Fuckin’ Idiots
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‘Am I Screwing Over the Book Industry By Releasing My Work for Free?’ and Other Existential Questions
Over the weekend Maggie Stiefvater wrote about the implications of book piracy and, when the Internet told her off, told a story about dealing with book piracy. You can read them both at your leisure (the story is worth five minutes of your time for its sneaky genius alone). Today I want to talk about Continue reading
‘The Raven Cycle’, book piracy, crowdfunding art, Everyday Acts of Murder, Francesca’s Words, free art, free copy of the Raven Cycle, free copy of the Raven King, free writing, Indifferent Ignorance, Maggie Stiefvater, Patreon, pirated copy of The Dream Thieves, second hand books, should writing be free, using libraries -
Phnom Penh Part 3: the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek & Tuol Sleng Museum
We only really went to Phnom Penh for two places, and those places are horrible. But I’d be a terrible person if I didn’t talk about it, so… SOME HISTORY: in 1975 a radical communist group, the Khmer Rouge, seized power of Cambodia’s government with a vision to turn Cambodia into a ‘communist agrarian utopia’, Continue reading
backpacking, backpacking in South East Asia, banana pancake trail, Cambodia, Choeung Ek Genocide Centre, Holocaust Memorial Day, Indifferent Ignorance, Killing Fields of Choeung Ek, travel blogging South East Asia, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, visiting Cambodia, visiting Phnom Penh, visiting S-21 museum -
So this could be my last blog ever before a lady president’s elected! Or it could be my last blog ever before my friends move continents.
I got the first round of at least three vaccinations on Friday and had to spend the afternoon napping. I’m not sure if the sudden intake of hep A/hep B/typhoid into my system knocked me out or if I’m just really fucking tired but I went for a run this morning and I swear the Continue reading
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Turns of Phrase That Can Go Fuck Themselves (part one, probably)
Look, we all hate certain words and phrases. Here are some that make me automatically loathe the person using them. The word ‘poorly’ One is ill, or sick, or unwell, or puking, or suffering from a mild boat of putrid throat. I don’t think one is ever really poorly, because it only seems to be brandished about Continue reading
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