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As an English literature student and bookish baddie, I couldn’t resist but begin my 2026 blogging with a reading wrapped. According to GoodReads, I’ve read 19 books and 5,421 pages in 2025. Not a great score, and leaving the year quite far behind my reading challenge, which was 30 books. I’m setting myself the same…
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I am perhaps one of the laziest goths you will ever meet. The only times you’ll see me in a full face of makeup with full accessories are nights out or particularly important days out. For uni, work or functions I’m not absolutely ecstatic for, the most I’ll do is eyebrows and mascara. And sometimes…
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It’s the 1990s. Thinness is essential for a woman’s success in a competitive, all-encompassing, impossible industry. Models in adverts and on the runways are sporting protruding bones and tired, sunken eyes. They’re defeated and emaciated, but successful. The term “heroin chic” is coined to define this skeletal trend, since its victims are alarmingly pale, frail…
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In our digital, productivity-focussed and stressful age, it’s easy to prioritise simply surviving the day over wellness and whimsy. So many of us are desperate to find easy, quick fixes for the lack of joy in our lives, and I’m sharing my six best ways to regain joy and whimsy in your life. Timed to…
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At the peak of the A-Level season in 2024, I realised I’d somehow gone from a UK size 10, to a size 14-16, seemingly overnight. Since I was preoccupied with studying, I hadn’t really noticed the gradual but consistent weight gain. I realised this was naturally happening (I hadn’t been increasing my daily caloric intake!),…
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Diary of a Happy Goth 