If you follow me on Instagram, you'll know that my cat unexpectedly passed away this month, which has basically meant I've been a bit of an emotional write-off the last couple of weeks. It's a strange thing to write, even now. I've had Artemis for seven years, and we've been through a lot together, so… Continue reading Monthly Round Up
Month: November 2017
29th Academy Awards
The 29th Academy Awards is often remembered as the year that Around the World in 80 Days won Best Picture, leaving it among the ranks of Gigi and Greatest Show on Earth as one of the worst Best Picture winners of all time. That said, it didn't actually have a ton of competition in 1956. There were a lot of duds as cinema… Continue reading 29th Academy Awards
Sunday Circle – what I’m writing this week
For background on the Sunday Circle, see this post. What am I working on this week? I’ve hit the point with Flight where I'm really needing to sit back and actually give it some real structure. It's grown a little unwieldly to say the least, and a bit of architecture will probably go a long way to giving… Continue reading Sunday Circle – what I’m writing this week
Friday Finds
Schultz’s story is interesting for reasons far beyond its sheer shock value. It’s entirely reasonable that at the time she created the Ryan persona, she might not have thought she could easily have a career writing about baseball as a woman. She’s also drawn a big red arrow sign pointing toward the exploitative ecosystem of… Continue reading Friday Finds
Jesse Kam FW 2017
A good collection, in my mind, is something that is forwards thinking, compelling but ultimately functional. After all, clothes are made to be worn, even if they veer towards wearable art more than day-to-day basics. Jesse Kam's Fall/Winter 2017 line is ultimately pretty brilliant on that front. The collection is effortlessly chic, with it's clean… Continue reading Jesse Kam FW 2017
Sunday Circle – what I’m writing this week
For background on the Sunday Circle, see this post. What am I working on this week? I’ve been doing pretty well on developing Flight, but it's currently pretty disjointed, and the mystery at the centre of it needs quite a bit of refinement. I've mostly been focused on getting everything in my head on the page these… Continue reading Sunday Circle – what I’m writing this week
Friday Finds
It turns out that this isn’t about individual monsters. It never was. This is about structural violence, about a culture that decided long ago that women’s agency and dignity were worth sacrificing to protect the reputation of powerful men and the institutions that enabled their entitlement. Everyone, including the “good guys,” knew it was happening.… Continue reading Friday Finds
Friday Finds
The professors found Georgia “outrageously protective,” as Riedel put it. Even after Promethea turned 18, her mother insisted on shadowing her everywhere. Instead of diminishing over time, their fears of bullying and physical danger had hardened, and the way mother and daughter operated as a unit had become ritualistic. They were always scanning for threats… Continue reading Friday Finds
Ilana Kohn FW 2017
High-waisted pants and floaty printed blouses are basically a staple of my wardrobe. There's something about the look of it which is just elegant and kinda sexy to me. Or, at least, it makes me feel that way. In that sense, Ilana Kohn's fall line for 2017 is totally up my alley. It's chic, with… Continue reading Ilana Kohn FW 2017
Sunday Circle – what I’m writing this week
For background on the Sunday Circle, see this post. What am I working on this week? I'm kind of half-doing NaNoWriMo this year, or, well, at least using it as an excuse to revisit Flight, the historical mystery novel I started in last year's NaNoWriMo. It's been fun to get back into it, and I'm close to… Continue reading Sunday Circle – what I’m writing this week
Sophie Overett 