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Kat McKatKat

@mckatkat.bsky.social

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I have many normal thoughts and feelings and parasocial friendships with ghosts. 5'11" Lestat truther. The most terrifying kind of preternatural monster: a person who liked Blood Canticle. (she/her)

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · Feb 10

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Making a proper pinned post that I can put stuff under! See this thread for book cover redesigns I do for fun, stuff I've written, and whatever else feels pin-able:

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 5h

Well, I remembered what that show is like correctly, but this time I'm profoundly aware of why everyone has been complaining about that one character being annoying for the past 20 years! It's not a deal-breaker but good God...

Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 6h

I am measuring it purely on enjoyment and "has it become too silly for me to enjoy it," and so far it is exactly what I remember: Smallville in a different font 😅

I'm going to bed before Spike shows up tonight, though!

Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 7h

I am really out of the habit of watching pre-hd non-remastered television. This does, unfortunately, look terrible! I'm nostalgic for MegaUpload right now.

(No apparently the version on Hulu isn't the remaster)

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 7h

In case you're unclear on which show I'm refusing to name, I did genuinely watch Cruel Intentions for the first time recently, and:

a woman in a black tank top is standing in front of a window in a room with a lamp .

ALT: a woman in a black tank top is standing in front of a window in a room with a lamp .

media.tenor.com

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 7h

Keep your hopes in the gutter. I did watch the first two seasons like ten years ago and wasn't enough of a fan to keep watching!

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 7h

I am starting a television show I barely remember I watched a tiny bit of the first couple seasons of a few years ago. With the first episode of season two.

...listen watching this is barely a good idea in the first place, in fact it's not- I just really recently enjoyed the film Cruel Intentions-

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 7h

I watched it twice. In a row. I watched it with my parents and then my brother showed up for the last 30 seconds so we just watched the whole thing again 🤣

Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 7h

Fully just Memnoch the Devil, The Remix, Kinda, Not Really But It Makes Me Laugh:

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 7h

She came down more nuanced on it after she realized people were using her jokes to rag on Meyer (basically: "it's a different genre, glad those teens have dark romance for their age group") BUT I know she saw New Moon and I would LOVE to know what her reaction to the end of that movie was!

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 9h

Nevermind, this is Gabrielle:

a man is standing in a doorway and says he 's not the messiah !

ALT: a man is standing in a doorway and says he 's not the messiah !

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 9h

If you don't understand Lestat's interactions with the Children of Darkness as a Monty Python sketch you read the book wrong. Graham Chapman as Lestat, Terry Jones as Armand please feel free to try to change my mind I'm not married to it.

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 9h

This isn't even Armand (it's... Laurent?) but I do think about this and just giggle to myself from time to time.

Armand is just standing next to them like 😐

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 9h

Listen I just really want these two actors to perform the Monty Python Parrot Sketch that is the Notre Dame scene I am a woman with basic, if not sane, needs okay-

a man with long hair is wearing a white tie

ALT: a man with long hair is wearing a white tie

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 9h

If you ever catch me not Lesmand posting know I'm Lesmand posting in my heart. Also my best friend is about to read TVL and I'm not going insane about it at all! ...I love them...

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 9h

me when I exist:

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 10h

AND THAT'S HOW I GOT INTO JUILLIARD!

Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 10h

With the new adaptation and my unintentional cosplay, now it's time to mention how much I do truly love this stupid Netflix short film by David Harbor from 2019 that was made for I think an audience of me and only me:

Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 10h

To be fair I did wear a green sweater and plaid pants today, making it kind of a whole Monster Mash situation I didn't really intend, but if I can only buy Monster shoes I suppose I must Mash, especially given its October.

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 10h

If you buy shoes that are supposed to be fashionably chunky but you buy them in a size 11 wide, you do unintentionally buy big ol' Frankenstein shoes, and I'm assuming the best solution to this is to embrace the Frankenstein shoe situation, but it wasn't really my initial intention!

Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 14h

I have the same question when it's night and I see Europe posting! Like even the furthest west of y'all are 5/6 hours ahead, I always see people posting at what must be 3am!

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 14h

...I guess they both often have beards and wear hats...?

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 21h

No one in a single Facebook comment section is capable of not getting at least one extremely fundamental basic fact about the book character appearance wrong while complaining complaining about the show casting.

Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote something I really like, that I'm not going to share with the thousand disclaimers I feel I probably should. Pretend I did:

Percussive Maintenance

A Dispatch to the Machine

mckatkat.substack.com

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 1d

Chef's kiss, perfection!

Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 1d

I mean he would probably be having a great time sitting around talking to hippies until the exact moment he starts having trouble with flashbacks from 2,000 years ago

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