• Circlet/Forehead jewellery
  • Clothes made of:
    • Gauzy cloth
    • Holographic material
    • Silk
    • Tulle
    • Velour
    • Velvet
  • Dramatic lighting
  • Lots of:
    • Bubbles
    • Flowers
    • Glitter
    • Jewels
  • Pastel pink/green/blue/lilac surroundings
  • Pastel/silvery hair
  • Possibly actually magical
  • Shimmery makeup
jan 22 2015 ∞
jan 22 2015 +
  • Audrey Horne ( Twin Peaks )
  • Babydoll ( Suckerpunch )
  • Di Radfield ( Cracks )
  • Dolores Haze ( Lolita )
  • Esther Greenwood ( The Bell Jar )
  • India Stoker ( Stoker )
  • Laura Palmer ( Twin Peaks )
  • Miranda ( Picnic at Hanging Rock )
  • Ophelia ( Hamlet )
  • Susanna Kaysen ( Girl, Interrupted )
  • The Lisbon Sisters ( The Virgin Suicides )
    • Bonnie Lisbon
    • Cecilia Lisbon
    • Lux Lisbon
    • Mary Lisbon
    • Therese Lisbon
feb 23 2015 ∞
feb 23 2015 +

January

  • Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013)
  • Gone Girl (2014)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
  • He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)
  • Last Unicorn, The (1982)
  • Mood Indigo (2014)
  • Twelfth Night at Shakespeare's Globe (2012)
  • What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

February

  • Attack the Block (2011)
  • Battle Royale (2000)
  • Dawn of the Seeker (2012)
  • Perfect Blue (1997)
  • Suicide Club (2002)
  • Virgin Suicides, The (1999)
jan 22 2015 ∞
feb 23 2015 +

Older and a little bit wiser, but still stumbling along after sun-dust between my fingers.

  • 15 minute meditations
  • audition
    • Classes with Maeve
    • NIDA
    • Sara Cooper Agency
    • Twelfth Night
  • be bold with decisions
  • bold steps towards confidence in myself
  • climb upwards & feel no shame in ambition
  • compliment others frequently
  • discard the ironic aesthetic
    • life is too short to hate for the street cred
    • shed any sense of shame & be unabashedly enthusiastic
jan 21 2015 ∞
jan 21 2015 +
  • Childlike Empress, The ( The Neverending Story 1984 )
  • Isabeau d'Anjou ( Ladyhawke 1985 )
  • Kira ( The Dark Crystal 1982)
  • Lady Amalthea ( The Last Unicorn 1982 )
  • Lili ( Legend 1985 )
  • Oona ( Legend 1985 )
  • Princess Buttercup ( The Princess Bride 1987 )
  • Princess Elspeth ( Dragon Slayer 1981 )
  • Sarah Williams ( Labyrinth 1986 )
  • Sorsha ( Willow 1988 )
jan 22 2015 ∞
jan 22 2015 +
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  • Actively engage in a philosophy that fascinates you for a day.
  • Always give money to buskers
  • Always participate in silly holidays
    • Time traveler's day especially
  • Attend a Beltane festival
  • Become fluent in Japanese, Gaelic, Russian and Czech
    • Possibly French too
  • Dance around a bonfire and tell stories with like minded people
  • Embody a magical girl aesthetic
  • fall asleep in a meadow
  • Find a message in a bottle
  • Follow in the footsteps of as many folktales as possible (King Arthur, Gevaudan, Vlad Dracul)
  • Hike through beautiful places (wainwright walks, Southcoast track, walls of jerusa...
nov 30 2010 ∞
jan 21 2015 +
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  • 'Borrow' one of the little rowboats at Nutgrove and use it to fulfill my childhood dream of rowing away at midnight to atlantis.
  • Attend a Seelie Court
  • Attend Hogwarts
    • Let Ron follow the butterflies
    • Prevent all the deaths that occur in The Deathly Hallows & Order of the phoenix
  • Be a ghost mother.
  • Be a Moon Merriweather
  • Be an enigma/mystery
  • Become a world class pianist/singer
  • Discover/prove existence of faeries
  • Fall asleep floating in the ocean without drowning.
  • Get lost in the Bermuda Triangle, return with proof of Aliens.
    • Preferably Sane/untraumatised.
nov 30 2010 ∞
jan 21 2015 +
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  • Abelard ~ I capture the castle
  • Cheshire Cat ~ Alice's adventures in Wonderland
  • Coraline's Cat ~ Coraline
  • Crookshanks ~ Harry Potter
  • Mogget ~ Abhorsen trilogy
  • Puss in boots
  • Salem Saberhagen ~ Sabrina the teenage witch
  • Schrödinger's Cat (is alive)
  • Sergei ~ Lionboy series
  • Solembum ~ Inheritance cycle
  • The Jellicle Cats ~ CATS
  • Tom kitten ~ Beatrix Potter
aug 14 2010 ∞
jan 20 2015 +

Girls

  • Aislinn
  • Alice
  • Amy
  • Annalise
  • Anya
  • Beatrice
  • Charlotte
  • Claudia
  • Eileen
  • Emmaline
  • Henrietta
  • Ida
  • Lottie
  • Luna
  • Lydia
  • Ophelia
  • Sabine
  • Siobhan
  • Wendy

Boys

aug 13 2010 ∞
jan 20 2015 +

Stage

  • Dead Men's Fingers Don Nigro
  • Fortinbras Lee Blessing
  • Hamletmachine Heiner Muller
  • Opheliamachine Magda Romanska
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard
  • The Secret Love Life of Ophelia Steven Berkoff

Screen

  • Fire with Fire Duncan Gibbins
  • Melancholia Lars Von Trier
  • Pan's Labyrinth Guillermo Del Toro
  • Slings and Arrows Peter Wellington

Poetry

  • A Decomposition in Two Parts whathohoratio (tumblr)
  • Ariel heartsexplode (tumblr)
  • Drowning Ophelia backshelfpoet (tumblr)
  • Enter Ophelia, playing the lute hcspera (tumblr)
  • How I Didn't Get Myself to a Nunnery Suzanne Lummis
  • Okay, Ophelia Jeannine Hall Gailey
jan 26 2015 ∞
may 20 2016 +

Initial goals:

  • A Visit From the Goon Squad //Jennifer Egan
  • A Wild Sheep Chase //Haruki Murakami
  • Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman //Haruki Murakami
  • Bloody Chamber, The //Angela Carter
  • Brighton Rock //Graham Greene
  • Colourless Tsukuru Takazki & His Years of Pilgrimage //Haruki Murakami
  • Fellowship of the Ring pt I, The //J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)
  • Haroun and the Sea of Stories //Salman Rushdie
  • Letters to Emma Bowlcut //Bill Callahan
  • Master and Margarita, The //Mikhail Bulgakov (reread)
  • Ode Less Travelled,The //Stephen Fry
  • Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, The //Aimee Bender
  • Satanic Verses, The //Salman Rushdie
  • Time's Arrow //Martin Amis
  • White Noise //Don Delillo (√)

January

  • Colourless Tsukuru Takazki and His Years of Pilgrimage //Haruki Murakami (started)
jan 22 2015 ∞
jan 22 2015 +
  • A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
  • Bell Jar, The - Sylvia Plath
  • Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, The - Oscar Wilde
  • Dracula - Bram Stoker
  • Fleurs Du Mal - Charles Baudelaire
  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  • Great Gatsby, The - F.Scott Fitzgerald
  • Harry Potter (all) - J.K. Rowling
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The - Douglas Adams
  • Hobbit, The - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Master and Margarita, The - Mikhail Bulgakov
  • North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
  • Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
  • Princess Bride, The - William Goldman
  • Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton, The - Noel Fielding
  • Virgin Suicides, The - Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Waves, The - Virginia Woolf
apr 4 2012 ∞
jan 21 2015 +
  • Dutch etching paper
  • Metal one-metre ruler
  • Oil paints;
    • burnt umber
    • restock mixing white
    • sky blue
    • Sunshine yellow
    • titanium blue
  • Restock white & grey watercolours
  • Sepia Indian Ink
    • Restock black ink
  • smaller pen-nib
  • various shades of grey in copic markers
nov 4 2011 ∞
jan 21 2015 +
  • Astronomer
  • Ballerina
  • British Comedian
  • Consulting Detective
  • Elf
  • Geologist
  • Hobbit
  • Lost Girl
  • LSD fuelled artist
  • Ravenclaw student
  • Renowned cat burglar
  • Resident of Wonderland
  • The Doctor's companion
  • Vagabond
nov 4 2011 ∞
jan 21 2015 +
  • Chai
    • Choc Chip Chai
  • Earl Grey
    • Lady Grey
  • Green
    • Jasmine
    • Mint
  • Lavender
  • Lemongrass and Ginger
  • Peach
  • Peppermint
  • Rose and French vanilla
  • Rosehip
  • Russian Caravan
  • Sencha
  • Turkish Apple and Cinnamon
aug 11 2010 ∞
jan 20 2015 +