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Katie Schenkel, Person

@katieschenkel.bsky.social

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Bestselling author. I write comics and games. Please read and play them respectively. she/they works. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.katieschenkel.com

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · Apr 29

The cat's finally out of the bag! My big project is The Catterfly Rider, a brand new fantasy YA series created by Kasia Babis and yours truly. A true dream project years in the making and a labor of love for both of us.

Book 1 comes out in Spring 2027, but I promise it's worth the wait. ❤️🐾

Photos of Katie Schenkel and Kasia Babis

Elizabeth Lazowski at Chronicle has acquired world English rights to The Catterfly Rider: First Flight by Katie Schenkel (l.), illustrated by Kasia Babis, a YA graphic novel about a teen in a kingdom where winged cats are ridden as mighty steeds, who must rescue her brother who has been kidnapped by an evil sorceress. Emily Daluga will edit; publication is slated for spring 2027. Claire Draper at Azantian Literary Agency represented the author, and Farley Chase at Chase Literary represented the illustrator in the two-book deal.

- from the Publisher's Weekly announcement

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 21h

This scene is especially so delightfully catty.

Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 21h

God, I love this play.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 23h

Preach

Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 23h

I'm shocked they actually called them victims

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Student Loan Payments @shinymothra.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s a secret: there’s not as many of them as they want you to think

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Student Loan Payments @shinymothra.bsky.social · 2d

How big a conspiracy theory is it that Trump’s staff is feeding him AI “news” to get him to sign off on whatever they want?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "They've had hundreds of people shot and then a guy like Pritzker or this low IQ mayor gets up -- the people are all against him. Beautiful Black women are wearing a MAGA hat last night on TV. And they said, 'We don't care who comes, just stop the crime.' They don't care if it's military."

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 1d

But also bonus points for anyone who gets my shirt without googling

Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 1d

Went out to Andersonville tonight. Got a new hat.

Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out Transit Tees for always having something Chicago related I want to buy.

Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 1d

Went out to Andersonville tonight. Got a new hat.

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 1d

The older sister in Totoro shouting "what if she dies, granny??" is emblazed in my mind

Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 1d

Even Totoro and Kiki are about different forms of grief

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 2d

Was just on @proghorrorpod.bsky.social last night and pre-recording we talked about this exact thing.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 3d

Why are we still paying Jared Leto to do things, I thought we learned our lesson about that

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 2d

AMEN.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 2d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 2d

Got the job that moved me to Chicago ten years ago this month.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks again for being our reference ❤️. This rescue knows us but still wanted to go through the process.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 4d

Santa Con

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 4d

It’s Banned Books Week, and I don’t need you to buy my book as a solve for it (but buy it if you want to! That’s still extremely cool of you)—I need you to show up for your public libraries and your schools!

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 4d

there was a point in time we were testing the happy hoodie to help keep mac calm in the back yard and it resulted in maybe the only good tiktok i’ve ever made

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 8d

Ooooh, this one hits hard because there's a specific company mentioned in these anecdotes that I applied to early in the year that made me do a lot of work before putting me off and eventually telling me I was TOO ambitious with the writing test.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 8d

Trying to find a job in video games right now is like crawling through hell:

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 6d

Seen random people be mean about it and like... She looks like a person! A person who has been through some shit! Good for her!

Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone else think Pamela Anderson's new look is really fucking rad?

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 6d

You should buy mine.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?