Author: Kieryn Darkwater

My blog has gone through a lot of changes over time. When I chose Bridging the Gap as one, in many many titles I’ve used, I was initially thinking about it in terms of art, and practice. The phrase actually stemmed from Ira Glass on storytelling: Sine then it’s kinda grown into an inadvertent definition…

All together!   Now I need to just figure out how to curl my hair…Oh, and I’ll be wearing a white shirt under the pink one instead…

Over the weekend I was able to put together my Hobbit costume – with this shirt from Mexicali Blues that I’ll layer with a white thermal-ish undershirt: A silk blue-grey scarf that I’ll either use as a shawl or a sash, and this epic skirt from Calypsoe’s etsy that I found in a last ditch effort…

Watching: Behind the scenes/documentaries from Lord of the Rings and Prometheus. Great for costuming and effects ideas for our own stuff actually. Thinking: I’m less apologetic for my existence since being on antidepressants, and that’s kind of amazing. Also, I have a hat with ears. ^.^ Feeling: chilly and exhausted, but happy. Playing: WoW, Lego…

I wonder sometimes why things that seem to encourage and empower other women have the opposite affect on me. I think maybe it’s because I differentiate between being female and being a woman, and in that differentiation, I don’t identify as a woman. I don’t think because I am a woman therefore I _____. I’m…

At last, the episode we’ve been working on for 10 months is out! yay!

Growing up in a religious conservative circle taught me this ever so explicitly. They would try to water it down and say “no you’re equal, but different” the place of women is in the home, in the kitchen, pregnant or raising children. Not in the “world”, not working, not doing anything that would in any…

I’m thinking I’m going to try and do a mystery quilt this fall/winter. So far, the rest of the year looks like this: Work Film for two (going on 3?) web series Read some fantasy books on my list (or if all else fails, comic books – I did this last year when I was working,…