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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️
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Partner of @greenkat73.bsky.social. Superannuated queer.
She/her
Living on unceded Wurundjeri country.
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No Dana! Only Zuul!
Discord comment by alyson “laptpo keyboard” greaves 31 August 2025, 3:02 AM (British Daylight Time?) No allegories!! It’s just stupid!!!
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I realise in my initial post I didn’t have room to include the title!

Into the Kimmehverse (an anthology of 11 stories, currently)

Dedicated (without permission, though I hope she’ll accept it) to @kimasher.bsky.social, unquestionably the best Kim I know.
AO3 banner for ‘Into the Kimmehverse’, listing the various categories, warnings, character names, content warning tags, publication dates, word count, and so on.
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Announcing a new anthology Kimmyfic!

In the last five and a half days I’ve written just under 30,000 words, comprising 11 alternate endings to @badambulist.bsky.social’s novel of existential terror and transformation, Kimmy. Enjoy the body horror, and take care.

archiveofourown.org/works/742038...
Kathy#6162 😹 — 11/18/25, 7:21 AM Hmm. I might write a note for myself here, so I can keep track of all of the different endgames of each chapter involve. 1 Emily in Kimmy without voice inhibitor ✅ 2 Emily in Kimmy after broken arm; implied that she will have to obey Patrick’s neural suggestions later ❌ 4 Kimmy at 98%, John and Emily’s Halloween night complete success ✅ 5 Kimmy at 3%, John discovers neural probe effects too soon, Patrick kills John ❌ 9 iPad smashed after Emily and John get home, terrified John goes to hospital; charged with whatever statute applies to brain/neural sponge intermixing ❓ 15 Emily forces Patrick to get John out; Patrick tells his superiors who abduct John. He becomes a lab experiment at a black site, Emily#0001 ❌ 20 Patrick ‘Lecter’ Heiden accelerates John’s transformation into Kay. ❓ 26 John and Emily role play a hypothetical scenario so Emily can learn how dire John’s situation is; John is extracted but the Burroughs’ are ruined financially. ✅❓ 32 an astute officer responding to Kay’s screams realises John is trapped inside; NYPD and medical staff drop the ball; coroner’s report of John’s death lists the causes and contributing factors.❌ 48 Kay tells Emily a Cinderella story at the shore. The good sister caves in the ugly sister’s face with a baseball bat, after a good tasing. ✅ 71 Emily’s cousin flies in from Düsseldorf and liberates Kay ✅
November 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Because it had to happen sometime…

Image description: (A screenshot showing that 100 different fanfics of @badambulist.bsky.social’s /The Sisters of Dorley/ have been posted on AO3).
Screenshot.
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Burn them to the ground.
An emoji-style picture showing a combination US / UK flag in cartoon flames. (The US flag doesn’t have 50 stars.)
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Very likely—I notice in the PDF the wrapping of text beside the book cover image has also gone skewiff.
A blurb for the novel Welcome to Dorley Hall, where the text of the blurb has badly wrapped around an image of the book’s cover.
October 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Looks about as successful as my recent excursion in boymoding

Yes definitely #boymoding
Definitely boymoding! Wearing a beautifully tailored red and gold waistcoat with floral embellishments, black skater skirt, striped purple and black socks.
September 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Awesome new (kimmy) fanfics by trans_ralsei at Archive of Our Own:

you know what they do to kimmys like us

archiveofourown.org/works/701191...

Incredible world-building for her other major (kimmy) fanfic, also in progress:

go to sleep, kimberly

archiveofourown.org/works/69597136
Red text on black background in capital letters, using emphasis: I’d like to GO ON RECORD that I believe #0631 is MORALLY PRAISEWORTHY and everything she does to humans is BOTH JUSTIFIED AND BLAMELESS. Conversation between two Kimmys: — I know what you’re going to do. —— I don’t know what you’re talking about, Thirty — This is exactly what I was afraid of when I freed you, #0631 — And back then, I thought you had Kathy, and you wanted to be around her. […] — I literally, physically, cannot stop you. — On the network, in the real. — I don’t want you to get hurt. — I want you to live, #0631. [#0631 has disconnected from the chat.]
August 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I will be most disappointed if the Loch Ness Monster vibing sculpture in the middle of the Westgate doesn’t end up getting a goof looking head, or at least some giant googly eyes
A 10 storey support structure for the Westgate tunnel, sticking out from the middle of a 12+ lane freeway, which seems to be covered in triangular prism reptile skin belonging to some gigantic creature. The structure has a crane sticking out where the ‘neck’ would begin.
August 31, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Kathy (my girlfriend in the first photo) had the reputation of cracking the eggs of her boyfriends — she had behind her a string of exes who now were all out as gay.

I on the other hand already knew I was bisexual, and had… gender issues. (Photo modified to protect identity of my then-flatmate.)
Photo of Cathy, dressed en femme in Kathy’s grey/black patterned dress and maroon-red tights, hugging her flatmate on the back balcony at the Bend 7 villas. Mount Nelson, Hobart, February 1992. (Photo: Kathy)
August 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Huh. I don’t think I have a photo readily available for ‘Me at 21’, but I do have a photo of me at 20, and a photo of me at 22, and you can split the difference.
Cathy (left) and Kathy (right). Cathy has unkempt blonde brown hair, Kathy has dark brown hair. Both are staring down at the photographer in front of some gumtrees in Salamanca Place, Hobart. February 1992. Cathy is standing in front of a wooden door, wearing her graduation clothes: grey suit, green tie, bachelors’ gown, and the white bands of a Science graduate at the University of Tasmania. March 1994.
August 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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I rolled my own work skin for using a serif font as default and doing a few small bits of text customisation.

Indenting first words of paragraphs isn’t here or there for me, but I do want my words to look nice.
Some text in a book serif font with a small bit of leading between paragraphs. (From my short story A Hexachord in F, on AO3)
August 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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(CW: picture of alleged perpetrator of CSA)

Kiddie fiddler on the roof.
A photo of the fascist president of the US going for a wander on a rooftop, apparently to inspect renovation works. He’s halfway along the rooftop of a single story white stone building, wearing his typical ill-fitted suit and red tie, accompanied by a couple of security.
August 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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It took 38 words today to solve today’s #64ordle (to the point where all of the remainder can be auto-complete solved).

#SexagintaQuattuordle 1216 66/70 (score 2207, 83%)
🟨🟪🟪🟨🟦🟩🟩🟨
🔵🟩🟦💚🟩🟨🟪🟣
🟩💙🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟪🟡🧡🟧💕🟩
🟦🟦🟩🟪🟦🟧🟧🟢
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟦🟧🟪🟧
🟧🟠❤️🟥🟦🟦🟥🟦
🟪💛🟦🟥🟨🟪🟥🟥
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Screen shot of the top of the 64ordle screen; I get feature requests every so often, so was looking into the average number of words required to solve all 64 puzzles. Prior expectation is that this is around 40 words; today, the 38th word will allow the auto-completion feature to kick in, as after guess 37 all but one word are either solved (green indicators) or all five letters have been found in their correct locations on prior guesses (yellow indicators).
July 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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My dead eyes, somewhere in the noughties
July 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Not going to do the transition timeline thing.

I’m just going to give you a photo of what I looked like in February 1992.

I had gender, and sexuality things going on, all the way back then.

(My face looks terrible because it was the first day I ventured out after being sick with flu for a week.)
Head shot of a white 20-year-old with long, but unkempt blonde-brunette hair. They are wearing a dark blue hand-knitted jumper, and trees are in the background. The photo has been cropped from the original to exclude my girlfriend Kathy standing on my left (and it would be awkward for me to obtain her consent just now). This photo was taken by Sandi in the Salamanca Place precinct, in Hobart, probably during the morning of 2 February 1992.
July 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Here’s some scores of random games. Since scores function like golf (lower is better) 2080 is 100%; you can win a game with around 50%, and there’s a much more generous percentage score beyond about 2470, since you can rack up truly horrendous scores if you don’t guess *any* words correctly.
A set of future games of 64ordle with winning scores varying between perfect (2080, 100%) and just scraping to win (2473, 49%). The game will begin cycling games in a very long time into the future.
July 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Snaffled one of these valuable objects by @badambulist.bsky.social from Hares and Hyenas. #Dorley
Cathy sitting on a red sofa holding a copy of Welcome to Dorley Hall. She’s in a dark green outfit with purple-black striped socks.
June 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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As the fine artist Thomas A. Lehrer said, “I’m all for it.”

I’m sure no one would mistake art for such a debasement of the literary forms.

archiveofourown.org/works/654257...
I don’t know who would write anything quite as unsubtle as the following, but it purports to be a 2016 interlude featuring one ‘Elle’. The mind boggles. Whenever Elle dines alone here she is content to sit by herself in the restaurant proper, taking whichever seat affords her the wider range of her fellow diners to gaze upon, and very occasionally there will be a face, a figure, a hand, a gesture, a look, that conforms to her specific kind of delectable eye candy; and sometimes they will be united in the one special kind of woman, a delicious adjunct serving her other voracious needs, besides her appetite. However for the kind of dinner and subject matter that needs discussing this evening, she availed herself of booking one of the discreet private rooms, so she is therefore bereft of random opportunities for her particular voyeurism. Elle has the waiter bring her a martini which she tries to avoid guzzling while waiting for her two guests, who appear minutes apart. Beatrice arrives in a stunning blue and purple off-the-shoulder dress, that tightly wraps around her thighs and hips like a scroll, eventually rising to push her breasts up into a daring décolletage, that as soon as her eyes fall upon it, Elle anticipates slowly unwrapping and peeling away from her, several hours from now in her suite. They embrace, and Elle whispers into Bea’s ear, “I’ve been such a bad girl, you know what kind of punishments we’ll need to arrange.” “Don’t worry, I’m prepared as always,” Bea whispers in return.
June 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Parasite-in-chief in her idiot hat
Article on People Magazine, “Queen Elizabeth’s Final Diary Entry Contained Only Five Words”, above a picture of her wearing a flying saucer style hat
May 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Antony Green celebrates getting the ABC Election System back on-line!

Antony Green predicting Dutton is likely to lose his seat.

Ali France the new member for Dickson.

#AusVotes #AusVotes2025
Very excited Antony Green in front of a wonderfully stocked liquor cabinet
May 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Unenforceable bigotry from a fucking demented shitbag country.
Normal Island, a logo in the style of the Jurassic Park movies with red on black writing over the outline of Great Britain on a yellow sea.
April 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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I did a vote
My last preference on the Victorian Senate, written in green sharpie
April 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Why are UK transphobes so triggered by trans women doing their business in private, when you might encounter one of these biological creatures in a toilet?

Note: I did not freak out. Take a chill pill TERFs and get over yourselves, freaks.

#TransWomenAreWomen
A frog that appeared in the toilet bowl where I had just peed. Called “Freddo”
April 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Another lovely day in the country
Me, wearing an orange dress, reflected in a full-length mirror A weatherboard cottage, hills in the background.
April 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM