#Sarah Larsen

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MET 2022/2023: MEDEA (RADVANOVSKY, POLENZANI, PERTUSI, BRUGGER, GUBANOVA; MCVICAR-RIZZI)

MET 2022/2023: MEDEA (RADVANOVSKY, POLENZANI, PERTUSI, BRUGGER, GUBANOVA; MCVICAR-RIZZI)

La temporada del Metropolitan Opera House de New York s’ha estrenat amb la Medea de Cherubini, òpera mai representada al teatre novaiorquès i, per tant, han fet de la inauguració, no com altres, festa grossa ja només programant un títol clàssic per primera vegada i si a més a més han comptat amb un dels veritables estels de l’òpera actual, com és Sondra Radvanovsky, molt ben envoltada per un cast…

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Sarah Waddles by © Larsen Sotelo

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Sarah Linden from The Killing <3

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Idioten

Idioten (2023) #KasperRuneLarsen #JacobSkyggebjerg #SarahJuelWerner #MortenLundgaard #PernilleBergendorff #LeneVaerge Mehr auf:

The idiotJahr: 2023 Genre: Drama Regie: Kasper Rune Larsen Hauptrollen: Jacob Skyggebjerg, Sarah Juel Werner, Morten Lundgaard, Pernille Bergendorff, Lene Vaerge, Jørgen Bing, Jacob Strange, Kristian Fjord, Morten Kjær, Søren Kjær Christensen, Ganya Jantichai, Alexander Winther, Viggo Vigsø Lauridsen, Charlotte Wangel … Filmbeschreibung: Cille ist schwanger und Tobias hat entdeckt, dass seine…

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This is today's hugely savage book haul, as follows:

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

The Anna Dressed in Blood Duology by Kendare Blake

A Day of Fallen NIght by Samantha Shannon

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Bullet Train (Movie Tie-in Edition) by Kotaro Isaka

A Court of Thorns & Roses by Sarah J. Maas

I'm so excited to read these!

[jesslovesboats]

BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT, I'm back with more Sad Boat Books for Sad Boat People! But first, some words.

I never dreamed that a silly little graphic I made for some friends would generate this much response on twitter and here, but I'm overjoyed that it resonated with so many of you! I read every single comment and tag, and by far my favorites are all of the people who say some variation of "I thought I was the only one who loved these books." We are NOT alone, there are literally thousands of people who reblogged or retweeted this list-- people of all ages and backgrounds and gender identities. Sad Boat isn't just for old white men! I was also delighted to hear from other librarians who are using this in displays and for reader's advisory. PLEASE go forth and do so with my blessing, nothing would make me happier! I was recently laid off from my librarian job as part of a restructuring under new management (don't worry about me, it sucks right now but I'm gonna be fine), so I would love to think that I'm still contributing to the library ecosystem while I'm out of commission. I would also love to keep making these lists (including one that deals with Sad Boat fiction and one with recommendations for other types of media), and I've never had more time to do it, so if you have suggestions, please drop them in my inbox!

Anyway, enough of that-- here are more books! I've either read all of these, or the recommendation came from someone I trust, so read with confidence!

First Hand Accounts

The Quiet Land: The Antarctic Diaries of Frank Debenham edited by June Debenham Back

The Voyage of the Discovery by Robert Falcon Scott

Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen

Endurance by F.A. Worsley

Boats boats boats!

Franklin's Lost Ship: The Historic Discovery of HMS Erebus by Alanna Mitchell and John Geiger

The Voyages of the Discovery: The Illustrated History of Scott's Ship by Ann Savours

HMS Terror: The Design, Fitting, and Voyages of a Polar Discovery Ship by Matthew Betts

The SS Terra Nova (1884-1943): Whaler, Sealer, and Polar Exploration Ship by Michael C. Tarver

You'll learn about the Ross Sea Party and you'll like it

Shackleton's Heroes by Wilson McOrist

Shackleton’s Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic by Lennard Bickel

The Ross Sea Shore Party 1914-1917 by R.W. Richards

The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler-Lewis*

Polar Castaways by Richard McElrea and David Harrowfield*

*These were on my other list, but this is my graphic and I'll do what I want

Sad Airships and Planes

From Pole to Pole: Roald Amundsen's Journey in Flight by Garth James Cameron

N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia by Mark Piesing

Antarctica's Lost Aviator by Jeff Maynard

Disaster at the Pole: The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole by Wilbur Cross

More Shackleton Content

Shackleton: A Life in Poetry by Jim Mayer

Shackleton's Last Voyage by Frank Wild

The Quest Chronicle: The Story of the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition by Jan Chojecki

Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of the Nimrod by Beau Riffenburgh

Polar Partners

Snow Widows by Katherine MacInnes

Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women Behind the World's Most Daring Explorers by Kari Herbert

Widows of the Ice by Anne Fletcher

Sad Boat Graphic Novels

Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey by Nick Bertozzi

The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard*

How To Survive in the North by Luke Healy

*This was also on my other list, but this is my graphic and I'll do what I want

Biographies

Scott of the Antarctic by David Crane

Ice Captain: The Life of J.R. Stenhouse by Stephen Haddelsey

Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler

Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott's Marvel by Anne Strathie

Roald Amundsen by Tor Bomann-Larsen

Miscellaneous sad boat books that are well worth your time

I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford

Fatal North: Adventure and Survival Aboard USS Polaris, The First US Expedition to the North Pole by Bruce Henderson

Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy by Fergus Fleming

Pilgrims on the Ice by T.H. Baughman

The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture by Michael F. Robinson

Ghosts of Cape Sabine by Leonard F. Guttridge

Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Andrea Pitzer

If you read and enjoy any of these, please let me know!

EDITED TO ADD: OG Sad Boat Books post here!

[realismovisceral]

Sarah Curr

by Larsen Sotelo, 2017

[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

New Edinburgh spreadsheet. I made a bunch of changes for a variety of reasons, including, I learned that I'll have other opportunities to get the Guy Williams, Greg Larsen, and Sara Pascoe shows, so I replaced them with people I won't. Harriet Kemsley and Chris Cantrill are streaming on NextUp so I replaced them too. The goal here is to maximize volume of shows seen so I can have the broadest possible picture of what they all are. That is definitely the best way to consume art, right? That's what you're supposed to do, with art?

(There are exceptions, I've heard the Nish Kumar and Mark Watson and Sarah Keyworth and Tom Ballard shows before because they've recorded early versions in various places, but I like them enough to be willing to pay to be in a room with those people and hear it again.)

I was also pleased to see NextUp are also filming Amy Gledhill, Catherine Bohart, and Milo Edwards, as they were on my list as well, but didn't get onto my schedule for whatever reason (in Gledhill's case, because she arrives after I leave). And some other people. NextUp isn't filming as much this year as they did last year, unless they end up announcing a lot more. I watched 21 NextUp streams from Edinburgh 2023, and there were a whole lot that I didn't watch. So far, they've only announced 18 from 2024. I might just watch all of them this year. Or most of them. I'll give Tony Law a miss. Not sure I could sit through a whole hour of Jessie Cave. Not a big fan of Daliso Chaponda either. But I'll probably watch the rest.

Before, I had two issues of booking no time between shows, because they were in the same building and I hadn't factored in the separate rooms, so I thought they were in the same venue and one couldn't run into the other. I've solved one of those problems by replacing Guy Williams with Mat Ewins, which I think was good, because Mat Ewins is one of those comedians I keep reading is very very good, but I watched his TV special and didn't get much out of it, I don't think he translates well to recordings. You have to be in the room for it, so I guess I'll take this rare opportunity to be in a room with him and see what that's like. I still have the issue of Kiri Pritchard-McLean running into Sophie Duker. They're both shows that I really want to see, and neither fits into the schedule anywhere else, so my current plan is to just sit at the back of both rooms and hope those rooms are near each other so I can get from one to the other. Worst comes to worst I guess I miss Sophie's show and it is likely to get filmed at some point, probably. But hopefully it's fine. Constantly checking the time as I get anxious that this show will run too long and I'll miss the next one - that's the best way to consume art, right?

I think the rest of it's okay, though. For every other situation where there's half an hour or less time than that between the end of one show and the start of the next, they're either in the same venue, or in venues that are a fairly short walk apart. That hopefully leaves room for even if one venue runs a bit behind or a show runs long, though I guess I'll see how well that actually works out. I'm aware of the possibility that I might miss some stuff. I am currently mentally preparing myself for the possibility that I might miss some stuff. It is possible that the fact that I have been creating this trip in my mind for four years, and actively planning this specific one for a year, is putting too much pressure on the situation. It is fine, I know it's not the end of the world if things go wrong. That probably actually is the best way to consume art. Which is a shame, because out of all things I've claimed in this post about my mentality toward Edinburgh, that's the only one where I'm lying.

I added some music things at the end of a couple of nights. The last time I was at a festival like this - a really big one that goes all over the place - was Celtic Colours, a Celtic folk festival (mainly music, but they also had cultural events and stuff, I think my mother learned to make a quilt, my dad and I were just there for the music) in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. I've been there a couple of times, the last time I went was in 2019, it was fucking amazing, one of the best weeks of my life. We saw a bunch of incredible concerts for which we'd carefully planned and bought tickets, but my dad and I talked after the festival, and found that for both of us, if we were pressed to pick our top favourite memory from the week, it was a night spent at the Red Shoe Pub in Mabu, Cape Breton. It was a pub that has live Celtic music all the time, not just during the festival, we just showed up there on a couple of nights, and got to have some food while listening to local people who'd brought their own instruments and used the pub's piano, and it was like nothing we have at home, it was so much fun.

I saw that there's a pub in Edinburgh that advertises live Celtic music throughout the Fringe Festival but also just has live Celtic music all year-round, doesn't require booking tickets or anything, thought it might be fun, so I left a couple of nights open to just go to that pub, in case that also turns out to be a surprise highlight. There's every chance that it'll turn out to be so overcrowded I can't even get in and/or not enjoyable at all, but that's fine, if that turns out to be the case then going back to the Air B&B and getting some extra sleep probably won't be the worst thing I could do.

I put music in brown and comedy in yellow. I think that's about the balance I want. Couple of music things because I can't be a lifelong Celtic music fan who goes to Celticland for the first time and doesn't see music. Mainly comedy. Probably not enough time for, you know, the activities of daily living.

I think that might actually be the final version of the spreadsheet. It has a few more people I don't know well on it than the previous versions, all people I've looked up and think look good and had some reason for booking them, but figured I should take a few more chances as that's what you do at festivals. I might have overbooked. But I'd rather overbook than underbook. I have all that plus I got ridiculously lucky with what's playing in London while I'm there - Daniel Kitson, Brynley Stent, Desiree Burch, and a Nish Kumar WIP, obviously, because otherwise I wouldn't be booked to see Nish Kumar enough times. It's not like I've heard enough versions of Nish Kumar yet (I'll be honest: I've already heard a lot of versions of Nish Kumar's current material, and I'm nowhere near sick of it, he may have written a perfect stand-up show).

I've sorted out my itinerary for London, too. And the couple of Scottish Highland days in between London and Edinburgh. Got my British cash. I think I have everything. I'm leaving in nine days. Still doesn't feel like a real thing. I've spent so much time going all over Edinburgh and London and Fort William and Mallaig in Google Earth street view, but it feels like I'm playing the Sims. It's not a real place.

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Looking for a good read about or by sapphic women or gay/bi men?

Look no further! I gave all these books 4 or 5 stars when I read them. 

Lesbian and bisexual women (subject and author): 

Two or three things I know for sure by Dorothy Allison (lesbian memoir)

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata (graphic novel, lesbian memoir)

The Sealed Letter by Emma Donahue (historic fiction, bisexual woman and lesbian wlw relationship)

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabi Rivera (ya contemporary, lesbian mc)

Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (historic fiction, butch/femme wlw)

Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden (ya lesbian classic)

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (historic fiction, lesbian classic)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (historic fiction, bisexual woman and lesbian wlw relationship)

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney (graphic novel, memoir- even though it’s mainly about bipolar disorder mostly she is bisexual and it’s mentioned in the novel)

Lesbian or Bisexual Woman author (not necessarily an LGBT subject): 

Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own all by Virginia Woolf (bisexual author)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (bisexual author)

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (lesbian author)

The Yellow Wallpaper (and other stories) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (bisexual author)

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn (bisexual author)

Passing by Nella Larsen (bisexual author)

Transgender Topics: 

Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion (LGBT history- only concerns relationships between historic AFAB couples and AFAB people who lived as men for many reasons- wider career opportunities and being able to marry a woman were the two most common reasons cited across all stories chronicled) 

Gay Men and Bisexual Men (subject and/or author): 

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (historic fiction, Greek Myths)

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (gay author, essays on race in America)

Boy meets Boy by David Leviathan (ya contemporary mlm romance)

If We were Villains by M. L. Rio  (ya, dark academia, mystery)

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (historic fiction, bisexual mlm, ya) The two sequels also have more lgbt characters. 

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24 for 24

Thank you @read-and-write- and @myheartalivewrites for tagging me! One of my resolutions is to read more books bc last year I finished a whopping one (1) book! My goal for several years now has been 26 books (one every two weeks) and I want to try a few different things to hopefully meet it because I have progressively been getting worse at meeting my goal!

So here are some books that have been rotting on my bedside bookshelf or in my sprawling TBR in no particular order

Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Y. Davis (50% done already!)

Bad Mormon - Heather Gay (~25%)

Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

Mexican Gothic (reread in Spanish)(~10%) - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Severance - Ling Ma

Cantoras - Carolina de Robertis

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

Hacienda - Isabel Cañas

Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson

In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

Jesus and John Wayne - Kristin Kobes Du Mez OR White Too Long - Robert Jones

Silver, Sword, and Stone - Marie Arana OR Open Veins of Latin America - Eduardo Galeano

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat - Samin Nosrat

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Harif Abdurraqib (This year's designated travel book!)

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - Audre Lorde

Passing - Nella Larsen

Frankenstein (reread) - Mary Shelley

Pride and Prejudice OR Emma - Jane Austen

Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg

Tipping the Velvet OR The Paying Guests OR Fingersmith - Sarah Waters (I got copies of the first 2 for a STEAL at a used bookstore, and one of them had a sticky note covered in cat hair - really felt like a passing of the wlw torch lol)

Fun Home - Alison Bechdel

Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

Maus 1 & 2 - Art Spiegelman

No pressure tagging because this is pretty extensive and this is a list I like to make at the beginning of the year anyway (although usually a shortlist of 10 books) but I'm curious about y'all's prospective reads if you decide to share! Part of the fun of reading for me is hearing all about new books! @happiness-of-the-pursuit @cha-melodius @orchidscript @inexplicablymine @indomitable-love @affectionatelyrs @ssmtskw @dumbpeachjuice @daisymae-12 @cultofsappho @suseagull04 @firenati0n @kiwiana-writes

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2023 books — be my friend on storygraph :)

I feel bad about my neck - nora ephron (☆☆☆☆☆)

the duke and I - julia quinn (☆☆)

small fires: an epic in the kitchen - rebecca may johnson (☆☆☆☆½)

taste: my life through food - stanley tucci (☆☆☆☆)

passing - nella larsen (☆☆☆☆)

if we were villains - m.l. rio (☆☆☆☆☆)

the metamorphosis - franz kafka (☆☆☆)

after I do - taylor jenkins reid (☆☆☆☆☆)

our endless numbered days - claire fuller (☆☆☆½)

happy place - emily henry (☆☆☆☆☆)

other parents - sarah stovell (☆☆☆☆)

the lonely city: adventures in the art of being alone - olivia laing (☆☆☆☆)

women talking - miriam toews (☆☆☆☆½)

meet me at the lake - carley fortune (☆☆☆☆)

humankind: a hopeful history - rutger bregman (☆☆☆☆☆)

mules of love - ellen bass (☆☆☆☆½)

a thousand mornings - mary oliver (☆☆☆½)

the course of love - alain de botton (☆☆☆½)

medusa - jessie burton (☆☆☆½)

so you want to talk about race - ijeoma oluo (☆☆☆☆)

sex power money - sara pascoe (☆☆☆☆☆)

red, white & royal blue - casey mcquiston (☆☆☆☆☆) (re-read)

east of eden - john steinbeck (☆☆☆☆☆)

in memoriam - alice winn (☆☆☆☆☆)

everyday sexism - laura bates (☆☆☆☆)

icebreaker - hannah grace (☆☆☆)

romantic comedy - curtis sittenfeld (☆☆☆☆)

fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury (☆☆☆½)

the other passenger - louise candlish (☆☆☆☆)

consent: a memoir - vanessa spingora (☆☆☆☆)

women & power: a manifesto - mary beard (☆☆☆☆½)

postcolonial love poem - natalie diaz (☆☆½)

the ballad of songbirds and snakes - suzanne collins (☆☆☆☆½) (re-read)

the simple wild - k.a. tucker (☆☆☆☆)

house of hollow - krystal sutherland (☆☆☆☆)

the hobbit - j.r.r. tolkien (☆☆☆☆½)

high windows - philip larkin (☆☆)

so late in the day - claire keegan (☆☆☆☆)

one day in december - josie silver (☆☆☆½)

the woman in me - britney spears (☆☆☆☆)

assembly - natasha brown (☆☆☆)

feel your way through - kelsea ballerini (☆☆☆½)

a christmas carol - charles dickens (☆☆☆½)

[princessmeepa]

I am going to pick the voice actors for my gods, RS’ dream cast for her LO live action is just for points and not even there to play the roles and she only picks her celebrity crush Mads to be Christian blue I know. So I am going to pick the voice actors who can fit my characters perfectly and here they are. So let’s start with the goddesses. Ok let’s gooo!

Note: some of the characters have the same voice actresses and who voiced their characters from the same anime, because I want to fit some of the voices, who can fit my characters.

Alecto: Avalon Penrose, who voiced Megaera from Hades.

Aglaea: Reba Buhr, who voiced Aphrodite from Record of Ragnarok.

Amphitrite: Michelle Rojas, who voiced Wendy from Show by Rock.

Aphrodite: Dorothy Elias-Fahn, who voiced Komi Shuuko from Komi can’t communicate.

Athena: Erika Harlacher, who voiced Kyoko Kirigiri from Danganronpa (the game).

Ariadne: Michelle Ruff, who voiced Katherine McBride from Catherine.

Artemis: Carli Mosier, who voiced Saeko Tanaka from Haikyū!!

Atropos: Mara Junot, who voiced Lisa from Genshin Impact.

Calliope: Natalie Hoover, who voiced Tsukino from Show by Rock.

Calypso: Brianna Knickerbocker, who voices Swim from One Punch Man

Chloris: Brianna Knickerbocker, who voiced Rin from Catherine: Full Body

Cleo: Lauren Landa, who voiced Sailor Neptune / Michiru Kaioh from Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars.

Clotho: Kayli Mills, who voiced Runa Yomozuki from Kakegurui.

Daphne: Ashly Burch, who voiced Sasha Braus from Attack on Titan.

Demeter: Heather Masters, who voiced Circus Baby from FNAF.

Echo: Stephanie Sheh, who voiced Sailor Moon / Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon or Luci Christian who voiced Duck/Princess Tutu from Princess Tutu.

Eos: Krystal LePort, who voiced Brooke from HuniePop 2.

Eris: Michelle Ruff, who voiced Kirari Momobami from Kakegurui.

Eurydice: Erica Mendez, who voiced Retsuko from Aggretsuko.

Gaia: Same thing with Demeter, but with a cute and girly Greek accent.

Hebe: Anairis Quinones, who voiced Goll from Record of Ragnarok.

Hecate: Alexis Tipton, who voiced Chuchu from Show by Rock.

Hedone: Laura Bailey, who voiced Catherine from Catherine.

Hera: Erin Fitzgerald, who voiced Eudial from Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal.

Hestia: Jamie Marchi, who voiced Panty from Panty and Stocking.

Iris: Brittney Karbowski, who voiced Ryou Fujibayashi from Clannad.

Lachesis: Erica Lindbeck, who voiced Sayaka Igarashi in Kakegurui.

Leto: Casey Mongillo, who voiced Nene Onemine from Komi Can't Communicate.

Leuce: Dorothy Fahn, who voiced Sumika Warakubami / Kawaru Natari from Kakegurui

Libya: Kira Buckland, who voiced Princess Aurora Sya Lis Goodereste in Sleepy Princess from the Demon Castle.

Maia: Cherami Leigh, who voiced Kaede Otori from Komi Can't Communicate.

Marakria: Monica Rial, who voiced Moa in Show from Rock (if that’s possible)

Medea: Brianna Knickerbocker, who voiced Rumia Uru from Kakegurui.

Megaera: Emi Lo, who voiced Suma in Demon Slayer.

Melinoe: Kira Buckland, who voiced Mary Saotome from Kakegurui Twin and Kakegurui.

Metis: Laura Post, who voiced Brunhilde in Record of Ragnarok.

The other 6 Muses: Bryn Apprill.

Nyx: Hellena Taylor, who voiced Bayonetta from the Bayonetta games, but with sexy a Greek accent.

Pasithea: Bridget Hoffman, who voiced Nia Teppelin from Gurren Lagann.

Peitho: Kayli Mills, who voiced Emilia in Re:ZERO.

Persephone: Maggie Flecknoe, who voiced Yui Komori in Diabolik Lovers.

Perse: Brianna Knickerbocker, who voice Rem in Re:ZERO

Psyche: Erika Harlacher, who voiced Yumeko Jabami from Kakegurui

Rhea: Elizabeth Maxwell, who voiced Rosaria from Genshin Impact.

Selene: Shannon Chan, who voiced Misa Amane from Death Note.

Semele: Brenna Larsen, who voiced Navia from Genshin Impact.

Thetis: Kate Higgins, who voiced Sailor Mercury/ Ami Mizuno from Sailor Moon.

Tisiphone: Sarah Williams, who voiced Midari Ikishima from Kakegurui

Urania: Anairis Quinones, who voiced Hinatsuru in Demon Slayer.

And for the Mortal women:

Andromeda: Bryn Apprill, who voiced Krista Lenz / Historia Reiss from Attack on Titan.

Cassandra: Erica Lindbeck, who voiced Daki from Demon Slayer.

Helen of Troy: Cristina Vee, who voiced Sailor Mars / Rei Hino.

Phaedra: Juliet Simmons, who voiced Inaho Yamato from Kakegurui

Penelope: Abby Trott, who voiced Inui from Aggretsuko.

What do you guys think?

[hoghtastic]

Alex at Smukfest, via "Se og Hør" — English translation:

Ass-loving Alex Høgh: Naked balls in the sand On the first day of Denmark's Most Beautiful Festival, the "Vikings" wonder lived up to its name and exposed bare balls. Sex on the beach! Or at least in the sand in Smukfest's legendary handball arena, as the festival in Bøgeskoven opened in earnest on Wednesday afternoon. Because after several naked pleasures – and lack thereof – in the two semi-finals, it got extra hot when the celebrities took the arena. In the heart of Kærligheden – yes, that's the name of the tent area next to the East Jutland motorway – the audience got to feel the love. After showing brilliant ball tricks with Sarah Grünewald, Rasmus Brohave, Ruben Søltoft and captain Martin Johannes Larsen as team mates, actor star Alex Høgh Andersen put his ass on display. Literally – for hallelujah, for a popo, the handsome power prince presented.

Super League butt With his 30-year-old toes – freshly cut by the way – buried in the sand, Alex lined up in a circle with the other famous superstars to hold a "tactics meeting". And while Ruben Søltoft cut faces in a nicely tipsy state, Høgh pulled down his tight-fitting purple Hummel shorts and exposed a set of extremely perky balls.

If possible, the nudity scene fueled the hundreds of spectators even more, who erupted into cheers and squeals that almost drowned out the pulsating ungabunga rhythms that provide the boisterous soundtrack to the annual beach party. That full festival-goers and SE og HØR rated Høgh's backstage in a super league of their own is hardly surprising – but the man behind it is also quite satisfied with the party.

— Well, we shouldn't just say that the balls speak for themselves, said the "Vikings" star cheerfully when SE and HØR met him after the butt show. — I think the audience should get a bit for their money – and then you have to give a bit of yourself, said Alex Høgh, while the smile spread from one end of his sharply cut face to the other. It must be said that Alex did – and thanks for that.

Høgh haphazardly Then the suitors naturally lined up – but Alex is unfortunately taken by actor colleague Johanne Milland, who did not witness her boyfriend's cheeky moves this afternoon. The Smukbold tournament also ended with a final defeat for the celebrity team – but with Høgh as the top scorer... on all fronts.

[ For more pictures of Alex at this event, check out this post ! ]

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July 2024 Young Adult Book Releases

✨ July 2 ✨ 💜 Fun Fact: I Love You - Gina Lynn Larsen 💜 Not About a Boy - Myah Hollis 💜 Break to You - Debra Young, Michelle Knowlden, and Neal Shusterman 💜 On the Bright Side - Anna Sortino 💜 Meet Me in the Middle - Alex Light 💜 Rise - Freya Finch 💜 We Don't Have Time for This - Brianna Craft 💜 Joined at the Joints - Marissa Eller 💜 Reckless - Lauren Roberts 💜 The Heart of the World - Amie Kaufman 💜 A Darker Mischief - Derek Milman 💜 Ready or Not - Andi Porretta 💜 The Ones Who Came Back Hungry - Amelinda Berube

✨ July 9 ✨ ❤ Beneath These Cursed Stars - Lexi Ryan ❤ The Mirror World - Femi Fadugba ❤ Hearts Overboard - Becky Bean ❤ Heir, Apparently - Kara McDowell ❤ The Darkness Within Us - Tricia Levenseller ❤ A Magic Fierce and Bright - Hemant Nayak ❤ It's Only a Game - Kelsea Yu

✨ July 16 ✨ 💙 The White Guy Dies First - (ed) Terry J. Benton-Walker 💙 The Second Song - Adrienne Tooley 💙 Trespass Against Us - Leon Kemp 💙 Grief in the Fourth Dimension - Jennifer Yu 💙 The Ping-Pong Queen of Chinatown - Andrew Yang 💙 Dashed - Amanda Quain 💙 Riot Act - Sarah Lariviere 💙 Portrait of a Shadow - Meriam Metoui

✨ July 23 ✨ ❤ Time and Time Again - Chatham Greenfield ❤ The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky - Josh Galarza ❤ Near Misses & Cowboy Kisses - Katrina Emmel ❤ The Lost Souls of Benzaiten - Kelly Murashige ❤ Asking for a Friend - Kara H.L. Chen ❤ Exes and Foes - Amanda Woody ❤ Stefi and the Spanish Prince - Donna Freitas ❤ I Will Never Leave You - Kara A. Kennedy ❤ So Witches We Became - Jill Baguchinsky

✨ July 30 ✨ 💜 The Loudest Silence - Sydney Langford 💜 The Blonde Dies First - Joelle Wellington 💜 Castle of the Cursed - Romina Garber 💜 The Grandest Game - Jennifer Lynn Barnes 💜 The Mirror of Beasts - Alexandra Bracken 💜 Such Charming Liars - Karen M. McManus 💜 Our Wicked Histories - Amy Goldsmith 💜 Eighteen Roses - Shannon C.F. Rogers 💜 Finding Famous - Candice Jalili

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Questionnaire for book lovers

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Goodreads account?: Favorite genre(s): Favorite book(s): Favorite book series: Favorite classic(s): Favorite Author(s): Favorite quote(s): Favorite adaptation(s) to screen: Favorite character(s): Favorite villain(s): Favorite ship(s): Book boyfriend(s) or girlfriend(s): Book(s) that made you cry: Physical book, eBook or audiobook: Currently reading: Last 5 star read: Book(s) that you wish were more popular: Your old favorites: Your most anticipated book: Favorite audiobook narrator(s): Unpopular opinion:

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Goodreads account?: Yes

Favorite genre(s): Dark Romance, Fantasy Romance, Contemporary Romance

Favorite book(s): A Court of Mist and Fury, Anne of Green Gables, Twisted Games by Ana Huang

Favorite book series: ACOTAR, Anne of Green Gables Series, Millennium series

Favorite classic(s): The Great Gatsby, The Last of the Mohicans (one word UNCAS)

Favorite Author(s): Stieg Larsson, Sarah J. Maas, Anne Rice

Favorite quote(s): “If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too?” —Lucien Vanserra (ACOTAR)

“It’s easier to bear when you let someone in, let them help you through the grief. So next time, you come to me. For everything, you can come to me. If you’re hurting, I want to hurt. If you’re angry, I’ll rage with you. If you’re happy, I’m euphoric. If you’re so beyond broken that you can’t sort through the rubble, then come to me, baby, so I can piece you back together myself. Hit me, yell at me, kiss me, fuck me, whatever you need to do, my body is yours for the taking.” —Creed (Lethal Truths)

Favorite adaptation(s) to screen: Pride & Prejudice (2005), Sharp Objects HBO, Anne of Green Gables (1985)

Favorite character(s): Lucien Vanserra from ACOTAR, Anne Shirley, Camille Preaker from Sharp Objects (show version is my most beloved fictional character, I think liked book version almost as much???), Creed from Blackwood University Series, Jim Holden from The Expanse, Lisbeth Salander from Millennium series

Favorite villain(s)/antihero(es): Arobynn Hamel from Thorne of Glass, Lestat de Lioncourt from Interview with the Vampire, Creed from Blackwood University Series, Killian Carson from God of Malice

Book boyfriend(s) or girlfriend(s): Creed from Blackwood University Series (I'm in love with him), Atlas Corrigan from It Ends with Us, Rhys Larsen from Twisted Games, Rhysand from ACOTAR, Lucien Vanserra (hopefully he will get his mate)

Favorite ship(s): Feyre/Rhysand from ACOTAR, Bridget/Rhys from Twisted Games, Anne/Gilbert from Anne of Green Gables Series, Elide/Lorcan from TOG, Holden/Naomi from The Expanse

Book(s) that made you cry: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey

Physical book, eBook or audiobook: Ebook and audiobook (GraphicAudio)

Currently reading: Kingdom of Ash, You Can't Kiss the Nanny, Brady Banks (Audiobook, narration is so good, I wish more books had dialogue between two narrators)

Last 5 star read: Lethal Truths by Sybil Reese

Book(s) that you wish were more popular: Blackwood University Series by Sybil Reese (it's a Dark Romance and Reverse Harem so yeah😞), I wanna gush over Creed with somebody. He should be sole lead, then maybe book had more readers. It's weird when you have character who is cuddlier version of Zade Meadows and you try shoe horn him into harem when he is obvious choice. Technically he is her main hubby and others are more like sidepieces, hopefully it stays this way. And 2nd book is way better.

You old favorites: Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick (I still love it)

Your most anticipated book: God of Fury by Rina Kent and ACOTAR

Favorite audiobook narrator(s): Aiden Young

Unpopular opinion: I think Chaol is the most rational and relatable character from TOG and I side eye his haters. I have so many unpopular opinions about TOG that I sometimes wish that I have never started reading it.

sorry : @jupiter-86, @dangermousie, @acourtofthought