Alex

Honestly I identified so hard with Samwell Tarly it hurts. I’ve always been an overachiever academically, I’ve always felt a complete coward (really, I am nooot a hero) and I was really overweight and unfit for […]

OK Song of Ice and Fire Real Talk;

(CONSTANT GoT SPOILERS)

Just finished reading Game of Thrones and I’m on to Clash of Kings and I have THOUGHTS;

1) I have decided Sansa is my teasworn. When and where […]

I definitely want to explore Chinese-English literature (and postcolonial literature in general) but a mix of practicality and broad interests kind of made me wary of overspecialising, haha. Honestly, I could’ve […]

York, Cardiff, Cambridge, Bristol and Aberystwyth. Lots of Welshy places =D

English in places, English + Linguistics in others =)

I keep abandoning you guys, and I feel very bad about it. =x

I’ve been working on University application stuff! And actually getting work done! And writing creatively! It’s been lovely, but I’m ready to sink a […]

It has somehow managed to be not particularly hot and humid at the same time here in the UK – it’s bloody terrible. I took an ice bath yesterday.

I THOUGHT IT WAS HER. She is awesome.

1) I support that campaign with every bloody inch of my heart.

2) This is an Indian stamp, depicting a scribe (who is supposed to be writing in sanskrit). I picked it because I’m interested in both writing and […]

and the wherewithal to deploy them with all the precision of a fighter jet.

one of the monkeys in the pile of monkeys is a monkey devoted to gif sourcing.

For this persephoneers are eternally grateful.

Smash the petit bourgeois capitalist institution of friendship! Animal companionship and gifs are the sustenance of the proletariat!

NEVER APOLOGISE FOR GAMING

also great whine/wine transition. I was both tickled and made Michelle Obama impressed-face.

HI GUYS. S’BEEN A WHILE.

Basically I went back to school and it mostly sucks but it’s kl because learning. I’m doing work on my free periods, which I think is really evidence of how I haven’t talked to a single […]

I’m not even sure it counts as a celebrity book, but I loved “The Opposite of Fate” by Amy Tan – I think it’s just because I accidentally share a lot of similar familial themes as her, but I spent half the book […]

OH MAN I LOVE SAVED. Macauley Culkin is significantly more attractive when disabled. I don’t know what that says about me (or, indeed, him).

Y’know, just like Mean Girls, I was so meh on Bridesmaids when it came out and over time I have grown to love with my deepest heart.

Ah man, I’m right on track then!