Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week you compile a list of ten books which coincide with that week’s theme. You can find everything you need to know about joining in here!
This week’s theme is ‘Characters I’d Follow On Social Media (submitted by Tilly @thebiblioshelf)’ which is such a fun topic! Considering I read a lot of fantasy and historical fiction, most of the characters I love have no idea what Twitter or Instagram are, but I’m not taking that into account this week. We can just pretend they’d know exactly what to do if they were introduced to the world of social media…
I do have a Twitter account, and I find Twitter really useful to follow other bloggers as well as authors, publishers and activists I like. I think my favourite social media platform, however, is Instagram, despite the fact that it’s the one I use the least often, simply because, in my experience, it’s the most positive. Twitter can be toxic, whereas Instagram (and particularly the bookstagram world) is primarily full of people leaving lovely comments.
So today I’m specifically talking about the characters I’d follow on Instagram!
Evelyn Hugo from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Wouldn’t Evelyn’s Instagram be gorgeous? Just shots of her in her beautiful dresses and stills from her movies, interspersed with posts about her LGBT+ activism. I would follow her in a heartbeat.
Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Specifically, I would follow Hermione when she’s Minister of Magic. I’d love to know what her policies for the Wizarding World are, and I imagine she’d always have incredibly intelligent and insightful things to say.
Cardan Greenbriar from The Folk of the Air trilogy by Holly Black
Cardan would have the most fabulous Instagram ever, and I feel like he’d be the pioneer for encouraging other guys to wear makeup.
Evie O’Neill from The Diviners by Libba Bray
Evie’s always off to parties in 1920s New York. Of course I want to see some glamorous photos from those parties on my Instagram feed.
Arabella Jotsis from the Book of the Ancestor trilogy by Mark Lawrence
Bisexual mess Nona constantly tells the reader how beautiful Arabella is throughout this trilogy, and she’s also a complete badass. I can totally imagine her Instagram account being full of gorgeous photographs, dorky photos of her and Nona and their friends, and tips like ‘how to get blood out of your hair after an assassination assignment’. I’d follow her.
Lord Akeldama from the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger
If Cardan is fabulous, Lord Akeldama is the one character who could give him a run for his money. I’m pretty sure fabulous is this man’s middle name, and if I was going to follow any vampire on Instagram it’d be him. He’d be one of those Instagrammers who regularly shows off his ‘outfit of the day’ and each one would be more extra than the last.
Isabella, Lady Trent from The Memoirs of Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
If I ever had the opportunity to follow a dragon naturalist on any form of social media, then you can guarantee I would. Isabella would be a spokesperson for women in STEM, and I imagine she’d share some fascinating photographs from her various adventures.
Nina Zenik from Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse
Nina’s entire Instagram page would be full of waffles, necromancy and feminism. Why wouldn’t I follow her?
Molly Peskin-Suso from The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
I had to have someone from a YA contemporary on this list, and Molly’s my fave. I feel like she’d run a brilliant account focused on body positivity, and I imagine there’d be plenty of adorable photos of her and Reid, too.
Maia Drazhar from The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
It’s my baby from my favourite novel, of course Maia was going to make this list. In all honesty I think he’d be kind of terrible at social media – I imagine he’d always forget to update it – but with his trusty secretary Csevet on hand to help, I’m sure, like Hermione, he’d find a new way to share his policies. I also imagine that his Instagram stories would be full of clips of Csethiro fencing and a lot of heart eyes emojis.
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Agreed! Lord Akeldama could totally give Cardan a run for his money!
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He’s the only one who could!
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I can’t believe I forgot to include Evelyn Hugo or anyone from the HP series on my own list. They would be amazing to follow!
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Evelyn would have such a cool social media presence!
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Isabella seems like a great choice (plus maybe we’d get some good dragon tidbits too)! Evelyn and Hermione would be great also. 🙂
I’ve seen Cardan popping up on lots of lists!
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Cardan is the kind of character who was made for Instagram!
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I would love to follow Nina on Instagram. What an amazing feed she’d have.
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I know, right? So many waffles!
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I’d follow Evelyn Hugo and Nina Zenik in a heartbeat for sure!
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We stan bisexual queens.
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A dragon naturalist might be fun to follow! There’s my Erudite poking through. Clothes, makeup… nah… dragons and nature! Dragon science!
I read a lot of fantasy too and I have two characters with Twitter accounts. They think it’s magic, and they really can’t understand our world at all.
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I’ll never say no to dragon science!
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Evelyn Hugo would be such a great person to follow.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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I’m genuinely quite sad she’s not real!
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Ooh, Cardan really would have a great Instagram! Evia, Isabella, Nina, and Arabella are all also perfect suggestions–I’d totally follow all of them as well!
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Cardan would have the most extra Instagram account out there!
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Awesome list! I’m not on Instagram at all, but if I were, I’d have to go with so many of your choices! I love Evelyn, Cardan, Evie, Lord Akeldama… and Hermione, of course!
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Thanks Lisa!
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Your choices are so cool! I’d follow the first half too. And your addition of fanart to this post is such a nice idea.
My TTT, if you’re interested: https://thewordyhabitat.wordpress.com/2020/02/25/the-last-ten-books-that-gave-me-a-book-hangover/
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Thanks! 🙂
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Cardan and Hermione are really popular choices for today’s prompt! I would definitely follow them both. I think Nina’s socials would be AMAZING and would leave me drooling every single time (can’t believe I forgot to add her to my list) and Evelyn Hugo’s socials would be so classy. I love it! Great list, Jess 🙂
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Yesss! Nina’s Instagram would be 90% waffles and I am here for that.
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Ah I love this list! Evelyn Hugo! Yes! Nina Yasss!
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Haha thanks!
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Hermione is the only character I’m familiar with on this list, but I absolutely agree! She would have such a fun and thought-provoking social media presence.
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I feel like following Hermione on social media would help me get my shit together!
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It’s so cool that we both picked Hermione! Thanks for stopping by my post a little while ago.
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She seems to have been a very popular choice for this topic! 🙂
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Evie! I can’t believe I didn’t think of her or any of the other amazing characters from those books.
My TTT
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There are just too many characters to choose from!
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Great list! I’m surprised I didn’t think of Evelyn Hugo. She’d really be amazing to follow.
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Her Instagram would be so stylish!
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These are such beautiful pieces of art! And of character I didn’t actually know about !
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There’s so much lovely fanart out there!
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Evie and Evelyn are great choices!! Both glamorous, interesting, and very opinionated.
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Thanks! I feel like the two of them would probably get along, actually…
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I would also follow Carden, Evie and Nina!
(www.evelynreads.com)
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That would be a very fun Instagram feed!
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