#young alix

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Alix of Hesse; 1894.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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♬ The blood on my hands scares me to death ♬

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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…

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A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow (Fractured Fables #2)

Hey guys!I’m back today with the second Fractured Fables book by Alix E. Harrow. I quite enjoyed the first one, so let’s hope this one’s good as well! A Mirror Mended on Goodreads The Plot (according to Goodreads): Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty, is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you’ve rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once…

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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,…

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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

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"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!

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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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part 3 of the 2023 version of this post: adult books!

part 1: middle grade books | part 2: young adult books

this is a very incomplete list, as these are only books I've read and enjoyed. not all books are going to be for all readers, so I'd recommend looking up synopses and content warnings. feel free to message me with any questions about specific representation!

list of books under the cut ⬇️

yerba buena by nina lacour

if we were villains by m.l. rio

everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily r. austin

i want to be a wall by honami shirono

portrait of a thief by grace d. li

the thirty names of night by zeyn joukhadar

on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

love & other disasters by anita kelly

take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert

boyfriend material by alexis hall

almost like being in love by steve kluger

the charm offensive by alison cochrun

something wild & wonderful by anita kelly

red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston

something to talk about by meryl wilsner

honey girl by morgan rogers

one last stop by casey mcquiston

once ghosted, twice shy by alyssa cole

kiss her once for me by alison cochrun

a spindle splintered by alix e. harrow

finna by nino cipri

every heart a dooryway by seanan mcguire

the starless sea by erin morgenstern

under the whispering door by tj klune

space opera by catherynne m. valente

light from uncommon stars by ryka aoki

dead collections by isaac fellman

the city we became by n.k. jemisin

light carries on by ray nadine

an absolutely remarkable thing by hank green

feed them silence by lee mandelo

summer sons by lee mandelo

upright women wanted by sarah gailey

lavender house by lev a.c. rosen

fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe by fannie flagg

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid

a master of djinn by p. djeli clark

witchmark by c.l. polk

a marvellous light by freya marske

a restless truth by freya marske

when women were dragons by kelly barnhill

plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth

a lady for a duke by alexis hall

infamous by lex croucher

passing strange by ellen klages

even though i knew the end by c.l. polk

the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo

whiskey when we're dry by john larison

wake of vultures by lila bowen

silver in the wood by emily tesh

the once and future witches by alix e. harrow

the kingdoms by natasha pulley

a tip for the hangman by allison epstein

she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan

the song of achilles by madeline miller

spear by nicola griffith

this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone

gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir

some desperate glory by emily tesh

all systems red by martha wells

a psalm for the wild built by becky chambers

the mimicking of known successes by malka older

winter's orbit by everina maxwell

fireheart tiger by aliette de bodard

empress of salt and fortune by nghi vo

legends and lattes by travis baldree

the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune

other ever afters by melanie gillman

the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon

a day of fallen night by samantha shannon

a strange and stubborn endurance by foz meadows

the unbroken by c.l. clark

real queer america by samantha allen

fun home by alison bechdel

in the dream house by carmen maria machado

better living through birding by christian cooper

why fish don't exist by lulu miller

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