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flameswent: where you'll find the random musings of a girl interested in writing, feminism, food, people, and television (and who has a slightly worrying obsession with liverpool fc and the west wing).

Favourite Reads of the Month – June/July

1. The Boy Who Lived Forever Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a seale...

22 jul 11

Another Harry Potter Post

I went to see the last Harry Potter movie with three of my friends on Wednesday. All four of us sat in the cinema and cried throughout the film, unable to resist the line touted by the media in the p...

16 jul 11

Favourite Reads of The Month – May

1. How Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest awoke a dormant anger in the heart of France’s women But last week saw France enter its most vigorous examination of gender relations for years afte...

29 may 11

Books I Need In My Life Right Now #1

“Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the sec...

26 may 11

My (Possibly Sad) Love For Fictional Characters

Last week, I happened to come across (what I thought was) an odd comment from a girl I knew: she said she suddenly felt a huge amount of love for a character in a particular show, and found it strang...

11 may 11

Favourite Reads of Several Months

I’ve been a bit lazy lately, so this is a post encompassing things I’ve read in March, April, and this first week of May. 1. Woody Allen on Inspiration When it comes to romance, when it c...

07 may 11

An Ode to Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope

I’ve got a new girl crush and her name is Leslie Knope. Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope Continuing my penchant for making heroes out of fictional characters, the Deputy Director of Pawnee’s Parks and Rec...

23 apr 11

“There’s An Alien In the Kitchen Making Bagels and Coffee!”

Paul, dir. Greg Mottola (2011) The easiest way to describe Paul is to say that it’s a lot of good (though not so clean) fun. Opening with the visit of two English sci-fi geeks to San Diego’s annual C...

23 apr 11

The Time I Saw “Sucker Punch” (and began to broaden my film horizons)

There’s something you should know about me. I’m really not the biggest fan of action movies. Emily Browning as Baby Doll Last Christmas, my sister had to literally pull me downstairs to watch Bad Boy...

11 apr 11

What’s old is new again

My first contribution to a magazine, writing about a few of my favourite old-school films. Check the March issue of Biscuit magazine out here!

07 mar 11

Favourite Reads of the Month – February

1. Friday Night Lights: Best Moments There’s a level of honest, raw humanity in “Friday Night Lights” that few TV dramas have ever achieved. Over and over and over, the show a...

02 mar 11

here comes (or goes) the sun

Christmas, New Years and Australia Day have all come and gone. Up until this point last year, this meant the end of the summer holidays and the start of what all students, drunk on weeks of sun and f...

10 feb 11

we’re the heirs to the glimmering world

Last year, I studied English Advanced for the HSC, for which the concept of ‘belonging’ was the core study. In preparation for my exams, I wrote countless practice essays and creative pie...

10 jan 11

just sitting back, trying to recapture a little of the glory

(What the appointment of Kenny Dalglish as Manager of Liverpool FC means to me) It’s in the nature of young people to wistfully look back to the past and see it as a better time. We often have romant...

09 jan 11

Favourite Reads of the Week

This is a pretty simple idea, really. A weekly post in which I’ll link to my favourite online reads — whether they be blog posts, news articles, features or works of fiction. To start Jan...

09 jan 11

An Open Letter

To the Australian cricket team, Despite my fervent attempts for sixteen and a half years to avoid you and your sport and everything you stand for, I finally cracked last year. In my defense, it was r...

06 jan 11

And Then A Hero Comes Along

  Leisel Jones, one of my childhood heroes If anyone had asked me as a child who my hero was, I would have answered Leisel Jones, straight off the bat. This was coming off the back of an impress...

28 dec 10

“Let’s Not Mistake Popularity for Infamy”

The Easy A, dir. Will Gluck (2010) Amanda Bynes and Emma Stone as Marianne and Olive When a film is hailed as the next Mean Girls just after the release of its trailer, I think it’s safe to say that...

19 sep 10

Because It’s Not Like I Don’t Have Other Things to Do

Hi, world. I’m Toni. I enjoy writing, among a whole heap of other things, and this is an outlet for me to discuss my thoughts and views on things about which I’m passionate, as well as va...

14 sep 10

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