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Kate / Katelyn Forrest
@kateforrest.bsky.social
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Reader. Writer. Doer of Things. 🏳️‍⚧️

Once Upon a Punk Show available July 15!

https://katelynforrest.com/
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kateforrest.bsky.social
Dear @magic.wizards.com ... Thanks for tanking the most competitive deck I've ever owned.

Dozens of "buy this card to win" where there's no point in playing against them... but a medium paced Vivi combo deck is banned now? Why?? Why?
Magic Arena showing newly banned Standard cards including Vivi whatever its name is from the Final Fantasy set. A 0/3 that deals one damage when you play an instant, enchantment, or sorcery, and gets +1/+1. You can pull mana equal to its power for free. That card is on the right. There's a blue card on the left and a red card in the middle. No one cares about the other two.
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
Writing selfie.

Better than going to work today.
Selfie of a while lady with brown hair and glasses wearing a Dropkick Murphys shirt in front of some café art.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
We are reverting to the old ways...

This book is demanding to be written by hand.
A café table with a closed laptop but a whole spread of notebooks and pens with a delicious beverage off to the side
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
10,000 years ago, someone had the urge to draw a lil' guy.

Art makes us human.

My doodles in my work notebook are a *direct* connection to people that lived 10k years ago.

Art does that. Children understand that. Then the world tries to crush their whimsy.

Everyone should draw a lil' guy.
Doodle of a fish in blue pen in the margins of a notebook
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
"Not Copper"???

Are we *sure*? Where's Ea-nasir??
A road crew outside of a Walgreens store with a big spool of cables. The spool has "not copper" spray painted on the side
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
kateforrest.bsky.social
Yay. I love running low on oil at O Dark Thirty when I'm already running late to work in another state. -_-
Open hood an an engine bay of a blue Subaru
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
kateforrest.bsky.social
Morrigan is sad Halloween is over and she no longer counts as seasonal decor.
A close up of a black cat looking vaguely sad while sitting on an autumn blanket
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
If I was 20 and didn't have kiddos to support, I would be doing very different actions
How i defeated fascism with the power of love. Chapter one, the power of love. The first step in my journey ead realizing its impossible to defeat fascism with the power of love. Chapter two. The power of incredible violence.
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
Ea-nasir for life.
Invincible meme with Omniman looking to some fighter jets. The jets are labeled "Ancient rulers trying to be remembered forever." Omniman is labeled "Ea-nasir." Second panel has captions from the actual show saying "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power"
November 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
kateforrest.bsky.social
@denise-1031.bsky.social is making soup in a cauldron so you know it's 83% more magical than regular soup.
A cauldron on a stove top. The lid is open with a wooden spoon sticking out. Soup is visible.
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
So sitting at my desk eating all the Halloween candy with nuts in it that my kids can't have and saw this on a label of Reeces cups....

The color orange is trademarked. The whole fucking color.

America is so dumb.
Back label of a Reeces package. There's a bunch of the typical wrapper text about websites and company whatever. In the middle is the statement "The color orange is a registered trademark." Because America is dumb like that.
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
kateforrest.bsky.social
Yesterday on Kate Paints...

Finished up another one of the #TableTopTime Swabbies.

Someday I'll actually have a full squad of something done. And better lighting for these pics. I swear the face is better than the pics show.

#minipainting #miniatures #nerdlings
A Black sailor guy with a harpoon in an overhead throwing position. Same mini from a different angle.
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
My kiddo's Cub Scout pack did Scouting for Food this morning. Two *full* SUVs just in my neighborhood for the local West Bay Community Action food bank.

City wide, the Scouts are averaging a full carload per kid
An SUV full of bags of food
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
You can chart my whole transition from selfies I take at this one particular Starbucks when I go on writing dates with @denise-1031.bsky.social
White lady with long brown hair and a Godzilla t shirt sitting in front of coffee shop art
October 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
Calling all witches and spooky ladies with books!
Two Painted miniatures. On the left a demon woman with orange wings chilling with a book. On the right a curvy witch lady in a green outfit
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
kateforrest.bsky.social
In 2025, choose physical media
A copy of Once Upon a Punk Show in a green field with trees and a blur sky behind it. The book cover is in purple tones and features two women singing together into a shared microphone.
October 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
Not really. If someone says "sausage roll" I'm thinking the left pic which isn't really a sausage roll like (I'm pretty sure) you mean. There might be regional things via immigrant communities, but not a blanket American thing

We have pigs in a blanket on the right, but that's small finger food.
Grilled sausage and peppers on a long roll sliced lengthwise. Pigs in a blanket... mini sausages wrapped in a bit of dough and baked to make finger food nibbles.
October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
Even scarier, this is how they eat "American Style Hot Dogs" in Europe.

Poke a hole the long way in a chunk of baguette and shove it in.
A European style hot dog.... shoved in a baguette the long way.
October 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
Four books to get to know me...
Book cover of Once Upon a Punk Show. The cover features two women singing into a shared microphone. Thr whole image is in purple tones. Book cover of Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny. It's an old school aesthetic with a mostly black cover and blocky white words. In the middle is two fantasy vignettes separated by an armored guy with swords Book cover of The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley. Text dominates the cover with a sci fi soldier looking into a burst of light. Green and blue tones. Book cover of Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove. Brightly colored text on a black back ground dominates. Vampire fangs are over the whole thing with a spaceship in the corner.
October 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
Today on Kate Paints...

I don't usually batch paint... but the shirt color of these Table Top Time swabbies is a blend and I have a hard time color matching between sittings.

So we paint all the shirts.

Someday I'll actually finish a squad.

#minipainting #miniatures #nerdlings
A cluster of 5 nautical themed minis on paint stands. They have a mix of spears and guns. They're all in various stages of completion, but they all have their light blue shirts done.
October 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
"Incoming saucy pic"

Ha!
Pic of a horror movie scale blood covered room. Text says "Caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent"
October 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
Giulia has newly awakened magic after her new fling turns out to be a legit goddess.

But a forgotten god -whoops! Also the fling's ex- wants to overdose humanity on old magic.

What's a punk rocker to do? 🤔

Once Upon a Punk Show! Full blurb and shopping links ⤵️

katelynforrest.com/once-upon-a-...
Silhouette of a dude with his fist held up dramatically. The Once Upon a Punk Show logo is in the corner. Text overlay says "It was buried with the honored dead and consecrated to their god. A god forgotten before you or I were a passing thought. A god dead and gone. I will not befall the same fate. -Wodanaz"
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
OK so this person scooped before the damage was dealt... but they were facing 23 creatures... each one that had +22/+0. On turn 6.

They were facing over 500 damage in one swing.

Shenanigans!
A screenshot of a Magic the Gathering Area game. 23 goblins are attacking and 23 instances of Shared Animosity are about to trigger, each one giving +1/+0 for each other attackintcreature that shares a type. Which means a total of +22/+0
October 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
Two stills from the animated Disney Robin Hood. The one with the animals. One has Robin and Little John in drag. The other shows the Peince sucking his thumb like a petulant child. Text between the stills says "Some of us were raised by drag performers fighting false kings and it shows"
October 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
kateforrest.bsky.social
I still just paint at my kitchen table. Been going thru a lot off the 3d printer including custom minis of the main characters from my own book
Mini of a woman with long hair holding up an apple. She has a purple top and jeans on. Mini of a woman singing in a microphone with a black top and jeans
October 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM