Neurotic Owl

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

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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

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

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

THAT’S Murdercat!

If you don’t listen to WITs, but do share your life with one or more cats, this should still make perfect sense.  Oooh, one of the segments has been posted … Continue reading →

July 31, 2015 · Leave a comment

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Lizzie Bennett is awesome.

Well, almost universally acknowledged, since I know a few people who still don’t like Austen (M!!!!!).  NOT EVEN THE FILM VERSIONS.  I asked, because sometimes, when a book is a … Continue reading →

July 29, 2015 · Leave a comment

Zombie apocalypse! Except I didn’t actually draw any zombies.

This is both The Bloggess and K’s fault, because they shared one of those things where your zombie apocalypse team is decided by the last three things you watched.  Mine … Continue reading →

July 28, 2015 · Leave a comment