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Kat W
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Intersectional feminism, books, television, words of love and rage. She/Her.
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🎵We've gotta hold on to what we've got
It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not
We've got each other and that's a lot, for love,
We'll give it a shot.

Whoa, we're halfway there
Whoa-oh, livin' on a prayer
Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear
Whoa-oh, livin' on a prayer🎵
Pope Leo XIV, in white vestments, leaning into a microphone on a stand with his hands clasped around the microphone, eyes closed, as if he's singing into it.
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Post someone who looks great in a hat...
Keeley Hawes and Rachael Stirling as Kitty and Nan in the TV series Tipping the Velvet. They are sitting on a gilt and red brocade sofa in front of a red velvet curtain. They are dressed in white tie outfits with black top hats and red roses in their buttonholes. The one of the left is leaning forward and looking to her right, while holding a cigarette to her lips with her white-gloved right hand.
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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I'm minded of the changes in the presentation/perception of Heyer books as per their cover illustrations. For example Heyer's The Talisman Ring, moving from Gothic deathbed scene in the hardback cover to the action of romantic thriller to bland Regency* romance.

*It's not a Regency romance.
The hardback dustjacket for The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer. A man wearing a dark pink, silk dressing gown lies in an elaborate four poster bed with red and gold hangings. There is a gold cross by the bed which casts a large shadow against the red walls. Another man stands towards the foot of the bed, bewigged, wearing a blue cloak and riding boots. The scene is theatrically framed by dark curtains. The 1960s Pan paperback of The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer. A young white woman leads a chestnut horse, laden with bandboxes, through a misty, dark wood. There is a shadowy figure in tricorne hat in background. She wears a soft grey hat with curling pink ostrich feather, deep emerald green and gold dress, and red cloak. Her outfit evokes the late 1780s setting of the book. Text on the cover describes the book as "a full-blooded romantic thriller". A 21st century cover of Georgette Heyer's The Talisman Ring. Two young white women sit on a gold brocade sofa. There is a large painting in the background. They are both wearing Empire line silk dresses, one in pale pink and one in pale blue. The woman in the pink dress is leaning against the other and has an arm around her. The Empire line dresses were fashionable some 20-30 years after the book's setting.
October 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Saturday morning time vortex.
A cappucino in a large white cup and saucer seen from above. It has a swirly, spiral pattern of chocolate swooshes. There is a loose resemblance to the time vortices used in Doctor Who's opening title sequences over the years.
September 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Share a preacher, priest or nun.
Sister Ulrica, the Dutch nun, from the TV series Tenko, as played by Patricia Lawrence. She wears a cream scarf tied round her head, and a light coloured long nightshirt with pale stripes, belted at the waist, with an open collar on a short placket, replacing her replacing her traditional nun's habit. She also has silver and dark wood crucifix around her neck on a long chain. She is smiling, wistfully, pensively, as she leans against a post, with a background of tropical greenery and sand.
September 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Please forward all correspondence to:
Mr Stevens
Head of Catering
The Canteen
Death Star (Fully Operational)
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Shows part of a Royal Mail application form for redirecting post, and the illustrative sample photo on the leaflet shows an envelope with a handwritten name and address: Mr R Stevens, 22 Clifton Street, Cambridge, CB1 1AP.
September 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
Head and shoulders shot of Stephanie Cole in tweedy, felt hat, camel coat with wide collar, and striped blouse with pussy cat bow.
August 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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What perfect album came out when you were sixteen?
Misplaced Childhood by Marilion, with cover art by Mark Wilkinson. The cover depicts a standing child wearing a soldier's dress uniform of red jacket with heavy gold embroidery and gold braid, epaulettes with four buttons, blue trousers with a red stripe down the side seam and white gloves. The child's feet are bare and a magpie perches on their right arm. A red poppy grows from the bare ground, close to the child's left leg. A gold ring is standing on edge close to the child's right foot. The background is of turbulent dark and bright clouds, with a bright arc of rainbow to the left.
July 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Arlo, nephew of FRP, these salt and pepper spoons were a present from a lovely friend. She gave them to me because she knew I’d exclaim “Tiny spoons!” with utter joy when I saw them, and that is exactly what I did do.

They were made on Orkney by the Harray Potter.
Two tiny pottery spoons with a smooth, green, speckled glaze and brown swirls at the ends of the handles. They are shown next to a 2020 five pence piece for scale. The bowls of the spoons have approximately the same diameter as the five pence piece.
July 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”
The Iron Chicken, a robot chicken made from meccano-like pieces, from the BBC TV series The Clangers, about small, pink knitted creatures with long snouts and round ears who wear armour-like vests made from odd-shaped pieces of felt and live (mostly) below the surface of a moon. On either side of the Iron Chicken are Tiny Clanger, who carries a metal pan flute, and Small Clanger, who is dancing.
July 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Me and the boys heard you was talking shit.
Bungo, Wellington, and Tomsk Womble from the 1973 TV series The Wombles. They are standing in a staggered line, behind one another, with their heads turned to left, staring out at the viewer.
July 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Post your favourite Doctor Who, wrong answers only.
Head and shoulders of a seated Stephanie Cole in tweed hat and camel coat and silky blouse patterned with blue, beige, and green stripes and white spots, tied with a bow at the neck
June 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

Sorted.
Seven members of the main cast of The Equalizer TV series (2021-2025) starring Queen Latifah.
June 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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What's your sign?
A scaffold bearing a white neon sign that says, "THERE WILL BE NO MIRACLES HERE". The scaffolding is standing on a lawn against a hedge and trees, with a gothic tower and other older buildings in the distance, against a blue sky with faint drifts of white cloud. Art installation by Nathan Coley outside the Modern Two art gallery in Edinburgh.
June 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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🎶 So I guess the fortune teller's right
Should have seen just what was there and not some holy light🎶
Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music, kneeling in a mountainside meadow, playing guitar to several of the Von Trapp children, who are wearing the outfits she made from their curtains.
May 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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A film that takes place where you're from.
Maggie Smith as Jean Brodie, with her arms around the four schoolgirls of her Brodie set, two on either side of her. One of the them is eating an apple, three of them are looking out left of camera, and the fourth on the far right, is looking up adoringly at Jean Brodie. From The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
April 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Every time I see this, I grow more convinced that it is a control console from an alien spacecraft.

(‘Wobble’ by Kerry Hammond.)
A bronze sculpture that comprises a very irregular oval platter with a concave and convex curved edge. There are two small, differently-sized spheres to the left; two, ditto, widely-spaced to the right, sitting in hemispherical recesses; and five pestle-like objects, with their long ends tapering to a sharp point. The pestles are also differing sizes and sitting in recesses. Four of the pestles are leaning at varying acute angles and the fifth is resting horizontally.
April 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
Call the Midwife, the cast seated and standing round a Christmas dinner table: the Aylward and Turner families with their mix of step and adopted children; the nuns, Sisters Julienne, Monica Joan, and Veronica; Fred and Captain Violet Buckle and Reggie; Cyril Robinson; Trixie's brother, Nancy and Colette Corrigan; Millicent Higgins; Phyllis Crane's arm as she is taking the photo. Ensigns Joyce Highland and Rosalind Clifford will be along any moment.
March 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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This is the vibe I bring to the party.
A procession of people, all dressed in black, in front of a horse-drawn hearse. The procession is from the UK season 2 of The Traitors, led by Claudia Winkelman, dressed as an undertaker in long frock coat and carrying a silver-topped black cane.
March 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Today's the day to tell someone you've always loved how you really feel about them.
A black and white still showing Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor from Doctor Who and Frazer Hines as his companion, Jamie, holding each other closely, both with one arm wrapped around the other, and one hand to the other's chest.
February 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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If you see this, post an archer.
A white man with dark hair and light eyes, looking over his right shoulder, wearing an 1870s formal dark jacket and shirt with a stiff collar. Daniel Day-Lewis as Newland Archer from the 1993 film of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.
January 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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#RumoursOfDreich
A drystone wall, tinted golden in morning sunlight, with fields, trees and snow-capped hills under a pale blue sky.
January 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I’ve pressed this one repeatedly in case it helps.
A slender silver button on a microwave, labelled ‘Stop/Cancel’.
December 31, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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I don’t trust that smiling face.

(Obligatory Douglas Adams quote: Please do not touch this button again.)
A slender, silver button on the front of a microwave. There are two snow and raindrop symbols above it, with the text ‘Chaos Defrost’. Below the button is an outline drawing of a child’s face, smiling.
December 31, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Merry Christmas to all celebrating! 🎄 Wishing you shelter and light.
The ting at Botanic Lights. An open-sided, stone pavilion is illuminated with warm white light and reflected in dark water. It has leafless trees to the side and behind. The trees to the right are also illuminated, with blue light.
December 25, 2024 at 9:47 AM