I’m Katherine, I like talking about books, Greek mythology, history, fictional sapphics, and deep-rooted societal issues.
fantasy books are everything to me (and mostly what I post about) but I will read just about anything, with the exception of self-help books and the Bible.
Currently reading: A Day of Fallen Night, If You Could See the Sun
Currently obsessed with: The Bone Season
your favourite person’s least favourite person
British in the whimsical, pride and prejudice, green party way
secretly a Paige Mahoney stan account
mentally living in a Hozier song
an atheist with an appreciation for ecclesiastical architecture
wishing I was in Paris right now
tortured poets welcome
wuthering heights (2026) apologists will be persecuted
ai users will be burnt at the stake
I like to write really long posts about tiny details in fantasy books, probably because I took GCSE English Lit too seriously.
Please feel free to send me random asks; if you’ve been following my blog for a while you will know I love to give my opinion on things.
Reading goal: 38/84 (my goodreads)
Favourite books: The Bone Season, The Secret History, His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Bell Jar, Wuthering Heights, Magnolia Parks, Daisy Jones & The Six, Binding 13, Happy Place, Six of Crows, The Song of Achilles, literally anything by Ali Hazelwood
Favourite artists: Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Gracie Abrams, Hozier, Halsey, Bastille, Maisie Peters, Florence + The Machine, Laufey, The 1975, Cigarettes After Sex, Arctic Monkeys, Marina and The Diamonds, Noah Kahan
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Please stop naming fantasy men things like Kaelthorn Vaelrith Shadowbane and then making him emotionally identical to a guy named Tyler who punches drywall.
I just love that Wendell Bambleby is a faerie king who specialises in household tasks of all things. finally, a male love interest who doesn’t have shadow magic and can’t read minds, but instead seems to spend most of his time darning socks, tidying up, and just generally fussing
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Your protagonist's flaw isn't supposed to be charming. If readers find the flaw endearing, it's not actually costing the character anything, which means it's not a flaw, it's a personality quirk wearing a flaw's clothes. A real flaw should make the reader wince a little, should make them go "please don't do that" and then watch the character do it anyway. That wince is the whole point of writing one.
"Why do you write morally complex love interests??"
Because a man who is gentle DESPITE being dangerous is more interesting than a man who is dangerous BECAUSE he is broken. I have given this thought. Too much thought. Goodnight.
Paige spending 75% of the Dark Mirror pining for Arcturus, hating the fact that she can’t be close to him and stuck in a constant state of guilt because she thinks she’s ruined things between them, just to break down and confess her feelings to him after he touches her one (1) time is the level of yearning I now expect from all fictional romances. step it up, authors
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the absolute devastating intimacy of a forehead rest. when you are both just so tired from existing in a world that demands you to be a rigid, functional individual, and you finally collapse into each other and just lean your forehead against theirs, or against their shoulder. it’s the physical equivalent of dropping your shields. it’s saying i am entirely heavy right now, and i am trusting you to bear a piece of that weight. and the most beautiful part is that the other person doesn’t even flinch. they just adjust their stance, tuck you a little closer, and absorb the impact. we were designed to divide the burden of being alive.
The Bone Season has seriously ruined me for all other books because I’ll be reading about the bullshit another male love interest is pulling and just thinking “Arcturus would never”
Karys and Ferain from Asunder by Kerstin Hall, based on Klimt's The Kiss. First: Original colors, Second: Experiment with gradient mapping.
Post-work coffee and some doodling while watching tv - I'm not sure if this is exactly what I wanted it to look like - I like it but may take another run at it at some point in the future, restarting with the sketch phase. I think I had just a little too much fun making all the little marks, lmao.
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I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.
I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.
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