CJ Francis
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Writer. Slytherin. Trying to find his place in the world as someone who can bring fun and entertainment to people.
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I couldn't work for WHSmith
There are few things that will seemingly last forever, whatever happens. Cockroaches, Happy Meals, WHSmiths. The way the world is, it's incredible that while many high street shops are in trouble or closing down, the most baffling of mainstays on the British high street remains. WHSmith. If you need a bomb shelter, you might as well find yourself finding salvation in the husk of a WHSmith.
By CJ Francis5 years ago in Confessions
I couldn't be Avril Lavigne
There's something about being 30 and clamering onto youth. I feel in a very comfortable place where I can still enjoy all the things I have been enjoying up til now, with no real plans of properly growing up anytime soon, but there is just that odd feeling when I press to open my TikTok app and watch creators just over a third my age being the new geniuses of editing and content and remembering complex choreography.
By CJ Francis5 years ago in Beat
I couldn't be my 21-year-old self
It was early in the morning at a McDonalds getting breakfast when I got an email from my 21-year-old self. Present day, I'm 30, but on the last day of living in my university flat, I apparently sent myself an email to the future.
By CJ Francis5 years ago in Confessions
Lighthouse
“I don’t see why we have to man this,” Jack said. “Come on, Jack, you know why.” In truth, the lighthouse seemed a bit pointless in this day and age. Technology had surely given ships ways to see and be warned of things on the horizon. Any captain in their right mind ignoring all warning signs deserved to crash.
By CJ Francis5 years ago in Fiction
I couldn't be Scrooge McDuck
I've been watching a lot of Disney+ lately. I mean, I've been doing it since the service launched. It's not like there's been a lot else to do inside. My girlfriend and I have adapted a morning routine where we can (Even when the mornings start in the early afternoon), which is essentially a Saturday Morning Cartoon simulator where every day is Saturday Morning over breakfast with the addition of existential dread.
By CJ Francis5 years ago in Humans
Below
LUKE Autumn leaves crunched underfoot as Luke and his travelling party sought shelter from the oncoming nuclear winter. That warm cosy smell one would usually get a feel of that time of year was hidden behind the fumes of rubber gas masks stretched over the groups’ faces.
By CJ Francis5 years ago in Fiction
I couldn't be a deep-sea diver.
I find it insane that we know more about space than we do the depths of our oceans. Truly, the fact that we know so much about the skies above us to the degree we have multiple chocolate bars named after the contents of our galaxies and not a single one about anything below sea level is intimidating.
By CJ Francis5 years ago in Earth
The Mummy (2017) Review
Universal are getting into the shared movie universe game with its Dark Universe brand. Because of course, it is. In all fairness, the concept of making modern updates to the classic line-up of Universal monsters is an interesting one. Too bad their first and now-aborted attempt – Dracula Untold – was a sign that good things weren’t exactly to come.
By CJ Francis9 years ago in Geeks
