“Her tone burned like candle wax on tender skin…” #NSFW content, and a helping of #humiliation as Peaches establishes some ground rules: forthenby.com/2026/04/29/2...

And now, finally, in which you’ve all been very good, and very patient, and we finally get down to a slightly drunken and fairly #kinky #threesome. Chapter Twelve starts with… well, is it negotiation? Or is it just a little bit of warm up and humiliation? forthenby.com/2026/04/29/2...

Ah, people finding this by auto searching “stoic” and not checking the context, I see. Good good.

I’ve just done the notes for one of my absolute favourite scenes in this book (and I know, author’s darling. It stays. Bite me.) If you like awful bratty boys, tortured Doms who won’t talk about their feelings, face slapping, and dub con with BUCKETS of angst? Watch this space.

I feel so sad for all the people who like licking boots for regular sex reasons. Y'all don't deserve to be lumped in with sickos like this

Possessiveness *cannot* have that many esses in it.

I hope you lot appreciate the content notes, because they take forever and very boring to do.

Also, if your audience wanna see him get so bad, you don’t have to write him as all the way a Dom…

The state of current heterosexuality has *fetishised* male stoicism to such an extent that the “hero manfully takes a beating” trope is no longer hot. It *just* looks like they’re not hitting him very hard. (It has stigmatised male vulnerability. I got interrupted halfway through.)

“There was a bitterness in his mouth, a feeling as though the beating of his heart could no longer be relied upon.” Dickie considers his options, and his past… giving us a window on to his and Teddy’s relationship. The whole of Chapter Eleven is now live: forthenby.com/2026/04/15/1...

“But how, how to explain this overriding concern for a boy he had not seen in a twelvemonth, whom his parents had never met?” The alternative lead in to this update was, “In which Teddy might be dying, and Dickie is too socially anxious to visit him.” forthenby.com/2026/04/22/2...

Reading an absolutely charming work on AO3 - His Soul is Marching on to Another World. In which abolitionist martyr John Brown is Isekaied to a Slave Harem world. Needless to say, he is Not Impressed. archiveofourown.org/works/465326...

I #amdrawing tonight. Playing with the idea of my OC with shorter hair. Finished drawing.

A little flashback sequence today, in which a younger Dickie receives a missive, and responds in his usual calm and reasonable fashion. Chapter Eleven continues… forthenby.com/2026/04/22/2...

“So he was a whore, a rake, a sodomite? He was a vicious, affected fop? Yes, he was, and a damn fine job he made of it.” The whole of Chapter Ten is now available to read, in which Teddy has his coping mechanisms, and older, wiser heads have their say… forthenby.com/2026/04/01/2...

“For all the wreck of his life, and hopes, he was inclined to count his blessings…” Dickie, being as congruent as ever. Chapter 11 is now updating: forthenby.com/2026/04/15/1...

As someone canonically describes him, Teddy is a fighting cock - a little, gilded bantam, with spurs on his heels. (I don’t approve of cock fighting, or any blood sport, but this is a Regency setting.)

In which Dickie becomes a desperate outlaw. You can decide for yourself how convincing he is at it… forthenby.com/2026/04/15/1...

“It took Edward a minute or so, and a quick leaf through his traveller’s dictionary to get to the bottom of that one. ‘Are you propositioning me?’” Bawdy talk and the odd Asterix reference as Chapter Ten continues: forthenby.com/2026/04/08/2...

In which old friendships are rekindled, and Peaches learns an interesting thing about the Code Napoléon… Chapter Ten continues: forthenby.com/2026/04/08/2... (Apologies for the lateness, your humble scribe is on holiday with very poor reception.)

In which old friendships are rekindled, and Peaches learns an interesting thing about the Code Napoléon… Chapter Ten continues: forthenby.com/2026/04/08/2... (Apologies for the lateness, your humble scribe is on holiday with very poor reception.)

“She’s impossible. She’s a nightmare!” Teddy gets a taste of his own medicine in Chapter Ten: forthenby.com/2026/04/01/2...

Chapter Ten begins, in which we discover that it helps not at all if the mess you’re in is entirely of your own making, and in which Teddy hears from an old friend… forthenby.com/2026/04/01/2...

Turns out the only fool today is ME, who set the update for 6pm, not 6am.

“It was as though he kept her like some exotic monkey which he had no idea how to feed…” Chapter Ten starts tomorrow, but until then the whole of Chapter Nine is available to read: forthenby.com/2026/03/18/2...

Just heard that the climax of The Forthenby Ladies has reduced my proofreader to tears, so we’ve got that to look forward to!

“If you lay a hand upon me, I will break your fingers.” The very model of a politely raised Regency girl… forthenby.com/2026/03/25/2...

A fond marital scene, culminating in a kiss… or something like that. Confused feelings, hard words, and some light #dubcon as Chapter Nine continues: forthenby.com/2026/03/25/2...

“But her husband had not touched her.” Marital bliss has not manifested for our newly weds in any form. Get your minds out of the gutter: forthenby.com/2026/03/18/2...

After a little time-skip, we rejoin Serafina to see how she’s adapting to married life. Let’s say it doesn’t quite meet her expectations: forthenby.com/2026/03/18/2...

Forthenby is having a little intermission this week, so we’re going to flick through and find the dirty bits. We start with Chapter one, part 2 with some #oral and #dirtytalk. forthenby.com/2024/06/26/1...

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

Teddy modern AU song: youtu.be/bHxTuJxi-Nk

“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...

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

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.

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...