Kate / Katelyn Forrest
@kateforrest.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Doer of Things. 🏳️⚧️
Once Upon a Punk Show available July 15!
https://katelynforrest.com/
Once Upon a Punk Show available July 15!
https://katelynforrest.com/
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Once Upon a Punk Show
For Giulia Caesari, a small-time punk singer chasing a stage high, embracing the chaos of her life is a night in the mosh pit. Until she learns chaos is not an abstract thing. Chaos is a flesh and …
katelynforrest.com
Hi new people!
I have a book!!
Punk rocker Giulia crosses paths with a literal goddess back stage and whoops, the new fling's ex wants to OD the world on old magic and double whoops, turns out Giulia has some new magic powers too
Full blurb and shopping links ⤵️
katelynforrest.com/once-upon-a-...
I have a book!!
Punk rocker Giulia crosses paths with a literal goddess back stage and whoops, the new fling's ex wants to OD the world on old magic and double whoops, turns out Giulia has some new magic powers too
Full blurb and shopping links ⤵️
katelynforrest.com/once-upon-a-...
OK another queer Matic card.
100% the lesbian mom friend of the group.
100% the lesbian mom friend of the group.
... okay, she's adorable. Also, a Simic/Quandrix Rune Mom is not something I knew I needed...
(as every Bant player I know wanders off to put this on their pull list, because the only thing better than one Mother of Runes is *two* Moms... buncha dang lesbians... 😉)
(as every Bant player I know wanders off to put this on their pull list, because the only thing better than one Mother of Runes is *two* Moms... buncha dang lesbians... 😉)
January 8, 2026 at 1:48 PM
OK another queer Matic card.
100% the lesbian mom friend of the group.
100% the lesbian mom friend of the group.
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it's absolutely staggering to realize how many MILLIONS of lives would be saved by the death of say, 10 people. literally. staggering
January 8, 2026 at 1:04 PM
it's absolutely staggering to realize how many MILLIONS of lives would be saved by the death of say, 10 people. literally. staggering
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We’ve graduated from “abolish ICE is the moderate position” to “Nuremberg trials for the Trump regime and its Gestapo is the moderate position.”
January 7, 2026 at 8:44 PM
We’ve graduated from “abolish ICE is the moderate position” to “Nuremberg trials for the Trump regime and its Gestapo is the moderate position.”
If you play a mill deck in Magic... you're a dick. Point blank.
January 7, 2026 at 6:47 PM
If you play a mill deck in Magic... you're a dick. Point blank.
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As far as I know, in most democracies the penalty for not obeying a traffic order is not death
Someone who claims to have witnessed the incident says
- car was blocking ice
- they told them to move
- "something happened'
- ICE shot into the car as it was driving away
- passenger got out of the car covered away and said friend was dead
There is video and I have seen it
- car was blocking ice
- they told them to move
- "something happened'
- ICE shot into the car as it was driving away
- passenger got out of the car covered away and said friend was dead
There is video and I have seen it
January 7, 2026 at 4:09 PM
As far as I know, in most democracies the penalty for not obeying a traffic order is not death
I laughed soooo friggin hard at this.
January 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I laughed soooo friggin hard at this.
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Charles Addams had more control over value in an inkwash than maybe any other cartoonist before or since, and also was a lady magnet: among his many romantic partners were Greta Garbo, Joan Fontaine, and Jackie Kennedy, with whom he split when she complained that they only talked about comics
January 7, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Charles Addams had more control over value in an inkwash than maybe any other cartoonist before or since, and also was a lady magnet: among his many romantic partners were Greta Garbo, Joan Fontaine, and Jackie Kennedy, with whom he split when she complained that they only talked about comics
Ah yes, the serious issues facing Rhode Island... where people stand when the governor gives a speech. My quality of life has been restored! So glad all the effort was put there.
/sarcasm (in case that wasn't obvious)
/sarcasm (in case that wasn't obvious)
After criticism and a lawsuit over the decision to block protesters from the State House rotunda during his State of the State address last year, Gov. Dan McKee’s administration has agreed to allow most of the rotunda to be open during next week’s speech.
R.I. Governor McKee restores some public access to the rotunda for State of the State address, after backlash - The Boston Globe
The ACLU filed a lawsuit over McKee’s decision to block protesters from the State House rotunda during last year’s speech
trib.al
January 7, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Ah yes, the serious issues facing Rhode Island... where people stand when the governor gives a speech. My quality of life has been restored! So glad all the effort was put there.
/sarcasm (in case that wasn't obvious)
/sarcasm (in case that wasn't obvious)
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COMMERCIAL BREAK!
A friend once told me that my writing makes horror feel like therapy. If that sounds appealing, you can check out my queer hopeful fantasy over at tyler-hayes.com/publications; we've got traumatized imaginary friends, lonely cursed swords, and a soupcon of sleep paralysis demons.
A friend once told me that my writing makes horror feel like therapy. If that sounds appealing, you can check out my queer hopeful fantasy over at tyler-hayes.com/publications; we've got traumatized imaginary friends, lonely cursed swords, and a soupcon of sleep paralysis demons.
January 7, 2026 at 4:28 PM
COMMERCIAL BREAK!
A friend once told me that my writing makes horror feel like therapy. If that sounds appealing, you can check out my queer hopeful fantasy over at tyler-hayes.com/publications; we've got traumatized imaginary friends, lonely cursed swords, and a soupcon of sleep paralysis demons.
A friend once told me that my writing makes horror feel like therapy. If that sounds appealing, you can check out my queer hopeful fantasy over at tyler-hayes.com/publications; we've got traumatized imaginary friends, lonely cursed swords, and a soupcon of sleep paralysis demons.
Hard agree. Especially updates to my phone.
Every time it updates, it gets bloated by T Mobile, Samsung, and Android itself and I have to unfuck it.
Spellcheck is the worst offender. I spent more time unfucking the inaccurate virtual keyboard / pisspoor autocorrect than typing a this post.
Every time it updates, it gets bloated by T Mobile, Samsung, and Android itself and I have to unfuck it.
Spellcheck is the worst offender. I spent more time unfucking the inaccurate virtual keyboard / pisspoor autocorrect than typing a this post.
January 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Hard agree. Especially updates to my phone.
Every time it updates, it gets bloated by T Mobile, Samsung, and Android itself and I have to unfuck it.
Spellcheck is the worst offender. I spent more time unfucking the inaccurate virtual keyboard / pisspoor autocorrect than typing a this post.
Every time it updates, it gets bloated by T Mobile, Samsung, and Android itself and I have to unfuck it.
Spellcheck is the worst offender. I spent more time unfucking the inaccurate virtual keyboard / pisspoor autocorrect than typing a this post.
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Nobody tells you that success can feel like being slowly fed into a machine. Turns out you can burn out while winning (who knew??). Here's how hitting rock bottom taught me what actually matters.
www.kameronhurley.com/i-broke-apar...
www.kameronhurley.com/i-broke-apar...
I Broke Apart. I Came Back Better. - Kameron Hurley
This update went out in my most recent newsletter. If you’d like to get updates like this, sign up for The Hurley Cut: Story & Power. Somewhere between 2011 and 2020, I lost my way. I’ve been trying t...
www.kameronhurley.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Nobody tells you that success can feel like being slowly fed into a machine. Turns out you can burn out while winning (who knew??). Here's how hitting rock bottom taught me what actually matters.
www.kameronhurley.com/i-broke-apar...
www.kameronhurley.com/i-broke-apar...
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The gatekeeping mean girls of the writing world want you reading weird shit by rad trans authors instead of LLM bullshit masquerading as tradwife kink performance
On that note:
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"
So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
January 7, 2026 at 4:34 PM
The gatekeeping mean girls of the writing world want you reading weird shit by rad trans authors instead of LLM bullshit masquerading as tradwife kink performance
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"Donald Trump has promised to arrest me and disappear me permanently. Armed thugs are currently dragging me to the gulag. I am being brutally beaten even as I type
Where is this energy when it comes to egg prices?"
—Dem leaders, I guess.
Where is this energy when it comes to egg prices?"
—Dem leaders, I guess.
January 7, 2026 at 4:38 PM
"Donald Trump has promised to arrest me and disappear me permanently. Armed thugs are currently dragging me to the gulag. I am being brutally beaten even as I type
Where is this energy when it comes to egg prices?"
—Dem leaders, I guess.
Where is this energy when it comes to egg prices?"
—Dem leaders, I guess.
Bonus points because the prof literally just quoted the hateful bastard with no additional commentary.
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Darren Michael has reportedly been reinstated and given $50,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The post Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
January 7, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Bonus points because the prof literally just quoted the hateful bastard with no additional commentary.
Unless you're making a laundry robot, how the fuck is a plagiarism machine gonna do that? Piss off with AI puff pieces.
Artificial intelligence will help millions of people in ways that do not appear in traditional economic statistics, says OpenAI’s chief economist ft.trib.al/toxh1Gq
January 7, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Unless you're making a laundry robot, how the fuck is a plagiarism machine gonna do that? Piss off with AI puff pieces.
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And don't just read the new releases either. Something I've found is a lot of newer authors don't know the history of the genre, such as paranormal romance and they don't realize that what they think is new or novel has been around for decades at this point (or just how old spicy romance is).
January 7, 2026 at 4:56 PM
And don't just read the new releases either. Something I've found is a lot of newer authors don't know the history of the genre, such as paranormal romance and they don't realize that what they think is new or novel has been around for decades at this point (or just how old spicy romance is).
Hard agree. I have a book and a film degree both.
Since they are different mediums, they do different things well. You can't write a car chase the same you film one. I know. I've tried. Just doesn't translate one to one.
If you want to write a book, read books.
Since they are different mediums, they do different things well. You can't write a car chase the same you film one. I know. I've tried. Just doesn't translate one to one.
If you want to write a book, read books.
And sometimes that research is reading widely, esp in your genre.
People nowadays watch a lot of SFF but don't read a lot before they try to write books. Those are different artforms & SFF books have well established devices, tropes, science etc of their own.
You don't want to reinvent the wheel.
People nowadays watch a lot of SFF but don't read a lot before they try to write books. Those are different artforms & SFF books have well established devices, tropes, science etc of their own.
You don't want to reinvent the wheel.
Part of writing good SFF (especially fantasy and paranormal romance) is that you have to be able to do good research. Good research helps you build better worlds and magic systems.
January 7, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Hard agree. I have a book and a film degree both.
Since they are different mediums, they do different things well. You can't write a car chase the same you film one. I know. I've tried. Just doesn't translate one to one.
If you want to write a book, read books.
Since they are different mediums, they do different things well. You can't write a car chase the same you film one. I know. I've tried. Just doesn't translate one to one.
If you want to write a book, read books.
No new pics. Where are tou mentally?
January 7, 2026 at 3:57 PM
No new pics. Where are tou mentally?
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This is really, really great.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:58 PM
This is really, really great.
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My book doesn't actually have any trans characters in it.
Wait... you said wrong answers... ha!
Wait... you said wrong answers... ha!
As a trans woman, what's going to get you run off social media and/or socially murdered?
Wrong answers only.
Wrong answers only.
January 7, 2026 at 12:48 AM
My book doesn't actually have any trans characters in it.
Wait... you said wrong answers... ha!
Wait... you said wrong answers... ha!
Mother effing classic!! I own the OG album cause my dad worked with the trombonist's cousin in the late 90s.
January 7, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Mother effing classic!! I own the OG album cause my dad worked with the trombonist's cousin in the late 90s.
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I saw this post a while back and it stuck with me, and feels rather relevant here.
Doesn't matter if your good actions are "performative", what matters is that you're doing them in the first place.
Doesn't matter if your good actions are "performative", what matters is that you're doing them in the first place.
December 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I saw this post a while back and it stuck with me, and feels rather relevant here.
Doesn't matter if your good actions are "performative", what matters is that you're doing them in the first place.
Doesn't matter if your good actions are "performative", what matters is that you're doing them in the first place.
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My two book (so far) #spicy #scifi series Ariana Joins the Scouts is available as free to read on Amazon if you have KU and $4.99 each otherwise.
www.amazon.com/Ariana-Joins...
Follow along with Ariana and her friends as they have exciting adventures and meet friendly aliens.
www.amazon.com/Ariana-Joins...
Follow along with Ariana and her friends as they have exciting adventures and meet friendly aliens.
January 3, 2026 at 8:21 PM
My two book (so far) #spicy #scifi series Ariana Joins the Scouts is available as free to read on Amazon if you have KU and $4.99 each otherwise.
www.amazon.com/Ariana-Joins...
Follow along with Ariana and her friends as they have exciting adventures and meet friendly aliens.
www.amazon.com/Ariana-Joins...
Follow along with Ariana and her friends as they have exciting adventures and meet friendly aliens.