CE (Catie) Murphy

CE (Catie) Murphy

@cemurphy.bsky.social

Writer, mostly of novels. She/her. CatieMurphy.com for aaaaalllll the books. Please join my newsletter, too! https://BookHip.com/BZQWLZL

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Having once more succumbed to the idea that I might sew something, I finally took @leahmoore.bsky.social's advice & used the #SnagTights voucher I bought during the pandemic. Dismayed to report they fit as well as advertised & that I may now actually HAVE to sew things to go with all my new tights.

Kate Strasdin@katestrasdin.bsky.social

She is gilded to within an inch of her life, the black wool highlighting the surfeit of gold dripping from Schiaparelli’s late #1930s evening jacket. Part couched goldwork, part rhinestone studs, all the sparkles @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

I went to see a new, local PT today. She's not as good as my regular PT who lives on the other side of the country, but she's good enough for regular maintenance. Not unrelatedly, boy does my armpit hurt now.

Jesus, no wonder my armpit hurts (I'm very pale so bruise dramatically anyway, but my lymph nodes are also still a bit tender from the covid shot two weeks ago and this is worse than usual. It really hurts and I'm extremely pathetic right now.)

I didn't know until yesterday that Koenig and Takei were such good friends that Koenig was Takei's best man at his wedding. For some reason it made me that much sadder. Goodbye, Chekov. 💔

I've become cautious of buying ebooks without reading a bit first, so I have a lot of previews on my e-reader. Mostly if I like them I put them on my wishlist to buy all at once later. Today I read the preview of @nghivo.bsky.social's THE SCARLET BALL & had to immediately buy it. 😁

It's utterly sumptuous. It's borderline horror, right on the line I can cope with. The worldbuilding is *fascinating*. The descriptions just make me sit there staring going "how does she even do that." It's beautiful. I'm a third of the way through & have no hesitation recommending it!

CE (Catie) Murphy reposted

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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Replying to @alepresser.com

YES, THE SHOULDERS. There's always a way to be HOT without the classic male gaze. 💅🏻

MJW@the-lazyknight.bsky.social

I have not yet read the update, but... PpfffffFftttt THOSE SHOULDERS! ALE, that's a fricking awesome teaser...

😍😍😍😍😍

Ale@alepresser.com

🚨 ATTENTION EVERYONE 🚨 This is not a drill! Family Demons, the new webcomic by @kbspangler.com and myself, will start publishing every Friday, free-to-read, from October 30th! 👟💫 familydemons.com

Ted is home from his gaming convention & is shattered. I went to see a new PT & am shattered. We discussed ordering Chinese for dinner; Dad said he'd have leftover stew, & Indy said he'd have frozen fish & chips*. Ted: ...should we just fend for ourselves? Me: Yes. By ordering Chinese. :)

Update: at no point did the sleepies hit, so I have remained very pleased with everything. 😁

CE (Catie) Murphy@cemurphy.bsky.social

I have made and eaten an egregious number of pancakes (though the former number is considerably larger than the latter) which I will probably regret in half an hour when the sleepiness of it hits me, but right now I'm very pleased with everything. :)

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And everybody will say "it cannot happen here" or "our city isn't like that", but it has happened elswhere too -- this is not a one-off:

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved public transit, not only did it TRANSFORM the city’s public life and economic success, but the car traffic got better. The car traffic got BETTER.

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🚨 BREAKING: Democrats asked a federal court to throw out the DOJ's unprecedented lawsuit that seeks to preemptively block certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if the Republican incumbent loses.

If they're unrealized they shouldn't be seen as billionaires, either. :p

Basic Income Action ↗️@basicincomeaction.org

Billionaires say their wealth is just unrealized gains and can't be taxed. Yet somehow the ultra-wealthy found nearly half a billion in cash to influence this year's midterms. #TaxBillionaires support #UniversalBasicIncome

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Serbia's longtime leader Aleksander Vučić has been swept out of power by a historic student-led opposition movement, sparked by the collapse of a train station in 2024. The Student List "wiped out" other opposition parties, says journalist Lela Vujanić.

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Reese and Hicks from"Terminator" and "Aliens." It's a multiverse situation. Reese is what happens if Sarah Conner loses and Skynet wins. Hicks is what happens if Sarah wins and Skynet gets wrecked. That they are played by the same actor is totally incidental.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social

Name two characters you think are the same person.

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Jeremy Renner's characters from THE HURT LOCKER, THE BOURNE LEGACY, and the Marvel films are all the same guy. He got back from being a bomb disposal guy in Iraq, got sucked into a super soldier black op, broke loose from CIA control, and went to work for SHIELD.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social

Name two characters you think are the same person.

I have made and eaten an egregious number of pancakes (though the former number is considerably larger than the latter) which I will probably regret in half an hour when the sleepiness of it hits me, but right now I'm very pleased with everything. :)

Okay, one of my friends elsewhere said she was scrolling & glimpsed this & thought "OMG have i finally found a #Marvel coloring book for adults focusing on character moments instead of big action scenes?!?" so now I'm over the MOON 😍

CE (Catie) Murphy@cemurphy.bsky.social

All right. I'd like to try to add some proper shading but it's done-ish. I'm not a good enough artist to clean it up anymore without losing the energy. I know that that's partly a matter of practice, but I'm trying to decide if I'm... allowed...to call something this sketchy a style. :p #CatieDraws

I see from the comments here that I wasn't the only one whose second thought was "was this on purpose?" (My first was "jesus is everybody okay?")

Alaska Public Media@alaskapublic.org

Alaska’s Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola and her family suffered minor injuries Saturday in a car crash while driving to a campaign stop in Anchorage, her campaign said.

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Yacht owners will be living in a Far Side cartoon where the whales are all “Hold on, these things just crumple? Have they been like this the whole time?”

andré carrington@andrecarrington.bsky.social

I kind of love that both sperm whales and orca have got the memo about attacking yachts. Imagine the little antifa orca clique finding out somebody from a different *species* thinks your tactics are not only justified but commendable? And it's not humans? There's no way they're going to stop

Wow, wow, WOW.

Euronews@euronews.com

This is not simply a change of government. It is the collapse of a political order that has defined Serbia since 2012. #EuropeNews ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/mbhn

All right. I'd like to try to add some proper shading but it's done-ish. I'm not a good enough artist to clean it up anymore without losing the energy. I know that that's partly a matter of practice, but I'm trying to decide if I'm... allowed...to call something this sketchy a style. :p #CatieDraws

I have to stop working on this so I can cook dinner, so I'm posting it bc that's like a "dune for now" things, I guess #CatieDraws

CE (Catie) Murphy@cemurphy.bsky.social

masks are impossible to draw and I'm unbelievably impressed with anyone who can do this regularly and not have it just look stupid. #CatieDraws

This actually struck me a few days ago about GenX in particular. We've been obliged to learn completely new tech every few years for virtually our entire lives anyway and I suddenly realised that an enormous percentage of my generation probably figures, why should this be any different?

Spoonbill@evildrorange.bsky.social

I think a lot of these older artists assume it's just the latest in a long line of new artistic tools they've spent their lives having to adapt to, and assume the backlash is the same as what happened with those tools as well

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Read 🧵 & piece "My argument is not that Trump wouldn’t do anything illegal or unconstitutional...It matters that there is no constitutional or legal pathway to martial law bc it means there is no avenue for Trump to exploit, no realistic mechanism for him to abuse, NO LEVER TO PULL." (Emphasis mine)

Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social

The Right’s Fascistic Fever Dreams Are a Sign of Weakness MAGA wants us to believe that Trump can simply declare “martial law” and wipe away the system - but it’s just not true. A threat assessment before the midterms. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

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Replying to @thomaszimmer.bsky.social

I have very little patience for doomsaying and catastrophizing. The assertion of irresistible power is itself a key element of the authoritarian assault. We must not help them perpetuate it by giving in to pseudo-savvy cynicism and defeatism.

I've spent the past couple of days feeling like I'm coming down with a cold, though not progressing past feeling like I'm coming down with one, & today I have an absolutely *murderous* headache. I can probably pin the latter on the UNBELIEVABLE WIND STORM, and possibly the former, too. It's so dry.