Fine Point Pens: Creative Platypus

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Adding some fine point pens to my collection and trying them out this week. Here, we have a illuminated manuscript doodle, a few doodles from Netflix's adaptation of Blame! and some fan art for Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

October is almost over, and we will be watching the 2018 adaptation of We Have Always Lived in the Castle along with staples Coroline and Over the Garden Wall. We are, of course, waiting for The Haunting of Bly Manor as The Haunting series continues. Speaking of Netflix horror offerings, I particularly enjoyed watching the French series Marianne. Fair warning, it's a binger. Also an unexpected delight was the Korean zombie flick Train to Busan.

Good horror is never about the horror, but about how the horror sheds a new light on something otherwise mundane. Art, after all, is a way of seeing.

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