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✨Alfred (b. 2023-10-29, 00:01)✨ ✨Vide (b. 2023-10-29, 00:17)✨
navigating pregnancy
What I’ve noticed in this pregnancy, as all women who have been pregnant before me surely must have noticed too,...
building worlds & growing humans
As chaotic as 2022 was, 2023 has so far been just as intense, if not more so, only in a very different way.
Attention Deficit Hyper-act
🌧️ November 🌧️ is normally the worst month for me in terms of bipolar depression and it's always a battle getting through...
I wake up like this sometimes
Some mornings you wake up and everything just feels wrong. It's not even so much the world around you; the...
Stepping out of my Echo Chamber
I was reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s blog this morning with my morning coffee and some of her thoughts on the...
Where’s the harm?
How can you say you're rehabilitating sex offenders, when in reality you're actively encouraging them to act out their sick...
Developing worlds & stories
My work life balance is slightly off at the moment, with so many exciting projects in the Cypherverse pipeline. All...
2021/07/09Ida Thomasdotter
Pre-production headaches
After trying to get a hold of a location to film our teaser trailer in through the public sector channels...
Lazarus Films
Another resurrected film starts its journey! Back in 2014, I collaborated with choreographer Destiny Bergvall and two young actors, Parisa...
2021/03/06Ida Thomasdotter
Illustration techniques & interactive web series plotting
My partner got me an online course for xmas, so I decided to go with a course in unlocking creativity...
Autumn filming
As The Great Wave is looming closer, it's crunch time for us in the Filmmaker In Residency programme. I'm dividing...
2020/09/26Ida Thomasdotter
Creating ripples
It never rains but it pours! Emerging from lockdown, I went from having very little to do but potter around...
2020/09/09Ida Thomasdotter
“Get those cookies”
Still in lockdown, dividing my time between portfolio building, networking, creative collaboration and kitten training -- YES. I got...
2020/06/23Ida Thomasdotter
Lockdown News
I spent two weeks visiting my family in Sweden at the beginning of March, regrouping and thinking about my future,...
2020/05/13Ida Thomasdotter
News
A while back I decided to start a mental health blog (between storms) to separate my mental health advocacy from...
2020/03/02Ida Thomasdotter
Moods, relationships and novel manuscripts.
My partner and I recently returned home after a mini getaway to the Lake District meant to recharge and inspire,...
2019/11/07Ida Thomasdotter
Welcome to my TED talk.
I've been taking some Recovery College courses, one about understanding Bipolar Affective Disorder, which was I found very helpful, not...
2019/10/20Ida Thomasdotter
Perspective
I’ve been taking some Recovery College courses, one about understanding Bipolar Affective Disorder, which was I found very helpful, not...
Progress
In my last post I was at a crossroads. In the end, I decided on the path of continued struggle,...
2019/09/21Ida Thomasdotter