#knowing georgette

[silviakundera]

a snippet of the droll Duke Su from the source novel of The Double, to show how well the drama is capturing his vibes. (Spoilers obviously)

Seeing such a thrilling examination, [Kong Liu] felt it was more tiring than the usual practice drill. However, he was still happy. He spoke to Ji Heng, “Did you see? Jiang second miss was so powerful. Today was really an eye opened for everyone, this would let her be in the limelight. I suppose she’s very happy.”

“I think she is a little disappointed,” Ji Heng said.

“Disappointed?” Kong Liu doubted, “Why disappointed? She got first place. These damn six arts competitions are over, she’s number one in each and every one of them. What is to be disappointed about?”

“Unable to borrow a knife to kill somebody, naturally one is disappointed.” Ji Heng laughed lightly and stood up: “Today’s drama is also not bad, just there’s no blood, a bit simpler, let’s see another day.”

Then he walked away.

“Truly a pervert.” Kong Liu muttered. He thought of something and said, “You still haven’t judged!”

[ageless-aislynn]

Well, friends, this week since Camp NaNo ended has truly been one of the most... weeks I've had in a while. 😑 I won't bore you with the details but it honestly was a rough road. 😵‍💫

On the writing front, my word count was enough for me to "win" Camp NaNo but I still failed to finish anything.

Yes, "15 Minutes" chapter 11 went through 14 different drafts just in July. Draft 7 and 8 are only a few minutes apart because I completely threw out 7 and restructured it into 8. Nothing has helped. I'm stuck on not only bringing home the events in the chapter, but in shuffling in things from later chapters, taking them back out, restructuring the order of what's here. It's a mess.

It's solvable, of course, but here's the heart of the issue: I don't feel like writing. If you asked me what I would like to do for fun, writing isn't even on the list of options right now. Honestly, if I didn't feel SO compelled to finish what I've started, I'd just chuck all of my WIPs over my shoulder and not look back. But that will legit haunt me for some reason so I can't. But I don't feel like writing, I just don't. There's no joy in it for me right now. I don't know how to get that back. I've rested. I've shifted to other projects.

I was thinking about what I've done in the past to recharge my writing and it finally dawned on me: I always shift to vidding. That way I'm still "storytelling" but I'm thinking visually/musically instead of just in words and that seems to help for some reason.

But I haven't had my Vegas since last November. No wonder my creative batteries are almost dead.

I was hoping to finish/post chapter 11 before I try reinstalling Vegas again, in case it absolutely tanks Georgette. I think I'm going to have to take the chance now, though. Otherwise, I don't know that there's any hope I'll ever finish anything writing-wise. 🤷‍♀️

Anyway, we'll see how it goes. Wish me and Georgette luck!

(Technically, that's me, Georgette and Eobard. Who knows, maybe Eo wants to do some vidding, too? 🤷‍♀️😂)

[whenthegoldrays]

Little goals for October

watch the Wives and Daughters miniseries

read The Patron Saint of Second Chances

watch a Gene Wilder Movie

watch What Comes After Love

put glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling

re-organize my drawers and give away clothes I don’t want anymore

[georgette-mademoiselle]

⛧🕯️☾༺♰༻☽🕯️⛧

" good morning my fellow batties 🦇

Today i thought id share you my most precious weapon "

" you see its not just zombies and ghosts that help me through battle sometimes if i must face my enemies alone i use my sycthe

"I summon it through flesh manipulation from my open back this is why i often wear backless outfits so i can be fully prepared to defend myself "

"it is made of my blood which has rotten through many years so if anyone gets hit by it takes half the life source of that person which in turns heals me faster aswell as regeneration"

" then said person that got hit slowly rots away from the starting point where they got hit first could they survive? Possibly but good luck althou If i am fighting a demon there chances of survival is higher than a normal human"

" a fun thing about my scythe is i can use them as wings to fly! During the flesh manipulation process my scythe will soften a little before stretching to move around and wala! From a hard blade to soft skin"

" sometimes urogi will come to me begging to go sight seeing with me how could i say no to that puppy dog face of his?

" well thats it batties! I hope i didnt ramble to long ❤️"

"and yes i have tried to take sekido fly with me once...he passed out in the end foaming... 💀"

⛧🕯️☾༺♰༻☽🕯️⛧

[trekkele]

Regency DicKori

[sheisthenorth]

❥ Jenna meets ˚ ʚ Georgette ɞ ˚ at the AKC Dog Show !

( based on this thread with @starsweepers )

Jenna is honored to have the opportunity to meet such a legend! Georgette, however, has other thoughts....

[mermaidsirennikita]

There's a historical romance discussion space I'd really like to engage with, but can't, because it feels like every other post is bemoaning a lack of historical accuracy from "lazy authors", while at the same time repeating inaccuracies over and over in the community....

and somehow these devotees to accuracy seem to have never heard of KJ Charles, who writes incredibly well-researched books that happen to be about queer couples, or Beverly Jenkins, who has literal bibliographies citing historical records and resources... while writing exclusively Black historical romance

[izzythehutt]

Started re-reading Bath Tangle because...why not, still in a Heyer mood. A few observations:

Heyer was pretty not sexy in style, even for her time period, but I do feel like Serena and Rotherham have Belligerent Sexual Tension (tm.)

Is this the only one of her books where the hero and heroine are exes? This would be called a "Second Chance Romance" in romance industry parlance.

[psychidion]

I feel like devil's cub is always at the forefront of my mind whenever I think about the heyer novels I want turned into movies, but god sylvester is up there too.

Like I want to see the expression in sylvester's eyes when he looks at phoebe and I want to see the botched proposal scene which I think could rival pride and prejudice's and I want to see edmund being a little imp and I want to see tom and phoebe and sylvester bantering with each other.

It's all so vivid in my head already but I just need to see it.

[pearls-gone-wild]

One of the joys of reading literature from another culture or time is noticing all the variants of prejudice that exist in this microcosm. Some of my favorites, which are rarely discussed:

Georgette Heyer, who wrote Regency romances in the 1940s, includes a teeth-baringly awful Jewish moneylender in the otherwise hilarious "The Grand Sophy"

L.M. Montgomery, most famous for "Anne of Green Gables", opens that very novel with a pair of elderly siblings planning to adopt an orphan boy because the French Canadian farm hands they've been hiring seasonally have been so unreliable

Speaking of French stereotypes, what's up with Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Links" in which they [SPOILERS] pass off a dead man as someone else and they can do this because he's of a "typical French type"?!?

On the other side of the channel, Alexandre Dumas spends most of a chapter of "The Count of Monte Cristo" making fun of a "typically phlegmatic Englishman" who delivers news of financial salvation to a family on the brink of ruin, and then proceeds to disapprove of their tears of joy

Jane Austen writes in a few throwaway mentions of the slave trade, that don't quite elide the fact that the family wealth in "Mansfield Park" is Caribbean plantations worked by enslaved people

J.M Barrie's "Peter Pan"... oh wow, yeah, the portrayal of Native Americans... yeah, ok, let's go back to talking about that cannonically homicidal Tinkerbell

Literally anything in "Gone with the Wind" that's not about rich (or once-rich) white people

God, there really is nothing like 20s detective fiction to remind you that prejudice is a social construct.

You'll have a story with a crossdressing thief which is mildly transmisogynistic but completely devoid of modern vitriol; it literally comes off as "here is a fun oddity that lets me be Clever about French grammar"

And in the very next story you will learn fifteen different slurs for Italians

[shortnasties]

2935. Gambling Frogs

This is "Gambling Frogs." Just laying around, thinking.

When I was younger, my brother had a painting of gambling frogs. It was a knockoff of the more famous gambling dogs painting. But I didn't know about the dog version. Not until years later. When someone brought it up at a boozy party. You mean the frog painting? I said. No, no, they said, dogs. The dog painting. It was dogs. I thought they were drunker than I previously thought. Dogs! Gambling! Didn't make sense. Frogs, on the other hand... Now frogs made sense. Something about it felt right. Closer to the bone of life. Yes, I think fondly of my brother's painting of frogs gambling, and I can't think of anything truer.

[barxlupin]

"I have no idea where to find him, officer."

"But if you do, please mention that I'd like returned the pretty knife that I stuck ten times in his back."

[ageless-aislynn]

Friends, my time has come.

I mean, it's a shame there's no option for "you sold me a computer infested with demons and basically your idea of tech support is 'Wow, sucks to be you'" but I made do with what I had. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[inamindfarfaraway]

Meet my Disney Descendants OCs! Children of Bill Sykes, Tiana and Naveen and Charlotte La Bouff. They live an altered version of canon, because we all know that canon has serious flaws in writing, worldbuilding and tone.

[georgette-mademoiselle]

"how beautiful it is when the clear sky is shadowed in the grey nebulous weather of such a romantic month..

"how i love to watch outside as the wind trembles the rose bushes as people walk by my home.

"speaking of roses...red with a hint of black are my favorites that i decorate them everywhere in the house my room, the living room, kitchen and my work basement"

" ive been told my appearance reminds them of these beautiful flowers and i couldnt be more grateful..."

( images found on Pinterest)

[starsweepers]

“Hey, darlin’, how’s it goin’?”

Charlie nuzzled Georgette with a chuckle, tail wagging behind him. When he pulled away, he smiled.

“Been a minute since I’ve seen ya… how ya been doin’?”

@let-me-be-surprised for Georgette!

"I HOPE YOU'VE had a decent bath today," grimaced reply, though there was no real malice in the words. perhaps HONESTY - she didn't much like the idea of the mutt nuzzling her while filthy - but georgette hadn't made to pull away. that was more than she might have done prior to knowing him on a more personal level. smile d i d stretch across her muzzle, semi forced initially only due to the potential ick he might have pressed upon her luscious fur, but when he provided distance, there came ease and genuine pleasure with his appearance. eyes batted, humming a soft tune as she pondered the inquiry. "a star, as always. it's tiring, but in the best way." someone had to do it. and if it such was her burden to bear? then so be it! the world deserved it. "i don't suppose there's been anything exciting... erm... out h e r e?" did she really want to know? the poodle couldn't be certain, but it was only polite to ask. there were days she felt the less she understood of this world, the better. it was far from the sort she could manage... baths were much too important.

@let-me-be-surprised