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Emma Butler
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Creator of horror drama podcast The Rue Papers.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rue-papers/id1749765774


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So remember when I said I was at a lovely civic building a couple of days ago but I felt very uncomfortable in the ladies loo, like I wasn’t alone in there? Well, I took a photo - didn’t catch anything but I think you can feel the atmosphere (the drips are gold paint)
A black and white picture of the toilets - sinks all down the right, cubicle doors down the left, a mirror at the far end reflecting the photographer. The walls have gold paint dripping from the top (they look white in the photo)
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Had this lovely black cat come in through my window and visit me earlier. Wouldn’t come for pets and fussing but first time they’ve actually come in through the window rather than sitting outside
Desk in a crowded bedroom. There are books on the window sill and a fan on the desk. Various laptops and iPads are visible behind the desk. On the desk is a black cat looking at the camera
July 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I was trying to get a picture of how pretty the sky was, with rippling rainbow clouds near the sun, but did not quite manage. Still, not too bad I think
In the lower left is a Victorian building with chimneys and there are trees are along the bottom. Most of the picture is a soaring blue sky with clouds dramatically all over it, large fluffy clouds in the centre and wispy ridged clouds around the sun, which is the top middle
July 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Morning everyone. Please have a look at this nice picture I took of a sunlit courtyard at Somerset House I took with my flashy brand new camera. Just imagine how peaceful and relaxing this secret sun trap is, how you could spend an afternoon reading there and no one would know.
A picture of a white stone courtyard below. In the courtyard are several blue, yellow and green tables and chairs and a doorway inside. It’s very sunny and looks very peaceful and hidden.
June 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Well Designated Survivor 60 Days just got about 20% gayer
A handsome Korean man in a suit and tie says ‘what do you think of a man who likes to whine a little’ A Korean man in glasses and a suit and tie says ‘just go on in’
June 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Pretty picture time again! A random choice from my collection of photos

This is from an incredible exhibition i saw at the British museum, about people who live in the Polar region. (I loved that exhibition, went three times)
Several ivory figures on a wooden table. The one in front is kneeling and making an offering of a jar to a semi circular building. The two behind are standing and holding a jar. There are pillars either side of them.
June 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Just popping out at twilight to take photos of the graveyard, as you do…
A peach coloured rose against the a blurred background of gravestones in a grassy graveyard
May 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Happy May the Fourth everyone!

I dedicate this to Leia, my first and most powerful ‘I wanna be like her!’ icon, right from seeing her in the cinema (and also Mon Mothma, who I adore with the heat of a thousand suns)
Mon Mothma, a tall woman with a refined face and carefully styled golden hair, wearing an amber dress, stands still in front of a crowd of people dancing wildly. She looks apprehensive but determined General Leia, an older woman with grey hair, wearing a stiff grey cloak and holding a blaster, stares at her enemies. She looks powerful and unstoppable
May 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Pretty picture for the day

This was taken in Reading - a graveyard I seem to remember.
A carved stone arch, with several pillars carved through the stone, and brick arches on either side. It is on green grass, with trees behind it. Sunlight is shining through the arch and casting a shadow in front of it.
April 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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If you’re going to the Tate Modern in next few weeks, go down to the Tanks and see the temporary exhibitions there, they’re fantastic.
A metal abstract sculpture of a tall, very thin figure, turned to look at us. One hand is raised and the other points at us. It is in a darkened concrete room, with a golden brown light
March 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Ah, it’s the Ides Of March…
An American teenage girl is standing her classroom giving her history report and she ends with very fervently saying ‘we should totally just stab Caesar!!’ This is from Mean Girls and is the moment the Gretchen snaps and she is comparing Caesar to Regina
March 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Picture time! This is the statue of Virginia Woolf on Richmond Riverside, just sitting on the bench, ready for a good chat. (Some people tried to oppose the statue, saying it would influence people to drown themselves in the river. Which is an odd interpretation of it)
Bronze statue of Virginia Woolf, a tall thin woman. She is sat on a bench, head turned towards us, with a gentle smile, waiting for us to speak to her
March 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Pretty picture for today…this was taken in the woodland gardens in Bushy Park in that very hot summer we had a couple of years ago
A picture of a lake - the water is blue, reflecting a very blue sky. There are water lily leaves scattered across it. Beyond the lake is a mixture of trees, all different shades of green and long grass between them. It’s a hot summer day and it feels warm and still.
February 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Picture time! This is from Hampton Court where the Georgian rooms are full of mannequins in paper clothes, some with labels on explaining who they represent. It’s really quite a fascinating effect, brings the rooms alive, although disconcerting when darkness falls…
A wooden panelled room, with a wooden table and chair. The wood is golden brown and well polished. This is an old Georgian room. Scattered around the room are headless mannequins in white paper Georgian court dress, the women in long flowering gowns, the men in long fancy coats
February 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Gave in to the temptation to buy books - Death at the Sanatorium by Ragnar Jonasson and Murder Mindfully by Karstrn Dusse. Plus an appropriate bookmark with a line from Shakespeare that I (being 5’ 2’’) like to quote - Though she be but little she is fierce
A book with a man sitting in a yoga pose, spattered with blood. This is Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse. Another book of a large white house against a blue sky. This book is called Death at the Sanatorium by Ragnar Jonasson. Over both is a cream bookmark with the words ‘though she be but little she is fierce’
February 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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*Stares in ANCIENT Elder Geek*
Very old games Atari games console, with black grooved plastic casing and wooden casing with large buttons. There are also two joysticks
February 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Have a picture taken at random from my photo library!

This is from when Hampton Court did a kind of festival of light thing - this one centred around mythical animals dotted all around the grounds of Hampton Court. It was beautiful.
A paper sculpture of a panther, walking across the grass. The sculpture is white with black cross hatching and red and yellow dots. It is lit up from the inside. It is nighttime and in the background are other lighted sculptures in the distance
February 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Do you remember summer? And warmth? And sunshine and lying on your back in the park and looking into an endless blue sky as children played nearby and not one shiver was felt?

It’s February next week and the endless decade long January will be over. And then spring. And in the meantime - a reminder
This is the Rose Garden at Hampton Court. In front is a smooth green lawn. It leads to flower beds with white flowers and cypress trees. Beyond that is a red brick wall and then more trees. To the left is a cypress tree, an ornamental cage with climbing flowed and a stone statue of a man draped in just a loincloth. Above is a very blue sky, with wisps of white clouds across it. It looks like morning on a still and hot summer day
January 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Anyway…
Captain Von Trapp, a very handsome man in a stern older man way, wearing a grey suit, is tearing down a Nazi flag from the front of his large stately home. He then rips the flag in half.
January 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Have a pretty picture, taken by me. It’s the formal gardens at Hampton Court
In front is a grey stone wall. Beyond that is a formal garden. There are neatly clipped lawns, and a round fountain in the middle. There are flower borders with red flowers. In the distance or triangular pine shrubs and beyond that is a red stone palace with large windows and lots of chimneys
January 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Oh! This episode

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is about the Lewis chessmen! I was fascinated and captivated by them when I saw them. Here’s my pic..
A group of white ivory chessmen. They are on medieval outfits and are glaring fiercely at their opponents.
January 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Have a pretty sunny picture, to remind you spring will return. This is from the Japanese garden at Holland Park
Larger grey rocks rose upwards above a turbulent pool of water. There are some trees in full green leaf above. Sunlight shines through the trees and there is a hazy shaft of light shining down and across the rocks
January 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Whenever I watch or read or listen to scary stories, I like to have a companion - my teddy bear Sebastian. He’s very comforting, if slightly nervous and wishes I’d go back to watching weaving videos.
A light brown teddy bear with a red scarf sitting on a red blanket
January 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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London from Waterloo Bridge last night
London at night. The river is in front, flowing away from us and the lights are reflected in the water. At the far right is St Paul’s, the white dome lit up. The moon is above it. In the distance are skyscrapers, lit up with gold and yellow and blue and red lights in the window. There is a shooting star in the clouds.
December 15, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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If you see this, I invite you to post a picture from your device without explanation
A picture of a large fish tank. There are two large scary fish inside, one side on, one facing us. They are watching us. I think they’d like to eat us.
December 12, 2024 at 8:38 PM