Miss Appropriated

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Kiwi in the UK. Sweary leftie into travel, books, geeky wee moments, coffee, gigs. Ex-fundie. Cis ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. Curious about the green slimy thing looking over your shoulder as you read.

Faux 1950s image of three robed figures worshipping a massive coffee pot. The text is in spooky red font and says “Worship coffee, the dark lord”.
Wikipedia page for 90 mile beach in New Zealand, which is actually 55 miles long.
A photo of the cover of Queer As Folklore. It’s bright yellow with red and black lettering and features a merman with wings, a narwhal horn in the style of 1950s tattoos. It looks cheerful and queer AF.
Deck of cards with constellations depicted on multicoloured, watercolour backgrounds
A red sign with black writing that says “It’s not the 1950s you cunts”.
“Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und drank, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book you’re holding is a (‘cry for help’ is crossed out) product of these combined gluttonies. While reading, I’m helpless: I always a) wish I were eating b) notice the food.”
A cartoon Karl Marx is sitting next to a cartoon Captain Haddock, who looks exhausted and says “What a week, huh?”. Karl Marx replies “Conrade it’s capitalism”. Snowy the dog is drinking the captain’s beer.
Cartoon raccoon wearing business casual attire holds a clipboard in one hand and a torch in the other. He looks dismayed, horrified and haunted all at the same time.
A mixture of green shrubs, pink and purple flowers, gravel, and general greenness. In the background are some golden flowers, peeking through.
Cartoon fox version of Robin Hood casually leaning against a tree, wearing a green tunic and a slutty little yellow hat with a feather and arrow in it. He’s checking out his nails while delivering a sick burn. All we want is a kind, flirty man who’ll dismantle capitalism with us.
Cartoon fox Robin Hood wearing a green tunic and a slutty little yellow hat with a red feather and an arrow through it. He’s leaning against a tree and examining the nails of one of his hands while delivering a sick burn.
A stuffed goat with super curly horns. It is wearing a light blue sweater and looking confused about the meaning of life.
A multicoloured window in a cathedral. The walls are lit in blue and a ribbon of rainbow light crosses the middle of the picture.
A screenshot of the intro to War and Peace into Bogan. It starts with “Bloody hell, Prince Vasili, Genoa and Luca are pretty much just Napoleon’s holiday homes now… I’m warning you, if you still reckon Napoleon is an alright bloke - if you still don’t reckon this means he wants a fight - if you try and defend that mad bastard, who I reckon is pretty much the devil… well, then you can bugger off, we’re not mates anymore. But Oi, come in, come in, I’m just messing with ya mate. Sit down. How are ya, anyway?”
Drax Project live on stage with red lights around them. The guitarist is on the left and wearing a white shirt, the lead singer is playing a sax whilst wearing the band’s tour shirt, the drummer’s head is just behind him because I’m too short to get good pics, and the keyboardist, like all staunch kiwi blokes, is head to toe in black with a cap on his head. They’re vibing.
Red label with yellow wording “Sanitarium Marmite” on a jar of the only legit form of Marmite, the stuff made in New Zealand. This is what English marmite wants to be when it grows up.
Three books in dappled sunlight. One has a photograph of a coke can and is a biography about a woman’s childhood in Albania when communism ended; one is neon yellow and pink and features Shakespeare posing like he’s on a dating app; the third is red with detailed patterns, pictures of Indian buildings and a blue margin.
Black flag with “Trans rights are human rights” in alternating blue, pink and white block letters, all the better to protest with.
Book with a bright pink cover and purple drink on a scratch up table. Shakespeare is posing on the cover as if he’s a hipster in an indie band. The title reads Straight Acting, the many queer lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh. To the right is a cute lil tumbler of a purple cocktail with 3 big chonks of ice, it tastes like slowly unwinding after a long week.
Flat lay of ingredients for onigiri: wasabi, shredded carrot, salmon, two plastic spoons for scooping rice, two yellow triangular moulds (satisfyingly fun to use), and a light blue bowl with rice, sitting on top of nori seaweed sheets.
A whisky menu, small sign and whiskey cocktail on an outdoor table on a summer’s day. The sign has 1920s silent film vibes and reads “The Last Word: whisky & cock lunge” in fancy white lettering on a black background. It’s meant to say “cocktail lounge” but locals creatively scratched out some letters.
Three books on a table. From left to right; Mrs Spring Fragrance which has a jaunty pink cover; I am Radar which has a black and white line drawing of a house boat in the foreground and palm trees in the background; My Other Life which has a black and white grainy close up of a bloke’s face. He’s wearing sunglasses and one lense shows a sepia image of 3 Malawian boys in front of huts.
A marina on a grey foggy day. In the middle is a slightly slanted line of trees reflected in the water.
View over a plane wing with a red and orange band of light on the horizon, a tinge of yellow on the far right.
Outdoor grey wall with Christchurch Airport written on it, above a red piano and black chair. The piano has writing painted on it, including the words “Play me” above the keyboard.
Bright green, circular beer tap label with “Chinchiller Brewing: Tartside of the Moon: Feijoa oat cream sour series” written on it and cartoon pictures of feijoas.
A paperback copy of The House in the Cerulean Sea on a white duvet. The book’s cover is a cartoon image of a red brick house and bus sitting on cliff that hangs over the sea.
A Shrewsbury biscuit with heart-shaped jam is held in front of Shrewsbury’s town hall.
Clear blue sky over a sandy beach path that leads to a surf beach, with a wooden bench in the far right. The heat and seagulls are implied.
Green plush Christmas tree with smiley face, sewn colourful ornaments sewn on, and a tiny smiling yellow star on top. Toy holds yellow sign that reads “Have a treememdous Christmas”.
The shittiest service in London, with poached eggs made out of concrete.
St Matthews church gardens in early morning light.