Is that what makes you fascinating?

If anyone wants to follow me elsewhere: BlueSky: backwardschic.bsky.social IG/Threads: backwards_chic Tumblr: queenoftheimps.tumblr.com Gonna try to start using those platforms more

Agreed, but IIRC you'd still have menopause-like symptoms as a result (like hot flashes) even if it's not actual menopause

Larry: I just don't understand why Marian is so worried about the consequences of us spending the night together :( Gladys, recovering from a traumatic birth + hysterectomy + menopause symptoms at age 21: big brother i'm afraid i need to beat you to death #thegildedage

The book Defending Jacob plays with this. The narrator's teen son is accused of murder, & his dad is positive that he didn't do it. Without spoiling everything, the dad never wavers in his conviction + the courts land on another culprit, but it's heavily implied they're all wrong

I kind of love how she's still exactly who she always was, but in a way that's less villainous than she started as. "Yes, I'm a conniving striver -- but I'm *your* conniving striver now, Mama-In-Law :D"

Maucoq or Maucox, which admittedly sounds a little filthy

Honestly, considering his main experience was with a hot older woman, he might not even know that much

Good catch, that would’ve chafed to all hell

So, uh, does Larry Russell know anything about birth control, or #TheGildedAge #TheGildedAgeHBo

Peggy: I'm so delighted -- my book is being published, I might be going on a lecture tour, and I'm engaged. I'm so happy to share this news with you all. :) Marian: PEGGY HELP I AM EXPERIENCING POST NUT CLARITY #TheGildedAge #TheGildedAgeHBo

The Gilded Age: we understand that AO3 is shut down so we would like to offer you a Oops The Main Couple is Forced to Go to a Hotel Together plot for you all in these trying times #TheGildedAge

Me watching Marian spinning around with Larry with her arms in the air, remembering her feelings and falling in love with him again: ok but women were not shaving their armpits back in the 1880s #TheGildedAge #TheGildedAgeHBo

Someone wiser than me can decide if this is gay Halloween or straight Halloween

Happy Halloween from Circe from The Odyssey, whose pigs are definitely not Odysseus’ crew, and who are definitely about to become a pepperoni pizza