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CALLING ALL HISTORY AND ENGLISH MAJORS AND JANE AUSTEN FANS!

This might just be perfect for you :)

This is a game called “Regency Love”, it’s available on Iphones and Ipads (but they’re working on an Android version too!) and it’s absolutely magical. 
On the surface, it’s “just” a historical dating sim (which is a game where you can romance a partner of your choosing and can influence the story through your words and actions), but wow, it’s so much more:

• The atmosphere is just like reading a Regency era novel, only you’re the heroine
• You can determine your own character through interaction choices - you can choose to be gentle and kind like Jane or witty and forthright like Elizabeth or vulgar and frivolous like Lydia
• To advance in the story, you have to earn points either by being quizzed about the Regency era (e.g. what were popular ice cream choices of the time? What was the proper time for a visit? Who was the king?) or by completing quotes via hangman (What are men to rocks and ______) - so you lern A LOT about the prominent issues and thoughts of the time
• You can spend these points as “motivation” to become accomplished - which should, of course, attract a husband, but it’s just fun to watch yourself grow into a super genius who can paint as well as ride as well as dance as well as talk literature as well as stitch as well as play the pianoforte and sing. You go, main character!

• You’re never just passive, but are always able to influence the course of events
• Also, you can be incredibly witty if you choose to be and poke fun at some of the societal norms of the time - which your romantic partners will not only tolerate, but admire!
• It touches upon heavier subjects as well: whether one’s life shoud be determined by one’s birth, how one should approach war and nationalism, whether education should be available only to a select few or everyone, whether it’s good or bad that times are changing,…
• That’s right: one of the main plot points is that a school is being built - one that EVERYONE can attend!
• As far as I can tell, it’s incredibly authentic - the conversations flow naturally, everyone has their own, real problems … but it’s such a stark difference to your everyday life that it really makes you reconsider and look at things as they are with a fresh approach
  (e. g. how women in general are able to earn money nowadays, while back then, this was restricted to a few authoresses)
• Also, not going to lie, the romantic story lines are just really heartwarming and sweet^^

Definitely a bonus: One of the storylines is focussed on the value of female friendship (Ellie Ashcroft) and how much women can learn from each other. The creators also promised that there will be many more stories/romance options to come, one of which will be a lady/lady love option. 

It costs 4.99$/Euros (which is a fair prize for a game of this scope, I think) and it’s worth every single cent and penny - oh, but be warned: if you want to unlock the army/soldier storyline, you have to go to the in-game purchases and get it there for another 5.99$/Euros (this, too, is well worth it - I spent approx. 4 hours on this storyline alone and it has some of the most interesting questions to raise). 

I hope you’ll have fun sipping tea, eating scones and discussing Shakespeare’s sonnets while Napoleon’s shadow looms over the country ~

(Here’s a link: x)

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This is the sweetest thing.

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Missy in The Witch’s Familiar

I didn’t think Doctor Who could get any better and then Missy made Doctor Who 1000000% better. 

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Girl’s Costume Warehouse (X)

ITS BACK

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