Shiloh Carroll
@medievalismist.bsky.social
PhD. she/her. Studies fantasy (neo)medievalisms. shilohcarroll.wordpress.com
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Shiloh Carroll
academic | author | smartass
shilohcarroll.wordpress.com
Hello new people! I'm not super interesting, but I do write some literary criticism/analysis; info, short essays, and copies of as many published works as I'm allowed to hand out are at shilohcarroll.wordpress.com. I'm working on some fiction, too, and I'll post here if/when that takes off. 💜
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So much of being an author is learning how to be a graphic designer, figuring out why your email campaigns are going to spam, posting about your books all the time, trying to make connections, and all I want is to WRITE!
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
So much of being an author is learning how to be a graphic designer, figuring out why your email campaigns are going to spam, posting about your books all the time, trying to make connections, and all I want is to WRITE!
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Urgent for Minnesota cat people, whether you have space for temporary foster or less temporary, deadline is in a couple hours to help these cats.
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Urgent appeal: Cats rescued from hoarder will be euthanized unless fosters found
Friends of Minneapolis Animal Control says the deadline for foster carers or other rescue centers to step forward is 2 p.m. Friday.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Urgent for Minnesota cat people, whether you have space for temporary foster or less temporary, deadline is in a couple hours to help these cats.
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Poob has it for you
Can't wait to watch STRANGER THINGS VS SUPERMAN on the new streaming service, NETBOFLIX+ NOW GO MOBILE ULTIMATE which I got on a Black Friday deal for $112 a month
December 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Poob has it for you
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I am once again asking folks not to repost every single post in a long thread, and especially not to do it in the order they're reading. A whole screen full of an extended argument that I've already read is bad enough. All that plus backwards makes me want to mute either the poster or the reposter.
December 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I am once again asking folks not to repost every single post in a long thread, and especially not to do it in the order they're reading. A whole screen full of an extended argument that I've already read is bad enough. All that plus backwards makes me want to mute either the poster or the reposter.
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If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
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But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don’t tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, there’s nothing you can do about it.
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don’t tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Don’t adopt. Don’t buy in.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Don’t adopt. Don’t buy in.
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Last day!
Having remembered that I, too, am a Small Business, I am running a flash sale on editing services. Book and make your deposit this weekend and receive 10% off. More info on what I do here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing
November 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Last day!
I've been noticing this a lot, too, and it's baffling and exhausting
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I've been noticing this a lot, too, and it's baffling and exhausting
I have finally 100%-ed Clair Obscur and played both endings and I definitely have Opinions.
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I have finally 100%-ed Clair Obscur and played both endings and I definitely have Opinions.
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AI is a very general term, you have to be more specific. Do you mean the AI that stole my copyright, the chatbot causing teen suicide and psychosis, the deepfake porn of women without their consent, the bots driving political division or the ones polluting communities and driving electric bills up?
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
AI is a very general term, you have to be more specific. Do you mean the AI that stole my copyright, the chatbot causing teen suicide and psychosis, the deepfake porn of women without their consent, the bots driving political division or the ones polluting communities and driving electric bills up?
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“We can’t allow the AI companies to fail! Half of our economy now relies on them!” Maybe you should have thought of that before hedging everything on your magic planet destroying theft machine
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“We can’t allow the AI companies to fail! Half of our economy now relies on them!” Maybe you should have thought of that before hedging everything on your magic planet destroying theft machine
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New CNF (my first!) is out now at @paranoidxtree.bsky.social 🛍️
I wrote it almost exactly a month before I quit this job and didn't think I would ever send it out. Grateful to the editors for picking this up and Ruth Baccam for grasping the crux of this story when they created the accompanying art 💞
I wrote it almost exactly a month before I quit this job and didn't think I would ever send it out. Grateful to the editors for picking this up and Ruth Baccam for grasping the crux of this story when they created the accompanying art 💞
"I spend too much on supportive shoes. There is a mound of black on the back of my door, hanging ghouls perfumed with company-gifted By Kilian—it is a wardrobe for a funeral, the mourning of."
New CNF by Jenny M. Liu. Sending solidarity to retail workers this season!
paranoidtree.com/read/vol-59
New CNF by Jenny M. Liu. Sending solidarity to retail workers this season!
paranoidtree.com/read/vol-59
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
New CNF (my first!) is out now at @paranoidxtree.bsky.social 🛍️
I wrote it almost exactly a month before I quit this job and didn't think I would ever send it out. Grateful to the editors for picking this up and Ruth Baccam for grasping the crux of this story when they created the accompanying art 💞
I wrote it almost exactly a month before I quit this job and didn't think I would ever send it out. Grateful to the editors for picking this up and Ruth Baccam for grasping the crux of this story when they created the accompanying art 💞
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It's time for everyone's favorite chronologically unanchored holiday, The Story of the Lizard in the Leg.
Because people keep asking, the Story of The Lizard In That Dude's Leg. Some caveats:
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's time for everyone's favorite chronologically unanchored holiday, The Story of the Lizard in the Leg.
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I know that I have a number of SFF writer friends who nominate for various awards this time of year, so to make life easy on them, here is a list of my 2025 short story publications: alexisamesbooks.com/2025/11/23/2.... #WritingCommunity #SFF
2025 Short Story Roundup
I had 10 short stories published in 2025, and a number of SFF writer friends who nominate for various awards. So, to make life easy on them (and you, dear reader!), here are my 10 publications from…
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November 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I know that I have a number of SFF writer friends who nominate for various awards this time of year, so to make life easy on them, here is a list of my 2025 short story publications: alexisamesbooks.com/2025/11/23/2.... #WritingCommunity #SFF
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This bud's for you.
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This bud's for you.
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I got my first invitation to an event tied to my next novel, Mercutio, and it is Extremely Shakespearean, which delights me. If you or someone you know has a Shakespeare podcast or blog or event next spring/summer/fall, I would like nothing better than to come talk about stuff we like together. 🤓
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I got my first invitation to an event tied to my next novel, Mercutio, and it is Extremely Shakespearean, which delights me. If you or someone you know has a Shakespeare podcast or blog or event next spring/summer/fall, I would like nothing better than to come talk about stuff we like together. 🤓
I *tried* to read this in 2020 but my notes say I quit reading because it went off the rails into some whack philosophy about halfway through. Can't wait to listen to this and see if I remember right.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I *tried* to read this in 2020 but my notes say I quit reading because it went off the rails into some whack philosophy about halfway through. Can't wait to listen to this and see if I remember right.
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i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
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I’m possibly looking for a sensitivity reader from a Mexican-American perspective. if there are any takers or if you know any please feel free to message me !
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I’m possibly looking for a sensitivity reader from a Mexican-American perspective. if there are any takers or if you know any please feel free to message me !
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every author in the class action, please file the claim.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
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I'm back again to annoy my followers by talking about my queer space opera that's coming out in February! I took a pathetic guy and put him in a Situation and make him fall in love with a robot. 🤖
Check it out on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24.... #writerslift #ShamelessSelfpromoSunday
Check it out on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24.... #writerslift #ShamelessSelfpromoSunday
The Chamos Project
Twenty years after an attack perpetrated by androids ta…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I'm back again to annoy my followers by talking about my queer space opera that's coming out in February! I took a pathetic guy and put him in a Situation and make him fall in love with a robot. 🤖
Check it out on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24.... #writerslift #ShamelessSelfpromoSunday
Check it out on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24.... #writerslift #ShamelessSelfpromoSunday
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Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
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Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
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On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...