During her civil war service as a nurse, Louisa took care of the wounded soldier John Suhre. John who was a German descendant made an ever-lasting impression on Louisa and she captured his character to her first successful novel Hospital sketches. What we know about John is that he had…

I believe the “modern” around the world in 80 days” ditched princess Aouda as a love interest because they don’t want to handle Britain’s past colonizing India. Which I find to be quite pathetic. In the 80s version, for example, colonization was acknowledged and the character of Aouda often was…

Chapter friend in Little Women always reminds me of my first illustration assignment. I was paid poorly. The client constantly kept asking me to change things and I was very unhappy with myself and with the entire project. I was also very young, naive and inexperienced, and still today I…

Big thanks Harvey_King (Delphi) for letting me read this true Jo and Friedrich fan fiction classic!! I can’t tell you how many times I have actually read this fic :D (hashtag bhaerophiles!) and also how crazy and awesome is it that Jo’s sexual awakening in New York with Fritz…

Discussion between Christina and Niina. Christina: Yeah, and again I think people don´t realize that like when they read the first book they just kinda go like “That´s it, she just gave up and never wrote again. No, she does manage to write and I think they try to…

Book Jo´s feminine qualities (that many like to ignore) Niina: Somebody commented on my Instagram that there are a lot of people who say that they are like Jo, but then they are actually not at all like the book Jo, because in the book Jo, there are some…

Podcast discussion between Niina and Christina. Christina: I think that too, he sort of saw Jo as almost a safety net. That no matter what could happen. Good or bad. He could go to Jo and she would be like. “It´s alright Laurie, it´s fine. Everything is going to be…

Some people are born to be parents. Discussion with Niina and Christina. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W002clky8G0 Niina: The whole story about Laddie (Wisniewski) I think one of the reasons why Louisa liked to hang out with him…it´s almost like she always wanted to have somebody there that she could take care of. Was…