“Rest” in piss Ian Huntley

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Soham murderer Ian Huntley dies after prison attack

I was still a young teenager when the Soham murders happened, not really all that much older than the victims. My family were on holiday in Cornwall, and it was the first time I had a hotel room of my own instead of sharing with the rest of my family. So every night I’d go upstairs to my own hotel room and turn on the TV (this was pre-smartphones) and watch the news and see people desperately searching for those little girls in their red football shirts. It sent my anxiety through the roof.

Hope he’s burning in hell.

Boats For Women

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It was 1912. Women didn’t have the vote yet. That wouldn’t happen until 1918 for Britain and 1920 for America. And even then it wasn’t all women. To put it bluntly, it was a terrible time to be female…

…unless you were in one very specific scenario: on board an ocean liner about to sink with limited space on the lifeboats.

BOATS FOR WOMEN: THE TITANIC AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE

Come read my newest article! I’ve always been fascinated by Titanic history.

Trapped! in the flooded village

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My village has DRASTICALLY flooded, it’s the worst I’ve ever seen it. Can’t get out!


Encountered a lot of folks on this walk to check out the flooding, including kids who were biking through it and people who were gathered to watch cars slowly plough through the water. Hey there’s not a lot to do in this town, you know?

My obscene parts

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Yesterday I was mindlessly browsing through Reddit, something you should never do, and I came across a post about breast cancer and how horrible it is. But every “breast” was typed as “brea$t” and every “period” as “per!od.”

Telling people the symptoms of breast cancer is obscene now. It makes me shitting fucking cunting sick.

Fallout s2 finale

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(spoilers ahead!)

I’ve sort of shut up a bit about Fallout recently because there’s so much else going on but I really do love it. Everything about the finale was perfect, all the actors were at the top of their game, and there were DEATHCLAWS! (Those were PUPPETS!) Shout-out to the New Vegas opening cutscene reference too! Chills, guys.

There’s one hell of a lot in play for season 3. Looks like it’ll be Lucy and Maximus in Vegas fighting the Legion with the Ghoul in Colorado. It’s a shame that separates the Ghoul from the other characters but on the other hand maybe that means less Ghoulcy on my tumblr dash. (Sorry.) I hope Macaulay Culkin has a bigger role in s3 because he was so hyped up for this one but he was barely in it in the end! And I hope Ron Perlman’s Super Mutant (does he have a name?) shows up again too.

LASTLY, I so badly want Lucy’s yellow dress! I can’t find it anywhere to buy but I would love to cosplay in it!

Ricky Gervais

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Bad Bunny at the Grammys: “We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans.”

Ricky Gervais, paraphrased: “Shut up.”


I hate Ricky Gervais. The main reason why is too painful to go into on a fairly throwaway post but I hate him so much it hurts. “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything” but it’s okay for him to lecture people whose kin are being disappeared off the streets. Okay for him knowing his existence is not political. Okay for him to give political speeches, because giving a speech about how people of colour shouldn’t talk ‘politics’ is as political as you can get. I don’t have a pithy comment to end this with, I just hate him, so fucking much.

Things to be grateful for in February

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  • My office job is going really well. It’s taken me a while to say that because I’m afraid of jinxing it but… It is? I also feel a huge sense of achievement when I remember that the office is located a street over from the fire-hazard deathtrap of a flat I lived in in 2010, and opposite the hotel where I was once a very bad waitress. Now I have a stable job and a house. I’m so insanely grateful.
  • I was told by a therapist that my OCD has improved a lot.
  • THERE’S GOING TO BE A THREE-HOUR DIRECTOR’S CUT OF GDT’S FRANKENSTEIN!
  • The frog-themed bus (yep that’s a thing) that goes by my office every day makes little ribbit noises as it goes.
  • The Traitors season 4 was so fucking good, I loved every minute of it.
  • It’s very very slowly getting lighter in the evenings.
  • I just booked a holiday to Rome!

Oscar noms thoughts

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This is my first year in over a decade viewing the Oscar noms as something other than an entertainment journalist, and that bums me out. Still… I guess I still got thoughts.

  • I really hope Jacob Elordi wins for playing my boi the Creature, obv I’m biased now, Frankenstein was a downright religious experience for me
  • I’m so happy Wunmi Mosaku got nominated for Sinners! Representing us Brits! I’ve followed her since her In The Flesh days. I always hoped Doctor Who might snap her up, although for what role I don’t know.
  • Sinners is now I think the most nominated film in Oscars history and it does deserve it, it’s an amazingly well-made movie. With songs!
  • I haven’t seen Hamnet, even though it’s an area of history I’m interested in, because it looks TOO SAD. :( I remember the Upstart Crow episode about Hamnet’s death and that was very upsetting so I don’t think I could handle a whole movie of it.
  • I thought Weapons was kind of overrated but it was good to see Amy Madigan get a nomination, I don’t think she’ll win though admittedly.
  • I never get to watch the Oscars live cos I live in the wrong country. :(

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

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IT’S BACK BABY! Loved it apart from the barn torture scene which was truly horrible. The opening scene was horrible too but felt more necessary? Definitely loved the appearance of you-know-who (is there even any point as marking that as a spoiler anymore, everyone knows). AMAZING musical number. God I fucking love movies that have unhinged musical numbers out of nowhere.

Really big spoilers and thoughts beneath the image:

  • I guessed from the trailer this movie would be about finding a cure and I WAS RIGHT!!
  • Chi Lewis-Parry is absolutely amazing in this. I’m naming him before any of the bigger actors because I think he deserves it, he carried like a third of the movie and had the most difficult job AND had to act while naked, I hope he gets a lot more attention after this.
  • The “moon” scene was my favourite, god I love monster-becomes-human narratives so much
  • DOCTOR KELSON THE CHARACTER THAT YOU ARE. Already my favourite fictional character of the year. I’m so sad he died.
  • Oh thank god they finally remembered that inhaling even a drop of zombie blood will infect you too!
  • So what happened to Selena? She’s probably dead isn’t she :(
  • I spent a lot of the movie wondering if ‘howzat’ was something the real Jimmy Savile used to say, but I don’t want to Google Jimmy Savile. Hope you’re in hell Jimmy!
  • This movie is very pro-NHS (how can you be anti-NHS??? Oh god never mind) and I’m really glad about it.
  • I’m looking SO forward to the third movie, you can’t imagine. There’s so many things in play now. Samson, the pregnant woman who escaped Jimmy, the notes on the cure hidden in Kelson’s bunker, Spike and Kelly’s journey, Jim and his daughter… I want to see Aaron Taylor-Johnson again too! Oh please let this movie do well enough to get a sequel, I know it probably will but I still worry
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