Doris V. Sutherland
@dorisvsutherland.com
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.
https://www.dorisvsutherland.com
https://www.patreon.com/dorvsutherland
Books editor at womenwriteaboutcomics.com.
All opinions are my own.
https://www.dorisvsutherland.com
https://www.patreon.com/dorvsutherland
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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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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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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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Christmas with a seafaring theme in Wells, North Norfolk.
November 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Christmas with a seafaring theme in Wells, North Norfolk.
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Today's Oscar-qualified short is 'Two Black Boys in Paradise,' a striking stop-motion film from director Baz Sells and One6th Animation Studio, exploring queer love, vulnerability, and self-acceptance.
www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/two-b...
www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/two-b...
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Today's Oscar-qualified short is 'Two Black Boys in Paradise,' a striking stop-motion film from director Baz Sells and One6th Animation Studio, exploring queer love, vulnerability, and self-acceptance.
www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/two-b...
www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/two-b...
Turns out you can give Biffo one of the hideous melty faces from that Christmas mural in Kingston and it does nothing to alter his design
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Turns out you can give Biffo one of the hideous melty faces from that Christmas mural in Kingston and it does nothing to alter his design
OOH CRIKEY YA GAVE ME A SMASH ON THE NOGGIN LAST YEAR
People forget that Great Britain is basically Alabama outside of London only poorer people with weaker constitutions and worse food.
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
OOH CRIKEY YA GAVE ME A SMASH ON THE NOGGIN LAST YEAR
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The Lexington Leader
Lexington Kentucky
Tuesday,November 18,1919
Lexington Kentucky
Tuesday,November 18,1919
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The Lexington Leader
Lexington Kentucky
Tuesday,November 18,1919
Lexington Kentucky
Tuesday,November 18,1919
Ho ho ho
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Ho ho ho
Saw this meme's still doing the rounds, decided to fix it
November 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Saw this meme's still doing the rounds, decided to fix it
Out today! And I'm in it too...
Good evening my creatures of the night, I come to you this Halloween with a truly chilling announcement!
My story, “The Black Dog of Hampstead,” will be featured in Dracula Beyond Stoker magazine’s Mina Harker issue! Out November!
Visit dbspress.com/shop-1/p/issue… to claim yours!
My story, “The Black Dog of Hampstead,” will be featured in Dracula Beyond Stoker magazine’s Mina Harker issue! Out November!
Visit dbspress.com/shop-1/p/issue… to claim yours!
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Out today! And I'm in it too...
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14 Nov 2025
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
14 Nov 2025
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Of all the wonderful creations of Paula Rego I saw this morning at Norwich Castle, this masterpiece has really stayed with me. Her ability to find inspiration in nursery rhymes - here, “Hey Diddle Diddle” - just amazes me.
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Of all the wonderful creations of Paula Rego I saw this morning at Norwich Castle, this masterpiece has really stayed with me. Her ability to find inspiration in nursery rhymes - here, “Hey Diddle Diddle” - just amazes me.
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Does anyone have a solidly-referenced resource on the NaNoWriMo forum grooming scandal from a couple of years back?
Asking because it's come to my attention that the accused moderator may have been the same person who ran an anime forum I posted at when I was 13.
Asking because it's come to my attention that the accused moderator may have been the same person who ran an anime forum I posted at when I was 13.
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Does anyone have a solidly-referenced resource on the NaNoWriMo forum grooming scandal from a couple of years back?
Asking because it's come to my attention that the accused moderator may have been the same person who ran an anime forum I posted at when I was 13.
Asking because it's come to my attention that the accused moderator may have been the same person who ran an anime forum I posted at when I was 13.
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Beano #1679, September 21, 1974
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Beano #1679, September 21, 1974
People keep trotting out that CS Lewis quotation when they could just post this
It also includes this famous scene from the film, with the ... clown?
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
People keep trotting out that CS Lewis quotation when they could just post this
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Here's an absolutely deranged marketing campaign for the 1949 rerelease of The Wizard of Oz
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here's an absolutely deranged marketing campaign for the 1949 rerelease of The Wizard of Oz
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GRIM TALES (1989): Rik Mayall is magnificenly unhinged (of course!) as the storyteller in this glorious children's show, performing the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales like a live action Looney Tune. Written by Anne Caulfield and Anthony (Dramarama, Robin of Sherwood, Crime Traveller) Horowitz.
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
GRIM TALES (1989): Rik Mayall is magnificenly unhinged (of course!) as the storyteller in this glorious children's show, performing the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales like a live action Looney Tune. Written by Anne Caulfield and Anthony (Dramarama, Robin of Sherwood, Crime Traveller) Horowitz.
My latest Splatterpunk Awards review is now up:
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Dark Disasters, eds. Candace Nola, Darcy Rose, Mort Stone (2024 Splatterpunk Awards)
Dark Disasters is the third in a series of “Dark Dozen” anthologies from small-press publisher Uncomfortably Dark. The first, Baker’s Dozen, covered baking-themed horror; the second, Trapped, was b…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My latest Splatterpunk Awards review is now up:
dorisvsutherland.com/2025/11/11/d...
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Wooooooww my feed's basically all James Bond now. I thought I was reading a single, very long Bond thread, but no, it's my feed.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Wooooooww my feed's basically all James Bond now. I thought I was reading a single, very long Bond thread, but no, it's my feed.
Watching an episode of a 1940s Superman serial, which begins with the amazing line "Lois is captured by the Spider Lady Men"
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Watching an episode of a 1940s Superman serial, which begins with the amazing line "Lois is captured by the Spider Lady Men"
Back in 2003, Coca-Cola hired Aleksandr Petrov, one of the most accomplished animators alive, to make a Christmas advert using oil paints. Just saying.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5r8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5r8...
Coca-Cola - Santa Sundblom (2003, USA)
YouTube video by The Hall of Advertising
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November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Back in 2003, Coca-Cola hired Aleksandr Petrov, one of the most accomplished animators alive, to make a Christmas advert using oil paints. Just saying.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5r8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5r8...
More than once, I've stumbled into a transphobe who seems to have sincerely expected us, and our allies, to all fade away over the course of 2025.
It warms the cockles of my heart to see them spluttering "b-b-but Trump 2! But UK Supreme Court! WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE!?!?"
It warms the cockles of my heart to see them spluttering "b-b-but Trump 2! But UK Supreme Court! WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE!?!?"
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
More than once, I've stumbled into a transphobe who seems to have sincerely expected us, and our allies, to all fade away over the course of 2025.
It warms the cockles of my heart to see them spluttering "b-b-but Trump 2! But UK Supreme Court! WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE!?!?"
It warms the cockles of my heart to see them spluttering "b-b-but Trump 2! But UK Supreme Court! WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE!?!?"
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion