#NINA RIORDAN

[glamfellens]

✨dnd girlies who take turns about the room and break hearts✨ nina belongs 2 @captaintiny ✨

[stwaidwen]

I was tagged by @glamfellens and @cetra to fill out an OC questionnaire! I am not tagging anyone bc I am basically the last person on earth to do this. I'm doing it for my D&D baby Nina because she is Going Through It right now and needs some love. Art is by @glamfellens

Name: Nina Miriam Callaghan (née Riordan)

Nickname(s): None

Gender: Cis Female

Star Sign: Aries

Height: 5'0"

Orientation: Bisexual

Nationality/Ethnicity: Human, fantasy jewish, born and raised in a rural farming community, moved to and lived in a slightly less rural farming community.

Favourite Fruit: Plums

Favourite Season: Summer

Favourite Flower: Cornflowers

Favourite Scent: Fresh sawdust

Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: Once she discovers coffee she never looks back.

Average Hours of Sleep: About 5-6. Girl is a busy bee.

Dogs or Cats: Dogs but it's a very close call. She wants both.

Dream Trip: She wants to climb a mountain one day.

Number of Blankets: Just one, but she will cocoon herself inside it like a little caterpillar. Get your own.

Random Fact: Nina is a very skilled artist, both in terms of technical drawings/blueprints for her inventions, and in more traditional art forms. Her favourite medium is oil painting.

[captaintiny]

dnd was so stressful today haha im fine

[traeumenvonbuechern]

Queer Books To Read If You Love "Percy Jackson"

Excited about the new Percy Jackson series? Read these books!

Book titles:

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao

Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms by Jamar J. Perry

Juniper Harvey and the Vanishing Kingdom by Nina Varela

Ring of Solomon by Aden Polydoros

Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee

[iamfear]

Ok so i’m reading the six of crows duology and i’m not over the fact that Kaz and most of his team are the same age/about the same age as PERCY FUCKING JACKSON AND THE REST OF THE SEVEN

Edit: These are the characters ages,

Kaz: 17

Inej:16

Jesper:17

Nina: 17

Wylan: 16

Matthias: 18

Percy: 17

Annabeth: 16, turned 17 in House of Hades

Jason: 15, turned 16 in Moa

Piper: 16

Leo:15, turned 16 in Moa

Frank: 15

Hazel: 13

Nico: 14

Reyna: 16

[bluedietcoke]

book couples and quotes that correlate w their different tropes pt 2:

art creds:

roma and juliette : bxromance on instagram

feysand : charliebowater on instagram

helnik : bxromance

thaluke : wiccatwolfart on instagram

jurdan : artsiidaisy on instagram

[jeansyvesmoreau]

Randomly thought of this weird crossover at 12.15am

Kuwei: Let us find the dam snack bar, We should eat while we can

Jesper: The dam snack bar?

Kuwei: Yes. What is funny?

Jesper, grinning: Nothing, I could use some dam french fries

Nina: And I need to use the dam restroom

Jesper and Nina: *burst out laughing*

Kuwei: I do not understand

[incorrect-soc]

Godly Parents: SoC edition

(Lil disclaimer: This is not necessarily PJO's meaning of Godly Parent. It's just basically a "Which God is your godly parent" buzzfeed quiz but with actual information-)

Kaz: Nemesis, Goddess of indignation against, and retribution for, evil deeds and undeserved good fortune. Kaz spent the entire two books and the bigger part of his life holding grudges and planning his revenge on an arrogant man who got away with destroying a bunch of people's lives. He makes it his life mission to make him pay for his crimes.

Inej: Hermes, Messenger of the gods; god of travel, commerce, communication, borders, eloquence, diplomacy and thieves. First of all, Inej is Suli. Suli people are known to be "nomads", travelling from place to place. Second, Kaz hired her to be his spider, to collect and deliver important information, a messenger of some kind. And a detail I particularly liked is the whole thing with the shoes. Hermes most characteristic item are his flying sandals; and Inej is also particularly fond of her climbing leather slippers.

Jesper: Hephaestus, God of the forge, craftsmanship, invention, fire, metallurgy and volcanoes, craftsman of the gods. Yeah, yeah. The obvious reason is in fact because Jesper is a Fabrikator. He literally controls metal. If it's parental issues we're talking about, well, we all know how that went for both of them.

Wylan: Apollo, God of Sun, light, prophecy, philosophy, archery, truth, inspiration, poetry, music, arts, manly beauty, medicine, healing, and plague. "Because of Wylan Van Suns-?" *slap* Shut up, that was literally sarcasm. Wylan's story and latter fate begins because of a music conservatory, and music really played such a big part in his own story as well as his story with Jesper (ehem, piano incident). Also, bit of a fun fact, Apollo is supposedly the creator of the flute so there you go. Another literal thing is that he created a fake plague to help Kaz.

Nina: Hecate, Goddess of the dead's souls, witchcraft and divination. (Matthias would be so happy for the whole witchcraft thing). I don't think I have to elaborate on this one, but just a reminder that Nina can in fact control dead bodies.

Matthias: Hestia, Goddess of the hearth, fire and of the right ordering of domesticity and the family. *Introduces really gut-wrenching line from chapter 40 of Crooked Kingdom about how he finally could go back home*. I know it's kinda ironic that Matthias is from an icy country and Hestia is the Goddess of the fire, but no one said this was a perfect analysis (do I look like Rick Riordan to you?). Matthias was all about family values and homeland really, even if they meant different things at the beginning and at the end of Matthias' story. First it was his bio family, whose death ignited his hatred for the Grisha and his home was Fjerda. But in the end, the Crows became his family, the family he gave his life for, the same way Nina became his home.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

If you had to be stuck in an elevator with a YA novel protagonist for 24 hours, which one would you choose? (even if the protagonist has god-like powers, they can't get you out of the elevator before the 24 hours are up)

my rick riordan raised heart wants to say percy jackson but that poor boy would go insane 40 minutes in so I'm actually going with nina zenik because I think she has 24 hours worth of gossip so good that we'd go in as strangers and come out as each others' bridemaids

[in-my-feels-probably]

if you have any requests for the following characters, please send them in :)

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these are the characters i’m currently accepting requests for! if there’s a character not listed here, send an ask, and i’ll let you know if i can write for them. if there’s a character listed on my masterlist that’s not listed below, i can probably write for them again too, just send me an ask about it.

if you have any ideas, feel free to send them :)

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON

aemond targaryen

rhaenyra targaryen

aegon targaryen

alicent hightower

GAME OF THRONES

jon snow

robb stark

daenerys targaryen

sansa stark

BRIDGERTON

benedict bridgerton

anthony bridgerton

daphne bridgerton

QUEEN CHARLOTTE

king george

HARRY POTTER (MARAUDERS ERA)

sirius black

james potter

remus lupin

OUTER BANKS

jj maybank

sarah cameron

rafe cameron

HARRY POTTER (GOLDEN ERA)

hermione granger

harry potter

theodore nott

GRISHAVERSE

kaz brekker

nikolai lantsov

inej ghafa

nina zenik

genya safin

alina starkov

zoya nazyalensky

MARVEL/MCU

matt murdock

peter parker (andrew or tom)

bucky barnes

yelena belova

karen page

THE WALKING DEAD

rick grimes

alden

daryl dixon

THE BEAR

carmy berzatto

richie jerimovich

sydney adamu

THE HUNGER GAMES

peeta mellark

finnick odair

katniss everdeen

THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES

lucy gray baird

coriolanus snow

THE BOYS

frenchie

black noir

billy butcher

GEN V

marie moreau

emma meyer

sam riordan

CHALLENGERS

art donaldson

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send anything you want :)

[girlwithinfiction]

✨BOOK COUPLES AS TAYLOR SWIFT SONGS (PART 2)✨

🎶 Delicate - Nova & Adrian from Renegades by Marissa Meyer

🎶 State of Grace (Taylor's Version) - Ronan & Adam from The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

🎶 This Love (Taylor's Version) - Annabeth & Percy from Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan

🎶 peace - Katniss & Peeta from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

🎶 I Did Something Bad - Jude & Cardan from The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

🎶 cowboy like me - Nina & Matthias from Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

ig: girlwithinfiction

[natreads]

2023 reading wrap up

I read 45 books this year, including one for work. I don't typically include those but I was working with the translation of a book and so it had technically already come out so I decided to put it on Goodreads. I have however not included it in this wrapup, so there's only 44 of them here.

Classics (8) 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 - ⭐⭐⭐

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (reread) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (queer, reread) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (e, childrens) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell (au) ⭐⭐⭐

Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion (modern) ⭐⭐⭐

The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera ⭐⭐⭐

Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz (modern) ⭐⭐⭐

Teleny by Anonymous (queer) ⭐⭐⭐

Poetry (4) 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1 - ⭐⭐⭐

Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky (e) ⭐⭐⭐

Closer Baby Closer by Savannah Brown (e) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Carrying by Ada Limón (au/ph) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha (e) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Romance (2) 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1 - ⭐⭐⭐

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn (au) ⭐⭐⭐

Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (reread, queer) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Non-fiction (10) 3 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 2 - ⭐⭐⭐

Letters to Camondo by Edmund De Waal ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Det är natten by Karolina Ramqvist (sv, e) ⭐⭐⭐

En bok av dagar by Patti Smith (tr) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff ⭐⭐⭐⭐

A Kind of Magic by Luke Edward Hall ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Blir du ledsen om jag dör? by Nicolas Lunabba (sv) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Krigsdagböcker by Astrid Lindgren (sv) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Dagbok från 20-talet by Nicolas Lunabba (sv) ⭐⭐⭐

The Forster Cavafy Letters edited by Peter Jeffreys ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Greco Disco by Luke Edward Hall ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Fantasy (1) 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (au, ph) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Contemporary (19) 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 8 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 9 - ⭐⭐⭐

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin (queer, au) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Kärlek i Seoul by Sang Young Park (queer, tr, au) ⭐⭐⭐

Andromeda by Therese Bohman (sv) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Min Far by Annie Ernaux (tr) ⭐⭐⭐

Göra sig kvitt Eddy Bellegueule Édouard Louis (queer, tr) ⭐⭐⭐

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (au) ⭐⭐⭐

After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz (queer) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Babetta by Nina Wähä (au, sv) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

My Policeman by Bethan Roberts (queer) ⭐⭐⭐

Rumple Buttercup by Matthew Gray Gubler (e, childrens) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Aftonland by Therese Bohman (sv) ⭐⭐⭐

Om uträkning av omfång 1 by Solvej Balle (tr, au) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Adventures of the Seven Christmas Cards by Anthony Horowitz (au) ⭐⭐⭐

Vinternoveller by Ingvild H. Rishøi (tr) ⭐⭐⭐

Heartstopper volume 5 by Alice Oseman (queer, YA) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Stargate by Ingvild H. Rishøi (tr, au) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

In the Absence of Men by Philippe Besson (queer, tr) ⭐⭐⭐

Saint Sebastian’s Abyss by Mark Haber (au) ⭐⭐⭐

Additional info and stats under the cut:

e = ebook au = audiobook ph = physical (only used when I alternated between the audiobook and the physical copy) tr = translated sv = originally in Swedish

Childrens - 2

YA - 1

Middle grade - 1

Graphic novel - 1

Modern classics - 2

Translated - 8 (Korean, English, French x3, Danish x1, Norwegian x2)

Swedish - 7

Audio - 12

E-book - 6

Rereads - 3

Queer - 8

5 stars - 7

4 stars - 18

3 stars - 19

Owned - 30 + bought 1 as e-book)

Unhauled after reading - 8

[stwaidwen]

Your oc summary post is so cool thank you for the delicious content nom nom

What you said about Ari's Judaism got me wondering - is Nina at all religious? ik it works differently in a world where the gods are literally real and can talk to you, so is she someone for whom faith is important, or does she take refuge and comfort in her practice of science?

Very funny you should ask this, because me and my boyfriend have a running joke that everyone in d&d Jewish unless proven otherwise, so Nina actually had a Jewish wedding! Her husband was a carpenter and lumberjack so he built their chuppah!

However, on a more serious note, Nina is not very religious at all, but that comes more from a place of anger than anything else. Mitch has built his own pantheon, with the most important god being called The Father, and the story is that all the other gods in this pantheon are his children. The Church of the Father is the most commonplace, with pretty much everyone worshipping both the Father and another, more specific god in the pantheon. However, the Church of the Father is pretty evangelical, and they are the ones actually in control of the Dimensional Eye, so Nina has a lot of beef with them. We joke as a group that after Nina has taken down the Eye she's going to go on a mission to kill a God, because she's furious that The Father would let such atrocities be committed in his name. It's a lot of grief and misplaced anger at work. She's not wholly averse to the idea of worship, she just doesn't feel she's found a God with whom she aligns.

[etdraconis]

Updated Muse List

Italics denotes tertiary/low muse, * denotes request only

Dragon Age Canons:

Cremisius Aclassi

Anders

Zevran Araini

Blackwall

Eleanor Cousland

Fergus Cousland

Fenris

Bethany Hawke

Carver Hawke

Nathaniel Howe

Thomas Howe

Anora Mac Tir

Loghain Mac Tir

Josephine Montilyet

Dorian Pavus

Cassandra Pentaghast

Cullen Rutherford

Varric Tethras

Alistair Theirin

Cailan Theirin

Maric Theirin

Varric Tethras

Dragon Age OCs:

Arden Aclassi

Hissera Adaar

Sereda Aeducan

August Amell

Elizabeth Amell

Julian Amell

Oliver Amell

Rosalie Amell

Pyke Brosca

Macaria Cadash

Amara Cousland

Brennon Cousland

Lauryl Cousland

Victoire Ducet

Enya

Callum Hawke

Kenton Hawke

Leanore Hawke

Hava Lavellan

Lorcan

Theron Mahariel

Kalva Sabrae

Alim Surana

Aurelia Tabris

Rowan Theirin

Claire Trevelyan

Declan Trevelyan

Evelyn Trevelyan

Everett Trevelyan

Gabriel Trevelyan

Maxwell Trevelyan

Persephone Trevelyan

Greek Mythology

Aphrodite

Apollo

Ares

Aristeus

Artemis

Asclepius

Hades

Hera

Hermes

Patroclus

Persephone

Poseidon

Percy Jackson/Riordan Verse

Annabeth Chase

Nico Di Angelo

Jason Grace (potentially)

Percy Jackson

Piper McClean (potentially)

Will Solace

Leo Valdez (potentially)

ACOTAR

Elaine Archeron

Feyre Archeron

Nesta Archeron

Azriel

Cassian

Rhysand

Lucian Vanserra

Crescent City

Hunt Athalar

Ruhn Danaan

Danika Fendyr

Ithan Holstrom

Bryce Quinlan

Throne of Glass

Aedion Ashryver

Sam Cortland

Lysandra Ennar

Aelin Galathynius

Dorian Havilliard

Fenrys Moonbeam

Chaol Westfall

Grishaverse

Kaz Brekker

The Darkling

Jesper Fahey

Inej Ghafa

Matthias Helvar

Nikolai Lantsov

Zoya Nazyalensky

Alina Starkov

Wylan Van Eck

Nina Zenik

Good Omens

Aziraphale

Crowley

Zodiac Academy

Geraldine Grus

Lance Orion

Max Rigel

Darcy Vega

Tory Vega

Fourth Wing

Andarna

Imogen Cardulo

Ridoc Gamlyn

Aaric Greycastle

Sloane Maori

Rhiannon Matthias

Brennan Sorrengail

Mira Sorrengail

Violet Sorrengail

Other Book Muses

Alexander Clairemont-Diaz

Star Wars

Poe Dameron

Finn

General Armitage Hux*

Kylo Ren

The Witcher

Jaskier

Geralt of Rivia

Yennifer of Venderberg

Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon

Jaime Lannister*

Sansa Star*

Aemond Targaryen*

Daemon Targaryen*

Daeron Targaryen

Rhaenyra Targaryen*

Brienne of Tarth*

Jacaerys Velaryon

Lucerys Velaryon

Versailles

Liesolotte*

Chevalier de Lorraine*

Louis XIV*

Philippe d'Orleans*

DnD/Fantasy OCs

Jalana Astorio (human warlock

Tarquin Auglathia (sea-elf rogue)

Nedri Autumnblaze (half-orc ranger)

Azure (water genasi monk)

Anders Brightwood (human bard)

Caerlin (tiefling arcane trickster rogue)

Drake (Wild Hunt shifter ranger)

Elianis Galonodel (half-elf druid)

Naivara Galonodel (half-elf mastermind rogue)

Talon Galonodel (wood elf bard)

Makaria (tiefling paladin)

Reya (tiefling storm sorcerer)

Alwyn Sulian (sun elf paladin)

Auryn Sulian (sun elf fighter)

Cerys Sulian (sun elf celestial warlock)

Emrys Sulian (sun elf shadow magic sorcerer)

Hollis Tremaine (human fighter)

Other/modern OCs

Hyun-Soo Joly (medical student)

Destin Michaels (merman)

Novah Michaels (mermaid)

Cassian Sage (werewolf)

Sophie Sage (werewolf)

Reina Solace (werewolf)

Hazel Thatcher (werewolf)

Nicolai Voss (vampire)

[sapphicbookoftheday]

Juniper Harvey and the Vanishing Kingdom by Nina Varela

Today's sapphic book of the day is Juniper Harvey and the Vanishing Kingdom by Nina Varela!

Summary: "A thrilling fantasy adventure that explores friendship and queer identity, perfect for fans of Amari and the Night Brothers and Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo series!

When Juniper Harvey’s family moves to the middle of nowhere in Florida, her entire life is uprooted. As if that's not bad enough, she keeps having dreams about an ancient-looking temple, a terrifying attack, and a mysterious girl who turns into an ivory statue. One night after a disastrous school dance, Juniper draws a portrait of the girl from her dreams and thinks, I wish you were here. The next morning, she wakes up to find the girl in her room…pointing a sword at her throat! The unexpected visitor reveals herself as Galatea, a princess from a magical other world. One problem—her crown is missing, and she needs it in order to return home. Now, it’s up to Juniper to help find the crown, all while navigating a helpless crush on her new companion. And things go from bad to worse when a sinister force starts chasing after the crown too. Packed with adventure and driven by a pitch-perfect voice, this middle grade debut from Nina Varela is about one tween forging new friendships, fighting nightmarish monsters, and importantly, figuring out who she is and who she ultimately wishes to be."

[uarmeimu]

20 books challenge

If you could only keep 20 books (physical/ebook/audio), which would be the ones you would keep?

Rules are simple:

1 book per author. 1 book per series. Tag #twenty books challenge

i saw a challenge from @theinquisitxor and tagged myself to do it

book names are below the cut

magic for liars by sarah gailey

american gods by neil gaiman

the silver chair by cs lewis

lirael by garth nix

the return of the king by jrr tolkien

jonathan strange & mr norrell by susanna clarke

we are okay by nina la cour

house of hades by rick riordan

the magician king by lev grossman

assassin's quest by robin hobb

crooked kingdom by leigh bardugo

black leopard red wolf by marlon james

words of radiance by brandon sanderson

dracula by bram stoker

squire by tamora pierce

a swiftly tilting planet by madeline lengle

just ella by margaret haddix

wuthering heights by emily bronte

the sweet far thing by libra bray

ptolemys gate by jonathan stroud