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🍂hollyzone🍂
@hollyzone.co.uk
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Made of cells and water. Mostly.

Performance historian. -1.75 in both eyes. Once got sunburned in Iceland, in winter. She/her.
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I went out For the endless and now my timeline is entirely this meme
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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The greatest slide I've ever made.
A stage. I'm standing to the right of the picture, talking into the microphone about the emperor Ai of the Han dynasty. A projected slide takes up most of the picture. It is captioned "Emperor A.I. of Han". The emperor's picture has been altered so that his hand has eight fingers, splayed in a hideous fashion as if he has been created badly by an A.I. image generator. To be clear, I made that image myself, manually, in Photoshop cos I'm not using the water-sucking plagiarism machine even for a joke like this. I handcraft my bad/good visual jokes.
September 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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I love this picture my mate took of me during my history talk on Saturday.
White woman with dark hair in a ponytail, stands in front of a projected image which says "Achilles" and has a picture of Achilles from a Greek vase. The woman (it's me) is wearing a patterned bomber jacket, a green t-shirt and a honeycomb shaped necklace. I'm holding a microphone and a paper script while looking to my right with an expression which says "Why are the Victorian historians trying to make these obviously queer mythological/historical figures straight?". I pulled that face a lot on Saturday.
September 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Hitchhiker's has at least four visual versions of Marvin (see the live radio play and 1994 collectible card versions attached) and they all look different, which I think does prove that this HP show isn't aiming for artistry at all. It's fine to not like any of the Marvins but at least they tried.
Radio live Marvin, a puppet with an old fashioned radio for a head and a reel to reel tape deck for a body, and microphones for legs. Adorable. Collectible card Marvin. Smoothly metallic with large glowing triangular pink eyes. A few small circuit lines appear at his wrist and ankles. Haunted.
August 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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August 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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If you fuse Irish and Ethiopian, you get the absolute legend that is Ruth Negga.
A very nice head shot of Ruth Negga, a woman with light brown skin, big brown eyes, incredible eyebrows and short curly hair styled upwards. She's gazing off camera and thinking about how she will next light up the TV or cinema screen. She appears to be wearing a t-shirt made of doilies. It is unclear if the doilies are a nod to her Irish heritage (drinking tea) or her Ethiopian heritage (drinking coffee).
July 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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What do you mean not every village of 5,000 or fewer people produces a global superstar? Come on Goostrey/Chelford/Lower Peover, try harder!
Harry Styles, in a white and yellow shirt, looking at the camera wondering why other villages in Cheshire can't do what Holmes Chapel did and casually pop out a million selling pop star.
June 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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What are you doing for Pride Month? I've started it by trying to find some light fiction to read alongside the history books for my next history talk which are somewhat on the heavy side...
A hand holding the book how to survive a plague, the story of how activists and scientists tamed AIDS by David France.
June 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Big crowd in Manchester, despite the rain and the short notice, all saying trans rights are human rights! 🏳️‍⚧️
St Peters Square in Manchester. A big crowd with trans and pride flags, lots of signs in support of trans people. There's hundreds here, maybe over a thousand. St Peters Square in Manchester. A big crowd with trans and pride flags, lots of signs in support of trans people. There's hundreds here, maybe over a thousand.
April 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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We've already had one film about a member of The Polyphonic Spree, just ~100 to go if their Wikipedia page is accurate.
Film poster for The Nowhere Inn, starring St Vincent (who used to be in the Polyphonic Spree) and Carrie Brownstein (who is in Sleater Kinney, a band with a much more normal amount of members). The poster has a yellow background with eight drawings of shoulder length wigs. In the middle at the bottom is St Vincent, a white woman with shoulder length brown hair. She's wearing a white shirt and black jacket, and has her eyes closed.
April 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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I am, indeed, a #TypicalHistorian at all times.
Holly giving a history talk. She's a tall, white, dark brown haired, 40 year old woman. She's crouching down on a stage in front of a projected slide which has the words "Medieval Britain" and "Sodomy!" on it, along with pictures of Anselm the archbishop of Canterbury and king William II. Holly is wearing black trousers, skater shoes and a gold coloured silk bomber jacket with stitched Japanese style cranes on it. She's holding the microphone right up to her mouth. Honestly, she looks like a lesbian dressed as your terrible white boy ex who thought he could rap. William II is wearing French shoes with curly toes, which Anselm hated and thought were the behaviour of a sodomite. He probably would also consider Holly a sodomite even though her shoes are American and not curly.
March 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers mascot. He's an orange Muppet with huge eyes, a massive grin and orange fur all over including a beard. He's wearing a Flyers kit including black helmet and is skating around on the ice. He looks like the guy on the artifact in the quoted skeet.
February 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Both of them, but for very different reasons.
Orla and Claire from Derry Girls.
December 23, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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Ok, I agree with Kemi Badenoch on ONE thing.
Screenshot of news headline which reads Politics 'I will not touch bread if it is moist': Kemi Badenoch sparks Westminster food fight
December 12, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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She could solve it but she doesn't want to.
Major Motoko from Ghost In The Shell. A Japanese woman in a grey jumpsuit, with a purple mullet, and a gin. She's crouching down and looks pissed off.
December 7, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Still waiting for Aubrey Plaza to put in a bad performance (even tho I have seen her in at least one bad film).
Aubrey Plaza as Rio Vidal in Agatha All Along. She's in green witch mode, in a green top with black lace gloves and messy hair. She looks like she's about to cause as much mischief as possible.
December 5, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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She could fix me.
Una/Number One from Strange New Worlds, aka Rebecca Romijn, in her yellow uniform. She's smiling kindly and looking off screen, no doubt contemplating how to make things better.
December 5, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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Friends, let's all learn too much about each other!

Recency bias will obviously play a role in answers.
Picture which says 1 like = 1 fictional crush
December 5, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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My grandads don't have Wikipedia pages and if they did I don't think they would look like these:
Screenshot from Twitter. @candon_sean is quote tweeting @deadline. The quote tweet reads: Remarkable things are happening in England. There's no working class pathway to the arts anymore, so now every new actor or filmmaker comes from an extremely wealthy family who'd rather not talk about what they were up to between 1933 and 1945 The tweet being quoted is from @DEADLINE and it reads: Francesca Gardiner was picked as the showrunner on HBO's television adaptation of 'Harry Potter' in June after a four-month selection process involving J.K. Rowling's input.... There's a picture of a brunette white women in front of a picture of a turreted building, which is presumably Gardiner. Screenshot of a Wikipedia page. With the headings of each section visible. They read: Early life Landowner Politics of the far right Kinship in Husbandry Nudism Works Family Legacy References External
December 5, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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One of the reasons Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2019) is perfect is Sciamma's use of wordless scenes that utilise two of the most physically expressive leads in cinema today to tell everything via movement. It could be a silent film except the dialogue is also perfect so keep it.
Picture from the portrait of a lady on fire. The two leads, Noemie Merlant and Adele Haenel are either side of the frame, looking at each other with scarves wrapped around their mouths. The background is a dark cave wall and the scarves are dark colours, so the eye is most drawn to the top halves of Merlant and Haenel's faces which are clearly visible as they are both white. Intense lesbian staring is taking place, they are so horny for each other right now.
November 30, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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The day I realised the enormity of not having a SoundCloud.

I hate that I was right, BTW.
A tweet from @hollyzone (me) on Twitter. It's a photo of a British fashion magazine with the headline "More fash, less £££ [which we can infer means cash]". The text of my Tweet reads "Britain after Brexit". It is dated 29 August 2017. It has 1112 retweets, 16 quote tweets, and 3283 likes.
November 28, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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Levenshulme's Antiques Village. Three floors of former council offices, police station, and stables. Corridors that don't make geometric sense. Bigger on the inside than the outside. You can get a fry up for less than a tenner in cafe. Ask the glass sculpture seller for her life story. 10/10.
Photo of a large red brick and sandstone trimmed building in the classic Victorian Manchester style, with a smaller sandstone building next to it. The windows and doors are large and impressive. There is a clock tower just visible at the top, above the front door.
November 26, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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Saint Celestine and Inquisition Katarinya Greyfax.
Inquisitor Greyfax, with her cool big hat with the wide brim and candles, her shiny armour and that angry glare. Behind her is Celestine in shiny gold armour with a sword, a halo and a massive pair of fuck off huge winds. Also Marshal Gardhelm is there but we don't care about him.
November 22, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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Siri, play 'Here Comes The Girls' by Ernie K. Doe.
A squad of Adepta Sororitas models from Games Workshop, wielding bolt guns and other weaponary. Their winged eyeliner isn't visible at this scale but you just know they've applied it and are ready to mess up some Chaos Marines or Tyranids or Trump cabinet members.
November 13, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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Doesn't check out.
Screenshot of the Songkick app page for dance-punk band The Rapture. It says The Rapture. No upcoming concerts. Touring status: Off tour. There is a picture of the Rapture playing live.
November 6, 2024 at 6:27 PM