#young alix

[the-last-tsar]

Alix of Hesse; 1894.

[queen-of-wisdom]

For the characters that weren't meant to be a person. For the characters that were made to be nothing but a plot device or a love interest or a vilian. For the characters that could never be the main characters because they are made to be side characters, they aren't made to be more than their one and only purpose. For the characters that were created for nothing but to serve a narrative. It's like loving children when their parents didn't; it's like seeing their potential when their parents saw nothing but a doll to control.

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Letter from the then Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (later Tsar Nicholas II) to the then Prince Ernst Louis of Hesse (later Grand Duke), 1/13 of June, 1884

“My dear Ernie” “ If you have nothing else to do, please come to us with Alix. We will row in boats on our pond. We dine altogether, good-bye.”

“Your loving Nicky.”

[ladymiraclewings]

Adult!Bunnyx: Well, you know what they say: ninety percent of being a superhero is waiting.

Marinette: You couldn't have told us that ninety percent ago?

Young!Bunnyx: Alright, screw it. If the apocalypse comes, text me.

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Royal Ballet's Joiners and Leavers!

Royal Ballet School graduates Bethany Bartlett, Sierra Glasheen, Seung Hee Han, Casper Lench, Isabella Shaker, and Blake Smith are all joining the Royal Ballet as Aud Jebsen trainees for the following season!

Out of the 22-23 Aud Jebsen Dancers, we know that Martin Diaz, Olivia Findlay, Luc Foskett, Scarlet Harvey, and Ella Netwon Severgnini have been accepted into the company as permanent Artists. I'm not sure where Alicia Rose Couvrette and Alix van Tiggelen are headed but I know Ava May Llewellyn has joined the Birmingham Royal Ballet. Out of those that didn't get an artist contract, I liked van Tiggelen very much so it's a bit disappointing. Hopefully she ends up in another great company.

We also know that Julie Joyner will be the Prix de Lausanne Dancer for the 23-24 season and this season's Lausanne Dancer Darrion Sellman is joining the Royal Swedish Ballet next season.

[liebgotts-lovergirl]

♬ The blood on my hands scares me to death ♬

[shadow13dickpistons]

No, seriously, I love this miniseries. I'm a George VI girlie and think Edward VIII was too much like his grandpa but now I love his grandpa and I'm not going back.

Don't think about the Love Chair, do not think about the Love Chair-

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Book Review: Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

The Details Media Type: AudiobookTitle: Starling HouseAuthor(s): Alix E. HarrowPublisher: Macmillan AudioPages/Length: 12 hours 16 minutesRelease Date: October 3, 2023Source: Library Borrow Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | Bookshop A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can’t stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads…

[shigussy]

oops i stayed up until 5am rewriting mbav to be a little gayer and adding in oc and more lore including seer types, the fae, and a tall goth gf for rory 👀

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[REVIEW] STARLING HOUSE BY ALIX E. HARROW

Book info ⭐ Name: Starling HouseAuthor: Alix E. HarrowRelease Date: October 3rd 2023Edition: Illumicrate HardcoverPages: 308Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Gothic Synopsis: Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland–and disappeared. Before she vanished,…

[helloitshaley]

listen, do whatever the hell you want to with your body! It is your body and you shouldn't let people stop you from doing what you want with it! HOWEVER I do not think we should be allowing MINORS people who's brains are not fully developed to be getting BOTOX AND FILLER I just don't!!!! When you're brain is formed enough to be like yeah I still want that GO FOR IT but if your mom has to fill out your botox paperwork for you YOU ARE TOO YOUNG

[the-last-tsar]

"The death of her mother at thirty-five, had a shattering effect on six-year-old Alix. She sat quiet and withdrawn in her playroom while her nurse stood in the corner, weeping. Even the toys she handled were new; the old, familiar toys had been burned as a precaution against the disease. Alix had been a merry, generous, warm little girl, obstinate but sensitive, with a hot temper. After this tragedy she began to seal herself off from other people. A hard shell of aloofness formed over her emotions, and her radiant smile appeared infrequently. Craving intimacy and affection, she held herself back. She grew to dislike unfamiliar places and to avoid unfamiliar people. Only in cozy family gatherings where she could count on warmth and understanding did Alix unwind. There, the shy, serious, cool Princess Alix became once again the merry, dimpled, loving "Sunny" of her early childhood. After her daughter's death, Queen Victoria treated Grand Duke Louis as her own son and invited him often to England with his motherless children. Alix, now the youngest, was the aging Queen's special favorite and Victoria kept a close watch on her little grand-child. Tutors and governesses in Darmstadt were required to send special reports to Windsor and receive, in return, a steady flow of advice and instruction from the Queen. Under this tutelage, Alix's standards of taste and morality became thoroughly English and thoroughly Victorian. The future Empress of Russia developed steadily into that most recognizable and respectable of creatures, a proper young English gentlewoman. Alix was an excellent student. By the time she was fifteen, she was thoroughly grounded in history, geography and English and German literature. She played the piano with a skill approaching brilliance, but she disliked playing in front of people. When Queen Victoria asked her to play for guests at Windsor, Alix obliged, but her reddened face betrayed her torment unlike Nicholas, who learned by rote, Alix loved to discuss abstract ideas. One of her tutors, an Englishwoman named Margaret Jackson — "Madgie" to Princess Alix — was interested in politics. Miss Jackson passed her fascination along to Alix, who grew up believing that politics was a subject not necessarily restricted to men. Alix's grandmother, after all, was a woman and still managed to be the dominant monarch in Europe."

Nicholas and Alexandra | Robert K. Massie

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Review: Starling House by Alix E. Harrow.

Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the uncanny house―and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling―go to rot. As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares. If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it.

As a person whose scary threshold is basically the floor, I really was worried a little going into this, but I didn't really much to fear about Starling House as Alix E Harrow delivers to us more of her incredible writing and characters that just grow on the page.

The characters are really well fleshed out in this book with fantastic character development of Opal, who considering her life has the personality for it, you don't go through all that without being scarred and Opal is flawlessly written for me and with a fantastic world builder like Harrow writing, these concepts all worked so well together.

The plot is less spooky as I said than I thought it would be, but it is a really good plot nonetheless and I really enjoyed this, it gives spooky Alice In Wonderland and I am here for that. The trio really are a very curious bunch and where they end up in this dark and a little creepy tale makes for gripping and intriguing reading perfection the season.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC!

[madlovenovelist]

Most Anticipated New Book Releases October 2023

There wasn’t a lot that I instantly felt like I must have for the October Release Schedule – only 2 titles really grabbed me: ’10 Things That Never Happened’ sounds stupid in the most glorious way, and considering I’ve enjoyed Alexis Hall’s writing in the past, I’m definitely snapping this one up. ‘Starling House’ sounds like a spooky atmospheric read that tickles my chicken. 10 Things That…

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Bad movie I have Rock ‘N’ Roll High School 1979