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https://x.com/vonnegutdean/status/1903839933715853737?s=46

*sends this with the intention of getting your creative energy going*

But also she is so 🔥🔥

Definitely Light it up vibes. She really is too hot for this world.

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I wrote another smutty one-shot. Truly a shock for everyone.

Read it here!

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The way this isn’t even an exaggeration at all

Because look at the evidence I have right here!!!

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Urgh, chapter 3 of Perfect Places just really hit me in the feels!! It was so tender and emotional! It was so nice to see them actually communicating a bit ( they can still improve in that area, but baby steps) I love all the little nods to the show (them in a garden, Edwina forcing them togeter)

I feel for Edwina, but man alive is she utterly clueless and blind!!! 🙈

I'll admit I can't quite see how this is going to have a happy ending... but I know if any author can pull it off, you can! ❤️

Thank you! That was a tough chapter to write, because what they're doing is indefensible, but I still want them to be empathetic if not necessarily sympathetic. I think Kate and Anthony are interesting when there's something keeping them apart...it's almost like they can open up more, be more vulnerable, because they "can't" be together and so the danger of falling doesn't seem so real.

Next chapter will have more show-inspired drama (hint: it involves the Sheffields and they're still assholes). It's definitely going to get worse before it gets better. I'm hewing fairly close to their canon personalities here (if even more self-loathing)...Edwina is seeing what she wants to see, Kate wants to give Edwina everything even to her own detriment, and Anthony is just lost and adrift and wants someone to tell him what the right answer is. So if they can forgive each other and end up happy in canon, then I think (with some time and work) they can do it in any situation.

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📸A Simone Ashley update

BTS of the Vanity Fair shoot

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I just realised your next Bton fic will be your 69th. Nice.

(thank you for all your stories)

Ha! I’ll have to do something fitting then. 😉

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- Simone Ashley for Vanity Fair

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Couldn't stop thinking about Kate sitting on bearded Anthony's face so here we are.

Anthony has a beard. That is all.

Happy husband happy dad Anthony is going to kill me.

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Chapter 3 is up!

Edwina pushes Kate and Anthony to spend time together.

Read it here!

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I swear there’s nothing harder to write than a scene of two people just having a long conversation.

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I mean can she let us BREATHE

Simone Ashley | Defined | March 14, 2025 | 📷 Rachell Smith

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Friday Fic Rec 3/14

Thanks as always for your submissions! Titles are links to each fic.

The Summers We Had by Njanjanja 

“Dedicated to those of us in the bleachers and the feeling of swooping stomachs and tight chests as we remember our first crush.”

Description: Kate Sharma was seven when a new family moved into the beach house next to theirs, she was also seven when she developed a crush on Anthony, she was ten when she kissed Anthony on a dare, she was sixteen when she overheard him say something she didn't want to hear, she was twenty-two when she decided to join her family on vacation again.

Complete - T - 20k words

Kate Sharma and the Vexing Ordeal of Being Betrothed by sweetangel1

“A complex, layered, and skillful examination of the days and weeks after the engagement but before their true HEA. How do Kate and Anthony finally close some of the conversations and concerns brought up during their tumultuous season?”

Description: A story about the afters: after the injury, after the proposal, after committing to living the rest of your life in a place you thought was temporary: what next? A journey full of healing conversations, sunrise rendezvous, delicate navigation of the ton, and Kate's desperate, conniving, and ridiculous attempts to seduce her stubborn (guilty, gentlemanly) fiance.

WIP (6/?) - M - 55k words

strangers again by katesharma

“Childhood friends to lovers to strangers to ??? really really good! spoilers: not even finished and already my favorite of the childhood friends-to-lovers-to-thoroughly-compromised-but-Edmund-dies-and-Anthony-writes-Kate-off-to-as-a-dalliance-to-'save her/himself' trope"

Description: It's a bee sting that brings them together, and nearly nine years later, tears them apart. Kate and Anthony come to be from strangers to friends, friends into lovers, and strangers again. If Kate can only follow the breadcrumbs, they might find their way back to one another.

WIP (1/2) - E - 33k words

Lights, Camera and Smile by genyakostyk

Description: Kate Sharma swore she would never consider marriage nor courtship until Edwina was married. Unfortunately for Kate, Edwina is now engaged to Lord Lumley and all the attention turns to her future match. Reluctantly, Kate agrees to go on five dates with five suitors - each one chosen by her family. The only issue? Anthony Bridgerton keeps appearing at every turn and Kate just can’t seem to escape him and his pleasing smile. The Picture This (2025) Kanthony AU no one asked for.

WIP (2/7) - G - 7k words

ten take wonder by antematter

Description: “You want me to what?” Anthony said, when he finally remembered how to form words again. Kate popped another mint slice into her painfully alluring mouth. “I want you to fuck me on camera for my OnlyFans channel. Ben suggested you’d be up for it.”

Complete - E - 7k words

Thanks to those who submitted! You can find previous weeks under the "lfts fic recs" tag.

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Tell me this isn’t exactly how Kate appears in Anthony’s fantasies.

Call me Anthony Bridgerton because I would have acted completely unhinged and insane about her in public too

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heyyy..sooo..perfect places is only going to be 5 chapters?

Yep! I already have it planned out (with some very appreciated help from @doodlingawaits).

If that seems short - I think I can bring it to a satisfying conclusion. I've written a lot of stories in that 20k-ish word range. And quite honestly, I could only get myself going on Perfect Places because I knew it would be short. My life is, sadly, just not in the place for a much bigger project right now.

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Call me Anthony Bridgerton because I would have acted completely unhinged and insane about her in public too

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Fact: this is beautiful Korra and Mako fanart by Flutter Ella on Pinterest:

Source

Fact: this is also soooo If I Hurt You Anthony and Kate!

Too cute!