Katherine Perkins
@katherineperkins.bsky.social
Writer. Cajun (now in Texas). So, so tired.
She/her.
(Icon art, by Ian Madison Keller, of Ashling the Pixie and her service crow, The Count, from The Fair Folk Chronicles by Jeffrey Cook and Katherine Perkins)
She/her.
(Icon art, by Ian Madison Keller, of Ashling the Pixie and her service crow, The Count, from The Fair Folk Chronicles by Jeffrey Cook and Katherine Perkins)
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Hi. I used to write books with someone I loved very much. I'm trying to write books again. And a social media account is still considered important when doing that.
Palatino font
ultramarine (color, not WH40K)
dill pickles
PatMandziy videos
Ecogeek
Sabaton
lemonade
Tchaikovsky
gumbo
culottes
ultramarine (color, not WH40K)
dill pickles
PatMandziy videos
Ecogeek
Sabaton
lemonade
Tchaikovsky
gumbo
culottes
Get to know your mutuals. 10 random things I like!
Comic Sans font (very easy on my ND brain)
Eucalyptus
Luxardo maraschino cherries
Amapiano music
Purple
Vince Guaraldi Trio
Sakura Pigma Micron pens
Sweet Sriracha Bada Bean Bada Boom
Carl Rogers
Hip Hop
Comic Sans font (very easy on my ND brain)
Eucalyptus
Luxardo maraschino cherries
Amapiano music
Purple
Vince Guaraldi Trio
Sakura Pigma Micron pens
Sweet Sriracha Bada Bean Bada Boom
Carl Rogers
Hip Hop
get to know your mutuals! list 10 random things you like
Hurray for the Riff Raff
raising chickens
The Vampire Diaries
coffee tonics
Hilde Soliani’s perfumes (esp. Orgasmo)
any ocean
my husband
short stories
the oatmeal cake recipe in the Moosewood dessert book
packing for long trips
Hurray for the Riff Raff
raising chickens
The Vampire Diaries
coffee tonics
Hilde Soliani’s perfumes (esp. Orgasmo)
any ocean
my husband
short stories
the oatmeal cake recipe in the Moosewood dessert book
packing for long trips
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Palatino font
ultramarine (color, not WH40K)
dill pickles
PatMandziy videos
Ecogeek
Sabaton
lemonade
Tchaikovsky
gumbo
culottes
ultramarine (color, not WH40K)
dill pickles
PatMandziy videos
Ecogeek
Sabaton
lemonade
Tchaikovsky
gumbo
culottes
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We’re struggling so much today. Odai’s medicine is running out, and we have nothing left for food or daily needs. 💔
Even $200 could help us get his treatment and some food to make it through the day.
Your support means warmth, hope, and life for us. 🙏
gofund.me/77a751af7
Even $200 could help us get his treatment and some food to make it through the day.
Your support means warmth, hope, and life for us. 🙏
gofund.me/77a751af7
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We’re struggling so much today. Odai’s medicine is running out, and we have nothing left for food or daily needs. 💔
Even $200 could help us get his treatment and some food to make it through the day.
Your support means warmth, hope, and life for us. 🙏
gofund.me/77a751af7
Even $200 could help us get his treatment and some food to make it through the day.
Your support means warmth, hope, and life for us. 🙏
gofund.me/77a751af7
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The best part of having POTS and needing extra salt to stabilize your blood pressure is when someone starts selling counterfeit electrolytes that have no salt in them at all!
If you have POTS, double check the site you’re buying from, especially on mobile.
If you have POTS, double check the site you’re buying from, especially on mobile.
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The best part of having POTS and needing extra salt to stabilize your blood pressure is when someone starts selling counterfeit electrolytes that have no salt in them at all!
If you have POTS, double check the site you’re buying from, especially on mobile.
If you have POTS, double check the site you’re buying from, especially on mobile.
Reposted by Katherine Perkins
I want to tell you about my friend, Lenée.
Actually, it’s considerably more simple than that.
I want to vouch… for Lenée.
Actually, it’s considerably more simple than that.
I want to vouch… for Lenée.
Donate to Support My Journey to Safety and Health, organized by Lenée A. Voss
Hi, I'm Lenée. I am an organizer and cultural worker. I need your help to get ou… Lenée A. Voss needs your support for Support My Journey to Safety and Health
www.gofundme.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I want to tell you about my friend, Lenée.
Actually, it’s considerably more simple than that.
I want to vouch… for Lenée.
Actually, it’s considerably more simple than that.
I want to vouch… for Lenée.
Alt Text: Utter Disgrace to the best high school in Louisiana Rod Dreher brags about partying with, among others, the current U.S. VP and the current PM of Hungary.
::sigh:::
::sigh:::
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Alt Text: Utter Disgrace to the best high school in Louisiana Rod Dreher brags about partying with, among others, the current U.S. VP and the current PM of Hungary.
::sigh:::
::sigh:::
Very important points made here, but thinking about them is now causing me to mentally tangent to prattling about the novella I can't bring myself to submit to the query process. One of the characters -- not the protagonist, and def not the hero -- is a ruthless old man running a messy city. (1)
a lot of people seem to make moral judgments based on "I wish to not be complicit" as if that is the *only* principle and it trumps every other principle. I think our current era is showing us, across a variety of contexts, why this cannot be your One and Highest Thing
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Very important points made here, but thinking about them is now causing me to mentally tangent to prattling about the novella I can't bring myself to submit to the query process. One of the characters -- not the protagonist, and def not the hero -- is a ruthless old man running a messy city. (1)
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bring back the BATMAN tv show and keep up the stunt casting. I want to see Werner Herzog's Mister Freeze
Remember when Celebrated Film Director Otto Preminger Played Mr. Freeze? crimereads.com/remember-whe... @crimereads.bsky.social @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social
Remember when Celebrated Film Director Otto Preminger Played Mr. Freeze?
I love the 60s series Batman. I love it, I love it, I love it. I was too young to watch it live, but that didn’t stop me from slopping up every single episode I could, growing up. Now, as an …
crimereads.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
bring back the BATMAN tv show and keep up the stunt casting. I want to see Werner Herzog's Mister Freeze
Public grocery stores, public child care, and no bus fees. I'm in Texas.
What are three policy proposals that you heard from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social during his campaign & where do you currently live? [I want to see something/ I allowed QP on this]
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Public grocery stores, public child care, and no bus fees. I'm in Texas.
Was mentioning a much younger loved one's gender explorations to some much older friends of mine, and they started to say. "Well, I can see how they might feel that way, but with so much suffering in the world --" (1)
there has never been a presidency that has spent more time on LGBTQ issues as this Trump administration. they are wholly obsessed with queer people. the time/effort on LGBTQ issues is coming 97% from the right.
i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?
i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
October 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Was mentioning a much younger loved one's gender explorations to some much older friends of mine, and they started to say. "Well, I can see how they might feel that way, but with so much suffering in the world --" (1)
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In New Orleans, the Mother in Law Lounge will begin having go plates for families in November.
October 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
In New Orleans, the Mother in Law Lounge will begin having go plates for families in November.
My novella's villain was just a narcissist politician. But there's another Problem Character who ... let's just say he walked away from Omelas, came back decades later able to blow open the basement doors, did so, and has spent the past 14 years trying to sort out the balance of virtue and utility.
Q22: What is your villains problem?! 🤨
October 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
My novella's villain was just a narcissist politician. But there's another Problem Character who ... let's just say he walked away from Omelas, came back decades later able to blow open the basement doors, did so, and has spent the past 14 years trying to sort out the balance of virtue and utility.
C, absolutely, always.
Q24: You have to live without one of these forever. Which one?
A: Copy + Paste
B: Undo button
C: Spellcheck
D: Control + F
A: Copy + Paste
B: Undo button
C: Spellcheck
D: Control + F
October 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
C, absolutely, always.
Alchemy. (true of both my drafted novella that I can't bring myself to query, and the novel I'm now working on)
Q21: What’s your MC really good at?
October 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Alchemy. (true of both my drafted novella that I can't bring myself to query, and the novel I'm now working on)
Sidekicks and Henches. I do put forth effort when I'm writing The Guy or The Gal. But oh, when I can write the guy or gal that The Guy or Gal /counts/ on...
Q5: what are your favorite types of characters to write, describe them?
October 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Sidekicks and Henches. I do put forth effort when I'm writing The Guy or The Gal. But oh, when I can write the guy or gal that The Guy or Gal /counts/ on...
Local Boy to Inherit Town Subhed: Gods Help Him, Say Townsfolk.
Q1: describe your book/WIP as a newspaper headline article
October 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Local Boy to Inherit Town Subhed: Gods Help Him, Say Townsfolk.
Just nonsequentially typeytyped in the word processor, or, if i'm really being self-indulgent, e-mailed to someone, including to myself.
Q2: what’s your favorite tool for writing down your ideas?
October 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Just nonsequentially typeytyped in the word processor, or, if i'm really being self-indulgent, e-mailed to someone, including to myself.
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#RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
Could yall help me repost this over 50x:
WASHINGTON DC 10/16/15 @ Politics and Prose at Union Market
Thank you!
Could yall help me repost this over 50x:
WASHINGTON DC 10/16/15 @ Politics and Prose at Union Market
Thank you!
October 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
Could yall help me repost this over 50x:
WASHINGTON DC 10/16/15 @ Politics and Prose at Union Market
Thank you!
Could yall help me repost this over 50x:
WASHINGTON DC 10/16/15 @ Politics and Prose at Union Market
Thank you!
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~$25,800 TO GO FOOD/MEDS/HYGIENE, BILLS, & RENT FOR THE YEAR URGENT!
When the research grants were all cut, there went Sydette's income. Any combo ppl x $$ = $25,800 keeps them safe.
Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025
When the research grants were all cut, there went Sydette's income. Any combo ppl x $$ = $25,800 keeps them safe.
Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025
Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly
Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share
gofund.me/a5ee0064
gofund.me/a5ee0064
October 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
~$25,800 TO GO FOOD/MEDS/HYGIENE, BILLS, & RENT FOR THE YEAR URGENT!
When the research grants were all cut, there went Sydette's income. Any combo ppl x $$ = $25,800 keeps them safe.
Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025
When the research grants were all cut, there went Sydette's income. Any combo ppl x $$ = $25,800 keeps them safe.
Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025
Happy Birthday, Jeff.
September 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Happy Birthday, Jeff.
Reposted by Katherine Perkins
At USDA, attacks on workers’ rights are threatening food safety. The USDA has canceled inspectors’ union contracts, which is likely to lead to more attrition, increase workloads, and compromise inspectors’ ability to raise food safety concerns.
www.wpr.org/news/food-sa...
www.wpr.org/news/food-sa...
Food safety experts warn cuts, staff shortages could lead to preventable outbreaks
Food inspectors face increased workloads and loss of union protection, making it more difficult to notice and report safety violations at food processing plants.
www.wpr.org
September 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
At USDA, attacks on workers’ rights are threatening food safety. The USDA has canceled inspectors’ union contracts, which is likely to lead to more attrition, increase workloads, and compromise inspectors’ ability to raise food safety concerns.
www.wpr.org/news/food-sa...
www.wpr.org/news/food-sa...
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If you could use a little bit of optimism today, here are some stories of North American bird species that have recovered from the brink of extinction. #ornithology
The surprising recovery of once-rare birds
It’s not every day that you see a 4-foot-tall bird, but it’s happening more often. Several fascinating species are nesting in and near towns once again.
theconversation.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If you could use a little bit of optimism today, here are some stories of North American bird species that have recovered from the brink of extinction. #ornithology
Being a chronically ill person taking care of a seriously acutely ill person is A time. I do not recommend.
September 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Being a chronically ill person taking care of a seriously acutely ill person is A time. I do not recommend.
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Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history, and its lessons are a massive human achievement. “How We Came To Know Earth,” our new series, is a guide to the modern understanding of fundamental climate science. www.quantamagazine.org/series/clima...
How We Came To Know Earth | Quanta Magazine
Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history. This series from Quanta Magazine guides you through basic climate science — from quantum effects to ancient hothouses, from...
www.quantamagazine.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history, and its lessons are a massive human achievement. “How We Came To Know Earth,” our new series, is a guide to the modern understanding of fundamental climate science. www.quantamagazine.org/series/clima...
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This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍
September 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍