Author archive for Olivia Allen

Have you ever read a fantasy story where there’s a neutral space with a collection of portals that lead...

Are you looking for a good tv show to watch? Have you ever wanted your brain so twisted up...

I am in a class on Russian fairytales (which, if you were wondering, dark stuff) and one of the...

Spoilers for the movie Bird Box…in case you didn’t guess… I’ve never been a scary movie person. I don’t...

Spoilers for the Netflix show Russian Doll. You have been warned.   “The universe is trying to fuck with...

Short stories are difficult. I love reading them, I don’t love writing them. I sometimes have to write them...

College textbooks are infamously expensive. It’s terrible and needs to stop. But, I’m lucky to be in a lot...

Have you ever been really interested in something you don’t feel like you know enough to learn about? Example,...

Hello and welcome to the same article that half the internet has already written. I haven’t written it yet...

I always like to act like I’m too cool for New Year’s Resolutions; you know, the sarcastic “sure, well...

We have made up something called “The New Year”. TNY happens arbitrarily on December the 31st at midnight. Don’t...

Happy Holidays friends, here I am, come to bring you the gift of podcast recommendations. I am a fan...

We are approaching Winter in Boulder (perhaps already in Winter, my friends can’t agree on an answer). The sun...

Why are we obsessed with death? Why are we so fascinated with immortality? Maybe because death is a true...

This is very stream of consciousness. Sorry.   If you caught my last blog, https://ideasorlando.com/blog/oliviathebird-twitter-is-hard/,then you already know I don’t...

2014: @OliviatheBird: Twitter is fun 2018: @OliviatheBird: I’m going through all my old tweets for a blog post. This is wild....

I have epilepsy, I have OCD, I have an eating disorder…and I’m cool with talking about that. I wasn’t...

I have been interested in Mythology for a very long time. I learned about the Greek Myths in elementary...

Note: This is not one of those “what you look like doesn’t matter, it’s what’s on the inside that...