Rose Ruane

All hands on deck, anchors aweigh, cocktails will be served and the dress code is timeless glamour💖✨

A black cat fixedly staring from behind a pink and white blanket in front of a wooden door

Creep

A vivid bendy oil pastel deer

Sweep in undulating charcoal and graphite, an ancient puppet

A green skull with scratchy eye holes

Paul McCartney all neat and monochrome in 1969, a drawing

I’ll try again. All of these original artworks are still available on my website, there are some spooky things and some nice textures and lines that you won’t find anywhere else. Thank you for looking. 🖼️ and if you share this that would be super

www.chloecumming.com

Thank you lovely! Much appreciated

Thank you so much!

Thank you dear Charlie🩷💕

Thank you so much!

Recycling bin still hasn’t been emptied, so more papier-mâché mask making.
This time I took the shape from a villager from The Wicker Man & then tried to answer the question what if The Black Rabbit of Inlé from Watership Down hopped through the titles from Watch by way of fuzzy felt fantasy?

Thank you lovely one, much appreciated x

Truly extraordinary documentary.
One that was a formative influence on my desire to write fiction in ways I can’t quite articulate.
Something about the uneasy collision of ambition & disappointment, how we can appear absurd in our most profoundly serious moments & the forces of place that shape us

Tell Junie I said pspspps please x

Oh my heavens, that is the most amazing intel!!! Thank you!

FEETS!!!

The most disappointing click of my life too!

Screenshot of part of a Wikipedia entry which reads Verdon was a cat fancier, having up to six cats at one time, with the pets carrying names such as "Feets Fosse", "Junie Moon", ' and "Tidbits Tumbler Fosse"

Is your Wikipedia entry truly camp if it doesn’t contain cats?
(No. No it is not)

Four black cats are covered in different pink and red flowers and pink polka dots.

Jan Pieńkowski Sticky Seals for Gallery Five, London 1970s #Caturday

Fuck. That is absolutely incredible

Yes, on its own terms & then you think about the intricacy & craft of how it’s made & then another level opens up underneath it

Oh these are incredibly affecting, love letters from a distant star, almost close enough to touch: warm light, cold air.
Caught me right under the sternum

Oh god, but it’s still so good

Speeding suddenly backwards through the decades without moving a muscle

Oh no! It used to *all* be on there & I can think of no greater Ross-nip than Roy Andersson, I reckon you would love his films

You made me think of this exact image from a classroom poster
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A Quatro crepuscule

I feel like you must already be well into Roy Andersson’s films but there are some lovely shorts of his on there, I think

Page from a 1960s children’s book depicting a little British town with buildings from ancient to modern arranged around a little park with trees, in the foreground a busy road with traffic, the illustration is in black, grey, white and yolk yellow. Underneath are the words the big shops in town are further away

Page from a 1960s children’s book with a small black square containing an illustration of the sun moon and stars surrounded by the words Words to talk about near further away many miles hundreds of miles thousands of miles Which is further away?

Something so beautifully plaintive about the contents.
Evokes the near-far, bittersweet distance of childhood photos: rooms we’ll never enter again, relatives caught unguarded in domestic activity, long gone shops that once were sites of wonder to our small selves, autumnal Lucozade cellophane light

That is why as authors we have a particular role in this fight against transphobia. The literary world in England and Ireland owns this.

just finished Birding by @regretteruane.bsky.social. What a beautiful ode to the rickety uncertainties of self + the weird liminal shitholes of the UK. So funny too.

P.S. Carwash is the funniest cat name i’ve ever heard

Ah Steven! Thank you SO much. I’m really happy you enjoyed it and so grateful to you for reading it.
Also, Carwash is the most preening, princessy, self-serious little diva which makes her name even funnier

Pack up the cocktail cabinet babes, we’re moving down under🩷💕