#* muse {penelope carey}

[stickseascn]

hey, isn’t that JOSEPHINE “JOEY” DAVIS-SCOTT, who looks a little like ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY? i hear SHE is a THIRTY-TWO year old CIS WOMAN who works as CO-OWNER OF THE CRYSTAL RIDGE WINERY who has been in town for HER ENTIRE LIFE. they ARE a member of one of aspen creek’s founding families. you can usually find them at WILLOW STREET or CRYSTAL RIDGE WINERY. if you ask me, they remind me a lot of LEATHER JACKETS, SOFT SMILES BENEATH HEAVY EYELINER, AND A HEART THAT’S TOUGH BUT EASILY BRUISED. just keep an eye on them & see if their true colors shine through!

basics

full name: josephine davis-scott nickname: jo, joey age: 32 years old date of birth: august 21st, 1992 zodiac sign: leo sun, cancer moon, aries rising gender & pronouns: cis woman & she/her sexuality: bisexual occupation: co-owner of crystal ridge winery; manages social media for the winery and the davis-scott bed & breakfast; photographer; painter

family

mother: evelyn davis-scott father: james davis-scott sibligns: tba davis-scott, tba davis-scott, harlow davis-scott, penelope davis-scott nephews: alice reeves, teddy li, tba, tba, tba

personality

mbti: ESFP-A (the entertainer) moral alignment: chaotic neutral temperament: sanguine parallels: jess o'brien (chesapeake shores), pacey witter and jen lindley (dawson's creek), brooke davis (one tree hill)

about

she’s the youngest child in the davis-scott family and often felt a bit out of place among everyone -- her older siblings, nieces, and nephews, many of whom were born just a few years after joey herself. her house was always bustling, whether with family or the guests at the davis-scott bed & breakfast, where she spent most of her childhood and teenage years.

despite her outwardly extroverted nature, joey often felt lonely. that’s part of why amara has been so important to her ever since they met in kindergarten. the two girls have been inseparable ever since, navigating middle school, high school, and college in raleigh together, then amara’s pregnancy, and ultimately opening the crystal ridge winery side by side.

spotify wrapped

stick season - noah kahan

dirty little secret - the all-american rejects

don't tell me - avril lavigne

thnks fr th mmrs - fall out boy

the middle - jimmy eat world

hanging by a moment - lifehouse

the best of me - the starting line

disease - matchbox twenty

she will be loved - maroon 5

love song - sara bareilles

i'm a slave 4 u - britney spears

like a prayer - madonna

come clean - hilary duff

bleeding love - leona lewis

like a boy - ciara

since u been gone - kelly clarkson

i hate this part - the pussycat dolls

wanted connections / plots

exes: someone from high school or college. ideally, i’d love a dynamic similar to pacey and joey from dawson’s creek -- where jo takes on the pacey role lol. they’ve disliked each other since childhood, but things started to shift when they entered high school, and something romantic developed. however, it all abruptly ended before college. now, they've crossed paths again and are trying to convince themselves they can still be friends, but it's not easy being friends with someone you once loved.

work-related plots: people joey has worked with before, or is about to collaborate with. she’s a photographer and a painter with an impressive portfolio. she photographs events, weddings, parties—basically anything. in addition, she teaches a few free art and photography classes, particularly for kids.

some kind of enemies: joey is known for her abrasive personality. she’s outspoken and isn’t afraid to defend her ideas, no matter who she’s talking to. maybe your muse doesn’t like how blunt she is, or they have opposing views. it would be fun to have an enemy in such a small town. this conflict could be something recent or something that dates back to their school days.

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‧  ˖  ❛     ꒰     💌    ꒱      odisseia ╱    luhlist.

Dominico - Drew Starkey ( son of poseidon )

Ares - Matt Smith ( god of war )

Zephyrus - Kennedy Walsh ( the west wind )

Euro - Madeline Ford ( the east wind )

Persephone - Adelaide Kane ( goddess of flowers and spring )

Penelope - Phoebe Dynevor ( daughter of aphrodite )

Eros - Ewan Mitchell ( god of love )

Phobos - Tom Glynn-Carey ( god of fear )

Atticus - Ben Barnes ( son of melinoe )

Hera - Olivia Cooke ( goddess of marriage )

Calista - Emily Carey ( daughter of hades )

Hermes - Pedro Pascal ( god of messengers )

Cadmo - Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesenen

Despoina - Sai Bennett ( goddess of winter )

Poseidon - Michiel Huisman ( god of sea )

Hephestus - Harry Gilby ( god of fire )

Medusa - Victoria Pedretti

Eolo - Iwan Rheon ( god of winds )

Macaria - Holliday Grainger ( goddess of good death )

Alastor - Daniel Sharman ( avenger of evil deeds )

Ariadne - Sabrina Carpenter ( goddess of purity )

Caliope - Florence Pugh ( muse )

Acantha - Clara Galle ( daughter of Nemesis and hera )

Adonis - Bradley James ( son of ares and Aphrodite )

Christos - Sebastian Stan ( soldier )

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Tag Dump- Muses Pt Two

[mizzprouds]

Get to know PENELOPE “PENNY” PROUD who is often mistaken for DIAMONTE “SAWEETIE” HARPER. People say she reminds them of PENNY PROUD from THE PROUD FAMILY. 

the little things. 

hometown: wizville, corona

birthday: august 12 / 25 (leo) 

occupation: employee at the sugar rush arcade, aspiring singer/rapper & soon to be ceo of viperion records. 

education: senior at corona college

extracurriculars/things she’s a part of: member of the roller derby team. on the soccer and basketball teams. the first girl to be on the varsity football team. part of gaming squad. prescott’s acting class 

headcanons. 

Penny first starts dancing when she’s seven years old. She signs up for a talent show at the Wizard Kelly community center. Another group of kids were thinking of doing a dance to Independent Woman by Destiny’s Child and she joins their group. They lose the talent show in the end but she had fun. 

Shortly after this she begs her parents to sign her up for dance classes. At first Oscar is adamant that he’s not wasting money on dance lessons, even when her mom tries to reason with him. In the end Suga Mama ends up paying for the dance classes. 

It’s no secret that Penny is extremely close to her beloved grandma. Often times when she couldn’t see eye to eye with her parents she’d go to Suga Mama’s house for some clarity. Suga Mama always found a way to meet Penny in the middle and provide her with the guidance and wisdom she needed to make the right choice. Suga Mama’s house was also the birth place of her love for music.

Uncle Bobby, who still lived with Suga Mama after his own music career failed, would never know what to do with his frustrated niece when she’d come by looking for a reprieve from her parents. All Bobby knew was music and the way it healed, and so he’d put on his old records and they’d dance around the house until there was nothing but smiles and good vibes.

Bobby insists on teaching Penny how to play at least one instrument. She initially has no interest in learning the guitar or piano. The music she likes is heavy with bass and 808s. But then she hears Fallin’ by Alicia Keys and she changes her tune. Penny dedicates every bit of free time she has to learning how to play. She never gets to be as good as Alicia Keys, but she can read sheet music and has an easier time composing because of it and that’s helped her exponentially in her studies. 

The first song Penny ever performs by herself is One, Two Step by Ciara. She choreographs a dance to it with the help of some of her dance class friends, and she even copies Ciara’s outfit from the video. Her mother loves to show everyone the tape of the performance any chance she can. If you’re invited to the Proud house chances are you’ve seen that video and Penny hates it. 

Avid Hip Hop Helicopter fanatic. It being the island’s version of TRL, Penny would rush home so she could catch the video countdowns and special performances. She rewatches her favorite videos and tries to mimic everything the artist does. One time her father caught her trying to do the ‘Check On It’ choreography. He took away her TV privileges for five months. 

Growing up in the Proud household was never easy. Penny and her father have never been able to see eye to eye on literally anything, and Trudy could be just as hard to deal with as Oscar at times. Penny often felt trapped under her parents set ways, and there was never any chance of expressing those frustrations out of fear of her parents taking it as disrespect. What her parents didn’t seem to understand was the tighter the leash the more willing she was to pull on it. Penny knows she gave her parents their fair share of headaches with how often she snuck out of the house and disobeyed their wishes, but she just couldn’t help it. She was young and curious. Hell, she still is. She was always a good kid at her core though, and she tried her best. Her dad just never seemed to see it that way. 

Their fighting turned to near radio silence over the years, especially now that she’s away from home. She understands his feelings ultimately, and misses him of course, but she’s not necessarily sure she wants to be the one to make amends. Or even how to go about it. Penny feels as if she’s always the one bending over backwards for her father and he never once tries to see things from her point of view. She’s a little tired of constantly being the bigger person in their relationship.

Penny and Oscar are cut from the same cloth. Theyre both hard headed, passionate, persistent and stubborn. It’s the main reason why they can’t see to eye to eye. She thinks he’s overbearing, annoying and unbearable, and no matter how much she loves him she can’t change the fact that in the end she can’t stand him most of the time (when she’s not getting her way.). Trudy has once implied that Penny and her father have a hard time with each other because they’re so similar and Penny did not take it well. So, never compare her to her dad. Ever.

Boy! Crazy! Mostly when she was a teenager. Oscar banned her from dating until she was his age, and Penny never listened to a single thing he ever had to say. You could always catch her chatting up the cutest boys at the mall or at school. She’s still a little stuck in the habit of having to keep her relationships a secret. It takes her a while to feel comfortable posting a significant other on social media out of fear her father will see. 

Penny was originally on the high school cheerleading team, but she realized she much rather preferred football. Getting into football was literally just because one of the boys said girls are too weak for football, and if there’s one thing about Penny; she’s not going to be underestimated. 

Not the best driver. In fact, one would argue she’s a terrible driver. She failed her drivers test three times. She’s easily distracted. If the radio is on she can’t focus, and Penny is almost always listening to music. 

Her brief brush with fame was humbling. LPDZ’s (and more so her own as a solo star) failure made her re-analyze what she wanted out of the industry in the first place. She and Luka are currently working on starting their own label together, but in the meantime she’s focusing her efforts on perfecting her own sound. Penny would best describe her sound as undefinable. She doesn’t want to be classified as a rapper or an R&B singer. She just wants to make music. Women are often put in a box when it comes to the entertainment industry as a whole, and Penny doesn’t care much for the idea of playing by the rules. Because of this she is willing to try her hand at everything, experimenting with anything new at least once. 

The rise to fame is moving slow without the backing Wizard Kelly Records anymore. She kind of hates it. In an effort to keep herself occupied and build a name for herself independently, she utilizes social media. She has a YouTube account where she posts covers of songs bi-weekly, as well as the new music she’s been working. She also has a YouTube series called The Icy Life, which is literally just her vlogging about her stupid ass life. The channel is doing extremely well, thanks both to her bright personality and her proximity to various celebrities from the island (The Muses). She also livestreams on Instagram a lot, sometimes she writes songs on live but mostly she just interacts with her fans. She’s content with her 600k followers but she personally won’t stop until she has millions of followers. She wants to be as big as Beyonce. 

Penny, while focused on achieving her goals, is still the fun loving girl she’d always been. You can’t keep her from a party and she’s easily spotted on the dance floor having the time of her life, or hanging with friends.

Penny has always been understanding and passionate, and she likes to think that she will always stand up for/do the right thing in the end. She’s the queen of the pep talk and long winded speech about what’s right. She’s a leader and doesn’t even really realize it.

Penny’s biggest musical influences include: Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Lil Kim, Lauryn Hill, Beyonce, Rihanna, and Missy Elliott.

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Wanted Opposites!

This isn’t a very important post, especially when I should be doing drafts but if anyone has these faceclaims to go against any of mine, platonically, romantic, strangers, etc. HMU! (MESSAGES!) I will probably already be attached because I just adore ocs, but even better with these fcs. Don’t be discouraged though if you have none, it’s just a post to put out there if you’re interested in checking it out. I will roleplay with the majority of faceclaims except the ones on my banned list. Of course I’ll be open to writing against these faceclaims with any of my other muses, these are just first thoughts. 

** Please bring me your underused faceclaims, poc, ladies, nb, older, etc! They don’t get much love in the indie rpc.

I tried my hardest not to repeat as there are several fcs I’d like for other characters too, but, 

Below the cut is the list:

Angelica Ward:

Dominique P. Chalkley, Kat Barrell, Shamir Anderson, Paige Turco, Natalie Krill, Jodelle Ferland, Megan Follows, Zoie Palmer, Anna Silk, Ksenia Solo. 

Brooklyn Nash:

Cameron Monoghan, Shanola Hampton, Emma Greenwell, Laura Slade Wiggins, Jane Levy, Joel Kinnaman, Ruby Rose, Dermot Mulroney.

Cody Jane:

Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Alexis Demie, Margaret Qualley, Elliot Fletcher, Noel Fischer, 

Corrine Walker:

Charley Weber, Viola Davis, Matt McGorry, Tom Verica, Karla Souza, AJA Naomi King, Alfred Enoch, Alexis Bledel, Barry Sloan, Keiko Agena.

Dionne Davis:

Kristen Bell, D’Arcy Carden, jode Comer, Sandra Oh, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, Manny Jacinto, Emma Stone, Tiya Sircar, Adam Scott, Leslie Grossman, Stephan Merchant.

Fitz Stevens: 

Emmy Raver Lampman, Marin Ireland, Drew Barrymore, Robert Sheenan, Laverne Cox, Trace Lysette, Alexandra Billings, Indya Moore, MJ Rodriguez, Jamie Clayton, Gaby Hoffmann, Ritu Arya.

Ireland Magneri: 

Dave Franco, Aubrey Plaza, Gillian jacobs, Joel McHale, Carey Mulligan, Mary Holland, Mackenzie Davis, Bo Burnham.

Kendall Reid:

Alison Brie, Kristen Stewart, Kathryn Hahn, Rashida jones, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Cera, Clea Duvall, Oscar Isaac, Pedro Pascal, Taika Waititi.

Koko Gallagher-Yang:

Ashley Tisdale, Shay Mitchell, Rooney Mara, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Kat Dennings, Brianne Howey, Ruby Rose, Cara Delevigne, Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, Troian Bellisario, Lucy Boynton.

Leona Langford:

David Harbour, Keanu Reeves, Ethan Hawke, Sean Astin, Christian Slater, Anthony Michael Hall, Johnny Depp, Millie Bobby Brown, Carla Buono, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, Brett Gelman, Davis, Alex Baldwin, Michael Keaton, Catherine O’Hara, Dacre Montgomery, Francesca Reale, Angelina Jolie. 

Lillian Fitzgerald: 

Lili Reinhart, Milo Ventimiglia Sarah Paulson, Patrick Wilson, Evan Peters, Jessica Lange, Hamish Lanklater, Kyle Breitkopf, Connie Britton, Cody Fern, Zachary Quinto. 

Lorelai Bajwa Kapoor:

Mindy Kaling, Sara Ramirez, Tom Hopper, David Casteneda, Jake Epstein, Zoe Kravtiz, Perry Mattfield, Jode Whittaker, Pearl Mackie, 

Opal Riverand:

Cole/Dylan Sprouse, Camila Mendes, Reese Witherspoon, Molly Ringwald, Charles Merton, Madelaine Petsch, Mark Consuelos, Karlie Kloss, Keke Palmer, Vanessa Morgan, Marisol Nichols, Madchen Amick, Molly Ringwald, Skeet Ulrich. 

Penelope Banks:

Matt Czuchry,  Liza Weil, Lauren Graham, Samira Wiley, America Ferrera, Ashley Graham, Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn, Amanda Seyfried, Lily James, Rosamund Pike, Chris Pine, Chris Pratt, Chris Evans.

Samantha North: 

Bonnie Wright, Natalia Tena, Kristen Stewart, Emilia Clarke, Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Evanna Lynch, Mae Whitman, Kate Walsh, Ellen Page, Demi Moore, Jennifer Connolly, Cate Blanchett, Mandy Moore, Jennifer Gardner. 

Victoria Wilson: 

Rainn Wilson, Ed Helms, Steve Carrell, John Kransinski, Idris Elba, Jenna Fischer, Amy Ryan, Creed Bratton, Kate Flannery, Rachael Harris.

Zainab Abbott: 

Jim Howick, David Tennant, Hannah Waddingham, Jason Isaacs, Idris Elba, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juno Temple, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jeff Goldblum,  Willem Dafoe, Elizabeth Mitchell, Emily Blunt, Anne Hathway, Jon Hamm, Stellan Skarsgaard, Helena Bonham Carter, Sarah Lancashire, Siobhan Finneran, Dev Patel. Catherine Zeta Jones. 

Zero:

Hunter Schafer, Bella Thorne, Hailee Steinfeld, Jennifer Tilly, Barbie Ferreira, Maya Hawke, Maude Apatow, Diana Silvers, Saoirse Ronan, Talulah Riley.

Faces I’d love to interact with anyways: Lily Rabe, LP (the singer), Lana Del Rey, Winona Ryder, Stefanie Scott, Billie Ellish, Natalia Dyer, Natalie Portman, Natalie Dormer, Stella Maeve, Thomas Sangster, Most Drag Queens, Asia Kate Dillon, Halston Sage, Haley Lu Richardson, Shane West, Chris Meloni,  Selena Gomez, Jamie Bell, Charlie Rowe,  Kit Harrington, Matt Smith, Himseh Patel, Ansel Elgort, Lily Collins,  Katie Leung, Brendan Gleeson, Lea Seydoux, Rupert Grint, Domnhall Gleeson, Tom Felton, Allison Scalglotti, Ben Hardy, Chloe Sevigny,  David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Michael Sheen, Melanie Laurent, Rami Malek, etc.

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list of muses i will be keeping:

charlotte ‘charlie’ davies; willa holland fc emilie blanchard; chloe bennet fc emilia allard; marie avgeropoulos fc matilda ‘tilly’ eberhardt-lloyd; caity lotz fc athena graham; virginia gardner fc kai levy; jade tailor fc antonia ‘anto’ silva; camila mendes fc adeline ‘addie’ atkinson; alycia debnam carey fc  élodie ‘elle’ babineaux; dominique provost-chalkley fc kaycie perez; karla souza fc renae jacobs; melissa benoist fc caoimhe carrigan; stella maeve fc darcy moreau; jenna dewan fc sloane garcia; sofia carson fc (switched her fc from rita volk to sofia !!) mckenna liakos; haley lu richardson fc hayes morrison; danielle campbell fc ryan jacobs; chyler leigh fc isla graham; katie mcgrath fc penelope ‘poppy’ wilde; naomi scott fc alessandra ‘alessa’ ranford; lindsey morgan fc (replaced fl*riana lima w lindsey !!) piper armitage; eliza taylor fc  waverly nichols; maia mitchell fc carson miller; lauren german fc harlow jones; kat barrell fc rosalie ‘rosie’ acebo; odette annable (switched from shelley hennig) ana saffron ‘saffi’ costa walker; lyndsy fonseca fc catalina rodriguez; ana de armas fc noelle lucas; crystal reed fc

i will also be keeping my canon supergirl muses (kara, alex and maggie) however i will be using diane gurrero for maggie’s fc instead !!

list of muses i will not be keeping:

sage danvers; sofia carson (again; i switched sloane’s fc to her !!)  keziah aldridge; lindsey morgan (again; i changed alessandra’s fc to her!!) dorothy ‘dodie’ parnell; zoey deutch (i will be adding a new muse with her fc!!) georgina ‘gina’ parnell; willa fitzgerald fc abirai ‘abi’ sonar; dichen lachman fc aiyanna liu; kelsey asbile chow fc joelle ‘jojo’ santos; shay mitchell fc tallulah winters; adelaide kane fc (will be adding a new muse w her fc !!) keana ‘kj’ johnson; phoebe tonkin fc neveah ‘neve’ riley; elise bauman fc

[allbestnet]

100 Best Novels

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Blindness by Jose Saramago

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

The Trial by Franz Kafka

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

Germinal by Emile Zola

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Creation by Gore Vidal

Middlemarch by George Eliot

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Bostonians by Henry James

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Red Sorghum: A Novel of China by Mo Yan

The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Live and Remember by Valentin Rasputin

The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

No One Sleeps in Alexandria by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda

Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin

The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

Lanark by Alasdair Gray

Old Man Goriot by Honore de Balzac

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

G. by John Berger

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir

In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

The President by Miguel Angel Asturias

Source: List Muse