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Madeleine McQuilling
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PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, studying detective fiction

Currently trying to collect my contacts from other platforms
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Do we not get italics on Bluesky?
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Reminds me of a time I got carried away peeling garlic. I didn’t know what to do with obscenely large pile of raw garlic so I threw it into a batch of hummus, hoping it would disappear in the blending. Several people threw up when this dish was served and my mom started only buying garlic in jars.
September 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Is this the universal truth against which Robert Jordan strives in vain?
September 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Do you call them chick peas or do you have another term? I’ve seen a lot of cookie dough recipes made out of these legumes so I thought maybe your cupcake was as well.
September 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Are those garbanzo beans?
September 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I’m curious how this goes
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Sorry I haven't logged in in months, but I'm actually giving a conference paper on Agatha Christie's Hjerson this week!
February 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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*Scholarship*
I'm interested in various intersections between Romanticism and detective fiction. Current wip:

Counterfactual modes of reading in #Frankenstein and #TheLockedTomb for #C21Literature

Agatha Christie's twice fictional detective Sven Hjerson for #SWPACA

A monograph on #AgathaChristie
November 11, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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*COMICS*

Pictured are:
1: A spread from my short story "Pause" with art & lettering by www.evdbart.co.uk and published in werewolfowen.gumroad.com/l/eKjve

2: Panels from an unpublished short with art by www.frogking.art

3: A panel from my current work in progress, a Weird West with art by myself
This is a two-page spread from a comic book depicting a huge orange cat sprawled over a little castle with tiny knights running amok. The thought bubbles read "Why Bother D'h Khana? / You can't save them all / What has man done for you anyway?" Additional text quotes lines from Wordsworth's Resolution and Independence - "How can he expect that others should / build for him / sow for him/ and at his call / love him, who for himself will take no heed at all" This is a two panel excerpt from a comic book. It hasn't been lettered yet so there aren't any words. The first panel (full width horizontal, 1/3 height) depicts two figures writing horses emerging from a cloud of dust. The second panel (fill width horizontal, 1/3 height) depicts a large buzzard in the foreground and the figures from the first panel small in the background. This is a traditional medium, sable brush + india ink drawing of a girl touching a horse's face. The horse has a mane made out of fire and a skeleton face. The girl's hair is blown back in the wind.
November 11, 2024 at 4:49 PM