#Ashley Holstrom

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muses :

in frustration and futility i have given up trying to add muses to my carrd. so i'm instead making this list which is easily editable and expandable. so i apologise for being obnoxious but <3 'tis what it 'tis.

a court of thorns and roses :

azriel || active & open || fc; avan jogia cassian || active & open || fc; dev patel rhysand altair || active & open || fc; jan uppin nesta archeron || active & open || fc; elizabeth debicki elain archeron || active & open || fc; natalia dyer feyre archeron || active & open || fc; diana silvers lucien vanserra || active & open || fc; elliot knight morrigan || secondary & selective || sharmin segal eris vanserra || secondary & selective || fc; rege-jean paul tarquin || secondary & selective || fc; kingsley ben-adir helion || secondary & selective || fc; idris elba gwyneth berdara || secondary & selective || fc; bo bragason

throne of glass :

aelin ashryver galathnius || secondary & selective || fc; rowan whitethorn || active & open || fc; henry cavill lorcan salvaterre || active & open || fc; ranveer singh elide lochan || active & open || fc; avantika vandanapu aedion ashryver || secondary & selective || fc; fenrys moonbeam || currently inactive || fc; booboo stewart dorian havilliard || active & open || fc; sebastian amoruso chaol westfall || secondary & selective || fc; jacob elordi gavriel || secondary & selective || fc;

crescent city:

orion 'hunt' athalar || active & open || fc; justin johnson cortez ruhn danaan || active & open || fc; rob raco tharion ketos || active & open || fc; kj apa prince aidas || active & open || fc; felix yee danika fendyr || secondary & selective || fc; paris jackson sofie renast || secondary & selective || fc; amber midthunder ithan holstrom || secondary & selective || fc; connor holstrom || secondary & selective || fc; bryce adeline quinlan || secondary & selective || fc; fury axatar || secondary & selective || fc;

fourth wing:

xaden riorson || active & open || fc; taylor zahkar perez tairnenach || secondary & selective || fc; hes a drago bro violet sorrengail || secondary & selective || fc; naomi scott brennan sorrengail || secondary & selective || fc; tbd ridoc gamlyn || secondary & selective || fc; tbd liam mairi || secondary & selective || fc; luke eisner

bridgerton ( book & show hybrid ):

anthony bridgerton || secondary & selective || fc; jonathan bailey colin bridgerton || secondary & selective || fc; luke newton benedict bridgerton || secondary & selective || fc; luke thompson simon basset || secondary & selective || fc; regé jean page kate sharma || secondary & selective || fc; simone ashley

from blood and ash:

casteel da'neer || secondary & selective || fc; lee soo hyuk penellaphe balfour || secondary & selective || fc; nicola coughlin kieran contou || secondary & selective || fc; ismael cruz cordóza

other literature:

cardan greenbriar || active & open || fc; hyunjin hwang

anime:

luffy d. monkey || secondary & selective || fc; iñaki godoy zorro roronoa || secondary & selective || fc; mackenyu sanji 'black leg' || secondary & selective || fc; taz skylar shanks || secondary & selective || fc; peter gadiot ace d. portgas || secondary & selective || fc; tbd gojo satoru || secondary & selective || fc; tbd megumi fushiguro || secondary & selective || fc; tbd shota aizawa || secondary & selective || fc; tbd shoto todoroki || secondary & selective || fc; tbd

television:

trevor belmont || secondary & selective || fc; fabian frankel the doctor || secondary & selective || fc; (9-12 at the moment) rose tyler || secondary & selective || fc; billie piper rory williams || secondary & selective || fc; arthur darvill amelia pond || secondary & selective || fc; karen gillan clara oswald || secondary & selective || fc; jenna coleman

marvel / dc ( comic & film hybrid ):

charles xavier || secondary & selective || fc; james mcavoy bruce wayne || secondary & selective || fc; jon hamm harley quinn || secondary & selective || fc; margot robbie the joker || secondary & selective || fc; steve rogers || secondary & selective || fc; chris evans maria rambeau || secondary & selective || fc; lashana lynch carol danvers || secondary & selective || fc; brie larson

video games:

zagreus || secondary & selective || fc; thanatos* || secondary & selective || fc; hypnos* || secondary & selective || fc; nyx* || secondary & selective || fc;

mythology:**

hades || secondary & selective || fc; persephone || secondary & selective || fc;

*the muses asterisked technically cross two categories as both mythological muses and muses who are in other media such as literature or games. but they are chiefly based in their media; the hades games by supergiant.

**mythological muses are complicated for me, i write them based on personal hcs / popular media that i've formed attachments to. as such they tend to be a conglomerate hybrid of these medias along with the original myths.

updated 4/19/24

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this is so cute! mwf fc?

Thank you, thank you!

I'd love to see: Yara Shahidi, Banita Sandhu, Chase Sui Wonders, Priscilla Quintana, Madelyn Cline, Jung Hoyeon, Anya Taylor-Joy, Penelope Cruz, Stephanie Hsu, Maya Hawke, Keke Palmer, Tika Sumpter, Richa Moorjani, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Samala Hayek, Minnie Mills, Pınar Deniz, Cemre Baysel, Maggie Lindemann, Simone Ashley, Jasmine Tookes, Kylie Versoza, Hande Erçel, Nathalie Emmanuel, Mae Whitman, Precious Lee, Bree Kish, Morgan Holstrom, Seychelle Gabriel, Samara Weaving, Meltem Akçöl, Michelle Yeoh, AJ Clementine, Kennedy Walsh, Adeline Rudolph, Mimi Keene, Jessica Alexander, Lulu Antariska, Gemma Arterton, Margot Robbie, Dua Lipa, Emilija Baranac, Rachel McAdams, Halston Sage, Melissa Barrera, Aly Michalka, Devery Jacobs, Ryan Destiny, Brittany O'Grady

Just to name some!

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I'm still dealing with not being ashamed, but I'm getting there.

Ashley Holstrom, from “Defining the Thing is the Trick”

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(Don't) Call Me Crazy by Kelly Jensen + others

(Don’t) Call Me Crazy by Kelly Jensen + others

4/5 Stars

“I was trying to be brave. I was trying to let people in. I was trying. I am who I am today because of my messes. Because I’ve survived them. Because I’ve written about them. Because I’ve learned from them, because I keep searching for new tools to clean them up, because I keep trying to heal.”

(Don’t) Call Me Crazy is a collection of essays and stories discussing mental…

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(Don't) Call Me Crazy edited by Kelly Jensen

(Don’t) Call Me Crazy edited by Kelly Jensen

This book took me over a month to finish, and for once, I’m okay with that.

(more…)

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The tales in Nick Mamatas’ introspective and clever THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF EVERYTHING are entertaining

Nick Mamatas’ recently released collection THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF EVERYTHING impresses. 

In a starred review for BOOKLIST, Becky Spratford praises the book.

Each tale is entertaining on its surface, but all hold a deeper meaning for readers inclined to ponder it. The inclusion of Mamatas’ author’s notes, offering a peek into his personal evolution, is worth the price of admission. This collection will be an easy sell to readers who enjoy genre-blending authors of thought-provoking and topical tales, such as Jeffrey Ford, China Miéville, and Jeff VanderMeer.

Spratford expounds on the review at RA FOR ALL.

This collection is a genre blend as a whole, but even within stories, the genres can blend. I loved that. Not a single story takes you where you think you will go because no one writes like Mamatas. He is brilliant and original but he also knows how to tell a good compelling story filled with dark humor regardless of genre. He respects the genre tropes but also, refuses to let them define him or his work. It is refreshing.

I know I mentioned the first story in the review. Not only did I love it, I think it sets the stage perfectly for the unsettling, thought provoking stories that will follow. Seriously, after reading the entire collection, it was the perfect choice to kick things off.

Frank Michaels Errington on his eponymous page enjoys the work.

4 of 5 Stars

THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF EVERYTHING is made up of fourteen short stories and one novella from genre fiction writer Nick Mamatas and is the most varied assemblage of work I've read in some time.

<Errington reviews every story>

I found much of the work in The People's Republic of Everything to be introspective, clever, and fun.

Recommended.

For ELECTRIC LIT, Jeff VanderMeer interviews Mamatas.

Jeff VanderMeer: Short fiction was dead. Then it wasn’t. Let’s assume it’s alive. Why is it alive, if so?

Nick Mamatas: It’s alive for a couple of reasons. One is that just over a decade or so ago, bookstores finally understood that they could sell anthologies of short fiction by treating them as though they were non-fiction. People really do wander into bookstores and say things such as “I love The Walking Dead. Got any books about zombies?” or “I’ve been hearing a lot about steampunk — got anything that’ll explain it to me?” and a big anthology with reprints by prominent authors and new or at least obscure material by less well-known authors is basically a textbook designed to answer those questions. Phonebook-sized anthologies by you and Ann VanderMeer, or by John Joseph Adams, really grew a generation of readers.

Then there’s the smartphone and commuter culture: a short story is a commute-length read and a smartphone allows for instant access even when people don’t sit down and plan to read short fiction in advance. But short fiction is only ever a few clicks away, and unlike large collections of fiction, which require the reader to enter a narrative world, then exit it only to enter another, reading in an interstitial moment and then reading another story eight hours later doesn’t tax one’s attention span so much.

Finally, the short story is alive because it was dead. Freed from commercial considerations — there’s no reason to sit down and try to write to the men’s magazine market or for the Saturday Evening Post’s specific requirements — writers can do what they will. Good writers win. Thus a book such as Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties can through sales for enthusiasm and sheer quality get a lot of buzz built around it, enter something like its seventh or eighth printing, and even get nominated for a National Book Award. If she had written those stories according to the commercial formulae of the 1950s or ‘60s, they wouldn’t have been as good and thus the book wouldn’t have done as well.

Ashley Holstrom at BOOK RIOT includes THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF EVERYTHING among Rockin’ August 2018 Book Covers.

For more info on THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF EVERYTHING, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

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High-functioning people often say that if you don’t learn a new skill or get a new side hustle or write a masterpiece or build a new kitchen with all this extra time, that it’s not lack of time that’s the problem. You are the problem. You don’t have the drive. That’s not true. We are not living in a time with excess time. We are living in a time of uncertainty and fear and anxiety.

Ashley Holstrom, “You Are Not Your Thoughts”

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Book Riot selects ten short graphic novels and memoirs to read in one sitting and Jane Mai’s Sunday in the Park With Boys makes the list!

“Ever want to see what depression looks like? This is it.” — Ashley Holstrom, Book Riot

Check out the whole list here!

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Starting a Commonplace Book Has Changed the Way I Measure A Book’s Worth

A few months ago, thanks to this lovely post by Ashley Holstrom, I finally started a commonplace book. A commonplace book is simply a collection of quotes from books (or movies, TV shows, etc.). I’ve been wanting to start one for years, but for some reason it always seemed too daunting. from Pocket https://ift.tt/LYj8PTu via IFTTT

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Best Epigraphs of 2018

Best Epigraphs of 2018

Ashley Holstrom writes:

‘Epigraphs are a lovely part of books—usually a fancy line from a very old work that the author feels in their soul. This year was (another) hard one, and the epigraphs of 2018 are a comfort.

I once had a teacher who said epigraphs were snooty, and something only authors who think they’re as good as the greats do. But I disagree. They’re a great way to lead you to more…

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Doesn't a long list of kids dressing up as old people sound great right now?

What's better than a cute child? A cute child dressed up as an old person.

Whether it's their 100th day of school (a day in which some kids dress up like they're 100 years old) or Halloween, you have to admit there's nothing you can't enjoy about a young child looking like their elders.

The contrast between young and old, the tiny version of our inevitable future, is what everyone deserves to see.

That's why we've compiled a list of kids dressed up as old people for your enjoyment. 

SEE ALSO: Kid casually pulls his tooth out using a crossbow

Let's start with our classic old men:

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It's not a list of kids dressed up as old people if one of those kids isn't dressed as Carl from Up:

Now, let's check out the old men who put some personality into their look:

100th day of first grade! They had to dress old. He still wants locs when he's old 🤷🏿‍♀️😂 he wanted them down to his feet but nah, just nah. #100thdayofschool

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And of course, we have to have our little old ladies:

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Then there are the little old ladies with some attitude:

We'll start with my personal favorite.

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Sooo Irelyn had her 100th day of school so the kids dressed like they were 100 years old...also she is smiling like that because “old people don’t have teeth” pic.twitter.com/YTsW53P6AD

— Taylor Holstrom (@Taytay_Holstrom) February 6, 2018

Someone was a bit cantankerous before her #100thdayofschool. 😅😂👵🏼

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And how can we forget the elderly couples?

And finally, we have enough old people children to fill a retirement home:

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Honestly, can kids dress up as old people every day?

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Books I’ve Judged by Their Covers and Loved by Ashley Holstrom http://ift.tt/2uUynAR

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Up Your Reading Game With The Thumb Book Holder by Ashley Holstrom via BOOK RIOT https://ift.tt/35sTwmQ

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6 New Books About COVID-19 by Ashley Holstrom via BOOK RIOT https://ift.tt/3m48FRk

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Quiz: What Middle Grade Graphic Novel Should You Read Next? by Ashley Holstrom via BOOK RIOT https://ift.tt/2QregCH

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Poetry From the Suffrage Movement by Ashley Holstrom via BOOK RIOT https://ift.tt/31aAwWs