about me

I'm Kat, a Linux-using cis woman in her late 20s who primarily codes in Python or Bash. I kind of hate front-ends and web dev, but I did get my start on Neopets Pet Pages during the Iraq War.

I write self-insert fanfiction in Vim that I'm told is quite approachable as OC writing. By my counting, the fiction crossposted onto here comes out to ~70k words, or a short novel, so I'm grateful to everyone who's read even a part of it on AO3 or Tumblr, where I restrict access to users of those platforms.

I've also been studying astrology since 2017 and reading for others since 2020. My actual beliefs are like... imo irrelevant to several manmade systems that have internal logic and rules that I find worthwhile. I'm happy to read for you over Discord! Just ask at beguine at tutamail dot com.

things i like!!

this site

had its first Git commit on Sat Apr 12 10:48:07 2025 -0400. Its chart:

Sun              22 Ari 56 32
Moon             18 Lib 36 53
Mercury          27 Pis 57 54
Venus            24 Pis 37 42 r
Mars             27 Can 46 18
Jupiter          17 Gem 54 04
Saturn           25 Pis 51 16
Part of Fortune  19 Sag 47 44
True Node        27 Pis 21 15 r
Ascendant        24 Gem 07 23
Midheaven         9 Pis 03 49

The Beguinage is ruled by Mercury, and its Mercury is conjoined my Ascendant (27 Pisces), and its own Ascendant is close to my Imum Coeli. So what I see is it's doing a very beguinage thing of being a home for words. The Beguines and Beghards were Christian lay communities in the medevial to early modern Low Countries, and some of their best-known members have extant mystical writings that I like a lot, namely Mechthild of Magdeburg and Margeurite Porete.