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I watched this film recently and found it quite fascinating. It tells the story of how psychologist William Marston came to create Wonder Woman, under the pen-name Charles Moulton, in the early 1940's. It's a romanticised biopic, but is at least broadly true to the events as outlined in Jill Lepore's excellent book, 'The Secret History of Wonder Woman'... It features feminism, free-love, role-play, bondage,...
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Whatever it is you happen to believe that you're celebrating at this time of year... Just try not to traumatise any children!

'Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.' H.P. Lovecraft, The Picture in The House.

I love to poke around in obscure places... This is a photograph I took in the ossuary beneath Montparnasse cemetery while on holiday in Paris a few years ago. It was much less busy than most of the usual tourist destinations in the city. It gets harder to access the old...
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Ideal for our British summer!

Some people get to be The Mother of Dragons, but me... I got my head stuck up one's arse! ;-)

I'm looking forward to the fire festival in our village tomorrow night, where we'll celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring!

This time it was on our Imbolc story walk... You can't see them for the adults, but there were lots of wide-eyed children listening to my tale about the origin of the buttercup flower. The grown-ups enjoyed it too of course!

An online arts project started in 2012, featuring a dozen ladies each reading from a book whilst being stimulated by a magic wand massager. It's all very tastefully done and is quite literally a pleasure to watch... Enjoy!

'Hysterical Literature is a video art series by NYC-based photographer and filmmaker Clayton Cubbit. It explores feminism, mind/body dualism, distraction portraiture, and the contrast between culture and...
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