This introvert is kind of an extravert now — My husband and I took the Myers-Briggs test a little while ago, just to see what we got. I’m not a really believer in those sort of things and I take the results with a hefty grain of salt. But. I’ve always been an INFP, ever since I first did…

The videos tank but my writing’s never gone better — This is a weird one that makes me feel just a little pretentious. Okay, very pretentious. Let me explain. In 2020 I started a YouTube channel and I’ve been really enjoying it. My content is varied, but has largely focused on cosplay, lolita fashion, and photoshoots. …

Fitness motivation is evil — When I still had a gym membership, there was a motivational poster on the back of the bathroom door. I don’t remember exactly how it was phrased, but I just say something similar online and was filled with righteous fury. What’s the phrase? …

Presentation can make or break your brand, so make a style guide already — Style guides — a document outlining how your brand presents itself through visuals, words, formatting, tone, and more — are very important to maintaining a consistent and recognisable image. They are also kind of daunting, and very easy to do badly. A good style guide is two things: Easy to…

Or at least, I hope so — Today, I’m not feeling motivated. I want to write more, want to share, but the inspiration has just vanished. Poof, gone in a puff of disappointing smoke. A phrase popped into mind — starting is hard, do it anyway. …

Can anyone hear me? — It’s almost half a year since I published anything here, and a year since May 2021 — the month in which I published to Medium every day. …

What if you could forget about impressing and start expressing? — If I lived in an ideal world, without a day job with a dress code (sigh), I would be a magnificent creature. …

Everything and nothing — This year, our plum tree hardly bloomed. Each year signals the change of seasons — a sweet, pink herald. But this year it budded, the first blooms unfurled, and then it was over in a haze of fresh scarlet leaves. October, normally a fun flurry of photoshoots to celebrate the…

A Steampunk Web Serial — Part X — Barnasus felt nothing but dread and a piece of gravel in the toe of his boot on the walk to the Iron Ward. He had not felt so hopeless, so sick to his stomach, since the day a black-bordered envelope had been delivered to him advising of Petyr’s death. It…