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Ella Frænka
@ellafraenka.bsky.social
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She/her, cis, het.
Aunty Ella, it's the best job in the world.
1 husband, 5 cats, lots of niblings.
Knitter and watcher of K-dramas.
Went back to University and am working on my BA in English, and did Korean classes just for fun (안녕하세요 🫰🏻)
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Look at this handsome fella, just chilling in his cat cave.
Gray tabby cat resting inside a gray cat cave, his head looking out.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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He kept trying to get into the box (I was storing partial yarn balls in it) so I ended up emptying it. This is the result.

He's adorkable 🥰
A gray tabby cat in a shoebox that is bulging as he really is too big for it.
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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VERY.

I like it short, easy to manage, nothing tickling my neck.
Ella, a Caucasian woman in a black turtleneck, with earbuds and glasses, sporting a new VERY short haircut.
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Hwang Dong-Hyuk, the director of Miss Granny, which was shown today is, here in Iceland as a guest of honor at Iceland Noir. He heard about the Korean film festival, and that one of his movies was being shown and accepted our greetings and thanks before we watched the movie. 🫰🏻
3 Korean people sitting in front of a movie screen looking into an auditorium full of people. Only the backs of the heads of the people in the first few rows can be seen.
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Justin case you are wondering what I'm doing this weekend.
Ella in a black turtleneck standing in front of a stand up poster in blues and pinks with a white text saying "1st Korean film festival Iceland 2025".
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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The bathrooms at the Lava Show in Vík are unisex. I like that.

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Three white doors, each with a sign showing both a male presenting and a female presenting person and the word Toilet below.
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Cold but nice day for a drive. Stopped by Skool Beans Cafe in Vík.

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A yellow school bus that has been transformed into a Cafe.
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Checking in on Kúri today. A story in two images.
Two pictures of Kúri on a pale blue background. The top one shows him resting on his back, paws up in the air. Next to it is a black text saying "Resting". The bottom one is slightly blurred but shows him on his belly after having flipped over. Next to it is a black text saying "Noticed the human".
November 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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There was a lot of 1.2 - 2x speed listening this month. Re-reads only as I do want to catch nuances during a first listen. It has meant that the normal 1x speed feels REALLY slow
Image showing a graph from The StoryGraph app displaying my reading stats for the month of October. 27 books read, 272.58 hours listened, mostly fantasy, romance, and science fiction.
November 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Took HaNa to the vet today... The vet's name: Hanna. I was amused 😊

HaNa was a very brave girl, and it really helped that I gave her Bonqat a couple of hours before the appointment. It's a medicine that helps with the stress of travel and vet visits.
HaNa, a gray cat, laying on top of a flattened crocheted cat cave.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Una (은하) is a lovely little void.
A black female cat laying on a quilt
October 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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What feeling is she displaying here? It could be anything 🤷🏻‍♂️
A close up of Kim Yoo Ri's face. A Korean woman with long dark hair that is loose on her right side but tucked behind her ear on her left.
October 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Day 8. Behold my recklessness
White background. Upper left corner has a black dot with the number 8 and a period in white letters. Next to it is the word "reckless" in black letters. Below is a white box with black outlines. Inside, and outside the lines, is a reckless drawing of a blue box that is more like a diamond. On top of that is a recklessly drawn pink triangle. And on top of those is a recklessly drawn yellow spiral that overlaps itself and is very wonky. An especially crappy picture!
October 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Day 7. In the sky or the sea, baby, you're a star to me!
White background. Upper left corner has a black dot with the number 7 and a period in white letters. Next to the dot in the center of the image is the word "starfish" in black letters. Below is a white box framed by black lines. Inside is a crappy drawing of a yellow star with green eyes and a pink mouth in the center. Surrounding it are blue squiggly lines supposed to indicate an ocean to make it a starfish rather than a star in the sky.
October 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Day 6 - I forgot to draw and post yesterday 🤦🏻‍♂️
White background. Upper left corner has a black dot with the number 6 and a period in white. Next to it is the word "pierce". White box with a black frame inside which is the outline of a pink heart with a blue arrow piercing it.
October 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Day 5.

Hello dear!
White background. Upper left corner has a black dot with the number five and a period in white letters. Next to it is the word Deer. Below is a white box framed by a black border. Inside the box is a crappy black line drawing of what is supposed to be a deer.
October 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Day 4.

Behold a crappy landscape and murky water!
White background. Upper left corner has a black dot in which there is the number four and a dot in white. Next to it is the word "murky". Below is a white box with a black border, inside there is a crappy landscape picture with a yellow triangle in the top left corner, green squiggles creating an irregularly shaped border just above the middle of the box, and below that are blue squiggles with a couple of broader black squiggles. If one has a good imagination then this is a depiction of "murky water".
October 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Day 3 - behold my crappy royalty.
A white background. In the top left corner is a black dot with the number 3 and a period written in white. Next to it is the word "crown". There is a white box with black outlines. Inside the box is a crappy drawing of a crown. The outlines are yellow, there is a tall spike in the center with two bumps on either side, and half visible bumps on either side of those due to the circularity of a crown. In the center and side spikes are a pink diamond and two halves of diamonds visible. The two bumps between those each have a green dot. Just above the bottom of the crown is a cross hatched band and below it are 9 small blue dots. A proper crappy crown.
October 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Day 2 - this year's pictures continue on my theme of crappy pictures no matter what the prompt is.
White background, at the top there's a black circle with the number 2 and a period, then the word "weave". Below is a white box outlined with black. Inside the box there are 8 pink vertical lines, and 24 shorter blue lines that only reach between the outermost pink lines. This is a crappy picture intended to depict a woven fabric.
October 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Most of my books these days are audio or ebooks. On the other hand...
A primarily blue picture. A woman with a knitting project and 3 balls of yarn (these are in red and white) is sitting on a blue sofa. Above her is the text: I knit, therefore I am always armed with two really sharp sticks, sturdy yarn and scissors. There is a white speech bubble with a black text on her left in which is the text: Don't mess with me.
October 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Erin Taylor's prompt for inktober and my offering. I'm doing it on my reMarkable Paper Pro.

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A white background. At the top a black dot with the number one and a dot, and the word "mustache" in black letters. Below is a white box framed by a black border. In the center of box, just below the middle is a tight squiggle made with a black inked thick tipped pen suggesting a mustache.
October 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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My September reads. The days with 0 minutes listened are me forgetting to log, because I definitely listen every day. I continue to be amused that while I mainly/only listen to audio books, the average book length is in page numbers.
A stats image with the following text: Ella fraenka's September 2025 wrap-up. Books: 13. Hours: 175.18. First, middle, last: showing 3 different book covers. Average book length: 350 pages. Average time to finish: 3 days. Compared to August : 19% fewer books, 0% difference in pages, 32% increase in hours. At the bottom there is a graph showing the number of minutes listened each day - it has 4 days showing 0 minutes which is me forgetting to log my reading. An image showing 13 different book covers. The books are: System Collapse by Martha Wells. Passing by Nella Larsen. The Human Division, Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigade, The End Of All Things, The Shattering Peace, The Last Colony, Lock In, and Head On by John Scalzi. Washington Square by Henry James. The Clan of the Cave Bear, and The Valley of Horses by Jean M. Auel.
October 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Look at my void. Una (은하) is a lovely girl 🖤

#proofofcat
A black cat inside a cat cave (box with a round opening that fits into a Kallax shelving unit from IKEA). The cave has a white fabric with black lines and dots where the lines intersect. The cat itself is barely visible due to the darkness inside and the black fur, but two yellow green eyes are visible.
September 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Actress Uhm Jung Wha. Her face drives me to distraction. She's really talented but she's had so much work done on her face that I cannot see anything else.
A head shot of actress Uhm Jung Wha in her role as Doctor Cha. She is a Korean woman with dark shoulder length hair, brown eyes and what looks to be a nose, cheeks, lips and chin that have been sculpted or otherwise "enhanced". Her facial skin is also unnaturally smooth give that in the picture she is 54 years old.
September 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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HaNa (하나) still does not like hands and shies away from touch. However, when I go to bed she runs to bed with me, plonks down against DH's leg and gets comfortable. She may not stay long, but she'll return to bed now and then during the night.

I think she likes us... Just not hands!
HaNa sitting on a blue pullover that's being dried on a towel on a bed. Brown curtains in the background. HaNa is a solid gray female cat with a hint of gray tabby in her tail. She is almost 15 months old.
September 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM