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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 2h

🌃 MILES FROM MORNING / NOW / 06 📢 New chapter on my Patreon now! 🔗 www.patreon.com/winterandwor... 💝 You can read this post, and everything else on my Patreon, by joining as a free or paid member. 🏷️ #Cyberpunk #SciFi #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Patreon

Image: A man wearing black streetwear and dark sunglasses stands in a corridor in a run-down building. The lighting is dramatic in shades of pink, purple and blue.

Text: Do those little guns have an over-compensation setting? Are you feeling insecure?

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 12/10/2026

Catching up from yesterday! Also, this is the first time I've used the snippet feature in @ellipsus.com on mobile and it was lovely and simple 😊 🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon #QueerWriters #WriteSky

Image: Silhouette of a woman standing in a field at sunset.

Text: Because she was, wasn’t she? Just another person. Not a mysterious figure on a pedestal whose attention I longed for. Or maybe she was both of those things the whole time and that might have been the root of the problem.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 10/10/2026

🌃 MILES FROM MORNING / NOW / 05 📢 New chapter on my Patreon now! 🔗 www.patreon.com/winterandwor... 💝 You can read this post, and everything else on my Patreon, by joining as a free or paid member. 🏷️ #Cyberpunk #SciFi #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Patreon

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 04/10/2026

Aaaahhhh I have the exact word in Darwin's Cliff! I discovered the concept of foreboding joy via Brené Brown and have had an uncomfortable awareness of it ever since, so of course it made its way into something I'm writing. 🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

IMAGE: Silhouette of a woman standing in a field at sunset.

TEXT: Next to it was the cork from my birthday champagne and a candle in a glass holder, my shrine to what was and what might have been. My temple of foreboding joy.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 03/10/2026

I forgot to mention my goal yesterday (I'm still catching up, don't judge me) but it fits into today's theme too, so here goes... Introducing Darwin's Cliff, the WIP I'll be working on this month. Queer lit fic with vibes like The Secret History, The Virgin Suicides and Sunburn. 🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon

A woman standing in field, silhouetted against a sunset.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 03/10/2026

🌃 MILES FROM MORNING / NOW / 04 📢 New chapter on my Patreon now! 🔗 www.patreon.com/winterandwor... 💝 You can read this post, and everything else on my Patreon, by joining as a free or paid member. 🏷️ #Cyberpunk #SciFi #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Patreon

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 01/10/2026

📚 My September 2026 reading wrap-ups from @thestorygraph.com and Fable. I hit my reading goal for the year! 🥰 I can't pick a favourite for the month between Bad Influence by Will Carver and The Midnight Train by Matt Haig. I love both for different reasons. 🏷️ #ReadingCommunity #Booksky #AmReading

winterandwords September 2026 Wrap-Up graphic from StoryGraph. 10.bokks, 461 pages, 65.08 hours, 4.18 average rating.

September reading wrap-up graphic from Fable. 2026 reading challenge 52/50

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 28/09/2026

How did I miss this yesterday?! Catching up now with a line from Darwin's Cliff. 🏷️ #QueerWriters (line share: still) #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky

IMAGE: A woman standing in a field, silhouetted against the sunset
TEXT: While I ate and smiled and talked, half of my soul was still tethered to an aching loss that never fully left me no matter what I did or who I was with.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 27/09/2026

Delay appears exactly once in Miles From Morning and I love this little snippet. Be careful with those mind-altering frequencies. You never know where you might end up...or where you might believe you've ended up. 🏷️ #WIPSnips (delay) #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 26/09/2026

🌃 MILES FROM MORNING / NOW / 03 📢 New chapter on my Patreon now! 🔗 www.patreon.com/winterandwor... 💝 This post is publicly accessible, so you can read it without joining my Patreon community. 🏷️ #Cyberpunk #SciFi #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Patreon

A man wearing black streetwear and dark sunglasses stands in a corridor in a run-down building. The lighting is dramatic in shades of pink, purple and blue. The text reads "I knock back half my coffee in one go because I’m going to need next-level amounts of caffeine to tolerate the conversation."

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 25/09/2026

Throwback snippet! I had so much fun with this scene, which is the first time Ezra Shepherd appears in Bridge From Ashes (from main character Rafe's POV). Ezra is perpetually done with everyone's shit and he has A Very Loud Voice. 🏷️ #PretendPanel #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky

“Turner!” he yells as if he’s not standing right in front of me.

I keep staring at my screen even though there’s nothing of consequence on it, but I get a kick out of busting his head and nothing does that harder than ignoring him.

He leans down, both hands planted on the opposite side of my desk. “Turner, can you hear me?”

Now I look up. "Everyone in the building can hear you.”

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 20/09/2026

This is my first #QueerWriters in ages and I'm so happy to be back here. I'm excited to be working on Darwin's Cliff again and to share a snippet with you 🩶 🏷️ #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 19/09/2026

🌃 MILES FROM MORNING / NOW / 02 📢 New chapter on my Patreon now! 🔗 www.patreon.com/winterandwor... 💝 This post is publicly accessible, so you can read it without joining my Patreon community. 🏷️ #Cyberpunk #SciFi #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Patreon

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 18/09/2026

I'm back! The dysfunctional meatsuit currently allows gentle computer use in small doses and I'm so happy. I'm working on Darwin's Cliff again and my first non-Patreon mission was to find this lovely new WIP promo image (thank you Uran Wang on Unsplash!) 🏷️ #WriteSky #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters

Silhouette of a woman standing in a field at sunset

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 12/09/2026

🌃 MILES FROM MORNING / BEFORE / 01 📢 New chapter on my Patreon now! 🔗 www.patreon.com/winterandwor... 💝 This post is publicly accessible, so you can read it without joining my Patreon community. 🏷️ #Cyberpunk #SciFi #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Patreon

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 01/09/2026

Yes, I use two reading trackers 🙈 Fable for the community and aesthetics, and StoryGraph for the stats because they have multiple editions of the same books to choose from. I live for the tasty data AND the cute vibes. 🏷️ #BookSky #ReadingCommunity #Reading

August reading wrap up from Fable with the covers of tsb books read and a graphics showing 2026 Reading Challenge 42/50

August reading wrap up from StoryGraph with covers of my three top rated books, and statistics for the month's reading.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 13/08/2026

This is as close as I got to seeing the eclipse yesterday. The Perseids meteor shower has also been hidden by clouds (so far, anyway). It's lovely seeing other people's photos and videos though. Did any of you get a better view than I did?

A cloudy sky with a bit of sunlight peeking through above the trees.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 11/08/2026

Found a way to take 'test' to a dark place, because that's where Miles From Morning goes with pretty much everything. 🏷️ #WIPSnips (test) #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

$So I stand up and take a step closer to the stranger with the cuts on his knuckles. And I undo the first two buttons on my shirt and open it to show him a fraction of the scars I wear like armour. And it’s desire and self-hatred and it’s also a test. Of him. Of me. Of the situation.$

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 09/08/2026

I went with vibes this time and used stubborn instead of persist. For a story about a belligerent pain in the ass, those words actually don't show up very often. 🏷️ #QueerWriters (line share day) #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

And I wait until he falls, then I leave him where he lands. Walking back down the hall with the flickering lights to the lift with the stubborn door, I zip my coat closed to hide the blood soaking my shirt. At least no-one comes out of any of the other units. No witnesses this time.

- Miles From Morning / Cityverse Vol. 03

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 09/08/2026

I'm rejecting threats of another heatwave and enjoying today's lovely autumnal weather (ignore the tumble dryer in the background pls)

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 08/08/2026

Look at this cryptid. I adore her. My spouse said it perfectly with, "Why have a normal dog when you can have a weird horse-mantis that sleeps on your couch all day?"

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 08/08/2026

Happy #Caturday from Silver! He'd like to remind you to rest when you're tired and eat some treats because you deserve them 😸

A fluffy grey cat, curled up and dozing happily.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 02/08/2026

I'm cheating a little bit today and going with rushing instead of hurry from Miles From Morning. 🏷️ #QueerWriters (line share day: hurry)

A sharp sting in my neck. Numbness rushing through me. Head suddenly too much of an unbalanced weight on my neck. Eyes rolling back. Sinking. Falling. Dark.

Target apprehended. Bringing him in now.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 01/08/2026

July's reading wrap-up on Fable. So many good books this month! 😍📚 (Not sure if I needed to cover the butt crack on Acts of Desperation, but just in case) 🏷️ #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 28/07/2026

I'm cheating a little bit with assistant, but it's as close as I got to assist in Miles From Morning. 🏷️ #WIPSnips (assist) #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

I get undressed and leave everything in a pile on the floor, waiting for another assistant to take them away. He’ll wash them and dry them and make it look like no-one died desperately grasping at those clothes or at the person wearing them. From Miles From Morning (Cityverse Vol 03)

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 26/07/2026

Rafe's internal snark is one of my favourite things about writing Miles From Morning. 🏷️ #QueerWriters (line share day: level)

I knock back half my coffee in one go because I’m going to need next-level amounts of caffeine to tolerate the conversation, but she’s so wholesome I can’t bring myself to tell her to fuck off.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 23/07/2026

Hi. I'm here to gently interrupt your scrolling with a picture of the Irish countryside being beautiful. Unclench your jaw. Take a few deep breaths. Maybe have a drink of that tea or coffee you made ages ago and forgot about. There. OK. Now you can go back to scrolling ☘️💚

Weathered fenceposts in uneven grassy terrain with a forest in the distance. The sky is vibrant blue with wispy clouds and the grass is shades of green and gold.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 20/07/2026

In keeping with the theme of lateness, I'm posting this Miles From Morning snippet a day late 😁 🏷️ #QueerWriters (line share day) #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

I guess it’s never too late or too early to pay a tax on futility through a bookmaker’s screen and drown your sorrows with whatever you have left after you lose.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 12/07/2026

Tiredness is such a huge theme in Miles From Morning. Rafe is almost perpetually exhausted. Physically, mentally, emotionally. He needs a break. 🏷️ #QueerWriters (line share day: tired) #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

And I’m still tired, right down in my bones. Tired in my heart and my hands and my skin. I’m tired in my scars because scars know how to be tired like nothing else does.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 05/07/2026

This is as close as anything gets to sparkling in Miles From Morning 🌆 🏷️ #QueerWriters (line share day: sparkle) #WriteSky #LGBTQWriters #WritingCommunity

And the bright white of the medical floors becomes the mirrored shine of the lift becomes the metal and glass of the foyer of HQ becomes the rush and neon chaos of the street outside.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 21/06/2026

Not quite a joke. Just Rafe not knowing when to keep his mouth shut 🙊 🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon

Then she fires her impatience at me. “Turner, you can’t just go around breaking people’s wrists when they piss you off.”

I’m not sure there’s any worse I can make this, so I may as well be honest. “I can. I’ve done it loads of times. Not always wrists, but—"

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 14/06/2026

I didn't have visible in Miles From Morning, but I had invisible. And I am so in love with making custom snippets in Ellipsus! The novely of this is never going to wear off. 🏷️ #SundaySnips #QueerWriters #WriteSky

Text: We’re not keeping the city safe or supporting a better society or anything like that. We’re just supplying industry with free labour while everyone else looks the other way because they like the convenience of their lives too much to ask questions.

Image: (Fake!) blood running down a plug hole from a hand

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 14/06/2026

A cyberpunk prison industrial complex mirroring the horrors of our current reality? In this economy? (yes) 🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon #QueerWriters #WriteSky

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 12/06/2026

I accidentally made a pride flag themed moodboard for Miles From Morning a while ago and I love it, so here it is. Rafe is bi-something. 'Sexual' is a difficult one for him, specifically because of trauma. He describes his orientation as "Into the sensation, not the source" 😏 🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon

Moodboard of cyberpunk-themed images in shades of pink, purple and blue.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 10/06/2026

The new paid version of @ellipsus.com lets users create custom themes and share them so other people can use them! This is the result of ten minutes playing with a feature I just got access to, so more work needed, but here's an early look at my first theme, CyberpunkBi 💜 🏷️ #WriteSky #QueerWriters

Two screenshots showing a custom theme for Ellipsus writing software in shades of pink, purple, and blue.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 07/06/2026

I have the actual word in Miles From Morning! Why do I always get so excited when that happens? 😅 🏷️ #SundaySnips #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky

Normal is subjective. Normal for me isn’t the same as normal for someone who lives in a city tower and whose job doesn’t involve murder. Normal for them is not even knowing that people like me exist.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 07/06/2026

This is more 😈lovers than 🥰lovers, but that's the vibe of Miles From Morning. 🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon #QueerWriters #WriteSky

And I want this. Whatever it is, I want it. Maybe because I’m calling the shots this time, or maybe just because it’s so fucking good to have someone melt in my arms and to know that I’m worth something to them that’s beyond transactional, even for a few seconds.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 04/06/2026

Elite doesn't appear in Miles From Morning, so I'm going with vibes today. Here's Rafe definitely not wanting to progress at work because work is awful and he hates it (but they'll kill him if he quits). 🏷️ #WIPSnips (elite) #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #Writesky #Writers

I got put on a fucking fast track to promotion. I didn’t even know that was a possibility or I would’ve made much more of an effort to be shit at everything.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 02/06/2026

Here's Rafe in Miles From Morning having the not-fun drugs (instead of the kind he usually has). 🏷️ #WIPSnips (ready) #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #Writers

Whatever sedatives they pumped into me are still doing something. I’m angry, but there’s no part of me ready to do anything about it.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 01/06/2026

Happy new month! Today's snip is of Rafe from Miles From Morning having an(other) identity crisis. 🏷️ #WIPSnips (loss) #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky

I am not my grief and loss and anger. I am not my shitty fucking job. I am not my violent lurches of nauseating shame.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 31/05/2026

Here's a splurge on whiskey from Miles From Morning. Rafe always buys his drinks three at a time 🥃 🏷️ #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky

“Anyway, what do you want to drink?”

“Whiskey. Three whiskeys. Neat.” If I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it right. I never was any good at only having one drink.

She lines up three glasses and starts pouring. “You waiting for people?”

“Nope.”

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 31/05/2026

I don't have the exact word in Miles From Morning, so I'm going with vibes today. Is it still success if you're trying really hard to hide how good you are at something you don't want to do..? 🏷️ #SundaySnips #WriteSky #QueerWriters

She stops next to me and speaks in a near whisper. “Stop pretending not to be exceptional, Turner. You aren’t hiding it as well as you think you are.”

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 30/05/2026

Anything? Anything-anything? OK, here's a photo of my bedroom with cyberpunk lighting from the other night, matching the vibes of my current WIP. Smart bulbs provide endless entertainment. 🏷️ #PretendPanel

A bedroom with blue and pink lighting. There's a wall hanging of moon phases and stars.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 28/05/2026

I haven't (yet) been able to find people that line up with the characters in Miles From Morning, so I'm cheating and fan-casting the guys from November Breaks and Spin Cylinder instead. Brett (the irresistible chaos engine): Ken Bek Noah (death in an expensive coat): Jeffrey Dean Morgan 🏷️ #MemeMay

Danish model, Ken Bek. A man with short red hair and light brown eyes looks flirtatiously into the camera. He wears a grey t-shirt and a silver watch.

Actor, Jeffrey Dean Morgan. A man with short dark hair and scruffy stubble stares into the middle distance. He wears a rumpled white shirt and looks tired.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 27/05/2026

Miles From Morning is very person vs society, so the antagonist is *gestures broadly at everything* The worst thing about the picture I'm sharing is that it's about our actual world, not a fictional futuristic dystopian hellscape 🙃 You can buy it from libertymaniacs.com/en-gb/produc... 🏷️ #MemeMay

Venn diagram of the matrix, terminator and idiocracy with overlaps for AI overlords, pleasant slavery and societal decline. The centre overlap says you are here.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 24/05/2026

I'm going with vibes today because 'encourage' doesn't appear in Miles from Morning. This snippet sounds wholesome if you don't know the people having the conversation have been forced to serve with the evil army-police because they're excellent at murder 😇 🏷️ #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky

She nudges me with her shoulder again. “I knew you were going to be fun. Anyway, you want to try a camomile tea?”

“I guess so. If I have to.” Her enthusiasm is forceful. I don’t know how to get out of this. “Can I put sugar in it?”

She bounces down from the counter, rinses my mug in the sink, and puts it into the drinks machine. “Just at the start. To help you transition away from coffee in the evenings. Then we’ll cut you down gradually.”

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 24/05/2026

Rafe from Miles From Morning is pretty much living his worst nightmare being forced into service with a corrupt militarised police force. Everything is awful forever 😭 🏷️ #SundaySnips #QueerWriters #WriteSky #LGBTQWriters #Writers

This graduation ceremony is literally one of the most boring experiences I’ve ever had forced on me. We all know we’ve graduated. We all know who didn’t. And we all know where to go for our first assignments. None of this is a surprise today. It’s just a circle jerk for all the dickheads who think a uniform means something.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 22/05/2026

And finally, here's This Night. Again, text in alt. Video: youtu.be/kmz7mV1WavA 🏷️ #PretendPanel (this is probably my highest effort tag game post ever 😅)

There are things I have done
There's a place I have gone
There's a beast and I let it run
Now it's runnin' my way
There are things I regret
That you can't forgive, you can't forget
There's a gift, that you sent
You sent it my way

[Chorus]
So take this night
Wrap it around me like a sheet
I know I'm not forgiven
But I need a place to sleep
So take this night
And lay me down on the street
I know I'm not forgiven
But I hope that I'll be given some peace

[Verse 2]
There's a game that I played
There are rules I had to break
There's mistakes that I made
But I made 'em my way

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 22/05/2026

OK, so Revelator. This is only the first half(ish) of the lyrics, but it's the part that hits me in the feels every time. Text in alt. Video: youtu.be/i0bP0G84EzQ 🏷️ #PretendPanel

I got tired of sadness
I got tired of all the madness
I got tired of being a badass all the time
It’s only survival
Only not dead upon arrival
Only ahead of every rival that we find

And we’ve ridden beyond where we could safely touch down
And we’re out in the void past where we could’ve had turned around
I tried my feet on the floor, tried to beat on the door
But it didn’t even make a sound
Got my heart open wide
But the city been shut down

It’s easy to go babe
It’s just an easy yes or no, babe
It’s just an easy way to throw away what we have
I don’t need a letter
I don’t need anybody better
I don’t need anybody ever, I never have

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