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Katy Scott
@katyscott.bsky.social
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Artist, writer, parent, partner, spreader of kindness, unapologetic progressive, and I’m currently all out of f***s to give. She/her/hers.
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This poem is about trying to predict the future, and how you probably just have to give up some control.

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This poem is about trying to predict the future, and how you probably just have to give up some control. ***** Point A, Plan B A strange choice, in the end. There’s no real way to plan it. You’ll try anyway but none of it will make sense When the moment arrives. Everyone leaves, in the end. I won’t be the first, you won’t be the last. So: What is your plan, for the end? You have to keep following a line, either way. How will you move away from Point A in your broken heart? You’ll be in an unfamiliar landscape, wind-scoured and empty. Can you make your way back to yourself? You can try to arrange it. Make that Plan B, and it might be a comfort to know it’s there in the back of your mind. But it’s the unlikeliest of scenarios. Are you prepared to throw it all out? Are you prepared to go it alone? Don’t worry about me. I won’t need much, in the end. A cup of coffee, a cold morning, a pair of half-closed eyes. The rest doesn’t matter. Point A, Plan B. And as I have said before: Seulette suis, et seulette ne veux pas être. Sometimes those unlikely things can work themselves out in the flow of time.
October 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I fully understand that most people do not care about poetry, yet I still feel compelled to post what I am writing. If you read this, thank you, I truly appreciate it. This is about feeling invisible. #poem #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetryDaily #FreeVerse #ArtOfWords #WordedArt #BlueskyPoets
Look at How Much of Me You Can No Longer See Katy Scott 2025 Look at how much of me you can no longer see. I am made of paper and glass and sheer fucking effort. My structure is angular and clear — grief-hardened silvered bones and soft little puddly places. Am I finally pretty? You’ll never see them, but I have entire oceans living in corners and they repeatedly wash over me with salt and possibilities, leaving me raw, scoured, stinging. That is my constant, my anxiety, that good ol’ default state. It’s not obvious but my skin cannot contain me much longer. Everything — every step, every breath — is a calculation. Can anyone actually see me? If I floated away right now gripping a spider-silk would the space I left behind be visible?
October 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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This poem is about how totally separate emotions can feel identical inside your body, and how hard that can be to deal with.
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Ask Me Anything Katy Scott 2025 What did you have for breakfast? How does the rain make you feel? How many petals are on this flower? Does she love you, or love you not? Are you happy? I don’t believe you, answer again. Are you happy? Yet you are always so sad. Can two opposing things be true at once? What is wrong with you? You don’t seem sad enough. Why can’t you cry? It’s fine, you shouldn’t. Don’t you understand that people depend on you? You mentioned grief; are you comforted by your grief? Because you seem to be sharing it with everyone. Here’s the real question: Are you really grieving, or do you just want attention? Are you feeling any rage at that question? Do you need to feel some comfort at this point in the questioning? Try to think of something beautiful, familiar, incandescent. Perhaps the night sky, pine scented air on a cold wet morning, that poem about rats’ feet over broken glass? How do you feel about that squeezing hollowness inside of your heart? Is it like: A brokenness you can’t explain? Getting kicked in the chest over and over and you can’t find your breath? Indescribable beauty and heartache existing in the same tight space? Ahh, there it is, there is your answer. There’s the core of it all. Beauty hurts as much as sadness, doesn’t it? Sometimes you can’t stand to look at the stars.
October 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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New blog post: April is the cruellest month

April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. (April also breeds pollen, and lots of it.)

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A dark gray stormy sky
April 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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New blog post: Adventures in Nephrology.

My kidneys have decided to function less than optimally, on the same week that our insurance company dropped a lot of our providers from their network. Fun times!

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A hand holding a kidney shaped squeeze toy
April 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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New blog post: A-Z Gratitude List

2025 Katy is grateful that 2021 Katy created this "A-Z gratitude" list, because given the OMG-WTF-is-happening current situation, these things are helping me keep going.

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A campfire blazing merrily
April 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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New blog post! Big Mac Salad

Sometimes I crave a tiny little McDonald's cheeseburger with those minced onions (nostalgia from growing up!) but their food always makes me feel terrible afterwards. So I figured out a way to eat Big Macs whenever I want.

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A child blowing out candles on a birthday cake at McDonald’s in the 1970s.
April 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Trump and his supporters want us to despair, give up, and let them do whatever they want without consequence, because it's too hard to fight. And it IS hard to fight. But I have found help. Here's how I'm staying both informed and sane. busywoman.katyscott.com/2025/03/its-...
A resistance poster with a red silhouette of Trump wearing a black crown, with a large black X over him and the text: "NO KINGS IN AMERICA."
March 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I finished up an artwork and would love for you to tell me what you think!
oil painting of a dead tree against a sunset sky with foliage
January 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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I’ve been working more on this tree. I wish I hadn’t painted all the small branches before I finalized the background, but I know painting the background last around all the other elements is a Grown Up Artist Skill that I never mastered. It’s frustrating but I’m progressing bit by bit. #art
Oil painting in progress of a leafless tree against a colorful sky.
January 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Progress on my newest painting (getting back to oils)! #art
A partly finished oil painting of a tree against a colorful background
January 15, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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My very favorite thing I have ever painted.

"Sugarplum Tree"
Oil on canvas
15” x 30”
2021

For sale at katyscott.com (prints)
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A painting of a tree laden with sweets, candies, and fairies, on the shore of a lake by a flowered meadow. A gingerbread dog barks at a chocolate cat high in the branches.
December 8, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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"Bryophyte Orchard 4"
Prismacolor on paper
8" x 6"
2024

For sale at katyscott.com (original and prints)
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Prismacolor pencil drawing on paper of fantastical plants and trees in a colorful sunrise landscape
December 4, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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Happy 25th anniversary to @murdockscott.bsky.social, my very favorite person in the known universe! 25 years sure went by fast. I am grateful for you every day. Looking forward to the next 25! ♥️
November 28, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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“City of the Future”
Digital illustration
10”x8”
2024

For sale at katyscott.com (prints)
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November 24, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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“Bryophyte Orchard 1”
Prismacolor on paper
6”x8”
2024

For sale at katyscott.com (original artwork and prints)
#art #artwork #artist
November 24, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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“Bryophyte Orchard 2”
Prismacolor on paper
6”x8”
2024

For sale at katyscott.com (original artwork and prints)
#art #artwork #artist
November 24, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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“Senecio Mandraliscae 1”
Prismacolor on paper
6”x8”
2024

For sale at katyscott.com (original artwork and prints)
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November 20, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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“When I Was A Child”
Prismacolor on paper
6”x8”
2024

For sale at katyscott.com (original artwork and prints)
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November 18, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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I’m not totally sure yet how I will use Bluesky but I think for now I will be just posting my original artwork.

“Bryophyte Orchard 3”
Prismacolor on paper
6”x8”
2024

For sale at katyscott.com (original artwork and prints)
#art #artwork #artist
Artwork by Katy Scott. Prismacolor on paper. A drawing of colorful red, orange, and yellow plants, green leaves, golden clouds, and a purple/pink sky.
November 16, 2024 at 4:14 AM