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There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England.

1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".

Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

Excuse me?!

Grammarly's new "‘Expert Review’ AI agents make suggestions supposedly inspired by subject matter experts, including several staff members here at The Verge... none of whom gave Grammarly permission to include them..."

VERY. Quelle surprise, he was the one cheating on HER

Its a guilty pleasure, I sort of want to study people like that under a microscope.

Check out reddit, specifically r/relationships, r/AIO and r/AITA. There are SWATHES of posts from a) women who have exactly that kind of boyfriend, and b) men who genuinely do not think they're in the wrong. Saw one where he went "you're not attractive enough to cheat on me" to his WIFE

😬 Me and Enka are terrible at enforcing sensible bedtimes with other. One of us will often just flat-out go to bed while the other is still writing/drawing 😅

Thanks to everyone who "came out" and made tonight's #WeeknightWriters chat amazing! If you're revising, or thinking about revising, a novel(la), be sure to grab a ticket to our panel this weekend!

I'm with you on that! Shortform means you don't really have to waste time thinking about the worldbuilding and can just get right to the meat of the story. Most of my favourite books are short story compilations!

YESSSS I love it. I know a couple of blacksmiths and once I have disposable income again I'm gonna ask them to make me some. Getting ones off Amazon is a risk, like I love the full-finger filligree-style rings but they're usually SO fragile, so just be aware of that when buying!

New short story will be going live on my Patreon tomorrow at 10am GMT, and you can sign up for as little as £1 a month and get access to EVERYTHING there!

patreon.com/fenwintersta...

#WeeknightWriters

Oathsworn: The Nameless | Prologue: Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf? | Winters Tales Get more from Winters Tales on Patreon

Also 😁 if you wouldn't mind sharing my Patreon, where I post all my writing and my novel in-progress (Oathsworn: The Nameless) for as little as £1 a month! If you'd like to try before you buy, I made the prologue of The Nameless FREE to read:

www.patreon.com/posts/127645...

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YES! Not everyone has to enjoy what you create so just create! Experiment! Get all mad scientist about it! Be unhinged! Go all House of Leaves! Gideon the Ninth! Stop playing things safe and instead play things SINCERE!

(Reminder to myself as well tbh)

I LOVE THEM

Continue creating the beautiful, helpful and encouraging community you already are! Having space to think/talk about my writing is helpful for actually getting me to work on it!

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This coming week involves a lot of travel, so being kind to myself if I don't get to write much or create much. I'm taking my laptop so it won't be impossible to write, but I'll definitely be low on energy for most of my spare time!

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It's ridiculous but I've been watching compilations of those 'REAL LIFE GHOST CAUGHT ON CAMERA' vids, and they're all very obviously fake but I enjoy figuring out exactly HOW they've been faked. And it inspired my latest short story as well!

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Harriet tries to stay out of it until she gets hit, and then it's ON. Average aim, but she makes up for it with full sneak mode, guerilla warfare type shit.

Rowan's the one who hit her.

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Oh absolutely! But the interpersonal conflict will really make the story much better than it already is. Like Gideon the Ninth? Starting that story off with Gideon/Harrow as besties would not have been as good.

How do you write interpersonal conflict when you yourself hate conflict? Logically, I KNOW it'll be much better to have this bit of conflict and then grow from that, but emotionally I want everyone to be best friends and no-one ever argues or fights 😭

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My feed is a mess, I am doing this in the wrong order, sorry! 😅

Hi, I'm Fen! I write horror/fantasy, my current WIP is a dark Urban Fantasy called Oathsworn: The Nameless, where humanity has gotten too complacent 300 years after the big War with the Fae ended.

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Oathsworn: The Nameless | Prologue: Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf? | Winters Tales Get more from Winters Tales on Patreon

Hi, I'm Fen! I write horror, fantasy, and poetry. I post it all and my novel in-progress (Oathsworn: The Nameless) on my Patreon for as little as £1 a month! If you'd like to try before you buy, I made the prologue of The Nameless FREE to read:

www.patreon.com/posts/127645...

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I have a Patreon! I post shorts, and my novel in-progress, Oathsworn: The Nameless, all for as little as £1 a month! If you'd like to try before you buy, I made the Prologue of the Nameless FREE to read:

www.patreon.com/posts/127645...

#SFFChat

My week so far:

Monday: Therapy
Tuesday: Eye appointment (Uveitis follow-up)
Wednesday: Course mentor meeting (Web dev)
Today: Dentist (2 fillings)

Tomorrow I pack for a week visiting my Mum, friends, then partner.

This week has been a lot even before reading the news! #WeeknightWriters

Hard to see them but the hand I've got propped up (on the left here, my right hand) are the ones I've got. I don't have a closer up view that isn't NSFW 😅 An example is these from Amazon?

"Abhartach was dead, slain by Fionn Mac Cumhail. The villagers threw him a mighty feast in thanks for his heroism in their time of need. But the merriment was short-lived, for who should fling open the door to the roundhouse but the Abhartach, whole once more?"

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Super cheesy, but my beloved @enka2040.bsky.social! They have SO MANY IDEAS and the way they explain all of them is honestly so inspiring.

Go follow. Go do it!

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Lieutenant (my beloved) has been to the Fey lands, and then returned from the Fey lands, and her memory seems to have STAYED in the Fey lands. In this world, 300+ years passed, so on her return it's a world she doesn't recognise.

She's going to make that everyone else's problem.

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SINCERITY. Be weird, be experimental, be cheesy and cliche and clunky but be SINCERE! Some of the best stuff I've read/watched has been a little rough around the edges but the sincerity is what makes it incredible and memorable! But people are now too afraid of their own audiences for that. #SFFChat

Hi, I'm Fen! I'm teling on myself here, but my favourite accessories are the sensory play/claw rings I have. I cannot STAND my actual nails being long, but those sold metal claw rings that slide onto my fingertips make me so happy and I would love to build up a collection.

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Hey! My beloved has set up Patreon and Ko-Fi as steps on the road to being able to do art full time. Please go and follow them? And if you like anime and manga, and high-fantasy stories, consider signing up to the Patreon so you can get early access to the ongoing stories!

I love Thistle so much and if anything ever happens to her I will spontaneously combust