#the doomsday books

[fourthleafluck]

Me and the smuggler prince I pulled with my sincerity and childlike wonder

OR

Me and the baronet I pulled with my roguish charm and sense of whimsy

Queer Book Draw Challenge 17/20: The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles

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[lucky-numberme]

(pls enjoy this low effort meme I made as a joke for my gf of Joss Doomsday while I wait for the art burnout to fade)

[cloudyglow]

Crossover fanart of My Little Pony and the book The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles. This is the first book of The Doomsday Books. This excellent adult historical gay romance is set on Romney Marsh during the Regency period. I adored it the first time I read it in June and it was just as good the second time in September! When I love something this much I often feel compelled to ponify it. Here are my pony interpretations of the romantic leads Joss Doomsday (left) and Sir Gareth Inglis (right).

more under the cut

[winged-fool]

I've only just started A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel, but it makes me unbelievably happy that Gareth has published a book on his beetles 🥹

[cherismomish]

“Just one side,” Joss said. “Ours. And us both on it, always.”

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen

[kiyoko18s-writing-corner]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Doomsday Books - K. J. Charles, The Secret Lives of Country Gentlement - K. J. Charles Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Joss Doomsday/Gareth Inglis Characters: Joss Doomsday, Gareth Inglis Additional Tags: Silks and Lace, Smut, Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Lingerie Summary:

Joss sends Gareth a 'special' gift for him to wear.

[kiyoko-the-otakus-art]

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (12-18 Mar 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰👂‍The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books #1) (KJ Charles, author; Martyn Swain, narrator) - another knock out hit from KJC!!! I loved that most of the conflict was external - they had some shit to sort out but it was not drawn out excessively. Great sense of place. Really looking forward to the next book in the duology, but not because this one left me wanting. [audio narrator's voice was lovely-sounding but the pacing was TERRIBLE - very, very slow with drawn out pauses in the middle of sentences, just weird & annoying. I read it on 1.45x speed and it was just bearable but I mostly read it in text when I could]

🥰 All the Things Money Can't Buy series (Lys ap Adin (lysapadin)) - 62K series (45 main story, rest later vignettes) - Sheith modern sugar daddy AU, complete with a delicious 'snowed in together' section and a cute dog named Potroast 🐶

😊👂‍Death In Irish Accents (The Dublin Driver Mysteries #4) (Catie Murphy, author; Ruth Urquhart, narrator) - Megan just can't stay away from murders - literally opens with a body falling on Megan & her girlfriend while they are having coffee - absolutely love it!

😍Monoclonius (Zenaidamacrouras1) - 62K, stucky AU with single dad/environmentalist Steve & dino scientist Bucky - absolutely delightful, loved loved loved it to bits! Genuinely loved the OCs (including a very important stuffed trilobite; found family vibes off the charts (even outside of S&B)). Also there's a very decent amount of hot sex! THIS FIC HAS EVERYTHING.

😊👂‍Christmas at The Grange (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #3.5) (T.E. Kinsey, author; Elizabeth Knowelden, narrator) - novella

💖💖 +70K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Cross (lightgetsin) - Dresden Files: Dresden/Marcone, 33K - haven't read DF in years bc I'm well done with that canon but shout out to the inimitable @drunktuesdays, who threw this pairing onto my radar and 🤯🥵🤯🥵🤯

cybersex series (Adure) - Stranger Things: steddie, 7K - friends-to-accidental-sexters - short, sweet but super hot

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Ted Lasso - s1, e6-10; all season 2; s3, e1 [x2]

Maine Cabin Masters - s7, e10

Schitt's Creek - s2, e3

Dickenson - s1, e1-3

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Menus To Be Buried With - Judgement Day! • Comic Relief 2023

Richmond Til We Die: A Ted Lasso Podcast - I Love You Guys So Very Much ("Season 3 Preview")

Shedunnit - The Trials of Madeleine Smith

Desert Island Discs - David Sedaris, writer

⭐Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Soundalikes

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Exploring the underworld with Jessica Leigh Hester

You're Dead To Me - Frederick Douglass

⭐Hit Parade Plus - Raise Your Glass Edition

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - NYC’s Most Beautiful Public Bathroom

Vibe Check - I Stand In Exhausted Solidarity

⭐99% Invisible #528 - A Whale-Oiled Machine

You Must Remember This - 1988: Kevin Costner, Sean Young, No Way Out & Bull Durham (Erotic 80s Part 11)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Manuscript Writing Cafe

Welcome to Night Vale #224 - Liminal Spaces

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Blurred lines with Stacy Horn

⭐Switched on Pop - Modern Classics: Seal - Kiss From a Rose

Into It - Are We Into Tom Cruise Skipping the Oscars, Nancy Meyers, and M3GAN's Sartorial Debut?

Switched on Pop - Switches Brew

You're Dead To Me - The Columbian Exchange

It's Been a Minute - Silicon Valley Bank and the sordid history of 'Palo Alto'

⭐ICYMI Plus - Pedro Pascal Is the Internet’s Daddy

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Remixes

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

TRUSTFALL [P!nk] {2023}

P!nk

Carly Rae Jepsen

Little Freddie King

The Hamilton Instrumentals {2015}

[libraryleopard]

Dual POV adult historical romance set in 1810s England

When a Gareth, London clerk, unexpectedly inherits his estranged father's baronetcy in Kent, he moves to the Romney marshes and realizes that Joss, the man who runs the local smuggling clan, is the same one who he had several clandestine assignations with–before they abruptly things ended on bad terms

The two end tangled in conflicts between rival smuggling clans and the local authorities even as they find themselves drawn back to each other

Very grounded in historical politics, setting, and language

Gay main character; biracial Black/white, gay main character; M/M romance

[cartograffiti]

Hearts Alive!

Fandom: The Doomsday Books, The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen - K. J. Charles Rated: M No archive warnings apply Word count: 2,385 - Relationships: Joss Doomsday & Luke Doomsday, Gareth Inglis & Luke Doomsday, Gareth Inglis/Joss Doomsday - Fifteen-year-old Luke Doomsday asks Joss for advice about feelings and guys, because he's fallen hopelessly, embarrassingly in love for the first time…with Gareth.

Written before the release of Book 2.

This fic was posted in 2023. I'm sharing it now because I want my Tumblr to have a nicely organized link to each of my fics. Some I've shared with such inconsistent tags I can't find the links myself, and many I've never blogged about at all!

[wickedcriminal]

I have worn that bracelet every day of my life.

Happy fifth day of Doomsday~ ☠️

[fourthleafluck]

"Damn, bitch, you live like this?" — Luke Doomsday before he swoops in and sorts out the D'Aumesty manor probably (Also Rufus when he sees Luke's constant internal turmoil tbh)

Queer Book Draw Challenge 18/20: A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by KJ Charles

[spinaroos-47]

Three dragons, all with a scar across their heart.

Three boys, all named Hiccup

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I wanted to do something for the twelve days of doomsday, but i couldn't do all 12 days so I decided to revisit a concept that has always stuck with me: how history repeats itself, in the big and small details

And 2023 marks 10 years since I have started reading the books, so they're also a bit of a comemoration of how long they've stuck with me

[yv-sketches]

I just found out I have 999 followers? And holy vegetable-that-no-one-dares-name, that is insane.

My very first httyd book drawings were from How to cheat a dragon's curse, so here is another from book 4. It's a little messy because it took an hour, but I had to do something for the occasion.

[reluctantlyanimating]

First day of doomsday!!

A lot of the stuff I'll be posting for doomsday is kind of old 😭 but i wanna use the pieces I have that ARE themed around a certain book on whichever days I can, so this one is an oldish piece of Hiccup and Merciless :]

[cherismomish]

One of the many things I enjoyed about the Doomsday Books is that it features one of my favourite tropes: 'Man Unexpectedly Acquires a Child'