Kathryn
@fivefteditrix.bsky.social
Freelance editor, mostly of scholarly things; v. occasional feral Victorianist. Focusing on the mournful signage.
The face of a little criminal who hooked a paw into the savoury pastry I was eating *as it was on its way to my mouth* and swallowed a chunk before I could get it away from her. She had just had her own breakfast, natch.
(I: Maisie, no! Onions are bad for your liver.
She: [insolent snarfling])
(I: Maisie, no! Onions are bad for your liver.
She: [insolent snarfling])
June 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The face of a little criminal who hooked a paw into the savoury pastry I was eating *as it was on its way to my mouth* and swallowed a chunk before I could get it away from her. She had just had her own breakfast, natch.
(I: Maisie, no! Onions are bad for your liver.
She: [insolent snarfling])
(I: Maisie, no! Onions are bad for your liver.
She: [insolent snarfling])
Which reminds me, comrade: I have a cartoon for you.
April 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Which reminds me, comrade: I have a cartoon for you.
Letter of recommendation: small somnolent animals
April 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Letter of recommendation: small somnolent animals
They bully us into non-productivity for our own good, says mine
April 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
They bully us into non-productivity for our own good, says mine
Meanwhile, in WA, my brother's cat contemplates the situation and comes to the same conclusion as the rest of us.
April 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Meanwhile, in WA, my brother's cat contemplates the situation and comes to the same conclusion as the rest of us.
Maisie (who this morning knocked over the garbage and her food container, then went to lounge in the sink, where she knows she isn't supposed to be) approves of the naughtiness.
April 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Maisie (who this morning knocked over the garbage and her food container, then went to lounge in the sink, where she knows she isn't supposed to be) approves of the naughtiness.
A nice thing about small animals is that they exist wholly unperturbed by human stupidities of any kind.
April 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A nice thing about small animals is that they exist wholly unperturbed by human stupidities of any kind.
Here is the cat, who is a good little demon.
March 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Here is the cat, who is a good little demon.
Talking with a friend about the state of things, and the cat, listening from the corner, cannot quite believe it.
March 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Talking with a friend about the state of things, and the cat, listening from the corner, cannot quite believe it.
Timeline cleanse or whatever
March 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Timeline cleanse or whatever
There are edits that need to be done, but the cat is crashed out wither her head on the trackpad, and at this point in the devolution of things, work frankly doesn't seem important enough to justify disturbing her.
February 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
There are edits that need to be done, but the cat is crashed out wither her head on the trackpad, and at this point in the devolution of things, work frankly doesn't seem important enough to justify disturbing her.
My brother's cat capturing my own general mood at the moment.
February 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My brother's cat capturing my own general mood at the moment.
Feels like a Rothko kind of evening, doesn't it?
February 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Feels like a Rothko kind of evening, doesn't it?
Please enjoy this picture of my kid brother's cat, who, like many of us, has been staring into the void a lot lately and knows how that gets.
February 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Please enjoy this picture of my kid brother's cat, who, like many of us, has been staring into the void a lot lately and knows how that gets.
Here's a Gerhard Richter we saw at the AGO last summer, just because.
January 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Here's a Gerhard Richter we saw at the AGO last summer, just because.
(Maisie says it's okay to fail to do the work for a while longer)
January 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
(Maisie says it's okay to fail to do the work for a while longer)
Those boys (who are brothers) are my mother's; this little girl is mine.
January 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Those boys (who are brothers) are my mother's; this little girl is mine.
Please enjoy the sickening cuteness of these two fluffballs
January 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Please enjoy the sickening cuteness of these two fluffballs
How am I supposed to work like this, I ask you
January 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
How am I supposed to work like this, I ask you
I myself am already at the "incredibly drained and staring vacantly into space" stage, so don't take me as a model for how to deal with any of this. But Maisie, smarter than I, is here to remind you that there's no reason to let a few fash cretins keep you from relaxing and enjoying yourself.
January 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I myself am already at the "incredibly drained and staring vacantly into space" stage, so don't take me as a model for how to deal with any of this. But Maisie, smarter than I, is here to remind you that there's no reason to let a few fash cretins keep you from relaxing and enjoying yourself.
Maisie would agree.
January 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Maisie would agree.
Maisie says naps > news today.
January 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Maisie says naps > news today.