Cath M 🍁
@catherloki.bsky.social
Yorkshire-Scot lassie in Glasgow.
Loki (myth & Marvel), Doctor Who, science fiction, Middle Earth, books, history, holidays, Scottish literature, Scots language (slightly lapsed), Cas Tigers, food, running, writing.
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Loki (myth & Marvel), Doctor Who, science fiction, Middle Earth, books, history, holidays, Scottish literature, Scots language (slightly lapsed), Cas Tigers, food, running, writing.
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Cath M 🍁
@catherloki.bsky.social
· Aug 2
Decided to pin some of my Haladriel fics seeing as that's my main fandom activity at the moment - apologies for the spam!
This won't be all of them - there are some that I often struggle to love (even though I wrote them 😂)
#Haladriel #myfanfics #mywriting
This won't be all of them - there are some that I often struggle to love (even though I wrote them 😂)
#Haladriel #myfanfics #mywriting
Another “everything I do is stupid and I want to disappear” phase starting to come on.
January 29, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Another “everything I do is stupid and I want to disappear” phase starting to come on.
Few things more annoying than working near someone who sighs every two minutes.
January 29, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Few things more annoying than working near someone who sighs every two minutes.
The people who actually use these ponds have REPEATEDLY said they’re fine with the existing policy.
The media establishment and trans-exclusionary grift Venn diagram being a circle really made them high on their own supply.
The media establishment and trans-exclusionary grift Venn diagram being a circle really made them high on their own supply.
I can confirm that Sex Matters has been refused permission to bring its anti-democratic, exclusionary, and bigoted challenge to the inclusive space at Hampstead Ponds. More to follow.
January 29, 2026 at 12:19 PM
The people who actually use these ponds have REPEATEDLY said they’re fine with the existing policy.
The media establishment and trans-exclusionary grift Venn diagram being a circle really made them high on their own supply.
The media establishment and trans-exclusionary grift Venn diagram being a circle really made them high on their own supply.
I can’t believe Labour are still using the same shitty argument (that ultimately harms students who DON’T have wealthy parents) that they were parroting 30 years ago.
January 29, 2026 at 11:36 AM
I can’t believe Labour are still using the same shitty argument (that ultimately harms students who DON’T have wealthy parents) that they were parroting 30 years ago.
This is both the best and worst thread I’ll read today and everyone else should read it too.
On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?
January 29, 2026 at 10:32 AM
This is both the best and worst thread I’ll read today and everyone else should read it too.
Speaking of fandom, I feel like I really suck at the things everyone else manages with ease. Sometimes I really do feel like I’ve gone back to the days of my school reports where many teachers noted I just got on with things quietly and barely noticed.
January 29, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Speaking of fandom, I feel like I really suck at the things everyone else manages with ease. Sometimes I really do feel like I’ve gone back to the days of my school reports where many teachers noted I just got on with things quietly and barely noticed.
Just saw another “LOTRs is the least gatekeeping fandom” comment and lol lmao. I wish I lived in your reality.
It’s true there are many welcoming people in Tolkien spaces but if you think there isn’t turbo-charged gatekeeping, you’ve not looked very hard…
It’s true there are many welcoming people in Tolkien spaces but if you think there isn’t turbo-charged gatekeeping, you’ve not looked very hard…
January 29, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Just saw another “LOTRs is the least gatekeeping fandom” comment and lol lmao. I wish I lived in your reality.
It’s true there are many welcoming people in Tolkien spaces but if you think there isn’t turbo-charged gatekeeping, you’ve not looked very hard…
It’s true there are many welcoming people in Tolkien spaces but if you think there isn’t turbo-charged gatekeeping, you’ve not looked very hard…
Deciding to ask someone to beta has definitely made me feel a bit more brutal when they say I don't need all that info. Just erased three huge chunks of writing in a section and barely felt anything, when a year ago I would've probably been sobbing the entire time. "But I needed that dialogue" 😂
January 28, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Deciding to ask someone to beta has definitely made me feel a bit more brutal when they say I don't need all that info. Just erased three huge chunks of writing in a section and barely felt anything, when a year ago I would've probably been sobbing the entire time. "But I needed that dialogue" 😂
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my only notes to people under 30: your 30s aren't for ditching fandom, they're for re-evaluating all the "cringe" stuff you liked as a teenager through the lens of someone who can appreciate it fully, going, "that owned, actually," and becoming even more unhinged about it. please look forward to it.
January 28, 2026 at 5:58 PM
my only notes to people under 30: your 30s aren't for ditching fandom, they're for re-evaluating all the "cringe" stuff you liked as a teenager through the lens of someone who can appreciate it fully, going, "that owned, actually," and becoming even more unhinged about it. please look forward to it.
Feels like there's way too much to try and fit into the S2 finale of Fallout. 8 episode seasons... this is some bullshit.
January 28, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Feels like there's way too much to try and fit into the S2 finale of Fallout. 8 episode seasons... this is some bullshit.
I commissioned @thatsouthernanthem.bsky.social to draw a scene from my Haladriel oneshot Metamorphosis.
(I asked for something from the smutty part and she picked perhaps the only moment where they're not biting/scratching/slapping/strangling each other 😂 But it's so lovely ❤️)
(I asked for something from the smutty part and she picked perhaps the only moment where they're not biting/scratching/slapping/strangling each other 😂 But it's so lovely ❤️)
January 28, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I commissioned @thatsouthernanthem.bsky.social to draw a scene from my Haladriel oneshot Metamorphosis.
(I asked for something from the smutty part and she picked perhaps the only moment where they're not biting/scratching/slapping/strangling each other 😂 But it's so lovely ❤️)
(I asked for something from the smutty part and she picked perhaps the only moment where they're not biting/scratching/slapping/strangling each other 😂 But it's so lovely ❤️)
One of my art commissions has come through today. Am at work so can’t faff around sharing it (too many colleagues around over my shoulder lol) but hopefully can share later and some folks will like it as much as I do 😊
January 28, 2026 at 2:25 PM
One of my art commissions has come through today. Am at work so can’t faff around sharing it (too many colleagues around over my shoulder lol) but hopefully can share later and some folks will like it as much as I do 😊
This whole thread just highlights how ridiculous the outrage machine is. Actually watching more than what YouTube grifters present to you would prove that many characters in Rings Of Power end up muddy and disheveled, but actually watching the show doesn’t generate clicks I guess.
Vi um vídeo de uma criatura no tiktok dizendo que a maquiagem do senhor dos anéis é perfeita, que vc consegue ver sujeira nos personagens e deduzir que eles estão sem banho faz um bom tempo. Ok, tem razão, isso é. Mas aí a pessoa usa isso para dizer que a série anéis de poder não tem isso. ⬇️
January 28, 2026 at 12:33 PM
This whole thread just highlights how ridiculous the outrage machine is. Actually watching more than what YouTube grifters present to you would prove that many characters in Rings Of Power end up muddy and disheveled, but actually watching the show doesn’t generate clicks I guess.
I don’t need training. I simply DO NOT want this shite.
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 10:51 AM
I don’t need training. I simply DO NOT want this shite.
Somehow knocked the gear stick into sixth getting out of the car last night, so that was an early morning thrill when I put the clutch down and hit the ignition button 🙃
January 28, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Somehow knocked the gear stick into sixth getting out of the car last night, so that was an early morning thrill when I put the clutch down and hit the ignition button 🙃
I was going through older photos just now and... I always worry about serious photographers on here perceiving me (because I'm mainly a silly fangirl/fic writing account) but a couple more favourites that I hadn't posted yet from my B&W Glasgow/Glasgow uni batch last year...
January 27, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I was going through older photos just now and... I always worry about serious photographers on here perceiving me (because I'm mainly a silly fangirl/fic writing account) but a couple more favourites that I hadn't posted yet from my B&W Glasgow/Glasgow uni batch last year...
Deciding to return to past tense (for the first time in months) for this fic was a mistake because it's taking me twice as long to think of how I want to say things 😩
January 27, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Deciding to return to past tense (for the first time in months) for this fic was a mistake because it's taking me twice as long to think of how I want to say things 😩
Robert Aramayo got TWO BAFTA nominations. Good for him 🎉
January 27, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Robert Aramayo got TWO BAFTA nominations. Good for him 🎉
The absolute worst thing about being a white millennial woman is knowing people claim I did all this bullshit when I did no such thing.
I was 10-11 when the first book came out and thought it was too young for me 🤷♀️ By that age, I preferred reading Dracula, Watership Down and War of the Worlds.
I was 10-11 when the first book came out and thought it was too young for me 🤷♀️ By that age, I preferred reading Dracula, Watership Down and War of the Worlds.
January 27, 2026 at 10:51 AM
The absolute worst thing about being a white millennial woman is knowing people claim I did all this bullshit when I did no such thing.
I was 10-11 when the first book came out and thought it was too young for me 🤷♀️ By that age, I preferred reading Dracula, Watership Down and War of the Worlds.
I was 10-11 when the first book came out and thought it was too young for me 🤷♀️ By that age, I preferred reading Dracula, Watership Down and War of the Worlds.
Welcome to the twelvetwentyteenth of January all 💀
January 27, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Welcome to the twelvetwentyteenth of January all 💀
Amazon has all the money in the world, is it too much to hope there's gonna be a TROP Super Bowl spot?
(Not that I'll be able to see it "live" because we don't get the ads, we get studio people trying to fill even more air because there's *another* commercial break 😂)
(Not that I'll be able to see it "live" because we don't get the ads, we get studio people trying to fill even more air because there's *another* commercial break 😂)
January 26, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Amazon has all the money in the world, is it too much to hope there's gonna be a TROP Super Bowl spot?
(Not that I'll be able to see it "live" because we don't get the ads, we get studio people trying to fill even more air because there's *another* commercial break 😂)
(Not that I'll be able to see it "live" because we don't get the ads, we get studio people trying to fill even more air because there's *another* commercial break 😂)
Being around 40 is awesome because you're like, "why is my boob itchy?" and Google is like, "idk, could be hormones, could be a DEATH SENTENCE."
😭
😭
January 26, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Being around 40 is awesome because you're like, "why is my boob itchy?" and Google is like, "idk, could be hormones, could be a DEATH SENTENCE."
😭
😭
My photos came back from the lab over the weekend and I think I was a wee bit obsessed with reflection when I was in Leith a couple of weeks ago...
January 26, 2026 at 6:57 PM
My photos came back from the lab over the weekend and I think I was a wee bit obsessed with reflection when I was in Leith a couple of weeks ago...
Changed my brain chemistry a bit when someone put into words that the reason why we're accused of being "paid shills" (from something innocuous like enjoying a TV show or film, right up to serious stuff - standing up for human rights) is because the people making the accusations are... being paid.
January 26, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Changed my brain chemistry a bit when someone put into words that the reason why we're accused of being "paid shills" (from something innocuous like enjoying a TV show or film, right up to serious stuff - standing up for human rights) is because the people making the accusations are... being paid.