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Monty and Percy from Mackenzi Lee’s novel The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue. I haven’t even finished the book yet, but I adore it, so I had to draw for it!

“We’re not courting trouble,“ I say. "Flirting with it, at most.”

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We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved.

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue + Modern AU Moodboards

We are not broken things… We are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved.

Percy: is there a word that's a mix between angry and sad? Felicity: malcontented, disgruntled, miserable, desolated... Monty: smad.

I’ve seen a lot of good posts detailing why you should read The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue but I feel some things are being left out, so:

-Important messages about learning to love and value yourself -it shows how being privilaged in some ways and at a disadvantage in other ways (regarding identities and circumstances of their lives) affect and interact with each other but don’t negate each other -Adresses white privilege and race issues in the time period -the main character is flawed. Like, man he says some stuff in the beginning that makes me go “????” But that’s the point. He’s not a great person, but his character development is SO GOOD. None of his actions are excused, but he gets to learn and grow and become better and it’s so cool to watch -honestly all the characters are so good and well developed -and people have already pointed out how funny the book is but, in particular for me, Monty getting lowkey turned on by Percy accidentally playing footsie with him is hysterical