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13/05/2016

Behind the Scenes, Friday 13th Edition

So it was on this very day, sort of, that I released my Ghost Stories zines last year. If you haven’t read them – and you should – they’re full of short stories, advice columns, quirky advertisements and art all pertaining to death, the afterlife and magic. And I hadn’t even heard of Maggie Stiefvater then.… Continue reading

29/04/2016

Book Hangovers & Nine Hamlets

Good news: I’ve worked out how to live with a fucked keyboard. Bad news: I haven’t gotten off my arse to buy a new one. I did get off my arse when I got a text last weekend that my copy of The Raven King was in Waterstones – literally as I walked through the door… Continue reading

April 2016, Books, Tim Minchin, TV, Videos

‘The Raven Cycle’, ‘The Raven King’, ‘To be or not to be?’ featuring Benedict Cumberbatch & Prince Charles – Shakespeare Live! – BBC, book hangovers, fucked keyboards, Indifferent Ignorance, Maggie Stiefvater

21/04/2016

The Queen is Quite Lovely Really, and Free Etsy Delivery (unrelated)

Hay birthday, your majesty. I can’t wa as lyrical as I would like to about the Queen turning 90, for reasons obvious when you notice that ‘hay’ was meant to be the word that comes before ‘birthday’ in the song we’re forced to sing when the ageing age, and that ‘wa’ was meant to be the… Continue reading

April 2016, Books, DISCUSS., Government and Politics, Internet

‘Jane Eyre’, ‘The Raven King’, broken keyboards, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth II, Etsy, Etsy UK, feminist stationery, Greek mythology stationery, Indifferent Ignorance, Queen’s 90th birthday, William Shakespeare

02/04/2016

A Retrospective of the Fiscal Year and Dubious Freelancing/Artist Advice

Who’s excited for the end of the financial year? Who wants it to be 6th April already so they can relish a clean slate and make 2016/17 the year they go up an income threshold? Who sometimes wishes they had someone else to make tough decisions regarding business card expenditure? Yep. Since we are nearly at the… Continue reading