#kate winslow

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I was rereading the book and thought it was cute that despite Kate being of more modest taste and also finding wearing a lot of jewelry "tiresome", she still wore all the jewelry the dwarves gifted her.

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Kate and Marak from The Hollow Kingdom. I like this one, especially Kate's serene determination here. Marak's always a challenge, but I think he looks pretty good here.

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Til: *acting out because she feels ostracized and undervalued by her family*

Kate: I do not see 🙈🙉🙊

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Girl me too

The Monster Fucker of the Day is Kate Winslow from the Hollow Kingdom!

Kate experiences her own Beauty and Beast beginnings with her future husband, Marak Sixfingers, but despite their rocky start — Kate falls genuinely in love with the Goblin King.

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Shipwrecked Plays D&D, part one, is now up on our channel!

Meet the new members of C.R.A.N.E. - the Coterie of Runic Associates for Necromantic Extraction - and join them on the first leg of their journey to Groggy Bog to investigate mysterious hauntings.

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Alphabet City (1984)

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pov ur knuckles meeting the party for the first time

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pls go watch shipwrecked plays dnd its so funny ive seen it multiple times and im obsessed so ofc i had to draw their characters,which i will admit was a bit of a struggle considering the art is only a bust of them but i preserved!!! closeups under the cut

taglist: @blueskiesandstarrynights @joshkiszkashusband @thedrowningpoetofdionysus @thedragonemperess @depressedtransguy @genuine-possum @lab-trash (lemme know if u want to be added or removed)

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🎧🎧 lets go biiisshhhhh

send me a 🎧 and i’ll shuffle my music and give u whatever song that comes up

santa fe - newsies (1992 version)

I can't spend my whole life dreaming Though I know thats all I seem inclined to do I ain't getting any younger And I wanna start brand new

brave - josh groban

You wanna run away, run away and you say that it can't be so You wanna look away, look away but you stay cause' it's all so close When you stand up and hold out your hand In the face of what I don't understand My reason to be brave

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Muse: Kate Winslow

Titles: Miss. Winslow, the King's Wife

Fandom: The Hollow Kingdom trilogy

Age: 20

Background: Kate and her sister Emily (Em/M) moved to the English countryside to live with their elderly aunts after the death of their father. Unbeknownst to the Winslow sisters, an entire society of magical creatures lived beneath the lake nearby the estate that Kate would one day inherit. Their arrival caught the attention of these magical creatures, the Goblin King in particular.

Traits: Determined, dedicated, stubborn, inquisitive, responsible

Misc: Strong elf/human cross

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A scene from chapter 3 of The Hollow Kingdom

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The Hollow Kingdom trilogy is a series I haven't reread in a long time, but still remember very fondly. It riffs on things like goblin and elf folklore, mythology and fairy tale (Persephone, Beauty and the Beast), and even the proper manners of Regency fiction in ways that feel comfortingly familiar, but also inventive and unusual. And it blends big emotional themes at times with lightness and very sharp humor.

I was very into it around 2005-07ish, and this was always my favorite fan art, the newly married and miserable Kate having tea with her very pleased goblin husband Marak, attended upon by one of Marak's faithful servants. I ended up sharing it with author Clare B Dunkle (she encouraged fans sharing art back in 2007 -- I don't know if she still does), and she sent me the nicest comment about it:

I especially like the picture of Kate having tea with Marak. There's a certain look to Marak's face in your drawing that exists in his image in my mind as well. I can't quite describe it (so much for being a writer!), but it's something to do with his bony cheeks, his smug expression, and his eyes. And Marak's little valet is so CUTE!

All these years later, I'm still so touched when I read that.

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https://youtu.be/tuY_p-BA5kE?si=ut9S5yPDX0jcB3fS

Marak would say this. Probably memorize it to annoy Kate. He'd do it to me too.

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I really have to get my multimuse running.

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Our saga continues as C.R.A.N.E. meet more of the Groggy Bog townsfolk and try to uncover more about the mysterious hauntings in the second part of our D&D one-shot, up now on our channel!

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Crown’s S Class Mission - Roger Barel (Part 2)

As usual, can’t guarantee 100% accuracy on this.

Kate: Aaah. No…I can’t anymore, Instructor…Roger.

Roger: Keep going…your body can still handle it right?

Kate: Ah… No, not anymore…

Roger: When you think you can’t take it anymore, that’s when it actually starts. Same thing in bed. Come on, 10 more sit ups.

Kate: Why are you talking about doing things in bed? You’re absolutely the worst!

Instructor Oliver: Oh, is something the matter?

Roger: No, Miss Kate wants me to be stricter.

(......Excuse me?)

Roger: 10 more sit ups. Muscle, muscle!

Kate: Muscle…muscle…Ugh…

(It’s no use, if I do a bad job, I’ll look suspicious)

Roger put his lips to my ear as I desperately tried to do sit ups…

Roger: Maybe the ‘S’ in S class mission stands for ‘sadist’?

Kate: …Eh?

Roger: Hey, you stopped. Come on, muscle, muscle!

(D-damn it!)

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Kate: Haaa…haaa… So…did you find anything?

Roger: Nah, haven’t “heard” anything suspicious yet. I’ll keep an ear out ‘til I get a lead.

Instructor Oliver: Roger, a moment!

Roger: Yeah, I’m coming over.

Roger: Keep digging. Stay on guard, Kate.

With a nod, Roger went to where Instructor Oliver called him.

(I’m thirsty. I’ll get  a glass of water)

Kate:Huh, where’s the drinking fountain…?

Blonde lady: Excuse me, I can show you where it is.

I turned toward the voice and saw a dignified lady smiling at me.

After being shown where the fountain was, the rigorous training continued— 

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I snuck outside.

(No one will come out here, right? I’ll just take a short break and then head back in)

Maybe it was because I’m not used to doing hard exercises, but my knees were about to give out.

???: Who’s this student skipping class?

Kate: Eek! I’m sorry! I won’t slack off anymore!

Roger: Haha. Dummy, it’s me.

Kate: Roger… Geez, don’t scare me like that!

Roger: Sorry, sorry. I’ll give you something nice as an apology, so open your mouth. Say ‘aah’.

Kate: Huh, mmm. It’s sweet… Is it chocolate?

Roger: You look like a sad puppy.

(You were strict with me, and now you’re spoiling me…)

Perhaps Roger often tames using a carrot and stick.

That’s really, really annoying…

Kate: Oh yeah, I made a friend just then. Her name’s Emilia Winslow. She told me that her dream’s to go into politics.

Roger: That’s an insane dream when you know women don’t have the right to vote.

Kate: Yeah…She mentioned that. She wanted to get out of her current situation, but didn’t know how. So she came to the club in desperation. She thought that if she got stronger, she’d be able to change her absurd situation.

Roger: The women who gathered here all want to get stronger and fight.

As his amber eyes looked up to the sky, a question I wanted to ask suddenly popped in my mind.

Kate: Roger, have you ever wanted to get stronger?

Roger: I have. It’s not like I’ve been like this since I was born. When I was a kid, I had my first friend. He was cursed. But because I was weak, I betrayed him in the worst way. I couldn’t protect him.

(This is the first time I’ve heard something about Roger’s past…)

It felt like his eyes, still focused on the sky, wavered for a moment.

Roger: Maybe I’ve always been fighting something?

Seeing that smile on his face, as if he were trying to laugh away the pain, reminded me of what Roger told me that time I fired a gun at someone for the first time.

(At the time, I hated myself for being weak…What Roger said…)

“People who want to get stronger and are able to continue on are really the strong ones.”

When I first met Roger, I thought he was “just a strong guy”.

However, now I can clearly see that he’s someone that “tries to be strong”.

—Suddenly, Roger’s eyes became sharp.

Roger: …

Kate: …Roger?

Roger: Oy…who’s there? I can hear your heartbeat.

Instructor Oliver: …

(What do we do…? If he finds out that Roger and I know each other…)

Instructor Oliver: I’m sorry for eavesdropping… Will you please hear me out?

Somehow Oliver had a feeling that we were different from those that visited the Beauty Muscle Club. 

So he followed us—to ask for help.

Instructor Oliver: In the beginning, I was just an instructor working at the club. But then I uncovered something unthinkable about this place… The owner of the club and master of the estate belongs to the House of Lords. He has an extremely distorted view on women’s empowerment.

Roger: Does this have anything to do with the fact that women who visit here end up ill?

Instructor Oliver: How did you…Just who are you people?

Roger: That doesn’t matter now. Are the women here getting drugged?

Instructor Oliver: Illegal drugs disguised as muscle-enhancement drugs.

Kate: Why…that’s so ridiculous.

Roger: It’s to stop brilliant and strong women from entering the workforce, isn’t it? So stupid. Even though they were tricked into it, they took the enhancement drug. And now the women are afraid to speak out in fear of being accused of taking illegal substances. And so the truth doesn’t come out.

Kate: …Such a cowardly way of operating.

Instructor Oliver: I don’t want to do this. But they threatened to kill me if I ran away.

He looked like a little kid with how he weakly hung his head, face pale.

(We can’t overlook this evil)

Kate: …Roger, I have a request. I—

Roger: Don’t do anything reckless that’ll put yourself in danger, okay?

Kate: Okay!

—Then, Oliver and I went to where the illegal drugs were being sold.

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The person who welcomed us was a man from the House of Lords, the wonder of the club and estate.

After Oliver introduced me, the man handed me a small bag of medicine with a friendly look on his face. 

(...I got the evidence. All I need to do now is leave)

(But…)

Master of the estate: This will make you stronger and more beautiful. Let us build a better society.

The way he so easily lied filled me with rage.

Kate: …These are illegal drugs.

Instructor Oliver: ?!

As if he caught on, the master of the estate’s eyes turned terribly cold.

And he smiled cooly.

Master of the estate: Britain thriving, but with that, comes women getting louder… Give them the right to vote, give them places to work. Women are inferior creatures to men who are just clever enough to serve.

Kate: So, why would you do such a despicable and foolish thing?

Master of the estate: If I don’t pluck the useless weeds, then who will?

Kate: There are a lot of women trying to get stronger, you know?

Master of the estate: And for what reason, when it’s all in vain? 

(Oh my god…)

I slapped the man before me as hard as I could.

Master of the estate: …You’re a woman! I can have you killed for this you know!

Kate: …

Before I could get the gun from my garter belt, a gunshot rang out and a bullet grazed the man’s cheek.

The window behind the man broke and Roger, with his hunting rifle, bursts into the room.

Roger: Hold up. Not gonna let you kill my cute student. Now then, it’s time for Instructor Roger’s fun and exciting punishment.

*House of Lords is the upper chamber of UK Parliament.

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RIP WINSLOW LEACH YOU WOULDVE LOVED KATE BUSH