#chloe maine

[triviareads]

Can you please recommend me some good breeding kink books ? ( both HR and modern romance are welcome)

So the interesting thing is, I'm starting to think I've definitely read more fanfiction with breeding kinks than actual books, also, books that have "We must get pregnant for Reasons" plots actually don't tend to have breeding kinks— just thinking about Lush Money by Angelina M. Lopez, and Waking Up With the Duke by Lorraine Heath and a host of Harlequins. But here are some recs organized in no particular order:

Salt Kiss by Sierra Simone (which is out today!): Tristan gets off on being on both ends of a breeding kink, like, when he's being "bred" by Mark and when he's "breeding" Isolde.

Father of the Bride by Chloe Maine: Centered around the appropriately-named fictional town of CONCEPTION RIDGE; it's a romance between the father of the bride and her maid of honor and there's (obviously) a daddy kink component and a biiiiig breeding kink component. I could be wrong but the others books in this series that I've read might also feature breeding kinks.

The Dragon's Bride by Katee Robert: If you wanna do a breeding kink right, writing a dragon with two dicks and a penchant for telling her he's gonna "fill her up" despite her magical birth control necklace is the way to go.

Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas: The icon that is John McKenna taking a moment to think "grimly" about Aline being pregnant and "helpless" and "dependent on him" lives rent free in my head. As my friend and AtM scholar @jeanvanjer put it, it may have been one line but a breeding kink is "best defined by the obsession McKenna has in that one line. Like that’s exactly what a breeding kink is. Almost like ownership over a woman’s body through seed".

The Major's Welcome Home by Tessa Bailey: I think about this book's epilogue all the time when Kenna corners Beck in his peach field (I know) and alllll his men know exactly what's about to go down when he orders them out of there (not that they wait for them to leave before he announces his intention to get her pregnant).

When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn: Francesca lowkey wanted to get pregnant during their fuckbuddy era, and Michael was more than willing to oblige if that's what it took to get her. If you need any further proof, here it is.

Her Errant Earl by Scarlett Scott: He's a slutty ne'er-do-well who's cut off until he gets his estranged wife pregnant and somewhere along the way he starts daydreaming about "getting her heavy with his child" and promptly stops himself by trying to think about the money again.

[tenpint]

show me open eyes and behind your teeth.

[tiredamberhues]

this! was inspired by this MV :3

if u watch it, it's so angsty and delicious, very pricefield

[taste-in-music]

8 songs for july 2024

[staab]

Trying new styles with queen bee

[fadingwinnerpirate]

How Many Skills of Each Sin do Each Sinner have? (And who has the most and least of each Sin?)

This is up to date as of the release of Manager Don Quixote, I'll probably update it closer to Canto 8's release. Please also note that this only includes attack skills, not EGO or defense skills, if you want to see that, please feel free to make it yourself. Also please correct me if I've made any mistakes. Without further ado, let's begin!

Yi Sang

1st: Sloth with 8 skills

2nd: tie between Gluttony and Gloom with 5 skills each

3rd: Pride with 4 skills

4th: Envy with 3 skills

5th: Wrath with 2 skills

Faust

1st: tie between Gloom and Envy with 5 skills

2nd: tie between Lust and Pride with 4 skills

3rd: tie between Wrath, Sloth and Gluttony at 3 skills

Don Quixote

1st: Lust at 6 skills

2nd: Envy with 5 skills

3rd: tie between Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony and Pride at 4 skills

4th: Gloom with 3 skills

Ryoshu

1st: Lust at a tremendous 9 skills

2nd: tie between Gluttony and Pride with 6 skills

3rd: tie of Wrath and Envy at 3 skills

4th: Sloth with 2 skills

5th: Gloom with 1 skill

Meursault

1st: Pride at 7 skills

2nd: Sloth with 6 skills

3rd: tie between Wrath and Gluttony at 5 skills

4th: Gloom at 4 skills

5th tie between Lust and Envy at 3 skills

Hong Lu

1st: Pride at 6 skills

2nd: tie between Wrath, Lust, Sloth, and Gluttony with 5 skills

3rd: Gloom with 3 skills

4th: Envy with 1 skill

Heathcliff

1st: ELEVEN. ENVY. SKILLS.

2nd: Wrath with 6 skills

3rd: Gloom with 5 skills

4th: Lust with 3 skills

5th: tie between Gluttony and Pride with 2 skills

6th: Sloth with 1 skill

Ishmael

1st: tie between Wrath and Gloom at 6 skills

2nd: tie between Gluttony and Envy with 5 skills

3rd: Pride at 4 skills

4th tie between Lust and Sloth at 2 skills

Rodya

1st: Pride with 7 skills

2nd: Wrath with 6 skills

3rd: tie between Lust and Envy with 5 skills

4th: Gloom at 4 skills

5th: tie between Sloth and Gluttony at 3 skills

Dante

1st: tie between Sloth (Pigritia) and Pride (Superbia) at 1 skill. ;)

Sinclair

1st: tie between Wrath and Gloom at 6 skills

2nd: tie between Lust and Gluttony at 5 skills

3rd: tie between Pride and Envy at 4 skills

4th: Sloth at 3 skills

Outis

1st: tie between Lust and Pride at 7 skills

2nd: tie between Wrath and Gloom with 5 skills

3rd: tie between Sloth and Gluttony with 4 skills

4th: Envy with 1 skill

Gregor

1st: tie between Lust, Sloth, Gluttony, and Gloom with 6 skills

2nd: Envy with 3 skills

3rd: Pride with 2 skills

4th: Wrath at 1 skill

Who has the most of each Sin?

Wrath: 4-way tie between Heathcliff, Ishmael, Rodion, and Sinclair with 6 skills

Lust: Ryoshu with 9 skills

Sloth: Yi Sang with 8 skills

Gluttony: tie between Ryoshu and Gregory with 6 skills

Gloom: tie between Ishmael, Sinclair, and Gregor with 6 skills

Pride: tie between Meursault, Rodion, and Outis at 7 skills

Envy: Heathcliff.

Who has the least of each Sin?

Wrath: Gregor at 1 skill

Lust: Ishmael at 2 skills

Sloth: Heathcliff with 1 skill (not including Dante)

Gluttony: Heathcliff with 2 skills

Gloom: Ryoshu at 1 skill

Pride: Heathcliff and Gregor with 2 skills (not including Dante)

Envy: Hong Lu and Outis with 1 skill

[thetimelordbatgirl]

According to Rise of Red, defintion of girl power is uh, shaming a girl, aka Chloe Charming, for uh...being a princess??? For being kind??? For being a rule obeyer??? For not liking getting dirty when there's literally nothing wrong with characters who don't like getting dirty- Seriously, this movie's odd love for shaming a female character can kinda go up there with D1's whole Mal shames Audrey scene to cheer up Evie....and maybe overtake it as worst time Descendants did this because at least that was one scene, this was a whole ass sub plot in Rise of Red for some reason.

[alexismcknight25]

Red and Chloe

[kari-go]

I am aware that some people weren't here from the start or are just confused so take this as a sort of rundown or at least some basic information about this au. While it is still a WIP, I don't think I'm really gonna change this info. I hope this isn't overwhelming or anything :D also apologies if my English is wonky

Text written down in case it's unreadable xd

Stephan Petrov

moved to Paris after his dad's death

he's trying his best, he's just having a rough time

rlly athletic and (intellectually) smart

also really pretty

also in denial

someone help him

holder of the cat -> Gato Noir

*arrow pointing to Luxx* Luxx

Chris Duval

moved from New York to Paris out of nowhere

yearns for knowledge

especially about the kwamis

surprisingly adjusting well to everything

holder of the lion -> Lion Blanc

Marinette Dupain-Cheng

still lives in a bakery

Nino & Kim's childhood friend

has only heard about Chloe from Kim

my babygirl, baby

Lukagaminette endgame

holder of the ladybug -> Ladybug

Chloe Bourgeois

gets a redemption (if she even has to have one)

still the mayor's daughter

Audrey is still absent

has done many sports but slowed down cuz of her low grades -> Sabrina is her tutor

has been friends with Kagami for a while now, they met in a fencing match (no Chlogami) (Kagami was definitely her awakening tho)

later the holder of the monkey -> Prima Queen

Lila Rossi

Chris' childhood friend (back when they used to live in Italy)

exchange student

absolutely despises the Parisian Butterfly

just a normal with a pretty normal life!

Fu

Luxx hates him

had the Matter duo *arrow pointing to the cat and ladybug*, gave it away

only has Fluff now

*arrow pointing to Fluff* NO TIME TRAVEL!

You had perfectly good children and what did you do to them?

Arthur Duval

Chris' dad

Blanche's lovely husband <3

looks calm & collected but isn't

still lives in New York

rlly charismatic but gets overwhelmed in a crowd

Blanche Duval

Chris' mom

Arthur's lovely wife <3

capable of murder but doesn't because Arthur told her no

lives in Paris with Chris

works in a museum

somehow the most responsible adult in most situations (idk if that's a good thing)

Marianne's (adopted) daughter

Sofia Petrov

Stephan's mom

moved to Paris after she got a job offer from Gabriel (and her husband died)

she just wants the best for her son

[triviareads]

Omg hi i read my dirty duke after you said you imagine max as richard armitrage. can you reccomend more age gap romences so i can also imagine them as richard 👹☠️

Bro that entire Duke I'd Like To F... anthology slaps so hard. Anyway here's my thing about Richard Armitage: I think he can do the stern older man thing well, but he can't take it too far (see: what happened in Obsession; basically, he can't inflict pain in a way I found convincing). Like, there's a sweet edge to him, you know? But yeah I'm gonna rec age-gap romances that fall within this Armitage range and others that don't.

Historical:

The Chasing of Eleanor Vane by Sierra Simone: The highest compliment I can give a book is that it made me cry and this short story (also a part of the Duke I'd Like To F... anthology) makes me cry every time. Ajax is Eleanor's fiancé's uncle, but he is also Daddy. This man literally hunts her down when she tries to make a run for it and they have lots of very emotional sex in some secluded cabin while they're stormed out.

Wicked Again by Kathleen Ayers: Haddon here is 40 and Marissa is 49 so there's your age gap, but really, Haddon is such an excellent older HR hero because he's a silver fox who knows what he wants, isn't afraid to go for it with a single-minded conviction, and he's actually a really good dad. Also, him and Marissa are HOT, like, you don't even understand... go read this.

His Beast by S.M. LaViolette: This is more erotic historical romance than purely historical romance; Malcolm's out for revenge against his ex-lover Brian (who killed his wife and disfigured Malcolm; yes, he wears a mask), and his solution is to kidnap Brian's daughter Julia. There's a lot of "IM A BIIIG SCARRED MONSTER"-related anguish but like, Julia is obviously very down for that.

What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long: A classic; Genevieve is 20 and Alexander is "almost 40". He's an older, experienced, jaded man, but Gen is more than capable of keeping up on an intellectual level, even though she does internally go haywire every time Alex pulls out his excellent lines (see: "you have unconscionably soft hands" and "you have a very good mouth"). It's so so romantic and the dialogue is very clever.

Olivia and the Masked Duke by Grace Callaway: Hadleigh meets Olivia when she's a girl but nothing happens until she's 19 (which is when the book takes place). On Livvy's end, she's wanted him ever since he saw him railing (and spanking I think?) another woman in the stables, and on his end he's all "nooooooo I'm too old for youuuuuu" but Livvy's a tenacious gal and they figure it out. Olivia's friends also have age gap romances in Fiona and the Enigmatic Earl and Glory and the Master of Shadows (which also the student/teacher aspect) respectively that'd recommend as well.

Contemporary:

Both Your Dad Will Do and My Dad's Best Friend by Katee Robert do the stern older man thing well (they're the heroine's ex's dad and dad's business partner respectively). If you're looking for straight sex with minimal plot, these are great.

Also Katee's Desperate Measures has an age gap between Jasmine and Jafar (who was formerly working with her crime boss dad). And they play into it with the added daddy kink and the fact that Jasmine is quite the brat lol

If you want a lighter version of the ex's dad trope, then I'd rec Tempt by Melanie Harlow. Zach is more gruff than stern but he hits all the right notes you want in an age gap romance.

Father of the Bride by Chloe Maine: The title says it all, he's the father of the bride, and she's the maid of honor (she's turning 21 the weekend of the wedding). There's a daddy kink. There's a sizable breeding kink. What more could you want. If you like this, then I'm pretty sure every book in the Conception Ridge (I know) series has an age gap romance.

Sierra Simone does a lot of age gaps romances really well. Her New Camelot series has a fairly sizeable age gap between Greer and both Ash and Embry. Plus, Ash meets her when she's sixteen and he was twenty six so... yeah. Would recommend.

Sierra's Sinner also has a big age gap (Zenny is 21 I wanna say, and Sean is in his mid thirties) with the added taboo of his best friend's younger sister and she's training to be a nun. There are a some suuuper hot moments that kind of emphasize their age gap (there's this bit where he's looking at his Rolex-wristed hand on her thigh I think about a lot) and ultimately in the bonus content (spoiler alert), there's a natural culmination to all of this where Zenny's daddy kink is finally realized.

Some of Sierra's lesser known romance novellas with age gaps that I adore are Supplicant and Music Box Girl. Music Box Girl is a modern take on on the Twelve Dancing Princesses story and Cal is the much older, ex-military PI hired to find out where Tamsin (who is nineteen; her friends are all around that age) and her friends go every night. There's kind of a twist on the age gap thing because Tamsin reveals she has fantasies about being coerced into sex by an older man which Cal is happy to play into.

Also!!!! Sierra's upcoming Lyonesse Trilogy is going to have a relationship with a big age gap, namely Isolde and Mark. She's basically forced to marry him for family advancement, and a part of marrying Mark is that she'll have to pretend to be his sub at his DC sex club but she realizes she's actually very into it. You can read Salt in the Wound here in order to prep for Salt Kiss.

Mafia Mistress and Mafia Darling by Mila Finelli: Oh Fausto.... externally an elegant silver fox-type, internally a MESS, but also, if you're looking for the dirty older man vibes, he's a winner. Peak age gap moment was when he and Frankie decide to role-play "innocent virgin being taken in the fields"... on their wedding night. Mila's Mafia Madman also has a similar age gap, but Enzo is less stern and more unhinged (see: yacht cage).

Both Praise and Highest Bidder by Sara Cate have relationships with big age gaps. Praise has the ex's dad trope again (with a side of a D/s relationship and a huge heaping of a praise kink) and Highest Bidder has a I wanna say 25 year age gap (she's in her early twenties and he's in his mid-fifties).

The Original Sinners series by Tiffany Reisz: Okay so maybe you'll be imagining Søren as more Alexander Skarsgård than Richard Armitage. Nora meets Søren when she's sixteen and he's in his late twenties (I'd recommend anyone to read a more comprehensive review with trigger warnings before reading this series). Søren is basically Nora's lover/father figure/personal savior/priest which is wild if you think about it, or if Nora thinks about it which isn't super often apart from in Saint (well, apart from one age play scene in one book but that was less about the age gap and more about the humiliation aspect since that's one of only two ways Søren can get it up).

Both Locked Box and Act Your Age by Eve Dangerfield have age gap romances. Locked Box has a flashback scene where they hooked up without him knowing she was 18 at the time (he was 26) and he RAN when he found out. Act Your Age has an age gap relationship and Tyler is Kate's boss. Also, they do a lot of sleazy stepdad roleplay. I'd say Eve's heroes tend to be less... stern, per say, and more rough and mean, but like, consensually.

Claimed in the Italian’s Castle by Caitlin Crews: Angelina is 20 and Benedetto is old enough to have married six previous wives who have all..... disappeared. Anyway that doesn't matter because keeps fingering her at her piano and eating her out and I was enthralled.

Other authors who write age gap romances for your consideration include Brianna Hale (Control Freak and there are others), K. Webster (Skyscraper Cinderella series), and Giana Darling (The Affair is one of my favorite by her which doesn't have a super big age gap—she's 24 and he's 31, but the gap is there vibes-wise— and Giana veers into the taboo category in her MC series with a heroine being 17 and he's... much older).

[dargeereads]

Unwrapping His Naughty Secret by Chloe Maine

5 stars

Nothing better than an instant attraction and then a good slow burn! These two were an unlikely pairing, and unbeknownst to them, they were already connected. Lots of heat and longing, and very little impulse control, make for a fast-track HEA <3

[yuripira4e]

2024 sequels and the mischaracterization of complicated lesbians in this essay I will-

[maderoooni]

been playing the first life is strange for shits and giggles and obsessed with max's characterization to me that is "the most mid girl of all time has god-like powers"

[syni-gin-ryn]

This thought's still cooking, but I think Tomas (Thomas?) Astruc's a good case study on both why being too attached to your character concepts and self-inserts are bad for writing.

I'm not going to really touch on whether or not Chloe deserved a redemption arc, but I do feel confident in saying that Tomas's disdain for her character (and people who found her enjoyable/redeemable) did have a noticeable negative impact on the writing and theme. He couldn't stand the fact that not everyone despised her (and some gasp! liked her), and so turned her into the most grating character possible... to the detriment of literally everything else.

The same could be said for Marinette, though that also ties into my second point. Marinette isn't Tomas's self-insert, she's his self-insert's daughter. Because she's his fictional child, she can never really have any kind of deep flaws - and any deep flaws she does have you're totally imagining and making up! Derision is the prime example for this. Her behavior towards Adrien can't be creepy, that's his daughter original character! So he writes an entire episode that's, imao, kinda demeaning to explain away this "supposed" character flaw.

Had he been more detached from his writing, I think he could have seen these things coming from a mile away. But because he's so deeply entrenched in his own concept, he sort of blinds himself, and when he can't deny them anymore, he has to prove that he's right by handwaving them away.

[lordvonbunnyv]

Chloe is ready for the solar eclipse on Monday

[tiredamberhues]

I got a feeling that it's time to let go

"we were just high school sweethearts" i want the tea what happened there!!