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carterhaugh.bsky.social
katy bond
@carterhaugh.bsky.social
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they/she? sff writer, poet, little lad who likes berries and cream

words and even sentences in Strange Horizons, and now Kaleidotrope

"stop! stop singing Child Ballad 216: Clyde Waters!" you cry. but i am singing too loudly and with too much pathos
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finished a zine for the first time in a long time - this isn't the addams family zine i teased before but it IS an addams family zine. and the other one is still happening. eventually. calling this $3? dm for my venmo or reply if my dms are accidentally closed again when u read this
cover of my zine. it says "se addams hiwscipe - fragments from the sonnenfeld MS, circa 1991." it features the cover of a medieval hymnal (i think?) on which i have replaced mary and jesus with morticia and wednesday on the right, a drawing of Gomez Addams in my approximation of a medieval art style, with Thing next to him, looking like a manicule. on the left, the text reads "Scēawa hīe. For hiere ic wille sweltan. For hiere ic wille cwellan. Bām tha wegum bēon bliss." Because I am unsure how a screen reader will interpret those sounds, and it may be difficult to look the words up without seeing them, I will add that this is, to the best of my ability, an Old English translation of the words "Look at her. I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss."
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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new sweater COMPLETE AT LAST but my phone grip broke and it looks weird so i covered it with a ribbon seal
bathroom mirror selfie of me in a spiral sweater that i crocheted. i used green and brown yarn in various shades. as mentioned in the caption, there's an image of a ribbon seal covering part of my phone and hand.
March 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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I'M ON A ROLL - TWO NEW ZINES PRINTED AT THE LIBRARY, EVERYBODY SAY THANK YOU LIBRARIES - bittersweet body positive zine / 3 very short weird stories based on the gregory berrycone post / name your price in my DMs, suggested price $1
cover of a zine showing a torn bit of a snack nutrition label in a decorative frame. the zine is titled "Price tag fragment, c. 21st century" cover of a zine titled "Pulling a Gregory Berrycone." the subtitle is "Three Short Works of Fan Fiction for a Meme," with "a meme" crossed out and replaced with "an unpublished masterpiece." The subtitle is written inside the silhouette of a head with a knob on the back.
March 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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I FINISHED MY FIRST ZINE AND MADE COPIES AT THE LIBRARY dm me if you want one. these are $1 or if we're friends or you can't afford it or something you can just have one
front of my zine. it's photocopied on printer paper. it shows the title "Oulipo Ballads" and a block printed illustration of a bird-headed person in a dress interacting with a rabbit-headed person in a cape and a ruff collar. back of my zine. text is in Garamond. it reads "The ballads contained in this zine were transcribed from field recordings in the year 3429, having weathered centuries of music trends, remixes, ironic revivals, sincere necromancy, and linguistic drift. Unfortunately, the wax cylinders on which the songs were recorded melted, and my time machine was repossessed, so I've had to take some liberties with the transcription. Using the Oulipian n+7 method, I believe I have faithfully recreated the ballads of the 35th century. Try this method yourself: replace each noun in a text of your choice with the 7th (or 2nd, or 10th, or 100th, etc.) noun following it in a dictionary of your choice. You may attempt this method with adjectives, verbs, or other parts of speech, but please wear protective clothing while doing so."
February 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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confirming that you should read this beautiful story if you haven't (relevant mammoth for scale)
me, shown from the nose up, balancing a large white plush mammoth on top of my head
February 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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As You Know Bob i'm obsessed with Child ballad 216 Clyde Waters and have recreated this scene in several forms over the years including tattoo (well I sketched the tattoo, Lua at Crimson Tattoo in KC actually did it and made it look beautiful) and very amateur embroidery. next i think is puppetry
an embroidery hoop with a grey t-shirt in it. the embroidered image is a pale figure with light brown hair on a black horse riding over the stylized waves of a river. the figure has dropped his hat and is reaching backward to catch it. yellow stars are in the background. text embroidered in the sky and water reads "fare thee well, adieu" the same scene of a man reaching back to catch his dropped hat as he rides a horse through water. this time it's a tattoo in a much more detailed woodcut style. the waves are rolling, the shading is hatched, there are still stars in the sky.
February 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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i need to be posting more fiber stuff so i can find the knitters and crocheters of bluesky. look at this bunny i made
A crochet rabbit, made mostly of sparkly taupe brown yarn, with a white tail. The background has been blurred so the junk on my desk is less distinct
January 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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this flatland (e. a. abbot, 1884) erasure is from 2021 but i still like it
An erasure poem. The text has been painted over, and now reads "My happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space: Imagine a vast sheet of power rising hard and luminous -- my country, Alas, my universe. In such a country, Nothing was visible, nor could be visible, to us, except the necessity of this: your eye -- exactly on the edge -- a straight line." Painted on top of the text in neon colors are stars, and two hands almost clasping. An original illustration from the book is also preserved, which shows a triangle rotating in space until it appears to be a line.
January 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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mammoth for scale
China Miéville's book, "October: the Story of the Russian Revolution," next to a big white plush woolly mammoth
January 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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expressing my enjoyment of a book by putting line stickers on it like nikolai gogol is my kpop bias
"A Place Bewitched and Other Stories" by Nikolai Gogol, edited by Natasha Randall, translated by Constance Garnett. The cover is white with small black and orange drawings alluding to the stories within. These drawings include people, horses, thorns, branches, a cross, a hand, and a nose. The same book, but I have stuck digital stickers all over the image, such as hearts and rainbows.
January 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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looking fresh in 10 fahrenheit with the help of Friend-Knit Mittens. you know what they always say about Friend-Knit Mittens: my friend made them, and they're nice
My arm, wearing a red corduroy coat-sleeve and a navy blue knit mitten with a rabbit design in duplicate stitch. The arm is holding a copy of The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen. It's a large book. Snow in the background, and a leafless bush.
January 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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the Old Growth Alchemy / @catvalente.bsky.social collab tea is so red and so smoky and so good
Black packet of tea. The tea label says "Deathless: a tea collaboration with Catherynne M. Valente." The brewed tea, a reddish-brown color, in a mug shaped like a unicorn.
January 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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new shirt designed by one of my best friends in the universe, he's not on bsky but he does have a website www.rivercitykidco.com/ full disclosure i'm not even a soccer fan i just would die for his art
Picture of my torso. I'm wearing a teal shirt featuring art of a soccer ball riding an ocean wave. The shirt says "Kansas City Current: Makin' waves and takin' names."
January 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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what's wrong babe you haven't touched your Dark Honey by Martin Simpson Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr
Screenshot of my Spotify app showing I'm listening to Dark Honey from the Murmurs album by Simpson, Cutting, and Kerr
January 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Meme template featuring Jason from The Good Place, gazing desperately at a poster which has been replaced with a Peanuts comic. In panel 1 of the comic, Snoopy types the single word "The" on his typewriter. In panel 2, he thinks, "A good writer will sometimes search hours for just the right word." Caption has been edited to say "Oh, Snoopy, we're really in it now."
December 14, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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note from like two years ago in my writing-ideas-and-planning journal: "What about the sister? -> Well, maybe just figure it out as you go." i'm sure this worked out great for me because i have no idea what i'm referring to here
Note on gridded paper reading "What about the sister? Well, maybe just figure it out as you go."
December 4, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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whose fault is it that i put off reading this book for so long? i would like to have a word with - *gets a call on my bluetooth headset* what? MY fault? no, you must be mistaken
China Miéville's The City and the City, on my quilt, in the dark, because I finished it in the middle of the night last night
December 4, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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best friend made these also. sometimes i'm so afraid of damaging the things friends make me that i avoid using them. but i remember that when i make people things, i WANT them to use them. if they wear them threadbare, that's a huge compliment. so i wear and use the things
me wearing handknit socks in the colors of the lesbian flag
December 3, 2024 at 5:08 AM
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Starting my next submission off with one of these bad boys
an illuminated letter A in a manuscript, with a red dragon in the center
December 1, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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THE crochet tie. created by THE best friend
My torso. I'm wearing a short sleeved button up with a bird pattern, and a white crocheted necktie with speckles of lavender, yellow, and peach.
August 29, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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new social media new excuse to post my mini-playlist of songs that inspired me as i was writing "The Merry Abortion, or the Song of the Deed of Rue" (published in @strangehorizons.bsky.social 2022!) is it weird to promo your writing when it's not "new" anymore? well, reader, maybe it's new to you 🐇
a playlist. the songs on it include "reynardine" as sung by archie fisher, "tam lin" as sung by anaïs mitchell, "captain wedderburn" as sung by great big sea, "red haired mary" as sung by dervish, "sir james the rose" as sung by steeleye span, "willie's lady" as sung by anaïs mitchell, and "hares on the mountain" as sung by shirley collins
August 6, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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got so excited i collaged about it @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
August 6, 2024 at 8:53 PM