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Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 24d

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Hi, my name is Kay but my writing pseud is Nash! This is my author BlueSky!

If you are following for politics b/c of that one Starter Pack, I am sorry to say this is not a political acct. Feel free to stay around for writing memes and such!

Also I am strictly anti-Gen AI. Thanks!

Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 1m

She doesn’t believe in vaccines either! The COVID vaccine is a mass conspiracy to her and she doesn’t believe in pills of any kind like, you know, antibiotics. She does believe in Ozempic though. I wonder why that is 🤔

Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 1m

We, as an office, have been told/reminded TWICE to cover our mouths when we cough. Why is this bitch in front of me, who’s already given me an URI AND sinus infection and COVID, still not covering her mouth?! Not even attempting and missing. Just straight up HACK HACK open mouth into the ether.

Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 7m

Do not judge me for my malicious use of semi colons. I just like them, okay? I have decided to be that person who makes punctuation what I make it. Screw the Chicago Style Book! (Kidding!)

WIP: This Side of the Veil

#WIPSnips

"Speaking of believable, I believe I am owed a payment. 1,500 marks to be exact." She stepped out of the bedroom, her hair still a mess but fully dressed.

"Clever." He almost sounded impressed.

"Of course, I brought the payment with me, but we still have some matters to discuss." He patted his suit pocket and then crossed his arms over it. If she had known she was going to be subjected to this before payment, she might not have taken the job to begin with.

"And what would that be?" She crossed her arms back and cocked her hips to the side.

"The job; are you taking it or not?"

"If you can spin a good enough story that my boss won't fire me over and without exposing what I'm doing, then yeah."

"Great. And when you make the potions, be sure and sprinkle in some extra effects in some of them but mark which ones are which. We get extra money for enhancements and some of that could be yours if you play your cards right."

"Done and done. Anything else?"

"Your check." He pulled out a folded paper check and handed it over to her who gleefully pocketed it in her bra for safe keeping. Chester made a face and started to say something but decided against it. Elise

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Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 9m

Day late and dollar short. Chester has changed a lot from when I first wrote him. He’s definitely humanized a lot from the cold malicious lady killer (literally) I wrote him as before. It’s been nice to mess with character development.

WIP: This Side of the Veil

#WIPSnips

"Herbology." She cut in. She hated it when people not immersed in the field called it gardening. She didn't go to Academy for gardening. She went for herbology.

"Herbology." He cut his eyes from examining the shop to take her in and then smirked again. "-to see if you might take over our potion creation. We make a little of everything, but our last person has moved up in rank. So, we're looking for new blood."

"I see." Her nerves were starting to get the best of her, especially with the way he looked at her. One arm across her chest and the other with the elbow supper in her hand and her hand on her neck.

"So, care to give me a tour?" He flashed what appeared to be a genuine smile and gestured to the open air of the store.
"Sure, where do you want to start?" She
uncrossed her arms and internally gave herself a shake.

"Dealer's choice." He offered.

"Okay, then we'll start in here. So, this room is the front of the shop. It’s where I…”

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Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 17h

Curious! I don’t have a “home feed tuner”. Are you iOS or Android by chance? I’m on iOS and my options stop at Following. I wonder if this is an app version thing.

A screenshot of a menu list from Pinterest.

A list of followed accounts from my Pinterest but main interest is the menu bar showing my options for privacy.

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Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 17h

I missed the actual screen showing Melange with their momento. But I’m playing Neko Atsume 2 after beating 1 (twice) and I just got my first momento!

A screenshot from Neko Atsume 2 showing Melange’s momento: a cotton scarf. The descriptive text reads “A soft scarf. The back is embroidered with some sort of words.”

The scarf is blue and tied into a circle.

Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 17h

I love the recent sharing of Pillowforts! I just followed you from my (at)writerbytrade account!

Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 18h

Adding onto this!

You CANNOT do this in the Pinterest app. You have to either be on a mobile browser on desktop/laptop browser.

But these options are there!

Ashley Hankinstein Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 18h

Art friends: Here's a tip for getting rid of *a lot* of the AI slop in your Pinterest feed.

⭐Go into your account settings.
⭐Click the "Refine your recommendations" tab.
⭐Click the GenAI Interests subtab.
⭐TURN OFF EVERYTHING.

So far, my feed is *significantly* cleaner.

Screenshot of the Pinterest settings menu. The option "Refine your recommendations" is circled.

Screengrab of the Refine Your Recommendations tab in Pinterest's settings. The subtab GenAI Interests is circled.
Below, all options have been turned off.

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Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Two results today. First one was confusing without context. And yes, this is a play on Masterchef. I like reality cooking competitions okay 😭

WIP: This Side of the Veil

#WIPSnips

It was a kind gesture; she had to admit. He knew her side hustle and extra income had just basically evaporated out of thin air. Plus, she kind of enjoyed the job. It was a little disappointing not to go in and chat with Jessica or with her regulars. She wondered what they were up to.

"Potioneers, today we're making a seduction potion! The ultimate forbidden desire. What sort of tricks of the trade can we whip up today?" The lead judge's voice cut across her thoughts as she held the check and watched a fly hover around her pizza.

"Tsk, shoo." She swatted at the fly and sat the check down. "Phone?" She patted the couch around her to find her connection to the world, eventually finding it under her plate of pizza. She went through her bank and deposited the funds, watching the check disintegrate before her eyes, confirming that yes, once again, he was good for it. She watched as the dust disappeared into the air in her apartment as the thought occurred to her she really should thank him for the gap payment until Mick could reopen the bar and put her back on rotation. Before she could talk herself into texting first, her phone vibrated.

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Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Very tired of explaining to people that I am not the one messing with the formatting on people’s documents, it’s Word Online being weird. If you download it and open it within the Word app, it’s fine. If you use the setting within SharePoint to open it within the Word app, it’s fine! It’s not me!

Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 2d

If I ever find the person microwaving thawed/fresh salmon in the work microwave I WILL BE covering their seat in thumbtacks.

Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 2d

I had multiple uses of this but this one was the coolest in terms of drama lol

Chapter One, scene one, sentence one, draft zero 🤭

WIP: May Death Find You Alive

#WIPSnips

Shaky hands, a lighter in one hand, and a white chalk in the other. These were all that stood between him and a dangerous life-altering decision... if it worked. Most people would chalk summoning demons to urban legends. For him, he knew it could be done. He knew it was real. However, his family, the people that could mentor him in such a task, no longer spoke to him. It broke his heart to know they cut ties over something so stupid, but what was done was done. He was forever shunned from his circle. He had to find a new way to get what he wanted, no, needed. So, he drug the chalk across the grass, leaving a shaky white line. He meticulously looked back at his notes, making sure to dot all his i's and cross all of his t's, metaphorically speaking. The candles on the pedestals were lit next. All that was left was the chant. His vocal cords slammed themselves shut at the thought of actually going through with this. But, if he really wanted this, he needed to push forward.

He stood at the edge of the circle; Moonlight bright above him. The wind blew so casually that it chilled the sweat running down his back on the warm summer night. Clearing his throat, he started,

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 3d

Only a couple more days

Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 6d

Windows 10 support ends on October 14 and there's a link floating around with instructions to enroll for an additional year of security updates, but I'm not linking to that chatgpt article so here's what you do.

Settings
Update & Security
Windows Update
Initiate Enrollment

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 3d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 3d

I may have been forced out of grad school due to financials but that doesn’t mean the books I bought for my thesis have to go to waste.

Maybe reading’ll make me feel better.

A black Kobo Libra Colour is being held above a lap. The cover of “Anti-Fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age” is being shown in muted colors on the Kobo.

Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 3d

The past couple of days my emotions have been so overwhelming and so loud and so aggressive. I know I’m being a right bitch lately but I feel like everything inside my brain is so intense and bright right now that I don’t know what else to be or do. And I have work tomorrow 😭

How do I hide this?

Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 4d

When you're raised in a magical world but hardly have any magic of your own, a simple muting charm can be pretty impressive, I guess.

WIP: This Side of the Veil

#WIPSnips

“Hi, welcome to Fullcrest Potions! How can I help?” She burst through the beaded curtain and locked eyes with the man in the lobby. Tall, blonde hair, and wearing a black suit, the man oozed arrogance and power. Before he even said a word, he took out a wand from his sleeve and waved it over himself and then pointed it at her. She immediately felt the noise level in the shop drop by ninety percent. The enchanted equipment’s hum was now deafened and the air conditioner running in the humid summer heat was now gone. She was pretty sure even the faint buzz of the electricity was gone as well now. The only sound was his footsteps inching towards her and the sound of the blood rushing in her ears.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 6d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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CaptDedEyes @captdedeyes.bsky.social · May 29

This Tumblr post gave me a huge confidence boost:

Tumblr post that reads: kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

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Dave Nelsen @thegrammargeek.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, if you’re embedding a link on a webpage or in an email or in a document (so, anywhere), make the link longer than one word. “Click here for more information” should be hyperlinked — not just the word “here.” This works better for people with small screens, low vision, or imprecise hands.

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Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 6d

I am SO JEALOUS of y’all that can plot beforehand. If I plot more than vague notions, I lose interest in it because I felt like most of the fun comes from figuring out the story as I write. Plotting to me means I took the fun out of my fun activity! But I imagine writing would go so much smoother!

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Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 6d

TSotV: Elise - wants an easier life. Wants her parents back (not dead-just disappeared to dodge [?], enough money to live, and a shop that’s self sustaining.

MDFYA: William - fueled by revenge and the now dealing with the side effects of it. Also maybe an instant gender change.

#WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 6d

Q5: Tell us about your main character. Who are they? What do they want? #WeeknightWriters

Notepad that says "#WeeknightWriters: Tell us about your main character. Who are they? What do they want?"

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Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 6d

I really super enjoy making each character have their own voice. I love thinking about backgrounds and language patterns and the specific slang and inflections each would have. I feel like like it really gives my characters that extra “edge” to become more lifelike!

#WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 6d

Q3: What aspects of character development do you enjoy most? What goes into making a character? #WeeknightWriters

Notepad that says “#WeeknightWriters What aspects of character development do you enjoy most?"

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Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Plan? What is this plan you speak of? I typically don’t pre-plan anything. I’ll have like a vague notion of specific character traits but nothing is set in stone until the words are on the page. I.e., subject to change at any moment for any reason.

#WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 6d

Q2: What aspects of character development do you consider most important to your story planning process? #WeeknightWriters

Notepad that says “#WeeknightWriters What aspects of character development do you consider most important to your story planning process?"

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Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Typically, as a pantser, I think of opening scene logic and plot first, build the characters into it, and then let the characters tell the story from there. So it’s like I put the kindle out for the fire but the fire takes on its own life once lit.

#WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 6d

Q1: Do you typically create characters to match the story you want to tell or build your stories based on character(s) already living in your head? #WeeknightWriters

Notepad that says “#WeeknightWriters: Do you typically create characters to match the story you want to tell or build your stories based on character(s) already living in your head?"

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