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Doris V. Sutherland
@dorisvsutherland.com
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Author of Midnight Widows comic, horror fiction, and enough Doctor Who stuff to get me a TARDIS wiki article.
Books editor at womenwriteaboutcomics.com.
All opinions are my own.

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Doris V. Sutherland @dorisvsutherland.com · Aug 1
OUT NOW! Trash Tales, an anthology of ultra-lowbrow crime, horror, western, sci-fi and bizarro fiction!

Featuring my story LiCKETY'S GOT THE TOUCH, in which earth's machines begin morphing into robots with ravenous sexual appetites...
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OUT NOW: Trash Tales, Featuring “Lickety’s got the Touch”
It’s here! Trash Tales, a short fiction anthology celebrating the weird and the lowbrow, is available to buy in both paperback and ebook editions. Go here for a list of outlets. Presented by …
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As any true scholar knows, this is the most historically accurate depiction of Helen of Troy to date
Panel from Larry Gonick's Cartoon History ofvthe Universe, depicting Helen of Troy as a cartoon duck with boobs
February 2, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Years ago, I had a thread on Twitter where I went through every Walter de la Mare story in chronological order. I got as far as 1920.
I think it's time I brought that back...
February 2, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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If anyone's curious, this is the full version of that Rowling/Lolita quote
There are two books whose final lines make me cry without fail, irrespective of how many times I read them. One is Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. There is so much I could say about this book, and if you happened to be travelling from Bristol to London by train in 1988 you might have heard me say all of it, because I was having a very loud argument with my sister about it. There just isn't enough time to discuss how a plot that could have been the most worthless pornography becomes, in Nabokov's hands, a great and tragic love story. For those very few people who do not know the story, Humbert Humbert, a fortyish man, abducts the 12-year-old Lolita, who escapes him at the age of 15 for another abuser. Humbert catches up again with her when she is 20, married, poor and heavily pregnant, and he recognises at last that his obsession with her has transcended the physical, when it is too late to repair either of their lives. More relationship misery: JD Salinger's short story Uncle Wiggly In Connecticut, which will always be one of my favourites just for the line: "Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh."
February 2, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Given his showbiz background, I would've thought he'd be familiar with the Streisand Effect.
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Trevor Noah And The Grammys Draw Trump’s Ire As He Threatens To Sue
Sunday night’s Grammy Awards ceremony saw several artists speak out against Trump’s immigration crackdown, while host Trevor Noah mocked the president in his monologues.
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February 2, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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This was drawn the way Epstein typed.
agpasquella.bsky.social A.G. Pasquella @agpasquella.bsky.social · Nov 15
Yep

Remember this drawing from Epstein’s Birthday Book
February 1, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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The British right is making mind-numbingly tedious AI videos of a purple-haired girl going on slow motion diatribes about immigrants.
February 1, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Feeling the lack of WWAC
January 31, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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January was the second of my themed movie months: every week, I watched a film with stop-motion monsters. Read my thoughts on King Kong, Q: The Winged Serpent, RoboCop, Wallace and Gromit and del Toro's Pinocchio here...
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Movie Month December: Stop-Motion Monsters
I decided that each week in January, I’d watch a film with stop-motion monsters. Here are the ones I ended up picking… King Kong (1933, dirs. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack) …
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January 31, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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Time to launch my big essay project of 2026...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Interview with the Vampire, and I've decided to write a series of essays on the work of Anne Rice. The first post is yours to read today:
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Anniversary with the Vampire: 1976 and All That
Louis Pointe du Lac is a vampire. But he is also scornful of vampires. When, after much searching, he finds a community of his own kind, he expresses disdain for how these undead “had made of immor…
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January 27, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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TERFs: "We called our kids Draco"

Also TERFs: "Help, our kids hate us and want to change their names"
supermathskid.bsky.social katie @supermathskid.bsky.social · 7d
with all due respect Ms Perry, calm down
We were the children who queued outside bookstores and cinemas at midnight. We got Harry Potter tattoos, threw Harry Potter themed weddings and named our children after characters from the novels — baby names like Hermione, Luna and Draco. We interpreted our politics through the lens of the wizarding world, comparing those we disagreed with to the books’ main villain, Lord Voldemort, and carrying signs with slogans like “Dumbledore’s Army” and “Hermione wouldn’t stand for this!” at Women’s Marches. And some of us even took deeper moral cues from the books, reading them like a new Bible, treating the works as sacred texts with religious teachings to convey.
January 27, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Time to launch my big essay project of 2026...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Interview with the Vampire, and I've decided to write a series of essays on the work of Anne Rice. The first post is yours to read today:
dorisvsutherland.com/2026/01/27/a...
Anniversary with the Vampire: 1976 and All That
Louis Pointe du Lac is a vampire. But he is also scornful of vampires. When, after much searching, he finds a community of his own kind, he expresses disdain for how these undead “had made of immor…
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January 27, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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Not sure this comment's stood the test of time
paulinekaelbot.bsky.social pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 7d
My dear anonymous letter writers, if you think it is so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets. (1963)
January 26, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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David Lynch might turn out to be the first populist surrealist—a Frank Capra of dream logic. (1986)
January 26, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Help Kirby Bury His Opponents
January 25, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Beano #682, August 13, 1955
Biffo walks past his teacher on the way out of school at 4:00, holding a "KICK ME" sign with both hands while manifesting a third arm to wave goodbye. Buster pokes his surprisingly plump, curvaceous bottom through the doorway and makes a disgusting face. TEACHER (thinking): Biffo's acting queer! BIFFO: Night-night, Teacher! BIFFO (thinking): I daren't let him see the notice!
January 22, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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JDA's avatar always reminds me of the guy in this meme
This Fucking Sucks Actually meme
January 22, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Great gods have greater gods above their heads to smite ’em,
And those gods have still greater gods, and so ad infinitum.
womzilla.bsky.social Kevin J. Maroney, he/him @womzilla.bsky.social · 11d
I have long been oddly haunted by Ovid's observation that the homes of the gods have household shrines to other, unknown gods.
January 22, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Planet of the Apes with Big Naturals
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Improve a movie title by adding "With Big Naturals"
January 22, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I wrote a to-do list last night and one of the items is borderline illegible.
It looks like "WOREDS" and "PAL". I remember writing "PAL" underneath for clarification, but this clearly didn't work.
January 20, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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Post-credits scene has Everett True stepping out of the shadows
January 19, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Dragon's behind you mate
January 19, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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What's Latin for "leopards eating faces"?
The point? There are days I think that because I’m Catholic, there’s always a section of the population that will always declare that Catholics aren’t Patriotic enough. Catholics aren’t American enough. Catholics aren’t enough on the correct side. We can vote in Trump, we’re not right(wing) enough. We can be a quarter of the armed services,18 and God knows how much of the police, but we’re not doing enough. I’m tired of seeing “Catholics aren’t good enough because they are Catholic.” I’m tired of being gaslit and told it’s not happening, as my churches are burned and my fellow Catholics are literally shot at. I’m just … very tired.
January 19, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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"Dennis Dull" by Phil Young, 1994-1994
February 14th, 1994 as seen in the Syracuse Herald-Journal
Single panel comic strip "Dennis Dull." Dennis is at the checkout lane at the grocery store. Caption reads: "Dennis knowingly uses an expired coupon." This strip ran for a week in the Syracuse Herald-Journal at part of a competition to win a spot in the paper. It lost to Ken Grundy and Malcolm Willet's "Tight Corner" and was never heard from again.
January 18, 2026 at 5:13 PM