If you had of told me, even a couple of months ago, that I would one day be obsessed with a Norwegian show, so obsessed I would mourn it’s ending so fiercely, I would’ve laughed probably. Yet here I am, and here are all the other Skam fans witnessing the end of this beautiful Norwegian
Music has an incredible way of shaping us, our very thoughts and feelings, our reactions to the world and it helps us find our way. Growing up surrounded by music is one of life’s greatest joys, you get to assign songs to memories and listen to something that immediately takes you back to a moment
This book is daunting as hell with its page count of 720 and a vague promise of secrets and hidden pain found within the 4 friends who serve as the main characters; their description taken word for word from the book’s blurb, “There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel
I’ve grown up with fat shaming surrounding me; “he looks like he’s eaten three of his classmates” “she was a little porker” “oh god she’s huge, how disgusting” I’ve grown up with comments aimed at me; “you look seven months pregnant” “look at that little belly” “you really should start exercising” I’ve grown up with
I want to preface this by saying, I never ever want to put celebrities on a pedestal for being “feminists”, especially because I believe everyone should be a feminist, especially those who have real platforms they can use to shape the world and the younger generations. I do, however, want to highlight my personal feminist
I love The Lorax, I’ve loved it for many years, even though I did come to the viewing of it late, and I wasn’t familiar with the original story by Dr Seuss. Not only is it visually striking and entertaining, it’s message is one of real importance. It sheds a light on humanity’s greed and
Everybody loves Instagram. From the funny meme pages to the social justice pages and news pages, to the celebrities we hate to love to follow, to the friends we follow; Instagram is quite possibly, the biggest social media platform at the moment, and I for one, love it. With that love in mind, Instagram can
With the increasing need for representation, diversity and individuality in fiction, and especially YA fiction, there is no room for overdone tropes anymore. Young adults are smart and perceptive and relying on books to represent them and reflect them; they, we, deserve better. This is my list, as an extensive lover of reading and a
I’ve always been a reader, inhaling books faster than I could get my hands on them, and they have always shaped me in some way. Similarly to Rory Gilmore, I too carried a book everywhere, and I never cared much about whether it seemed rude to pull a book out at the dinner table. Growing
You know the feeling you get when music completely takes over your body, and you feel tingles and shivers and goosebumps running through you, down your legs and your arms and your spine, sometimes in your head? If you’re not familiar with this, or you can’t physically feel these sensations, don’t feel too disheartened. I’m