Friday Finds

The last few weeks have been crazy stressful for me and they don't really look to be slowing down. It's not exactly a good thing or a bad thing, just something that's keeping me very busy. In some ways, it's been good because it's making me re-evaluate my priorities again. Making me think about where I am now and where I want to be, which are starting to look like very different things.

But that's a whole other conversation. Have this week's Friday Finds instead.

- Your week in trailers: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl looks straight up terrific. True Detective season 2 should be interesting. This Amy Winehouse documentary looks amazing and heartbreaking.

- These 10 lady podcasts you should be listening to are definitely going onto my list!

- This video on Steven Universe and created families is everything I love about the show.

- This cover of Creep is straight up amazing.

- A SAILOR MOON CAFE EXISTS, GUYS.

- These PMS ice-cream containers are the best things I've seen all week.

- ten gorgeous photos of artists and their cats.

- The best literary references in Mad Men. I'm so sad for the series to end!

- How stunning are these European libraries? I want to visit them alllll.

This post on the women dominating this summer movie season has some fascinating insight.

This piece on disability in pop culture and particularly in relation to Batgirl is a terrific read. 

Nicki Minaj and the Inevitable Politicisation of Celebrity Abortions is another great read and sheds a compelling light on it.

Friday Finds

I didn't write a new year's post to break in 2015. I think that makes this the first year since I started this that I haven't. There are a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, I'm still working on my 24 Before 25 goals that I wrote about back in September, and secondly, I was lucky enough to spend New Year's with some very important people, some of which had traveled here for the occasion. All in all though, I'm pretty excited for this year. My job is changing, my writing practice growing, my future starting to happen before me, which all sounds very cliche, but is also kind of true. How about you though? What do you have planned for the new year?

Also, hey! Enjoy the relaunch / restructured Friday Finds below!

- Which major superhero films pass the Bechdel test?  (spoiler: not a lot).

- This Sailor Moon wedding.

- These award-winning photos of 2014 compiled on BuzzFeed are stunning.

- I love a good horror movie and It Follows is looking particularly amazing. 

- New Orphan Black trailer!! Penny Dreadful Season 2!! AND Better Call Saul!!

- Margaret Atwood did a Reddit AMA! The Mary Sue rounded up the best Q&A's over here.

- 23 tips from famous writers for new and emerging authors.

- 13 books  to read by black feminist writers.

- 12 essential essays for writers.

- If famous authors wrote the internet.

- That Girl is Poison: a brief, incomplete history of female poisoners.
I'm super fascinated by poison in general and the psychology behind people who choose to use it, and this round up of four women who history remembers for it is a compelling little read.

- The  Trouble with Carrie: strong female characters and onscreen violence.
The Strong Female Character has been at the heart of a lot of conversations recently, and it's a really important one to have. The way women are represented has certainly become more diverse in some ways, but not in others, and this article sums that up perfectly.

Friday Finds

- The new Star Wars cast has been revealed! But, um, where are all the female characters?

- The new Sailor Moon series released designs for the characters and to say I'm excited is basically the biggest understatement in the woooorld.

- Why men should read books by women. Here here.

- This clip on gendered marketing is also aces and a perfect way to kick off the weekend!

Friday Finds

You know when you discover a new singer and then immediately descent into a blackhole until you've listened to their entire catalogue a gazillion times? That was my week with Basia Bulat. She's glorious. Her cover of Robyn's Dancing on My Own is pretty close to perfect too.

- Needless to say, I am ridiculously excited for Lumberjanes, a new comic-book series by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis and Brooke Allen, so these variant covers had me chin-handsing all week.

- The Stella Prize shortlist has been announced.

- The first official image from the new Sailor Moon series has leaked! (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

- A Captain Marvel movie? (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

- These genderswapped Disney and Dreamworks characters are pretty perfect too.

- These photos of former playboy bunnies are pretty rad too.