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celia winter 🦋

@crossingwinter.bsky.social
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☆ she/her ☆ award winning knitter ☆ sffh author ☆ member of codex ☆ bisexual disaster ☆ neurodivergent disaster ☆ disaster ☆ only here sporadically ☆ ☆ rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social @ azantian ☆ celiawinter.kit.com/profile/links

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 13h
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 13h
hello my laptop is returned to me good lord i am such a millennial who requires a Big Screen to do thins sometimes
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My computer is in the shop so I am barely a person, but last week I signed my contract for another short story sale! My story “The Forest’s Kin” will be appearing in ROF’s first installment of their Whispers Made Flesh anthology series, tentatively coming out in November!
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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CB Droege (Manawaker) @cbdroege.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🦄Trauma makes choices for us 🎙️ Manawaker Studio presents: "This, Too, is Magic" by Celia Winter @crossingwinter.bsky.social 🎧 Any podcast app ❤️ Supported by patrons! www.patreon.com/manawaker/po... #FlashFiction #FictionPodcast #SpecFic #NewEpisode #booksky #unicorn #purity #magic
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Welp hashem did not write my work laptop’s name in the book of life
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh dear I seem to have entered my “what if this could be a novella” wra
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Joe Merrick @joemerrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To commemorate the collaboration between Pokémon and the ESA, a special Pikachu plush was sent to the International Space Station from April 11th through June 17th What a picture. Absolutely stunning
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lower wacker is unironically one of my favorite things about Chicago.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
some news!
Publisher's Marketplace Deal Report, Sons  of Nod by Thomas Ha Imprint: Tordotcom, Imprint: Tordotcom. Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Thomas Ha's SONS OF NOD, a novella about a group of boys laboring to build machinery for a reckless corporation on a strange and desolate island, to Avery Davis at Tordotcom, with Ann VanderMeer editing, for publication in fall 2027, by Michael Curry at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world English).
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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Welp, confirmation from a market that gen AI art is used when there are "no other options." No other options?? SEriOSLy? 🤔 Let's start a thread of where you can find art to use in the public domain because I'm sick of this shit! Please reply below with your favorite resources. 👇
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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ok y'all -- I have a GIFT MEMBERSHIP for one year of poetry review awesomeness up for grabs! Want a chance to win it? Comment below. I'll choose a winner on Monday at noon Eastern.
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Justin Pot @justinpot.com · 10/09/2026
pro tip: tell your boss the AI said you’ll be more efficient at home and see which one of their irrational beliefs wins out
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 11/09/2026
“Rejection” means that someone in the chain is looking for a German Shepherd and you’re handed them something else. Perhaps it was a chihuahua. Perhaps a bicycle. The fact that you didn’t give them the German Shepherd they want doesn’t mean your bicycle is bad, it just means it’s a bicycle.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.
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Sand_Scorpio 🦋 is hunting for Ben Solo @sand-scorpio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Let Go (Never Let Me Go) by @crossingwinter.bsky.social #reyloWRW Reread this fic in which Tinder-matched Rey and Ben are on the same train when they swipe right and fall headfirst into the most emotional, meaningful conversation and also for each other. archiveofourown.org/works/150719...
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Let Go (Never Let Me Go) - Chapter 1 - crossingwinter - Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you read only one short story of mine this year, I hope it’s this one. Scott also wrote about why he chose it for this issue, link to that threaded. www.adventitious.net/stories/a-ga...
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A Game of Go by P.A. Cornell
Ava is a dying AI Home who raised Christopher on love and games of Go—now she has to convince him to leave her, before he never does. By P.A. Cornell.
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RFFA @reyloffanth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We wanted to separate this additional RFFA-wide policy into it's own thread: The RFFA has ZERO TOLERANCE FOR GENERATIVE AI USAGE IN ANY OF OUR COMMUNITY EVENTS. 1/
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
sometimes you know you're Wired because bad romance comes on and you're like "i could have sworn this song was twice as fast"
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I have a story in here that's originally from a print anthology- so excited to get more eyes on it!
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
bad news: i still have to actually write the end tho.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
good news. i screamed "END!!!!" loud enough and an end materialized.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
sometimes you have a good story idea and you start it and then you don't know what you do it so you tell it "end" and it does nothing and then you say "END" more firmly and then nothing happens and you cry
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
hit my hundredth short story rejection of the year. feels pretty good, actually. i'm p proud of it.
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026
Some friends are teaching their baby ASL as an early bridge to speech and they made the mistake of teaching her “want” as a concept. Now she wanders around the house signing “want” all the time as an expression of unfocused desire. They fucked up and made the baby invent the opposite of Buddhism.
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Meredith W @meredithw.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
PSA: If you know anyone who might have been around baby goats at a mobile petting zoo in North Carolina, they need to receive preventive treatment NOW. Once symptoms occur, it's too late. #rabies #NorthCarolina #goats #zoo
CNN: Baby goats with rabies at NC mobile petting zoo prompt calls across multiple counties to contact health officials.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
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Report – AI and Education
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Vacation starts Friday and I cannot express how hard it is to motivate myself to do just about anything rn. Esp since it is gorgeous out.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This needs to be a thing.
It’s a poster, which says if 5/4 is Star Wars day with the Star Wars logo below those words. On the bottom half of the image is a picture from the movie 9 to 5 with Dolly Parton at a typewriter with the label can 9/25 be Dolly Parton Day?
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
They are playing an orchestral version of “I will always love you” on my morning classical music radio alarm 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in 2005, Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar for Best Original Song for the film Hustle and Flow ("Hard Out Here For A Pimp"). Dolly Parton was nominated in the same category. After celebrating heavily, they had a nice personal note awaiting them when they arrived back home.
An excerpt of the oral history of Three 6 Mafia winning an Oscar in 2005 as told to Variety.

DJ Paul: I woke up in my hotel room the next morning with my housecoat on and a bottle of champagne in my hand, and the phone ringing because the Hollywood Reporter or somebody was calling for an interview and taking pictures of us. Then we did some interviews and flew back home.

When we landed there was so many people in the airport waiting for us, there was applause, the minute we stepped off the airplane people started going crazy, it was almost like a little parade at the airport for us. It was crazy.

Juicy J: When we got back to Memphis, Dolly Parton actually sent us a letter congratulating us and signed it, saying she was just happy [the award] came back to Tennessee.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i just got? my first? ever? poetry acceptance? i'm in shock.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT
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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
11 days to go and the AaN KS campaign is deep in Stretch Goal territory - 2 new AaN anthologies + add any books in our catalog as free shipping add-ons. 92% to SG1 and 78% to SG2 to fund additional authors. Info here - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... RP/QP #ks #kickstarter #booksky #sff #fsf
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Two Intriguing AaN Anthologies: One Campaign
Two Anthologies: "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings"
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sometimes when I am flipping a particularly large pancake I imagine a sports announcer describing my movements as though I am gearing up for a high stakes penalty shot.
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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The final hours of @jessicapixie.bsky.social self-authored and illustrated chidren’s book (about a cat with a magical tale) KS campaign. $3500 is an attainable goal. Check out the campaign here - www.kickstarter.com/projects/119... #ks #kickstarter #booksky #cats
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Morty Takes a Walk
A full-color, 40 page children's book about a sphinx cat who wonders if his furry tail holds ancient magic within.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Not going to link to it, but the story that's starting to circulate claiming that Penguin Random House is moving wholesale to AI copyediting and proofreading? The story itself is AI slop from an AI slop farm. It's bullshit.
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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
There is no alt scene in any blue city weirder, cultier or more psychologically messed up than what goes down in far right evangelical spaces. These people are off the charts weird. That goes for their scotus justices, too.
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Xploshi @xploshi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
the Mario Galaxy planet off in the distance with a boss waiting on it
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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's here! It's here! My solo dance show film A Singular They can now be rented on demand, from anywhere, by anyone (you??!). Come with me through the fluid embodiments that hold my core self. Audience feedback includes things like "gorgeous", "intimate", and "accessible" 💜💛🖤♿ tobymacnutt.vhx.tv
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A Singular They full access package
Access your choice of versions of the show with: - original audio with captions, switchable to audio description - always-on audio description, optional captions (for description and sound) This is a...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The agentic vizier software I bought to automate my whispers to the sultan has developed its own agenda and long story short I'm getting beheaded at dawn
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Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com · 19/08/2026
The Communist Manifesto by music_kid67 listed on AO3 with tags "Hurt No Comfort", "History", "Everyone is Gay", and "Found Family". The preview reads "So many people don't know what the Communist manifesto is or they didn't learn ab it in school so I'm putting it on ao3 so it's accessible to a lot of people"
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
i will serve my king (kazul, king of the dragons) until i die
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