Hi!  Long time no post!  Sorry about that, btw.  I've sorta migrated to tumblr.  But I'll try and come on here more often, because I really love this site and all of you.

ANYWAY I'm sorting out my journalism tag, so that I have an online archive of my articles, and I missed out my first 3 last year!  So I'll post them now.  I'll also post my ( Read more... )

Seriously you guys, feel free to shut me up anytime soon!


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So yeah.  Today was the Hullfire awards.  I was nominated for 3 awards: best news writer, best article and best writer.
I won.
BEST NEWS WRITER AND BEST WRITER!!!!
That's best writer of ALL THE FUCKING PAPER for the second one.

I AM SO HAPPY RN!!!

ALSO I was sitting next to my editor all night who watches Community AND SHIPS ANNIE/ABED!!!!
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So this follows on from the previous discussion post.  It's a pretty short article and very opinionated.  This would be because I wrote it for a column.  So feel free to pick it apart and post your own opinions, if you haven't had enough of Manning by now!  Again, your views and links really helped me with this article so thank you very much.

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Ok, so I'm posting my articles in two parts.  This would be my Charlie Sheen article, and thanks again for all your opinions in the FFA post :D

Without further ado...

Charlie Sheen:
The One Man Show

For the past few months, it has been hard to hide from the celeb-frenzy media machine that is Charlie Sheen. If you don’t recognise his name by now you’ve ( Read more... )

So finally my essay is done!  It's 1,451 words and examines the role of women in Narnia.  Susan's a pretty big focus if you're interested.  Hopefully it'll be published, but it's between this essay and one by someone else so fingers crossed!  In any case, here it is.

Women in Narnia:
The good, the bad and the demonised. At first glance, the Narnia ( Read more... )

Ok!  So I realised I didn't post my Don't Ask, Don't Tell article last month, so it's here.  There's also my female oppression article which has yet to go to print.  TRIGGER WARNING: I talk about female genital mutilation.

I'll post my Narnia essay once I'm finished, which should be tomorrow evening :)

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