estarei completamente largada de tanto sofrimento com ewan e grace!

Ele foi o responsável por dar um nome à ela, quase a matou, passou duas décadas seguintes procurando por ela por não conseguir viver sem e agora descobriu que mentiram para ele e ela está viva. Gritei junto quando ele descobriu a verdade 😭

#A MULHER SABE SERVIR UM ANGST COMO NINGUÉM! #traição do duque #sarah maclean #bastardos impiedosos #romance de epoca #the bareknuckle bastards #daring and the duke #rliteratura

[brucewaynehater101]

I live for Tim threatening Bruce. Let that old man cry when Tim gets mad at him

#im also partial to bruce starting to violently shake when dick smiles with too much eyes at him #jason calls bruce “dad” and bruce immediately does whatever jason needs because he must be desperate and probably bleeding out #cass does what she wants when she wants and b does what she wants to #damian does what he wants by pitting family members against each other. they can't stop him if they're too busy fighting #duke makes whatever family member is best get bruce to do what he wants. or he point blank dares bruce to tell him no #steph has never asked bruce for permission dor anything in her life and she won't start. fuck that man. #bamf tim drake #tim drake

[sarah-maclean-completist]

#sarah maclean #daring and the duke #romance novels #historical romance #booklr

[readtilyoudie]

“Truly, it is a miracle you two lived to adulthood. And found women to marry you,” she said softly. “It’s a good thing they’re brilliant, else I would dearly fear for your progeny. What sort of punishment is this? You’ve got him hauling ice? Has he seen the cargo that came packed in it? Because letting a duke near your smuggled goods is truly, madly stupid.”

“He’s not anywhere near the true cargo,” Devil said.

“No?”

“Nah. He’s just hauling the last of the ice.”

“How much is the last of it?”

Devil looked to Beast. “What, eighty?”

Beast shrugged. “One hundred.”

- Daring and the Duke by Sarah MacLean

#book quote #daring and the duke #sarah maclean #the bareknuckle bastards #dahlia #grace condry #devil #devon culm #beast #whit #saviour whittington #historical romance #regency romance #quote #quotes #booklr #bookblr