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Katherine Shingler

@drkshingler

Writer, mother, recovering academic, cat person, francophile. Keeping it nerdy. She/her. Listed for Cheshire & David Fickling 2024, Wells 2025

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Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

10.03.2026 11:07 👍 4426 🔁 1189 💬 45 📌 52
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please put more effort into naming lakes

28.02.2026 20:11 👍 44 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 0

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

23.02.2026 23:51 👍 12745 🔁 1093 💬 616 📌 140
Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name

We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

20.02.2026 13:05 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Collection of paints, brushes and pots on an old table. In the corner a large very fluffy cat sprawls in decadence

Collection of paints, brushes and pots on an old table. In the corner a large very fluffy cat sprawls in decadence

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

23.03.2025 19:13 👍 2391 🔁 608 💬 29 📌 43

Attention 90s kids, this is not a drill! THEY HAVE BROUGHT BACK DEWBERRY

08.02.2026 15:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Toad, literally singing in the rain, serenades his seeds.

From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

Toad, literally singing in the rain, serenades his seeds. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*

All the next day Toad sang songs to his seeds.

06.02.2026 17:37 👍 317 🔁 50 💬 2 📌 3
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#LGBTQIA #Pride 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🔄

06.02.2026 17:40 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Argh my daughter is reading The Fault in our Stars and I accidentally gave away the ending. Don’t think she’s going to forgive me, ever 😞

05.02.2026 19:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OMG well spotted! And is that a turd she’s serving up on a silver platter? 👀

20.12.2025 17:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m thinking it’s a kitschy contemporary art piece (although their tastes otherwise seem to tend towards something else)

20.12.2025 15:54 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Wait, did they… taxidermy their maid?

20.12.2025 14:06 👍 462 🔁 9 💬 12 📌 0
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Walliams eh, didn't see that one coming.

19.12.2025 17:11 👍 76 🔁 3 💬 13 📌 1
10DANCE | Official Trailer | Netflix
10DANCE | Official Trailer | Netflix YouTube video by Netflix Philippines

Or this: youtu.be/4iZZGBMlFbc?...

16.12.2025 12:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s that time of the year where I just need to be tucked under a duvet bingeing k-drama

16.12.2025 10:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Photo of The Slicks: on Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath, by Maggie Nelson

Photo of The Slicks: on Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath, by Maggie Nelson

I mean obviously I had to buy it

02.12.2025 18:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oh no CRITICAL THEORISTS RUN

21.11.2025 04:49 👍 382 🔁 24 💬 8 📌 0

# Je suis Ellie

05.11.2025 09:02 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Write something. Write it today. Write your heart out. Write something weird that only you would think of. Your enemies will not topple to your silence. Write your future and live it.

01.11.2025 11:37 👍 378 🔁 108 💬 9 📌 10

A servyce wher people come to your hous and convince you to keepe the thinges you were goinge to throw awaye. "You will misse thys when it ys gone." "You neede thys capybara t-shirt." "These dragonlance novels are precious."

31.10.2025 20:45 👍 98 🔁 9 💬 9 📌 1

Avoid lunchtime wine (saying this under breath lest all my French friends judge me…)

29.10.2025 08:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations again!! 🎉🥳

21.10.2025 07:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Chuffed to say I placed 3rd in the Wells ‘Book for children’ comp today. Got to meet some lovely writers inc @jodutton.bsky.social and judge @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social (eep!). And I’ve got a certificate! ☺️ #kidlit

20.10.2025 18:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Blimey, that’s great news!! 🎉

14.10.2025 14:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Adding more cat hair to my spell mix 🤞🤞🤞

14.10.2025 13:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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an ad for arcane productions shows a woman sitting in a circle of candles Alt: Woman doing a witchy ritual in a circle of candles

Oh hi just preparing to send another query into the ether

05.10.2025 16:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Queen

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