Winter Shaw
@winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social
They/them. Code monkey by day, writer by night, in love with the written word. Non-binary, graysexual, aromantic, and possessed of a weird enjoyment of romance stories and whimsy. (Because in stories, the romance makes SENSE!)
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Attn #marketers & #editors of #booksky: If you use AI art in your online profile, we're going to think "this person will use AI elsewhere as well" and some of us do not want our works mauled by the Mediocre Plagiarism Machine. Do not be surprised when we do not follow you back. See rant. #deathtoai
Imma quote my own post so I can include both in my profile pin: bsky.app/profile/wint...
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One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
February 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
My status RN: Chronic AFK and anxiety.
Why: We are moving out of a red state. Plus, USA spiraling towards fascism.
Writing: Yes. It is all that keeps me sane.
Reading: Not nearly enough, too busy stimming with phone games and putting out fires.
Why: We are moving out of a red state. Plus, USA spiraling towards fascism.
Writing: Yes. It is all that keeps me sane.
Reading: Not nearly enough, too busy stimming with phone games and putting out fires.
March 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
My status RN: Chronic AFK and anxiety.
Why: We are moving out of a red state. Plus, USA spiraling towards fascism.
Writing: Yes. It is all that keeps me sane.
Reading: Not nearly enough, too busy stimming with phone games and putting out fires.
Why: We are moving out of a red state. Plus, USA spiraling towards fascism.
Writing: Yes. It is all that keeps me sane.
Reading: Not nearly enough, too busy stimming with phone games and putting out fires.
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I’m down for Al Sharpton’s boycott on Friday.
If we want to be effective, we need to stop giving these people our money.
Are you in?
If we want to be effective, we need to stop giving these people our money.
Are you in?
February 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
#romance #plotidea free to all (might already have been done):
MC: Wealth management specialist.
LI: #Billionaire who got rich by robbing other billionaires.
Plot: "Find out who the billionaires I robbed stole the money from, and help me get it back to them. Anything left over goes to charity."
MC: Wealth management specialist.
LI: #Billionaire who got rich by robbing other billionaires.
Plot: "Find out who the billionaires I robbed stole the money from, and help me get it back to them. Anything left over goes to charity."
February 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#romance #plotidea free to all (might already have been done):
MC: Wealth management specialist.
LI: #Billionaire who got rich by robbing other billionaires.
Plot: "Find out who the billionaires I robbed stole the money from, and help me get it back to them. Anything left over goes to charity."
MC: Wealth management specialist.
LI: #Billionaire who got rich by robbing other billionaires.
Plot: "Find out who the billionaires I robbed stole the money from, and help me get it back to them. Anything left over goes to charity."
Describe your taste in men using 4 fictional characters:
February 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Describe your taste in men using 4 fictional characters:
#romance #writers
💖 Weird stuff happening just cuz, and somehow chars just roll with it. AKA #crackfic, cuz laughter is often key. If you can't laugh in love, what's even left?
❌ Rich MCs. I get it, it's fantasy, but it bugs me too much to enjoy. Much rather meet "comfortable" LIs than "rich".
💖 Weird stuff happening just cuz, and somehow chars just roll with it. AKA #crackfic, cuz laughter is often key. If you can't laugh in love, what's even left?
❌ Rich MCs. I get it, it's fantasy, but it bugs me too much to enjoy. Much rather meet "comfortable" LIs than "rich".
It's been a *day* already, so let's play a fun lil game! #writingcommunity, quote this & tell me:
💖 One trope you love
❌ One trope you hate
(With, of course, the understanding that this is all personal preference and not some absolute statement about the relative quality of these tropes.)
Go!
💖 One trope you love
❌ One trope you hate
(With, of course, the understanding that this is all personal preference and not some absolute statement about the relative quality of these tropes.)
Go!
February 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
To my #aromantic friends: Showers help the hives. All the (platonic) love. ❤️
February 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
To my #aromantic friends: Showers help the hives. All the (platonic) love. ❤️
#writers #writesky #skywriters #romance
Listening and cackling as wife goes "ARGG FFS" at a book waiting for these two characters to get together... 😂
"That's cute you guys." YUP
www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/sa...
Listening and cackling as wife goes "ARGG FFS" at a book waiting for these two characters to get together... 😂
"That's cute you guys." YUP
www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/sa...
Sarah's Scribbles - Building Tension
This comic is for barely-functioning people, created by a barely-functioning person.
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February 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
#writers #writesky #skywriters #romance
Listening and cackling as wife goes "ARGG FFS" at a book waiting for these two characters to get together... 😂
"That's cute you guys." YUP
www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/sa...
Listening and cackling as wife goes "ARGG FFS" at a book waiting for these two characters to get together... 😂
"That's cute you guys." YUP
www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/sa...
February 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Listening to @ckohwrites.bsky.social read aloud tourist posts to r/Malaysia is hilarious.
"Is it possible to climb Mt. Kinabalu without a guide?"
"Uhhhh..."
"I have climbed many mountains in UK and..."
"PFFT!!"
🤣🤣🤣
"Is it possible to climb Mt. Kinabalu without a guide?"
"Uhhhh..."
"I have climbed many mountains in UK and..."
"PFFT!!"
🤣🤣🤣
February 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Listening to @ckohwrites.bsky.social read aloud tourist posts to r/Malaysia is hilarious.
"Is it possible to climb Mt. Kinabalu without a guide?"
"Uhhhh..."
"I have climbed many mountains in UK and..."
"PFFT!!"
🤣🤣🤣
"Is it possible to climb Mt. Kinabalu without a guide?"
"Uhhhh..."
"I have climbed many mountains in UK and..."
"PFFT!!"
🤣🤣🤣
Snrk. Siiiiigh.😆
My apocalypse skill: Dying. Probably dying. 😀 But if I survived that... um... doing repetitive stuff. Like sharpening knives? That's relaxing!
My apocalypse skill: Dying. Probably dying. 😀 But if I survived that... um... doing repetitive stuff. Like sharpening knives? That's relaxing!
Haven’t you heard? Magic happens around us Roma ——
February 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Snrk. Siiiiigh.😆
My apocalypse skill: Dying. Probably dying. 😀 But if I survived that... um... doing repetitive stuff. Like sharpening knives? That's relaxing!
My apocalypse skill: Dying. Probably dying. 😀 But if I survived that... um... doing repetitive stuff. Like sharpening knives? That's relaxing!
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Billionaires get rich by stealing from the poor pass it on
February 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Billionaires get rich by stealing from the poor pass it on
This. This is why I follow several authors who showcase mature relationships and good communication in their books. (@ajsherwood.bsky.social, @jennifercodymm.bsky.social, any other #mmromance #bookreccs?) Also, I love #crackfic because it makes it easier to take it less seriously. Send reccs please!
Sometimes, when I'm stressed, I can't handle even the slightest relationship conflict in a book. At those moments, I often go back and read the last 25% of a novel I've already read. Desperate times call for desperate measures. #mmromance #booksky
February 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This. This is why I follow several authors who showcase mature relationships and good communication in their books. (@ajsherwood.bsky.social, @jennifercodymm.bsky.social, any other #mmromance #bookreccs?) Also, I love #crackfic because it makes it easier to take it less seriously. Send reccs please!
This is frankly just... beautiful. #resist #resistProject2025
I'm digging how this WWII guide is basically "gum up fascism by being an energy vampire." Let Colin Robinson be your guide in the fight against fascism. The link: www.404media.co/declassified...
February 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is frankly just... beautiful. #resist #resistProject2025
LOL you are not alone... @ckohwrites.bsky.social you have a twin. As the Person in our pair I must remind you both: Resting is work. Thinking is work. Researching is work. Reading is work. They're all work and that means you're working on your #writing! ❤️
Me: "I need to write something today. I haven't written shit in days."
My Person: "You sent me stuff you wrote last night."
Me: "That wasn't writing."
MP: ???
Me: "Look, there's writing and there's *writing*."
MP: "Babe, you're not making any sense."
Me: "it didn't count!"
MP: 🤨
My Person: "You sent me stuff you wrote last night."
Me: "That wasn't writing."
MP: ???
Me: "Look, there's writing and there's *writing*."
MP: "Babe, you're not making any sense."
Me: "it didn't count!"
MP: 🤨
February 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
LOL you are not alone... @ckohwrites.bsky.social you have a twin. As the Person in our pair I must remind you both: Resting is work. Thinking is work. Researching is work. Reading is work. They're all work and that means you're working on your #writing! ❤️
Just want to amplify this. Please don't use this word unless it's in a serious discussion about #racism. I know in America it has been romanticized. It ain't romantic, though, and once you know, you know. #writers and #readers, please don't perpetuate it. Thank you @opreroma.bsky.social ❤️ 👇
Hi, I am a Roma Teacher on Bluesky.
G*psy means “Indian/Hindu Slave” used by The Colonial Empires since 800CE.
When you use the word, you are calling a Roma or possibly someone else as your “Slave”
G*psy means “Indian/Hindu Slave” used by The Colonial Empires since 800CE.
When you use the word, you are calling a Roma or possibly someone else as your “Slave”
February 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just want to amplify this. Please don't use this word unless it's in a serious discussion about #racism. I know in America it has been romanticized. It ain't romantic, though, and once you know, you know. #writers and #readers, please don't perpetuate it. Thank you @opreroma.bsky.social ❤️ 👇
2nd surprise #casualracism in as many days is making me post this: Y'all. The word is Roma or Romani. The other word, the one that starts with G? That's a fucking ethnic slur. If you're throwing it around casually, stop. And if your parents named you that, name changes are a thing. We can do better.
February 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
2nd surprise #casualracism in as many days is making me post this: Y'all. The word is Roma or Romani. The other word, the one that starts with G? That's a fucking ethnic slur. If you're throwing it around casually, stop. And if your parents named you that, name changes are a thing. We can do better.
#writers, #skywriters, and #booksky: I see too many of you stuck with Google Docs and Microsoft Word/365 and other solutions that often package generative AI or reserve the right to train AI on your work.
There is #Ellipsus. No AI, queer AF, an ethical company, and it has folders. ellipsus.com
There is #Ellipsus. No AI, queer AF, an ethical company, and it has folders. ellipsus.com
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February 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
#writers, #skywriters, and #booksky: I see too many of you stuck with Google Docs and Microsoft Word/365 and other solutions that often package generative AI or reserve the right to train AI on your work.
There is #Ellipsus. No AI, queer AF, an ethical company, and it has folders. ellipsus.com
There is #Ellipsus. No AI, queer AF, an ethical company, and it has folders. ellipsus.com
I love this so much. Pretty please? ...and special request from my #aromantic peeps (or maybe just from me): if there's ANY romance, tag it. Even if it's not a romance novel. Surprise romantic subplots make me
February 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I love this so much. Pretty please? ...and special request from my #aromantic peeps (or maybe just from me): if there's ANY romance, tag it. Even if it's not a romance novel. Surprise romantic subplots make me
Re: #spsfc: I have been told that I should approach the situation with a bit more gentleness now that they have booted the fascist. After the past year, I don't have a whole lot of gentleness for "fascists?! in MY scifi?!" shocked pikachu face. But, I know what #runbyvolunteers is like. #Tips below.
February 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Re: #spsfc: I have been told that I should approach the situation with a bit more gentleness now that they have booted the fascist. After the past year, I don't have a whole lot of gentleness for "fascists?! in MY scifi?!" shocked pikachu face. But, I know what #runbyvolunteers is like. #Tips below.
THIS is what #spsfc needs to do. It's not hard. 👇
What we DON'T support is Nazis, which apparently is a high bar for writing orgs these days
We do not want Nazi money
We do not want Nazi panelists
We. Do. Not. Want. Nazis.
And if one ever manages to sneak through our vetting processes, PLEASE let us know so we can remove, ban, and block them
We do not want Nazi money
We do not want Nazi panelists
We. Do. Not. Want. Nazis.
And if one ever manages to sneak through our vetting processes, PLEASE let us know so we can remove, ban, and block them
With everything going on these past two weeks, we need to reiterate:
We support trans writers
We support lesbian writers
We support gay writers
We support bisexual writers
We support asexual writers
We support ALL queer writers
ESPECIALLY Black, Indigenous, and Brown queer writers
We support trans writers
We support lesbian writers
We support gay writers
We support bisexual writers
We support asexual writers
We support ALL queer writers
ESPECIALLY Black, Indigenous, and Brown queer writers
February 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
THIS is what #spsfc needs to do. It's not hard. 👇
#nazisareforpunching not platforming - I'm hearing sad things about #spsfc: they're platforming Devon Eriksen, a guy whose dog whistles are air raid sirens and whose twitter account looks like, well, that one relative at Thanksgiving who makes it misery (CW: fascist rhetoric): x.com/devon_erikse...
Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) / X
Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) / X
x.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
#nazisareforpunching not platforming - I'm hearing sad things about #spsfc: they're platforming Devon Eriksen, a guy whose dog whistles are air raid sirens and whose twitter account looks like, well, that one relative at Thanksgiving who makes it misery (CW: fascist rhetoric): x.com/devon_erikse...