Kate Nepveu
@katenepveu.bsky.social
Speaking solely for myself. Neither gives nor receives unsolicited advice. She/her.
Also:
https://kate-nepveu.dreamwidth.org/
https://katenepveu.tumblr.com/
Also:
https://kate-nepveu.dreamwidth.org/
https://katenepveu.tumblr.com/
Moby-Dick (which I would have to buy a paper copy of, because all three of my copies are ebooks) and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
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Prompt: if you had to performatively display two books that you wanted the NYT writer profiling you about your career ending scandal to notice, what would they be?
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Moby-Dick (which I would have to buy a paper copy of, because all three of my copies are ebooks) and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
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if the narrator in a work of fiction is telling the story by talking to "you," and the "you" is a character in the story, then the narration is first-person, NOT second-person.
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What's your most niche and unimportant crusade?
Mine is that I use the symbol "var" (as scientific standards bodies indicate) for reactive power instead of "VAR" (most common) or something weird like "Var" or worse, "VAr".
I'll admit it does feel a bit odd to put "Mvar" next to "MW" and "MVA". 🔌💡
Mine is that I use the symbol "var" (as scientific standards bodies indicate) for reactive power instead of "VAR" (most common) or something weird like "Var" or worse, "VAr".
I'll admit it does feel a bit odd to put "Mvar" next to "MW" and "MVA". 🔌💡
November 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
if the narrator in a work of fiction is telling the story by talking to "you," and the "you" is a character in the story, then the narration is first-person, NOT second-person.
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there is a lot of stuff in those settings; go check them out
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
there is a lot of stuff in those settings; go check them out
when do the clocks go back and is it possible that the game will still be going?
November 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
when do the clocks go back and is it possible that the game will still be going?
thank you to @lingthusiasm.bsky.social for telling me about www.etymonline.com which is free and so useful!
Online Etymology Dictionary
The online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms.
www.etymonline.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
thank you to @lingthusiasm.bsky.social for telling me about www.etymonline.com which is free and so useful!
do you think (spoiler's) friend called Morales who painted many murals ... was named Miles? @amalelmohtar.com
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 19th 2025) (hard and all green, go me!)
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cluesbysam.com
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 19th 2025) (hard and all green, go me!)
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
do you think (spoiler's) friend called Morales who painted many murals ... was named Miles? @amalelmohtar.com
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 19th 2025) (hard and all green, go me!)
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cluesbysam.com
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 19th 2025) (hard and all green, go me!)
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I cannot fathom how an entire two hours about "narf" did not reference Pinky and the Brain even _once_. what is this world coming to
You can now listen to the most recent episode of Media Club Plus. This is always true, but the most recent episode of Media Club plus JUST changed from our ep on The Village to our ep on Lady in the Water. Find it in your podcast app of choice! Screenshot post below
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Madam Narf vs The Rogue Scrunt - Lady in the Water: Media Club Plus S02E05 | Friends at the Table
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October 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I cannot fathom how an entire two hours about "narf" did not reference Pinky and the Brain even _once_. what is this world coming to
check the thread for the video version
October 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
check the thread for the video version
ahhh Madeleine E. Robins has written a fourth Sarah Tolerance book!!! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/14/t...
I loved these Austen noirs back in the day (this post about the first two is from 2007, woof; obviously a third was since published): steelypips.org/weblog/2007/...
I loved these Austen noirs back in the day (this post about the first two is from 2007, woof; obviously a third was since published): steelypips.org/weblog/2007/...
The Big Idea: Madeleine E. Robins
Eras in the past had a focus on manners — a word that in itself was a code for something more controlling. For her novel The Doxies Penalty, author Madeleine E. Robins revisits a past era to …
whatever.scalzi.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
ahhh Madeleine E. Robins has written a fourth Sarah Tolerance book!!! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/14/t...
I loved these Austen noirs back in the day (this post about the first two is from 2007, woof; obviously a third was since published): steelypips.org/weblog/2007/...
I loved these Austen noirs back in the day (this post about the first two is from 2007, woof; obviously a third was since published): steelypips.org/weblog/2007/...
today's batch of pictures I took at the Fuller Craft Museum, this time all from the exhibition on quilts and baskets (I don't know why the images aren't previewing, sorry).
a soothing quilt:
katenepveu.tumblr.com/post/7973032...
a soothing quilt:
katenepveu.tumblr.com/post/7973032...
katenepveu.tumblr.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
today's batch of pictures I took at the Fuller Craft Museum, this time all from the exhibition on quilts and baskets (I don't know why the images aren't previewing, sorry).
a soothing quilt:
katenepveu.tumblr.com/post/7973032...
a soothing quilt:
katenepveu.tumblr.com/post/7973032...
thank you, putting it on my list!
I'm interested in the question here about post-Broken Earth books. Opening suggestion: The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed. Science fantasy, distinctive voice and strong sense of argument/viewpoint, narrative marries personal and (world/society-scale) political.
anyway I found METAL FROM HEAVEN so frustrating that I had to dust off the booklog to get it off my chest: steelypips.org/weblog/2025/...
still looking for post-Broken Earth suggestions!
still looking for post-Broken Earth suggestions!
October 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
thank you, putting it on my list!
today's links to pictures I took at the Fuller Craft Museum, starting with the last of the Ukrainian folk art exhibition--runs through November 2 and well worth seeing for those within range of Eastern Massachusetts!
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katenepveu.tumblr.com/post/7972127...
my id, let me show you it
Finally from the Ukrainian folk art exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum: ceramics!
This is by Rustem Skybin, Mosaic, 2025. Clay and glaze. Kyiv region.
Artist bio on display:
Crimean Tatar art, once on...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
today's links to pictures I took at the Fuller Craft Museum, starting with the last of the Ukrainian folk art exhibition--runs through November 2 and well worth seeing for those within range of Eastern Massachusetts!
katenepveu.tumblr.com/post/7972127...
katenepveu.tumblr.com/post/7972127...
I wrote up some other books because I felt bad about dusting off the booklog to frustration-post. The goal was to get to Freya Marske's latest, CINDER HOUSE: steelypips.org/weblog/2025/...
Marske, Freya: Cinder House – Outside of a Dog: Kate Nepveu’s Book Log
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October 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I wrote up some other books because I felt bad about dusting off the booklog to frustration-post. The goal was to get to Freya Marske's latest, CINDER HOUSE: steelypips.org/weblog/2025/...
in August I went to the Fuller Craft Museum outside of Boston and took a ton of pictures, which I've finally finished queuing at Tumblr.
last museum trip, I posted the pictures here directly; but adapting the text to the character limits took forever. so this time, it's just Tumblr links, sorry!
last museum trip, I posted the pictures here directly; but adapting the text to the character limits took forever. so this time, it's just Tumblr links, sorry!
October 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
in August I went to the Fuller Craft Museum outside of Boston and took a ton of pictures, which I've finally finished queuing at Tumblr.
last museum trip, I posted the pictures here directly; but adapting the text to the character limits took forever. so this time, it's just Tumblr links, sorry!
last museum trip, I posted the pictures here directly; but adapting the text to the character limits took forever. so this time, it's just Tumblr links, sorry!
anyway I found METAL FROM HEAVEN so frustrating that I had to dust off the booklog to get it off my chest: steelypips.org/weblog/2025/...
still looking for post-Broken Earth suggestions!
still looking for post-Broken Earth suggestions!
October 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
anyway I found METAL FROM HEAVEN so frustrating that I had to dust off the booklog to get it off my chest: steelypips.org/weblog/2025/...
still looking for post-Broken Earth suggestions!
still looking for post-Broken Earth suggestions!
zooooup! (that's the noise I made looking at these)
A Least Bittern facing forward in no-neck mode and then facing to the left in maximum-neck mode.
October 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
zooooup! (that's the noise I made looking at these)
cat's haunted
October 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
cat's haunted
just read METAL FROM HEAVEN by August Clarke, which feels so emphatically post-Broken Earth trilogy that I was shocked not to see it in the acknowledgments.
which made me wonder: what else is post-Broken Earth? I'm incredibly far behind on all reading, so please tell me anything no matter obvious.
which made me wonder: what else is post-Broken Earth? I'm incredibly far behind on all reading, so please tell me anything no matter obvious.
October 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
just read METAL FROM HEAVEN by August Clarke, which feels so emphatically post-Broken Earth trilogy that I was shocked not to see it in the acknowledgments.
which made me wonder: what else is post-Broken Earth? I'm incredibly far behind on all reading, so please tell me anything no matter obvious.
which made me wonder: what else is post-Broken Earth? I'm incredibly far behind on all reading, so please tell me anything no matter obvious.
family movie night last night was Shane Black adapting Richard Stark's Parker novels in a new Prime flick called Play Dirty. coincidentally, I very recently binged the entire Parker series. thoughts:
Black is such a good fit for Donald Westlake that I was surprised he hadn't adapted him before. 1/
Black is such a good fit for Donald Westlake that I was surprised he hadn't adapted him before. 1/
October 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
family movie night last night was Shane Black adapting Richard Stark's Parker novels in a new Prime flick called Play Dirty. coincidentally, I very recently binged the entire Parker series. thoughts:
Black is such a good fit for Donald Westlake that I was surprised he hadn't adapted him before. 1/
Black is such a good fit for Donald Westlake that I was surprised he hadn't adapted him before. 1/
deeply impressed by the volume this flock of house sparrows in my backyard is achieving. they just have a lot to say, all at once, very loudly!
(I also enjoy that they don't give a shit about me, less than 20 feet away and clearly visible. or the dogs, for that matter.)
(I also enjoy that they don't give a shit about me, less than 20 feet away and clearly visible. or the dogs, for that matter.)
September 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
deeply impressed by the volume this flock of house sparrows in my backyard is achieving. they just have a lot to say, all at once, very loudly!
(I also enjoy that they don't give a shit about me, less than 20 feet away and clearly visible. or the dogs, for that matter.)
(I also enjoy that they don't give a shit about me, less than 20 feet away and clearly visible. or the dogs, for that matter.)
SteelyKid and Argos both enjoy it when Argos visits
September 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
SteelyKid and Argos both enjoy it when Argos visits
I know it's hard to get across certain things in ballet because you don't have words [*]
nevertheless it is really something to see an adaptation of The Great Gatsby in which class is simply ... not present
[*] except the book's first and last lines in voiceover
nevertheless it is really something to see an adaptation of The Great Gatsby in which class is simply ... not present
[*] except the book's first and last lines in voiceover
September 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I know it's hard to get across certain things in ballet because you don't have words [*]
nevertheless it is really something to see an adaptation of The Great Gatsby in which class is simply ... not present
[*] except the book's first and last lines in voiceover
nevertheless it is really something to see an adaptation of The Great Gatsby in which class is simply ... not present
[*] except the book's first and last lines in voiceover
oh no I got called on during the first of the New Bedford Whaling Museum's sessions for the Moby-Dick book club
they warned us that we might be but I still wasn't really expecting it and hope I didn't ramble too much
anyway it was interesting, come join for the next two!
they warned us that we might be but I still wasn't really expecting it and hope I didn't ramble too much
anyway it was interesting, come join for the next two!
Moby-Dick Book Club - New Bedford Whaling Museum
Join the Moby-Dick Book Club, a virtual three-part series exploring Herman Melville’s iconic American novel. Whether you're reading it for the first time or returning to it with fresh eyes, all are we...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
oh no I got called on during the first of the New Bedford Whaling Museum's sessions for the Moby-Dick book club
they warned us that we might be but I still wasn't really expecting it and hope I didn't ramble too much
anyway it was interesting, come join for the next two!
they warned us that we might be but I still wasn't really expecting it and hope I didn't ramble too much
anyway it was interesting, come join for the next two!
my morning laugh, anyway
Great Egrets give elegant and majestic looks with their side profile, but the front facing view with the googly eyes and long neck has its own charm.
September 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
my morning laugh, anyway
so yes last night I read The Great Gatsby for the very first time! and then paused, thought, reread it.
many of you like this book! and I would sincerely like to know what you enjoy about it.
(I do NOT want to know why you didn't like it or for you to argue with/criticize people answering me!)
many of you like this book! and I would sincerely like to know what you enjoy about it.
(I do NOT want to know why you didn't like it or for you to argue with/criticize people answering me!)
September 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
so yes last night I read The Great Gatsby for the very first time! and then paused, thought, reread it.
many of you like this book! and I would sincerely like to know what you enjoy about it.
(I do NOT want to know why you didn't like it or for you to argue with/criticize people answering me!)
many of you like this book! and I would sincerely like to know what you enjoy about it.
(I do NOT want to know why you didn't like it or for you to argue with/criticize people answering me!)