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Cat Fitzpatrick

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I am a lady, but first and foremost I'm an idiot Typesetter & Editrix @littlepuss.net // Author of The Call-Out: A Novel in Rhyme

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 22d

people on the internet may not know I have taste

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1h

Ok my follow-up question is is this one of those weird preserved American pronounciations from 1780 or is it a mutation from like 1901

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1h

This is a really good description of a dad

Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1h

Yes precisely this does not pass the smell test

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 1h

very prim, very demure

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1h

It is not the first of april ingrid what is happening!

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1h

This cannot be true this is a joke this is weirder than aluminum

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1h

Wait no is this true would you guys (Americans) actually say, like, sweet's anglo-saxon primmer?

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7h

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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nobody @granddad.bsky.social · 20h

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 5h

it's grandma's little helper sloane

Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 9h

there's always tea and claret everything is ok

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A l i c e @astoehr.bsky.social · 1d

i try to temper my nostalgia impulse, i certainly have my critiques & my rolling of eyes as i skim, but also... there are Many Real Reasons that people with money & power have spent decades buying, flaying, & gutting any papers like this

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

I mean listen, as actually deployed 99% of it is just ballad meter, so if you wanted to drag me you could say that, but I do use 3 or 0 offbeats judiciously a few times I swear

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 1d

when we publish The Cat Fitzpatrick Criticism Reader in 2055 we will solve this debate once and for all…

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Emma Addams @emma-addams.bsky.social · 1d

we should change egg to faceless furby

Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

It's a furby with its face ripped off! According to Julie Blair, who designed the cover, this is what Maria thinks James H is

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

omg this is so nice! THANK U @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social // CARDS ON THE TABLE THOUGH The Call-Out is in tetrameter but it is *not* in iambics it is in sprung rhythm // my position is that this is not cheating but a choice // wild speed varitation ftw

Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 1d

We love @catfitzpatrick.net, we love @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social, Hive Mind loves Cat, and we we all love rhyme schemes.

3) I finally read The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick and had the absolute very best time I've had with a book in a while. The whole novel is written in Onegin stanzas, which is in iambic tetrameter. Wikipedia, handily, has the rhyme scheme: aBaBccDDeFFeGG. For starters, simply being held by this meter and rhyme was like being rocked in the gentlest of cradles. The reliable rhythm was a lullaby for this addled mind. (This is also why I like a lot of older country music, I've come to understand.) And then second: the book is just damn fun. Cat is hilarious, and the book revolves around a group of queer and trans women in Brooklyn. Hijinks, hookups, and social disasters ensue! What a gift to spend time with such perfectly delightful literature. Cat can friggin write. "

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

they are out there! now the difficult thing is to get hold of the hardback

Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

WAAIT *you* don't have a first edition copy of Nevada? THIS IS WRONG this must be corrected

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

yeah U changed the world no joke

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

a cactus, Riley? a fucking cactus? they got all those big 5 bucks and that's the best they could come up with?

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

ME TOO IT IS SO GOOD

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

the speaker cone is because Maria can't shut up and the poppies are for the heroin

Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

I have become a repository of secret lore help

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

It's a furby with its face ripped off! According to Julie Blair, who designed the cover, this is what Maria thinks James H is

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

yah the way they work is you put 10 in the middle, then 9 on the left, then 8 on the right, out to 1 on the left and 2 on the right, and that's the first printing. For second printing remove the 1, so the biggest number is now the 2, and so on. So a second printing looks like this, for instance:

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