#these old shades

[clarkesyd]

FAVORITE HEYER HEROINES. frederica merriville, kitty charing, léonie de st. vire & arabella tallant

insp.

#georgette heyer #historical romance #frederica #cotillion #these old shades #arabella #literature #litedit #pink aesthetic #mine

[teabooksandsweets]

— These Old Shades

— Devil's Cub

#these old shades #devil's cub #alastair family #adultbooklr #georgette heyer #literature #quote

[dangermousie]

Still one of the best novel openings ever!

#books #these old shades

[hussyknee]

Did anyone else who read the beginning of Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades go "Er...uhhh...um...what"?

It couldn't possibly be what it sounds like, could it?? It's Georgette Heyer?? Like I know the 1920s were a more innocent time but, uh...this innocent?? The Picture of Dorian Gray was only published like thirty years before this, and unless the general public didn't read into that either (even though the dude went to prison for sodomy), they should have a solid grasp of what gay subtext sound like.

I think this book is going to somehow insist this isn't same sex sexual predation by chapter two and it's going to fuck with my head.

Edit: Oh wait fairly certain this kid is actually a girl in disguise. D'oh. Obviously. The severe consent issues are all heterosexual again.

#these old shades #georgette heyer #regency romance #gay subtext #book rec #knee of huss

[ambivalens999]

today's historical romance authors would never 🤭

#1920-1930s historical romance is wild #and understandably problematic #but also surprisingly feminist #and considerably better written #devil's cub #Dominic Alastair #Marquis of Vidal #mary challoner #these old shades

[izzythehutt]

Thinking about Justin Alastair and the dad from The Masqueraders being buddies during the Jacobite Rebellion and loling

#the masqueraders #georgette heyer #these old shades #justin alastair #robert tremaine #the old gentleman #i can't decide if justin would like him or be Done With His Shit

[forthegothicheroine]

In my essay These Old Shades: The Duke of Avon as Regency Sesshoumaru, I will

#these old shades

[poppaeasabina]

I am trying to work out which orders notable Jacobite Justin, Duke of Avon is wearing during TOS. One of them was the Garter, and I think it pained his soul. He had to go on holiday to Italy to recover.

#georgette heyer #these old shades #justin alastair #history

[lurking-latinist]

Léonie from Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades should have been played by Bonnie Langford

#her two main physical characteristics are ‘red curls’ and ‘can pass for a boy’ and I’ve seen photos of Bonnie in Peter Pan #these old shades #georgette heyer #spoilers I guess

[unfavorableinstigation]

Georgette Heyer wrote a book and made a villain who was by far the least boring character in the book (she was 19, its fine) and called him Tracy. Then she thought hmm, maybe that was weird, so she wrote and published a Totally Not A Sequel in which every single character is the exact same as in Tracy's book and have lived through the events detailed in it, but it is Not a sequel because, you see, they have different names now and two of them are not related anymore. The Totally Not A Sequel exists to take Unboring Villain Totally Not Tracy (40?) and give him a redemption arc to be a milquetoast romance hero to a teenager. Old romances are Like This, and honestly I can get past a lot, but.

did she really have to rename him fucking.

Justin

#these old shades #the black moth #georgette heyer #this is cursed to me #like 'fuck you. i cast Spell of That Guy's Named Ryan Now' #love it so much im agog

[nostalgicish]

Happy birthday Shiro :)

#he’s finally 8 years old ! #voltron #vld #vld shiro #takashi shirogane #my art i guess #no backgrounds bc i . simply can not #pretend i know how to shade

[teabooksandsweets]

Not enough These Old Shades content on tumblr. It is the ~best~ romance novel. Why is there so little content for it? It ought to be more well-known.

#these old shades #georgette heyer #literature #booklr #random #look my preference for this specific romance novel is from a psychological point of view so very normal #and from a literary point of view just an example of my objectively superior taste #this is all very healthy and good

[lotus-pear]

old dazai lighting practice i found in my drafts that i have no intention of finishing so u guys can have it

#bro this is so fucking old u can tell bc i had no idea how to draw hands💀💀😭 #still looks ok tho i think. i genuinely had no idea where the light source was while i was doing this #btw this was my attempt at painting if u guys were wondering if i only knew how to do cell shading😍😍 ur incorrect! i can render!! (poorly) #october me was a different artist forreal #also ignore that little doodle off to the side i was testing out a pen #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #osamu dazai #dazai osamu #lotus draws

[vintage-tigre]

Dolly Parton, 1973

#dolly parton #70s music #aesthetic #vintage #old school cool #70s style #style #70s aesthetic #70s fashion #70s girl #travel #adventure #country girls #jolene #americana #70s icons #shades #sunglasses

[ambivalens999]

The Marquis of Georgette Heyer's Devil's Cub (1932) is monstrous, fascinating, and devilishly witty in equal measures, and I am--in a word--obsessed.

1930s historical romance? I'm a newly converted fan :o

#devil's cub #georgette heyer #1920-30s historical romance is apparently wild #and understandably problematic #yet somehow more feminist than I expected #and considerably better written I must say #mary challoner #these old shades #Dominic Alastair #Marquis of Vidal

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

No one can throw shade like Vincent fucking Price.

Columbo; Lovely But Lethal 03x01 (1973)

#vincent price #columbo #throwing shade like a fucking boss #like a boss #makeup #so bisexual #hes so cunty.. #and im here for it #sexy grandpa #fuck me sir #um ..what? #oh nothing #bicon #horror #old horror movies #vintage #movie #actor #handsome #gif #gifs made by me #gif set #gifs #vintage TV #tv show