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Vikki Patis
@vikkipatis.bsky.social
Author of queer dark novels, aka Victoria Hawthorne. Scottish with an English accent. Owned by golden retrievers. Views mine. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 she/her

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Hello, Bluesky! I thought I'd post this again since I've just had a sudden flurry of new followers. I've gone freelance since being made redundant, offering all of these services, and I'm now booking for March onwards.

www.vikkipatisauthor.com/services
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Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years
February 16, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Watched Predator Badlands today. What in the male loneliness epidemic was going on there?? Disneyfied nonsense.
February 14, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.
February 14, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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This is blackout poetry to me
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Ivy is 6 🎈
Happy birthday to our sweet, gentle, mischievous girl 🤍
February 11, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Just watched The Blair Witch Project for the first time since I was a kid, and wow, some of the reviews are just DRIPPING in misogyny. These men see a 'hysterical' 'demanding bitch'; I see a young woman trying to keep it together (and taking the blame) for the other two dickheads.
February 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Look, I'm a hater of generative AI. But harassing authors for unconfirmed use of AI in their books, particularly marginalised authors, has got to stop. Meanwhile you're all still using products by the companies that scraped our books for profit. Behave.
February 7, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone.

He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein

We have published it in full.

www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...
Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full
LATE on Friday evening, this notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news…
www.thenational.scot
February 6, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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I don’t know why Rowling is being treated as a hero for paying tax just like everyone else. Everyone who works pays a proportionate amount of tax. Same when these celebrities give to charities when it’s peanuts to them. People are too easily impressed by rich people doing the bare minimum.
February 1, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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One of the most disgusting, brutal and unpunished child‑abuse networks in the world…

And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say.

We see you.
February 1, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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I bet he’s sweating now.
February 1, 2026 at 11:25 AM
My January 2026 reads, starting the year off strong! #booksky
February 1, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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Shot and chaser from new Epstein batch
January 30, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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Aberdeen! @vikkipatis.bsky.social and I are heading to your way @waterstones.bsky.social. Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...
January 29, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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Reposting because I got the time wrong. Arghhh

Please join us two hours earlier than previously advertised...
January 20, 2026 at 12:27 PM
The creativity of the Stranger Things fandom has far surpassed that of the Duffer Brothers because what do you MEAN the inconsistencies meant nothing??
January 12, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Good morning from Antarcti— I mean Aberdeenshire ❄️
January 6, 2026 at 10:07 AM
It's you, it's me, it's us
January 4, 2026 at 6:47 PM
A brave explorer (Ivy) traverses a bleak landscape (her back garden) in search of treasure (a ball) hidden in the snow.
January 3, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Me watching the Stranger Things finale
January 1, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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in 2026 we are NOT hustling, we are NOT grinding, we are doing just enough Job to have money for Video Game
December 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Ivy wishes you all a very happy and restful festive season, however you're spending it 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Unsurprisingly, Sinners is way out in front, with Jurassic World Rebirth an overall disappointment.

Honourable mentions to Please Don't Feed the Children and Until Dawn, which were far more enjoyable than I expected, and Fear Street: Prom Queen and Totally Killer were fun slashers.
What was the best film you saw this year? (and what was the worst?)
Out of the 107 films I saw in cinemas this year so far, I've got a list of 22 contenders for my 'best of' list (usually about 10 or 12).

I'm expecting Marty Supreme to shake things up a bit but it's going to have to be a belter to earn its place.
December 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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We got there (eventually). Well done to the junior colleague who had the courage to report.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Children’s book author David Williams dropped by publisher
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM