The favourite bit I wrote in this whole book is Barret finding out Jamys is trans, and Jamys being like 'don't call me a woman. If I was a woman you wouldn't still want to fuck me' and Barret punching him because I love toxic yaoi
Also, to mark the end of the section, we’ll be taking a one week break from updates, to resume Wednesday 18th.
This scene, incidentally, was originally supposed to be the beginning of the whole series - before Teddy disrupted all my plans.
It would have been a far darker, and much conventional sort of book.
“There was no escape. She would walk down the aisle. She would become Lady Forthenby.”
End of the week, end of the first part of The Forthenby Ladies as Serafina prepares for her wedding day: forthenby.com/2026/03/04/2...
Well, most of the climaxes happen before that…
(Sent that from the wrong account first time…)
I was just checking some bits for update length.
a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture
get weirder 🫵
Just been proofing the three chapters that make the climax of Ladies, and…
… I’m not sure this qualifies as a romp any more.
Teddy Valance has problems. His plans for revenge have backfired, he’s engaged to a woman who hates him, while his ex is wanted for murder.
Can he and Peaches find a way out of this? Or are they just going to make things worse?
The Forthenby Ladies is updating now: forthenby.com/2025/10/15/v...
I always prefer to write in order, but if I get stuck find that jumping about helps.
Also, I’m not allowed to call an update, “The old Richard can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Because he’s dead.”
Like, this books started as a melodrama and sometimes you feel it more than others.
Realising I’ve not put chapter headings on posts since…
Hmmmm.
FML.
if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately
I love a feral peacock. There was one where I used to live and it would attack cars because it saw its reflection and assumed it was a rival.
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What would a Regency novel be without a Regency bride?
Chapter Eight begins (and concludes) today: forthenby.com/2026/03/04/2...
Don't forget to get your super sexy comics in this fantastic bundle before March 4th!!
Unfortunately for you all, this means you get my entire and unfiltered bullshit until my main is reinstated.
Not sure what I’m supposed to have done *now*.
Slightly worried my main has been wiped…
Serafina really does spend a lot of time throwing things in this book.
I think it’s good for her to get the rage out…
Blackmailer on video call: I have your nudes and will release them to your colleagues - -
Me: [larger than life scale nude portrait in oils of me on the library wall behind me] ??
What are we up to this damp and miserable Monday morning?
Well, if you’re not on the run from the law while your girlfriend married your evil ex, you’re doing better than Dickie Thornton.
Chapter 7 is now available to read on the website:
forthenby.com/2026/02/11/2...
The trouble with being a hopeless Janeite is that an alarming number of Janeites are tedious Christian Conservative reactionaries.
No, no… we *do* get to be critical of her social and sexual mores. In fact, *she* was relatively critical of those….
REVENGE!
Chapter seven of The Forthenby Ladies concludes without the slightest touch of unnecessary melodrama.
I’m sure this is all going to end splendidly: forthenby.com/2026/02/25/2...
Will it? Won’t it?
This is a comedy, not a romance.
Working on getting the rest of Ladies ready to go up on the website and oooft, I’d forgotten how hard I find some of this to read.
All told with the desperate jollity of someone who’s convinced that if he keeps drinking and smiling, everything will turn out for the best.
Digital illustration of Auderic and Yvaíne from VESPER TITHE, Auderic (blonde vampire) is biting Yvaíne on the shoulder while Yvaíne is facing him with legs bent over his lap, ankle held in one of auderic’s hands
Digital illustration of Auderic and Yvaíne from VESPER TITHE, Auderic (blonde vampire) is biting Yvaíne on the shoulder while Yvaíne is facing him with legs bent over his lap, ankle held in one of auderic’s hands, both figures are nude
I like my vampires obsessed, every day clawing at the cage of their composure while denied their favorite meal … which is why I wrote Auderic (and Yvaíne 🪶)
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