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[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.”

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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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[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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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!

[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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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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Sapphic Book Recs for Pride 2024

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Adult, high fantasy, 4.28 star average (my rating: 5 stars)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Adult, sci-fantasy, 4.29 star average (my rating: 5 stars)

The Winter Duke by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Young Adult, high fantasy, 3.55 star average (my rating: 5 stars)

Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide

Young Adult, thriller, 4.27 star average (my rating: 5 stars)

Crier's War by Nina Varela

Young Adult, high fantasy, 4.11 star average (my rating: 4.5 stars)

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

New Adult, low fantasy, 4.18 star average (my rating: 4.5 stars)

Seven Devils by L. R. Lam and Elizabeth May

Adult, space opera, 4.03 star average (my rating: 4.5 stars)

Malice by Heather Walter

Adult, fantasy romance, 3.97 star average (my rating: 4.5 stars)

Beguiled by Cyla Panin

Young Adult, high fantasy, 3.48 star average (my rating: 4 stars)

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Adult, high fantasy, 4.21 star average (my rating: 3.5 stars)

Ash by Malinda Lo

Young Adult, fantasy romance, 3.57 star average (my rating: 3.5 stars)

We Ate the Dark by Mallory Pearson

New Adult, horror fantasy, 3.04 star average (my rating: 3 stars)

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

Adult, historical fantasy, 3.66 star average

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Adult, historical fantasy, 4.13 star average

Flip the Script by Lyla Lee

Young Adult, contemporary romance, 3.64 star average

The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

Adult, high fantasy, 4.07 star average

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Adult, historical fantasy, 4 star average

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

Young Adult, contemporary fantasy, 4.17 star average

Tink and Wendy by Kelly Ann Jacobson

Young Adult, low fantasy, 3.4 star average

The Tiger's Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera

Adult, high fantasy, 3.84 star average

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Adult, horror sci-fi, 4.04 star average

Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

Young Adult, high fantasy, 3.65 star average

The Goddess of Nothing at All by Cat Rector

Adult, high fantasy, 4.23 star average

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Young Adult, historical romance, 4.28 star average

Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

Young Adult, dystopian sci-fi, 3.92 star average

The City of Dusk by Tara Sim

Adult, high fantasy, 3.72 star average

Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills

Young Adult, contemporary fiction, 4.25 star average

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

Adult, gothic fantasy, 3.83 star average

A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson

Adult, gothic fantasy, 4.12 star average

Seven Faceless Saints by M. K. Lobb

Young Adult, high fantasy, 3.5 star average

Darker by Four by June CL Tan

Young Adult, contemporary fantasy, 4.11 star average

The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling

Young Adult, paranormal romance, 3.64 star average

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Lin

Adult, mystery thriller, 3.63 star average

Once & Future by Cory McCarthy and A. R. Capetta

Young Adult, sci-fantasy, 3.57 star average

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

Adult, high fantasy, 4.1 star average

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Young Adult, sci-fi horror, 3.48 star average

Afterworlds by Scott Westerfled

Young Adult, contemporary fiction/low fantasy, 3.69 star average