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A step-by-step guide to creating custom growth, commonplace, reflection and daily planning journals. I have kept a journal on-and-off for what feels like my whole life. I have diaries dating back to being 12, and I currently go through one notebook in about three months. Neither the past or the present is more awkward, or... Continue Reading →
'When I am rich,' say the bells of Shoreditch
Paint me in oils, don't take a photo.
Brought to you by my PhD chapter on 50 Shades being heavily underway (dare I say almost complete?) 50 Shades of Grey is a peculiar artefact in that it is astoundingly popular and also near immediately forgotten. Similar to James Cameron's movie Avatar, this book shows considerable understanding of genre and audience in a way... Continue Reading →
The club sucks but so does staying in forever. As a teenager, one of my friends threw a murder mystery party annually for her birthday. We’d be assigned characters and all get together in costume, eat food, and play pretend. Those days were always delightful, and I’m gratified to see that halfway across the world... Continue Reading →
Travelogues from the UK.
What, like it's hard? Everyone glamorous is pretending. For sure. It's easy to look good if everyone wants you to: when the designer fits the dress to you, when somebody is paid to make sure your shoes match your look, when the photographs of you will sell, then it becomes an industry to get you... Continue Reading →
for panicking givers.
How I made the Taylor Swift tarot deck
an internet 'month challenge' from the archive.
Late Romantic 