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Cat Purcell, boldest of blood and wildest of hearts
@thatcatpurcell.bsky.social
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Librarian | mom | writer | spouse | ✡️
#Querying Wilderness of the Heart (Jane Goodall in Space)
#WIP - The Return of King Arthur
Writes about Wonder Woman at Comicsxf.com and researches at
Meetyouroldhouse.com
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Still writing away!
in my mind. Perhaps it was the demands that made me so frustrated. I'd been under the impression that this would be a bit of an escape from the expectations my family had "I finished my meal, this time feeling like I'd barely tasted any of it. 1 went through the motions, I tempered my feelings, and lay in bed wanting for tomorrow which was long in coming." last key was annoying. I finished my meal, this time feeling like I'd barely tasted any of it. I went through the motions, I tempered my feelings, and lay in bed wanting for tomorrow, which was long in coming. Still writing away!! Q Search 4 Pages | 754 Words | 696 Tod.
November 23, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Snippets of life lately.
My black Doberman Guarding against squirrels in the backyard with a fence behind him and a pumpkin in the foreground An everything bagel egg sandwich with a bowl of fruit and a word document Coffee in a skeleton mug A pot of chili with jalapeños
November 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Kiara is the central protagonist of my #wip Spirit Sleeper. She’s born out of the rage I felt whenever I was told I couldn’t do something. She also just happens to be a reverse necromancer in a world where ghosts, zombies, and ghouls are as normal as the autumn. #amwriting #nationalwritingmonth
November 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Here’s tha story about how I turned from one blond broad into anotha
Cat poses as Alexis with a blond wig in a floral dress with a safety vest on from Schitts creek Cat poses as Alexis with a blond wig in a floral dress with a safety vest on from Schitts creek and her friend is Moira at premiere night for The Crowening. Then Cat has a costume change as Harley Quinn from Birds of Prey Cat has a costume as Harley Quinn from Birds of Prey posing like from the cover of the movie
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I’m digging this one out of its grave for revising this month. Take a gal who bottles spirits, an eldest son proving his worth, and a reluctant witch and you might just save the world… or throw it into complete chaos. I’m ready to revise my western anti-necromancer!#spiritsleeper #amwriting
October 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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There aren’t enough werewolf movies, but these are the best ones.

I could also probably write a whole paper on how werewolves are for the girls. Sorry boys.
Nightbitch Ginger snaps An American Werewolf in London
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I love that this movie embraces the wild, the beautiful, and the hard parts of motherhood. I love that she never wants to give it back. She just wants to find herself again. I can be an artist and a mother. It’s beautiful and it’s nothing without embracing the wild dirty gross parts of it all.
October 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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So my kid was begging me to play Zelda again so they could watch and this is THE FIRST THING AN NPC SAID TO ME upon logging in??

Too bad .. also I feel you.
Amali from Zelda BotW saying “but that is the thing about being a parent - you have to be bigger than your children”
October 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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This place is so magical I’m gonna write a story where two kids wage a class war about it.
Four solitary white columns in the middle of the woods A centaur statue on an octagonal platform in the middle of a forest A statue of a koi fish in a labyrinth of short bushes A brick Manor House with white trim and urn shaped decorative lawn sculptures
October 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Hey hey we librarians love PROPER citation AND peer review and check your sources!!
< 12:09 PM Posts the_memeing_librarian the_memeing_librarian 2 hours ago rob @RobertSecundus .. 1/2 "Wikipedia isn't trustworthy" is shorthand for "you should actually bother to check the sources, because stupid/wrong shit can be 'verified' with a bad source, & also the particular version of an article you see might be radically different from later, more scrutinized versions" A Eris Alliumduo (63,105/983,00... • 18h Does anyone else remember teachers gaslighting you into thinking wikipedia wasn't trustworthy even though everything on it has to have references and sources? 0120 @ 5. 181 < 12:09 PM Posts the_memeing_librarian the_memeing_librarian 2 hours ago It's also shorthand for "I am trying to teach you how to research things and evaluate information/misinformation. Training you to use only one website that you trust absolutely is in fact: bad" 9 2 t1 2 18 企 rob @RobertSecundus • 2h And then at some levels it's short for "dear god, we've gone over this over and over, college papers have to use PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARSHIP, no encyclopedias are going to count as peer-reviewed scholarship. Just plug your topic into the library database I'm begging you" 17 rob @RobertSecundus • 2h "I read that it's as accurate as the encyclopedia brittanica" yeah dude you aren't allowed to use that either! The point of this paper is not to get you to look up the dates of Jane Austen's birth and death it's to get you to read argument &e about her work and respond to them
October 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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I’ve been focusing on how I can have fun without having to feel like I have to also be, this game called #TheBluePrince has been quietly saving me. It scratches my puzzle and love for old weird houses itch while also being fun. I’ve started making tiny physical tiles of the Blue Prints!
Tiny rooms cut on a Glowforge and painted! Screenshot of the rooms in the game
October 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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After having done this last year and lived to tell the tale, here I am again 18 hours later and just fine!

Why don’t you worry about yourself?
Cat grins in the camera with a cheeky smile, hand underneath her chin like “aren’t I so cute?”
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Also had to share this as I’m accidentally full librarian today with my outfit now that it finally got rainy and cold.
Accidentally peak librarian with a bun, glasses, lanyard, cardigan, and dress.
October 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Got that flu/COVID shot action today!!
Cat smiles wide with clear framed glasses and a green button up blouse with a green cvs heart bandaid on her bare shoulder
October 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Not past me scheduling my flu/covid shot, therapy, and a hair appointment in the same week I’m on at the library?! Why??
A google calendar screen shot showing A flu shot on Tuesday at 11:45, therapy at noon on Wednesday, a hair appointment on Friday at 9 am and a full Saturday shift at the library on Saturday.
October 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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A whole 12 years ago I was hanging out in the Hall of Justice.
A picture of the Union Terminal in Cincinnati Ohio and its big half circle windows
October 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Day off vibes:
-Marsh King’s Daughter
-costumes for my kids to craft
-coffee #2
The marsh kings daughter poster, a rainbow tree coffee cup with coffee drips down the edge and a pile of fabric that looks like chain mail, a Zelda costume and green fabric
September 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Insert 🎶 Spooky Scary Skeletons🎶
Cat has black glasses and blue tipped hair and wears a skeleton onesie with a face like 😲
September 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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The wedding invite said “smart casual” so I had fun with that tonight.
In one half of the pic, cat stands in wide leg grey and blue plaid pants with a white t shirt under a blue vest. Her hair is half up, half down with her blue strands over her shoulders and a tote. The other half is a close up of her face where you can see her navy blue hair matches her navy vest.
September 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Louisa May Alcott: probably a big ol’ lesbian.
real life, the author had no real interest in men and never married. In one interview she gave, she explained that she had decided to be a lifelong spinster "because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man."
September 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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This is 38.
Cat standing to create a comparison between her and Louisa May Alcotts facial features. From the angle of the portrait to the hooded eyes and stern expression. Both are 38
September 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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My heart is so full right now!
Orchard house sign with purple flowers in front and an apple tree behind The philosophy school Orchard house. A colonial style house in Concord that Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in. Orchard Houses historical register
September 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Tomorrow…
A green and gold cover of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
September 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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These are the ones I had to pause because they were breath taking! #weewonder
Jane Pica, Emily Pearson on inks
Ariyana Taylor on colors
Tasia M.S. art on the 2nd one.
A sunset over themyscira with Philips, Queen Hippolyta and baby Diana saying “family! Mommies! And Diana and Cerby!” A two panel spread of Nubia in shield frames fighting alone in beautiful landscapes A gorgeous purple and blue image of Themysciras trees and temples Minor in a swirl of pastel colors and flowers
September 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Finally got to catch up on Warriors and a Wee Wonder by @stephwilliams.bsky.social. Here are some of the panels that made me chuckle. #weewonder
Diana is terrorizing a Library on Paradise Island. “No naps later”. But I read it in the voice from SpongeBob that says “2 hours later” Just a beautiful shot of the warriors who oversee the many disasters the wee Wonder Woman causes. Athena biting into an apple and saying “are you not entertained”
September 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM