Cat Finnie
@catfinnie.bsky.social
Freelancer in illustration and design for animation
www.catfinnie.co.uk
www.catfinnie.co.uk
Some books for Xmas break:
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
The Employees - Olga Ravn
The Stone Door - Leonora Carrington
Songs for the Flames - Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
The Employees - Olga Ravn
The Stone Door - Leonora Carrington
Songs for the Flames - Juan Gabriel Vasquez
December 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Some books for Xmas break:
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
The Employees - Olga Ravn
The Stone Door - Leonora Carrington
Songs for the Flames - Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
The Employees - Olga Ravn
The Stone Door - Leonora Carrington
Songs for the Flames - Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Flu vaccine: done! Hoping to keep myself trucking smoothly through to deadlines in Feb!
December 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Flu vaccine: done! Hoping to keep myself trucking smoothly through to deadlines in Feb!
No thoughts, only Rosalia Lux album
November 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
No thoughts, only Rosalia Lux album
Never gonna stop thinkimg about the French senior civil servant who drugged his (female) interviewees with diuretic and then made sure they wouldn't be able to use the toilet. Kept a spreadsheet of 'results', labelled "Experiments".
Over 240 potential victim cases to investigate
Over 240 potential victim cases to investigate
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Never gonna stop thinkimg about the French senior civil servant who drugged his (female) interviewees with diuretic and then made sure they wouldn't be able to use the toilet. Kept a spreadsheet of 'results', labelled "Experiments".
Over 240 potential victim cases to investigate
Over 240 potential victim cases to investigate
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least sandpiper bein all cute
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
least sandpiper bein all cute
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New cover for Lora Beth Johnson's "HELL TO PAY." What a fun Greek mythology inspired book about a heist in the underworld. Thank you to AD Kristie for having me on!
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New cover for Lora Beth Johnson's "HELL TO PAY." What a fun Greek mythology inspired book about a heist in the underworld. Thank you to AD Kristie for having me on!
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"It is not quite true that Stratford International has never seen an international train: it sees them rather a lot. What is true, however, is that they don’t stop. Not once; not ever.
"What, you might wonder, the hell?"
So - why *isn't* Stratford International served by international trains?
"What, you might wonder, the hell?"
So - why *isn't* Stratford International served by international trains?
International Services
This week: some scattered thoughts on events in the US; and a surprisingly long-read about why Stratford International station has never seen an international train.
jonn.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"It is not quite true that Stratford International has never seen an international train: it sees them rather a lot. What is true, however, is that they don’t stop. Not once; not ever.
"What, you might wonder, the hell?"
So - why *isn't* Stratford International served by international trains?
"What, you might wonder, the hell?"
So - why *isn't* Stratford International served by international trains?
Train Dreams: an admirable job at the adaptation. Edgerton really carries it. Gotta admit, havimg read the book, knowing the plot, I was almost a mess even from the building of the homestead.
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Train Dreams: an admirable job at the adaptation. Edgerton really carries it. Gotta admit, havimg read the book, knowing the plot, I was almost a mess even from the building of the homestead.
So, I saw Frankenstein in the theatre last week. It is very beautiful! But I felt it lacked something that elevates del Toro films (and monster films more generally), which is a deep sense of mystery and ambiguity
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
So, I saw Frankenstein in the theatre last week. It is very beautiful! But I felt it lacked something that elevates del Toro films (and monster films more generally), which is a deep sense of mystery and ambiguity
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I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers
I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.
Fuckin yikes, man
October 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers
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Hey #portfolioday!!
I'm a digital artist who creates commissioned art for #startrek #fanfiction projects - Had some wonderful opportunities to help out some fantastic folk and love to help others with their projects - even happy to jump star franchises ;) Thanks so much!
I'm a digital artist who creates commissioned art for #startrek #fanfiction projects - Had some wonderful opportunities to help out some fantastic folk and love to help others with their projects - even happy to jump star franchises ;) Thanks so much!
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Hey #portfolioday!!
I'm a digital artist who creates commissioned art for #startrek #fanfiction projects - Had some wonderful opportunities to help out some fantastic folk and love to help others with their projects - even happy to jump star franchises ;) Thanks so much!
I'm a digital artist who creates commissioned art for #startrek #fanfiction projects - Had some wonderful opportunities to help out some fantastic folk and love to help others with their projects - even happy to jump star franchises ;) Thanks so much!
Not Clegg crawling back out the ground to jump-scare ya with the most obvious sh**
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Not Clegg crawling back out the ground to jump-scare ya with the most obvious sh**
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A cool charity in Hoxton that teaches & gives disadvantaged kids skills in filmmaking has asked me a question:
Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run?
They've been doing good work for 25+ years.
Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run?
They've been doing good work for 25+ years.
October 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A cool charity in Hoxton that teaches & gives disadvantaged kids skills in filmmaking has asked me a question:
Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run?
They've been doing good work for 25+ years.
Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run?
They've been doing good work for 25+ years.
V annoying, personally, to be a person who takes schedules literally, in a world where we're not all doing that. Ugh, not my week this week
October 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
V annoying, personally, to be a person who takes schedules literally, in a world where we're not all doing that. Ugh, not my week this week
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IMPORTANT
All freelancers, self-employed, creatives
This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices
Deadline to respond is 23 October
1/2
All freelancers, self-employed, creatives
This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices
Deadline to respond is 23 October
1/2
October 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
IMPORTANT
All freelancers, self-employed, creatives
This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices
Deadline to respond is 23 October
1/2
All freelancers, self-employed, creatives
This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices
Deadline to respond is 23 October
1/2
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Cover for Celine Leonora's "A Lesson in Murder," published by Arena-Verlag. This was my first time working with a German publishing company and they were so polite, and efficient, and respectful 🥲 13/10 client.
October 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Cover for Celine Leonora's "A Lesson in Murder," published by Arena-Verlag. This was my first time working with a German publishing company and they were so polite, and efficient, and respectful 🥲 13/10 client.
What I think of every time someone says they're "thinking of selling and moving to UAE". This, and cartels and money laundering
Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Every day I cry’: 50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system
Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’, the kafala labour code persists, allowing employers to abuse women, who vanish from society. This is the testimony of some of those workers,...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
What I think of every time someone says they're "thinking of selling and moving to UAE". This, and cartels and money laundering
Photoshop rapidly reducing it's functionality to nil as it repeatedly deletes my brushes (that I'm using, that I NEED!) on updates.
Can't even start a new blank doc now. Gotta be a template.
Bye bye creative professionals, I guess!
Can't even start a new blank doc now. Gotta be a template.
Bye bye creative professionals, I guess!
October 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Photoshop rapidly reducing it's functionality to nil as it repeatedly deletes my brushes (that I'm using, that I NEED!) on updates.
Can't even start a new blank doc now. Gotta be a template.
Bye bye creative professionals, I guess!
Can't even start a new blank doc now. Gotta be a template.
Bye bye creative professionals, I guess!
Only Garmin people will understand this, but I did a textbook sleep. Lol, proud moments.
October 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Only Garmin people will understand this, but I did a textbook sleep. Lol, proud moments.
Here to Report: One Battle After Another is a top tier movie. Back in the all-timer bracket, after I personally found Liquorice Pizza only ok - I've got no notes here, just a classy, absolutely of-the-moment, pacy and heartfelt poke in the eye of white supremacy, set to great music
September 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Here to Report: One Battle After Another is a top tier movie. Back in the all-timer bracket, after I personally found Liquorice Pizza only ok - I've got no notes here, just a classy, absolutely of-the-moment, pacy and heartfelt poke in the eye of white supremacy, set to great music
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To celebrate The Booker Prize shortlist we have teamed up for a desk set giveaway! You can enter here thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
September 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
To celebrate The Booker Prize shortlist we have teamed up for a desk set giveaway! You can enter here thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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I put on the electric blanket for the first time last night, which means it’s that time of year for me to say… if you get cold at night, get an electric blanket! They’re cheap to buy – mine was £40 – and much cheaper to run than heating a draughty British house. And so cosy. Going to bed is A JOY
September 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I put on the electric blanket for the first time last night, which means it’s that time of year for me to say… if you get cold at night, get an electric blanket! They’re cheap to buy – mine was £40 – and much cheaper to run than heating a draughty British house. And so cosy. Going to bed is A JOY
BOOK COVER ARTISTS
QRP with your book covers 📚
#BookCovers
Red and pink editions 🩸
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Well, I've just got this one, but I'd love to work on more of these sometime :) Sending that into the universe ✨
QRP with your book covers 📚
#BookCovers
Red and pink editions 🩸
....................................................
Well, I've just got this one, but I'd love to work on more of these sometime :) Sending that into the universe ✨
September 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
BOOK COVER ARTISTS
QRP with your book covers 📚
#BookCovers
Red and pink editions 🩸
....................................................
Well, I've just got this one, but I'd love to work on more of these sometime :) Sending that into the universe ✨
QRP with your book covers 📚
#BookCovers
Red and pink editions 🩸
....................................................
Well, I've just got this one, but I'd love to work on more of these sometime :) Sending that into the universe ✨