Catherynne M. Valente
@catvalente.bsky.social
Queen of Lasers, Mother of Storms, & NYT/USAToday bestselling author of Fairyland, Space Opera, Deathless, & many more. Any/All
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Art: http://patreon.com/catvalente
Politics: http://catvalente.substack.com
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The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
January 4, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
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Hey now, it's fun to sing "oooooh" on an E for 12 pages!
January 4, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Hey now, it's fun to sing "oooooh" on an E for 12 pages!
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Sometimes you get to go "aaaah"
January 4, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Sometimes you get to go "aaaah"
Also: no solos ever because no one writes them for that range
Friend’s child who is 12: You should sing in a choir! Why don’t you?
Me: Well I’m probably gonna this year but here’s the thing I’m a contralto so it’s not much fun
12: Wait why?
Me: It’s the lowest fem voice so you never get to sing anything good you just play bass with your voice for 1000 years
Me: Well I’m probably gonna this year but here’s the thing I’m a contralto so it’s not much fun
12: Wait why?
Me: It’s the lowest fem voice so you never get to sing anything good you just play bass with your voice for 1000 years
January 4, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Also: no solos ever because no one writes them for that range
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Trump’s Venezuela strategy has an underpants gnomes vibe for me
Kidnap president
????
We run the place
Can anyone fill in step 2?
Kidnap president
????
We run the place
Can anyone fill in step 2?
January 4, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Trump’s Venezuela strategy has an underpants gnomes vibe for me
Kidnap president
????
We run the place
Can anyone fill in step 2?
Kidnap president
????
We run the place
Can anyone fill in step 2?
Friend’s child who is 12: You should sing in a choir! Why don’t you?
Me: Well I’m probably gonna this year but here’s the thing I’m a contralto so it’s not much fun
12: Wait why?
Me: It’s the lowest fem voice so you never get to sing anything good you just play bass with your voice for 1000 years
Me: Well I’m probably gonna this year but here’s the thing I’m a contralto so it’s not much fun
12: Wait why?
Me: It’s the lowest fem voice so you never get to sing anything good you just play bass with your voice for 1000 years
January 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Friend’s child who is 12: You should sing in a choir! Why don’t you?
Me: Well I’m probably gonna this year but here’s the thing I’m a contralto so it’s not much fun
12: Wait why?
Me: It’s the lowest fem voice so you never get to sing anything good you just play bass with your voice for 1000 years
Me: Well I’m probably gonna this year but here’s the thing I’m a contralto so it’s not much fun
12: Wait why?
Me: It’s the lowest fem voice so you never get to sing anything good you just play bass with your voice for 1000 years
The film rights are wide open and in fact have never been optioned.
@catvalente.bsky.social Hi Cat, hope you're well. As I reread Radiance I keep envisioning not just how it might look on the silver screen, but how I might adapt it. What's the story with the film rights of Radiance? Thank you for indulging my curiosity--- Happy New Year!
January 1, 2026 at 6:50 AM
The film rights are wide open and in fact have never been optioned.
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I had a few (not many [if any]) 5 star reads this year but for me the absolute best books I read this year were Radiance by @catvalente.bsky.social and I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. Both astonishing books in very different ways, but they’re the ones I return to in my mind.
December 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I had a few (not many [if any]) 5 star reads this year but for me the absolute best books I read this year were Radiance by @catvalente.bsky.social and I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. Both astonishing books in very different ways, but they’re the ones I return to in my mind.
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December 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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help I can't stop finding poetry in the @catvalente.bsky.social prose who could?
January 1, 2026 at 3:24 AM
help I can't stop finding poetry in the @catvalente.bsky.social prose who could?
Sigh.
Told you.
Told you.
Trump is cutting childcare funding to Minnesota because of his usual petty bullshit but also an online conspiracy theory about as credible as Bat Boy ever was.
Don’t worry they definitely won’t do this again hoping women aren’t able to work outside the home anymore! Which will work out great!
Don’t worry they definitely won’t do this again hoping women aren’t able to work outside the home anymore! Which will work out great!
December 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Sigh.
Told you.
Told you.
Trump is cutting childcare funding to Minnesota because of his usual petty bullshit but also an online conspiracy theory about as credible as Bat Boy ever was.
Don’t worry they definitely won’t do this again hoping women aren’t able to work outside the home anymore! Which will work out great!
Don’t worry they definitely won’t do this again hoping women aren’t able to work outside the home anymore! Which will work out great!
December 31, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Trump is cutting childcare funding to Minnesota because of his usual petty bullshit but also an online conspiracy theory about as credible as Bat Boy ever was.
Don’t worry they definitely won’t do this again hoping women aren’t able to work outside the home anymore! Which will work out great!
Don’t worry they definitely won’t do this again hoping women aren’t able to work outside the home anymore! Which will work out great!
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if you enjoyed this hop over to @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and try @catvalente.bsky.social s THE SIN OF AMERICA on for size. Free text or audio, buy the issue if you dig it www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
December 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
if you enjoyed this hop over to @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and try @catvalente.bsky.social s THE SIN OF AMERICA on for size. Free text or audio, buy the issue if you dig it www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
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Here are nine other short stories that really impressed me this year:
• Julianna Baggott's The Historiography of Loss (www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...)
• @catvalente.bsky.social's Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time (clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_08_10/)
• Julianna Baggott's The Historiography of Loss (www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...)
• @catvalente.bsky.social's Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time (clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_08_10/)
December 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Here are nine other short stories that really impressed me this year:
• Julianna Baggott's The Historiography of Loss (www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...)
• @catvalente.bsky.social's Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time (clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_08_10/)
• Julianna Baggott's The Historiography of Loss (www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...)
• @catvalente.bsky.social's Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time (clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_08_10/)
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this isn't quite @catvalente.bsky.social s PLANET LION but near enough that if you like this thread you should look it up as it's free to read online
given how common the "you're the sole survivor of a spaceship crash on a hostile planet" story is in factory games, someone should make a reverse-factory game where you play as an alien tracking down and destroying colonizers who fall out of the sky and try to turn your planet into green tech cards
December 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
this isn't quite @catvalente.bsky.social s PLANET LION but near enough that if you like this thread you should look it up as it's free to read online
See? And when I try? This is what fuckin happens.
Years older than me, a whole-ass lawyer, said he was a full communist, more left than “anyone I know,” then stuck me with his tab & left because I said the Holodomor really happened & isn’t a capitalist lie.
Years older than me, a whole-ass lawyer, said he was a full communist, more left than “anyone I know,” then stuck me with his tab & left because I said the Holodomor really happened & isn’t a capitalist lie.
December 28, 2025 at 4:34 AM
See? And when I try? This is what fuckin happens.
Years older than me, a whole-ass lawyer, said he was a full communist, more left than “anyone I know,” then stuck me with his tab & left because I said the Holodomor really happened & isn’t a capitalist lie.
Years older than me, a whole-ass lawyer, said he was a full communist, more left than “anyone I know,” then stuck me with his tab & left because I said the Holodomor really happened & isn’t a capitalist lie.
I have so many things I want to complain about wrt Stranger Things but can’t because spoilers etc.
But I just went back to watch S4 & WTF happened?? This show was so good RECENTLY! It had a story, not just exposition, everyone could act, iconic new sound/set design, subtlety, action…I am so baffled
But I just went back to watch S4 & WTF happened?? This show was so good RECENTLY! It had a story, not just exposition, everyone could act, iconic new sound/set design, subtlety, action…I am so baffled
December 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I have so many things I want to complain about wrt Stranger Things but can’t because spoilers etc.
But I just went back to watch S4 & WTF happened?? This show was so good RECENTLY! It had a story, not just exposition, everyone could act, iconic new sound/set design, subtlety, action…I am so baffled
But I just went back to watch S4 & WTF happened?? This show was so good RECENTLY! It had a story, not just exposition, everyone could act, iconic new sound/set design, subtlety, action…I am so baffled
I swear Stranger Things used to have natural, flowing dialogue when it wasn’t quick, clever and quotable. And didn’t always need to Say the Thing, sometimes even just showed it or let the subtext exist.
December 26, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I swear Stranger Things used to have natural, flowing dialogue when it wasn’t quick, clever and quotable. And didn’t always need to Say the Thing, sometimes even just showed it or let the subtext exist.
It’s nights like Christmas night after everything is all said & done & quiet that you have weird thoughts like: I want to date again but I don’t know how much energy I have left to get to know more people. From *scratch*? Like oh my god what do I do? What movies do I like? I’ll need days to recover.
December 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
It’s nights like Christmas night after everything is all said & done & quiet that you have weird thoughts like: I want to date again but I don’t know how much energy I have left to get to know more people. From *scratch*? Like oh my god what do I do? What movies do I like? I’ll need days to recover.
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finishing up my annual listen to @redstateupdate.bsky.social s dated but still delightful Christmas album SANTA IS REAL. Next it'll either be Hogfather or @catvalente.bsky.social s Twenty-Five Facts About Santa Claus and the secret twenty-sixth Fact she shared with me one year.
Santa isn't mad.
Santa isn't mad.
December 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
finishing up my annual listen to @redstateupdate.bsky.social s dated but still delightful Christmas album SANTA IS REAL. Next it'll either be Hogfather or @catvalente.bsky.social s Twenty-Five Facts About Santa Claus and the secret twenty-sixth Fact she shared with me one year.
Santa isn't mad.
Santa isn't mad.
Oh my FUCKING god Alexa nearly blew the whole Santa game for us
The Childe opened their new sled & said “Oh I already knew about that Alexa told me”
I had notifications turned off, ALEXA YOU TRIFLING BIN BAG
I passed it off as “I was thinking about it but I didn’t buy it, Santa must have known…😬”
The Childe opened their new sled & said “Oh I already knew about that Alexa told me”
I had notifications turned off, ALEXA YOU TRIFLING BIN BAG
I passed it off as “I was thinking about it but I didn’t buy it, Santa must have known…😬”
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December 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Oh my FUCKING god Alexa nearly blew the whole Santa game for us
The Childe opened their new sled & said “Oh I already knew about that Alexa told me”
I had notifications turned off, ALEXA YOU TRIFLING BIN BAG
I passed it off as “I was thinking about it but I didn’t buy it, Santa must have known…😬”
The Childe opened their new sled & said “Oh I already knew about that Alexa told me”
I had notifications turned off, ALEXA YOU TRIFLING BIN BAG
I passed it off as “I was thinking about it but I didn’t buy it, Santa must have known…😬”
This is what the New York Times delivered to my inbox this morning, while the Epstein Files *early* analysis involved the President of the US participating in child-rape & infanticide.
They never stopped shrieking about Biden’s age & Hillary’s emails as history’s greatest crimes WHAT THE FUCK
They never stopped shrieking about Biden’s age & Hillary’s emails as history’s greatest crimes WHAT THE FUCK
December 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is what the New York Times delivered to my inbox this morning, while the Epstein Files *early* analysis involved the President of the US participating in child-rape & infanticide.
They never stopped shrieking about Biden’s age & Hillary’s emails as history’s greatest crimes WHAT THE FUCK
They never stopped shrieking about Biden’s age & Hillary’s emails as history’s greatest crimes WHAT THE FUCK
The level of plot armor Trump has against, not even things that would sink another politician, but would get any other human set on fire forever, is so total & unprecedented I’m beginning to think the only possibly scientific explanations are genie’s wish, warlock powers, alien, or actual Antichrist
I know, I know, Trump raped kids & was accessory to killing a baby & the source is an official gov. doc they gave us, but have you considered Kamala laughed weird, Biden said the wrong name, Dean yelled too loud, Kerry was boring, Dukakis looked dumb in a helmet, Obama was black & Hillary existed?
December 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The level of plot armor Trump has against, not even things that would sink another politician, but would get any other human set on fire forever, is so total & unprecedented I’m beginning to think the only possibly scientific explanations are genie’s wish, warlock powers, alien, or actual Antichrist
I know, I know, Trump raped kids & was accessory to killing a baby & the source is an official gov. doc they gave us, but have you considered Kamala laughed weird, Biden said the wrong name, Dean yelled too loud, Kerry was boring, Dukakis looked dumb in a helmet, Obama was black & Hillary existed?
December 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I know, I know, Trump raped kids & was accessory to killing a baby & the source is an official gov. doc they gave us, but have you considered Kamala laughed weird, Biden said the wrong name, Dean yelled too loud, Kerry was boring, Dukakis looked dumb in a helmet, Obama was black & Hillary existed?
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 💙📚
December 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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