kate
@kateesreads.bsky.social
she/her, 22, uk | intermittent booktoker @kateesreads | chronic iliad recommender | mostly sff, classics & litfic
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kate
@kateesreads.bsky.social
· Dec 8
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I think perhaps not as strong as my previous #thegoblinemperor metas but I did enjoy the csevet read at least...?
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Navigating the Political and the Personal Through Jewellery in ‘The Goblin Emperor’
To wear no earrings in the court might imply a coward, a hysteric, or as someone with something to hide, and to appear thus would be immensely risky. There is, we might guess, a reason that the emp…
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November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I think perhaps not as strong as my previous #thegoblinemperor metas but I did enjoy the csevet read at least...?
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limited run signed hardback alright I'm getting UP........
Discover @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's expanding universe of characters, from Goblin Emperor Maia to Witness for the dead Thara and now a new novella, THE ORB OF CAIRADO, following disgraced scholar Ulcetha!
UK release April 2026 in eBook & limited-run signed hardback!
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UK release April 2026 in eBook & limited-run signed hardback!
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September 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
limited run signed hardback alright I'm getting UP........
Both more and less to dig up in #katabasis than I had thought tbh... almost no odyssey and gilgamesh; plenty of dante and logic puzzles
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Katabasis, (Somewhat) Glossed
Glossary of a lot of the literary, cultural, and philosophical references I could find in RF Kuang’s Katabasis.
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September 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Both more and less to dig up in #katabasis than I had thought tbh... almost no odyssey and gilgamesh; plenty of dante and logic puzzles
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🚨COVER REVEAL🚨
THE ORB OF CAIRADO: a new novella from @pennyvixen.bsky.social's beloved Elflands - the world of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR!
A former history student framed for theft is given a chance to clear his name...
Cover by James Jones.
Out in the UK April 2026. Preorder available soon!
THE ORB OF CAIRADO: a new novella from @pennyvixen.bsky.social's beloved Elflands - the world of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR!
A former history student framed for theft is given a chance to clear his name...
Cover by James Jones.
Out in the UK April 2026. Preorder available soon!
July 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🚨COVER REVEAL🚨
THE ORB OF CAIRADO: a new novella from @pennyvixen.bsky.social's beloved Elflands - the world of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR!
A former history student framed for theft is given a chance to clear his name...
Cover by James Jones.
Out in the UK April 2026. Preorder available soon!
THE ORB OF CAIRADO: a new novella from @pennyvixen.bsky.social's beloved Elflands - the world of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR!
A former history student framed for theft is given a chance to clear his name...
Cover by James Jones.
Out in the UK April 2026. Preorder available soon!
trying out pagebound bc I don't want another app but am happy to try a site... it's cute! I don't agree with them not letting you track editions (my iliad translations!! my translations!!) but I like the little quests and things. it's fun. very booktok in conception but I like the ideas a lot
July 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
trying out pagebound bc I don't want another app but am happy to try a site... it's cute! I don't agree with them not letting you track editions (my iliad translations!! my translations!!) but I like the little quests and things. it's fun. very booktok in conception but I like the ideas a lot
I don't think it helps that my copies of the tomb of dragons and the grief of stones are both in a completely different city rn but a noble attempt was made
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‘I cannot make the answer other than it was’: Reading Queer Futurity In The Chronicles of Osreth
Though Edelman calls for the Child-as-emblem’s ‘abortion’ (31), we do not see this idea realised in the series until Celehar’s trilogy begins. The Untheileneise Court is too fettered by the cycle o…
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June 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I don't think it helps that my copies of the tomb of dragons and the grief of stones are both in a completely different city rn but a noble attempt was made
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wait I didn't realise clarke was still intending on trying to finish the strange and norrell sequel... what a champ I wouldn't have blamed her for saying it was basically never happening. especially bc she has like two other projects as well?
June 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
wait I didn't realise clarke was still intending on trying to finish the strange and norrell sequel... what a champ I wouldn't have blamed her for saying it was basically never happening. especially bc she has like two other projects as well?
How the hell did people fall for Silver Elite lmao 😭 how was it possibly so hyped. There is no way all of these people POSSIBLY thought it was going to be good. help
May 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
How the hell did people fall for Silver Elite lmao 😭 how was it possibly so hyped. There is no way all of these people POSSIBLY thought it was going to be good. help
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Maia Drazhar. I recently read the Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison and I loved it. Had to draw my take on the character.
May 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Maia Drazhar. I recently read the Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison and I loved it. Had to draw my take on the character.
In an Oxfam and I think we lost a diva because there were like ten discworld books in there... (unfortunately not small gods or jingo both of which I am STILL after, but I did get a first ed lords and ladies. mostly to stop myself being tempted to buy the 50 quid special edition of maskerade)
May 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
In an Oxfam and I think we lost a diva because there were like ten discworld books in there... (unfortunately not small gods or jingo both of which I am STILL after, but I did get a first ed lords and ladies. mostly to stop myself being tempted to buy the 50 quid special edition of maskerade)
wasn't really interested in joe abercrombie's new one but then I saw those endpapers and the siren song of character illustration is calling to me...
May 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
wasn't really interested in joe abercrombie's new one but then I saw those endpapers and the siren song of character illustration is calling to me...
between this and eggers' medieval film and dev patel's medieval film and del toro's buried giant adaptation... medievalism films are BACKKK babey!
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Will Poulter, Kit Connor & Manu Ríos To Star In Medieval Zombie Horror ‘Rapture’ For Elevation, 2AM & Brookstreet; HanWay Launching Sales For Cannes
Will Poulter, Kit Connor And Manu Ríos Are To Star In Medieval Zombie Horror 'Rapture', Which Is On Sale For The Cannes Market.
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May 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
between this and eggers' medieval film and dev patel's medieval film and del toro's buried giant adaptation... medievalism films are BACKKK babey!
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Going to see the pride and prejudice rerelease tomorrow
April 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Going to see the pride and prejudice rerelease tomorrow
YA books are doing a lot of really important + exciting stuff, but I wish so many SFF recs (especially on booktok) weren't YA... I want to read adult SFF not YA, it doesn't really tick boxes for me these days, and I feel like people act like they're interchangeable when imo they're not quite 😭
April 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
YA books are doing a lot of really important + exciting stuff, but I wish so many SFF recs (especially on booktok) weren't YA... I want to read adult SFF not YA, it doesn't really tick boxes for me these days, and I feel like people act like they're interchangeable when imo they're not quite 😭
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April 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
whoever was doing these had a vision but the elvis one is the best lmao
April 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
whoever was doing these had a vision but the elvis one is the best lmao
one of the most underrated pieces of the lotr score is like the first sort of 1:40 of balin's tomb from the fellowship of the ring. sledgehammer of a piece
April 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
one of the most underrated pieces of the lotr score is like the first sort of 1:40 of balin's tomb from the fellowship of the ring. sledgehammer of a piece
the tge fandom r not interested enough in csethiro for my tastes. she's so fun. her solution to everything is 'KILL THEM'. she thought she was in pride & prejudice (she wasn't). she's an academic. she's a hater. she WRITES LIKE THIS. she felt bad she was mean to her lameass fiancé & gave him a sword
April 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
the tge fandom r not interested enough in csethiro for my tastes. she's so fun. her solution to everything is 'KILL THEM'. she thought she was in pride & prejudice (she wasn't). she's an academic. she's a hater. she WRITES LIKE THIS. she felt bad she was mean to her lameass fiancé & gave him a sword
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good morning to trans people specifically! thank you for being exactly who you are, which no court in the world has or ever will have any authority over
April 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
good morning to trans people specifically! thank you for being exactly who you are, which no court in the world has or ever will have any authority over
I was LOOKING for the phrasing of a SPECIFIC QUOTE you useless ass robot what the hell is this
April 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I was LOOKING for the phrasing of a SPECIFIC QUOTE you useless ass robot what the hell is this
What's going on with the whole 'contemporary romances sneakily named after Taylor Swift lyrics' thing? Presumably it's a marketing tactic to draw in swifties? 'Come here! Read this! You'll like this! I'm a swiftie just like you!' kinda thing? It's getting SUPER common
April 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
What's going on with the whole 'contemporary romances sneakily named after Taylor Swift lyrics' thing? Presumably it's a marketing tactic to draw in swifties? 'Come here! Read this! You'll like this! I'm a swiftie just like you!' kinda thing? It's getting SUPER common
Sat here in disbelief that I'm actually not mad about this. I so expected this to be a wreck but I am not immediately condemning it as one and Colman as Mrs Bennet is inspired
Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden and Olivia Colman will star as Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy and Mrs. Bennet in the Netflix series adaptation of ‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.’
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April 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Sat here in disbelief that I'm actually not mad about this. I so expected this to be a wreck but I am not immediately condemning it as one and Colman as Mrs Bennet is inspired
upon reflection though I liked the tomb of dragons a lot, I prefer the earlier installments w lower stakes... running around in the world meeting people and solving murders and struggling with The Internal Horrors... the spinoffs being more episodic was preferable 2 me so witness is still my fave
April 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
upon reflection though I liked the tomb of dragons a lot, I prefer the earlier installments w lower stakes... running around in the world meeting people and solving murders and struggling with The Internal Horrors... the spinoffs being more episodic was preferable 2 me so witness is still my fave