Cat Finnie
@catfinnie.bsky.social
Freelancer in illustration and design for animation
www.catfinnie.co.uk
www.catfinnie.co.uk
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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 🩸
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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 ✨
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 ✨
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
But the thing is, they all say perfectly reasonable things sometimes - innocuous things anyone might agree with. Things that get people hooked onto the content in the first place.
That's why it's better to be specific when describing what is unacceptable.
That's why it's better to be specific when describing what is unacceptable.
September 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
But the thing is, they all say perfectly reasonable things sometimes - innocuous things anyone might agree with. Things that get people hooked onto the content in the first place.
That's why it's better to be specific when describing what is unacceptable.
That's why it's better to be specific when describing what is unacceptable.
Went to see Little Trouble Girls which was quite poetic and lovely.
Amusingly, it opened to a close shot of Christ's Side Wound as depicted in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg - an artwork some audience members may have been hitherto unaware of, judging by the shocked gasp, lmao
Amusingly, it opened to a close shot of Christ's Side Wound as depicted in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg - an artwork some audience members may have been hitherto unaware of, judging by the shocked gasp, lmao
September 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Went to see Little Trouble Girls which was quite poetic and lovely.
Amusingly, it opened to a close shot of Christ's Side Wound as depicted in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg - an artwork some audience members may have been hitherto unaware of, judging by the shocked gasp, lmao
Amusingly, it opened to a close shot of Christ's Side Wound as depicted in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg - an artwork some audience members may have been hitherto unaware of, judging by the shocked gasp, lmao
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only around a decade to go until another PM thinks "I know, I should hire Peter Mandelson"
September 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
only around a decade to go until another PM thinks "I know, I should hire Peter Mandelson"
Do we not think there's a wee bit of a problem, though, because the Epst**n file is sealed (by Tr*mp), and now we know our ambassador for US is compromised by its contents. Essentially, the US president has compromat on the guy we pay to do our negotiations there.
Is this just... all fine?
Is this just... all fine?
Sorry but if they boot Rayner over the tax thing but don't boot Mandelson over the 'Bessie mates with the dodgiest, highest profile millionaire pedo the world has known' thing, then I'm done
September 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Do we not think there's a wee bit of a problem, though, because the Epst**n file is sealed (by Tr*mp), and now we know our ambassador for US is compromised by its contents. Essentially, the US president has compromat on the guy we pay to do our negotiations there.
Is this just... all fine?
Is this just... all fine?