Icona
@iconawrites
Artist and writer.
Dr Knight, my husband, has started his own antique and vintage online shop. He asked for my help modelling some of his collection. This is a little preview of what we have been shooting. 😊
China has a great and ancient art history and some of my very favourite current artists are Chinese (follow @fuenzesunny!). I hope the situation for artists improves over there.
my real opinion: while china has advanced in so many areas, the cultural damage inflicted by reform is huge. not just in terms of destroying the old but in terms of glorifying the quick and easy. i believe it will recover from this. but also that it should be acknowledged
Most goths I have met were immensely kind people. I think memento mori — visiting graveyards, keeping a skull on your desk, remembering that death is inescapable — makes people become aware of their own mortality and vulnerability, and consequently more empathetic towards others.
Illustrators and digital artists: my graphic tablet is on its last leg. Can you recommend a good, professional one?
Holidays are great, but I have found that improving your daily life in many small ways also helps. This can be changing the home decor, making a little time for hobbies, learning to cook dinners you enjoy. It’s good to build a life you don’t constantly want to run away from.
Some people never got over that childhood period when their schoolteacher was pressuring them to read. They still think it’s cool not to read, and don’t realise that in a society that wants you to be always “productive”, reading is one of the most rebellious things you can do.
One of the best things about reading is liking the quotes so much, you're taking pictures of pages like you're at a concert
Nice nerdy things I love doing: playing board games with my friends on rainy evenings, reading every book I can find on a niche topic, writing D&D campaigns with my husband, going to vintage car rallies with him, collecting prints/merch by the artists I am obsessed with. 💛
Anyone who says reading isn’t fun has not discovered the right book. More tragically still, they haven’t discovered the right fanfiction.
the best way to turn a student off of books forever is to try to trick them into thinking that reading is fun. reading is not fun, and if the only reason they are reading is for fun they will stop when they realize the truth.
Love and light to all people with PhDs who chose to find a new path. I have a mathematician friend who changed career after several postdocs, and I’m married to an archeologist who chose to start his own antique business. Academia is tough right now! It’s okay to leave. 💛
I love people who never lose their enthusiasm for life, who stay curious and open to learning, who approach new things with interest rather than fear, who never, ever allow the hardships of adulthood to take away their sense of wonder.
Sometimes I read some contemporary novels and the writing is so bland and boring I feel there is no hope for humanity. Then I go read some online fanfiction and realise that humanity is actually doing great; the problem is the publishing industry.