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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Day 2 of #inktober. I see a *lot* of tarot cards cos my gf is very into them, and I like the aesthetic of the original Rider Waite deck. Especially the hierophant who definitely *isn't* a Catholic cardinal, nope, no way.

A figure in a red robe, elaborate hat and white stole sits. Their right hand is raised with two fingers held aloft. Their left hand holds a stick with three cross bars. It's not a Catholic cardinal, honest. It's also not an Orthodox priest, honest.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 02/10/2026

I felt an overwhelming urge to draw yesterday, the strongest I've felt in a while, and it wasn't until I had finished my piece that I realised it was #inktober (subliminal knowledge?). So here's my day 1.

Black, white and grey drawing of a mech. It has a sword in its right hand. It's got lots of panels and angular armour bits which serve indeterminate purposes. It's kind of Gundam with a bit of Warhammer 40000 titan to it.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 30/09/2026

My brain every time I see people on here talking about pensions.

The Jessica Lange 'you stupid slut' meme but the text says "There's not going to be pensions, you stupid millennial".

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 04/09/2026

HEY! I'm walking* here! *actually speaking an English idiolect which is mostly northwestern England English with a mess of Dublin English sprinkled on top, plus the weird precision of pronunciation that comes with autism sometimes.

A map of America showing a red patch over the area with New York and Boston that indicates these areas are closest to my answers to the survey. The blue patch of least likely places is over Oklahoma.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 23/08/2026

Anne Hathaway has been giving the lesbians what we want in a Cate Blanchett kind of way for years, and I think she deserves more recognition for that.

Anne Hathaway on the cover of Elle. She is wearing a silky lining black suit jacket and trousers, with only a bra underneath, and she has ear rings right up the side of her visible ear and she's wearing some rings on one finger but in a menacing way, and she's looking at the viewer in a way which reads as both seductive and threatening and there might be some text on this cover, I don't know, I can't see past her.

Anne Hathaway is on her knees in a blue c18th style jacket and brown jodpurs, knew high black boots and she has a sword. She's passionately delivering a line to a mixed race woman in a black and white dress with a red shawl. This is clearly a scene from Twelfth Night which is the most lesbotronic Shakespeare play and I need her to wave her sword at me.

Anne Hathaway is on another magazine cover, I think. She's wearing another black suit, this time with a white shirt, and she has her hand on her hip like I've been a very very bad girl and she's very disappointed with me and I need punishing.

Anne Hathaway is getting her face touched by Michaela Cole, in a scene from the film Mother Mary which has no heterosexual explanation. They are both wearing black and are surrounded by white sticks of light and you could cut the sexual tension with a rolling pin, my goodness.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 31/07/2026

When The Odyssey is the second best film you've seen this week. #lastfourwatched

Screenshot of my last four watched films on Letterboxd. They are The Odyssey (4.5 stars), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (5 stars), Girlfriends (3 stars), Evil Dead 2 (4 stars)

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 26/06/2026

My current fave heatwave game is finding out about how everyone's boiling hot cats are only doing the bare minimum to cool down while simultaneously being furious about being hot. Here's a picture of my idiot who won't stop going in direct sunlight despite being black. She's so mad she's roasting.

A black cat with white toe tips lying on her side in a crescent moon of defeat at the hands of the sun. One sage green eye is open and looking directly at me, accusing me of turning up the thermostat on the world just to inconvenience her. She's lying on a green footstool with a purple fleece blanket under her, not the considerably cooler wooden floor underneath. She has one brain cell and it's been thoroughly cooked.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 16/05/2026

Lupita Nyong'o is Helen of Troy. Lupita Nyong'o is the new James Bond. Lupita Nyong'o read all 100 of the novels on that Guardian list and thinks 28 of them are overrated. Lupita Nyong'o has already won the Scottish Premiership and will win the English FA Cup later today.

Lupita Nyong'o in a light brown suit with bright orange glasses.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 26/04/2026

I grew up in Britain in an Irish family, and it was only as an adult I really noticed the contrast between typical 'Irish jokes' in British culture and the poster in our hallway of the titans of Irish literature. We punch so far above our weight in literature, comedy, etc, and yet the stereotype...

The poster of Irish writers. A 3 by 4 grid with pictures and quotes from JM Synge, Flann O'Bren, Oliver Goldsmith, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Beckett, WB Yeats, Brendan Behan, Oscar Wilde, Patrick Kavanagh, James Joyce, Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw. It's the original version of the poster because it lists Beckett as still alive.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 25/04/2026

Get the chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream in.

Photo of a book. The book is Joanna the notorious queen of Naples, Jerusalem and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone. You can also see my slippers on the floor behind the book but I don't think they have the power of prophecy.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 25/04/2026

Picked a great weekend to start reading this...

A hand holding a book. The book is The Ottomans by Marc David Baer. The cover is white with an ottoman style blue pattern. Within the blue is some images of some ottomans.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 11/04/2026

Sometimes I stroke her after she's been in a summer sun beam and she's very very hot to touch.

A mostly black cat with white spots on her belly and toes. She is lying in a sun beam on a bed in a croissant shape.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 21/03/2026

Well obviously a red star would be on a black background cos space is black!

Picture of a star, a real one out there in space, looking all red and glowing, on a black background.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 08/03/2026

When the void gives leg, we say "leg".

Black cat in a pink box. The box has a hole in the side and one black cat leg is poking out of the hole.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 12/02/2026

There's a group of famous season ticket holders who the United fan base have given the self-explanatory nickname 'the Old Trafford Sikhs'. One of the family apparently was at the 1968 European Cup Final. Radcliffe doesn't understand United even a fraction as much as those guys.

Six British Asian men, sat in a row at Old Trafford. They are all wearing red shirts, mostly Manchester United replica kits, and Sikh turbans. They are intently watching the football. Five have black beards, one has a grey beard. Honestly, they look a bit fed up. Based on the kits, I think this is the 2010-11 season where we didn't lose at home, so maybe this is the West Brom game which we drew?

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 17/01/2026

Hamnet (2025) Nice one Jessie Buckley, whole cinema's crying.

Poster for Hamnet. Jessie Buckley in a red dress leans on Paul Mescal in a blue jacket. They are surrounded by plants. Everyone looks like they're holding those big emotions in, just about.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 17/01/2026

Medusa (2021) It's on Shudder but it's not really a horror, it's a psychological thriller with a heavy Dario Argento influence. Brazilian woman in a weird evangelical cult starts to lose her mind and find herself. The ending absolutely slapped, truly invigorating finale.

Poster for Medusa. A woman's face but split into three. The top slice shows her hair and forehead in normal lighting. The middle slice shows her face covered by a smooth white mask at night, only her eyes visible. The bottom slice is her mouth and chin, lit with a weird green light.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 28/12/2025

Truly a bold move for Bolly to release a letter this week ensuring his son's presidential run: "Behold my ability to contact every disease and illness know to humankind, vote for my son who may also possess this capacity for medical misfortune".

News headline: Brazil's Bolsonaro undergoes medical treatment for hiccups. Bolsonaro also received surgery this week to treat a double hernia.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 22/09/2025

The greatest slide I've ever made.

A stage. I'm standing to the right of the picture, talking into the microphone about the emperor Ai of the Han dynasty. A projected slide takes up most of the picture. It is captioned "Emperor A.I. of Han". The emperor's picture has been altered so that his hand has eight fingers, splayed in a hideous fashion as if he has been created badly by an A.I. image generator. To be clear, I made that image myself, manually, in Photoshop cos I'm not using the water-sucking plagiarism machine even for a joke like this. I handcraft my bad/good visual jokes.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 22/09/2025

I love this picture my mate took of me during my history talk on Saturday.

White woman with dark hair in a ponytail, stands in front of a projected image which says "Achilles" and has a picture of Achilles from a Greek vase. The woman (it's me) is wearing a patterned bomber jacket, a green t-shirt and a honeycomb shaped necklace. I'm holding a microphone and a paper script while looking to my right with an expression which says "Why are the Victorian historians trying to make these obviously queer mythological/historical figures straight?". I pulled that face a lot on Saturday.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 27/08/2025

Hitchhiker's has at least four visual versions of Marvin (see the live radio play and 1994 collectible card versions attached) and they all look different, which I think does prove that this HP show isn't aiming for artistry at all. It's fine to not like any of the Marvins but at least they tried.

Radio live Marvin, a puppet with an old fashioned radio for a head and a reel to reel tape deck for a body, and microphones for legs. Adorable.

Collectible card Marvin. Smoothly metallic with large glowing triangular pink eyes. A few small circuit lines appear at his wrist and ankles. Haunted.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 21/07/2025

If you fuse Irish and Ethiopian, you get the absolute legend that is Ruth Negga.

A very nice head shot of Ruth Negga, a woman with light brown skin, big brown eyes, incredible eyebrows and short curly hair styled upwards. She's gazing off camera and thinking about how she will next light up the TV or cinema screen. She appears to be wearing a t-shirt made of doilies. It is unclear if the doilies are a nod to her Irish heritage (drinking tea) or her Ethiopian heritage (drinking coffee).

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 13/06/2025

What do you mean not every village of 5,000 or fewer people produces a global superstar? Come on Goostrey/Chelford/Lower Peover, try harder!

Harry Styles, in a white and yellow shirt, looking at the camera wondering why other villages in Cheshire can't do what Holmes Chapel did and casually pop out a million selling pop star.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 01/06/2025

What are you doing for Pride Month? I've started it by trying to find some light fiction to read alongside the history books for my next history talk which are somewhat on the heavy side...

A hand holding the book how to survive a plague, the story of how activists and scientists tamed AIDS by David France.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 18/04/2025

Big crowd in Manchester, despite the rain and the short notice, all saying trans rights are human rights! 🏳️‍⚧️

St Peters Square in Manchester. A big crowd with trans and pride flags, lots of signs in support of trans people. There's hundreds here, maybe over a thousand.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 16/04/2025

We've already had one film about a member of The Polyphonic Spree, just ~100 to go if their Wikipedia page is accurate.

Film poster for The Nowhere Inn, starring St Vincent (who used to be in the Polyphonic Spree) and Carrie Brownstein (who is in Sleater Kinney, a band with a much more normal amount of members). The poster has a yellow background with eight drawings of shoulder length wigs. In the middle at the bottom is St Vincent, a white woman with shoulder length brown hair. She's wearing a white shirt and black jacket, and has her eyes closed.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 23/12/2024

Both of them, but for very different reasons.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 12/12/2024

Ok, I agree with Kemi Badenoch on ONE thing.

Screenshot of news headline which reads Politics

'I will not touch bread if it is moist': Kemi Badenoch sparks Westminster food fight

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 07/12/2024

She could solve it but she doesn't want to.

Major Motoko from Ghost In The Shell. A Japanese woman in a grey jumpsuit, with a purple mullet, and a gin. She's crouching down and looks pissed off.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 05/12/2024

Still waiting for Aubrey Plaza to put in a bad performance (even tho I have seen her in at least one bad film).

Aubrey Plaza as Rio Vidal in Agatha All Along. She's in green witch mode, in a green top with black lace gloves and messy hair. She looks like she's about to cause as much mischief as possible.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 05/12/2024

Friends, let's all learn too much about each other! Recency bias will obviously play a role in answers.

Picture which says 1 like = 1 fictional crush

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 05/12/2024

My grandads don't have Wikipedia pages and if they did I don't think they would look like these:

Screenshot from Twitter.

@candon_sean is quote tweeting @deadline. The quote tweet reads:

Remarkable things are happening in England. There's no working class pathway to the arts anymore, so now every new actor or filmmaker comes from an extremely wealthy family who'd rather not talk about what they were up to between 1933 and 1945

The tweet being quoted is from @DEADLINE and it reads:

Francesca Gardiner was picked as the showrunner on HBO's television adaptation of 'Harry Potter' in June after a four-month selection process involving J.K. Rowling's input....

There's a picture of a brunette white women in front of a picture of a turreted building, which is presumably Gardiner.

Screenshot of a Wikipedia page. With the headings of each section visible. They read:

Early life

Landowner

Politics of the far right

Kinship in Husbandry

Nudism

Works

Family

Legacy

References

External

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 30/11/2024

One of the reasons Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2019) is perfect is Sciamma's use of wordless scenes that utilise two of the most physically expressive leads in cinema today to tell everything via movement. It could be a silent film except the dialogue is also perfect so keep it.

Picture from the portrait of a lady on fire. The two leads, Noemie Merlant and Adele Haenel are either side of the frame, looking at each other with scarves wrapped around their mouths. The background is a dark cave wall and the scarves are dark colours, so the eye is most drawn to the top halves of Merlant and Haenel's faces which are clearly visible as they are both white. Intense lesbian staring is taking place, they are so horny for each other right now.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 28/11/2024

The day I realised the enormity of not having a SoundCloud. I hate that I was right, BTW.

A tweet from @hollyzone (me) on Twitter. It's a photo of a British fashion magazine with the headline "More fash, less £££ [which we can infer means cash]". The text of my Tweet reads "Britain after Brexit". It is dated 29 August 2017. It has 1112 retweets, 16 quote tweets, and 3283 likes.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 26/11/2024

Levenshulme's Antiques Village. Three floors of former council offices, police station, and stables. Corridors that don't make geometric sense. Bigger on the inside than the outside. You can get a fry up for less than a tenner in cafe. Ask the glass sculpture seller for her life story. 10/10.

Photo of a large red brick and sandstone trimmed building in the classic Victorian Manchester style, with a smaller sandstone building next to it. The windows and doors are large and impressive. There is a clock tower just visible at the top, above the front door.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 22/11/2024

Saint Celestine and Inquisition Katarinya Greyfax.

Inquisitor Greyfax, with her cool big hat with the wide brim and candles, her shiny armour and that angry glare. Behind her is Celestine in shiny gold armour with a sword, a halo and a massive pair of fuck off huge winds. Also Marshal Gardhelm is there but we don't care about him.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 13/11/2024

Siri, play 'Here Comes The Girls' by Ernie K. Doe.

A squad of Adepta Sororitas models from Games Workshop, wielding bolt guns and other weaponary. Their winged eyeliner isn't visible at this scale but you just know they've applied it and are ready to mess up some Chaos Marines or Tyranids or Trump cabinet members.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 18/10/2024

People will complain about the Pride Progress flag being too busy, but never say a word about the Serene Republic of Venice. 🤔

The Venetian flag. It's red with LOT of twirly gold vines, a gold lion with wings holding a sword, six small blue circles with gold trim and gold four pointed stars inside, gold flowers.

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