#k patrick

[dollhousefemme]

Mrs. S by K. Patrick

[burlap-bows]

I discovered this wonderful sapphic novel called Mrs. S,” written by K Patrick. I love the writing style; there are no quotation marks, and it's very stream-of-consciousness, which I find makes the story more immersive. There's not much in the way of plot, mainly just vibes. It's set in a boarding school, and it follows the relationship between the butch matron and femme headmistress. This book is so good that it's actually homophobic that I didn't find it during Pride Month! Anyway, if you haven't read it already, go give it a read!

[inthegoodbooks]

newcastle pride book haul

Today, I was delighted to go to Newastle Pride with my sister and we had an absolutely lovely time. My favourite part was of course picking up two new books from the wonderful Book Wyrm who had a stall in the family area.

Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle - I have had this on my radar since I read Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle last year. Given that it was one of my favourite books of 2023, it is pretty clear how excited I was about Bury Your Gays being published this year. Although it would be cool to read it during October for Halloween, I know I'm not going to be able to... I can see it being a summer read for sure.

Mrs S by K Patrick - This was a book I saw recommended on Gay's the Word's Instagram page from their top books of 2023. As it was only out in hardback then, I kept a note of it in my head to look this up when it was out in paperback and here it was! I can't wait to get my head back into some dark academia-esque themed fiction, and sapphic dark academia at that. Very much looking forward to reading this in the next couple of months.

I know Newcastle is a little later than everywhere else, but as far as I am concerned all year is Pride season so without further ado: happy Pride everyone! Hope your books are gay and fantastic all year round.

[charm-troll]

I'm reading Mrs S by K. Patrick, I'm only 91 pages in but so far it's excellent. The purpose of this post isn't to be a review but rather that I'm absolutely convinced that I've figured out where this book is set. This might be common knowledge, but I can't find anything about it online so I'm going to share my excitement

So, if you don't know, Mrs S is about a young butch Australian woman who gets a job as the matron of a nameless all-girls private boarding school in rural England. In fact, the book is very carefully nameless all the way through, the only character or place that has anything close to a name is Mrs S.

This school is famous for The Dead Author, there's a statue for her that The Girls (as the pupils are called) worship and that the school cashes in on its connection to, despite The Dead Author by all accounts hating her time there. Early on it's mentioned that the nearby graveyard has a lot of graves from the many pupils who died of TB in the early years of the school. It's all very Jane Eyre.

Later on, Mrs S takes the protagonist to go swimming in the nearby river, and on the drive stop off by a place called Devil's Bridge (okay, so maybe not totally nameless). Now I know a Devil's Bridge that some friends of mine used to jump off when the weather was nice, but I didn't think too much of it cos there's probably lots of places in the UK called that. The bit that really got my attention is when the protagonist looks out the window and thinks "it's nothing but fields and fells."

'Fell' is a word for mountain in a few British dialects, but it is especially associated with the Lake District in Cumbria, a mountainous national park in the north-west of England. At this point I started feeling like I was about to break the case of the century and spent the next 20 minutes sending increasingly excited messages to my partner about how Mrs S is set in Cumbria.

Charlotte Brontë went to a school in Lancashire called Cowan Bridge. She hated her time there, attributed the poor conditions to the deaths of her older sisters Maria and Elizabeth, and it served as the inspiration for Lowood School in Jane Eyre, where Jane's only friend Helen dies in an outbreak of TB. In the 1830s, the school moved a few miles north to a village called Casterton in Westmorland (now Cumbria), and the school was until 2013 a private all-girls boarding school that cashed in on its association with a dead author despite her hating her time there.

The motto of the school in the book, again that I paid no attention to at first, is "one heart, one place" in Latin. And the motto for Casterton? Cor Unum Via Una - one heart, one way.

And for the final piece of the puzzle (so far lol):

Casterton is only a 3 minute drive from Devil's Bridge

Some things are not the same of course, such as the fact that because the original site of the school was moved, I don't think the local graveyard will contain the graves of the pupils of Cowan Bridge, but even so, I am almost 100% sure that this book is set in a fictionalised Casterton, the school that proudly educated two Brontë sisters, and killed two others

[virgin-martyr]

Her energy is concentrated and precise, light through a magnifying glass.

K. Patrick, excerpt from Mrs. S

[nakedmonkey]

hi! have you read any good contemporary sapphic lit lately? 👀 i’m in a drought

OMG bro I'm honestly on the same boat, and there's a strong chance you've read these already, BUT I really really enjoyed Private Rites by Julia Armfield. It's a retelling of King Lear. it's about 3 sisters who all happen to be queer - about them navigating grief after their father's death, whilst the world is flooding and it won't stop raining. It's SO good. Her writing is beautiful as always.

I'm also currently reading Mrs. S, by K Patrick and it's early in the book but I'm digging it so far! Very sexy. So much tension between the protagonist and the potential love interest.

[post-futurism]

"Pleasure will continue to fold us up. (We are only pieces of paper.)"

- Pickup-Truck Sex by K Patrick, in their collection of poetry called Three Births

[meganelixabethh]

Does anyone else decide on a name for unnamed characters? The protagonist in my year of rest and relaxation is a Samantha that goes by Sam (Reva calls her Sammy). Mrs S by K Patric is Kate Sutton (the nickname Mr. S calls her is Katie). The protagonist is called Amanda, it feels right for her mother to have picked an inescapably feminine name. The housemistress is an Alexandria that goes by Alex.

[jennamacaroni]

Loving her will be impossible. There is nothing I can do to stop it.

K. Patrick, "Mrs. S"

[beingharsh]

"Blood comedy", K Patrick

[kerry-fever]

[virgin-martyr]

Her face tricks me into familiarity, lifted from a painting, a feminine ideal.

K. Patrick, excerpt from Mrs. S

[chlmtsdoll]

they don’t know what seeing those dimples up close can do to a girl *sigh*

[girliism]

i’ve been in such a patrick mood lately like just imagine his big heavy body pressing your smaller one into the mattress below you as he fucks you from behind. you can barely move all you can do is lie there as patrick bullies his thick cock in your slick pussy. “taking me so fucking good.” your eyes rolling to the back of your head. “tiny pussy so small yet so slutty.” his deep voice rings through your ear. “c-cumming - oh fuck - patrick!” your eyes squeeze shut and your fingers grip onto the sheets as your orgasm hit you so hard you see stars. you let out gasps feeling patrick burst inside you again. his cum overflowing out of puffy lips. “gorgeous.” patrick runs his fingers lightly up and down your sensitive cunt cause you to whine and kick your feet