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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍

@catherloki.bsky.social
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Yorkshire-Scot lassie in Glasgow. Loki (myth & Marvel), Doctor Who, science fiction, Middle-earth, books, history, holidays, Scottish literature, Scots language (slightly lapsed), Cas Tigers, food, running, writing. Tumblr: supervillainarchaeologist

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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 50m
The way royal bootlickers will invoke tradition at every turn but are so incredibly wrong about whether it’s correct to refer to the current Queen as the Queen. I don’t like her either. But every Queen Consort in history was simply called Queen Whatever. Pipe doon.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 3h
Today is the first morning I got out of my car in Stirling and thought, “fucking hell, it’s cold here.”
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 12h
I was one of the BIGGEST cynics about this show btw. The advertising before series 1 was god awful. The very first cold open was meh. It wasn’t a good sell at all. Happy to be eating my words.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 12h
Rewatching all of SNL UK has reaffirmed my belief that we *whispers* might actually still be alright at this sketch comedy thing.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 12h
I hope that attitude eventually wins out, because atm it feels like in e.g. fanfic people don’t give a shit that a fic is AI generated so long as their faves kiss 😩
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 12h
The men’s football team certainly aren’t 😭
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 14h
Because I was there recently, I'm currently seeing how fucked up Crete is because of the weather they're having.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 14h
Scotland try not to be Scotland challenge (failed.)
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 14h
Unfortunately, I see/get recommended lots of LOTRs groups full of racists and misogynists who are just there to hate on TROP 😩
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 14h
That's a very healthy and hopeful way to look at it, and I do actually agree - it's just hard not to despair sometimes when you see so many people gleefully telling you that your creative skills are worthless because "everyone" can do it now.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 15h
All our entertainment is gonna be owned by like three guys and they're going to push for a slop machine making slop instead of human artists doing it. Just what is the point in even trying to be creative when people who deliberately don't understand art are in charge of everything?
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 16h
I hardly see anything from people I follow anymore and I think they just don't use it now, but ten days after they posted something... suddenly it appears in my feed 🙃
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 19h
Facebook needs to stop promoting running pages to me because I’m considering a marathon (the only distance my dad and sister have never done either) again.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 22h
I hope this progress will continue for you 🫂
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 22h
Sometimes I look at my exchange fic from earlier this year (basically the originator of some of my 2026 angst) and I’m so grateful my recipient loved it but I’ll never understand why the hits to kudos ratio is so bad. I know it doesn’t matter but to me, that suggests a lot of back buttoning 🙁
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I do stand by this part enough to post it here though.
It also never stops amusing me that people will claim that they find [ship or character] ridiculous or boring, yet they can't seem to stop talking about [ship or character] and whatever fans of [ship or character] are up to NOW, however obliquely. Like, there comes a point where you're actually a fan.
You're just in denial about it. Again, this isn't unique to one side of the fandom and if you think it is - your biases are winning.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
lol, this being relevant again...
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Me to my husband not long ago: Jefferey Archer was still alive? (Yes, I know he was still publishing books, but they're shit books so I just assumed someone was ghost writing them for idk, brand recognition or something.)
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And if you mean the stuff from his first tenure, everything I've said above makes me feel like the people who spoke out against him or the overall production during/after season one perhaps had a point, yeah.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Disney deal was BAD. Most Who fans are pretty scathing about that now, but the thing I don't get is... for the 60th it felt like *everyone* in the UK was watching something together again so allowing Disney to put episodes up almost an entire day before the broadcast was certainly a choice!
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think he's trying to make excuses because he can't accept the Billie thing was a load of shite. The 60th anniversary episodes were fairly well-received, yes. But I don't think they're ageing particularly great, and he probably thought, "bring back Rose" would be an instant winner based on those.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well, people have lost me but can enjoy all the fic they're publishing instead! Oh wait...
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As soon as I clocked, "not really a question but... " in lectures I knew most of them were full of shit 😂
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
lmao no, he was smart enough to not do what his father did and try to sneak in to my place on reputation, though I know St. Andrew's is fairly strict with its entry requirements too!
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
lol there was a dickhead in a pub one time during my second year who berated me for being northern as soon as I opened my mouth 🙄
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh yeah, we can't accept that classism is home grown enough by itself for some reason! 🙃
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(Also bemoaning this phenomenon in The Guardian... funny.) (Also, yes, regardless of Mr. Catherloki's experience, you CAN get asked, "what school did you go to?" in Scotland - but it's a very different question!)
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not that I don't sympathise with being asked, "what school did you go to?" (believe me, I very much do) but this is very much a symptom of the kind of uni, because I've had discussions with Mr. Catherloki about this and it just wasn't a thing at his uni Vs mine. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
To state school alumni starting university, I say this: be proud of your background | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Accusations of classism chime with my experience 20 years ago. So all hail the Bristol graduate awarding state schools red plaques, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh that looks amazing. I'd be looking a bit posh eating it with a knife and fork though 😂 I can't lift and bite into tower burgers without them falling apart.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I used to really like it, it does the job. But the Glasgow branch felt like it had really let itself go on our last visit. I swear you used to have way more choice for steak glazes for example.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Apparently! Though it was on the list of at-risk restaurants a couple of years ago.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 05/10/2026
Tom Morello is Black.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
VPN protects for now but I'm gonny have to find new and inventive back up ways to avoid tying my passport to my social media accounts because I do NOT trust this government to vet anyone who holds the data properly.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Omg I love it. The panel where Elrond is keeping a bedside vigil is so tender. This is canon to me now 🥲
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Guess how much work has been done on the chimney stacks since I posted this? That’s correct - absolutely fuck all!
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Love everything about this ❤️
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ve moved from depressed into acceptance that I’m just never gonna write ever again. I continued in defiance of the people who decided to try spread lies about me, but oop guess they finally won after all.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If we wanted steak now, we’d go somewhere a lot better but for two 20somethings in 2009 with hardly any money, it was great.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Aww TGI Fridays in the town is shutting. Now listen… it’s not a great restaurant and last time I went there it had somehow got worse but when Mr. Catherloki and I first got together we went there a lot because it’s a short walk away from Central (we were long distance) and steak we could afford.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I can believe this too sadly. I wasn’t enthusiastic about the project but I felt like there was a lot more genuine passion behind it than the Gollum film, and obviously Colbert has upset the right (wrong? Guess it depends on perspective) people too often lately.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Of course this postponement has brought all the, “Rings of Power doesn’t understand the source material and has destroyed Middle-earth adaptations” comments out of the woodwork again and oh I just know most of those people have NOT read Unfinished Tales 🙄
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Really feared waking up to some wank after my verbal unloading yesterday afternoon but I guess not tagging it with anything helped 😆
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They saw SNL UK was on a break this week and decided to throw the kitchen sink at everything.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why they hell was the regular SNL Weekend Update nearly 20 minutes long this week?!
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pity the rest of us have to suffer the consequences.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sometimes you just gotta reluctantly accept that most people, regardless of country, love fascism I guess 🙃
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I understand. I feel like everything has become so much nastier in the UK since 2016 and I'm really worried about our next general election.
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm sorry friend 🫂
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good luck with that, hopefully something will turn up! But the offer is genuinely open (and open-ended) if you do really want Morgoth's Ring sooner - with the estimated weight of the book, Royal Mail Tracked International isn't as bad as I was expecting!
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Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wondering if it'd be just cheaper for me to buy a copy and post it as a private citizen lol.
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