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Dr Laura Eastlake
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James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
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I’d forgotten what a banger of a kids movie is Small Soldiers (1998). But if it was freaky as a kid then it’s extra freaky in the age of AI.
Poster for small soldiers movie featuring a soldier action figure who is very clearly part-terminator and part buzz lightyear.
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Some really great literary theory classes today. Our regularly scheduled class on Marxist theory and Sianne Ngai’s ‘cute’ commodities derailed wildly (but not irrelevantly) into a discussion of what Karl Marx would make of the Labubu that someone left on his grave.
Left: grave of Karl Marx Right: close up of a malevolently cute looking labubu doll on the grave among flowers
November 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Boiler’s borked. So I’m spending Halloween waiting on … “The Boiler Man!!” #BBCghosts
Mary from BBC Ghosts, in cap, mustard-coloured dress and blue kirtle, who lives in dread of ‘The Boiler Man’
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I’m currently writing about Sherlock Holmes and my autocorrect keeps changing ‘Lestrade’ to ‘Lestat’. But now I’m thinking that would be one wild shared universe?!
Left: Sidney Paget illustration of Inspector Lestrade in bowler hat. Right: Sam Reid as rock star lestat shirtless but wearing a smoulder.
October 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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A path lined with dark green plants, deep red Japanese maple and bright yellow trees. In the background the tower of glasgow university main building. A bicycle leans against a lamppost.
October 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Thank you! Very much enjoying it so far. I feel like I want to ask everyone what colour cover they chose. Like some sort of whimsical Rorschach test.
October 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Weekend reading.
Cover for The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley featuring multi-layered and multi-coloured 3D font
October 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Wilkie Collins did ‘slutty little glasses’ first.

I will not be taking questions at this time.
Photograph of Wilkie Collins with very large beard and very tiny glasses
October 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Me and my insomnia ready to take on the day.
Bedraggled looking raccoon brandishing a coffee and a sword
September 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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A few bonus covers. 🌷❤️⚽🏹
Woman with cropped ref hair in a black peplum pajama suit, waters a daisy from a watering can. April 1921 Woman with a short, fashionable black bob and insect antennae sits in a red heart which looks like it's rotten from the inside. Footballer, pictured in mid kick, the ball above her head. Woman in striped dress and red cloche hat that evokes Attic vase painting, firing an arrow, while a cupid-like boy stands nearby
September 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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December: infernal sausage dancer 🔥
Woman in white dances before a fire, twirling an enormous chain of sausages. In the foreground, a turkey looks on, bemused and concerned by its impending fate.
September 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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November: art deco introvert
Woman sits in a gloriously art deco armchair with lamp and side table, reading a book
September 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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October: WW1…but make it sexy?!
Woman in a black and grey ensemble trying on a new hat in a military style
September 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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September: demon goat
A couple sit in the late summer sun in the countryside. A shadow falls over them in the shape of a devil, but it’s only the shadow of a goat on the ledge above
September 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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August: heat wave survivor
Woman in a black bathing suit and red shoes sits on a bath tub with a parasol
September 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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July: fairy who knows all your secrets 🧚
Woman in black tights, a red hood and wings brandishes an enormous key
September 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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June: inter-species romance?!
A woman in a fashionable bob holds a red heart while riding a fish
September 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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May: side-eye Valkyrie
Woman with braids and a fabulous mediaeval-style horned hat. Encrusted in jewels
September 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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April: Centaur-wrangler
A centaur is kissed by his rider
September 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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March: n*p-slip jester
Fabulous dancer in black jester garb with bells on toes and hat
September 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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February: whimsical bacon dancer
Woman in renaissance garb dancing at an altar of meat, large frying pan in hand, flipping bacon
September 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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January: smug skier
Cover showing skier with 1925 on her jumper in mid flight, skiing
September 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Your La Vie Parisienne cover by birth month.

Some silliness from the historical periodicals for your #Friday. #c19th
Your La vie Parisienne cover by birth month. On left is an image of a woman in a billowing shirt, breeches and striped stockings and a jaunty hat, holding an artists palette. On right in an Amazon, clad in helmet and Minoan style two-piece, brandishing spear and shield
September 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Same vibes, somehow?

(Piggy is chilly and is accepting warming hugs.) #cats
A maine coon with a ridiculous hair cut. Furry head and tail, shaven body. Next to woman in a fur coat which has similar proportions.
September 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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If anyone needs Piggy, he’ll be sulking in the bathtub about his lion cut until further notice. #Caturday
A chilly-looking tabby Maine coon with a sulky face and a lion cut. He is scowling whilst sitting in a bathtub. Very surly vibes.
September 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM