#attic wives anonymous

[krirebr]

Hi Kris 😏

I got your ask about A.W.A. Curtis. I’ve been mulling it over for a few days, thinking up ideas to your questions and today, something finally sparked. And I am so into our handy contractor. We’ll see how long it takes me to make it into a cohesive thing to post, but I am having thots. 👀

Just wanted to let you know and say thanks! 💜

RAAACH!!! I am SO thrilled my little questions sparked something! Helping to bring more contractor!Curtis into the world will seriously go down as one of my proudest accomplishments!!

Oh man, I am so excited to see what you do with him!! You are so welcome and thank you for letting me play in your wonderful world just the tiniest bit!!!

[transmutationisms]

Epigenetics anon, just to say you answered it 👍 by "alternatives" I meant in explanatory power, but it seems we agree both that it's the best for "how organisms work" broadly, & that recognizing it doesn't suddenly mean we can better target genetic "improvements" (ie, increase an organism's profitability). But now I'm curious about the Yellow Wallpaper critique? High school taught it was an epic clap-back against hysteria diagnoses and views of (upper-class) women as fragile.

gotcha. but yes this is a great post from najia gothhabiba about the yellow wallpaper:

it's important i would say for anyone to learn to recognise these ideas and contextualise them as eugenic, but esp if your work bumps up against ideas of heredity, epigenetics, biological improvement, &c. the idea of changing an organism thru action on its environment, for example, has a history; there's clear transposition from animal and plant breeding in the 18th century to schemes for social control and improvement in the 19th and onward. this sort of discursive & cross-disciplinary slippage absolutely still occurs today; it is never politically neutral when we start hearing about ways to improve organisms, whether thru crispr-style genetic engineering, or cross-breeding, or efforts to control bodies thru environmental meddling (u can see this latter in, for example, theories of the 'obesogenic environment' in public health/nutrition sci).

& i also have to say here: yea, this story IS a response to the hysteria dx and the idea of white female 'fragility'; it IS ALSO a eugenic argument. those two things are not in contradiction; again there is a massive history here of feminist (& socialist!) eugenic projects. feminist discourses are not only capable of engaging with eugenic and racist logic, some have historically and presently grounded their arguments on these very points. in fact part of the argument of gilman's feminism was always an appeal to white men that it would be in their interest to improve their own racial stock and position in the social hierarchy by attending to white women's biological betterment, such as by turning against things like locking their wealthy wives up in the attic. the demonstration of the 'barbarity' of such treatment is an appeal to the fear of degenerating the race thru mistreatment of wealthy, otherwise respectable / capable women. the story is both feminist and eugenicist; the two don't contradict. this is a really good example of how 'white feminism' is not just a feminism that 'lacks' attention to race and racism; rather, it is feminism that makes its appeal for women's liberation explicitly on racist & racialising grounds, & at the direct expense of racialised people.

[zipperdry57-blog]

Tiny Treasures at the Metropolitan Museum: Boxing cards, African American portraits

It’s a pretty great time to visit the Metropolitan Museum during the next few weeks as you can catch their big shows on the way out (Heavenly Bodies closes on October 8 and Huma Bhabha’s bizarre We Come In Peace moves out of the roof garden on october 28) on your way to two major, newly opened exhibitions — the retrospective on Eugène Delacroix and the epic Armenia! show.

But take a few moments of your museum experience to enjoy two smaller shows — both closing in the next few weeks — that celebrate the beauty of more modest artifacts.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Not far from the Delacroix exhibition is a small gallery filled with modest portraits — families and couples posing in front of tropical-themed studio backdrops. The subjects are all African-Americans and many of their identities are unknown. In the context of an old photo album in your grandmother’s attic, these faces would seem charming, old fashioned, neighborly. As displayed at the Met — in African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s — they become revolutionary images.

The Met acknowledges with this show that its collection of African American photography — with African American subjects — is embarrassingly meager. This fantastic exhibition elevates the ordinary into something elegant, even as it presents a series of mysterious faces in need of identification. Soldiers, nurses, students, wives, mothers, fathers, newlyweds, children — captured in a moment of glory at a Memphis photography studio during the mid-20th century.

The show is prefaced by two of the most famous portraits of 19th century black Americans — Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth. And yet, you will probably leave the gallery with another face captured in your minds, somebody anonymous with a joyous grin, somebody with kind eyes. A handsome man in a sailor’s uniform. A woman with a furrowed brow, impatient. A tiny baby, widely grinning.

In On the Ropes: Vintage Boxing Cards from the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, mustachioed supermen flex their muscles upon brightly colored backgrounds, athletic heroes from another time. Boxing cards, like collectable baseball cards, created fan bases and inspired dreams of athleticism. (Of course, most collectable cards back then were found in cigarette packs so you had to smoke to get them.) But this wonderful little show — tucked up on the Gallery 773 mezzanine of the American Wing — reveals more than just sports.

Tropes of masculinity are artfully exaggerated and sometimes lampooned, even as athletes of a surprisingly wide range of racial or ethnic origins are appealingly depicted, forever embossed upon a small cardboard square.

Central to the exhibition is an excellent painting by John Hoppner of the boxer Richard Humphreys, “depicted in his defensive stance, on the turf, and wearing breeches, silk stockings, and pumps.” A truly absurd looking man and a wonder to behold. [source]

African American Portraits  closes November 6th. And you have until October 21st to see On the Ropes.

Images above courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Source: http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2018/09/tiny-treasures-at-the-metropolitan-museum-boxing-cards-african-american-portraits.html

[readincolour]

#BookReview: THE ALMOST SISTERS by Joshilyn Jackson

Summary: Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’ weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her bar stool by a handsome and anonymous Batman. It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She’s having a baby boy-an unexpected but not unhappy development in the thirty-eight year-old’s life. But before Leia can break the news of her impending single-motherhood (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional, Southern family, her step-sister Rachel’s marriage implodes. Worse, she learns her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother, Birchie, is losing her mind, and she’s been hiding her dementia with the help of Wattie, her best friend since girlhood. Leia returns to Alabama to put her grandmother’s affairs in order, clean out the big Victorian that has been in the Birch family for generations, and tell her family that she’s pregnant. Yet just when Leia thinks she’s got it all under control, she learns that illness is not the only thing Birchie’s been hiding. Tucked in the attic is a dangerous secret with roots that reach all the way back to the Civil War. Its exposure threatens the family’s freedom and future, and it will change everything about how Leia sees herself and her sister, her son and his missing father, and the world she thinks she knows. Review: Right about now you're probably wondering why a blog about characters of color or authors of color is reviewing a Joshilyn Jackson book. Well first and foremost, Joshilyn Jackson is a writing ass writer. Out of her nine published novels & novellas, only one has left me even slightly disappointed. Another reason I'm reviewing The Almost Sisters is because Jackson tackles race in her most recent work in a nice, nasty way that only a woman of the South can. Jackson's characters aren't perfect, as a matter of fact, they're downright messy. From outward appearances this doesn't seem to be the case, but scratching the surface reveals a whole layer of hidden dirt. And that's what The Almost Sisters revolves around. Leia is the sister that doesn't have her shit together. While her stepsister Rachel lives a perfect, almost Stepford Wives existence, Leia is a mess. A one-night stand at a comic book convention has left her pregnant by a man she barely remembers. Messy, right? But the facade that covers Rachel's messiness begins to crack too. In addition to that, Leia's beloved grandmother is losing it down in Alabama, saying things in public that no proper southern lady should ever say. So Leia to the rescue, but how do you rescue two old ladies who have more secrets between them than one would think possible? As Leia tries to save her beloved Birchie and Wattie from themselves, she discovers (with the help of her nosy niece) that she's a lot stronger than she thought. It's interesting to read her take on dealing with race and racism from a thoughtful white woman's point of view. She exposes the dual reality that towns split by race live with and the fear that every mother, but especially the soon to be mother of a black child, confronts upon realizing that their child will have to deal with racism in a way that she may not have. With weird and quirky characters that we've all come to know and appreciate from Jackson, she tells this story of old southern women, race and family in a way that only she could.

352 p. Published: July 2017 Disclaimer: Copy of book received from publisher, opinions are my own. July 19, 2017 at 11:00AM from ReadInColour.com http://ift.tt/2ub6McD

[katybudgetbooks]

Beach Reads for Fans of Women’s Fiction

The After Party by Anton DiSclafani:  From the bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of lifelong female friendship - in all its intimate agony and joy - set within a world of wealth, beauty, and expectation. Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man wants her; every woman wants to be her. Devoted to Joan since childhood, Cece Buchanan is either her chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on whom you ask. But when Joan's radical behavior escalates the summer they are twenty-five, Cece considers it her responsibility to bring her back to the fold, ultimately forcing one provocative choice to appear the only one there is.A thrilling glimpse into the sphere of the rich and beautiful at a memorable moment in history, The After Party unfurls a story of friendship as obsessive, euphoric, consuming, and complicated as any romance.

The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson (due out 7/11/17): With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of Gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality---the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are.Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’ weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman.It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She’s having a baby boy—an unexpected but not unhappy development in the thirty-eight year-old’s life. But before Leia can break the news of her impending single-motherhood (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional, Southern family, her step-sister Rachel’s marriage implodes. Worse, she learns her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother, Birchie, is losing her mind, and she’s been hiding her dementia with the help of Wattie, her best friend since girlhood.Leia returns to Alabama to put her grandmother’s affairs in order, clean out the big Victorian that has been in the Birch family for generations, and tell her family that she’s pregnant. Yet just when Leia thinks she’s got it all under control, she learns that illness is not the only thing Birchie’s been hiding. Tucked in the attic is a dangerous secret with roots that reach all the way back to the Civil War. Its exposure threatens the family’s freedom and future, and it will change everything about how Leia sees herself and her sister, her son and his missing father, and the world she thinks she knows.

The Duchess by Danielle Steel (due out 6/27/17):  The incomparable Danielle Steel breaks new ground as she takes us to nineteenth-century England, where a high-born young woman is forced out into the world—and begins a journey of survival, sensuality, and long-sought justice. Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. At eighteen she is her father’s closest, most trusted child, schooled in managing their grand estate. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. To survive, she will need all her resources—and one bold stroke of fortune. Unable to secure employment without references or connections, Angélique desperately makes her way to Paris, where she rescues a young woman fleeing an abusive madam—and suddenly sees a possibility: Open an elegant house of pleasure that will protect its women and serve only the best clients. With her upper-class breeding, her impeccable style, and her father’s bequest, Angélique creates Le Boudoir, soon a sensational establishment where powerful men, secret desires, and beautiful, sophisticated women come together. But living on the edge of scandal, can she ever make a life of her own—or regain her rightful place in the world? From England to Paris to New York, Danielle Steel captures an age of upheaval and the struggles of women in a male-ruled society—and paints a captivating portrait of a woman of unquenchable spirit, who in houses great or humble is every ounce a duchess.

Good Karma by Christina Kelly: A charming, heartfelt tale of love lost and regained in a gated community in Savannah, Georgia. After almost forty years in New Jersey, Catherine, Ralph, and their beloved Boston Terrier Karma are hitting the road, relocating to a gorgeous, serene island off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, where Catherine can work on her backhand and Ralph can hit the links. But upon their arrival in the Seven Oaks gated community, it becomes apparent that Catherine and Ralph’s visions of retirement couldn’t be more different. While Catherine is intrigued by their quirky neighbors, Ralph’s golf-and-poker routine seems to be interrupted only by his flirtations with their zealous real estate agent. As the pair drift further apart, Catherine cannot help but sense her marriage is at risk. Then, she meets recent widower Fred at the dog park. United by their dogs, they embark upon a friendship that could be something more—until she discovers that he’s not quite what he seems. As she sorts out fact from fiction and discovers what sorts of secrets might be hiding behind Seven Oaks’ pristine picket fences, she’ll have to make a decision affecting her future happiness and her chance at newfound love.

Leave Me by Gayle Forman (paperback due out 6/27/17):  Every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, and every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein. A harried working mother who’s so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she doesn’t even realize she’s had a heart attack. Surprised to discover that her recuperation seems to be an imposition on those who rely on her, Maribeth does the unthinkable: she packs a bag and leaves. But, as is often the case, once we get where we’re going we see our lives from a different perspective. Far from the demands of family and career and with the help of liberating new friendships, Maribeth is able to own up to secrets she has been keeping from herself and those she loves. With bighearted characters--husbands, wives, friends, and lovers--who stumble and trip, grow and forgive, Leave Me is about facing the fears we’re all running from. Gayle Forman is a dazzling observer of human nature. She has written an irresistible novel that confronts the ambivalence of modern motherhood head on and asks, what happens when a grown woman runs away from home?

One Less Problem Without You by Beth Harbison: Meet Prinny, Chelsea and Diana. Prinny is the owner of Cosmos, a shop that sells crystals, potions, candles, and hope. It’s also a place where no one turns down a little extra-special cocktail that can work as a romance potion or heal a broken heart. But Prinny is in love with her married lawyer and she’ll need nothing short of magic to forget about him.Chelsea works as a living statue at tourist sites around Washington, DC. It's a thankless job, but it helps pay the rent. That, and her part-time job at Cosmos. As her dream of becoming a successful actress starts to seem more remote and the possibility of being a permanently struggling one seems more realistic, Chelsea begins to wonder: at one point do you give up on your dreams? And will love ever be in the cards for her?Diana Tiesman is married to Leif, a charismatic man who isn’t faithful. But no matter how many times he lets her down, Diana just can't let him go. She knows the only way she can truly breakaway is if she leaves and goes where he will never think to follow. So she ends up at Cosmos with Leif’s stepsister, where she makes her homemade teas and tinctures as she figures out whether she'd rather be lonely alone than lonely in love.In Beth Harbinson's One Less Problem Without You, three women suddenly find themselves together at their own very different crossroads. It will take hope, love, strength and a little bit of magic for them to find their way together.

Same Beach, Next Year by Dorothea Benton Frank: New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank returns to her magical Lowcountry of South Carolina in this bewitching story of marriage, love, family, and friendship that is infused with her warm and engaging earthy humor and generous heart.One enchanted summer, two couples begin a friendship that will last more than twenty years and transform their lives.A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston’s most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts, Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep friendship—and flirt with an unexpected attraction—of their own.Year after year, Adam, Eliza, Eve, and Carl eagerly await their reunion at Wild Dunes, a condominium complex at the island’s tip end, where they grow closer with each passing day, building a friendship that will withstand financial catastrophe, family tragedy, and devastating heartbreak. The devotion and love they share will help them weather the vagaries of time and enrich their lives as circumstances change, their children grow up and leave home, and their twilight years approach.Bursting with the intoxicating richness of Dorothea Benton Frank’s beloved Lowcountry—the sultry sunshine, cool ocean breezes, icy cocktails, and starry velvet skies—Same Beach, Next Year is a dazzling celebration of the infrangible power of friendship, the enduring promise of summer, and the indelible bonds of love.

The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jeffries:  #1 International bestselling novel set in 1920s Ceylon, about a young Englishwoman who marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences.

We Could Be Beautiful by Swan Huntley:  A spellbinding psychological debut novel, Swan Huntley's We Could Be Beautiful is the story of a wealthy woman who has everything—and yet can trust no one. Catherine West has spent her entire life surrounded by beautiful things. She owns an immaculate Manhattan apartment, she collects fine art, she buys exquisite handbags and clothing, and she constantly redecorates her home. And yet, despite all this, she still feels empty. She sees her personal trainer, she gets weekly massages, and occasionally she visits her mother and sister on the Upper East Side, but after two broken engagements and boyfriends who wanted only her money, she is haunted by the fear that she'll never have a family of her own. One night, at an art opening, Catherine meets William Stockton, a handsome man who shares her impeccable taste and love of beauty. He is educated, elegant, and even has a personal connection—his parents and Catherine's parents were friends years ago. But as he and Catherine grow closer, she begins to encounter strange signs, and her mother, Elizabeth (now suffering from Alzheimer's), seems to have only bad memories of William as a boy. In Elizabeth's old diary she finds an unnerving letter from a former nanny that cryptically reads: "We cannot trust anyone . . . " Is William lying about his past? And if so, is Catherine willing to sacrifice their beautiful life in order to find the truth? Featuring a fascinating heroine who longs for answers but is blinded by her own privilege, We Could Be Beautiful is a glittering, seductive, utterly surprising story of love, money, greed, and family.

Whispering in French by Sophia Nash (due out 8/1/17): Award-winning romance author Sophia Nash makes her women’s fiction debut with a beautifully crafted, funny, and life-affirming story set in the Atlantic seaside region of France, as one woman returns to France to sell her family home and finds an unexpected chance to start over—perfect for fans of Le Divorce and The Little Paris Bookshop. Home is the last place Kate expected to find herself…As a child, Kate Hamilton was packed off each summer to her grandfather’s ivy-covered villa in southern France. That ancestral home, named Marthe Marie, is now crumbling, and it falls to Kate—regarded as the most responsible and practical member of her family—to return to the rugged, beautiful seaside region to confront her grandfather’s debts and convince him to sell.Kate makes her living as a psychologist and life coach, but her own life is in as much disarray as Marthe Marie. Her marriage has ended, and she’s convinced that she has failed her teenaged daughter, Lily, in unforgiveable ways. While delving into colorful family history and the consequences of her own choices, Kate reluctantly agrees to provide coaching to Major Edward Soames, a British military officer suffering with post-traumatic stress. Breaking through his shell, and dealing with idiosyncratic locals intent on viewing her as an Americanized outsider, will give Kate new insight into who—and where—she wants to be. The answers will prove as surprising as the secrets that reside in the centuries-old villa.Witty and sophisticated, rich in history and culture, Sophia Nash’s novel vividly evokes both its idyllic French setting and the universal themes of self-forgiveness and rebuilding in a story as touching as it is wise.

[foxgloveprincess]

Sounds fun. 😊 Thanks for the tag! 💜

My files have a different file name to the title in the document, so I’ll include both (title in parenthesis). Also, may or may not be an original story in there.

My WIP List:

Steve and Tony Versailles AU (Come My Hearts, Play Your Parts Ch. 37)

Lloyd Attic Wife AU (Trapped By Your Love)

AWA AU (Attic Wives Anonymous Meetings Part 3)

Sy Naga (untitled)

Bucky Taboo AU Sequel (Hunt You Down (Eat You Alive))

Bonus Brainstorm (not yet started the actual writing part) List:

Thor Medieval Mythology AU (The Room Was So Quiet)

Loki Medieval Mythology AU (My Heart is a Hollow Plain)

Andy Attic Wife AU Part 2 (On Another Level)

Ransom Attic Wife AU Part 2 (Connection)

Mr. Freezy Attic Wife AU Part 2 (Like A Moth to You)

✨ Tagging anyone who wants to play and share ✨

I was tagged by my lovely but mean soulmate Aspen, @buckets-and-trees ❤️

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP list, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it. And then tag as many people as you have WIPS.

So here's the list. It excludes the WIPs that are already posted and ongoing, like Grain of Truth or Ruby Garden. Only things you have no idea about yet 😎 (various characters, including: Steve, Bucky, Ari, Andy, Lloyd, Curtis)

Sinful charm

Caught in embers

mountain guide Bucky

Lead and leather

Bloody mAri

Entwined

Crown of blood and moonlight

Four leaf clover

The Wolf's claim

No pressure tags: @jobean12-blog, @labella420, @stargazingfangirl18, @chase-your-dreams-away, @autumnrose40, @witchywithwhiskey, @princessphilly, @krirebr,

[foxgloveprincess]

is—

is that inspiration for a.w.a. i’m sensing? do i actually have an idea to continue a storyline?? 😱

[foxgloveprincess]

okay but why do i wanna make little chibi sticker heads of all the guys in a.w.a.?

[foxgloveprincess]

Based off of this post, match a AWA!babe each with: possessive, protective, obsessive, & praise 🤓

So, for the purpose of this question, I’m taking all the guys in the AWA universe so far for this—Andy, Lloyd, Jake, Ari, Freezy, Ransom, Steve, Cole, and Curtis. Cause I can. And they only get one match (despite some of them fitting most or all of them).

Warnings: Dark, Suggestive/Explicit Themes under the cut. Minors do not interact (18+).

Possessive:

Ransom—You think for a moment Ransom’s gonna let anyone else touch you once he has you? Hell no. You’re his and he’s keeping you right where he wants you.

Freezy—If someone else ever touches you, they’ll lose their hands. He barely keeps it together to have Dr. Rogers give you check ups, only when you need them. Why else do you think he won’t give you anything that might introduce you to someone else? He wants your focus right where it belongs.

Protective:

Lloyd—I mean, shooting a guy because you got a bruise? He’ll keep you from falling. He’ll make sure nothing happens to you, except him. A whole guard protecting you and a personal guard dog. You might be safer than the president under Lloyd’s watch.

Curtis—He’s your safety. When Cole wants to leave you a shivering pile of melted flesh, Curtis makes sure to stop it before it goes too far. He’ll watch over you. Make sure you don’t have to think too hard. He’ll do everything for you.

Obsessive:

Andy—A wife. That’s his obsession. He needs that ring on your finger. That claim on you, the bind. He would do anything for it. I mean, he did lie. Just to make you his wife. And he would do it a thousand times over. The feral glee he gets when he sees that ring glinting on your finger. And he’d let you do almost anything to him in return for that pleasure.

Steve—The perfect pussy. And he’s convinced it’s between your thighs. He wants to know everything about it. Every detail of your pussy. What it tastes like. How it feels. How it will tremble under his touch.

Cole—Pleasure. He wants to chase that feeling. He’ll make you cum until you see stars. And keep going. He won’t stop. Not without someone else stopping him. He breaks his toys until they’re pliant and mindless under his touch. Addicted to him.

Praise:

Jake—For sure. Loves to heap praise on you until you’re squirming. He just can’t sing your praises loud enough. You might shy away from it, but he keeps going because he loves you so much, he just can’t keep quiet.

Ari—Once he’s got you in his arms, he can’t help telling you how much he cares about you. How much he thinks you’re amazing. The best thing that’s ever happened to him. How gorgeous you are, how sweet. His li’l dip, absolute perfection.

[foxgloveprincess]

looking at ransom and lloyd’s next chapters for a.w.a. like

[foxgloveprincess]

If you could pick any of the AWA guys to willing be with, who would you go for? I'd probably go for Ari or Jake... they seem the nicest and mostly sane!

Realistically, I think I’d go for Ari or maybe Ransom. Ari because of obvious reasons. I melt every time I think about him. 🫠

But Ransom, he’s intriguing. He has his assholish tendencies, but I like how quickly he became pussywhipped. I think there’s a lot there to really play with and explore. Cause I think he’d be putty in your hand if you used that obsession with you the right way.

[foxgloveprincess]

well, i think lloyd got his point across. 😳

[foxgloveprincess]

thinking about how ransom’s plan to kidnap pidge is gonna go. also dr. rogers and his new clinic receptionist. and our favorite contractor curtis, his business partner and toy designer cole, and their product tester.

[foxgloveprincess]

In AWA, which reader is (probably) the most miserable with her boo at this time?

How about I give you a list to rank them? From least to most miserable:

Li’l Dip - she was kinda into the fantasy before and Ari confronting her with the reality of it has kinda won her over.

Princess - despite Freezy being taciturn and a little unpredictable, she’s settled into her life with Robert and his expectations. she’s even a little fond of the prickly ice cream man.

Angel - she’s more freaked out right now, as opposed to miserable. she doesn’t exactly understand, but Jake’s been quite the gentleman and quite respectful despite, you know, kidnapping her and faking her death.

Sucker - sure, she has her fantasies of Nick and she’s going a little stir crazy, but overall, she does like being with Lloyd when he’s actually there.

Pidge - she’s captured and locked to the bed, but Ransom’s intent of giving her all the orgasms and ruining her totally for anyone else. it could be worse.

Honey - despite being married now, being stuck with Andy still makes her miserable. she hasn’t turned that corner yet where she can accept and settle. her fire’s still raging at her husband, especially when he tries to act like nothing’s wrong and they’re just a happy couple.