Winter M.

THEY/IT // 21+ // Fear is the price of the imagination // Multi-Fandoms // Asks are open, feel free to drop in! // Current hyperfixation : Resident Evil

[spockandthings]

Intro and links

Well hello! I think it's high time I re-do my pinned post, so here I am!

I'm Winter (they/it ; iel), a bisexual polyamorous enby fandom mess who dabbles in writing and art once in a while! I am an avid poetry and sci-fi reader as well as a lit student! I love the colour yellow, tattoos and most things nerdy! I can speak both french and english.

My main interests (a non-exhaustive list of content which you could see me sharing on here) are :

Star Trek (TOS & AOS)

Hannibal

Critical Role

Resident Evil (although I have a side blog [@sweetlike-blood] more dedicated to it)

Baldur's Gate 3

The All For The Game series

TTRPGs

Literature

Socials :

You can find most of my writing on my AO3 : Dr_Lecteur (and my assorted pseuds, TheMoonIsMyLover and Sweetlikeblood)

I am on Bluesky at Spockandthings

I am also on Discord, mainly in :

The Steel Watch, a Gortash-centric, 18+ discord server with a generous sprinkle of Durge lovin

The Valley of Shadows, an 18+ Resident Evil discord server with a minor focus of Chrisker and the Winters family

Masterlists :

Dreamling Bingo's 2023 Masterlist

Dreamling Masterlist

Corinthienne (Lucienne x The Corinthian) Masterlist

Sandman Fic Masterlist

Baldur's Gate 3 Fic Masterlist

I am still a baby tumblr user, please be gentle as I learn to navigate and set up a tag system! My blog is also, as a rule of thumb, 18+ and multi-ship - while I do try to keep ship and warning tags on content I reblog, some might slip my mind.

I am also giving you a blanket permission to do any transformative works inspired by any of my own work, as long you do not use any genAI to do it and tag me (whether on here or on AO3) about it! This is simply because I would love and be delighted to see/read it!

[spockandthings]

Artfight card for this year!! I'll be incredibly busy, but I'll try to do a few attacks 💕

[theartofmadeline]

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

[animentality]

[fawnduu]

Happy Pride from the Dragon Girlfriend crew!!!!

🌈💕

[jjjjjjjjoey]

When ur mutuals w/ some cool ass people rb if u agree

[the-catholic-inkling-deactivate]

My hobbies include reading, writing and doing neither of those things

[ashen-crest]

I can do it. I can write a chapter. I am capable of putting sentences together. I know what a comma is. I am Aware of the Character.

[thefakerachelray]

Any sci-fi media: the spaceship is a character

Me: OMG THE SPACESHIP IS A CHARACTER

[mentallyillmindmeld]

“Cinema is dying how can we save it” if you have Kirk and Spock fuck NASTY in Star Trek AOS 4 you will make ten billion dollars.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform

[love-ardour-anarchism]

“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.” Ursula K. Le Guin "American SF and The Other" in Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1975.

[captainrexs]

Maul - Shadow Lord: Chapter 9 - Strange Allies

[pulsingvoid]

i can't do this anymore guys. dostoevsky never wrote this. please. can anyone hear me. if you do proper research the earliest version of this quote is from like a 2010 facebook quote with a magenta flower on it. it's gotten so bad that it's even credited to him on goodreads but nobody can source where he wrote it because he fucking didn't. i can't keep seeing this in your web weaves. dostoevsky the author of crime and punishment did not in fact write "you were destined for me. perhaps as a punishment". that is just simply not true. please nod and tell me you understand

[foggyeyes]

"this quote was attributed to me. perhaps as a punishment." -dostoevsky

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[tiraminksu]

the bard and the mask

[remnantglow]

classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 here’s a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much it’s unreal

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guys if one more person leaves a tag like this on my post im gonna lose my mind. There Are Science Fiction Authors Who Are Not Misogynistic Men

[remnantglow]

ok i’ve gotten one too many ‘this is why i don’t read sci-fi’ comments so here’s a rec list for the people convinced all science fiction is bad and misogynistic (with something for everyone, hopefully!):

(also, btw, the book links are to the Storygraph, which includes content warnings for each one!)

smth funny and lighthearted about a security robot who’d rather watch TV then do its job? all systems red by martha wells (first novella in the The Murderbot Diaries series, 6 books, ongoing)

a complex, intricate political space opera following a warship AI who’s lost (almost) everything? ancillary justice by ann leckie (first in the Imperial Radch trilogy) (fun fact! bc of space linguistics reasons, all characters in this series are referred to with she/her pronouns, making gender a non-factor - it’s really cool!)

a dark story about travelling between parallel universes and a woman who is dead in almost every single one? the space between worlds by micaiah johnson (standalone) (SO good, i don’t get to recommend it often enough!!!)

a story about grief and letting go, and a unique take on alien invasion? the seep by chana porter (standalone novella)

hey, how abt some dystopian YA, for old times sake? specifically, one with sapphics and sick mechas? try gearbreakers by zoe hana mikuta (first in duology)

or, if you’d prefer something a bit less angsty, YA about a ragtag group of teens and a space heist? the disasters by m. k. england (standalone)

alternate history steampunk that blurs the line btwn science fiction and fantasy? the black god’s drums by p. djeli clark (standalone, novella)

a dark gone girl-esque thriller about clones? the echo wife by sarah gailey (standalone)

poetic sapphic romance and time travel? this is how you lose the time war by max gladstone and amal el-mohtar (standalone)

a hopeful utopian future and a human-robot friendship? a psalm for the wild-built by becky chambers (novella, first out of two) (this author’s got a whole bunch of hopepunk sci-fi novels in general, if that’s smth you’re looking for!)

africanfuturism, coming-of-age, and cool jellyfish aliens? binti by nnedi okorafor (novella, first in trilogy)

spicy lesbian cyborgs? and shall machines surrender my benjanun sriduangkaew (novella, first in the Machine Mandate series, 6 books)

cosmic horror with an autistic scientist, cyborg angels and AI gods? the outside by ada hoffmann (first in trilogy, 2 books are out)

also, if you’re a fan of Janelle Monáe, may i draw your attention to the fact that they’ve recently come out with a Dirty Computer short story collection, each story co-written with a diff writer?

this list is long enough, but have some more authors (who are not cis men) also worth checking out: rivers solomon, yoon ha lee, charlie jane anders, aliette de bodard, xiran jay zhao, mary robinette kowal, corinne duyvis

and finally, not all older/classic scifi is written by crusty old white guys who hate women!!! some iconic authors i’d particularly recommend looking into are ursula k. le guin, octavia e. butler, samuel r. delany and vonda n. mcintyre 🥰