#Gentlemen's Guide to Vice and Virtue

[sentient-dream-forest]

I recently finished Nobleman's Guide, and the wedding was so THEM, and I'm not okay. So I'm going to live vicariously through memes

[fortunatefires]

[yellowraincoat]

I love when I recommend a book to my sister that’s close to my heart and has a protagonist WHO STARES INTO MY SOUL and then she’ll read it and be like, yah it was pretty good, some things I would change tho. 4 stars

[grimmbunny24]

Okay but why did I, in my head, read this bit in David Tennant voice??

[sliebman10]

Henry "Moron" Montague for the character opinion bingo :3

Oook - Monty

[the-dust-jacket]

Heyer but gayer!

In honor of KJ Charles' new books The Duke At Hazard, a twist on one of Georgette Heyer's most delightfully ridiculous novels, The Foundling, we present to the tonne a selection of queer romance sorted by a few favorites from the queen of Regency Romance.

(Mostly Regency, a few earlier, and occasionally creeping all the way up to Victorian, and please note that most of these are steamy enough to make a Heyer heroine collapse on the fainting couch clutching her vinagraitte!)

Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle:

Band Sinister

Wanted, a Gentleman

Something Fabulous

Infamous

The Masqueraders:

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower

Frederica:

It Takes Two to Tumble

Unmasked by the Marquess

Her Lady to Love

Cotillion:

Infamous

Venetia

Band Sinister

The Ruin of a Rake

Faro's Daughter

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting

The Hellion's Waltz

The Society of Gentlemen series

Beauvallet:

Valiant Ladies

Brethren

These Old Shades

The Society of Gentlemen series

Unmasked by the Marquess

Devil's Cub:

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

Her Morning Star

The Corinthian:

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower

Wanted, a Gentleman

A Civil Contract

A Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows

The Society of Gentlemen series

Friday's Child

Band Sinister

The Talisman Ring:

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

A Thief In the Night

Something Fabulous

The Reluctant Widow:

Trouble

The Lawrence Browne Affair

The Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel

Arabella:

Unmasked by the Marquess

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal

Her Lady to Love

The Unknown Ajax:

The Secret Lives of Country Gentleman and The Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel

What are your favorites?

[o0anapher0o]

25 books for 2025

Thank you for tagging me @meraki-yao

I’m not particularly good at sticking to a specific reading list, plus 25 books is just under what I’ve read the last two years combined, but aim for the stars, I guess XD

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Those places are bookclub reads, so they’re tba but I do mean to read them and I’ve been doing pretty well last year (4/6)

7. 1Q84 by Murakami

8. Sandman by Neil Gaiman

9. Watchmen by Alan Moore

Those three I’ve been meaning to read for like the last 5 years, so I’m only moderately optimistic.

10. Perhaps the starts by Ada Palmer (the last part in my favourite series ever, I’m so excited for this. Yes I know it’s been out a couple of years already. Shhh.)

11. The untold Story by Genevieve Cogman (another last part in a series I really enjoyed.)

12. This much is true by Miriam Margolyes (started last year and really want to finish. I’m just terrible with biographies

13. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

14. Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin

15. Pretty much anything by Brandon Sanderson (I don’t really have a title, but I’ve heard so much about him I want to read something he wrote.)

16. The Gentlemen’s guide to vice and virtue by Mackenzie Lee

17. The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy

18. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

19. Journey to the west

20. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

21. Pandora by Anne Rice (this is the one I so still want to read before I decide if I subject myself to Prince Lestat)

On top of those I still have a bunch of Agatha Christies and Dorothy Sayers I also want to read, so I could make it 25 but I’d have to look up the titles and I’m lazy. Which is also why, despite how doable this looks right now I probably won’t read half of these. But I’m going to try, it’s a good list :D 

Tagging @nalyra-dreaming, @sapphosewrites, @galadriel1010

@taste-thewaste, @weewookinard, @luainthewild

@ifg1986-2, @alittlefrenchtree,

[justyesbecauseyeswhynot]

I should probs make an intro post

Hello people of Tumblr

I'm here and queer so can I go home now?

You can call me Elke, she/her

Ask me anything, I don't bite!

Minor <3

I am on the acespec (not sure where) and probably on the arospec too

English is my first language, but I also speak French and bits and pieces of Spanish and Japanese

I like: a lot of things. Books, musicals, reading, Harry Potter, Harry Potters dead parents and their friends, Harry Potters children, Heartstopper, books, wolfstar, jegulus, drarry, dorlene, narlie, rosekiller, scorbus, did I mention books? ect

I dislike: capsicum, bullies, b*n h*pe, and other things that my brain does not remember

Neurodivergent 🙃

Fandoms:

Marauders era

golden trio era

cursed child era

Heartstopper/Osemanverse

Percy Jackson

Skandar Universe

Twilight Saga

How To Train Your Dragon

Music:

Taylor Swift

Conan Gray

Ed Sheeran

Benson Boone

basically pop music (talk about....POP MUSIK)

Musical Lists:

In:

-Joseph and the amazing technicolour dream coat

-Charlie and the chocolate factory

-Diary of a wimpy kid: the musical

Seen:

-SIX broadway

-Frozen broadway

-Beaty and the beast broadway

-OliverJr

-Bring it on

-The sound of musicJr

-The sound of music (regular)

-Madagascar Jr

I love to sing/dance/act

THE STAGE CALLS MY NAME

🎭

I have 1 roleplay blog

@aledthebooknerd - Aled Last - Radio Silence

Book list

This is a list of books I have read and liked and books I want to read :)

Harry Potter - all of them

Twilight - all of them

Skandar - all of them

Heartstopper - all of them

Loveless

Solitaire

Radio Silence

I was born for this

Nick and Charlie

This Winter

Icebreaker

Daydream

Wildfire

Curse Breaker - all of them

Defy the Night - all of them

Medoran Chronicles - all of them

Forging sliver into stars

Carving shadows into gold

they hate each other (a romance)

a gentlemen's guide to vice and virtue

to kill a mocking bird

the gravity of us

bloom

what if its us? (OMG GIDDY FEET KICKING)

the last memory of flora banks (kinda shit ngl)

I will update as I go :)

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Dynamic Duos Chaos Rounds

VS

Dynamic Duos here are two characters that have a notable relationship, be it familial, platonic, or romantic. Normally there will be character qualifications and propaganda, but we’re not doing that for the chaos rounds. Submissions for the main showdown are still open here, as well as submissions at our other disabled characters showdown here.

Check out the other Dynamic Duos here.

[zoueriemandzijnopmars]

(Note: I own those first few books I mentioned and I am planning on getting to adwd so I will read whichever of these options wins, I cannot guarantee I will find another book if it gets mentioned)

[whumpily-ever-after]

Dude, do I have a whumpy book for you Just finished it today It’s called The Gentlemen’s Guide to Vice and Virtue It’s a historical adventure with romance (except alchemy also works?) Spoiler warning for the whole story Basically this rakish eighteen year old son of an earl is going on The Grand Tour as rich Europeans did back then with his best friend, who he is in love with and pines for for a majority of the book, and his sister who they initially intend to drop off at a finishing school This all goes to hell when an impulsive decision leads to him stealing a macguffin from a duke that leads to a massive manhunt for him and his companions So this of course leads to all the whump that comes with being on the run, there’s a part where someone puts belladonna in his system which makes him almost death-like and his friends are extremely worried for him They stowaway on a ship that gets taken over by pirates and are taken hostage until they actually get on good terms with the pirates when they help the French navy from arresting them THEN the duke catches the main character when he doesn’t have the macguffin on him and the duke sets up an exchange for it with the mc as a hostage - gun on the temple style In some ensuing chaos later in this scene he gets his ear partially shot off! He’s in shock and it’s all great as his friend is trying to get his unmoving self out of an underwater catacomb that’s collapsing on them (oh yeah, they’re in underwater catacombs) His whole ear has to get cut off Now there is some stuff that could make someone uncomfy rather than the usual hurt/comfort we usually enjoy such as a scene that really goes into the physical abuse the mc suffered at the hands of his father, the friend character’s family planning on putting him in an asylum because of his epilepsy and the racism this friend experiences because he is dark skinned But yeah, I didn’t pick this up intending to find lots of whump but rather happily stumbled upon it

You definitely sold the whump for this book anon! I have read this one before but I honestly forgot about all the whump. Thanks for the recommendation! You should check this out if you’re looking for some new whumpy books.

[amylauren13]

I know this is probably incredibly niche but I’m doing my semi-annual reread of Gentlemen’s Guide to Vice and Virtue and holy shit Bordy is almost exactly Monty and now I can’t unsee it.

[femmehysteria]

Hi, if it's okay with you I'd like to submif :

Cordelia - Dead Estate

Imogen (the alien one with no family name) - Marvel comics

Imogen Heaney - Heartstopper

Imogen Temult - Critical Role

Imogen Adams - Pretty Little Liars

Felicia - Darkstalkers

Felicity Montague - The Gentlemen's Guide to Vice and Virtue

Felicity - Style Savvy

Agatha - The School for Good and Evil

Agatha Zorbatos - DC Comics

Thank you for the suggestions!

[seiya-starsniper]

My wholeass personality these last few weeks has been me screaming at @gil212 about all the queer fiction I've been reading/watching and now I'm just a bundle of feels

[boredangel]

Monty: Here you are, Percy. Nice hot cup of tea.

Percy: It’s cold.

Monty: Nice cup of tea.

Percy: It’s horrible.

Monty: Cup of tea.

Percy: I’m not even sure this is tea.

Monty: Cup.

[the-lincyclopedia]

I really love May the Best Man Win by ZR Ellor! It's a YA romance, and there are two POV characters: Jeremy, a trans boy, and his ex-boyfriend, Lukas, who's autistic. It's an exes-to-lovers arc, and I LOVE the way Lukas's autism was portrayed.

I also just finished (and adored) A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall. It's a historical adult romance about a trans woman who's presumed dead in the Napoleonic Wars and takes the opportunity to start living as a woman. The love interest, her former best friend, has a disabling injury from the war, as well as PTSD and laudanum addiction.

The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner is (roughly speaking) YA fantasy. The extent to which the series is queer is debatable (there's a lot of gender stuff going on, and there are multiple explicitly canon or very-nearly-explicitly-canon same-gender couples, but it's secondary-world fantasy in an approximately historical Greek/Byzantine setting, so they don't use modern terms for sexuality or gender identity), but there's definitely some queerness. There is a major character who acquires a significant physical disability early in the series (I'm trying to be vague to avoid spoilers), and the narrator of book six is nonspeaking and physically disabled. A LOT of the characters are also probably neurodivergent, but, again, secondary-world pseudo-historical setting without a lot of modern labels.

The new adult romance Breakaway series by E. L. Massey is very queer and involves multiple disabled characters! The main character of the first two books, Eli, has a traumatic brain injury that has resulted in a seizure disorder, and he has a service dog to alert him when he's about to have a seizure. The love interest of the first two books, Alex, has an anxiety disorder. The main character of book four (coming soon!) is autistic, and the love interest in that book is a bisexual trans woman.

The Check Please new adult comic series by Ngozi Ukazu features a protagonist with PTSD (and a lot of ADHD-coding), and the main love interest has severe anxiety (and a lot of autism-coding).

Will Grayson, Will Grayson is a YA book by John Green and David Levithan, and it was maybe the first book I ever read where, like, the whole point of the book was that it had queer main characters. I'm hesitant to recommend it, because it's well over a decade old in ways that really, really show, but I have incredibly fond memories of it and it played an important role in my life. The disability at play here is depression.

Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce is the final book in a nine-book YA fantasy series, and it's the only one where both disability and queerness are really front and center, as far as I can recall. One of the four main characters is a lesbian, and another of the four main characters has intense PTSD and is coping in pretty unhealthy ways.

The Demon's Lexicon trilogy by Sarah Rees Brennan is also YA fantasy (but urban fantasy, not secondary-world like the Queen's Thief or Will of the Empress), and it's the one on this list that I have the most complicated feelings about. Over the course of the trilogy, there are both queer and disabled main characters, and the books can be a lot of fun . . . but one of the characters is very autistic-coded, and then it turns out that he's "weird" because he's not human. I miss liking those books so much! They were really important to me as a teenager! But I also feel kind of betrayed by them.

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells are an adult sci-fi series with an agender, asexual, aromantic main character who's also a human-robot construct with really significant neurodivergent traits. You're allowed to have complicated feelings about neurodivergent robots, but I think Wells handles them really well (definitely in a very different way than Sarah Rees Brennan handles the autistic-coded demon character in The Demon's Lexicon).

The Gentlemen's Guide to Vice and Virtue and subsequent books in that series are historical (sort of fantasy) new adult romance/adventure books (yeah, a bit hard to categorize). The main character of the first book is bisexual and has PTSD and alcohol addiction; the love interest in that book has a physical disability (I think a seizure disorder, but now I'm doubting myself). The main character of book two is asexual, and the main character of book three has really severe anxiety.

Six of Crows is a YA fantasy duology by Leigh Bardugo in which the main character has PTSD and chronic pain and uses a cane. He's straight, but among the six major characters, two are bisexual and one is gay, and one of the bisexual characters has ADHD and a gambling addiction (though, this being secondary-world fantasy, those words don't appear on the page).

The main character of Hench, an adult superhero story by Natalie Zina Walschots, is a bisexual woman has chronic pain and PTSD, and she also uses a cane.

Later Rick Riordan books get progressively queerer, and almost all his characters have ADHD and dyslexia.

I was about to recommend checking out @thedisabilitybookarchive, but it seems like they already reblogged this! Well, anyway, here are my recs.

I have a question

is there any lgbtq+ books with disability characters as the main lead ?