katy bond

@carterhaugh.bsky.social

they/she? sff writer, poet, little lad who likes berries and cream words in Strange Horizons, Kaleidotrope, manywor(l)ds, and elsewhere "stop! stop singing Child Ballad 216: Clyde Waters!" you cry. but i am singing too loudly and with too much pathos

pictured: my friend praising my dinosaur story, and me, who didn't know she'd read my story but DID recently recommend her some vegan dinosaur nuggets from wegmans, jumping to the wrong conclusion

My friend texting me "Katy. Katy your dinosaurs." me texting back "explain." her texting me "it is so good. it is so excellent." me texting "wegmans." her texting "i love it i am obsessed" then adding "no. your other dinosaurs." all of these messages are in all-caps

I hope you’ll consider Kaleidotrope for this year’s H҉u҉g҉o҉, N҉e҉b҉u҉l҉a҉, o҉r҉ o҉t҉h҉e҉r҉ b҉e҉s҉t҉ o҉f҉ y҉e҉a҉r҉ l҉i҉s҉t҉s҉! This is my annual Awards Illegibility Post.

keen eyed viewers will notice i'm not using a broad nib to do that lettering and am instead using a flexible nib in a way that's both bad for the nib and unnecessarily laborious. that's cause it's what i have on hand and perfectionism is The Single thing that stops me from creating as much as i want

finished a zine for the first time in a long time - this isn't the addams family zine i teased before but it IS an addams family zine. and the other one is still happening. eventually. calling this $3? dm for my venmo or reply if my dms are accidentally closed again when u read this

cover of my zine. it says "se addams hiwscipe - fragments from the sonnenfeld MS, circa 1991." it features the cover of a medieval hymnal (i think?) on which i have replaced mary and jesus with morticia and wednesdayon the right, a drawing of Gomez Addams in my approximation of a medieval art style, with Thing next to him, looking like a manicule. on the left, the text reads "Scēawa hīe. For hiere ic wille sweltan. For hiere ic wille cwellan. Bām tha wegum bēon bliss." Because I am unsure how a screen reader will interpret those sounds, and it may be difficult to look the words up without seeing them, I will add that this is, to the best of my ability, an Old English translation of the words "Look at her. I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss."

“I opted for the praying mantis arms” by @carterhaugh.bsky.social (Summer ‘25) “really sells the voice of the nar­rator and their refusal to shape themself physically for anyone’s benefit but their own,” writes @cypayseur.bsky.social. “It’s fantastic.”

Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“Beyond the Fold” by @oldheneel.bsky.social from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, “Domestic Disputes” by @naokan.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social -

OKAY MAYBE I'M REALLY BACK THIS TIME. last time was a false alarm. trying to keep my relationship with social media healthy, which is like tending to a sickly victorian child or pug

I'M ON A ROLL - TWO NEW ZINES PRINTED AT THE LIBRARY, EVERYBODY SAY THANK YOU LIBRARIES - bittersweet body positive zine / 3 very short weird stories based on the gregory berrycone post / name your price in my DMs, suggested price $1

cover of a zine showing a torn bit of a snack nutrition label in a decorative frame. the zine is titled "Price tag fragment, c. 21st century"cover of a zine titled "Pulling a Gregory Berrycone." the subtitle is "Three Short Works of Fan Fiction for a Meme," with "a meme" crossed out and replaced with "an unpublished masterpiece." The subtitle is written inside the silhouette of a head with a knob on the back.