Jessamyn Leigh

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Hello readers! I emerge from the void for a rare blog post. My wonderful friend Stephanie is hosting a readalong of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre over on her blog, Bahnreads . You can check it out and join in there or in the  #EyreAlong  tag on social media. Stephanie will be sharing about adaptations tonight, so she asked me to do a post about one of my favorite adaptations: The Autobiography of Jane Eyre . *Some spoilers for both the book and the webseries ahead. Proceed with caution.* I have little to no chill about my love for this series so let's be real, this post will probably just be a lot of me flailing about it.  ( source ) AOJE is what we in the biz call a LIW or Literary Inspired Webseries. If you're on my blog, chances are you already know what that is, but just in case, I'll give you a quick rundown. A genre launched by The Lizzie Bennet Diaries in 2012, LIW are webseries that take elements and characters from classic literature and moder

Hi all! Long time, no blog.  Making paper snowflakes on Thanksgiving weekend is a long-standing family tradition around here. (As you may remember from my post last year where I shared some tips on making paper snowflakes.) If you follow me online at all, you also know that my lifelong love for Star Wars has been completely rekindled since The Force Awakens came out.  Ahsoka Tano was one of the stars of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since gone on to play an important role in Star Wars Rebels and even gotten her own young adult novel. guys, she has WHITE LIGHTSABERS src She's quickly become one of my favorite characters (I'm not saying I'm wearing an Ahsoka shirt as I write this, but that definitely might be happening) and I found myself drawing inspiration from her character design for this snowflake. I tried to work in the points of her montrals, the slanted stripes on her lekku, and the markings on her forehead.  I shared t