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23/05/2017

Today is Shit, so Here’s a Story. ‘How I Met Brooding YA Hero’

To be honest, we’ve all met him. His eyes are the colour of the ocean, or midnight, or brilliant saffron, or blazing ruby. His skin is either chalky white, like the undead we suspect he might be, or the beautiful, ethnically ambiguous ‘heavily tanned’. His grades are always top of the class, but we’ve never… Continue reading

Books

books, Brooding YA Hero, BroodyBFFs, Indifferent Ignorance, reading, Twitter, YA novel tropes, YA novels
26/08/2015

RIP.

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August 2015, Paywall

Indifferent Ignorance, Spider Eviction, spiders, Twitter
10/09/2014

Explaining the Internet Slowdown (and protesting so you might not be able to read it)

It’s not that often that a lot of the people who use the Internet agree on something, but it looks like the US government has given us all a common enemy (again. Didn’t this happen with SOPA and Prop 8?!). I don’t have a huge understanding of the technical aspects of it, but essentially the… Continue reading

DISCUSS., Fuckin’ Idiots, Internet, September 2014, Social Media, THE WORLD *head in hands*, Tumblr

#InternetSlowDown, ‘The Guardian’, Battle for the Net, Congress, Etsy, FCC, Indifferent Ignorance, my art, NHS, online access, people on the Internet found something to agree on, Tumblr, Twitter, US government, videos, WordPress
22/08/2014

The Six O’Clock News: What It Takes to Re-Focus the Media (sort of)

Let’s address the obvious first and foremost and take a moment to appreciate what journalists are doing in certain parts of the world at the moment. While the tabloids are going crazy over Cara Delevigne’s holiday with Selena Gomez, there are people from across the globe who are quite literally the front line of communications… Continue reading

August 2014, DISCUSS., The Six O’Clock News, THE WORLD *head in hands*

‘The Daily Telegraph’, al-Qaeda, BBC, conspiracy theories, Indifferent Ignorance, Iraq, IS, James Foley, journalism, Press Freedom Barometer, Reddit, Reporters Without Borders, Syria, The Daily Mail, The Six O’Clock News, Twitter

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Francesca Astraea here.

When I began this blog in 2009, I was a teenager. That’s why you’ll find some posts have been hidden behind a paywall. I was an incredibly different, less eloquent person when I was a teen, so if you want to read the thoughts of that teenager, you can join the No. 1 Readers’ Club for access.

What will you find here now?

This blog continues to evolve with me. My favourite topics are books and reading, travel adventures, the extensive works of up and coming rock band My Chemical Romance and the occasional update about my life and work as an author and scriptwriter. I’m also interested in digital minimalism, how we can solve environmental issues and why it’s probably a better idea to make a cup of tea than it is to shout at people you disagree with.

Speaking of tea… Make a cup and settle in.

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Today is Shit, so Here’s a Story. ‘How I Met Brooding YA Hero’

RIP.

Explaining the Internet Slowdown (and protesting so you might not be able to read it)

The Six O’Clock News: What It Takes to Re-Focus the Media (sort of)