#catalina x alessandro

[accidental-rambler]

read in 2022 📖 Ruby Fever by Ilona Andrews

“Every time I wake up next to you, I feel like the luckiest man ever born. I can’t believe you chose me. You have all of me forever. In this whole world, there is no one like you.”

[bleedinknight]

SPOILERS!!!

Starting RUBY FEVER.

[aster-ria]

2020 Books: Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews

"It’s a hunting revolver.” I slumped back. “It’s for big game hunting.”

“Texas,” Alessandro said, loading a state’s worth of meaning into a single word."

[wordsmith-storyweaver]

Me after finishing Emerald Blaze:

[bookdevouringhorde]

[housebaylor]

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✦ — Diamon Fire (Hidden Legacy 3.5) — ✦

“Runa Etterson of House Etterson, Magus Venenata.” She stuck her hand out at me. Venenata was Latin for poison. Runa was a poison mage and she was smiling at me and holding her hand out. She could probably poison me by just breathing in my direction.

“Catalina Baylor. Of House Baylor.” I shook her hand. She grinned at me.

“Aha, took you a second. Don’t worry, I only poison random strangers on Tuesdays.”

 “Today is Tuesday,” Leon said. 

“Oops. Well, that’s okay. You told me your name, so we’re not strangers. You should be safe.” She turned to Leon. “But I don’t know who you are. No promises.”  

[bookofmirth]

Lele! I just wanna ask if you have book recommendations that can get me out of reading slump? Like books that are fast paced but easy to read. Thanks luv!

Hello!

When I get into a slump, I usually reach for something completely different. I read a lot of different genres because I will get bored reading the same kind of story over and over.

One option is to try something short, like a graphic novel or manga! Maybe you just need the satisfaction of completing something, and a volume of those can be read really quickly. A short story collection could work too! Anything so you can tell yourself "hey I finished X number of books this week" so you can get out of the slump mindset.

For something fast-paced, I'd recommend:

Uprooted, by Naomi Novik

Anything by Ilona Andrews, but right now Hidden Legacies is what I'm into, especially Catalina and Alessandro's books *finger guns*

The Winternight trilogy by Katherine Arden

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

Taylor Jenkins Reid books are always compulsively readable

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

I hope this helps! Don't force yourself to read something you aren't into. It's supposed to be fun!

[aethucyn]

All the Comics 2019

Series I read as they came out:

Archie Assassin Nation Batman Universe Black Panther By Night Catwoman Die Exorsisters Ghosted in L.A. Ghostspider Giant Days Gwenpool Strikes Back Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy Invisible Kingdom Laguardia Last Stop on the Red Line Lazarus: Risen Lois Lane The Magnificent Ms. Marvel Man-Eaters Monstress Ms. Marvel Once & Future King Paper Girls Pretty Deadly: The Rat Redlands Sabrina the Teenage Witch Sleepless Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider Spider-man and Venom: Double Trouble Steeple Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl The Unstoppable Wasp West Coast Avengers The White Trees The Wicked + the Divine

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

The Life of Captain Marvel Margaret Stohl Carlos Pacheco Batgirl Vol. 4: Strange Loop Hope Larson Sami Basri Jessica Jones: Blind Spot Kelly Thompson Mattia De Iulis Doom Patrol Vol 2: Nada Gerard Way Nick Derington Kim Reaper: Grim Beginnings Sarah Graley Batman Vol. 8: Cold Days Tom King Lee Weeks Hilda and the Troll Luke Pearson Batwoman Vol. 3: Fall of the House of Kane Marguerite Bennett Fernando Blanco X-23: Family Album Mariko Tamaki Juann Cabal Andre the Giant: Life and Legend Box Brown How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less Sarah Glidden Get Your War On David Rees March Book One John Lewis & Andrew Aydin Nate Powell Barbarous Vol 1 Ananth Hirsh Yuko Ota Barbarous Vol 2 Ananth Hirsh Yuko Ota March Book Two John Lewis & Andrew Aydin Nate Powell March Book Three John Lewis & Andrew Aydin Nate Powell The Real Folk Blues: A Cowboy Bebop Fanbook Anthology ed. Zainab Akhtar Batman Detective Comics Vol 2 The Victim Syndicate James Tynion IV Alvaro Martinez Off Season James Sturm Kiss Number 8 Colleen AF Venable Ellen T. Crenshaw Cleopatra in Space: Fallen Empires Mike Maihack Batman Detective Comics Vol 3: League of Shadows James Tynion IV Marcio Takara The Hero Business Season Two Bill Walko When I Arrived at the Castle Emily Carroll The Weather Man Jody LeHeup Nathan Fox The Girl Who Married a Skull & Other African Stories ed. C. Spike Trotman ed. Kate Ashwin ed. Kel McDonald ed. Taneka Stotts F*ck Off Squad Nicole Goux Dave Baker The Breakaways Cathy G. Johnson Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me Mariko Tamaki Rosemary Valero-O'Connell Batman Vol. 9 The Tyrant Wing Tom King Tom Taylor Mech Cadet Yu Volume Two Grek Pak Takeshi Miyazawa Sincerely, Harriet Sarah W. Searle The Legend of Korra: Ruins of the Empire Part One Michael Dante DiMartino Michelle Wong Avatar The Last Airbender: Imbalance Book Two Faith Erin Hicks Peter Wartman Snotgirl: vol 2: California Screaming Bryan Lee O'Malley Leslie Hung Skyward: Vol 1 Joe Henderson Lee Garbett Shuri: Vol 1: The Search for Black Panther Nnedi Okorafor Leonardo Romero Crowded: Vol 1: Soft Apocalypse Chrisopher Sebela Ro Stein Ted Brandt I Hate Fairyland: Vol 1: Madly Ever After Skottie Young I Hate Fairyland: Vol 2: Fluff My Life Skottie Young I Hate Fairyland: Vol 3: Good Girl Skottie Young I Hate Fairyland: Vol 4:  Sadly Never After Skottie Young California Dreamin' Penelope Bagieu Runaways: Best Friends Forever Rainbow Rowell Kris Anka Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles Mark Russell Mike Feehan My Brother's Husband Gengorah Tagame Rice Boy Evan Dahm FTL Y'all ed. C. Spike Trotman ed. Amanda Lafrenais Gothic Tales of Haunted Love ed. Hope Nicholson ed. S.M.Beiko The Immortal Hulk: Or is he both? Al Ewing Joe Bennett X-23: X-Assassin Mariko Tamaki Diego Olortegui Ant-Man and the Wasp: Lost and Found Mark Waid Javier Garron Power Man and Iron Fist: The Boys Are Back in Town David Walker Sanford Greene Iceman: Thawing Out Sina Grace Alessandro Vitti Iceman: Absolute Zero Sina Grace Robert Gill Song of Aglaia Anne Simon Batman Detective Comics: Vol 4 Deus Ex Machina James Tynion IV Alvaro Martinez Harley Quinn: Broken Glass Mariko Tamaki Steve Pugh The Immortal Hulk: The Green Door Al Ewing Joe Bennett Power Man and Iron Fist: Civil War David F. Walker Flaviano Cosplayers Dash Shaw Bad Machinery: The Case of the Modern Men John Allison Is This How You See Me? Jaime Hernandez a city inside Tillie Walden The Immotal Hulk: Hulk in Hell Al Ewing Joe Bennett Slowly but Shirley Catalina Rufin Stage Dreams Melanie Gillman Homunculus Joe Sparrow Verse Book One Sam Beck Laid Waste Julia Gfrorer Gorgeous Cathy G. Johnson Cosmoknights Hannah Templer The Hard Tomorrow Eleanor Davis Pumpkin Heads Rainbow Rowell Faith Erin Hicks Funky Town Mathilde Van Gheluwe Pleading with Stars Kurt Ankeny Avatar The Last Airbender: Imbalance Book Three Faith Erin Hicks Peter Wartman The Love Bunglers Jaime Hernandez Spider-man Life Story Chip Zdarsky Mark Bagley Are You Listening? Tillie Walden November Matt Fraction Elsa Charretier Rusty Brown Chris Ware Dangerously Chloe Volume 3 David Lumsdon Jason Waltrip The Astonishing Ant-Man: Small-Time Criminal Nick Spencer Ramon Rosanas Doctor Aphra: Aphra Kieron Gillen Kev Walker Moonstruck Grace Ellis Shae Beagle

Minis

Maids no. 1 Katie Skelly Frontier #18 Tiffany Ford Two of Us Jessi Zabarsky Visiting Alivia Horsley Sobek James Stokoe Resort on Caelum Wren McDonald Boogsy Michelle Kwan Frontier #19 Hannah Waldron Maids no. 2 Katie Skelly Frontier #20 Anatola Howard Minotaar Lissa Treiman Pass the Baton Hana Chatani Cry Wolf Girl Ariel Ries At the Edge of the Stream at Dusk Jen Lee Cavity Michelle Theodore Hsthete Melanie Gillman David, I Love You Eileen Marie The Cutest Curse Laura Terry Churn Amelia Onorato An Eye for an Eye Kimberly Wang Women on Paper: 3 Stories Anna Christine Liminal State Maria Photinakis Melusine, The Collector and the Gift of the Pearls Edie Voges Infinite Wheat Paste Issue 3 Pidge Anew Dillon Gilbertson Anastasia Longoria Big Wally James McGarry Sam Bennett Frontier #21 Derek Yu Frontier #22 Tunde Adebimpe

Graphic novel is a stupid term that often encompasses things that are not novels, but I used it as a blanket term for anything comics I read that were bound rather than stapled. Minis are shorter works, stapled, and generally self-published by the artist, or done by a small press like Shortbox or Youth in Decline. I was totally lazy about crediting creators on series because my actual list for that is a grid, keeping track of each issue. Similarly, when listing creators on trades, I tended to only list writer and artist which is enough for some books, but sometimes there are many more, inkers, and colorists and letterers, and maybe I’ll do better next year.

Support your local library, your local comic shop (especially Hub Comics if you’re in the Boston area), and indie comic shows like MICE. 

[karolinarodrigueswrites]

I love writing aus where Leandro's family is still around (this is for the poly ship of Leandro X Lottie X Alessandro X Theo, just casual fun stuff tho; Catalina is Leandro's youngest daughter)

[mightyjemma]

dear yuletide writer

i can’t believe it’s that time of the year again. i’m so glad we matched up and whatever you have to offer, i’m 100% here for it, not matter which fandom you end up choosing ♥

I like: I love romcom tropes (there is only one bed ergo bed sharing, fake dating, fake married, accidental baby acquisition as well as accidental marriage or marriage of convenience and so on). I also like making out and enemies-to-lovers. Angst and longing and pining are great, if followed by a happy end. 

I do like smut, but fade-to-black is more than fine.

I don’t like: rape, non/con, incest, infidelity, de-aging, body-switching, dubious consent. I’d also rather ignore that 2020 is still happening and everything to do with Covid-19. 

The Mirror Visitor Series - Ophelie (Ophelia) x Thorn

The relationship between Ophelie and Thorn is so fascinating to me and I want more of it. I have read the whole series, because Book 4 became available in my mother tongue a few months back, so I cannot be spoiled, but I don’t expect you to have read it. (If by chance you have read it too, go for incorporating it.)

I’d love an introspection into their relationship after it’s all over. How they deal with the future together, how they make a life together, after they saved the world.  They both have been through so much and they both deserve a happy ending. 

I’d be open for Modern Day AUs as well. Keeping the arranged marriage aspect, they are from two different kingdoms, chosen to be married, to boost future King Thorn’s approval rating. I could also see a University AU with Ophelie being a librarian and Thorn as a prickly professor, who are constantly running into each other. 

Heirs of Chicagoland - Elisa Sullivan x Connor Keene

I loved their relationship in Wicked Hour. They are only at the start of it, but it’s already shaping to be fantastic.  Connor going “Do you think I wouldn’t go to war for you?” is very hot and I’m here for it. 

I’d love anything regarding their status, Connor being the next Apex of the Pack, resulting in Elisa being his queen, by definition. The implications their differences have would be interesting to read. Elisa will probably not age, also there’s the topic of what their children will be like (if they have any).

Or maybe the opposite happens and the Pack simply won’t accept their relationship and Connor’s forced to give up his spot as Apex for Elisa, resulting in a lot of angst they have to overcome together. 

I’d also be game for a fun evening dinner with them and their parents.

Hidden Legacy - Nevada Baylor, Catalina Baylor, Arabella Baylor, Augustine Montgomery

I love the Hidden Legacy Series with all my heart. The world building is so beautiful and literally every character so captivating. 

I love the relationship between the sisters and would love to see their different strengths and weaknesses play out, maybe in a case fic they all three work together. Or maybe they want to find out more about their genetic heritage. As I said the series mythology is fascinating to me, and I’d love to see the science side of it expanded.

I’d also enjoy to read a story about any of the sister’s individually: Nevada adjusting to motherhood, Catalina and how she deals with the cut-throat life of being Head of House Baylor, anything you have in store for Arabella, maybe meeting Misha Marcotte, or how she deals with her powers.

I also requested Augustine. His tragic backstory is intriguing (and I’d love to see a story about it) and I enjoy reading about his moral ambiguity. On the one hand he is a family friend and on the other they don’t trust him in any farther than they can throw him. I’d definitely enjoy a glimpse into the various relationship he has with the Baylor family. 

If none of this is any of your cup of tea, I’d also enjoy any story focused on Connor x Nevada or Catalina x Alessandro. I love all the canon ships and for Arabella I’m open to what seem to be the most prominent ones I’ve seen, with either Stephen Jiang or (in a future setting given the age gap) Augustine, or no relationship for at all. 

Again, whatever story you end up writing, I’m more than sure I’ll enjoy. Just have fun ♥

[bentchbites]

💜💙💜 IT'S SAPPHIRE FLAMES DAY 💜💙💜⁣⁣ •⁣⁣ I immediately read this as soon as my eARC approval notification came in my inbox and breezed through it in record time (I couldn't put it down!) I LOVE IT SO MUCH! *I'm actually rereading it again right now. heehee⁣⁣ •⁣⁣ "Standing like this, with him holding me was the safest I had ever felt in the last three years."⁣⁣ •⁣⁣ First, I loved the slow burn! It is reminiscent of Nevada x Connor's slow beginnings, but I felt like this moved slower bec Catalina was holding back more (and for a good reason: her powers and their brief history in the previous trilogy!). Then again, I loved BFM bec of the intensity in the protagonists' chemistry, and this felt even MORE intense! What with all the mystery behind Alessandro's skills and motives, and well, they're an established House now, and the Baylors are operating in a fresher and more challenging situation.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Second, Catalina's such a lovable heroine! She's afraid and reluctant when initially facing problems popping up left and right, but she powers through and uses intelligence to sort them out of danger. She's gentler than Nevada in some ways, but she wields it into a strength that is entirely her own. I loved how she turns her genuine care for the well-being of others into a clear message about what their House is all about with her at the helm. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Lastly, this book opened a lot of doors for an interesting storyline inside the complex of an already established world. A teeny-tiny part of me was scared (like a super teeny-tiny smidge) that I might not like this new storyarc bec Nevada's was a tough act to follow, but I shouldn't have doubted Ilona Andrews even a smidge. This is so worth the hype and excitement. I'm also so excited for the next book now that I don't know what to do with my life until it comes. LOL⁣⁣ •⁣⁣ " "You're right, you know." He raised my hand to his lips and kissed my fingers. "I am besotted." "⁣⁣ • *I received a free eARC from the publisher thru Edelweiss for an honest review. .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookworm #instabooks #bookish #alwaysreading ⁣ #UrbanFantasy⁣ #IlonaAndrews #HiddenLegacy #SapphireFlames #CatalinaBaylor https://www.instagram.com/p/B1q3VX3AThj/?igshid=14fzxkph8rtzz

[accidental-rambler]

read in 2022 📖 Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews

“Look at me. Look me in the eyes. Your witchery doesn’t work on me. I’m already obsessed with you.”

[estudiodedecoracion]

Arne Jacobsen

Arne Jacobsen. Arquitecto y diseñador.

Arne Jacobsen, en realidad Arne Emil Jacobsen (1902 – 1971, Copenhague, Dinamarca) fue arquitecto y diseñador que se le recuerda sobre todo por su contribución al funcionalismo en arquitectura, y por el éxito mundial que disfrutó en diseño con sus sillas.

Después de un período como aprendiz de albañil, Jacobsen estudió entre 1924 y 1927 en la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Real Academia Danesa de Bellas Artes.

En 1930, un año después de ganar el premio “Casa del Futuro“, Arne Jacobsen creó su propia oficina.

Con sus primeras obras, como la funcionalista Casa Rothenborg que diseñó en cada detalle -una característica de muchas de sus obras posteriores-  empezó a proclamarse como el principal defensor nacional del estilo moderno internacional, “el sueño de un estilo de vida moderno”. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial huyó a Suecia y cuando terminó, en 1945, regresó a su país y reanudó su carrera como arquitecto, aprovechando que el país necesitaba urgentemente tanto viviendas como nuevos edificios públicos, preferiblemente sobrios y que pudieran construirse rápidamente.

A partir de 1955 se embarcó en una fase más experimental, y se mudó a una de las casas de Søholm, donde vivió allí hasta su muerte. Con la realización del hotel SAS Royal, construido entre 1956 y 1960, Jacobsen tuvo la oportunidad de hacer lo que se ha calificado como “el primer hotel de diseño del mundo” donde además diseñó absolutamente todo.

Este proyecto fue un revulsivo para su trabajo y le generó encargos en el extranjero como  el Colegio de Santa Catalina, en Oxford.

Pero sobre todo a Arne Jacobsen se le recuerda principalmente por sus diseños de muebles a pesar de que él nunca utilizó la palabra “diseñador”.

Arne Jacobsen se consideraba sobre todo arquitecto, y aunque es verdad que la mayor parte de sus diseños más conocidos -la silla huevo; la silla cisne….- fueron creados para los proyectos arquitectónicos (casi siempre en colaboración desde 1934 con Fritz Hansen para los muebles, y en lámparas y luminarias con Louis Poulsen), Jacobsen es mundialmente conocido por su aportación imperecedera al mundo del diseño.

Fritz Hansen (pág. web).

Louis Poulsen (pág. web).

Arne Jacobsen y su icónica lámpara “AJ table” (1957) para Louis Poulsen.

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George Nelson

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Marc Newson

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[housebaylor]

Burn for Me - Ilona Andrews

[bleedinknight]

Oooh.. Alessandro darling, u da man..

That was simply fabulous..

SPOILERS!!!

Starting RUBY FEVER.

[accidental-rambler]

read in 2022 📖 Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews

“Don’t you get it? Right here, right now, you are everything I ever wanted. I don’t care about money, connections, or reputation. We can earn all these things, together. I just want you. You’re so much more than I hoped for. If you come home with me, I’ll be the luckiest person alive.”