#the earl takes all

[allowaykirk]

Listening to the new TAZ episode and when it comes to the scene with the two brothers, all I can think about is the resemblance to the GORILLA INCIDENT BOOK

#the earl takes all #lorraine heath #gorilla incident #gorilla twin incident #the adventure zone #the adventure zone versus dracula #TAZ #taz vs dracula #Spotify

[ramblingromance]

The Earl Takes All: Book Review

This book has got everything; The death of a twin, the impersonation of a twin, a widow who doesn't know she's a widow, pregnancy, labor, scandal!

So, without delay, here are my thoughts, feelings, and rambles on...

One summer night, Edward Alcott gives in to temptation and kisses Lady Julia Kenney in a dark garden. However, the passion she stirs within him is best left in the shadows as she weds his twin, the Earl of Greyling. But when tragedy strikes, to honor the vow he makes to his dying brother, Edward must pretend to be Greyling until the countess delivers her babe.

After her husband returns from a two-month sojourn, Julia finds him changed. Bolder, more daring, and more wicked—even if he does limit their encounters to kisses. With each passing day, she falls more deeply in love.

For Edward the embers of desire sparked on that long-ago night are quickly rekindled. He yearns to be her husband in truth. But if she discovers his ruse, she will despise him—and English law prevents him from marrying his brother’s widow. Yet he must dare to risk everything and reveal his secrets if he is to truly take all.

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So, I knew from book one that Heath clearly had plans to put they two together. Their first kiss in the garden was mentioned, and then the dislike they showed for one another... it's just obviously where things were headed, and I was excited for it. Although, I will say, I did feel sad for Albert considering he got some time in the first book, and he wasn't at all a dislikeable character. I like that though, when author's don't make the dead husbands out to be villains.

Speaking of villains, I like how Heath, at least so far in this series, hasn't really had a villain. The focus and drama mainly come from inner turmoil and conflicts that the characters are facing, not from any outside source. That being said, it doesn't make the story unfolding any less captivating or entertaining, especially where Edward and Julia are concerned. Coming into this, I had no idea that brothers and sisters in law weren't allowed to wed one another, just as I didn't know that, if one had enough money, that could be remedied in Switzerland. (And some people say there's nothing to be learned her gained from romance novels....)

I knew that Edward and Julia were going to get their happily ever after, because this is a romance novel, and they absolutely had to. Still, these circumstances seemed so stacked against them. With the mention of Switzerland, I knew it was going to come into play somehow, and I'm glad it provided a way for our characters to get the happy ending they deserved. Regardless, as the novel continued, I kept asking myself, "How is this going to work? How are they going to fix this?" I really appreciated that, actually.

As far as the deceit plot to this book goes, I thought it was handled well enough. That sort of plot point isn't usually my favorite thing, but it definitely provided some interesting drama. I do appreciate the fact that Heath gave Julia time to mourn her dead husband, but also time to fall in love with his brother. Over all, the pacing was pretty well done in my opinion.

There's only one more book left in this series, and I'm actually pretty excited to start it. it's got one of my favorite tropes going for it: Marriage of convenience!

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Trigger Warnings: mentions of death, mentions of illness, mentions of childbirth, probably some dubious consent tbh,

Heat Level: 4/5

#romance novel #historical romance #the earl takes all #lorraine heath #hellions of havisham #book review #victorian era #book reviews #romance novels #romancelandia #romance community

[readtilyoudie]

Part of him hoped she’d say, I just realized who you are. Part of him was beginning to hope she never would.

The Earl Takes All (The Hellions of Havisham, #2) by Lorraine Heath

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[mango-sideburns]

My fav thing about TAZ is that any aspect out of context sounds fucking bonkers.

Like, in the balance finale there's a scene in which Garfield (who is very specifically never described visually bc most people imagine him as like. The Lasagna Cat. Who in this universe is the most powerful warlock in the realm and also has a hobby of cloning people, which is great for the one character that got forced into haunting a mannequin) is summoned by an alien spaceship that runs on the power of friendship so he could beat up some flashing balls. In D&D.

And that was just. Such a normal scene in the narrative. No one blinked an eye. I would like to bow down to Griffins clear unmatched talent for making me feel such big emotions over ridiculous shit like a goddamned umbrella or a regular ass pair of jeans or the idea of a taco recipe.

#taz balance #the adventure zone #taz #i have. so many drafts of this post decontexualizing so many different scenes. #merle killing a room of autism creature looking things by asking them to tell the truth which then summons god #also merle retiring from his retirement to run fantasy margaritaville under the title Earl Merle #magnus the mannequin telling taako and merle to find the baby voidfish bc the big voidfish sung at him real hard bc in the century he #just now remembered (bc hes a mannequin not a human boy) #he gifted an alien jellyfish with dozens of shitty wooden ducks. he forgot that century bc his friend fed the jellyfishs baby a book #the gnome version of Teddy Rucksbin turns out to be the universes most competent spaceship pilot. hes also a talented opera singer #a man named Barry Bluejeans is dead and uses his ghost haunting powers to gift the three heroes badges that they cant see #right before theyre shuttled off in a cannonball to save a space lab full of kitschy elevators thats snowing pink tourmaline #barry also uses his ghost powers to hold hands with magnus and make random shapes in midair like a dresser when theyre trapped in a #fantasy version of The Dating Game hosted by ghost Jesse and James Rocket who steal bodyparts if you lose their game. #or like in campaign how a dude who wiped out in the first three seconds of ninja warrior convinces a human wifi router #who owns a bible theme park to take the apparent King of America to the white house on their hovercraft to be trued for treason #after he announced his intent to take over the country in a televised debate with an inuit goddess who is sometimes trapped in the body #of an HR worker all Donald Blake/Thor style #anyways. this show is ridiculous and i love it So Much

[alienaiver]

#i was barely a teenager when i got my crush on this dude. been in love with him for over a DECADE #i welcome all of you who fell in love after [spoiler for safety] but unfortunately ive always been down with the clown #d. gray man #dgm #the millenium earl #im also re reading rn as pneumonias taking my lungs. i miss the old gothic style

[callingcxrd]

YOU GUYS. ILOVE E.ARL GREY COOKIE.STARTS CRYING

#I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. WITH ALL OF MY AUTISM #WHICH IS TO SAY SO SO MUCH #Got a WIP of a commission And Literally Almost Cried I LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!EARL FROM MY GAMES???? #I LOVE EARL YOU GUYS #PICKS HIM UP AND HOLDS HIMS. #THE BEST PART IS THAT I CAN ACTUALLY DO THAT BECAUSE I HAVE A PLUSHIE ALSO. PICKS HIM UP AND HOLDS HIMS!!!!! #I LOVE having autism I am so happy because of my little guy and nothing can take that from me #I love autism. and I love EARL!!!!! AUTISTICALLY #<333333333333333333333 #BLEU.TXT

[maxortecho]

Liz’s nemesis

#liz stop bullying your husband #do you think max teared up taking earl down #think of all the monologues earl must've sat through with max. he got him through some hard times alsdjf #roswell new mexico #roswellnmedit #rnm echo #liz x max #echo #userveronika #userlolo #cinematv #filmtvdaily #filmtvcentral #mediagifs #tvedit #lizmaxedit #myedit #gifs #parallels #longhorn #s3 #s4 #3x10 #4x01 #ep: angels of the silences #ep: steal my sunshine

[marvelousmagicalaura]

The Virgin Monarch vs The Chad Monarch

#miraculous ladybug #the venture bros #the monarch is best villain #the guild of calamitous intent #all hail the guild of calamitous intent #organized havoc is the best #loser moth/virgin monarch/get a life/touch grass #gabriel is the worst #take notes from malcolm #take notes from xanatos #take notes from millennium earl

[ghost-bard]

Finn/Drey/Earl is endgame change my mind

#jrwi #just roll with it #jrwi riptide #riptide pirates #finn tidestrider #drey ferin #old man earl #im so sorry to anyone who sees this #but i will not hide anymore!!!! #im a finn/drey/earl truther theyre all old men #this is a shitpost #but i am taking it seriously #and when i write fanfic for them? you will all witness it

[starpros-sunshine]

My love, My darling, oh how I yearn for your warm embrace! Oh how I yearn for you sweet scent to herald the end of my trials and my tribulations.

A throbbing ache that claws at me and digs it's cold talons into my head and persists and persists and persists and persists and swallows me whole and oh how I yearn for your lovely touch to ease my pain and free me from these vultures that seem to follow me wherever I go.

You are the warm light in this cold world, the remedy to all my plights, my comfort in these lonely nights and wether it might be on those cozy autumn evenings or those calm spring mornings, your presence delights again and again and I can't help but hope that your warmth will continue bewitch me body and soul and keep me company for a long while 'till death do us part.

Yours sincerely; someone that really really enjoyed drinking his cup of Earl Grey just now and decided to write a very bad ode about it <3

#drinking alcohol is so overrated really we should all just becoem tea drinkers #coffee could never. #I love you cafeeine my favourite alkaloid of all ever #makes you so nice and sleepy too I know this is apparently not the intended effect but I think I'm the only person in my surrounding circle #that drinks caffeinated beverages to relax #not in a "I get withdrawal symptoms if I don't do this'' way but in a ''this makes me sleepy and takes off some of the edge by proxy way'' #i know people who can not deal without their coffe and all I know is I'm not that bad with my tea I can go a day or two without tea #I just don't wanna because I have chronic headaches and caffeine helps and also I love warm beverage so so so so much #I love you earl grey thank you earl grey for being earl grey <3333

[randomnameless]

Not to mention for a series where one of the themes is coexistence between humans and non-humans/dragons and how they're the same deep down, to have a game like 3H where they underplay that message (or in the case of Tru Piss and 2/3rds of Nopes completely go the opposite direction) and never address the dehumanization of Nabateans feels off putting.

Anon,

I won't say the game doesn't adress the dehumanisation of Nabateans, rather, the game doesn't adress Nabateans at all!

As I already pointed out, Flayn and Seteth have 0 fucking lines against Nemesis or the Elites.

In FE7, Renault - you know the guy you recruit during the penultimate chapter? - has a line with Nergal, referencing one of his supports!

But Seteth, Cichol, won't have a line against someone he already fought, killed his Mother/Creator and genocided his family. Ditto for Maurice, who slaughtered, per Nopes, a "Holy Warrior" and hangs out with the femur of one of his siblings, no, FE16 wants us to believe Seteth doesn't give a fuck.

We can have Claude being "very upset (tm)" at pirates pretending to be Almyrans in a paralogue that isn't even exclusive to his route, but KT forbids Cichol and Cethleann to express discontentment at Nemesis for having slaughtered their family, caused the death or their Mother/Grandma and Wife/Mom.

Even worse, when you learn "crests" are "Nabatean blood", even in a doylist version (because watsonian wise you only learn it at the end of a route) Supreme Leader's rhetoric becomes nauseabond ("Nabatean blood is to blame for this irrational society").

I nearly craughed at the double standard, iirc, for Dedue's forging bonds in FEH when Ylgr, iirc, compared the death of her family or the invasion of her country to the duscur genocide - a lot of people, rightfully, called the parallel kind of cringe -

But then Sylvain cries because "this Nabatean blood I have means women only see me as a ticket to marry into nobility :(" (but at least he doesn't complain to Nabatean genocide survivors who were and are still hunted for their blood so maybe that's why he doesn't receive a shitstorm?).

And to push the insult even further, human characters complain about "Nabatean blood" when humans had been the one to slaughter Nabateans to steal their blood - like, they are now complaining about their spoils of war? Seriously???

It was very thinly adressed in Seteth and Ingrid's support - but it's Seteth who is patient enough and is part of the #teamdad, and Ingrid who isn't an insufferable ass (canon!ingrid I must add) about her "Nabatean blood" and learns/decided to be "Ingrid", and not only someone sought after because she has "Nabatean blood".

But imagine someone who has, uh, more of a temper than Seteth? Having to listen to Sylvain's woes? Marianne rant about how her "Nabatean blood" brought her misfortune (tell that to Flayn, who was hunted and exsanguinated the second she woke up because she is a Nabatean, and has to hide her identity and even her dad!), or some other character pretend "Nabatean blood" is the reason why a nobility system exists (when Almyra also has a royalty, without "Nabatean blood" playing a part in it?).

#anon #replies #nabatean stuff #damn that's a salty sunday lol #i don't mind lol I like to talk about nabateans #but thinking about how the Fodlan verse treated them really makes me pissed! #in some AUs I had where half-lizard lycaon wakes up in the monastery because Aelfric opened the wrong coffin to see Citrus #lycaon clobbers so many students for going all crust bad church bad #you want a lizard with a temper? Take a half hresvelg one #fodlan nonsense #for the tags though #it seems for KT earl grey was more important than a tradition peaceful coexistence message #i'm glad in a way IS told them to fuck themselves and released engage after Nopes #completely ditching Nopes's support and future DLC

[ramblingromance]

Currently Reading...

Hello, y'all! I'm back with another historical romance read! I decided to continue on this Havisham series since the first one was enjoyable enough, and oh boy, are we on a ride for this one. I'm about halfway through now, so I'll tell you my thoughts on it soon!

#historical romance #romance novels #the earl takes all #lorraine heath #hellions of havisham #romancelandia #romance community #currently reading #victorian era

[readtilyoudie]

“There’s not a good deal that I fear. Losing my parents when I was so young caused me to become a bit reckless. Then, of course, living at Havisham where we were told that a ghost would snatch us up at night if we went outside made us all rather intrepid. You can only live in fear for so long before you say to hell with it.”

The Earl Takes All (The Hellions of Havisham, #2) by Lorraine Heath

#book quote #the earl takes all #the hellions of havisham #lorraine heath #historical romance #regency romance #romance #quote #quotes #booklr #bookblr

[blue-nebraska]

Day seventeen: Shelly and Gordon

This is one of my FAVORITE scenes from the whole show. It’s such a lighthearted scene amidst all the doom and gloom of the terrible Windom Earle plot line. Gordon is hilarious, Shelly deserves the attention, the music score in the background is wonderful, and I even find the interaction between Coop and Annie sweet (though overall I find their relationship feels rather forced). “YOU ARE WITNESSING A FRONT THREE QUARTER VIEW OF TWO ADULTS SHARING A TENDER MOMENT ...acts like he’s never seen a kiss before!”

ID: A black and white drawing of Shelly and Gordon sitting at a booth at the Double R Diner. Gordon is leaning towards her and holding a mug of coffee, while Shelly is resting her chin in her hands. There’s a slice of apple pie with two forks on the table. A banner below reads, “that’s the kinda girl to make you wish you spoke a little French!”

#bringing all my twin peaks hot takes into this post it seems #(windom earle plotline is the worst part of tp (besides the random fling james has with that older married woman??)) #and coop and annie drive me crazzzyyy . annie is one of those characters where im like. okay. she obviously didnt exist in this universe #until she was necessary for the plot. like when she and norma talk about their mom it feels so... forced. i cant believe that they actually #grew up together #i feel like she was given major 'born sexy yesterday' vibes but like a slightly off brand version. #like not exactly sexy because she's also given this weird childish vibe that i dont care for either #ANYWAY! #shelly johnson #gordon cole #madchen amick #david lynch #twin peaks #fanart #twin peaks art #tp #described #inktober #ok and now i have more thoughts to put in the tags: me really putting a banner in this like its 2013 tumblr. geez

[mainfaggot]

my mom is so nice to me these days it's crazy

#im lying she snapped at me but i didnt evem care bc im so chill #i did care but yhen i was like . im so tired lets all die whatever shes fucked in the head so am i lets have Earl grey tea #like last weekend i made her upset and was hysterical and then this week im so tired i just dont. care #i do but i dont #anyway she said something about me taking care of her when shes old and i was like #trying so hard not to say yeah sure lol i will die before u reach old age mama #bc i didnt want her to start crying like im not cruel just really unstable.. #z.post

[nostalgia-tblr]

The book I am reading about royal heirs who didn't become King (occasionally Queen) of England has finally got to Edward V (there are a LOT of Edwards in this story so far, as well as a lot of Henrys and a number of Matildas that defies all common sense), which means AT LAST we shall get to the glorious reign of Hot Richard \o/

#the title specifies mediaeval heirs so i assume it's ending after THAT LANCASTRIAN SHITLORD kills beloved ricky #fanwars of the roses #it's actually done a pretty good job of making the Wars of the Roses thus far not TOO confusing #tho i admit i stopped paying attention to most of the earls and dukes long ago because really who can be bothered with all that? #i just take it as read that any named person is somehow related to one of Edward III's confusing swarm of sons #“oh this one's the great-nephew of George of Asda the second earl of Northsomethington who married his own sister” #(aside: many of the Northsomethings in England are a LOT further south than I would have assumed from their name) #(2nd aside: it's neat that while Edward of Lancaster and Anne Neville were being betrothed to everyone in sight they married each other too #(he's just died in the previous chapter and I am fairly sure she's the one who ends up married to Richard III THE HOTTEST ENGLISH KING EVER #(a LOT of people died in the previous chapter. several of them had the same name/title so i stopped trying to keep track after a while) #“this Duke of Somerset is not the one from the previous battle he's -” I DONT FUCKING CARE GET TO THE REGICIDE BITS #books and reading #history fandom