Heather Shaw

@sundew

Feminist SF/F writer, editor, sewist, lindy hopper, gardener, mother of fantastic teenager, herder of cats both literal and figurative, fervent believer in social justice, member of the LGBTQIA+ tribe, and so much more.

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Heather Shaw@sundew· 24d

A chilling reminder that things are not normal or okay, seen on our way to dinner last night, on the corner of Woolsey and Telegraph in Berkeley. (Alt text widget not working for me so: A sidewalk with “ICE TOOK A NEIGHBOR HERE” written on it in white chalk)

Heather Shaw@sundew· Jul 23

The terrible UX design on this new $25 eyeshadow palette that I just bought is galling. I didn’t notice the “face pigment” mention, and the warning/ key once you open it is hard to read. Who uses those colors elsewhere on their face? Also, if you must do this, why are they scattered around??

A closed, square eyeshadow palette of sixteen colors, with writing in the cover, including small white print at the bottom that indicates that five of these are “face pigments”

An open eyeshadow palette of sixteen colors, five of which have light blue lines around their corners; the five are not grouped together. In tiny blue print on the bottom right is a “key” that says “Face pigments not for eye”

Heather Shaw@sundew· Jan 18

I went out dancing with friends last night for the first time in awhile, and I had the best time!! I really should go do this sort of thing more often; I love joyous cardio!

A photo of me, a white woman with blue eyes, in makeup, wearing a black cap with red detailing on it (including a fabric flower), a black blouse with red cardigan, and a black and white scarf. Red teardrop earrings hang from my ears and I have a slight smile, and amusement in my eyes.

Heather Shaw@sundew· Jan 3

Why does this ad on BART fill me with dystopian dread?

A white man in a blue work shirt, yellow vest, black pants and a blue cap stands holding over his shoulder a hose gushing a strong flow of water. The right of the image reads “Flow into your future. Water careers wait.”

Heather Shaw@sundew· Dec 26

Happy Boxing Day!Yesterday we hosted friends & family for a delicious Christmas dinner & then I trounced everyone in Drawful, twice! Oh and cool gifts were exchanged, good conversation. Today my body has reminded me that we do not eat that much rich food in one day anymore; what was I thinking?!

Me, wearing a dark green top and a red cardigan, with a strand of tiny holiday lights as a necklace. I’m smiling slightly, relieved to have made it to the end of a very busy, but very heartwarming, Christmas Day.

Heather Shaw@sundew· Dec 23

All of these ornaments are mine except for one that belongs to @timpratt.org … can you guess which one?

A Christmas ornament of a man in late 1700s costume of a blue shirt and knickers with a cream overcoat and tights rests against the green pine needles of a Christmas tree.

A ballerina Christmas ornament wearing a feather white tutu rests against the green needles and garland of a Christmas tree.

A Christmas ornament of Bruce Willis crawling through the ductwork, from the holiday movie Die Hard, rests against the red garland and green pine tree.

A Christmas ornament depicting a fairy wearing a red dress, sitting in a brown wreath bedecked with Holly leaves and berries, rests against a Christmas tree.

Heather Shaw@sundew· Dec 13

I’ve spotted two masc-presenting ballet dancers on BART lately. The other one was doing tendus and ronde de jambs, this one was just sitting like this for the longest time… (I actually missed the perfect turnout — right before this they were a perfect second position.)

A masc-presenting person wearing a tan jacket and shoes, and black pants, sits on a BART train. Their feet are perfectly turned out in ballet second position (a horizontal line with toes pointing outwards) with a grey backpack sitting on the ground between them.

Heather Shaw@sundew· Dec 13

Overheard while walking by San Francisco Union Square’s big holiday tree “It’s giving Rockefeller Center”

A very tall, perfectly inverted-cone-shaped Christmas tree, covered in white lights, stands behind a low red fence in San Francisco Union Square at night. In the background is Macy’s, which has a tree-shape in the middle of its facade that reaches up to the top, flanked on the sides by square windows, each filled a large bow-trimmed wreath. Pedestrians are sitting at tables around the square in the foreground.

Heather Shaw@sundew· Dec 8

Absolutely delicious Ethiopian food from Meskie’s Ethiopia Restaurant last night. This is the Filsseta Combo with Tofu Tibs and shiro we’t, which the waitress said was “like hummus” but it was even better! Probably shouldn’t have had leftovers for breakfast though; my body’s got a limit on injera!

A platter with a colorful Ethiopian pattern is arranged with eight different Ethiopian vegetarian delicacies, including tofu tibs, salata, kinche, shiro we’t, atkilt we’t, and yesmisir we’t.

Heather Shaw@sundew· Dec 6

I waited 9 minutes to take a later train so that I could listen to this on my commute home tonight. What a lovely voice! I seriously almost cried, the music contained such emotion. Love moments like this. 🥰 Candence Myles www.facebook.com/cadencemyles...

Heather Shaw@sundew· Dec 4

New kittens just dropped (in The Macy’s SFSPCA holiday window).

Three kittens— two brown tabbies in red collars with a black and white “cow cat” with a blue collar in between— sit in the bottom right corner of a store window, snuggled in a blue bed with white fleece. They’re all looking back at a man who has opened their cage to clean it from the back, but all you can see of the man is his purple nitrile glove. Red and yellow squares sit behind and beside them on the soft blankets that line the floor. A smattering of colorful plastic cat toy balls are to the left of the kittens.

Heather Shaw@sundew· Dec 1

This is what the resort’s quiet, adults-only pool looked like to me during the day. We posted up by this one pretty much every day because the other four pools were full of screaming kids (and probably pee).

White Caucasian thighs on a lounge chair in the foreground of a photo of a blue pool, with palm trees, more lounge chairs, umbrellas, other guests, and a white resort hotel building with balconies in the background.

View from underneath a tan sun umbrella with the silhouettes of two grackles (birds) who ate perched on top. The one on the right is looking off to the right, and the other appears to be judging the first bird.

Heather Shaw@sundew· Dec 1

So we’re back from six days at an all-inclusive resort in Puerto Vallarta, paid for by @timpratt.org getting surprise option money. Now I can safely post about it without risking somebody coming by to steal the cat.

Palm trees are silhouetted against a sky just past sunset, with dusty blue at the top fading into orange at the bottom. Below the sky you can see the outline of a thatched hut and hotel buildings along the sides. The bottom of the image shows the blue of an empty swimming pool.

Heather Shaw@sundew· Nov 30

I had no idea iguanas came in so many different colors (if they are all iguanas… they don’t exactly come labeled in the wild/ running free around Mexican resorts).

A tan iguana with black stripes on his tail and an orange rill walks on the sand behind a white beach lounger. The ocean can be seen in the background peeking through the slats of the chair.

Heather Shaw@sundew· Nov 18

A tweet from drew janda (@drewjanda) that says:

Certified freak, SEVEN days a week? This is why we must unionize

Heather Shaw@sundew· Nov 14

I’ve lived more than half my life out here and yet I still get all excited at palm trees mixed with the holidays. You can take the girl outta Indiana… Also I was not expecting the rain in SF because it was so sunny in Berkeley when I left. Microclimates are so weird.

San Francisco’s Union Square, decorated for the holidays with a huge cone-shaped decorated pine tree and Macy’s in the background with a tree made out of decorations spanning many floors showing through it’s windows. It is raining and a palm tree drapes across the top of the image, framing it.

Heather Shaw@sundew· Nov 13

This is taken through the slanted front glass window of an art gallery near where I work. I really like the painting, but now I’m also digging the reflection of the street in the glass.

Painting of a family in a rowboat with a tree growing out of it. The photo is taken through glass so that images of the street — cars, truck, buildings— is superimposed over the painting.

Heather Shaw@sundew· Jul 7

We just got back from a four-park (three of which are National Parks, which our son is collecting) vacation! Day one: Avenue of the Giants on our drive up to Eureka (to see and stay with friends who recently moved)! Tiny people in huge trees photos were achieved.