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[izzythehutt]

The Grand Sophy omg…when Charles holds Sophy’s wrist for a few seconds to convey his thanks…I could just swoon

I don't think people give that book enough credit for being romantic...I like to think this was the moment she realizes she loves him, too.

#the grand sophy #georgette heyer #sophy stanton lacey #charles rivenhall

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Started re-reading Bath Tangle because...why not, still in a Heyer mood. A few observations:

Heyer was pretty not sexy in style, even for her time period, but I do feel like Serena and Rotherham have Belligerent Sexual Tension (tm.)

Is this the only one of her books where the hero and heroine are exes? This would be called a "Second Chance Romance" in romance industry parlance.

#bath tangle #georgette heyer #i feel like it makes their dynamic really interesting #there's a ~history #often her heroes have known their love interests for awhile #but i don't know of one where they were actually engaged before??

[izzythehutt]

Kuwabara being disillusioned by his friends all joining up with different factions in the demon world civil war and calling them out on it is so...sad. ;_;

He thought they were a team!!!

#yu yu hakusho #yyh #trying to finish this show up finally #i forgot how downbeat the last season was #and just like...tonally odd #izzy watches yyh

[izzythehutt]

Okay but I kind of love Sirius and Arcturus as a duo. It’s funny how everyone around them can see how similar they are but the two of them would never admit it. I can’t wait to find out what they discussed when they sneaked off together, and how Arcturus got Sirius to agree to the engagement, lol. Thanks for the update, hope you’re doing well!

I think it's very funny that all of you assume he's agreed to the engagement based on this conversation, when all he did was not deny it outright. He didn't exactly give a ringing endorsement for the arrangement.

You do have to bear in mind that Sirius is hardly going to make the kind of scene in front of Abraxas that he would with his family...

#asks #the black sheep dog #it's alas more complicated than that #sirius black

[izzythehutt]

#i would probably enjoy giving the speech tbh

[izzythehutt]

I want to get into Georgette Heyer but I have no idea where to start! Any recommendations?

You're in for a treat!

It depends on what you like out of a romantic dynamic, because she wrote a variety of "types."

I honestly would recommend reading this article about her heroes. It will give you a sense of the types of heroes she wrote about—I have read books in every one of these categories and enjoyed them, but there are definitely some that I prefer (my favorite is the Volatile Irascible Male.)

I personally think you can't go wrong starting with The Grand Sophy. The first books I read of hers were These Old Shades and Devil's Cub which is about the same family (the latter is my absolute favorite of hers.) Her Georgian romances tend to be a bit more swash-buckler than her Regencies.

#georgette heyer #happy reading #asks

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Do you think Walburga was prepared for Orion to duel Claude, if the Battancourts demanded satisfaction? I doubt it would have gone that far, but still lol

She 100% never thought that was going to happen because she'd already coerced Colette into her plan and planted the rumors incriminating Sirius herself. The only thing she didn't plan was for Sirius to admit what happened himself to her target and thus draw Eulalie's attention to the suspicious nature of her awful chaperoning. Though Sirius would have inevitably realized she set him up and made a scene about it either way, lol.

#walburga black #sirius black #the black sheep dog #lucretia and orion warned her and she didn't listen

[izzythehutt]

Really loved this chapter, so much going on!! Your characterisations of the sprawling Black Family are top tier, especially in dialogue-heavy chapters like this ... so many voices all in one room.

I think you've really struck the right balance of maintaining a similar enough style to the original books that it doesn't feel out of place when put up against them but also making BM feel like part Jane Austen novel and part thriller novel ... which makes the juxtaposition between certain scenes all the more enjoyable to read.

I'm really going to miss waiting anxiously for updates when it's all over but I suppose my question is how do you feel that you're nearly at the end?

It was challenging to write that many characters in one room. I was happy to get rid of Irma and Pollux near the end.

I would definitely say the style earlier in the story matched the Harry Potter books more faithfully, by the end it's become more like a Georgette Heyer novel in tone (farcical romantic happenings with interfering dowagers and other upper class nonsense.) I wish I was comparable to Jane Austen in any way but like...let's be real here. Lol.

I honestly have pretty mixed feelings about it. I think there's always a bit of a flat feeling at the end of a creative project—and in this case it's been six years of my life that I've been working on it (and it was something I started writing when I was deeply depressed and lonely, it's hard not to associate it with that desire to escape those feelings.) If the messages and comments I've gotten over the years are anything to go by, it's obviously meant a lot to many.

But also--of course I'll miss writing the characters and the family. But it will be nice to close this chapter and move on to focusing on my personal writing projects and moving forward in life in other ways.

#asks #the black sheep dog #personal

[izzythehutt]

#choice between phantom tollbooth and mixed up files

[izzythehutt]

Wow Sylvester and Phoebe making me cry ;_;

#sylvester or the wicked uncle #georgette heyer #i had forgotten how emotional this book is #it's also one of heyer's more overtly romantic novels tbh #poor phoebe

[izzythehutt]

Tbh, given the heart to heart moment Regulus and Orion had a few chapters prior, perhaps the family can have vacations separate from each other except for Orion and Regulus? 🤔 They can have father and son bonding, probably in a luxuriously quiet and isolated spot.

Do you think they'd actually enjoy that? Personally I think they thrive on the dysfunction and would miss Walburga haranguing them after a couple hours.

#the black sheep dog #regulus black #orion black #asks #this family is dysfunctional af

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Regulus deserves a long ass vacation after this

I think the whole family does, honestly. Possibly separately from each other.

#the black sheep dog #asks #regulus black

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note: am v aware i have horrible taste lol

#bean disliker and watermelon is overrated #however i will eat them both lol

[izzythehutt]

What is Eulalie and Eugenie's relationship like? does Eugenie ever visit Eulalie in France?

I don't think they are super close...I think Eulalie kind of pities her sister a bit and probably has invited her, but I could see Eugenie being a bit of a dowdy, timid homebody who is a bit uncomfortable traveling and "feeling like a burden" to her relatives. She doesn't want to be pitied and doesn't want her sister to feel pity for her.

#eulalie battancourt #eugenie fawley #the black sheep dog #asks

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I'm listening to the audiobook of Sylvester or, the Wicked Uncle which is a book I have read but not in awhile and I couldn't remember it all that well....I don't think I was self-consciously cribbing this book when I started writing BM but man, of all of Heyer's heroines, Phoebe Marlow is the most "oh this is who Colette Battancourt is a knock-off of." Like down to "is an amateur novelist who writes characters sketches of aristos."

#sylvester or the wicked uncle #georgette heyer #sirius is way more down to earth than sylvester however #phoebe marlow

[izzythehutt]

This new chapter is really the gift that keeps on giving. I’m excited as a child on Christmas Day, I have to stop reading every few sentences to keep my heart in check.

You're sweet. I'm glad you enjoy. I hope the little pieces of French dialogue are extra amusing to you, lol.

#ladyfeliciamontague #asks #the black sheep dog

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Is Sirius going to get slapped every time he and Colette kiss XD?

(Also great chapter btw- I loved it and it was worth the wait 😁)

Let's hope not for the sake of his poor face. It's even more embarrassing because now he knows what she meant when she said "his mother told her to do it."

POOR SIRIUS.

#blackcourt #sirius black #colette battancourt #the black sheep dog #asks