#alexis nedd

[beautifulpaxielreads]

JOMP Book Photography Challenge, September 2022.

Day 2: Currently Reading

L-R:

Beauty in thorns by Kate Forsyth*

Don't hate the player by Alexis Nedd

The ivory key by Akshaya Raman

See you yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon

*Aussie author

#beautifulpaxiel reads #book photography #mine #jompbpc #justonemorepage #kate forsyth #alexis nedd #akshaya raman #rachel lynn solomon

[darknightwolves]

Episode 148: Book Review 6 | Creative Writing Club

https://youtu.be/WUGSY0hX7oQ https://open.spotify.com/show/0BX9Z6IfApWiXjzzNPJWK7 On this week’s episode, I decided to do a long-awaited book review since I haven’t done one in nearly 2 years. The books I chose to review are: ‘A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder’ trilogy by Holly Jackson (Audio) ‘Top Ten’ by Katie Cotugno (Book) ‘Don’t Hate The Player’ By Alexis Nedd (Book) ‘The House Across The…

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[reomikagekin]

Hi sunny! Can I request a scenario where the reader has isomia and has trouble sleeping so the boys have to help them sleep

Requesting for Chigiri Hyoma, Michael Kaiser, Alexis Ness and the itoshi brothers

You don't have to write every character if you don't want to thank you ^^

thank you for the request! Again if this is a bit ooc, im sorry- i didn't know how to write the itoshi siblings and kaiser that well in this so i only wrote for chigiri and ness, and this is a bit short, i hope thats okay!

𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑖 𝐻𝑦𝑜𝑚𝑎

You can't sleep. No matter how hard you try, you..just can't. And Chigiri notices it.

He see's those tired eyes of yours, the way your either reading a book, or just staring up at the ceiling while he lies beside you in bed at night. And he hates it.

He Hates how he can sleep peacefully, yet you can't. So he decide's to help you. He even took an extra day off from soccer practice for you!

"Hyo..? What are you doing..?" "Stroking your hair, what else?" he says, in..a bit of a sassy tone, but that's just how he was.

And it honestly helped you relax, it felt good, his fingers stroking your hair, giving your scalp a massage..and soon, you felt sleepy, for the first time in Months!

"Hey hyo..?" "hm?" "Im feeling kinda sleepy.." "then sleep."

And you did, you felt the your eyes get heavy, and you 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 fell asleep. And to say the least, Chigiri was happy. You were getting the rest you desereved.

"𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴."

𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠

Ness wouldn't stop worrying about you at all. He saw those terrible eye bags under your pretty eyes.

He tried making you tea, he really tried everything to make you sleep, to give you the rest you oh so dearly wanted, yet nothing worked.

You were grateful for his efforts, yet you even tried convincing him to stop, because you knew nothing would work- or so you thought.

On this particullar day, you broke down in tears. You wanted to sleep, and it frustrated you because you couldn't. You cried for hours. Nedd stayed by your side the whole time.

He stroked your back, gave you some pecks.

And then you suddenly felt it.

The exhaustion.

"Ness.." "Hm? Yes, Mein liebling?"

"i feel tired.." "is that so..? Then sleep, get the rest you deserve."

And that is what you did.

you slept. And damn it felt good to sleep.

"𝘎𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘵, 𝘮𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘻."

Translations: Mein Liebling: My darling

Gute nacht, Mein Schatz: Good night, My darling.

Im from germany so hehehe

#blue lock x reader #bllk x reader #alexis ness x reader #chigiri hyoma x reader

[detectiveliz]

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day I thought it would be a good idea to post these Gotham cards made from a (now rotted) buzzfeed article. I was able to get them off Pinterest thank god lol.

The article was originally published on February 11, 2015 by Alexis Nedd so all credit goes to them.

Since there are fourteen cards this will be a two parter :)

Jim:

Harvey:

Barbara:

#gotham #valentines day #cards #do I tag the characters ? #gotham fox #jim gordon #harvey bullock #barbara kean #some of these cards are insane lmao #also yes im American so im celebrating vday later than you guys 😔

[jessicafurseth]

Reading List, Midsummer edition.

"The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark." - Virginia Woolf

*

There's No Such Thing as Getting Ahead [Rainesford Stauffer, Time]

The sharp scrutiny of midsummer [Katherine May]

On travelling through Tokyo with a 20 year old guidebook [Tom Downey, The New York Times]

Strap in for Rachel Syme's New Yorker profile of Sarah Jessica Parker, the self-proclaimed bitter-ender.

"Most of all, Sex and the City made me want to fuck my way to enlightenment—and I imagine I’m not alone here. The series made casual, spontaneous, often absurd sex with a rotating cast of relative strangers seem glamorous and empowering. I’d watch the show and think: 'Can I really consider myself a modern woman if I haven’t banged a sociopathic investment banker in the bathroom of the hottest restaurant in the Meatpacking District? 'I’d say not. Revisiting the series 25 years on, I couldn’t help but wonder…did Sex and the City' change the way we have sex?" Sex and the City is 25 [Karley Sciortino, Vogue]

"After we break up, I go alone for a weekend to somewhere with autumn sun and a straight ladder from the rocks into the ocean. Because I am without him, I don’t have to arrange my body at flattering angles or consider which foods not to order at dinner if I hope to have sex. There is nothing to try my best for any more." [Emma Forrest, The Guardian]

Bad waitress [Becca Schuh, Dirt]

Meet the influencers going civilian [Sara Ashley O'Brien, Wall Street Journal]

A survey of aspirational vegans found that patience (easing into it rather than going cold turkey) and flexibility (continuing to eat a small amount of animal products when it makes sense) were key to making less-meat diets work. [Ali Francis, Bon Appetit]

"There is resistance to the idea that a pandemic will produce a similar response to other historical disasters, Easthope explains, “but we know it has the same effect. We were in a heightened state of cortisol and adrenaline long-term, checking the news to see what we could do, checking how many in our community had died. Already, we are seeing typical after-effects: increase of respiratory issues, fatigue, exhaustion, depression, rashes, gastric effects.” These are all delayed responses to disaster, she says. Her estimate is that populations begin to recover from major disasters around the 30-year point." ...  But: “There is an absence of consensus about what the experience was and what it meant. That, in itself, is almost a reason to argue to just forget about it. There’s certainly a lot of anger and suspicion, and that has really divided people." "My anecdotal research suggests that it’s no longer fun or sexy to mention the pandemic in social situations." [Viv Groskop, The Guardian]

"As far as my playthrough Link is concerned, he’s a foraging chef whom people keep mistaking for some legendary hero. Instead of accepting their challenge to save Hyrule, I humored their delusion that Link has anything to do with their problems in exchange for an upgraded Sheikah Slate and the ability to geolocate beehives." In praise of playing 'The Legend of Zelda' wrong [Alexis Nedd, Mashable]

Parker Posey! [Choire Sicha, Vulture]

Jaya Saxena learns to be a Benihana chef [Eater]

The most important thing I learned from Richard Simmons is you can be ridiculous and significant, silly and a spiritual guide. In search of aerobics guru Richard Simmons [Emma Forrest, The Guardian]

California man finds $10,000 worth of pennies, and now needs to work out what to do with them [Lauren McCarthy, The New York Times]

Never drink red wine with fish, and other food rules you can ignore [Felicity Cloake, The Guardian]

Stitches, the ComiCon for knitting, disappears mysteriously after 30 years [Jonathan Randles, Bloomberg]

Wilder, the podcast reckoning with the legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Glynnis MacNichol and Emily Marinoff.

#reading list

[mirabilefuturum]

copying a buzzfeed article from waybackmachine because the original won't support the pics anymore

“Gotham’s” Anthony Carrigan Talks Acting, Alopecia, And Learning To Love His Look

The alopecian actor stopped by BuzzFeed to share his thoughts on body positivity.

Alexis Nedd, Daniel Kibblesmith, David Bertozzi | (link to article)

You’d recognize Anthony Carrigan if you saw him on TV, right? Not necessarily. The up-and-coming actor has been popping up in primetime network TV dramas for several years now, but only recently while feeling (and looking) like himself. We spoke to the actor, currently starring as Victor Zsasz on Gotham, about his career, his alopecia areata — a condition that causes the loss of his hair, eyebrows, and even eyelashes — and what body image means to him, personally and professionally.

How long have you had alopecia?

AC: I’ve had alopecia since I was 3, so quite a few years. I grew up with it and it was always very manageable. I only had spots that were [relatively small] so I always covered it up. I was always very embarrassed about it. Even when I was in my 20s, very few of my friends even knew that I had alopecia. I kept it under wraps. I didn’t want to let anyone know and I didn’t want it to affect my career or the possibility of me getting hired for a job. So I covered up. I got out of school and got some good jobs, but at that point it started getting worse.

There was one point where I was doing a job and we had millions of viewers every week, it was a TV job, and I lost half my scalp and both eyebrows and the majority of my eyelashes. I was covering up in order to look like this character. It was pretty terrifying to have to keep that secret and pretend like I looked this way, that I looked normal when I just didn’t. I was doing red carpet events and putting on my eyebrows before going out there and hoping that no one would notice. It’s a really weird thing to be seen while trying not to be seen. It’s a very strange thing.

So is that the point when you knew your hair was all going to go?

AC: Yeah, I knew that was a possibility but I was terrified of what that was going to look like. I always avoided the way that I look naturally. Also at that period of my life I was being encouraged to cover up as well by certain friends, certain family, certain business people. They thought I should cover it up but it didn’t feel right, so eventually – and it took a long time – I got to the point where I didn’t care anymore. I wanted to just feel OK with the way that I looked so I shaved my head and I stopped wearing makeup.

Immediately I started booking work, but the work was just a byproduct. The most important thing was that I just felt so good to not have to hide anymore, to own the way that I am and feel really good about it, feel really positive about the way that I look. That took a lot of work. It wasn’t an overnight thing. It was very incremental. It took a lot of positivity and a lot of compassion and reinforcement.

I eventually got to this place where I was proud of the way that I look. I thought that it was super cool and unique and strange and different. As soon as I embraced that and started carrying myself in that way, all of a sudden that’s how everyone began to see me. So that was great!

What are some of the strangest questions or assumptions you get about looking the way you are?

AC: To clear the air once and for all: I don’t have cancer. I’m not going through chemotherapy. I have alopecia. Alopecia areata, to be exact about it. I love the way that I look, I’m not worried about it. And, there was a question someone asked me earlier; it doesn’t really help me swim better.

Do people assume you’re an actor? If they don’t recognize you from roles, do they ever comment on your appearance and assume that is has something to do with your profession?

AC: Not really, no. It’s funny, I feel like, strangely, fewer people notice my alopecia than they did me wearing makeup. In fact it comes as a surprise to a lot of people! They’ll be talking to me and then they’ll say “oh my god, you don’t have eyebrows or eyelashes, do you?” and it’s funny because people would immediately say “oh wow, you’re wearing makeup,” which is really strange.

In terms of your career, some of your previous roles have been a very grumpy genius artist [as Tyler Davies in The Forgotten], a stoner genius game developer [as Cory Smith in Parenthood] and a mathematical genius bookie [as Marino Puzzi in Over/Under]. Your two most recent roles are supervillains. What are some of the roles that you want to do, or have always wanted to play?

AC: My path as an actor hasn’t really changed. I want to continue to keep on playing different characters who are are all genius, I can’t escape that [laughs]. But no, I want to play characters that kind of defy the norm, I think. I think that’s something I can bring to each role, whether it’s a romantic lead or something more independent or something in comedy. It would also be fun to play a hero. A superhero, for sure.

What kind of auditions come up for you?

AC: Definitely people want to pin me as the murderous psychopath. Which is fun, which is fine. It’s fun. But also just weird, quirky characters. Definitely strange people.

What does body positivity mean to you?

AC: I think there’s always the opportunity to accept yourself exactly where you are. I think a lot of people feel that they will accept themselves as soon as they go to the gym, as soon as they clear up their skin, as soon as they address a certain issue, then they’ll feel OK about themselves. I think they can always accept themselves exactly the way they are and that’s a practice. In each moment you have a choice where you can build yourself up or tear yourself down, and choosing to build yourself up is always within your power.

As a man and as an actor, are there still some pressures you feel regarding how you should look body-wise?

AC: I think my alopecia has forced me to accept myself in such a radical way that it kind of burned through everything else. I think that our culture is so obsessed with body image and with being this completely unrealistic ideal, and that ideal looks different to every single person. It’s in their head as what they should be or should look like, this ideal. Ultimately, isn’t it better to just feel good about yourself, than to try to look good first and feel better that way?

If you could go back to when you were shooting The Forgotten and talk to the Anthony Carrigan who is losing his hair and tell him one thing, what would you say to him?

AC: My initial impulse is to say that I would just listen to him and see what he has to say. But I think what I would say is “I know you’re really scared right now and I’ve come back from the future to tell you that it’s all going to be OK. The only thing you have to do right now in this moment is just be good to yourself.”

What words do you have for other people with alopecia?

AC: I’ve talked a lot about not wearing makeup and not wearing hairpieces, but I fully encourage people, if it makes them feel more like themselves, to do exactly that. Anything that makes you feel more like you, go for it. I don’t want anyone, whether it’s people with alopecia or whatever body image issues they’re struggling with, I don’t want anyone to feel like they have to be ashamed or that they have to cover up something that they’re ashamed of.

#anthony carrigan #alopecia #gotham #victor zsasz #buzzfeed #victor keysmash #own but not really #my boy is so pretty

[antique-symbolism]

Thinking about author Alexis Nedd's interview where she says:

“I gave a lot of the traits I used to think made me “wrong” or “bad” [...] to Jake because writing them into a lovable character felt like correcting the narrative I had grown up writing about myself. [...] By the end, I could look at Jake and think, “if I can’t hate him for feeling this way, I have no business hating myself for having felt that way.’”

Putting parts of yourself in your characters as an act of self love, my beloved!!

#minnie from MR isn't a self insert by any means - she is very different from me in many ways #but I did this exact thing! #I think I'm a little further on in my journey of self-acceptance than this quote implies #I didn't give her traits *I* think are wrong and bad about me but ones that maybe other people might find offputting #or ones that I find hinder me sometimes or cause me problems even if the trait itself isn't inherently bad #but anyway I just love this quote I think about it all the time as I write my WIP #loving myself by loving my character is such a warm feeling

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1, 15, 132, 133!! for the book recs ask :D

Hi :D

1. A book that is close to your heart

Sadie by Courtney Summers. It's the first book I've ever read that has good stuttering representation, on top of being a really compelling and dark thriller. I was already crying a few pages in when the narrator was describing how stuttering feels and it felt like she'd taken the sentences directly from my brain :)

15. A book rec you really enjoyed

The Raven Cycle series - I might even reread it soon, some lines make me want to scream if I think about them for too long (oil spill, anyone? 😌)

132. Who is your favourite person to go to for book recs?

Either my bestie or online friends (<3), it depends what I'm feeling like. My bestie has read seemingly every iconic queer YA series and book that exists, she's the reason I've now read the corvid trinity in the space of 2 ish years (The Raven Cycle, All For The Game, Six of Crows). My online friends have a very wide range of tastes, from @tungumalaast's expertise on horror to @thefebruaryfriday with Gender™ recommendations, I don't have room to mention everyone but in general shout out to the knife gang for always keeping my tbr full <333. Honourable mention goes to Jack Edwards, I can't watch any of his videos without adding at least 1 book to my tbr

133. A book that you randomly came across and fell in love with

Don't Hate The Player by Alexis Nedd - I've no idea where I first heard about it but I do know that it's now one of my favourite YA novels. I love the characters, I love the concept of the gaming tournament, I love the pop culture and meme references. It's a book that I would recommend to historians in 30 years for them to look back on what meme culture in the late 2010s/early 2020s looked like.

Thanks for sending me the ask :)

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[ktquimby]

2022 Reading

My reading habits for 2022 suggest that this was the year life began to creep back toward normal. For that, I am profoundly grateful.

I read a total of 110 books (I’m not likely to finish 111 before midnight December 31). The vast majority were fiction, and of the novels, most were YA, because that’s my sweet spot. Most were published in 2020 or 2021, with some earlier, and a few current. That’s because most of my reading comes from libraries.

Several years ago, I started tagging books I loved as possible Top Ten books. This year, I refined that further, with Top Twenty and Top Five. Today, I compiled the lists, only to discover I had 12 books in the “Top Ten” list. Try as I might, I could not move them elsewhere. All but one “Top Ten” are YA novels; that one is a picture book. The other lists are much, much shorter. 

As I compiled the lists, I noticed was how often the top listings came in groups. One particular library haul in August yielded three Top Tens and one Top Twenty. 

And here <drum roll> they are, in reading order, with links to Bookshop.org:

Top Twenty:

1.     Ryan, Tom and Robin Stevenson. When You Get the Chance. Running Kids Press, 2021. Audiobook. (8/16/2022)

2.     Kulper, Kendall. Murder for the Modern Girl. Holiday House, 2022. (8/27/2022)

3.     Emezi, Akwaeke. Bitter. Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. (10/18/2022)

4.     William, Sean. Impossible Music. Blackstone, 2019. Audiobook. (11/23/2022)

Top Ten:

1.     Williams-Garcia, Rita. A Sitting in St. James. Quill Tree—HarperCollins, 2021. (3/3/2022)

2.     Dugan, Jennifer. Verona Comics. Listening Library, 2020. (6/29/2022)

3.     Lo, Malinda. Last Night at the Telegraph Club. Dutton—Penguin Random, 2021. (7/25/2022)

4.     Nedd, Alexis. Don’t Hate the Player. Bloomsbury, 2021. (8/14/2022)

5.     Sharpe, Tess. The Girls I’ve Been. GP Putnam, 2022. Print. (8/25/2022)

6.     Zentner, Jeff. In the Wild Light. Crown Books for Young Readers—Penguin Random House, 2021. (8/30/2022)

7.     Wilson, Kip. The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin. Versify—HarperCollins, 2022. (8/31/2022)

8.     McBride, Amber. Me (Moth). Feiwel and Sons, 2021. (10/10/2022)

9.     Stoeve, Ray. Arden Grey. Recorded Books, 2022. Audiobook. (10/26/2022)

10.  Gilliland, Raquel Vasquez. How Moon Fuentes Fell in Love with the Universe. Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2021. (11/?/2022)

11.  Price, Tirzah. Pride and Premeditation. 2021; HarperTeen, 2022. (11/26/2022)

12.  Sonderguin, Alfredo. The Capybaras. Greystone Kids, 2021. (Picture book) (11/30/2022)

Top Five:

1.     Albertalli, Becky. Kate in Waiting. Balzer + Bray—HarperCollins, 2021. (12/1/2022)

2.     Reck, Jared. Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love. Alfred A. Knopf—Random House Children’s, 2021. (12/7/2022)

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 By day, Emilia is a field hockey star with a popular boyfriend and a mother obsessed with her academic future. But by night, she?s kicking virtual ass as the only female member of a highly competitive eSports team. Emilia has mastered the art of keeping her two worlds thriving, which hinges on them staying completely separate.When a major eSports tournament comes to her city, Emilia is determined to prove herself to the male-dominated gaming community. But her perfectly balanced life is thrown for a loop when a member of a rival team?Jake?recognizes her . . .From an exciting new talent, this sweet and charming YA romance will win the hearts of gamers and non-gamers alike.

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Writer Spotlight: Alexis Nedd

It's New Release Tuesday! We caught up with Alexis Nedd (@alexisthenedd) to talk about her debut novel, Don’t Hate The Player, which is out today. Alexis is a Brooklyn-based pop culture “fanthropologist” who has only ever loved things in a big, obsessive way. As the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Mashable.com, she covers television, movies, and video games, focusing on sci-fi and fantasy universes like Game of Thrones and the MCU. When she’s not writing for money, Alexis is writing for no money on her socials, where her feeds consist of deep dives on weird history and analyzing pop culture as an artifact of society.

Don’t Hate The Player is a YA romance novel that follows two competitive eSports players as they navigate school, parents, and other IRL stuff, while preparing for their biggest (and only) tournament yet. As real life and online life collide, both find the boundaries between online and IRL slipping into each other.

Can you start by telling us a little bit about Don’t Hate The Player?

In one corner, we have Emilia Romero, a popular, high-achieving Puerto Rican girl who secretly plays Guardians League Online with the elite Team Fury. No one in her real life knows she games, and everything hinges on it staying that way. In the other corner is Jake Hooper, a quiet, detrimentally empathetic nerd who’s had a crush on Emilia for years. He plays GLO with Team Unity and thinks he’s otherwise invisible.

When Guardians League Online announces a huge tournament in their city, Jake is shocked to see Emilia competing. Jake is now the only person who knows her secret, and they have to work together to keep it...all while the tournament brings their teams closer and closer to an ultimate Fury vs. Unity showdown.

Outwardly, Jake is an awkward, suffering bundle of anxiety, quite successfully hiding his integrity and wit. What was enjoyable/difficult about writing a neurodivergent romantic lead?

I started working on DHTP around the same time I learned I had ADHD. Getting that diagnosis as an adult ushered in a really strange and painful period of reevaluating my childhood, knowing that I was neurodivergent and didn’t get the help I needed. I gave a lot of the traits I used to think made me “wrong” or “bad”—the anxiety, the spinning thoughts, the self-deprecating coping mechanisms—to Jake because writing them into a lovable character felt like correcting the narrative I had grown up writing about myself.

It was difficult to excavate all of that because that level of self-evaluation totally sucks and takes forever, but by the end, I could look at Jake and think, “if I can’t hate him for feeling this way, I have no business hating myself for having felt that way.”

DHTP comes alive in its use of online gaming maps and chatrooms. How did you approach getting those virtual places right?

I made my first internet friends when cameras on phones or laptops were still rare, so I got to know a lot of people through chatrooms and forums. People’s personalities, real or constructed, come off so strongly in those rapid-fire conversations. That solved one of the problems I knew I’d have coming into this book—how do I introduce the reader to a group of characters who aren’t going to show up until the end and make them seem like part of the story the whole time? Answer: Spy on their group chat.

It was so fun to play all five roles in those chapters and determine who uses acronyms or memes, who always punctuates, what their in-jokes say about them, and so on. Truly some of my favorite parts of DHTP are in those chats.

How important do you think it is to meaningfully include online culture in YA literature?

After the year we just had, when most social interaction moved from the analog space to the digital, I consider the transformation of “online culture” into just “culture, full stop,” complete. I say this knowing I am a fully discourse-poisoned individual, and other people or writers may have the freedom to think less about that all of the time. A significant chunk of life takes place on screens these days, so if I’m writing about life... I’m going to write about the screens.

One of the big themes of DHTP is that what happens online is real whether you like it or not. So what looks from the outside like a mummy and a snake beating a guy up outside a space church can actually be the beginning of an IRL love story. Just because it’s silly doesn’t mean it’s not important.

What makes a good beginning to a story?

I don’t have any definitive advice on this, but with DHTP and the second novel I’m currently working on, I think my favorite method is putting your main characters in a situation designed to make them act the most themselves. For DHTP, we meet Jake at a party he was invited to out of politeness, so his discomfort and anxiety are front and center. Until he meets Emilia, who is only at the party because it’s in an arcade where she can indulge her gaming obsession without her parents watching. There, now we know some important things about both characters, and from here, it’s a 75k+ word journey to get them to kiss.

What’s the first book you remember loving?

This is the hardest question anyone has ever asked me. Are you sure you wouldn’t like a nice explanation of string theory instead? I’m sure I had others, but one of my formative obsessions was A Series of Unfortunate Events because as a child, I was so often frustrated with adults who didn’t believe a single word I said just because a child was saying it. Those books capture that frustration and, more importantly, do not resolve it, which I think was kinder than telling young people that everything would be OK if we read a lot of books and placed value on facts.

As a writer, how do you practice self-care when juggling work commitments and the creative processes of writing and editing?

I simply do not. After two years of working full-time and writing this book (most of it during a global pandemic), I have mastered none of the skills required to unplug and take care of myself beyond remaining alive and upright. I do not want to project the image of someone who has the self-care matrix figured out.

You don’t have to have it figured out to make something you’re proud of. You can be exhausted and smelly and know you should probably work on that soon and still create. I don’t recommend it, but it’s possible. Ask for help when you can.

What would Emilia or Jake’s blog look like if they were on Tumblr? What kind of content would they (re)blog?

Emilia’s blog would be a secret Guardians League Online stan account. She’d reblog fanart and write incredible deep dives on strategy and lore. No one would know it was her blog, but talkswithknox.tumblr.com would be required reading for people who want to know the deep magic of the game.

Jake is mostly here to read good takes on his dashboard and learn something he didn’t know when he logged in. He has never written an original post, and that’s fine.

Thanks so much for taking the time, Alexis! Don't Hate The Player is on shelves from today (and it's really, really good).

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[alexisthenedd]

Remember when I said I was writing a book?

Book: written. 

I’m so happy to finally show everyone the cover art for my debut YA novel. It’s about love and esports and you can read the first five pages of Chapter 1 on Mashable right now! 

In one corner is Emilia Romero, a Puerto Rican know-it-all whose secret obsession with the game Guardians League Online is a glitch in her otherwise perfect life. In the other, is Jake Hooper, the new boy at school who dreams of esports glory as a competitive GLO player. It’s a romance! It’s a fight-cute! It’s: DON’T HATE THE PLAYER by Alexis Nedd, who is me, and you can buy it in June 2021. 

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[2021ya]

DON’T HATE THE PLAYER

by Alexis Nedd

(Bloomsbury, 6/1/21)

9781547605026

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Perfect for fans of Opposite of Always comes a funny and heartfelt feminist YA debut set in the world of competitive gaming. By day, Emilia is a field hockey star with a popular boyfriend and a mother obsessed with her academic future. But by night, she’s kicking virtual ass as the only female member of a highly competitive eSports team. Emilia has mastered the art of keeping her two worlds thriving, which hinges on them staying completely separate. When a major eSports tournament comes to her city, Emilia is determined to prove herself to the male-dominated gaming community. But her perfectly balanced life is thrown for a loop when a member of a rival team—Jake—recognizes her . . . From an exciting new talent, this sweet and charming YA romance will win the hearts of gamers and non-gamers alike.

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[thirstaidkitpodcast]

THIRST AID KIT | S2E15 | YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN!

*soothing bedtime story voice* Are you siting comfortably? Then we’ll begin.

This week we are ALL about the voice. Specifically, we are talking about the voices that have molded us, and the voices that make us tingle and melt and laugh and FEEL. 

To help us close out our second season with a bang, we turned in particular to four very special voices from four very special people from across the world. Mads Mikkelsen, with his Danish-inflected voicebox, is a treat for your ears and your eyes (you already know how Nichole feels about him). We love the energy he transmits with his voice, whether he’s about to smash James Bond’s knackers in in Casino Royale, or eat people in Hannibal. Rawr!

We went South — Meridian, Mississippi to be exact! — to sample the very specific delights of rapper Big K.R.I.T. who sounds like something Nichole dreamed up in a lab, he’s so perfect-sounding. He’s also the prime example of how voicework is actually work; the voice as instrument, taking on new depths and highs to send a message, you know? Like honey, syrup, and other slow-dripping food items, K.R.I.T.’s voice makes you think about being home, relaxed, comfortable and also [REDACTED]. 👀

Listen to this:

Then we flew to England to alight at the door of one of Bim’s longterm baes, The Walking Dead (now newly free of that carcass!) actor Andrew Lincoln, because, well, LISTEN. You wanna talk about dulcet tones? Step on up! Whether he’s reading Harry Potter for the kids, reciting poetry, or threatening bad men in the apocalypse, his voice reminds Bim of something rich and strong that you can feel in your belly. 😋

We landed back in the velvet embrace of Jeffrey Wright's signature rasp, showcased most recently in Westworld, but most memorably for Bim, as CIA agent Felix Leiter (”a brother from Langley”) in Casino Royale. Also, remember him in that not-so-good remake of Shaft? Jesus, that raaaaaaasp! 💦

IT’S ALL GOOD, EVEN WHEN THEY’RE PLAYNG BAD.

Along the way, we also reflect on some other voices that have touched us (heh) over the years, from Keith David to Jeff Bridges. 

We also have a segment on some iconic voices: goddesses like Kathleen Turner, with a huskiness that belongs only to her (and also Jessica Rabbit—HELLO); Jennifer Tilly’s twinkly but scratchy singular wonder of a voice (remember her in Bride Of Chucky? Think Lina Lamont from Singin’ In The Rain, and queen of a thousand voices, Cree Summer, who, LEST WE FORGET, was the original Penny in Inspector Gadget. Please put some respect on her name!

Finally, there’s Fanfic Wars, obviously, and well, your ears are in for even more of a treat. You can listen to the whole episode RIGHT HERE (more ways to listen listed below).

(MUCH) MORE TO WATCH AND READ, IF YOU LIKE

Let Mads Mikkelsen sell you some beer

Here’s Samuel Anderson making you a cup of coffee

A little video of tribute to the genius and longevity of Cree Summer

Here’s Jeffery Wright saying the line in Casino Royale that makes Bim clench her fists and bite her knuckle

JESSICA RABBIT, BITCH

Here’s Jeff Bridges as (bald! rich! stern!) Obadiah Stane in Iron Man.

Here’s Big K.R.I.T. doing a stellar Tiny Desk concert at NPR earlier this year. Bonus: he can sing! He has the cutest smile! Let’s get married!

Some of Keith David’s Spawn work

Jennifer Tilly on how she hears her voice vs how others seem to

Here’s Andrew Lincoln talking about reading Quidditch Through The Ages for Pottermore

Here’s the trick Nichole mentioned about Kathleen Turner’s voice.

Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal, figuratively licking his chops over how he’s gonna fuck Will up

Jeff Bridges has a mf’ing album to help you sleep and the website to buy it from is called, amazingly http://www.DreamingWithJeff.com

Look at young Andrew Lincoln perform Frank O’Connor in this achingly 90s recording:

We’re on Twitter at @bimadew and @tnwhiskeywoman. The show is at @thirstaidkit. 

We’re gonna be off for a while, but you can still send us your Thirst Sommelier requests at 765-884-4778 aka 7658-THIRST (international listeners: send us a short recorded message via email, please). And you can still send us fanmail and love via the written word (aka your SHORT drabbles!) to: [email protected]. Also, PLEASE, if you can, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. We sure do appreciate it!

Stay subscribed to get new content! We’re on: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Podbean | Overcast | Google Play | iHeartRadio or search ‘Thirst Aid Kit’ wherever you get your podcasts.

HOUSEKEEPING: ISSA WRAP ON SEASON 2! 

We want to send a very warm and heartfelt THANK YOU to our glorious guests this season: Alanna Bennett (for the Tom Hiddleston episode) and Alexis Nedd (for the Gael García Bernal episode) and Brittany Luse (for the More, More, More! episode) and Rahul Kohli (for his own solo It Ain’t A Thing episode. They were great, and we love them. So much. So please follow them and their work!

We also wanna thank our amazing Pod Squad, who are excellent every day and even more so every time we step into the studio. There is no show without them, and our producers, Julia Furlan and (new with season 2 and now invaluable!) TK Dutes are THE SHIT when it comes to rolling with the punches of quick turnarounds, scheduling conflicts, editing, mixing and uploading. They are the real MVPs, and we love them. Also, yeah, we’re all ladies. 🙌🏿

WE’LL BE BACK SOONER THAN YOU CAN SEND AN EGGPLANT EMOJI.

Stay thirsty, thirst-buckets. Your nation is depending on you. 😘💙💜💚❤️

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[marveliz]

This article is pure comedy gold.

Steve Rogers, Vengeful, Furious Virgin.

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