#calista lynne

[theaologieslibrary]

Is he your man? Or is he a tree? Perhaps a bunch of birds

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🖤🩶🤍💜 Happy Ace Week, Bookish Bats!

❓ What was the last book you read that featured asexual characters? If it's been a while, here are a few to consider adding to your TBR!

🖤 Aces Wild - Amanda Dewitt 🩶 Loveless - Alice Oseman 🤍 That Kind of Guy - Stephanie Archer 💜 We Awaken - Calista Lynne 🖤 The Kindred - Alechia Dow 🩶 Scavenge the Stars - Tara Sim 🤍 Fire Becomes Her - Rosiee Thor 💜 A Snake Falls to the Earth - Darcie Little Badger 🖤 Forward March - Skye Quinlan 🩶 The Romantic Agenda - Claire Kann 🤍 The Reckless Kind - Carly Heath 💜 Summer Bird Blue - Akemi Dawn Bowman

🖤 The Charm Offensive - Alison Cochrun 🩶 Meet Cute Diary - Emery Lee 🤍 Cupid Calling - Viano Oniomoh 💜 The Bruising of Qilwa - Naseem Jamnia 🖤 The Loudest Silence - Sydney Langford 🩶 Kiss Her Once for Me - Alison Cochrun 🤍 So Let Them Burn - Kamilah Cole 💜 Dear Wendy - Ann Zhao 🖤 Exes & Foes - Amanda Woody 🩶 The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray - Christine Calella 🤍 Firebreak - Nicole Kornher-Stace 💜 Never Been Kissed - Timothy Janovsky

🖤 Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle 🩶 Baker Thief - Claudie Arseneault 🤍 The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester - Maya MacGregor 💜 The Story of the Hundred Promises - Neil Cochrane 🖤 Adrift Starlight - Mindi Briar 🩶 Help Wanted - J. Emery 🤍 If You Still Recognize Me - Cynthia So 💜 Bad At Love - Gabriela Martins 🖤 The End Crowns All - Bea Fitzgerald 🩶 The Winter Knight - Jes Battis 🤍 The Meister of Decimen City - Brenna Raney 💜 It Sounds Like This - Anna Meriano

🖤 Fallen Thorns - Harvey Oliver Baxter 🩶 Don't Let the Forest In - C.G. Drews 🤍 Just Lizzie - Karen Wilfrid 💜 The Siren the Song and the Spy - Maggie Tokuda-Hall 🖤 Wren Martin Ruins It All - Amanda Dewitt 🩶 She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan 🤍 Poisoned Primrose - Dahlia Donovan 💜 How You Get the Girl - Anita Kelly 🖤 Lord of the Empty Isles by Jules Arbeaux 🩶 Moth to a Flame - Finn Longman 🤍 Little Thieves - Margaret Owen 💜 Someone You Can Build a Nest In - John Wiswell

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Names with Cute Nicknames

Girls' Edition

Sometimes we just fall in love with a cute nickname for our characters. So here is a list of names that you can name your characters, even though you will only call them by their nickname.

Abigail - Abbie, Abby, Gale, Gail

Adaline/Adalina - Ada, Lynn, Lina

Adriana - Riana, Addie, Drea

Alexandra - Al, Alex, Alexa, Allie, Ally, Lex, Lexa, Lexie, Sandra, Sandie, Sandy

Amelia/Amelie - Millie, Lia, Mimi

Anastasia - Ana, Stassie, Stassy, Stacey

Antoinette - Ann, Annie, Toni, Netta

Ariella - Ariel, Ari, Ella

Aurelia/Aurora - Auri

Beatrix - Trixie, Bea

Berenike/Bernice - Berry, Bernie, Nikki, Neecy

Calista/Calliope - Callie

Cassandra- Cass, Cassie, Cassy, Sandra, Sandy, Sandie

Cassidy - Cass, Cassie, Cassy

Cordelia - Delia, Deli

Danica - Dani, Dannie, Niki, Nika

Dorothy - Dot, Dottie, Doro

Eleanor - Elle, Ellie, Lea, Nora

Esmerelda - Esme

Evangeline Evie, Evi, Eve, Lina

Evelyn - Evie, Evi, Eve, Lynn

Felicitas/Felicity - Feli, Fliss, Lis, Lissa

Francesca - Fran, Frannie, Frankie

Frederike - Fred, Freddie, Freddy, Rike, Kiki

Genevieve - Eve, Evie, Genna, Gina, Ginny, Viv

Jasmine - Jas, Jazzy, Mina, Minnie

Josephine - Josie, Joe, Phin

Leonora - Leo, Nora

Madeline - Maddie, Maddy, Lynn, Ada, Addie

Marigold - Mari, Goldie

Matilda - Tillie, Tilda, Mattie

Melissa - Liss, Lissa, Mel, Mellie, Missy

Natasha/Natascha - Nat, Nattie, Sasha, Tasha

Olivia - Livia, Liv, Livy, Ollie, Olive

Penelope - Penny, Poppy, Nelly, Polly

Philippa - Pippa

Rosalie/Rosalia - Rosie, Rose, Sally, Lia

Rosemary - Rosie, Rose, Mary

Veronica - Vero, Ronny, Nic, Nica

Wilhelmina - Minnie, Mina, Wil, Willa

Winifred - Winnie, Win, Freddie, Fred

More names!

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[acetrigunweek]

New day, new prompts!

DAY 2

pride wearing the colors

Quote: “Maybe we weren't broken after all.” ― Calista Lynne, We Awaken

Don't forget to:

add your fics to our AO3 collection

tag your posts with Ace Trigun Week and/or AceTrigunWeek

follow the guidelines

Have fun sharing and creating! 💜

[leanstooneside]

SIDESHOW CINEMA

◊ KEVIN FEDERLINE'S TOOTH

◊ BRET MICHAELS'S TONGUE

◊ FOO FIGHTERS'S EYE

◊ ASHLEY GREENE'S FINGER (DENSE)

◊ BEYONCÉ KNOWLES'S HIP

◊ JULIANNE HOUGH'S BOTTOM (DRY)

◊ LORDE'S MOUTH

◊ JOSH HARTNETT'S HEAD

◊ JAMIE LYNN SPEARS'S KNEE

◊ JESSICA BIEL'S ELBOW

◊ FRED DURST'S SHOULDER (GRIPPY)

◊ TAYLOR LAUTNER'S CALF

◊ BILLY RAY CYRUS'S EYELASH (DENSE)

◊ MAROON 5'S THUMB (BRIGHT)

◊ CRISS ANGEL'S ARM (CONCENTRATED)

◊ ELLIE GOULDING'S EYE

◊ REGGIE BUSH'S HEAD

◊ ELISABETTA CANALIS'S THIGH

◊ BLAKE LIVELY'S MOUTH (DRY)

◊ CHRIS EVANS'S HEAD (FALLEN OVER)

◊ ROBERT PATTINSON'S LEG

◊ JUSTIN KIRK'S KNEE

◊ CALISTA FLOCKHART'S UPPER ARM

[rosecreates]

OC Bios Masterlist

A list of the OC bios that I currently have finished or am going to add here soon. A lot of these OC bios are from my RP blog, where I either currently RP or formerly RPed the OC in question.

You'll be able to tell depending on the bio formatting whether they are/were RPed or not, as I use very different bio format styles depending on whether the OC will be RPed or not.

Bios may be revised at any time and possibly without warning.

Click on the OC's name for their bio. All of them are Google Docs.

Arabella

Amarantha

Calista

Daphne

Gabriella

Layla

Lynn

Lumia

Nimue

Pamela

Radiata

Raven

Rosemary

Sylve

[dropdeadfemme]

Shelf Confidence BPC / books & me

Well, this is as good a place as any to make an

Announcement!

I am publishing another novel under my pseudonym, Calista Lynne, and I am so excited.

When I was 16, I wrote a novel about asexual teenagers. It was magical and sweet and very obviously written by a child. Nevertheless, it was published by Harmony Ink Press and I’ve had a difficult relationship with it ever since.

I grew up. I moved to a different country. I worked in all aspects of the publishing industry and theatre. I found myself, and now I’ve written another novel.

This next one guarantees more queerness and magic, but this time written by someone with two degrees and a lot more experience!

Come on, kids. Let’s get this.

[literary-lion]

Books with Flowers on the Cover | Top Ten Tuesday

Books with Flowers on the Cover | Top Ten Tuesday

The topic this week is Books with Nature on the Cover! Spring is finally in full swing! The topic this week was more generally about nature but I wanted to focus on flowers. Flowers just feel like the quintessential spring thing. I realized while picking books that they’re not AS common as I thought they were on covers and that roses far out number any other represented flower. Roses are tired…

[readingrobin]

About halfway through the month and I’ve managed to wrap up my March read for @bookbandit‘s #tbrbusterchallenge, This month’s read was We Awaken by Calista Lynne.

Basically this book was about a girl, Victoria who had lost her father in a car accident, which also left her brother in a coma. While in his coma, he sends Ashlinn, a metaphysical being who gives pleasant dreams to people, to deliver messages to Victoria in her sleep. Victoria is drawn to Ashlinn and builds relationship with her, but she has to question whether being with a girl she can only see in her dreams can last.

I think this book had a lot of potential and an interesting idea, but very poor execution and development. It was too short, the characters too flat and uninteresting, and the conflict didn't nearly have the right amount of time to linger, build, and actually feel like a threat. The closest thing this book has to an antagonist pops up in one chapter and then that's all we see from her. And yes, the relationship is very instalove and comes out of  nowhere. If anything, we have no idea why Ashlinn finds Victoria appealing or even why she started talking to her brother in the first place. It just happened, and we're just supposed to believe that's enough reason. Also, I'm so tired of best friend characters that are just assholes in disguise and, when they do get called out for their behavior, their apologies seem so insincere. Victoria’s best friend, Ellie, didn't even try to understand where Victoria is coming from concerning her asexuality and it reads as if she doesn't even want to make an attempt. That and she seriously needed to understand boundaries and ugh, I could rant on about this character but it's really not worth the effort.

While the story itself wasn't very engaging, i have to say this is probably one of the better books that have asexual representation in them. We have two asexual characters, with their relationship being the focus of the book, and honestly I have RARELY seen two asexuals in a relationship in any media. Being asexual myself, I really appreciated Victoria trying to navigate her identity as an asexual person and even bringing up concerns and questions I had when I was figuring that part out of myself. The book does go out of its way to explain asexual relationships and the various nonsexual ways that people can be intimate with each other. The representation was the only reason I gave this book more than one star on Storygraph and I desperately wish it had the chance to be in a better story. 

And that wraps up this month’s book. I’m probably going to create a poll y’all can vote on to decide next month’s read sometime this weekend so keep a look out for that!

[canonlgbtqcharacters]

Victoria Dinham from We Awaken is asexual

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We Awaken #OutOfContext

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Sooo, after seeing a tumblr post about it and getting real interested i went ahead and ordered We Awaken by Calista Lynne. I literally just opened the package, so I didn’t have time to start reading yet (also I have to finish my paper for university so I guess reading fun stuff will start in April...) but I’m super excited!!!

The cover is just magical, I love it <3 also put the ... umm...back text?? (What do you call that in English? In german it’s Klappentext, but anyway) so you can get an impression on what it’s about. Go get a copy, it’s like 15dollars.

I mainly bought it bc girls! And also bc asexuality!! (Tho im not asexual myself, i still felt like I wanted to read a story with asexual protagonists bc I just never have and it sounds real cool, you know, get new perspectives, expand my horizon.)

Also uuu, did I just cruelly make a post instead of reblogging something? I did! Hey there! There’s really a person behind this blog lol

[womenusingwords]

Hell Bent

The details… Author: Calista LynnePublisher: Amble Press Publication date: April 28, 2022Available formats: ebook, paperback File size: 3547 KBPrint length: 177 pagesGenre: speculative fiction, paranormal fiction The blurb from the publisher… A young woman summons a demon to help rescue a dead celebrity crush only to learn that things in Hell are a lot hotter than she ever imagined. Jules…

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WE AWAKEN by Calista Lynne I finally got around to reading this, I’ve been looking at it for about a year now probably but I had been on the fence because 1. It’s pretty expensive for a book that’s less than 200 pages and 2. I’ve seen a lot of bad reviews for it But honestly I thought it was a cute little story, some things were over explained occasionally, and I was able to predict the ending, but I still enjoyed this book

[leanstooneside]

Damage suffered makes you knowing, but seldom rich

◊ CALISTA FLOCKHART'S FOREHEAD (MYOSITIS OSSIFICANS TRAUMATICA, RIGHT FOREARM)

◊ SURI CRUISE'S BREAST (INFLAMMATORY POLYNEUROPATHY, UNSPECIFIED)

◊ AMANDA SEYFRIED'S WAIST (KASCHIN-BECK DISEASE, LEFT KNEE)

◊ JOSH HOLLOWAY'S HAND (MOTORCYCLE PASSENGER INJURED IN COLLISION WITH TWO- OR THREE-WHEELED MOTOR VEHICLE IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT)

◊ ANGELINA JOLIE'S HAIR (UNSPECIFIED INJURY OF EXTENSOR MUSCLE, FASCIA AND TENDON OF UNSPECIFIED THUMB AT WRIST AND HAND LEVEL)

◊ GAVIN DEGRAW'S THUMB (UNSPECIFIED SLIPPED UPPER FEMORAL EPIPHYSIS (NONTRAUMATIC), LEFT HIP)

◊ MO'NIQUE'S FOREHEAD (RETINAL HEMORRHAGE, LEFT EYE)

◊ TATE DONOVAN'S EYEBROW (UNSPECIFIED VIRAL HEPATITIS C WITHOUT HEPATIC COMA)

◊ ALEX PETTYFER'S BOTTOM (OTHER OSTEONECROSIS OF RADIUS, ULNA AND CARPUS)

◊ CHRIS MELONI'S BOTTOM (MYOSITIS OSSIFICANS TRAUMATICA, LOWER LEG)

◊ MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG'S WAIST (MYOSITIS OSSIFICANS TRAUMATICA, LOWER LEG)

◊ DESIREE HARTSOCK'S WRIST (LACERATION OF RADIAL ARTERY AT WRIST AND HAND LEVEL OF LEFT ARM)

◊ LILY ALLEN'S EYE (TRANSIENT SYNOVITIS, HIP)

◊ MICHAEL C. HALL'S NECK (OTHER MATURE T/NK-CELL LYMPHOMAS, EXTRANODAL AND SOLID ORGAN SITES)

◊ REBEL WILSON'S NOSE (MAJOR LACERATION OF LEFT KIDNEY)

◊ STUART TOWNSEND'S FOREHEAD (DISTURBANCES IN TOOTH FORMATION)

◊ RACHEL BILSON'S THIGH (BURN OF UNSPECIFIED DEGREE OF UPPER BACK)

◊ MARIA SHARAPOVA'S FINGER (GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE, UNSPECIFIED)

◊ MELISSA MCCARTHY'S EYELASH (TOXIC EFFECT OF OTHER SEAFOOD, ASSAULT)

◊ KRIS JENNER'S EYEBROW (UNSPECIFIED SUBLUXATION OF LEFT KNEE)

◊ KEIRA KNIGHTLEY'S ANKLE (TORUS FRACTURE OF UPPER END OF HUMERUS)

◊ CHRIS CUOMO'S CALF (PHYSICAL RESTRAINT STATUS)

◊ JILL ZARIN'S LOWER LEG (PAPYRACEOUS FETUS, FIRST TRIMESTER)

◊ JAMIE-LYNN SIGLER'S UPPER ARM (NICOTINE DEPENDENCE, CIGARETTES, WITH WITHDRAWAL)

◊ TAYLOR MOMSEN'S BELLY (UNSPECIFIED CORNEAL DEPOSIT, UNSPECIFIED EYE)

◊ AMANDA PEET'S ANKLE (ACTIVITY, SWIMMING)

◊ COLIN FARRELL'S SHOULDER (ANGINA PECTORIS, UNSPECIFIED)

◊ CISCO ADLER'S NOSTRIL (ACUTE APPENDICITIS WITH LOCALIZED PERITONITIS)

◊ VIOLA DAVIS'S EYELASH (OSSEOUS AND SUBLUXATION STENOSIS OF INTERVERTEBRAL FORAMINA OF ABDOMEN AND OTHER REGIONS)

◊ TOM BRADY'S EAR (MAJOR LACERATION OF LEFT KIDNEY)

◊ KYLIE JENNER'S HAND (CORROSION OF UNSPECIFIED DEGREE OF RIGHT LOWER LEG)

◊ SHAY MITCHELL'S HAIR (JUVENILE ARTHRITIS, UNSPECIFIED, LEFT HAND)

◊ FOO FIGHTERS'S FIST (BASAL CELL CARCINOMA OF SKIN OF OTHER PARTS OF FACE)

◊ CAT DEELEY'S THIGH (CHRONIC SUPERFICIAL GASTRITIS WITHOUT BLEEDING)

◊ MARC ANTHONY'S TOE (DISTURBANCES IN TOOTH FORMATION)

◊ LO BOSWORTH'S HAND (CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA, BCR/ABL-POSITIVE, IN REMISSION)

◊ MINNIE DRIVER'S TONGUE (FAMILIAL CHONDROCALCINOSIS, ELBOW)

◊ TIESTO'S FINGER (OTHER COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCIES)

◊ GABRIELLE UNION'S FINGER (ANTERIOR SUBCAPSULAR POLAR INFANTILE AND JUVENILE CATARACT, UNSPECIFIED EYE)

◊ TREVOR DONOVAN'S NOSE (SUBACUTE OSTEOMYELITIS, RIGHT TIBIA AND FIBULA)

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We Awaken by Calista Lynne - Book Review

This LGBTQ+ fantasy realism is definitely one of the most unique books I’ve read. Victoria starts communicating with a girl, Ashlinn, in her dream and finds out she is the giver of dreams who has been talking to Victoria’s brother, who is in a coma after a car accident.

Ashlinn also helps Victoria realise she is asexual. Unfortunately, there are hardly any YA books featuring asexuality, let alone an asexual main character. We Awaken really helps to show what asexuality is. Victoria also crushes on Ashlinn, erasing the misconception that asexuals aren’t attracted to anyone.

When Victoria needs Ashlinn’s help, Ashlinn comes into the real world and the romance really starts to grow. Romances can be very predictable, but with both characters being asexual, I was completely intrigued all the way through.

With Ashlinn in the real world, there’s no one to provide dreams and nightmares start to take over - putting pressure on the new romance. This, and the magical realism, makes for a very different story.

I also love the cover (hence the four different pictures above). It’s beautiful with its colourful flowers down one side and I can’t stop staring every time I see it.

My Rating: ★★★★☆

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