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Katherine Traylor

@katherinetraylor.bsky.social
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US-born fantasy writer currently based in Prague. She/her. ⛥🌕⛥ 🏳️‍🌈 Website: katherinetraylor.com

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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My thoughts on Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (which I loved): 0katherine.neocities.org/book_notes/w...
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🌿 A Commonplace Boke
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From tonight's Hookland talk on Re-enchantment as Resistance at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. 'Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom.' #FolkloreThursday
Folklore can ignite enchantment within us. Enchantment that fuels our imaginations. Enchantment that shifts our consciousness, allows us to envisage new and better worlds. It begins the process of manifesting the changes we desire. Re-enchanted, the world is full of new, feral possibilities. Re-enchanted our imagination is an accessible superpower. 

The stories we intentionally absorb, the stories we select to tell ourselves, they allow us to live in the world differently. They allow us to make and remake the world differently.

Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom. We need this space. We ache for the sublime. For re-enchantment is an assertion of wonder and the numinosity of our relationships with landscape. Re-enchantment is an assertion of our collective ability to both imagine and experience better worlds. As a refusal of despair, as a lensing of hope. In re-enchantment we stop dreaming of inevitable apocalypse and find the permissive space to tell stories of hope.

Re-enchantment is personal metamorphosis. The space in which we grow glowing red eyes to patrol our communities against this long night of authoritarian pisspuffinry. The space in which we develop iron-hard fur, immune to the curses reductionist racists, misogynists, homophobes and AI cultists throw at us. Re-enchantment as the permissive circle where we can voyage into ourselves and find the marvels and bravery we need to deal with this age of violent bruising. This is why I walk the territory of folklore. Wear my witch-cloak of swan feathers, hold hag stone to my eye. This is why I created Hookland as a home for stories, a community for Fully-grown Changelings.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is sounding a whole lot like people are being murdered.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yes. It does not matter if you think the Kennedy Center is bougie: private individuals do not get to destroy public goods. If you budge one iota on this stance, then you lose the right to object when he demands bits of the national parks as a treat. You've already agreed with him on the principle.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 31/08/2026
Still cracking up over the idea of a movie asking "What if Scrooge had a point," because A) he didn't and B) it's not as if we haven't already had the entire run of DuckTales to explore this question
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Congratulations to MapQuest for becoming the #1 navigation app in the App Store. And thanks for being the navigation app of the resistance! ✊
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chrisjuhn.bsky.social @chrisjuhn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I witnessed Spider-Man going into action yesterday in Minneapolis. He rode in on the back of a muscle car. Then leaped onto the pickup, right before unleashing a hail of fists onto his nemesis, Jake Lang, Jayden Scott, and their minions.
A man dressed as Spider-Man attacked Jake Lang and Jayden Scott on the back of a pickup truck.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is my group! I hope you'll check it out. My story is a comic-book-inspired not-quite-novella about supervillain family drama. 🦹🦸‍♀️🦹‍♀️
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This was my immediate thought on hearing this. I'm sure a motorcycle could also outrun Usain Bolt.
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Writers who sell more books than me say it’s best to stick to a “niche” and I think they shut up and stick to being DORKS.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I dreamed there was a mineral called "apocrypha" that you could buy at crystal shops. It looked like white marble or ceramic, with little dark scribbly marks that turned out to be the remnants of prehistoric drawings.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I just watched the 1995 'Street Fighter' for the first thing and it was the most gloriously silly thing I've seen in years.
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Bad Movies Rule Street Fighter Movie
Alt: Raul Julia as Bison in 1995's Street Fighter movie clenching his fists and yelling "Game! Over!"
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A really cute bird talking in bird language.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I just looked up a photo to check a detail after months of working on an Edwardian period piece about a haunted rocking horse, and WHAT DO YOU MEAN bow rockers had mostly been replaced by "safety stands" by the 1910s? How can it creak ominously through the house at night if it's on a SAFETY STAND?
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This was always going to be the next step.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The cruelty is the point.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
White House announces plans to kill a whole lot of innocent people.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/07/2026
The rise in rulings on the “shadow docket” has been driven, at least in part, by Trump’s losses in lower courts. “The patterns show a court going out of its way to enable Trump,” one scholar said. “That’s the real blow to the court’s credibility.”
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A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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European Environment Agency @eea.europa.eu · 17/07/2026
Trees act like natural air conditioners, and they do it in two ways: Shade: They block the sun from hitting the ground. Active cooling: This is the cool science part. Trees "sweat" by releasing water into the air.
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
California Tribe Sues Feds for Planned Mass Removal of Wild Horse Herd on Ancestral Lands. nativenewsonline.net/environment/...
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Tribe Sues Feds for Planned Mass Removal of Wild Horse Herd on Ancestral Lands
A California tribe is suing the federal government to stop the removal of more than 600 wild horses from its homelands. The Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe of the Benton Paiute Reservation filed a federal...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/07/2026
The Trump administration filed 32 appeals to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket in 2025 alone, one analysis found. The Obama and George W. Bush administrations filed just eight petitions in 16 years, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
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A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
California has transferred a 136-acre piece of coast in Mendocino known as Blues Beach to a tribal nonprofit, returning stewardship of the bluffs, shoreline and cultural sites to the descendants of the Indigenous people who lived there for generations. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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California returns stretch of coast to Indigenous tribes. 'This is beyond huge'
State transportation officials recently approved the transfer of Blues Beach and the surrounding bluffs to Kai Poma, a nonprofit founded by representatives of the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians,...
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Weatherwatch: Cleaner clouds may slow rate of global heating: Study shows falling dust levels are making clouds more reflective, an effect not taken into account in climate models Cleaner clouds are helping to slow the rate of global heating, a study shows. Falling levels of dust in the a...
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Weatherwatch: Cleaner clouds may slow rate of global heating
Weatherwatch: Cleaner clouds may slow rate of global heating: Study shows falling dust levels are making clouds more reflective, an effect not taken into account in climate models Cleaner clouds are helping to slow the rate of global heating, a study shows. Falling levels of dust in the a...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Remember scientists aren’t giving up. After the Trump administration redirected Climate.gov and dismissed many of the federal employees who maintained it, former staff members launched a new independent website called Climate.us to help keep trusted climate information available to the public.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
My dad liked the Beatles and Hot Rize. My mom liked (and still likes) BB King, Buena Vista Social Club, Manu Chao, and CAKE. But they had a collection of 80s new age CDs (Narada compilations, Fresh Aire, Tangerine Dream) that formed the basis of my personal taste.
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I think one of the reasons I love seeing good writing news is because that means that people—despite everything going on—are still creating art. Like that’s a good thing.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This seems bad.
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European Environment Agency @eea.europa.eu · 20/06/2026
🌡️ Help us start this weekend's most important conversation about the risks from, and solutions to, climate change! The climate stripes by professor Ed Hawkins have since 2018 become a powerful way to visualise, in a single image, the story of a warming world.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“Missouri Republicans are taking an ax to Dolly Parton’s signature initiative. The state’s decision to freeze enrollment in Parton’s Imagination Library, which offers free books to kids, comes at a perilous time for children’s literacy.” www.ms.now/opinion/doll...
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Opinion | Missouri Republicans are taking an ax to Dolly Parton's signature initiative
The state’s decision to freeze enrollment in Parton’s Imagination Library, which offers free books to kids, comes at a perilous time for children’s literacy.
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Theo @theokane.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Monstrilio is about an entire gay family and their gay monster son. First half is baby monster problems and the second when he gets on Grindr.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
We must fight this volcanic eruption/radiation leak/incoming tsunami in a fair and legal way.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova was gut-wrenching and amazing. Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez rocked my world. Severance by Ling Ma was gorgeous. Vintage hot take: Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu is a much more fun read than Dracula.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/05/2026
All newborns lack vitamin K. No matter how much vitamin K a mother consumes, it doesn’t sufficiently pass through the placenta and breast milk doesn’t contain enough of it — meaning babies are at risk of uncontrollable bleeding without a vitamin K shot.
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
An important Native American historic site in East Providence RI is slated to be turned into a massive mixed-use development. ecori.org/metacomet-go...
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Metacomet Golf Club, Slated to Be Massive Mixed-Use Development, Is Important Native American Historic Site - ecoRI News
The location in East Providence was a large settlement with both Narragansett and Wampanoag villages.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I forgot to mention before, but my story "The Golden Vanity" was published in the Lovecraftian anthology 'Atlas of Deep Ones' by Obsidian Butterfly Press, which came out last week. us.amazon.com/Atlas-Deep-O...
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Notes from my recent reread of Jane Eyre, in no particular order: 0katherine.neocities.org/book_notes/j...
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🌿 A Commonplace Boke
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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The state has banned “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison from ALL high school library shelves. The “classics” are safe, they promised.
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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Gyoshu Hayami: Black Peony.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The current administration of the United States is illegitimate. Its actions are immoral and illegal. The United States and Israel have committed multiple war crimes in their attacks on Iran. I am disgusted by my country's actions and wish peace and safety for the people of Iran and others nearby.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
My US Representative. : )
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Never having heard about any of this before, I googled it to find out what it was and learned that it was 1) weird Mardi-Gras shit and 2) racist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistick...
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Mistick Krewe of Comus - Wikipedia
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I do bite my thumb, sir. I bite it so hard.
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Post a banger not in English. Weird fave from my time in Korea (my friend Amy always knew what to sing at the noraebang and I miss her sooo) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FxB...
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Narsha '삐리빠빠 Bbi-Ri-Bop-A'
YouTube video by Brown Eyed Girls
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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If I understood correctly, the SecReT mEsSaGeS were: "I have a lot of girlfriends. I like you better than my other girlfriends. Live a good life and don't let the haters get you down. New York is really fun. Viva Puerto Rico. Viva America (in the geographically-inclusive Spanish sense)."
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 08/02/2026
Aaaah *shit.* 😖
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
One man tracking people being deported & deportation flights at the Minneapolis airport. One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions. Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people. www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...
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Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them
A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, othe...
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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 06/02/2026
x-files but careless whisper plays every time there is gazing www.tumblr.com/ozzytrustnoo...
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💬 1  🔁 201  ❤️ 659 · I love this new trend😂🔥 Found on TikTok
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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool
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CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool
The CIA is ending the publication of its popular World Factbook reference manual. The agency announced the decision Wednesday but gave no reason for it.
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