Neurotic Owl

flapping vaguely downward through clouds of uncertainty on wings of existential dread

Monthly Archives: August, 2015

One more black and white, just because.

I feel more confident that lots of you have read The Hero and the Crown, because I read it in school, and because it’s probably McKinley’s best-known book.  Yerigs!  Folstza! … Continue reading

August 17, 2015 · Leave a comment

Oh, all right. Have some colour! Have ALL the colours!

Again, ‘Spindle’s End’, Robin McKinley.  READ IT.

August 15, 2015 · Leave a comment

Colour is overrated, right?

You get black & white today, both because this one kind of got away from me and the colouring is INTENSIVE, and because look how pretty!  Did that sound conceited?  … Continue reading

August 13, 2015 · Leave a comment

Willow! The female one, not the one who saved Elora Danaan.

Although in my head, Willow Rosenberg is the very distant descendant of Elora Danaan, and the name got passed down in the family in honor of her hero.  Red headed, … Continue reading

August 11, 2015 · Leave a comment

I started to type out the Buffy theme, but it just looked like I was screwing up the Batman theme.

Oooh, Buffy meets Batman!  I think she would have deeply limited patience for him, deity her taste for brooding dudes.   If you want to own it, check out Redbubble … Continue reading

August 10, 2015 · Leave a comment

She can’t be a witch. She weighs more than a duck.

Who else loves ‘The Witch of Blackbird Pond’?  Kit is just so delightful and strong minded and feisty and ok, super wrongheaded about at least one very important issue, but … Continue reading

August 7, 2015 · 1 Comment

In which I draw a monkey.

And some other stuff, clearly.  ‘A Little Princess’ was one of my absolute favourite books as a kid, even with its painfully Victorian outlook, for fairly shallow reasons.  I loved … Continue reading

August 6, 2015 · Leave a comment

Just a quick PSA?

I’ve talked about this before, but it bears occasional repeating.  If you’re having frequent crying jags, if you feel hopeless, if you have thoughts about hurting yourself — SEE A … Continue reading

August 5, 2015 · Leave a comment

He’s alive, dammit! It’s a miracle!

I’m not shilling for a certain Netflix series, but a friend suggested it and it just seemed perfect.

August 4, 2015 · Leave a comment

And then podcast references that only a few of you will recognize.

There was a recent episode of the Judge John Hodgman podcast involving some dude who wanted desperately to buy a large and apparently rather ugly axe to hang over his … Continue reading

August 3, 2015 · Leave a comment