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SF/F fan. Writer of meta and fan/original fiction. I don't have a pen name yet (they/them she/her) autistic grey ace Follow me on: Blog: catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.… Royal Road: www.royalroad.com/profile/331042

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 22h
A pleasure to assist. ☺️
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The apartment management company's robo associate sent me a phone call about paying rent. The rent that is not actually what I owe because of Shenanigans. I do not like the robo associate very much. I have enough trouble with the human apartment managers.
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One of the big reasons I switched to LibreOffice!
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Blaze Ward @blazeward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is out my window as I stand and write.
Image of three elk cows, about ten meters away as seen from the window, looking at the girlcave and barn in the distance. They are mowing the grass still, two hours later
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is appalling.
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Anything that shows kids what abusive relationships look like and what to do about them is super necessary, though it might not always be affective. (I still ended up in an abusive relationship, but fortunately, I was able to get out.)
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sex Ed is important! Even when it leans in stupid "abstinence only" directions. (Note: I was in an abstinence only, and it used a lot of psychologically damaging fear campaign bullshit. Do not recommend.)
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I would buy name brand sneakers that had velcro, but the only velcro shoes I've seen for Nike (my preferred brand generally) are for kids. This is VERY ANNOYING. Especially since once again, my cheap (ish) shoes are falling apart within a couple weeks of buying them. ffs.
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I can't even keep the little decorative ties on some slippers tied. It's like I'm followed by a little shoe goblin who is determined that I trip over my own feet and get my laces tangled in bike gears forever. So I buy velcro shoes.
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Now, I wear velcro shoes by preference because a) it took me a super long time to learn how to tie my shoes. (for which we can blame developmental lag due to #autism) b) Even after learning how to tie shoes, they somehow come untied CONSTANTLY. No matter how tightly I tie them.
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wear velcro sneakers. Typically these are fairly cheap velcro sneakers. Lately they've been even more cheap. By which I mean they have been falling apart faster and faster. From a year, to six months to three months to ONE WEEK before they start falling apart.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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👻 homeless people @educatedunhoused.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey gang, I got a new place, and I need $300 for rent! Due October 13th! I am taking on a temporary election related part-time job to help me with some of this, but it's not gonna pay much, so I still need ma! Anything helps, including sharing! gofund.me/5cbfdad47 ko-fi.com/aotuxedo
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Donate to Support Felix’s Recovery and Care Team Costs, organized by Felix Battle
Hey community, I'm a black nb artist and activist that was made homeless by … Felix Battle needs your support for Support Felix’s Recovery and Care Team Costs
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Liz as in lizard 🏳️‍⚧️ @sloppers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Shit’s tough right now, I need motel money, grocery money, I’m living day to day. I need at least $140 for a couple nights and $50 for groceries ko-fi.com/roboliz www.paypal.me/secretvault #HomelessSky #mutualaid #helpsky #fundsky #transcrowdfund #helpfolkslive2026 #maboost #urgent 💕💸🏳️‍⚧️
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#booksky
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reposting! Moving cross country is expensive! And I want a relatively soft landing. ##mutualaid ##gofundme
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#fundraiser #mutualaid gofund.me/aadedff22 Still having issues between the housing voucher people and the rental company. Still need more money so I can pay to have my e-bike shipped and other odds and ends that won't fit in the luggage.
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Donate to Help Me Move from AZ to MN for Better Support, organized by Rena McGee
I am attempting to raise enough money to move from AZ to MN due to housing di… Rena McGee needs your support for Help Me Move from AZ to MN for Better Support
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Book Review: The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo In which Our Protagonist receives an opportunity she can't refuse #booksky #books #bookreview
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Book Review: The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo
In The Scarlet Ball, a young half-Vietnamese, half-French woman stumbles into an opportunity that could very well be the death of her. Judith Ban is a recent immigrant living in Manhattan and working for a very exclusive modiste. (For long hours and crappy wages, as this is taking place during the 1800s when everything was terrible for everyone, and yet somehow even more terrible if you were not white.) Our Protagonist is doing a delivery to a mansion that is in disarray: the young lady of the house has absconded in order to avoid a potentially lethal social obligation.
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reposting! #gofundme #mutualaid I need the money to move out of state, and set up elsewhere. (In Minnesota.)
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 01/10/2026
Universal basic income ensures that everyone has the ability to express basic demand for basic goods and services. This is market improving. Markets can't differentiate between 0 and Ø. A store can fail because not enough customers. But is that because they didn't like it or they did but were broke?
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(Yes I know potatoes are actually from the South America.)
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(On the other hand, there are potatoes, so there might as well be jigs.)
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Writer, writer, your story takes place in Fantasy Ancient China. No one is playing a jig on a dizi, sprightly or otherwise. #mdzs #writing
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Next day repost! 💙📚 #booksky
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Book Review: Misery's Wife by Joan Tierney, in which Our Heroine embarks on a quest to find her missing sisters. #booksky #books #bookreview
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Book Review: Misery’s Wife by Joan Tierney
Misery’s Wife is a retelling of the Portuguese fairy tale, “What Came of Picking Flowers.” (I had to do some poking around to find out what folk tale the book was based on. It was not named in the book summary.) It’s something of a “Bluebeard” but with elements from other tale types. (Note: fairy tales tend to fall into rough categories with specific elements/themes in common.) It takes place in a post-apocalyptic, post-ecological collapse world in which the natural world has either gotten much, much bigger or else humanity has become much, much smaller.
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Someday I will use "belie" correctly in a sentence. That day may never come due to my avoiding using "belie," in a sentence. Because somehow, I always manage to get it wrong. #writing #writingwoes
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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 24/09/2026
Hello! Can I bribe you to look at this fundraiser by showing you pictures of Cap... AS A BABY?? The Old Man didn't start out as an old man! He was once... A TINY LAD! Learning to take treats without taking my fingers off!
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Just a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Donate or share 🥰
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 24/09/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "I miss the days when bullshit was funny"
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Writer, writer, this was in your notes, and not part of the story itself, but still: When you *contest *something, you are arguing against it. When you *attest* to something, you are saying "yeah, as far as I know, this is true/accurate/correct." #writing
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Note: I did not use the term "corporal punishment" because sometimes people pretend to not know what it refers to. That, or I am running into the "reader doesn't know how to pronounce words they read" thing again.
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TBF, I possibly freaked the dude out because I mentioned that I was super happy when I found out that a principal I had in grade school had died--and how I very much don't like the family members who abused me as a kid. #childabuse #abuse #neurodivergent #autism
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nor to my observation has it made any kid particularly well behaved. They just got better at hiding their actions--unless they were also neurodivergent like me, in which case they kept getting beat due to lack of ability cope with stressors (by which I mean bullies both peer and authority figure.)
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anyway, the guy who called me stupid because of a typo was pro teachers beating students to make them behave. My feel was that getting beaten or made fun or otherwise bullied by teachers did not make me particularly well behaved. Kind of the opposite, actually!
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And I only consider not knowing "conversational texting" to be forgivable because there are a lot of conventions I know/knew nothing about. Like, I found out that I apparently come off as angry or bossy/pushy because I generally use conventional punctuation. Whiich is generally not my intent!
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Really, *really* immature. (And I say this despite most of the folks doing this I've encountered are my age or older. Notably, these folks also lack basic "netiquette" and don't understand super basic conversational text. (Which is almost forgivable really, except when paired with ad hominem bs)
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Randomly: I may have mentioned this elsewhere (or before), but can I just say that folks who try to win an argument by calling the other party stupid because something they wrote has a typo or slightly crap grammar are kind of assholes? And immature assholes at that?
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Note: I love this fic series, but like many fan fics, (and original fic, to be fair) turns of phrase get borked/people don't catch typos/writer isn't a primary-english speaker/they are dyslexic/so on so forth. #writing #fanfic
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Writer, writer, I don't think you meant the character didn't want to go in with a "negative pre-cognition" of another character. I think you meant "negative PRE-CONCEPTION" #writing #reading
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Net Result: NO FUCKING TRAVEL ID AND NO APPOINTMENT FOR THE FUCKING TRAVEL ID. #FML
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am supposed to be getting a Travel (Real) ID. I cannot get a Travel ID because I need to arrange an appointment. I cannot arrange an appointment because I need to fill out an application. I cannot fill out the application for no known reason I can figure out. #AZMVD #FML
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
gofund.me/bb13e2983 Please share this link! I am raising money for moving out of state. I'm raising 10000, for housing/travel/food expenses #gofundme #mutualaid Thanks to everyone who has donated so far!
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Donate to Help Me Move from AZ to MN for Better Support, organized by Rena McGee
I am attempting to raise enough money to move from AZ to MN due to housing di… Rena McGee needs your support for Help Me Move from AZ to MN for Better Support
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
fan writers are "paid" in feedback/comments. I'd think that would be obvious? 😆
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barbisblue @barbisblue.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you don't see racism it's because you don't have to see it,

don't want to see it,

don't have to carry it,

don't have anything to lose by ignoring it, and don't have to answer for pretending you don't.

@chasemycreations
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Farming While Beige @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A White dude just said “can you prove that Black people were slaves?” with his whole chest in case you wanna realize how screwed we all are 😂
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Farming While Beige @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When “believe women” and “believe Black women” disagree… that’s when you find out who that progressive White lady really is :-)
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Catching Shadows 🖤🩶🤍💜 @catchingshadows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I live in eternal envy of anyone who lives within his delivery range.
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Farming While Beige @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The distressingly enormous number of high-performing women being held back by a male sibling who refuses to stay out of jail and stop getting people pregnant
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A WARRIOR FEARS NOTHING, NOT EVEN ASKING FOR HELP.
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