A Fembot’s Finest Hour

The annual C64 Shoot-‘Em-Up-Construction-Kit (SEUCK) game-designing contest, hosted as ever by Richard Bayliss of The New Dimension, seems to come around so quickly, but thankfully, to coin a phrase, here's one I prepared earlier ... SYNTHIA IN THE CYBER-CRYPT – DOWNLOAD LINK As you can see, I've gone for the platform adventure approach this year,...

Fembot Frolics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGgbF2qs0eA&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1HNLQXd4Avw9kIcXscZ89feUhUWOjtrlRi4dAYA7i5EKDigg1fhEjQl-Y ************ And now, in video form, my latest solo with Cardiff Cabaret Club, cut a little short at the end due to a mix-up of stage directions (there was meant to be a reprise of the Terminator theme as my "dear master" came back home, and I brandished the kitchen knife in readiness), but...

Robot Positivity

I take a lot of inspiration from a friend of mine who is a punk musician with a taste for the extreme, and always says he doesn't care whether he gets a very good reaction or a scathingly negative one - the worst thing would be to be ignored. Based on that, I am certainly...

“A strength badly exerted” – Rousseau, Radicalism, and Repression in the Works of P. B. Shelley

Something a little unusual for this blog - This is an academic article I wrote back in late 2013, revised in 2015, then forgot about after the e-journal it was intended for vanished off the face of the interwebs never to resurface. Since I absolutely cannot be bothered with the rigmarole of trying to find...

Pretty Gems and Paranoid Androids

My writing has really taken a back seat to my burlesque for over a year now, since my last Gothic dabbling in the world of fanfic. However, being a big fan of "Steven Universe", I've been toying with the idea of doing some sort of crossover fiction with the Crystal Gems for some time now,...

Annual Nerdfest Time …

It's that time of year again: the C64 Shoot-'Em-Up-Construction-Kit (SEUCK) game-designing contest, hosted by Richard Bayliss of The New Dimension, is upon us again and now very near to being in its tenth year, in which duration yours truly has won it a grand total of once. Since that taste of victory was last year,...

Pretty Fly

For those who care about such things, 'tis my most recent solo, at Ffresh Burlesque (Wales Millennium Centre, 15/3/19). Contains hints of nudeness ... Though one of our smaller venues, this was actually a really nice place to debut this routine, as the strange purple backlighting was actually a lovely, ethereal addition, making the wings...

Recent Burlesque Outings

After a fairly quiet month, it's been a busy week for burlesque. First to report, Cardiff-based musicians Jason "Flapsandwich" Philips and Sandor "Cosmo" Dus, having made an anti-Brexit protest song, asked if I would like to contribute some burlesque dancing to the music video. Always being up for some insanity to liven up the day,...

A Belated Escape

Anyone who has followed this blog from the early days (assuming anyone has) will know that it has been a long-standing desire of mine to change my current job - a manual labour post in a very male-dominated, and occasionally toxic warehouse environment - for something both more congenial and less monotonous. Indeed, it has...

Happy 2019 from the Pretty Techno Moth Ladies

And so 2018 passes, and troubling though it was for various reasons (Brexit, the ongoing Trumpster fire, not to mention some very negative press coverage on trans issues) I shall ever fondly remember it as the year I became fully myself both physically and by finally filling the burlesque-shaped hole in my life thanks to...