Judith Lynne

When a Duke falls in love with a chambermaid but cannot tell her - What a Duchess Does by Judith Lynne, a lady in gloves among pillars of greenery

Need more Sophie/Benedict?

Why not try this duke?

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Seven-spot Ladybird seen on a window frame in Cheshire today.

Marian Anderson was barred from singing at Constitution Hall because she was Black.

Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution in protest.

The concert moved to the Lincoln Memorial.
75,000 people listened.

History remembers the voice they tried to silence.

#SheShed

Every single one of us would have understood it if @crockett.house.gov had remained in Texas for a while after putting everything she had into her Senate campaign. Taken some time to recover, rest, and heal. She's earned it.

And instead she's right back at work in DC today. For all of us. Wow.

RFK Jr. wants Dunkin’ to prove drinking its iced coffee is safe - The Boston Globe The warning comes as Kennedy is leaning heavily into his agenda to improve American diets.

This moron has no idea how much of a third rail this is. If he goes through with a public fight with Dunkin he will never live this down. In the words of my people "fuck ya motha."

Could be good

This is the kind of day where you think “it’s nice, I’ll just open the porch door,” but you know if you don’t close the screen, in twelve minutes you’re gonna have a squirrel in your crotch.

Spent much of today trying to fix my phone. UNSATISFYING!!!

Oh good.
Slop can be too believable!!

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When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Call your reps about this. Every time a book ban has been overturned or shut down, it's because the vast majority of people who believe in the freedom to read spoke up.
Find your reps' info at reps.fyi.

This is the correct take.

How I arrived on Bluesky.

dear Mr. Treebeard,

it would be really really really really cool and so appreciated if you and the other Ents did your thing right about now.

will help you with finding the Entwives, by the way.

no worries if not though. (I get it)

P.S. big fan

The urge toward fascism, oligarchy, aristocracy, monarchy, dictatorship, it’s all based on a division: these people are one kind of creature, these (worth less) are a different kind.

And somewhere we stopped insisting on the equality of human beings, so we have this now.

/fin

They think they’re born to be the ruling class. It’s my birth, my looks, my money, my upbringing, my popularity!, they think. I’m just a different SORT of person. I’m not the KIND who gets left behind in a sudden war zone, they think. (“Toodles and bad luck,” they call back, not giving one damn.)6/

To acknowledge her parentage. Fabulous and we don’t have to deal with the thorny question of noblemen marrying REAL maids, you see? Because Sophie should never have been one.

Cinderella. The hidden princess.

ANYway,

These people on the MAGA jet? They think they’re the ton. 5/

Sophie kind of invisibly slides from “You’ll have to live in the country” to “A bad lady has wronged her,” “We must save her from prison,” “Her father DID leave her a dowry which the bad lady stole,” and ta da! To get her out of jail permanently they got the bad lady - and the Queen , 4/

One kind of person mattered, another did not. One kind of person needed to be governed, another did the governing.

Bastard children often did quite well socially because at least they had the right kind of blood.

No one actually challenges this in Bridgerton, 3/

…they pictured a noble/servant marriage as mixing two entirely different kinds of people.

Like full-on racist/eugenicist “these are people, these are NOT” kind of thinking, coasting off the medieval idea that peasants had different sensations, mental capacities, even bodies. 2/

What does this have to do with Bridgerton and Regency romance?

I’ll explain.

“Back then” people were not so different, but the balance of popular opinion tended toward fascism.

When people in Bridgerton are horrified by the idea of Benedict marrying a maid, 1/

My sff collection Echoes and Embers: Speculative Stories is available to nominate for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, if anyone enjoyed it and feels so inclined! Much love!

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That Is An Additional Bucket

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“It was different times!” is my least favorite argument.

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