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[wallflowerglitter]

Delight Bath Oil, Zoella Fizz Bar, Willow Pattern Soap, Winterspell by Claire Legrand

[lizanneyoung97]

ARC REVIEW: HEART OF THE SUMMER QUEEN BY HOLLY ROSE

⭐⭐⭐⭐

TROPES

Beauty and the Beast meets Snow White

Enemies to Lovers

Touch Her and Die

Slow Burn

This picks up right where the first book, Bride of the Winter King, leaves off. Adara has just tried to kill her husband, and it didn’t really go how she thought it would. Now the two of them are working together to break the curse that plagues the Winter King also known as Elaric.

While most of the first book takes place in Elaric’s castle of ice, this next book sees the two go on an adventure across the kingdom, from the forests to the seas. It was perfect because I do think the story had outgrown the castle, so it was nice to see how Adara and Elaric interacted outside of their otherwise rigid environment. 

There are some great sequences that showcase Adara’s ability to think on her feet and adapt to any situation, and it was fun to watch her continue to grow. She really gives their adventure her all, even if it could end up poorly in the end. 

Once the door opens on Adara and Elaric’s relationship, nothing can stop them (even though it takes a hot second for them to be on the same page). Though it started on rocky ground, by the end, they are in a great place and I’m so glad they made it there.

Heart of the Summer Queen is available now on KU! Thank you to the author for a chance to ARC read.

[thatsgonnaleaveamark]

i saw two steps from hell live today and it was really really good! i used to write to their music and listen to them in the train and i enjoyed it a lot and they genuinely put on an amazing show with their amazing music.

but seeing this one song live... it made me laugh, like its a great song, but its just That One Trailer Song and it was so cool but also really funny

[anghraine]

It's silly music poll time! I was listening to my Spotify Wrapped and thinking about which of the top songs were my most-beloved vs most-listened-to-in-the-background, and thought: which are your favorites? So:

These are in no particular order, btw!

[plotterprints]

Winterspell 3. Ballpoint on A3. In my shop now.

[runawaymun]

✨️Put 5 songs you listen to, post it, then send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers :) 🎶

okay here's some more haha

Yuve Yuve Yu - The HU

STORM - OTYKEN

Winterspell - Two Steps from Hell

Am I A Ghost? - Juniper Vale

Dead Man Walking - Jon Bellion

[amaretto-mp4]

Winterspell // it’s not yet December ❄️

Finally sharing a rendered piece here!

More about my ocs and worldbuilding project: Crosswind Landings (also newly named hehe) on my IG – though I’d like to link a document with more info to tumblr in the future.

[bethdehart]

Artfight revenge for Winterspell on artfight.

Heck yeah spooky lady (Also I'm beefstatic on artfight uwu)

[ID: a sketch of a human woman with white skin, shoulder-length brown hair, and a slim build. Her hands are black claws with black veins trailing up her arms, and the same effect is around her eyes, on her face, and on her torso. Her eyes are completely black, and she has a black, whip-like tail, and trailing black tendrils sprout out from her back. She is wearing a torn red shirt and gray pants. She is walking toward the viewer in a strange pose, with one hand out stretched and the other held in front of her, her head to the side and looking toward the viewer.]

[talesofsorrowandofruin]

10 Songs 10 People Tag

Thanks for tagging me, @squarebracket-trick and @writernopal! :D

Reusing the music from Like Snow on Hungry Graves’ WIP soundtrack, with two extra pieces:

1. Across the Blood Water by Two Steps From Hell 2. Empire of Angels by Thomas Bergersen 3. Ocean Kingdom by Two Steps From Hell 4. Blackheart by Two Steps From Hell 5. Nero by Two Steps From Hell 6. Phantom by Two Steps From Hell 7. Winterspell by Two Steps From Hell 8. Unleashed by Two Steps From Hell 9. Midnight Spectres by Derek Fiechter 10. Dance of the Clockwork by Gemma Cartmell

Tagging @eccaiia, @weaver-of-fantasies-and-fables, @theimperiumchronicles, @blind-the-winds, @on-noon, @bardic-tales, @regalserpent, and anyone else who wants to do this! :D

[brookston]

Holidays 4.13

Holidays

Aerosmith Day (Massachusetts)

American Elephant Day

American Sikh Day

Arugula o Rocket Day (French Republic)

Auslan Day (Australia)

Beauty Peace Day

Celebrate Teen Literature Day

Day of Patrons and Philanthropists (Russia)

Day of the Dead (Elder Scrolls)

Environmental Protection Day

Feast of Rotten Endings

413 Day (Arkansas)

Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) International Awareness Day

Homestuck Day

Huguenot Day (France)

Ides of April (Ancient Rome)

International Campus & Community Day

International Creativity & Innovation Day

International Day of the Kiss

International Functional Neurological Disorder Awareness Day

International Imposter Syndrome Awareness Day

International Jaat Day (India)

International Plant Appreciation Day

International Rock & Roll Day

International Special Librarian’s Day

International Turban Day

John Hanson Day (Maryland)

Katyn Memorial Day (Poland)

Military-Industrial Complex Employee Day (Ukraine)

National Boot Day

National Borinqueneers Day

National Hippy Day

National Hockey Card Day

National Japanese Spitz Day

National Kiss Your Homies Day

National Pathology Day (India)

National PhiliShui Day

National Silly Earring Day

National Sticker Day

National Theresa Day

Neil Banging Out the Tunes Day

Religious Freedom Day (England; France)

Scrabble Day

Silent Spring Day

Sinhala & Tamil New Year’s Eve (Sri Lanka)

Sterile Packaging Day

Swiftie Day

Teacher’s Day (Ecuador)

Thomas Jefferson Day

Unfairly Prosecuted Persons Day (Slovakia)

Western Mass Day (Massachusetts)

World Microscope Day

World Sarcoidosis Day

World’s Day of Remembrance for Victims of Katyn Massacre

Food & Drink Celebrations

Day to Give Thanks for Fish and Seafood

Hopocalypse Day (Drake’s Brewing)

National Make Lunch Count Day

National Peach Cobbler Day

2nd Saturday in April

Baby Massage Day [2nd Saturday]

Global Day to End Child Sexual Abuse [2nd Saturday]

National Catch & Release Day [2nd Saturday]

Slow Art Day [2nd Saturday]

World Circus Day [2nd Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 13 (2nd Week)

California Native Plant Week [thru 4.20]

Independence & Related Days

Adammia (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]

Mensa Ann (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Sicily (from Naples; 1848)

Varnland (Declared; 1991) [unrecognized]

Winterspell (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

Songkran (Thailand) (a.k.a. …

Bangla New Year

Bisket Jatra (Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand)

Chiang Mai Songkran

Tamil New Year

Thai New Year

Festivals Beginning April 13, 2024

Armageddon Expo Christchurch, New Zealand) [thru 4.14]

Baldwin County Strawberry Festival (Loxley, Alabama) [thru 4.14]

Bar K Beer Fest (St. Louis, Missouri)

Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [thru 4.14]

CNY Maple Festival (Marathon, New York) [thru 4.14]

Crawfish & Zydeco Festival (Kemah, Texas) [thru 4.14]

Dairy State Cheese & Beer Festival (Kenosha, Wisconsin)

Dessert Wars (Baltimore, Maryland)

Georgia Renaissance Festival (Fairburn, Georgia) [thru 6.2]

Hall Cabernet Cookout (St. Helena, California)

Hudson Mac & Cheese Fest (Washingtonville, New York)

International Orange Blossom Carnival (Adana, Turkey) [thru 4.21]

Lost Colony Wine & Culinary Festival (Manteo, North Carolina)

Mobile Chocolate Festival (Mobile, Alabama)

National Grits Festival (Warwick, Georgia)

Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival (San Francisco, California) [thru 4.14 & 4.20-21]

Polish Festival (Phoenix, Arizona) [thru 4.14]

Spring Cheese and Chocolate Weekend (Stillwater, Minnesota) [thru 4.14]

Supernova Pop Culture Expo Gold Coast, Australia) [thru 4.14]

Taste of Hillcrest (San Diego, California)

Feast Days

Alfarbot: Alfheim Day (Pagan)

Believe in Fairies Day (Pastafarian)

Bill Hicks Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Caradoc (Christian; Saint)

Carpus, Papyrus, and Agathonic (Christian; Martyrs)

Elizablecccch Arden (Muppetism)

Eudora Welty (Writerism)

Festival of Jupiter Victor (Ancient Rome)

Festival of Libertas (Ancient Roman personification of freedom and political liberty)

Grounding Meditation Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Guinoch of Scotland (Christian; Saint)

Hermenegild (Christian; Martyr)

Ida of Louvain (Christian; Saint)

James Ensor (Artology)

Libertas (Old Roman Goddess of Liberty)

Martin I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Martius (a.k.a. Mars; Christian; Saint)

Poshui Jie begins (Water Splashing Festival; China)

Ptolemy (Positivist; Saint)

Purification Festival (Thailand; Everyday Wicca)

Samuel Beckett (Writerism)

Seamus Heaney (Writerism)

Squashing of Moonhopper Day (Shamanism)

Thomas Lawrence (Artology)

Vaisakhi (Sikh spring grain harvest festival)

Vishnu (Pondicherry, India; Hindu)

Yayoi Matsuri (Nikko, Japan; 5-Day Spring Festival)

Islamic Moveable Calendar Holidays

Eid al-Fitr celebrations continue (Islam)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 103 [27 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Aladdin Sane, by David Bowie (Album; 1973)

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures, by Clarice Lispector (Novel; 1969)

Bedeviled Rabbit (WB Cartoon; 1957)

The Big Bad Wolf (Disney Cartoon; 1934)

Black Rose, by Thin Lizzy (Album; 1979)

Bridget Jones’s Diary (Film; 2001)

Brown Sugar, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1971)

Bulldog Drummond (Radio Series; 1941)

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, by Elizabeth Smart (Novel; 1945)

Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming (Novel; 1953) [James Bond #1]

Catch a Fire, by Bob Marley (Album; 1973)

Critic’s Choice (Film; 1963)

Dane, by Heinrich Schütz Opera; 1627)

Daltrey, by Roger Daltrey (Album; 1973)

Echo, by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (Album; 1999)

El Capitan, by John Philip Soul (Operetta; 1896)

Good Little Monkeys (Happy Harmonies; 1935)

The Greyhound and the Rabbit (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1940)

Hold the Lion Please (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1951)

The Kilkenny Cats (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1945)

Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here Grammar Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1974)

Messiah, by George Frederic Handel (Oratorio; 1742)

Mickey’s Kangaroo (Disney Cartoon; 1935)

Mouse Into Space (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1962)

The One Minute Manager, by Kennth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson (Book; 1983)

Rampage (Film; 2018)

Rising Sun, by Michael Crichton (Novel; 1992)

Safe at Home! (Film; 1962)

Swing Shift (Film; 1984)

Tango in the Night, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1987)

Tintin and the Picaros, by Hergé (Graphic Novel; 1976) [Tintin #23]

12 Angry Men (Film; 1957)

Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand (Historic Novel; 2012)

Today’s Name Days

Hermenegild, Ida, Martin (Austria)

Ida, Martin (Croatia)

Aleš (Czech Republic)

Justinus (Denmark)

Tarvi, Tarvo (Estonia)

Tellervo (Finland)

Ida (France)

Hermenegil, Ida, Gilda, Martin (Germany)

Gerontios (Greece)

Ida (Hungary)

Ermenegildo, Martino (Italy)

Egils, Jagailis, Justins, Justs, Nauris (Latvia)

Algaudė, Ida, Mingaudas (Lithuania)

Asta, Astrid (Norway)

Hermenegild, Hermenegilda, Ida, Jan, Justyn, Małgorzata, Przemysł, Przemysław (Poland)

Artemon (Romania)

Aleš (Slovakia)

Hermenegildo, Martín (Spain)

Artur, Douglas (Sweden)

Slavka, Yaroslava (Ukraine)

Thom, Thomas, Thomasina, Thompson, Tom, Tomas, Tommie, Tommy, Twain (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 104 of 2024; 262 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 15 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 5 (Ding-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 5 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 34 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 14 Cyan; Sevenday [14 of 30]

Julian: 31 March 2024

Moon: 28%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 20 Archimedes (4th Month) [Albategnius]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 26 of 92)

Week: 2nd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 24 of 31)

[gloryseized]

Link

Standard theme: Soldier, Poet, King (Instrumental) by The Oh Hellos

Battle theme: Winterspell by Thomas Bergersen

Boss Theme: Sky Titans by Thomas Bergersen

Emotional Theme: See What I've Become by Zack Hemsey

Tagged by: @vigilantdesert

Tagging: you!!!!

[samayla]

I'm going to see the Nutcracker tonight!

The university and the local ballet company partner up every year to put it on for just a few nights, and for ONCE, I remembered in time to actually get tickets! I scored 2nd row on the final night!

Usually, everything is long sold-out by the time posters get put up at work. But I was planning Christmas lessons for the the library a couple weeks ago. Every year, I share my copy of "The Story of the Nutcracker Ballet" by Deborah Hautzig with my 2nd graders, and we watch some clips from various ballets. The Australian National Ballet - I believe, it's been a year - has a really neat behind-the-scenes piece about Mother Ginger for the kids.

I love this book so much! It was one of my favorites growing up because I just loved Diane Goode's illustrations! I mean, I read "Winterspell" by Claire LeGrand a couple years ago, and this is how I pictured Drosselmeier. No question.

[anghraine]

I was tagged by @ladytharen in a music meme! Thanks :D

The meme: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first ten tracks.

Winterspell | Two Steps From Hell

Who Wants to Live Forever | Queen

Peculiar Magic | Audiomachine

This Is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home | Murray Gold

Love | Lana del Rey

Main Title (Game of Thrones) | Ramin Djawadi

The Show Must Go On | Queen

Fire and Ice | Pat Benatar

Don't Stop | Fleetwood Mac

Palladio | Escala

Tagging, for those who want to do it with Spotify or your most played songs: @elwing, @heckofabecca, @kareenvorbarra, @lantur, @nanyoky