http://kateorman.wordpress.com. she/her Three Doctor Who novels available at Penguin Books: https://www.penguin.co.uk/search-results?q=kate+orman Black Archives: The Pyramids of Mars https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/12-pyramids/https://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mll2xmoxzc2nFinished We at last. I don't think it would be unfair to say that Orwell basically pinched it.11 May 2026 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mll2xmoxzc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlkwi2lfvk2nSaw The Stranger (2025). Meursault = boyfriend of the year lol11 May 2026 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlkwi2lfvk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlkt2evhwk2dAn Egyptologically perfect name: RAMSES https://spacenews.com/esa-and-jaxa-finalize-agreement-on-apophis-asteroid-mission/11 May 2026 08:08 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlkt2evhwk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlkm2ooge22jThe eponymous Bride of Frankenstein (1935) first appears as a mummy. Did the Egyptian idea of Isis collecting and reuniting Osiris's pieces to form the first mummy inspire the movie scientist's stitching together parts of corpses? 'Cos that had to come from *somewhere*...11 May 2026 06:03 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlkm2ooge22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlick3vmtc2nOH NO, ANGEL BOB IS ONE OF THESE STOLEN VOICE MONSTERS 😱10 May 2026 08:07 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlick3vmtc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mli7eekxvc2c🤔 Maybe these let-me-in stories suffer from a sort of sock gap? The awkward bit between where the hero realises the voice is a fake, and the bit when, for some reason, they let them inside. Or just that now you've got to have a cast-iron reason for the hero to change their mind.10 May 2026 07:10 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mli7eekxvc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlhsmvgjrc2uHang on, thought of another one. "Most critics do not consider them works of literary excellence." That's Ayn Rand's novels, hee hee.10 May 2026 03:23 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlhsmvgjrc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlhsla4ymk2uAs a child I spent a lot of time with World Book Encyclopedia. Amongst many phrases I have retained is an example of slapstick: "pushing unsuspecting persons into swimming pools". I thought this was hilarious.10 May 2026 03:22 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlhsla4ymk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlhp6qeiq223I've recently seen two very well-made short films about evil voices imitating friends/family, asking to be let in, resisted by smart heroes. Both films fumbled the critical moment when the victim capitulates. One opened the door for no reason; the other died inexplicably, off-screen. "Get it right!"10 May 2026 02:21 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlhp6qeiq223https://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlhnyxd46k2uAnd another thing -- why are the President's staff "bear-cuffed" in Robert Lowell's "Waking Early Sunday Morning"? I've wondered about that for decades. In high school I thought he was holding a staff with bear paws dangling from it.10 May 2026 02:00 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlhnyxd46k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlhm4einrs2xThis is marvellous ("indigo"!), but I want to be a bore and ask if anyone knows the technical name for this technique, where phrases are split between lines, creating a forward-falling motion? [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 May 2026 01:26 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlhm4einrs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlhhznfyak2cThrowing this open to the floor! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 May 2026 00:13 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlhhznfyak2chttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlhhyilt322cI love stuff like this, like when archaeologists find a lost artifact in a museum's vault -- scientists used the good AI to comb through telescope data, and found ten thousand extra exoplanets! (tbc, of course) 🪐 https://www.space.com/science/astrophysics/scientists-found-10-000-possible-exoplanets-hiding-in-nasa-data10 May 2026 00:12 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlhhyilt322chttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlgemf24gc2pLolled at Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare. OPHELIA My lord, I have remembrances of yours That I have longed long to redeliver. GERTRUDE (off, drunk) TAKE THEM OR PATRIARCHY WINS The Bard's power is undiminished by these shenanigans. "Get thee to a nunnery!" moved the crowd. ("You asshole!" someone yelled.)09 May 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgemf24gc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlgdm2ryas2pDidn't post a reply with a link to the OED definition of a word. Admire my self-restraint.09 May 2026 13:21 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgdm2ryas2phttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlfc2vm37c24Reading about Australian libraries & intellectual freedom. In the US, books seem to be constantly challenged on the grounds that they're not suitable for children. Here, it's parents' responsibility to monitor what their kids read, not the library's. How did we arrive at our different approaches? 🤔09 May 2026 03:21 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlfc2vm37c24https://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlf7snujgk2nSome on Reddit was trying to identify something they saw on TV in the late 80s/90s -- chess player has soundproof room, ends up trapping his wife and her lover inside it and killing them with deadly sounds. That sounds *amazing*. My Googling and IMDB-ing has failed to identify it. Any ideas?09 May 2026 02:40 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlf7snujgk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlf33eaytk2wDeath Valley is in the throes of a superbloom right now, reminding me to commend this wrenching novel to you. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2026 01:16 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlf33eaytk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlf2drerss2cFlowers, birds, crabs, frogs, lizards, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, and mammals! The Jurassic was really cooking! 🦕09 May 2026 01:03 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlf2drerss2chttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlevqfgns223😄 EVs are really taking off! Cleaner air, less carbon! 😖 Everything still covered in roads and parking lots, I'm still gonna be squished one day on my way to the post office08 May 2026 23:40 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlevqfgns223https://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mld2hyoq5k24Attacked by the green-eyed monster as I read the premise of a successful series of fantasy novels. When I try to cook up a series idea, I end up with some twee TV show concept. Have to think harder. Gotta work. Gotta make that money, make purse.08 May 2026 06:00 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mld2hyoq5k24https://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlcp2hpizk2vI love it when some prince or whatever reads or writes in a sageuk, or historical Kdrama. Just brushes, brush stand, ink stick, ink stone, water, seal, paper. None of this constantly being interrupted by Windows crashing or not being able to figure out how to view comments in Acrobat.08 May 2026 02:35 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcp2hpizk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlcm5ldcbk2bJust listening to the (overexposed) gem that is Don't Fear The Reaper and it suddenly struck me what a different song it would be if that *isn't* Death talking, but Something Else.08 May 2026 01:43 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcm5ldcbk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mlanjxuuls2tIf I could draw, I would draw a nest (Australia) with some children (children) in it, and vast, fat cuckoo chicks (subsidised fossil fuels) (mine clean-ups) (etc)07 May 2026 07:03 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlanjxuuls2thttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mla5rbpf7c2vNot in the mood for nonsense this morning. Wreck him. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/06/indigenous-actor-james-cameron-avatar-lawsuit07 May 2026 02:21 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mla5rbpf7c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mla3s37d7k2pWhat the fuck are we doing?! Why are we letting babies and infants die? We've got the resources -- what the fuck is so important that it gets first pick ahead of children?07 May 2026 01:45 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mla3s37d7k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3ml5le7v36c2ySomebody told me Cliff Stoll had passed away -- happily not! I owe him for various things: the thrill with which I read his discovery of the hacker's footprints in "Cuckoo's Egg"; the phrase "I probably smelled like a goat" (same source); the powerful idea that learning is not fun, but *satisfying*.06 May 2026 01:46 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5le7v36c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3ml5kewweqs2d"Coarse Acting" reference alert [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 01:28 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5kewweqs2d