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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 28/09/2026

Well, here it is: Wikipedia's best article.

Jeremy duQuesnay Adams (October 1, 1933 – May 2, 2016) was a medieval historian, polymath, and translator. His interests included Joan of Arc and the Matter of Britain, as well as human groupings and exclusion.[2][3]

He was an inspiration for the character Jeremy Hillary Boob in the film Yellow Submarine.[4]

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 20/09/2026

A gift for all Australians of a certain age: a Mr Fish reaction shot.

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 19/09/2026

C. S. Lewis, Harry Price, George Zucco and Edgar Rice Burroughs were all the same bloke

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 19/09/2026

Since the film's set in the 1950s, this'll have to be updated to the days when Jimmy Porter was burning his wife's arm and Arthur Seaton was being ground down by bastards

“In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 17/09/2026

Munching popcorn while the "Parents With Inconvenient Truths About Trans" get the comment section bombardment they so richly deserve.

Alibaba
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I liked PITT a lot more when the trolls minded their own business. This was the one place for crushed parents and we can’t even have this space anymore without the crazy cult and their pitchforks.

I’m so sorry this happening to your family. It’s typical playbook manipulation from this group of folks. Conform or else. I’d rather the or else. It’s not easier by any means but it’s certainly less abusive.

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Joseph Likely
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You shouldn't have this space. It's not good for you. What you should do is accept your kids for who they are. But PITT teaches you to wallow in self pity and to be cruel and mean to your children while blaming non-existent conspiracies in Minecraft. Being on PITT is the reason you are so miserable and destroying it would be the biggest favor anyone could ever do you.

All your suffering is self-inflicted and could be ended overnight if you simply had the strength of character to admit you were wrong.

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Steve
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You liked it better when it was just your cult's echo chamber?

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Alibaba
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It WAS a support group of parents. And yes, I did like it. People were actually kind to you in the comment section. Obviously word has gotten out. As if we haven’t lost enough already.

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Aidan
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You haven't lost anything you would not last a day in a trans person's shoes. This is not a support group it is a cult for abusive parents. Good riddance.

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 06/09/2026

In 1995 Newsweek opened an article on anime with a profile of artist/fashion designer Hushi Mortezaie, then a student. In 1999 AnimeNewsNetwork published a weirdly hateful response baselessly accusing Mortezaie of heroin addiction and declaring him "probably dead" (in reality he'd opened a boutique)

Hushidor Mortezaie is bored with being human. He's ready to mutate. He's got a tattoo on his leg of a battery pack and a bar code stamped MADE IN JAPAN. He's had a nose job, some lipo. His close-cropped hair changes color like a mood ring. Even among the freaky salesclerks he works with at Patricia Field--a store servicing the fashion fetishes of New York's downtown club scene-Hushi sticks out. In his Japanese clogs and plaid Bermudas, he doesn't just look like a cartoon. He wants to be one. Not just any cartoon: a Japanese cartoon like Speed Racer or Astro Boy! He's getting contact lenses that'll simulate little 'toon twinkles in the corners of his eyes. "That black sparkle," Hushi says. "To me, it's the ultimate in being a posthuman android."

The article started off not with a mention of, say, Osamu Tezuka or Hayao Miyazaki (as more well-written pieces in the New York Times and a few others have), but with a description of a 20-year-old mowhawked heroin junkie with a microchip tattoo. While it admitted that the notorious MTV show Aeon Flux wasn't REALLY anime, it did insinuate that fandom for the two were one and the same. And it associated all of us with this beautiful person who, truth be known, is probably dead or is sucking bottom in the American cultural food chain. Certainly MY role model...

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 03/09/2026

In March 2000 a comics reviewer wrote a negative commentary on issue 1 of Garth Ennis's Punisher, and received the following response. It remains untopped in the history of online discourse.

hey u piece of horse shit

the punisher is one of the best Marvel books ever published

i know all u like to read is books approved by the comic code (which is something just as worthy of a gang killing as u)

u motherfuckin hippy

i hope u die

and if u ever say shit bout Garth, i will seriously kick yo' fuckin ass all over this Goddamn place

fuck u and all your no violence bullshit, unless youre some fucked up, tree huggin hippy (which im sure u are) whos high on crack, everybody likes violence and that grossman guy, fuck him too, u actually bought that fuckin book?

u serioiusly suck cock for a living

why do u shame the comic book industry by buyin the books and writin shit about them

i wish your head was twisted 180 degrees because u surely deserved it from what i read

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 01/09/2026

Well, I didn't *quite* get it ready for August, but...

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 27/08/2026

I looked at the Gareth Roberts one (from before Arday's suicide) and I'm actually surprised it's still on the site.

The Jason Arday affair has been a great revealer. On the one hand, it is a glorious romp that has brought much-needed mirth to the nation. On the other, the exposure of Professor Arday isn’t really about the guileless Arday himself, but the establishment that elevated him. It has served up a moment of unavoidable clarity in which the nonsense of progressivism stands exposed like the imperial scrotum.

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 20/08/2026

AI has some of the most desperately unappealing adverts in history

Still from a ChatGPT ad. Extreme closeup of someone's sweaty face. Text: "some people have sweaty palms. Some people have sweaty backs."

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 17/08/2026

Lesser-known moments in European history: the Four Power Pact undergoes forced feminisation.

Mussolini: "The idea started off as a boy; the English tried to turn it into a hermaphrodite; while, in the hands of the French, it would become nothing but a girl."

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 10/08/2026

Okay, I'm genuinely curious. If you're someone who's never heard of Hancock's Half Hour: from looking at this cover, what genre would you guess it belongs to?

The glowering, scanlined face of Tony Hancock

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 10/08/2026

The algorithms have pointed me to Family-Ness, of all things, and I'd somehow forgotten that Lovely-Ness has two mouths.

A female Nessie from the cartoon Family-Ness. She has two mouths: one a pair of feminine lips on the end of her snout; the other a gender-ambiguous mouth under her snout.

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 09/08/2026

The first time I cane across the term "cyberpunk" was when I was 9 years old and playing a DOS platformer called Cyril Cyberpunk, where a knockoff of that kid from the Burger King ads fights killer robot teddies. Part of me will always consider this the beating heart of the genre.

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 03/08/2026

Don't have the cash? Well, you can still lend a hand by reposting this thread 👏

My self-portrait. Who Doesn't Love a Doris?

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 01/08/2026

Well, looks safe to say this book will be out in August. It's my first stab at self-publishing and I won't rule out last-minute delays, but we're very, very close.

Cover of my upcoming book A Long Year's Dreaming: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in 2020

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 21/07/2026

Aaaaaaaaand the writer apparently still thinks Haiti is part of Jamaica

From the doorway of the room came a loud, booming, joyful voice with a musical Jamaican lilt. It was warm and friendly, and it made my blood run as cold as liquid nitrogen. “Detective! How are you!” Alex’s eyes shot open. His mouth dropped. He pointed like MacBeth at Banquo’s ghost. I turned. There, in all of his tall, wiry glory, was Bokor Baracus, voodoo necromancer and supernatural mercenary. His arms were spread wide as though he expected a hug. His teeth were bared in a massive grin.

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 21/07/2026

If Hoyt and Scalzi weren't enough, now we have Gerrold

The judge stared at the Pope for a long moment. Then he looked at the CPS lawyer with a glare so harsh, I expected lasers to shoot from his eyes. “Did you do any background, Mister Gerrold? On either the defendant or that batshit insane woman who had to be dragged from my courtroom?” The lawyer gaped, uncertain of what to say.

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 21/07/2026

Okay, I usually hate this writer's pop culture references, but any mention of Brian Blessed (especially in that role) gets a thumbs-up from me.

He shook his head. “Not a thing… okay. I may have seen a few flashes of light here and there. But it blurred by so fast, it looked like a shootout in Flash Gordon.” “Buster Crabbe or Brian Blessed?” “Blessed wasn’t Flash Gordon.” “No, but he stole that movie.” Pearson laughed. “Point taken.”

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 21/07/2026

An antagonist who wasn't even interesting enough for one book is, apparently, going to be a recurring villain. Great.

Pearson stood next to me and looked down into the hole in the stage. “What happened? Where’s Bergolio?” “He used the Spear of Destiny to escape by punching a hole in reality.”

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 21/07/2026

If you want your monsters to be scary, then best not compare them to dated special effects

Then the werewolf slammed into me like a car. It smashed me down against the train tracks like I was a mailman who had pissed off the local mastiff. I had always considered wolves to be rather elegant creatures. This looked more like a starved bear with a close trim. The head was wolf-like, but the eyes were dead inside. The fake shark from Jaws had more lifelike eyes.

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 20/07/2026

When your protagonist turns into a gibbering weirdo. (Also, I'm 2/3 through and so far, no werewolves. I feel misled.)

“Ah. The ‘real socialism has never been tried’ defense. Right. Explain it to the Ukrainians first, then we’ll talk. Pardon me, I have to go find Father Pearson. Have a good day, Father Arturo. One day, I hope you wake up from this nightmare you find yourself in before you find yourself living in it.”

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 20/07/2026

Lena, who was adopted, seems unaware that gay couples can become parents via adoption. And she's aware of ancient Greek pederesty, but she's only just learnt that transgender people exist?

Lena glowered as only a teenager could. She skipped the rest of that. “And her question about marriage? Even stupider. You marry to have a family. To have children. There’s a man, there’s a woman. They have sex. They have children. Who marries men to men or women to women? This isn’t ancient Greece. Even the Greeks didn’t prevent them from marrying women. What would be the point?” She stuck her tongue out like she tasted something nasty. “And the Greeks seduced children as a hobby. Blech. “And guns?” Lena asked, working up a fine lather. Her hands started flying so hard and so fast through the air as she spoke, one could have easily guessed she was Italian. “Why are guns a problem? The Russians teach children to use AK-47s! And homeschooling? Mariel tells us we’re smarter than most our age. What idiot thinks this is a problem!”

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 20/07/2026

"See! See!? The fictional 16-year-old I invented agrees with me! I must be right!"

Lena rolled her green eyes and smirked like I was slow. “Not that. Why would anyone listen to the woman we’re hiding from? She didn’t like my answers.” She gave a little shrug. “So what? Her questions were stupid.” The bottom fell out of my stomach. I almost didn’t want to know what the questions were. But I had know what Meadowsweet had asked. Lena scoffed, derisive. “Like a man who calls himself a woman is now a woman? How stupid is that? If she calls a rock a flower, it’s still going to hurt if I throw it at her.” I smiled a little. That sounded more like Jeremy talking than her. Lena continued. “We should go to the people who employ her and tell them her questions. They will lock her up.” I frowned, thinking it over. “Problem is? That it isn’t the case.” Lena looked at me like I had three heads. “No. Not possible. That would be like letting men into the ladies’ room.” I blinked. “Don’t ask. It’s a thing.”

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 20/07/2026

Oh hey, we're in "name unsympathetic characters after authors you've had beef with" territory. Always fun. (cc @camestrosf.bsky.social)

The next hour consisted of menial business on the part of the Internal Affairs investigators. IA Detectives Hoyt and Scalzi were particularly unengaging. It was almost like they didn’t want to be there, which was unusual. Even sympathetic IA guys usually invested more. Usually, an investigation began with asking the officer what happened so they can get details, then compare it to what they knew.

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 20/07/2026

More shots at the Jesuits. (And the Markist brothers, whoever they are, catch a stray.

Pearson scoffed at Freeman, then sighed. “You see, Bergolio hasn't been the same since the Pope was elected. He’s technically not the top Jesuit anymore—the Pope is. And let me tell you, Pope Pius XIII has considered dissolving the Jesuits. There have been questions of orthodoxy since the Pope has come to power. There are certain theological questions that have been raised.” It was my turn to scoff. “About time. What took him so long?” Pearson smiled. “He’s been busy dissolving the Markist brothers. May I continue?”

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 20/07/2026

The series' portrayal of Nazis is fascinating (derogatory). We've had Muslim Nazis, a secular Jewish Nazi who wanted white genocide, and now Odinist Nazis who are bad because they hate Christians. And because "National Socialists are still socialists" (and therefore equivalent to SocDems)

Alex shook his head. “Any of these dummies have anything in common?” “Well, the multiple flavors of anti-Christians usually have one thing in common. They’re almost entirely communist. Sorry ‘socialist,’ ” she made air quotes to go along with them. “Whether it’s ‘Democratic socialists’ or ‘national socialists,’ they’re going to be tossing around some sort of commie BS. Don’t even ask me why. It feels like one part identity politics and one part ‘we can make communism work if it’s a commune of our people.’ At least, that’s the closest guess I can make.”

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 20/07/2026

I can't help but notice that the author's articulating his respect for Asatru purely by pouring scorn on forms of Asatru he doesn't consider proper Asatru.

Francesca laughed. “Idiots, mostly. And please, that doesn’t even scratch the surface of all the people who want to worship Norse gods.” She waved a hand as if to encompass and orchestral section. “They’re all over the place.” Bill smiled—at least, the beard moved enough to imply a smile. “Ah! Like the Fluffbunnies.” Francesca rolled her eyes. “‘Everything is love and light, and Freya is a love goddess.’ Yeah, right.” Bill sighed. “Yeah. That was a short date.”

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 20/07/2026

From on-point to drivel in three paragraphs

Francesca rolled her eyes and looked at Alex. “There are some dickheads out there who think burning churches is a good idea. Thinks that going back to the old gods are the only way to fight the Muslim hordes. That sort of idiocy.” Bill scoffed, combing his beard with his fingers. “Guys like that aren’t even qualified to be Norse al-Qaeda. Frankly, a Norse al-Qaeda would have try to engage everyone in personal combat, and go down swinging. The idiots you mean don’t even do that much. They’d rather commit petty vandalism and run away like cowards.”

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 20/07/2026

Ah, here come the neopagans. And surprisingly, they're being treated with rather more respect than the Jesuits. We, sort of.

“We’re largely Asatru here,” Francesca continued. “And no, before you ask, we’re not Nazis. We—well, Bill and I—actively kick their asses out of groups when we find them. Asatruars aren’t Nazis if we can help it.” Alex blinked. “You’re what?” I sighed. “Asatru,” I echoed. “They worship the Aesir. It comes under heathenry.” Alex looked at me askance. “Isn’t ‘heathens’ a rather wide net?” I held back a groan. I didn’t want to have that discussion. I was going to sound like a Wiki page if I wasn’t careful. I hadn’t had to use any of this knowledge since I acquired it, and I would have been happy if I never needed it ever again. “In this case, heathenry specifically refers to Germanic pagans—Scandinavia, Iceland, etc. Started with German Romanticism, when naturalism was a thing. I blame Rousseau, myself.” Alex nodded … slowly, calmly, and patiently. “Don’t we all? I mean, he’s French. He should be blamed for everything. But you know what? One more time. What’s I-say-true?” Francesca rolled her eyes and laughed. “Ah-sah-tru. We worship Norse gods.” Alex looked around at everybody. “Was that so hard to say? We couldn’t have started there? I read Thor. About thirty years ago… okay, forty. Before they made him into a movie character.”

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 20/07/2026

Does the author even realise he's repeating himself?

Taylor’s smile was … polite. But cooler. “Most of our men aren’t religious. Just spiritual.” I sniffed and thought, Satan is also a spirit. You may want to clarify.

“Spiritual and not religious,” Alex muttered. He spoke directly to me as he said, “Should we tell them that Satan is also a spirit? And you’ve met it? And kicked it a few times in the crotch?”

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 19/07/2026

Looks like we're in for some heavy-duty Jesuit-bashing. Still waiting for the werewolves.

I sighed as I looked out over my window at the Long Island sound. “Bergolio’s a Jesuit. Pius XIII isn’t too happy with any of them. They’ve been playing with heresy for decades. Liberation theology BS. That sort of thing.” Alex sighed. He paused for a moment, knowing he was going to regret asking for clarification. “Remind me. Liberation what-now?” I considered giving him the full version but decided to make his life easier. “Marxists read the Bible and declare Jesus a Socialist.”

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 19/07/2026

The hero visits an occult shop, and confirms that he's not really a free market advocate.

“In your case, buddy? I can shut you down right now. Hell, give me five minutes of research, I could possibly throw you in jail.” Solari arched a brow. He sensed a deal coming. “Unless…?” “Take your crystal ball, your Ouija board, everything you have that has been touched by Hell to give you this power, and you throw it out. Burn it. Smash it. Then send it to Staten Island or New Jersey where it belongs—in the garbage.” Solari’s eyes narrowed. “And what if I don’t?” “Then I simply enforce the law.” I held up a finger to silence him. “Do yourself a favor—learn to cold-read people. I think it would be better for both you and your client if you were a simple fraud.” He looked surprised. “Really? You’re the morality police now?” I gave him a casual smile and a shrug. “Look. I can’t stop your clients from coming to you. I would if I could, but I can’t. If they don’t go to you, they’ll go somewhere else. Much as I’d like to, I can’t save anyone without their volition. Don’t play with the forces of darkness, I won’t come back. Continue to play around, and you will get burned.”

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Doris and Decay and the Red Death @dorisvsutherland.com · 19/07/2026

What's the logic here? She's already accused them of CSA, which is surely serious enough to stand without bringing up their stance on gay marriage. (Plus, if I were Meadowseet, I'd bring up the dad's belief that God can make him levitate)

Meadowsweet continued. “And you’re raising them in an atmosphere of hate.” She flipped to another page. “Your new daughter believes that there are only two genders. She thinks that the transgendered are insane and that marriage is only between a man and a woman. Your son wore a T-shirt that was anti-Muslim. And they both think that abortion is evil.”

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