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Catherine Winters
@catherinewinters.com
She/her, SFF writer, narrative video game designer/developer. Not AI.

📖 Querying my queer science fiction heist novel.
🎮 Making After Work, a game about rummaging around in your coworkers' desks: https://cornonthecob.games

https://catherinewinters.com
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F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT

Ship's cook Tai is horrified to discover their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #Q #SF #A #R #LGBT
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The thing that gets me about this attitude is that it's so... Self-centered...? Selfish?

Other authors are not competitors. This is not Survivor.

Other authors are colleagues. Friends. Collaborators. Human beings worth being in community with.
<< “If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” Hart told the NYT. >>

Honey. You assume we are racing. I am not in this race. I don't want to be in a race. I am creating art.
The article describes a ‘smut’ writer producing a book in 45 mins with AI, and generates a six figure income from her writing. We are racing to the bottom. Are readers really that gullible? I guess so. futurism.com/artificial-i... #Author #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #BlueSky #BookSky #AI
February 11, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Me, angrily watching Anton Chekhov's new play: "WTF WHY IS THAT GUN THERE"
It is truly so funny to me that there were people on here when the season started going OH THEY'RE DOING AN AI PLOTLINE AND A PRISON PLOT AND ETC AND NOT DOING ANY CRITIQUE OF ANYTHING

Just the most ridiculous, media illiterate knee jerk outrage postin
February 11, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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Have you ever wanted to die... in fiction?

Or perhaps commit a (fictional) murder of a billionaire?

Well I've got good news: MURDER COMMISSIONS ARE BACK!!!

Hire me to write you a custom death scene - or a billionaire murder scene - today!

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Murder Commissions are BAAAAACK!
Dianna Gunn published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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This was my experience too. The sting never really went away.
Those who weren’t resigned to the Math Idiot Garbage Bin as kids may not grasp how much “if you’re bad at math, you’ll die in a ditch and all will be better off for it” sentiment was floating around in the 90s and 2000s, but it sure felt real to me.

(my parents are great! It didn’t come from them!)
February 11, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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In the wake of a massive confirmation that the tech industry’s run by deranged pedophiles, not a single tech platform should have the balls to start demanding ID and enacting invasive policies.

Yet they continue. They’re the ones being outed as dangerous and we’re the ones being regulated.
February 11, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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I think this is probably the first time in two years where I've actively enjoyed making something

I'm going to have so much fun doing all the writing for this silly stuff
February 11, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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remember back when we all doodled the current thing for warmups? we could bring that back, maybe, that was fun
February 3, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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Who else is putting articles from "Placenta" on your skyline?

NO ONE THAT'S WHO

I'm more an advocate for people wjo make art with them or participate in some cultural practice.

We iterally grow and discard an ENTIRE ORGAN that makes people, which is very strange *to me.*
February 10, 2026 at 9:40 PM
I'm looking forward to finding out if the pilots' ejection seats stop working when the US turns off our F-35s in the middle of a dogfight.
February 10, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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And we don’t have to guess what they mean, because we can read Project 2025 ourselves and see that “pornography” is shorthand for LGBTQ people existing publicly. That’s what they’re working to ban, censor, and restrict online under the guise of “protecting” kids from porn
February 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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I confronted a 20 something couple in a sushi restauraunt dressed in gruffindor robes. I asked them, "did you know that JK Rowling has spent her fortunes earned from sales of things like those robes lobbying the government in this country to restrict access to medication for people like me?"
I still legit don't understand how there is still a market for Harry Potter stuff. Like, I get people trying to separate the art from the artist, but she's still alive and profiting from all this AND she was in with Epstein, so now we know she's an even BIGGER monster than we already thought.
February 10, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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What, did you think they were going to stop with trans people?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
Pride Flag Is Taken Down From Stonewall Monument
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Lusi can see ghosts. And that’s only the beginning of her problems. In this queer MG fantasy novel, she joins her sister, a ghost girl and some dragons on an adventure halfway across the world to learn about her unusual magic. 🌈📚
books2read.com/u/b6J2E0
vriccithode.itch.io/the-young-ne...
February 10, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Good morning! In times like these, it's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like your art doesn't matter

But your art has NEVER been more important than it is right now
February 10, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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The Weeknight Writers Pro Community is on Discord.

It is not an age-restricted server, so we don't imagine Discord's new policy requiring ID will impact our server.

However, we are appalled by the introduction of this policy & the continued expansion of surveillance and censorship online

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February 9, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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KEEP FIGHTING

KEEP CANCELLING

MAKE THEM HURT AND NEVER CONSIDER THIS AGAIN

Traumatise their budget so bad they cant even think about this again.

Bring them to their knees.
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
February 10, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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A young witch teaches her mother how to do magic–with very unexpected results in Lessons in Magic and Disaster.

The Charlie Jane Anders & Annalee Newiitz book bundle supports TGIJP.
Charlie Jane Anders & Annalee Newiitz by TOR | Humble Book Bundle
www.humblebundle.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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Millions of Americans are eligible for automatic Canadian citizenship. JIK you're considering.
FYI Americans: if you had Canadian grandparents/parents: you may be Canadian
February 10, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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We should immediately follow Mexico’s lead and condemn this act of economic warfare. And we should step up with humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people, as NDP MP @alexboulerice.bsky.social calls for in this excellent parliamentary petition: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7082 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
February 9, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Please sign. The Cubans 🇨🇺 are our friends, many of us have people we care about on the island. They don’t deserve this.
We should immediately follow Mexico’s lead and condemn this act of economic warfare. And we should step up with humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people, as NDP MP @alexboulerice.bsky.social calls for in this excellent parliamentary petition: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7082 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
February 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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I know anyone who can get me in touch with ron perlman?
February 9, 2026 at 10:28 PM