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Kate O’Donoghue
@kateodo.bsky.social
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poet, friend, sentient being | I have written opinions about comic books | teaching poems @ purdue | lawnguyland (she/her) 🇮🇪 💖💜💙

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Kate O’Donoghue @kateodo.bsky.social · Oct 2
not for nothing, but I also have a poem, “The World’s More Full of Weeping,” in the new issue of bennington review! name me another poem that co-stars aquaman and yeats, I dare you

all my gratitude to the editors 💕
Reposted by Kate O’Donoghue
shelfdust.bsky.social
This week on the site @kateodo.bsky.social took on Young Justice, the ur-text for a new generation of comic book readers: shelfdust.com/2025/10/01/y...
The cover for Young Justice 27 Among a certain sect of DC fans – often female, queer, and active on online fandoms from Tumblr and the like – Young Justice is basically the DC ur-text. I say that with such authority because it was my own experience, and Young Justice was one of the first DC series I read in full as a sixteen-year-old in 2011, nearly ten years after the series ended. I discovered comics for the first time with the help of Tumblr masterposts and Wikipedia deep dives, and fell into a deep, abiding obsession with DC in particular. Despite that obsession, it was not easy learning how to “read” DC history. It was not natural, and the knowledge was not ingrained, other than perhaps the basic secret identities and Justice League characters. To the me of 2011, Doiby Dickles existed, contextless, in the vacuum of YJ. How would I know otherwise?
October 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
kateodo.bsky.social
wow! what a joy to write abt my favorite comic and my favorite sport SIMULTANEOUSLY for @shelfdust.bsky.social !!! ever grateful to steve for putting up w me and for being the first person I pitched post-screenrant
October 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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carlivelocci.com
Oh, a new Valnet sucks article. Don't tease me with a good time (the article is worth reading)

danielcruse.substack.com/p/the-things...
The Things I Thought and Did Not Say While Writing For a Content-Mill
In 1996, Jerry Maguire was laughed out of his office for publishing a company-wide memo encouraging his industry to take a more human approach.
danielcruse.substack.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
kateodo.bsky.social
come for the deft argument for density, stay for a breakdown of Gorilla CNN
June 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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shelfdust.bsky.social
“What’s the difference between a crazy board and a sociogram?”

@kateodo.bsky.social brings out the charts and string for Jimmy Olsen issue 4 - it sure is some content: shelfdust.com/2024/10/02/s...
Shelfdust’s Column, Jimmy Olsen: Issue #4
What’s the difference between a crazy board and a sociogram? By Kate O’Donoghue It’s ya gurl Kate O’Donoghue and check it — I’m about to take a silly little comic issu…
shelfdust.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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mauraf.bsky.social
1/ Sharing my story with the NYTimes was not an easy decision. My north star goal is always liberation and a free Palestine. That led me to decide to participate in this article despite my concerns.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...
A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?
www.nytimes.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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thefanfiles.bsky.social
This week, the Seattle Mariners released a video for Pride. I was expecting cheesy corporate blandness. Instead, the video was thoughtful and well considered. Here's what the ‪@mariners.com‬ got right with their celebration of Pride.
thefanfiles.com/articles/mariners-pride-video-2025
What the Mariners’ Pride Video Gets Right
thefanfiles.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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natepatrin.bsky.social
an all-timer Nancy right here folks
nancycomics.bsky.social NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · Apr 16
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 16,1950
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER NANCY IS READING A BOOK… -AND TWO EVIL EYES APPEARED IN THE DARKNESS -- -- THEN THEY GREW BIGGER AND BIGGER - - - AND BIGGER - - - AND BIGGER - - -AND BIGGER ( NANCY WAS IMAGINING TWO EVIL EYES WERE GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER) EXCUSE ME ( WHAT NANCY THOUGHT WAS EYES, ACTUALLY WAS THE HEADLAMPS OF AN AUTOMOBILE THAT JUST CRASHED INTO HER HOUSE)
April 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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nancycomics.bsky.social
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 14,1953
NANCY By Ernie Bushmiller I MUST RUN OUT AND SEE MY FAVORITE SIGHT SIGN ON BUILDING- YUMM'S CONE CO wow.. WHAT A DELICIOUS SIGHT ( NANCY WATCHES AS THE MOON RISES AND APPEARS TO SIT ON THE YUMM’S CONE CO. GIANT CONE DISPLAY, THE MOON GIVES THE APPEARANCE OF BEING A GIANT SCOOP OF ICE CREAM)
April 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Jack Kimball
PRAYER Turn page
April 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
kateodo.bsky.social
also making my tri-monthly attempt to embrace bluesky, it'll totally stick this time. I miss hearing what people are up to!!! instagram is just not the same
April 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
kateodo.bsky.social
in the wake of being laid off from screenrant (I'M FREE), I'm ready to make my rip-roaring return to weird and wacky comics writing. STAY TUNED I'M EXCITED

relatedly: if you know or hear abt any job opps that might suit me, a book and comics lover with 10-years experience, think of me, won't you?
April 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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antlervel.vet
TMNT logo saying “four completely normal people”
November 25, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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melissaf-b.bsky.social
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
November 23, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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sjane.bsky.social
Matthew Rohrer
the emperor himself is not this happy
November 23, 2024 at 7:37 PM
kateodo.bsky.social
abolish grading bc it’s pedagogically unsound but also bc I don’t want to do it
November 23, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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neonpajamas.bsky.social
Roberta Iannamico
November 10, 2024 at 2:25 PM
kateodo.bsky.social
hi bsky. I think I would be more likely to use this app if the main feed “remembered my place” and I could scroll up to read new posts since I last opened the app. (yes, like twitter, sue me.) is there some setting I can make work for me?
November 8, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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stevelieberart.bsky.social
Another wonderful piece from Shelfdust's series of monthly essays looking at the Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen mini series one issue at a time.

This month, @kateodo.bsky.social writes about issue 4, in which Lois Lane goes to Gotham to rescue Jimmy, who is turning into a prize asshole.
October 2, 2024 at 11:33 PM
kateodo.bsky.social
not for nothing, but I also have a poem, “The World’s More Full of Weeping,” in the new issue of bennington review! name me another poem that co-stars aquaman and yeats, I dare you

all my gratitude to the editors 💕
October 2, 2024 at 8:57 PM
kateodo.bsky.social
hey look! I took some bits and gags way too seriously! and had a lot of fun doing it!

shelfdust rules. forever grateful steve invited me to participated in this genuinely illuminating series. yay comics!
October 2, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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stevewmorris.bsky.social
This week on Shelfdust: @kateodo.bsky.social is BACK
The cover to Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen 4
September 30, 2024 at 12:19 PM
kateodo.bsky.social
anyway here’s a thread of stuff I’ve liked lately, non exhaustive, just pulled from the last 6mos of my camera roll
June 5, 2024 at 10:14 PM
kateodo.bsky.social
what if… kate used bluesky more. what then huh. huh????

(hi I’m still here)
June 5, 2024 at 9:59 PM
kateodo.bsky.social
genuinely one of my favorite things I’ve written in the last few years, poems and all, and I’m very grateful to steve and shelfdust for being SUCH a great home for nuanced and stylized comics writing !!!
December 28, 2023 at 11:00 PM