#tbh is mostly anthony who I'm struggling with

[gurenmonster]

3 am doodles because I still don't think I have their faces right bleh

[triviareads]

it's been lingering in my head for a while now, could you please give us any hc's for edwina and i think the tortured prince kleypas?? (i'm not sure)

This has consumed me since yesterday so THANKS. I think I might go fully unhinged with this one, but here are the vibes of a potential story:

I might do a Pippa/Cross (From One Good Earl Deserves A Lover) style sex lesson thing? But also, for anyone who's followed me long enough, you know that I have been working on 2 sex scenes for like, 8 months 😭. Trying to find the appropriately sexy words gives me anxiety lol. In that vein, if anyone has advice on how to write a tastefully M rated story (as opposed to E, which is the rating of what sex scene bits have written thus far, but can't bring myself to finish), please advise?

So, post-S2, I imagine Edwina is back on the market and is probably treated as an object of pity for having been rejected by the viscount in favor of her sister, and there is probably some quiet mockery aimed at her. Plus, I feel like Anthony probably gives her a fat dowry out of guilt, so she's the target of fortune hunters who also kind of see her as spoiled goods who may or may not be compromised. My friend @jeanvanjer suggested Edwina trying to save face and act like everything is normal but under the surface, she's struggling.

So enter the exiled Prince Angelovsky who's spent the last year recovering from torture by the tsar's "Special Committee" (that's what it's called in the book lol). I imagine he'd be dismissive of women like Edwina at first but he's intrigued eventually. So Edwina goes to Nikolas to get sex lessons and figure out this *passion* thing that seems to have overtaken Kate and Anthony? It's all a very tenuous plot but I'm just putting it all out there.

He confesses to killing his brother's murderer before making out with her...?

I lowkey might have them talk about religion because Kleypas goes off about Russian orthodoxy/their inherent mysticism like a dozen times, and the vibes were kinda similar to Hinduism so... maybe...?

Also he totally has sugar daddy vibes based on how Lisa keeps talking about him as one of the richest men in Europe... which tracks, tbh. I don't think the English could comprehend what money could get you in Russia... mostly because of the serf labor.

Anyway, I reread the book and took notes so enjoy what may or may not be an actual story at some point.