#we stan a wifeguy

[thefouraboveall]

A ship fact about the gods?

Ⅵ - Prone to jealousy. You can sleep around but the moment Slaanesh feels like any of your paramours are in competition with him, they're getting killed and you're getting tortured. Slaanesh will probably make you do it and ensure you love every minute of it too. If he develops a greater fondness for someone else, though, well that's your fault for not being stimulating enough to keep his attention. 💅

This is potentially fatal. Slaanesh's embrace is addictive and the lack of it can result in death from withdrawal.

Ⅶ - His love language is gifts and physical touch. Nurgle is a cuddly boi and everyone will know you're together because you will smell like him constantly. If the way he treats Isha in the End Times is any indication though, once he has you he will be...less than keen to let you go.

Ⅷ - Doesn't believe in PDA, at least not overt PDA. However private Khorne is a different matter and will accept affection without complaint. He may even attempt to reciprocate, in his own way, such as offering you the skulls of your rivals, making personal small weapons like daggers, giving you a dog, and maybe even holding your hand.

Ⅸ - Aromantic; cannot feel love, but may develop a intellectual interest in one person over all other interest. Sharing Tzeentch's presence will result in arcane ability and intelligence (particularly from lying), but you will eventually turn into a Chaos Spawn or other kind of horrific mutant.

[longsightmyth]

Books read in January 2025

I said one day I'd do it and I found myself laying awake in bed instead of sleeping and went. You know what. I should do that.

A Duke In Shining Armor, by Loretta Chase

3.5 stars

I won't say this is a dud, because Loretta Chase never truly writes duds, but it is. Perhaps. A little less riveting than the Loretta Chase novels I am used to.

Ten Things I Hate About the Duke, by Loretta Chase

4.5 stars

WE'RE BACK, BABY. We stan a lady ready to fight parliament, the regent, and probably god. With an umbrella. Whilst informing an ingrate duke that he is, in fact, an ingrate. They find love through the power of Mary Wollstonecraft. Her mom defeats their enemies through politely worded social threats in one (ONE) carriage ride with the offender. Her dad leaves it in her mom's capable hands and asks if they want tea. Her meek outwardly socially conforming sister is sniffing out competent legal and parliamentary aids one at a time and delivering them to her father like a cat leaving dead mice. The sister might marry of them later if she thinks they're competent enough.

Komarr, by Lois McMaster Bujold

5 stars

Reread. Apparently when I get brain frozen I pick up Bujold or Aaronovitch. Go figure. Ekaterin is still the queen of my heart.

Daindreth's Assassin, by Elizabeth Wheatley

3.5 stars

The beginning of this was very good, but unfortunately started going downhill once the romance kicked into gear, mostly because I wasn't sold on the eternal curse-breaking devotion happening so fast. In fairness this was also about the time I swapped to audiobook, which could have accounted for it: I didn't quite jive with the delivery.

The Arbella Stuart Conspiracy, by Alexandra Walsh

0.25 stars

You read that right. Storygraph lets me give quarter stars and unfortunately I had to use them. I spent entirely too long throwing increasingly deranged snippets and summaries of what was happening at an increasingly incredulous @oldshrewsburyian AS WELL AS the bookening, who were perhaps less surprised at the poor prose, worse character development, abysmal representation of historical research, and nonsensical plot progression but only because there is literally a thread in the bad books channel called 'Myth's Bad Tudor Habit.' I really think that anyone who decides to make up from wholecloth a conspiracy theory about Kathryn Howard having secret legitimate twin tudor children, one of whom is swapped with Mary Queen of Scots at birth, must simply commit to an alternate history and current timeline. You just have to. There was too much. Lettice Knollys faked being Lizzie 1. None of the executions actually happened except Arbella Stuart was apparently burned at the stake. Her daughter wrote the 'fake history' we know today, which these 'historians' will be killed for discovering for Reasons. It's too much. You have to put some of that back OR you have to link it somehow to earth logic.

A Civil Campaign, by Lois McMaster Bujold

5 stars

You can't read Komarr and not follow up with A Civil Campaign, even if you, like me, read A Civil Campaign before Komarr on the first reading round.

The Goblin Emperor

5 stars

There's a new one in the series out this year, okay? Was I NOT supposed to read about Maia doing kindnesses until he accidentally gains the eternal loyalty of a lot of people, including a political fiancee who is eternally twenty feet too far away to stab people trying to assassinate him and mad about it?

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, by Lois McMaster Bujold

5 stars

Have you accepted our lady and savior Alys Vorpatril into your heart? You should. The book wasn't even technically about her and she still managed to steal the show in her grief and anger and love and loving angry grief. Also she raised her son to be a wifeguy, and boy is he.

My Inconvenient Duke, by Loretta Chase

3.5 stars

Once again I reiterate: this was not a dud. In fact parts of this were really great. Loretta has started interacting more and more with the fact that she is writing historical romances about English Nobility and what that historically... meant. It's possible this one was my own fault, as I went in expecting a second chance romance with a pragmatic lady unafraid to get her hands dirty. That's... not really what this was, and probably waiting for that to happen made me enjoy this less than I might have otherwise.

Long Live Evil, by Sarah Rees Brennan

5 stars

This was published last year and I preordered it and owned it and had to wait to read it because Sarah Rees Brennan's books take some Emotional Commitment and I was pretty sure this was gonna take some brain power and some heart power and possibly some help in the form of the power of friendship and I was CORRECT. A+. We love a man who can follow instructions. We love all of these characters in this house. We love an examination of what stories mean and when characters can become real to us-the-readers and also a good dance number about being evil.

Anyway it's a good time! Prepare to leak snot and saltwater.

[nextstopwonderland]

We stan a wifeguy

[thesaturdayb0y]

brian murphy breaking his years-long twitter hiatus to remind everyone he’s an absolute king

[el-dritchknight]

I see the haleandy tag and I am 🥺

aaa thank you zena <3 we stan soulmates who save each other's lives through countless universes after having a rocky start <3 also soulmates where one half of them calls the other an 'unripe wifeguy'

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