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Startling Lady of Gore
@postnatodepression.bsky.social
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She/her. Lesbian. I post New Zealand ephemera and cool things I find on the Internet Archive. Not affiliated with Archives New Zealand or the National Library.

Gam zu l'tova.
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This is very ugly so I am forced to make them into hats for preemies, who don’t get aesthetic sense until they’re at least six months
Ugly as pale blue merino
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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At the opshop reading about the future
THE WAR IN 2020 The world of the 2lst Century is barely recognisable. War has ravaged almost every continent - a pandemic plague has swept impartially around the globe.
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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I don’t think this postcard quite captures the themes of Picnic at Hanging Rock. At the very least it should imply one of the cartoon koalas is a lesbian.
A heterosexual family of koalas are having a picnic in period clothing
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Furniture shopping on Castle Street
Extremely destroyed chairs students have left behind A street of sodden settees
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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I get New Zealand First emails so I can see what exactly my nan is worried about, man this is depressing eh
In 2023 we listened and we made a promise to you. "Our system of education has been the victim of numerous virtue signalling tinkerers - who have never been challenged. And they would now rather teach a young child virtuous self-identity theory than basic maths and english. Our education system should be fundamentally focused on education, not using our children in some sort of woke social re-engineering programme for vulnerable undeveloped minds. When were they allowed to decide their parents' views don't matter?" - Winston Peters during the 2023 election campaign. Well, New Zealand First entered Parliament, challenged the unelected bureaucrats, and waged a 'War on Woke.'
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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'The Pantomime is at the Surrey' presenting 'A Apple Pie, or Harlequin, Jack in the Box and Little Boy Blue' on 26 December 1866.
Ref S.2801-1986, V & A Museum.
An evil clown holds a banner that reads THE PANTOMIME IS AT THE SURREY. A sort of music demon playing his trumpet-nose looks on.
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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A team of catering staff sort and prepare food at Wood Lane Depot for delivery to Second World War tube shelterers via the 'Tube Refreshment Special' train, December 1940.
Ref 1998/83738, London Transport Museum.
A team of women catering staff sort and prepare food at Wood Lane Depot for delivery to Second World War tube shelterers via the 'Tube Refreshment Special' train. Image taken in a rail depot, women check trays of buns and bread in foreground, the tube train stands in the background.
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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"GOTCHA!"
Advertisement for the London Underground, 1987.
Ref 587/24262/2M, London Transport Museum.
A car has been ticketed. The ticket reads: "GOTCHA! Your illegally parked vehicle has been immobilised. Pity you didn't take the tube! It is an offence to interfere with the wheel clamp- kicking it won't help. See map in tube stations for details."
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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A terrifying vision of the future from the 1910s, in which women wear suits and smoke cigars.
Art by Reg Carter, circa 1913.
Ref GWL-2024-77-44, Glasgow Women's Library.
Valentine's Series postcard featuring the image of a cigar-smoking woman wearing a fur-lined top hat, red bow tie, green jacket and trousers, leaning on a cane. Another woman, similarly dressed, is walking in the other direction. The caption above says: 'what It Will Come To', and a larger caption below reads: 'THEN THEY WILL [underlined] BE SATISFIED'. Signed by Reg Carter.
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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"Aw Geet Here O'Reet..."
Postcard, A & E Coppock. Coronation Series no. 109
Ref GWL-2024-106-2 , Glasgow Women's Library.
'AW GEET HERE O'REET AND AM HAVING A DEVIL OF A HOT TIME' and depicting a red devil prodding man's behind with a pitchfork as he pushes the man into a flaming oven.
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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"Harold Wilson says Say Yes to Europe"
UK Labour Party, 1974.
Ref E.381-2021, V & A Museum.
Poster on a red ground with a photograph of Wilson at the top and a list of reasons given as a quote (Scottish Labour Party Conference 1975) for why Britain should be part of the European Union. Lettered across the bottom with the issuing office: 'Labour Campaign for Britain in Europe'.
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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"Dieses haus ist behext/This house is bewitched"
Ingird Klost and Monika Metzner, 1981
Ref 32_51_E172, the Charlotte Museum Te Whare Takatāpui-Wāhine o Aotearoa.
Black photograph of graffitied building "Dieses haus ist behext, instandbe setzenals raputtbesitzen" - in English "this house is bewitched" - image of star in Venus and witch riding broomstick
November 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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My mother is very impressed with her friend’s elaborate cat Halloween costume, and in particular how detailed the feet and tail are.

…it’s a fursuit but I’m not going to explain that.
A 60 year old woman in a fur suit (I’ve cropped out the kids)
November 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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"Lima o le pa'a (crab fingers)"
Lithograph by Michael Tuffery
Muka Studio Youth Prints, 1996
Ref CA000931/004/0080, Te Papa.
A person's hand slowly transforming into a crab. Carcinisation baybeeee
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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"Escape from Salvation, pt 5"
Lithograph by Dick Frizzell
Muka Studio Youth Prints, 1989
Ref CA000931/002/0047, Te Papa.
It's reminiscent of Israel wrestling with the angel- except instead of Israel, it's an angry red skeleton. I mean maybe Israel was an angry red skeleton, it doesn't say. The style is like the illustrations in old School Journals from the 1990s.
October 31, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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"Francis Skeleton"
Lithograph by Nicola Jackson
Muka Studio Youth Prints, 1993
Ref CA000931/002/0151, Te Papa.
A cool-as skeleton in yellow with two bugs crawling on it.
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Macbeth performance at Papanui High School, 30th July 1987.
Students are, from left, Rochelle Meggitt (witch 3), Robert Crossen (Banquo), Tracy Denhard (witch 2) and Raquel Lewis (witch 1).
Via the Christchurch Star.
Black and white photo of three teenage witches in heavy eyeliner menacing Banquo.
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Linocut by Juliet Peter, 1939
Gift of William A. Sutton, 1983
Christchurch Art Gallery.
Three witches airborne on broomsticks.
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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"The Demon of Golf and his Allies"
Auckland Weekly News, 29 March 1901.
Newspaper cartoon showing demons evilly playing golf.
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Preserved sled dog, Antarctica.
Photo by Colin Jeness, 1960.
Ref 2025.11.35, Canterbury Photography Museum.
A mummified dog, still wearing a collar and chain. Its ribcage is exposed on one side.
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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A tragic accident in Central library this morning
An orange plastic skeleton with a staff nametag squashed to death under a cartload of books
October 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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iy"H in the utopian future of Star Trek, Wellington will finally be eradicated
A screenshot from Memory Alpha (ST wiki), stating Wellington was a city in New Zealand, on Earth.
October 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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"Another mental birthday"
Jenny Dolezel, 1987
Ref CA000933/022/0017, Te Papa.
Two extremely depressed people in party hats light cigs off candles on a cake that is also a weary face
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Poster for the Australian band Birthday Party, 1980.
Victoria University of Wellington.
Poster advertising the Australian rock band Birthday Party. Includes a drawing of numerous skeletons, one of whom is riding a skeleton horse and carrying a spear.
October 29, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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The werewolf love interest is talking to his missus the exact same way I talk to a cockroach I’ve just discovered in my kitchen
"Where do you think you're going, Little Mate?" he growled, the sound rumbling in his chest and making me shiver. "Why run from me? You know that no matter where you run, I will find you. Now that I've found you there's not a chance in hell that you're getting away."
October 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM