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Katherine Perkins

@katherineperkins.bsky.social

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Writer. Cajun (now in Texas). So, so tired. She/her. (Icon art, by Ian Madison Keller, of Ashling the Pixie and her service crow, The Count, from The Fair Folk Chronicles by Jeffrey Cook and Katherine Perkins)

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Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · Jul 5

Hi. I used to write books with someone I loved very much. I'm trying to write books again. And a social media account is still considered important when doing that.

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 16h

Honestly, I /wish/ politicians just retreated to their homes and families and only destroyed the people who deliberately sought them out.

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 16h

However, if you're really short on suggestions, I also have a definite soft spot for the Inside Books Project, alleviating the tiny bit of mental suffering that we can.

insidebooksproject.org

Inside Books Project

Inside Books Project is a volunteer-led nonprofit based in Austin, Texas that sends free books and reading materials to people incarcerated in Texas.

insidebooksproject.org

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Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 16h

Gotta give a shout-out to my people at Remote Area Medical

www.ramusa.org

Remote Area Medical

Remote Area Medical (RAM) provides free medical, dental, and vision care to those in need through mobile clinics across the country.

www.ramusa.org

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 16h

My novella's villain was just a narcissist politician. But there's another Problem Character who ... let's just say he walked away from Omelas, came back decades later able to blow open the basement doors, did so, and has spent the past 14 years trying to sort out the balance of virtue and utility.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 17h

Q22: What is your villains problem?! 🤨

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 16h

C, absolutely, always.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 16h

Q24: You have to live without one of these forever. Which one?

A: Copy + Paste
B: Undo button
C: Spellcheck
D: Control + F

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 16h

Alchemy. (true of both my drafted novella that I can't bring myself to query, and the novel I'm now working on)

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 17h

Q21: What’s your MC really good at?

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 16h

Sidekicks and Henches. I do put forth effort when I'm writing The Guy or The Gal. But oh, when I can write the guy or gal that The Guy or Gal /counts/ on...

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 18h

Q5: what are your favorite types of characters to write, describe them?

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 16h

Local Boy to Inherit Town Subhed: Gods Help Him, Say Townsfolk.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 18h

Q1: describe your book/WIP as a newspaper headline article

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Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 16h

Just nonsequentially typeytyped in the word processor, or, if i'm really being self-indulgent, e-mailed to someone, including to myself.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 18h

Q2: what’s your favorite tool for writing down your ideas?

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 23h

... silly tangential thought, but can't help but notice that his stepmom designed the White House Rose Garden and wonder if he had some major emotional baggage with his stepmom that paving over said garden was meant to help.

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, there's a third category: the kind of people who catch the attention of the people who become adult converts.

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 2d

Granted, the world as it currently is, we'll be lucky if anyone ends up able to function without some unhealthy defense mechanisms running.

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Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 2d

If he meant to be literal, I am legit concerned for him. If a Palestinian-American from New Jersey can't remember that this has happened before, his brain has some unhealthy defense mechanisms running.

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Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 2d

(2) If he's legit surprised by this latest horrific nonsense, he needs to look after himself because he's got some kind of trauma-brain problem.

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Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 2d

See, that's what's really confusing me. This gentleman is from New Jersey, is the son of a Palestinian immigrant, has personally been accused by neo-nazis of being a terrorist, and I think he's older than I. (1)

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Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 3d

An extended family member has been through an amazing arc of personal and political growth and change these past ten years.

No one was giving her a senate candidacy (or presidential candidacy) while she was just starting to work on herself, though. I do not think it would have helped.

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 3d

Does your e-mail allow for inbox rule-setting about 'send directly to trash' ?

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Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 10d

A family member, when she was going through an overoptimistic phase, once tried to say "Well, even racist people still love their nonwhite children." And I was a bit "Linguistic question: do you mean like I love you, like I love dogs, or like I love crawfish?"
I don't think its the first one.

Reposted by Katherine Perkins

Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 10d

#RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
Could yall help me repost this over 50x:
WASHINGTON DC 10/16/15 @ Politics and Prose at Union Market
Thank you!

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Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 12d

Understandable.

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 12d

When he was a senior in high school, and I was ... a freshman or sophomore (those years get fuzzy because i wanted out so bad), Theo VonKurnatowski was a very, very pretty boy.
::looks at youtube:: Time and grooming choices /do/ things. Especially the latter.

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 12d

Ack, sorry for the sudden interrogation. Brain integrating freezing-blackout memories and hurricane memories, and of course you know what those are like and are also dealing with it right now.

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 12d

Oh gosh. All the power with it? does your bedroom have windows?

...I hate to say it, but what kind of oven do you have?

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 12d

Managing somehow, and hoping the same for you!

We went to the same high school for one year (the school i desperately wanted to get out of and did). He was voted "Most Attractive." If he were still that pretty, I'd understand better why he's all over youtube.

Katherine Perkins @katherineperkins.bsky.social · 12d

Fantastic and flourished points by these young men.

I can just never get over the fact that Theo VonKurnatowski grew up to be a public figure.