Sarah O'Connor

Writer – Playwright – Cannot Save You From The Robot Apocalypse

I’ve been having trouble writing. It’s not like this hasn’t happened before. I wouldn’t call it writer’s block so much as an anxiety towards my own writing, which just sounds silly. There’s a piece I’ve been working on for some time now that seems like it will never be perfect. It’s a story I care …

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Today would have been my mom’s sixty-sixth birthday. I don’t usually make a post for her birthday, only on the anniversary of her death. I’m sure it’s to the annoyance of those who follow me online and maybe even to some of my friends. I’m sure some people see it as morbid, that others are …

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Sometimes I forget that my hair is blue. Or I guess it’s not that I forget that it’s blue but I forget that it’s a part of me altogether. I’ll be walking down the street or sitting at the desk at work when a stranger or customer will tell me that they like my hair, …

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You can bet that had I known there was a mermaid saint when I was preparing to get confirmed I would have wanted to choose her. That being said, I probably would have been too wracked with Catholic guilt to choose a mermaid for a saint name and would have stuck with St. Joan of …

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Well, it sure has been a bit since my last flower talk. Let’s fix this by talking about the next flower Ophelia hands out, shall we? According to Jessica Roux’s Floriography, pansy (viola tricolour var. hortensis), also known as “Johnny Jump Up, heartsease, tickle-my-fancy” and other names (Wikipedia) was given the meaning “You occupy my thoughts” …

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On Monday it was raining, absolutely pissing outside. My room faces the east and I’ve always liked that when there’s a storm I’m the first to hear it. Waking up to the rain wasn’t a bad thing, only shocking because I had fallen asleep to it the night before. I wasn’t expecting all the rain. …

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A few weeks ago I bought a notebook at a local witch store. I’d admired it online for awhile but could never bring myself to buy it because the shop is in the U.K. which meant I’d have to deal with exchange rates and shipping. The cover of the notebook shows a brown rabbit circled with stars …

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A lot of exciting writing stuff has happened with me recently, but I haven’t talked about it on here. I thought about it, but I tend to get a little suspicious about overpromoting things. The last time a lot of exciting writing things were happening in my life I promoted them1 like crazy, partly out of …

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On January 23 2024, Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk publicly offered to redesign Gypsy-Rose’s house. A fan on TikTok decided to shoot their shot at being friends with Gypsy by sending a voice note of them singing changed lyrics to “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley. If you search “Gypsy-Rose Blanchard” on Etsy you get a variety of merchandise, from shirts and sweaters …

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For the past few years I’ve done a Year Ahead Spread on New Year’s Eve using my Wild Unknown tarot deck. It’s a thirteen card spread that is typically done on New Year’s Eve, or on birthdays, to give some insight into the year to come. The first called pulled is for January, the second …

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