Sarah Shotts (they/them)
@sarahshotts.com
Artist. Author. Zinester. ✂️
Erstwhile Academic. 📖
Nonbinary. Autistic. Bi-romantic Ace. 🏳️🌈
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Erstwhile Academic. 📖
Nonbinary. Autistic. Bi-romantic Ace. 🏳️🌈
sarahshotts.com
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Sarah Shotts (they/them)
@sarahshotts.com
· Nov 25
Two new books for the holiday season! Entwined is an anthology of creativity & motherhood. Ember is an art journal to help parents kindle their creative sparks. Free ebooks available to those in financial hardship. shop.sarahshotts.com/category/par...
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Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans.
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
Keep the Free Press Alive at the University of Alabama
By Media Alumni Seeking to Highlight Equity and Diversity
givebutter.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans.
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
Two new books for the holiday season! Entwined is an anthology of creativity & motherhood. Ember is an art journal to help parents kindle their creative sparks. Free ebooks available to those in financial hardship. shop.sarahshotts.com/category/par...
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Two new books for the holiday season! Entwined is an anthology of creativity & motherhood. Ember is an art journal to help parents kindle their creative sparks. Free ebooks available to those in financial hardship. shop.sarahshotts.com/category/par...
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new book / zine available now!
A Brief Study on 3-Dimensional Typewritten Patterns, Volume No. 1
measures 4.5” x 5.5” folded, 8 pages + cover
$20 includes 3-d glasses and free shipping to the states. please dm me to purchase.
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#typewriterart #typewriterpattern #artistsbooks
A Brief Study on 3-Dimensional Typewritten Patterns, Volume No. 1
measures 4.5” x 5.5” folded, 8 pages + cover
$20 includes 3-d glasses and free shipping to the states. please dm me to purchase.
.
#typewriterart #typewriterpattern #artistsbooks
May 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
new book / zine available now!
A Brief Study on 3-Dimensional Typewritten Patterns, Volume No. 1
measures 4.5” x 5.5” folded, 8 pages + cover
$20 includes 3-d glasses and free shipping to the states. please dm me to purchase.
.
#typewriterart #typewriterpattern #artistsbooks
A Brief Study on 3-Dimensional Typewritten Patterns, Volume No. 1
measures 4.5” x 5.5” folded, 8 pages + cover
$20 includes 3-d glasses and free shipping to the states. please dm me to purchase.
.
#typewriterart #typewriterpattern #artistsbooks
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i used millions of files from @archive.org to make a website where you can watch how the internet evolved
scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline
alivetheory.net
scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline
alivetheory.net
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
i used millions of files from @archive.org to make a website where you can watch how the internet evolved
scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline
alivetheory.net
scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline
alivetheory.net
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Idk who needs to see this butterfly cardigan but someone does for sure 🧶
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The Monarch butterfly cardigan/sweater crochet pattern & tutorial comb
🦋 Digital PDF pattern (10 pages) & a 40-minute video tutorial will be sent directly to your email immediately. This is a digital download through your email. Nothing will be mailed to you. 🦋 Instr...
biyabimi.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Idk who needs to see this butterfly cardigan but someone does for sure 🧶
biyabimi.com/products/the...
biyabimi.com/products/the...
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Okay but hear me out:
An abandoned lighthouse that’s converted into an independent bookstore.
An abandoned lighthouse that’s converted into an independent bookstore.
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Okay but hear me out:
An abandoned lighthouse that’s converted into an independent bookstore.
An abandoned lighthouse that’s converted into an independent bookstore.
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Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier to make a list of those who didn’t. But even in this crowded company, Emily Dickinson stands out.
www.openculture.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
Open Call for Genderqueer / Nonbinary / Trans Parents
Please share or tag a parent below.
Deadline Oct 30 (TOMORROW)
ONE DAY LEFT 🔥
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Please share or tag a parent below.
Deadline Oct 30 (TOMORROW)
ONE DAY LEFT 🔥
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October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Open Call for Genderqueer / Nonbinary / Trans Parents
Please share or tag a parent below.
Deadline Oct 30 (TOMORROW)
ONE DAY LEFT 🔥
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Please share or tag a parent below.
Deadline Oct 30 (TOMORROW)
ONE DAY LEFT 🔥
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The Neuro Nest: a monthly roundup of posts by neurodivergent artists & writers. #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent sarahshotts.substack.com/p/shiny-pebb...
Shiny pebbles & treasures I found for you. 🗝️
Celebrating neurodivergent writers & creatives.
sarahshotts.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The Neuro Nest: a monthly roundup of posts by neurodivergent artists & writers. #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent sarahshotts.substack.com/p/shiny-pebb...
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Seasonal Affective Friends: NOW IS THE TIME TO GET OUT THE SAD LAMP.
October 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Seasonal Affective Friends: NOW IS THE TIME TO GET OUT THE SAD LAMP.
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“Here’s my proposal: It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products. If you can’t do that and still make money, you don’t deserve to make money.”
Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Here’s my proposal: It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products. If you can’t do that and still make money, you don’t deserve to make money.”
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Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
September 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
Open Call for Genderqueer / Nonbinary / Trans Parents
Please share or tag a parent below.
Deadline Oct 30
sarahshotts.com/ember-for-pa...
Please share or tag a parent below.
Deadline Oct 30
sarahshotts.com/ember-for-pa...
Open Call: Ember for Parents 🔥
sarahshotts.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Open Call for Genderqueer / Nonbinary / Trans Parents
Please share or tag a parent below.
Deadline Oct 30
sarahshotts.com/ember-for-pa...
Please share or tag a parent below.
Deadline Oct 30
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This was such a cool zine project to be a part of! abigailschleifer.substack.com/p/free-zines... #ZineSky #Zinester
October 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This was such a cool zine project to be a part of! abigailschleifer.substack.com/p/free-zines... #ZineSky #Zinester
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A friend asked me what THE PATTERN SHOP (coming soon!) was about and I totally botched it. 😬
Here's my redo:
It's about a nurse who can't save her family or her patients, so she quits and backpacks around the world—but keeps making the same mistakes. 🦋
#writersky #literaryfiction #indieauthor
Here's my redo:
It's about a nurse who can't save her family or her patients, so she quits and backpacks around the world—but keeps making the same mistakes. 🦋
#writersky #literaryfiction #indieauthor
October 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A friend asked me what THE PATTERN SHOP (coming soon!) was about and I totally botched it. 😬
Here's my redo:
It's about a nurse who can't save her family or her patients, so she quits and backpacks around the world—but keeps making the same mistakes. 🦋
#writersky #literaryfiction #indieauthor
Here's my redo:
It's about a nurse who can't save her family or her patients, so she quits and backpacks around the world—but keeps making the same mistakes. 🦋
#writersky #literaryfiction #indieauthor
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"Instead of the dull morality tale I’d expected, I read about the pain of social ostracization, struggling with bone-deep loneliness and emotional dysregulation, and coping with childhood trauma by escaping into idealized fantasies."
My piece for Electric Lit->
electricliterature.com/sapphic-unde...
My piece for Electric Lit->
electricliterature.com/sapphic-unde...
Sapphic Undertones Littered L.M. Montgomery’s Fiction, as Well as Her Female Friendships - Electric Literature
The renowned author waged a constant battle between doing what was socially acceptable and being true to herself
electricliterature.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"Instead of the dull morality tale I’d expected, I read about the pain of social ostracization, struggling with bone-deep loneliness and emotional dysregulation, and coping with childhood trauma by escaping into idealized fantasies."
My piece for Electric Lit->
electricliterature.com/sapphic-unde...
My piece for Electric Lit->
electricliterature.com/sapphic-unde...
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20.38: An Interview with Charlie Jane Anders
Podcast Episode · Writing Excuses · 09/21/2025 · 35m
podcasts.apple.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
DONE!
nobody told me my debut was on the BOGO list at libro FM - that's two books for one credit! - until I saw it shopping THE LAST DAY OF THE SALE HURRY GO GO GO
(I earned out on that audiobook - every cent of royalties goes straight to meeeee!)
(I earned out on that audiobook - every cent of royalties goes straight to meeeee!)
Buy one, get one
Start your Libro.fm membership in support of local bookstores to shop this member-exclusive BOGO sale!
libro.fm
September 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
DONE!
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My son came out with ‘magic-can’ the other day (instead of magician) and I wiped away a proud tear. The tradition continues.
former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey
August 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
My son came out with ‘magic-can’ the other day (instead of magician) and I wiped away a proud tear. The tradition continues.
If you’re into Queer Pirates with Magic you should join us! Visit livingstans.com to join the Discord. #BookSky 🌊✨
Livingstans, assemble! for a full book spoilers discussion of Seaborn on Zoom with Distinguished Professor @michaellivingston.com on Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 1:00p Eastern for there be much talk of pirates 🏴☠️ *the link will be posted to Discord closer to the zoom*
August 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
If you’re into Queer Pirates with Magic you should join us! Visit livingstans.com to join the Discord. #BookSky 🌊✨
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Why we call genAI Plagiarism Machine
I thought this sounded familiar and it turns out it literally just found an old George RR Martin quote and wrote a short story out of it:
August 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Why we call genAI Plagiarism Machine
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Just looking at some type in the nice light today (it's finally not a thousand degrees and feels like two thousand) This is my Amanita type and you can buy it if you want to print your own little weirdos #letterpress
August 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Just looking at some type in the nice light today (it's finally not a thousand degrees and feels like two thousand) This is my Amanita type and you can buy it if you want to print your own little weirdos #letterpress
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Yes waiter, I'll have a cup of tea, a scone, and if it's not too much trouble, perhaps some precedented times?
August 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Yes waiter, I'll have a cup of tea, a scone, and if it's not too much trouble, perhaps some precedented times?
Love Obsidian. It’s a subscription I’m happy to pay for. 🖤
How the head of Obsidian went from superfan to CEO
Obsidian’s CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI
Steph “kepano” Ango on how software can be a superpower and why you don’t need AI to supercharge your life.
buff.ly
August 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Love Obsidian. It’s a subscription I’m happy to pay for. 🖤
Pocket books for the win!
August 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Pocket books for the win!