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kilagreene.bsky.social
Duchess of Doom
@kilagreene.bsky.social
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I like the Astros, the outdoors, and books. Also sometimes I write and edit things. ND, disabled cat lady. She/they. 🏳️‍🌈

https://kilagreene.carrd.co/

I maintain a list of upcoming queer SF/F/H book releases: https://kilagreene.dreamwidth.org/1615.html
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Garner is pretty this time of year.
View from a hilltop, looking across a valley toward hills on the far side. There’s a clear blue-green river flowing through the valley, surrounded by cypress trees turning orange with autumn. The sky is blue, with some scattered clouds. Incredibly clear blue-green water, getting deeper further from the camera, with a dirt bank and some trees visible on the other side of the river. A stream of clear blue-green water, with autumn-orange cypress trees on the other side.
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Cassie as a baby. She was so sweet and never experienced one single thought in her entire life. She liked to ricochet back and forth off the hallway walls like a bouncy ball. Her full name was Cassandra Bad Kitten. She made it to 7 and has been gone twice as long as she lived. I’ll always miss her.
A small piebald tortoiseshell tabby kitten lying on her side on a flowered quilt. She has pink toe beans and enormous ears. A small piebald tortoiseshell tabby kitten fiercely chomping a person’s hand.
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Pretty Girl says today is International Snuggle Your Torbie Day.
A very happy dilute tortoiseshell tabby cat lying atop a person in a hammock, stretching out her paws to knead.
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Noooo, kitty, that’s voter fraud! You’re not eligible!
A tortoiseshell cat in an office chair. She has an ‘I voted’ sticker stuck to her fur.
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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I should have written a story with a cat main character years ago, TBH #WIP #FirstDraftFall
If Bell later climbed up onto the kitchen counter specifically to knock all of the cute little decorative bowls full of pine cones and dried lavender onto the floor, well, Bramble had no one to blame but herself.
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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While November isn’t as abundant as October was, it’s still got some queer SF/F/H gems! Twenty-two new book releases on my list. 🌈📚 #QueerAdultSFF

kilagreene.dreamwidth.org/4209.html
Cover of the book DEADLY EVER AFTER by Brittany Johnson, featuring art of a young Black woman lying on the ground with a spider on her chest and a snake, crown, and bloody sword on the grass nearby. Cover of the book THE WOLF AND HIS KING by Finn Longman, featuring art of a stylized wolf atop a giant, spiky crown. Cover of the book SLOW GODS by Claire North, featuring bold, eerie black-and-red art of planets and space, with a small silhouetted spaceship in the middle. Cover of the book I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU by Beatrice Winifred Iker, featuring creepy horror art of underground roots forming the shape of a skull, and above them red sky, barren trees, and a silhouetted church.
November 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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I keep trying to coax her inside for bed or couch cuddles, but no luck so far. Hammock cuddles it is.
A dilute tortoiseshell tabby cat lying atop a person in a hammock. The cat has green eyes, and delicate paws that are kneading the air just off camera.
November 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Someone, who I hope has the day they deserve, dumped these babies at my niece’s college campus yesterday just before our first freezing night. Niece caught the kittens and we brought them home for food, warmth and safety. We REALLY can’t afford more cats, so hopefully we can find them a good home.
Two little brown tabby kittens, probably about two months old, eating dry cat food together. They’re skinny and have enormous ears.
October 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Important news: toe beans 🐾
A dilute tortoiseshell cat sleeping atop a person in a hammock, with a focus on the cat’s pink-and-gray toe beans.
October 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Cool-weather cuddles with my sweet semi-feral kitty 🥰
A dilute tortoiseshell cat asleep atop a person in a hammock.
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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#SmallPoem
"Try not to get attached." As though each isn't a miracle of whiskers and trust, brief bright flash of love passing through our long lives on light paws, bringing bits of us beyond to weigh that we're worthy.
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I’ve always loved that Doctor Who episode where he brings Vincent Van Gogh forward in time so he can see what his legacy will be, and Van Gogh is hugely touched—but still later dies by suicide. The Doctor’s companion is devastated and says “We didn’t make a difference at all!” The Doctor tells her:
"The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant."
October 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Getting the Good Scritches
A very happy flame-point cat with his eyes closed, leaning into the hand scratching his chin.
October 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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*weeping*
In life, it asked for little: a patch of soil, a few beetles, a quiet forest. In death, it leaves questions that are larger than itself. How many other lives flicker out unseen before the world even learns their names? How many others wait somewhere in the darkness, unseen but breathing still? There is always a chance - slim but not zero - that the shrew endures yet, hidden in the damp heart of Christmas Island, trembling but alive. Hope, after all, has a long history of outliving the species it mourns. But the forest is quieter now. And if this really is the end, the last of Australia's shrews will have gone as it lived - small, secret, and almost entirely unnoticed, save for those who loved it enough to listen for its cry.
October 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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😊 #Astros
The imprint left in the dirt by Astros outfielder Chas McCormick after he made an incredible catch in the 2022 World Series, which the Astros won.
October 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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When I say I like hopeful stories, this is the kind of hope I generally mean. Screaming at the void: NO, FUCK YOU, I’M STILL FIGHTING.

www.tumblr.com/lycanr0t/795...
A black-and-white seven-panel comic. The first panel shows an upset wolf with the caption, "You're angry." The next panel zooms in on the wolf's eye and says, "Scared." Then, the wolf looks tired: "Exhausted." A zoom out to show the wolf has been shot full of arrows: "In pain." A panel that just consists of the words, "No one is coming to save you." The wolf, still full of arrows, is trying to stand: "Get up." The wolf crying, bleeding, and the words now looking like they're being screamed: "GET UP."
October 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I have had these criminals for eight years. They get their wet food in the evening only. It has always been this way. EVERY MORNING they loudly beg for wet food in the apparently earnest expectation that today might finally be the day.

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” — my cats, probably
Two cats cuddling on a bed. One is a much smaller tortie, curled on her side, and the other is a much larger brown tabby, sprawled on his back with his paws in the air.
October 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Oh boy here we go again
IMPACTS...1 to 3 inches of rainfall with isolated amounts up to 5 inches. Excessive runoff may result in life-threatening flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations in the Hill Country and southern Edwards Plateau as well as urban areas along the I-35 corridor.
October 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Thank you! The cat is based on my own tiny, ferocious, wobbly girl, who is the MC of the universe and could totally have a witch as her familiar 💖
A tiny blond cat curled up asleep on a fleecy blanket.
October 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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This little guy says it’s been centuries or possibly millennia since last he was petted. That’s sad, right? Surely you can agree that’s sad.
A blue-eyed, flame-point kitty looking hopefully at the camera. Slightly blurry because he won’t stop moving.
October 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Offseason #RootRootRead thread! Book checked out from the library is Patrick Radden Keefe’s SAY NOTHING, a heartbreaking account of the Troubles with a focus on Jean McConville, single mother of 10 who was disappeared by the IRA. (I read for 30 minutes uninterrupted every day, so that one was easy!)
Book bingo card with two slots checked off: Read for 30 minutes uninterrupted, and a book checked out from the library. Cover of the book SAY NOTHING: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe.
October 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Send good thoughts to our feral cat buddy; he’s getting neutered today. His name is Popsicle. He has recently taught himself how to emit something vaguely resembling a meow so he can communicate with us. 🧡
Zoomed-in, slightly blurry photo of a ginger cat lying under an old building.
October 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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This is the most wildly abundant month for queer SF/F/H book releases since I started tracking them. SEVENTY-SIX new books on my October list, and I’m sure I missed some (I always do!) 🌈📚

kilagreene.dreamwidth.org/3859.html
Cover of the book QUEEN DEMON, by Martha Wells. Cover of the book THE FLOWERS I DESERVE, by Tamara Jeree. Cover of the book THE WORKS OF VERMIN, by Hiron Ennes. Cover of the book REDNECK REVENANT, by David R. Slayton.
October 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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This is a tough time of year for me financially, so I’ve decided to see if there’s any #WritingCommunity interest in my premade ebook covers. They’re $35 apiece, and I’ve done my utmost to avoid using any AI-generated resources in making them. Find them all here:

ko-fi.com/kilagreene/s...
A premade book cover featuring charcoal-and-red art of a dangerous-looking woman, with the placeholder title FEMME and the placeholder text AUTHOR NAME. A premade ebook cover featuring art of clouds forming the shape of a face in the sky, with the placeholder title THE LEAVING SEASON and the placeholder text AUTHOR NAME. A premade ebook cover, featuring art of a small figure looking up at the sky, with the placeholder title YOU SHOULD BE KING and the placeholder text AUTHOR NAME. A premade ebook cover featuring art of an airplane flying straight downward, with the placeholder title GOING DOWN and the placeholder text AUTHOR NAME.
October 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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#Astros 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Tweet from the official Houston Astros account that reads, “Today, we stand with @MLB in taking a firm stance against bullying of LGBTQ+ youth, who face disproportionately higher rates of harassment compared to their peers. No child deserves to be bullied for expressing who they are.”
October 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM