Your Own Personal Elle Boyd

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Transcriptionist by day, writer by night. Cat wrangling Bluenoser. 🇨🇦 Links to some of my shorties: https://elleboyd.com/ Unsolicited DMs will be ignored like the scourge they are.

Kjell (ginger and white) and Ayden (black and white) loafing on a rectangle of green turf on my concrete balcony. Ayden is looking at the camera and Kjell's big ol' butt is facing me, hah.
Nothing Tastes as Good - bite out of a jelly doughnut oozing red filling - Luke Dumas. White background.
Jelly on office chair (covered by a sham cover), snoozing. Ginger and white kitty.
Sorry, no gif for mine! Poster for Raise the Red Lantern, starring Gong Li, directed by Zhang Yimou. Gong Li sits on a brick structure in winter, in a blue Chinese style coat and red and black muff. Looking gorgeous as always.
Album cover for Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos. All white cover with Tori crouching in a box.
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. Background: a nice pink-to-blue sunrise/sunset. Low yellow mountain range. Centre/bottom: square hole in the green-to-purple ground with a white ladder sticking out of it.
Captain Jack Harkness! John Harrowman in promo shot, trench coat, foggy background, standing a bit our left and looking to the right all stoic-like.
Big-ass zucchini at a farmer's market stall! Next to some bagged carrots and in the background middle-aged women checking out the other produce.
Hmmm, how do describe? Me sitting on a couch in a ratty brown t-shirt, lovely crocheted blue and white blanket on my lap, topped with two cats. Maxi, shaved (she was much happier that way), black and white tuxedo, sitting beside me; Heathcliff, all black, lying on my lap. I'm scratching Maxi's chin.
Jelly, ginger and white fat kitty, reclining on blue couch with brown sheet on it, ears half back, ready for another rumble of thunder.
Lovely orange azaleas. Unfortunately there's no greenery on the bush, so there are these bright orange blossoms on the ends of spindly bare branches. :-D
Ayden, white with black kitty, stretched out on my black desk. One paw is reaching for my headphones (I'm a transcriptionist), another on my laptop. His back is against my separate keyboard. What a cat.
Shadow. She was a big girl. White with grey kitty lying on her back snoozing with all four paws in the air, on a light-coloured couch (covered with a brown patterned sham cover).
Ayden in an impossible pose. White cat with black, tummy up, on brown rug, bent into a C. Front paw pressed against black ottoman for leverage, I guess. Also, he likes to scratch it. Fortunately we don't care. It's faux leather anyway.
Ayden and Kjell (aka Jelly) sunning themselves on the living room floor. Ayden (white with black) sits next to his brother (ginger and white), who's lying on his side and looking askance in the camera's general direction. Grey cat tree in the background.
Dog Sammich. What looks like a corgi with a slice of bread on his face. :-D Like a hole pulled out for his nose so it covers his eyes. I'm terrible at describing things. He's wearing a slice of bread over his nose on what looks like his family's deck.
Lisa Genova in blue. Still Alice in black. White background with blue translucent butterfly wings near the bottom. The OG cover without Julianne More.
Two cats sitting next to each other on a brown faux-wood floor. Left: Kjell, white and ginger, looking at camera; right, Ayden, white and black looking downish.
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, Toby Wilkinson in a black banner mid-cover. Top: detail of woman's face from ancient Egypt; bottom: wall painting from the tomb of Nacht (hard to describe - a woman in white holding reeds and leafy things on either side, general chaos in the middle. Pots? Geese? Plants?).
Pretty grey and white tuxedo kitty on a once-green-painted balcony (the paint was really peeling), one paw holding down a purple ribbon, looking up at ... something that's caught her eye.
Background: misty-looking green spindly trees. Overlay: In the Woods (white) Tana French (yellow). Nice enough cover - I've seen worse.
Black and white kitty lying on interlocking gym mats with his nose in my white sneaker. He's next to a treadmill (aka cat bed) with a blanket on it.
Centre (well, slightly right): bloodshot-looking green eye with cracked iris. Top: Richard Preston. Bottom: The Cobra Event. It's a meh cover, not gonna lie.
Me, in the early 2000s. Putting on lipstick in bedroom mirror. Photo taken from behind, so my back is in the foreground. Lovely gray cap-sleeved shirt with lace overlay, short curly dark hair, leaning in and lipstick pressed to lips. Those were the days.
Ayden crouching on my laptop. White with black kitty ... crouching on laptop. :-D On black desk? Black cable from laptop to out of picture.
Me. :-D Head and shoulders shot with glasses on top of my head, hair back in a ponytail, smiling at the camera and about to take a sip of wine. My wedding ring is on my pinkie because sometimes it itches my finger.
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, by Mary Gabriel. Red book with black silhouettes of Karl and Jenny facing each other. Title above; subtitle below.
I NEVER thought this photo would see the light of day. :-D Me aged about two? standing and smiling at the camera in a pair of blue overalls with red-and-white checked patches. Very seventies chair to the right with a calico kitty underneath.
Tabby-striped kitten with white tummy on a grey fabric and wood stool with a blurry paw out for a dangling yellow feathered teaser toy. And his mouth is half open. He's ready to make mince meat of this thing.
Front cover of Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Tough to describe: Title tall, front and centre. Above: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities. Behind: Sixteen square images, four to a row, of a white blonde woman with different filters - some blurry, some pink, some dark.
Ayden loves bags! On hardwood-looking laminate, white-and-black kitty lying in a canvas bag (from a local second-hand bookstore). He's almost looking up at the camera, but just off to one side.
Front cover. Black and white photo of Mr. Cumming with a hand up to his forehead and looking downish. In blue over his chest: Not My Father's Son. White: A Memoir. Green: Alan Cumming. Really good book.
Ayden (black and white kitty) snoozing in round green laundry basket. Photo taken from above; basket on ugly brown area rug. Can't wait to replace it!
Back end of Ayden, black and white shorthair, as he disappears behind my separate monitor while stepping on my laptop. What a cat.
The Cleanup by John Skipp and Craig Spector, front cover: title in rainbow colours at top, main image: profile of white male face in silhouette save his eye, and near his lips: chalk outline of dead woman. Red background. It was the 80s. I read a lot of horror.
Kjell, my fat ginger and white cat, loafing on my sneakers. To the left: a treadmill with a cat blanket on it (blue sheet underneath). Needless to say, it hasn't been used in awhile.
The Three Amigos! Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short, posing in their black with white embroidery Mexican outfits (complete with sombreros) in front of a fake cactus.
The inimitable Gong Li in a red collared robe and red headband sitting in a red bed holding a metal-looking hand warming thing and lamps with big red lampshades on either side. Gong Li is looking concerned, which she should, since her secret is known.
White and black kitty sitting pretty on a concrete balcony. A row of townhouses in the background.
Front cover of Smashed by Junji Ito. How to describe? Coloured pencil drawing of a woman's head with a large leaf-shaped cut in the forehead. Big eyes staring at nothing. What look like a hand and some teeth underneath, surrounded by pencil strokes in various colours radiating out from the head. It's a trip.
Sybil and Basil Fawlty from Fawlty Towers standing outside their hotel.
Overlay: DreamTime in brownish letters with blue and pink border. Image underneath: Young Asian woman in white sweater with black top beneath, hands behind her neck so her elbows are in camera. She looks a little distressed. Blurred city lights background.
DreamTime movieboard pitch. Three vertically long images. Left: Can't even describe. :-D Everything is pinkish-purplish. Tree in far shot. Grass, then sand maybe, bit of water. Sorry. Next: Asian woman in white holding white glowing orb. She's in what looks like a fake ice cave. Last: City scape at night. Tall buildings lit up, busy street below.
Orange background, large pattern of leopards, like three between cuff and toe.
Catherine Steadman on top, Mr. Nobody on bottom, large tall letters. Beach nearing sunset, nice yellows and oranges, silhouette of a man standing on purplish sand.
White painted wooden owl on a little unpainted wooden base on a wooden TV tray. Lotta wood here.
Overhead photo. Ayden (black & white) half-loafing next to Kjill (ginger and white), who's lying on his side. Catnip toys between them. They're on a fringed blanket from their former home, which is on a blue sheet, which is on a treadmill. Which is just a big cat bed now.
Two cats on windowsill looking out open window, backs to camera. Left: Kjill (Chell), ginger and white; right: Ayden, black and white (mostly white).
Front cover of An Accidental Villain by Linden MacIntyre: A Soldier's Tale of War, Deceit and Exile. Large title in red, bottom half of cover is black and white photo of ... fire being put out in background? Foreground right, guy in 1920s garb walking, and middle ground two boys in short pants walking away from camera.
Kjill, ginger and white cat, chillin' in half-open dresser drawer. This fat cat is determined to fit ~everywhere.~
White and black cat standing in boring-looking hallway looking to the right of the camera.
Two kitties on a windowsill! Left: white with black kitty crouching; right, ginger and white kitty sitting, both looking toward (but not quite at) the camera.
Front cover of The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Title in large red font; artist's rendition of an infected cell? - green circle with red and blue "stuff" on it. Underneath: A Terrifying True Story.
"My mother always expected me to be a writer, probably because I had a rich imagination as a child. I had an army of imaginary friends and I used to scrawl stories about them and draw scenes of us all playing together. My mother would tell family and friends that I was going to be a Pulitzer Prize winner. I hated to disappoint her, but writing was her dream, not mine. For some reason, she was under the impression that once you had kids you could no longer pursue a career in the arts."
Black & white tuxedo kitty sitting on brown floor looking up at camera in front of two empty food dishes
Sophia Petrillo from Golden Girls sitting in the kitchen in a bluish ... housecoat? One arm raised while speaking. Text: Picture it. Sicily, 1912.
Nicolas Cage with his eyebrows raised and eyes wide and a weird half-smile, just looking like his crazy-ass self. Image from a film, not sure which one.
Grey and white tuxedo kitty sitting outside on balcony. Head and shoulders shot. She's looking to our right.
The inimitable Robert Plant in profile, smiling and hitting a tambourine at some fairly recent concert.
Book cover: Emma Healey Elizabeth is Missing. White background, blackish circle drawn around title and author, drawing of a bird in a cage at bottom (also in the circle).