newtboot465
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The Best Angle is a Love Triangle by newtboot465
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
11 May 2026
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In the wake of Taggie and Rupert’s kiss and Cameron and Tony’s fight, everything in Taggie’s life went to shit. The man she loved moved another woman into his home, her father needed more parenting than her younger sister, and Taggie was generally heartbroken and exhausted.
As Taggie hid away in the Priory kitchen making canapés, she took comfort in the fact that everyone seemed oblivious to her misery--with one tall, dark, and handsome exception.
Bas Baddingham, avowed bachelor and Rutshire’s most emotionally competent rake, had watched Taggie and his best friend circle each other for months. So when Cameron moved into Penscombe, Bas was unsurprised to see Taggie become a shell of her former self.
In an effort to do Taggie a good turn, Bas decides to take her to the annual Hunt Ball. And when she decides she fancies a casual fling, Bas is delighted–uncomplicated casual flings are his specialty, after all.
Unfortunately for both Bas and Taggie, love and casual flings will prove surprisingly complicated.
"Remastered version" - as of 5/10/26
Series
- Part 2 of Rivals: Into the Tasil-Verse
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged by newtboot465
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
21 Mar 2026
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In 1809, Sir Declan and Lady Maud O'Hara attempt to mitigate their mounting debts by selling their London house and permanently moving to their country seat, The Priory.
This lands Taggie, their only child, in Rutshire--a picturesque place full of handsome rakes and villains who are widowed with concerning frequency.
Accompanied by her best friend Anne, daughter of the O'Hara housekeeper, Taggie rides an emotional, romantic, and personal rollercoaster over the ensuing months and years.
This fic (a character study masquerading as a multi-season soap opera) has it all: a meet-ugly, illicit hand touches, secret courtships, seductions, star-crossed lovers, reformed rakes, open marriages, children, secret children, dead people who may or may not be dead, international travel, a sprinkle of gothic horror, domestic horror, and a third act with enough silly drama for five novels.
Also included: an epilogue chapter and a lengthy, multi-chapter "second epilogue."
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Family Planning by newtboot465
Fandoms: Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper, Rivals (TV 2024)
26 Dec 2025
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Taggie and Bas navigate becoming parents with all the accompanying joy and angst, including family drama, insecurity, an international move, and remembering who they are as individuals in the midst of all of it.
Series
- Part 11 of Rivals: Into the Tasil-Verse
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The Secret Admirer by newtboot465
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
13 Apr 2025
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Taggie and Moriah's new restaurant, The Dex, is now open. Also, Taggie appears to have a not-so-secret admirer. Drama ensues.
This installment has it all:
Mystery gifts.
Romantic notes.
Angst.
A new outfit.
Drunken confessions.
Misunderstandings.
Grand gestures.
And our old friend, bonking.
Series
- Part 10 of Rivals: Into the Tasil-Verse
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Curry Night by newtboot465
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
06 Apr 2025
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This is a re-imagining of the gaps in episode 1x04, centered around Taggie’s time in Bar Sinister on Valentine’s Day where she fills in for Bas’s chef and cooks a curry for karaoke night.
Taggie enjoys being in charge of a kitchen, despite her anxieties regarding Rupert pre- and post-interview. (Heavy on the Taggie longing/angst/rumination.)
Rupert only makes a very brief irl appearance, but is always on Taggie’s mind.
Bas is a silly flirt.
Series
- Part 1 of Rivals: Into the Tasil-Verse
Recent series
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Rivals: Into the Tasil-Verse by newtboot465
Fandom Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
11 May 2026
Summary
This series begins with a multi-chapter fic in which Bas Baddingham emerges as a competing romantic lead.
It picks up after Season 1 of the Hulu series but incorporates plot points/scenes from the rest of the Rivals book (beware of spoilers).
Subsequent entries in the series are sequentially ordered short stories based on reader prompts from comments and Tumblr asks. In other words, Taggie and Bas fall in love, get married, start businesses, have kids, and get up to all kinds of shenanigans.
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- 332,881
- Works:
- 11
- Bookmarks:
- 16