Sharang Biswas
@sharangbiswas.bsky.social
Games, interactive theatre, writing, art. ENnies, IndieCade, IGDN winner. Teaching at NYU & Fordham
Words: Eurogamer, Lightspeed, Augur, Strange Horizons, Baffling. SFWA member
My book THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS is now out (from Neon Hemlock Press)!
Words: Eurogamer, Lightspeed, Augur, Strange Horizons, Baffling. SFWA member
My book THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS is now out (from Neon Hemlock Press)!
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Sharang Biswas
@sharangbiswas.bsky.social
· Mar 25
My first book is officially out!
If you like gay archeologists, horny superheroes, giant, ancient, Indian robots, or tonnes of footnotes, check it out!
Get it from @neonhemlock.bsky.social!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...
If you like gay archeologists, horny superheroes, giant, ancient, Indian robots, or tonnes of footnotes, check it out!
Get it from @neonhemlock.bsky.social!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...
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low polyamory
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
low polyamory
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This is a terrific piece of writing and insight about where we are with the Times, and where the Times is with us.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is a terrific piece of writing and insight about where we are with the Times, and where the Times is with us.
Woo it was a joy to judge for the Golden Cobra Challenge this year!
(Also this might be the first time I’ve live presented a game award? I want to do this more often…)
(Also this might be the first time I’ve live presented a game award? I want to do this more often…)
Ssssssss -- The 2025 Golden Cobra Challenge winners announced at Metatopia:
(Thread)
(Thread)
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Woo it was a joy to judge for the Golden Cobra Challenge this year!
(Also this might be the first time I’ve live presented a game award? I want to do this more often…)
(Also this might be the first time I’ve live presented a game award? I want to do this more often…)
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
“Biswas does an admirable job mixing dirty implied jokes, the weight of erasure amid intolerance, & the joy and discovery waiting to be seen by those willing & able to piece together the whole and vibrant picture...”
-The @locusmag.bsky.social review of THIRTEEN SWORDS
locusmag.com/review/cast-...
-The @locusmag.bsky.social review of THIRTEEN SWORDS
locusmag.com/review/cast-...
Cast of Wonders, Escape Pod and Strange Horizons Special Fund Drive Issue 2025: Review by Charles Payseur
Cast of Wonders 6/28/25 Escape Pod 5/22/25, 7/10/25 Strange Horizons Special Fund Drive Issue 2025, 7/14/25 I last checked in with Cast of Wonders for their April originals, and since then they’ve …
locusmag.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Biswas does an admirable job mixing dirty implied jokes, the weight of erasure amid intolerance, & the joy and discovery waiting to be seen by those willing & able to piece together the whole and vibrant picture...”
-The @locusmag.bsky.social review of THIRTEEN SWORDS
locusmag.com/review/cast-...
-The @locusmag.bsky.social review of THIRTEEN SWORDS
locusmag.com/review/cast-...
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Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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Vacant, jaded, 500-year-old vampire and unsuspecting, washed-out rockstar for the MONSTROSITY larp in Atlantic City!
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Vacant, jaded, 500-year-old vampire and unsuspecting, washed-out rockstar for the MONSTROSITY larp in Atlantic City!
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Check out the latest issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social!
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Check out the latest issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social!
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
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Has anyone worked up the net worth of Cuomo’s parents vs Mamdani’s? Why does this weird narrative of a professor and a filmmaker as wealthy elites continue? Do they think Mira Nair made Marvel films or something?
November 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Has anyone worked up the net worth of Cuomo’s parents vs Mamdani’s? Why does this weird narrative of a professor and a filmmaker as wealthy elites continue? Do they think Mira Nair made Marvel films or something?
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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November 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I’m lucky not only to teach at a games department, but at one that treats larp and TTRPG as worthy of academic attention.
Most of us TTRPG academics found ourselves in our positions by trying to explain stuff we deeply care about---including TTRPG theories and texts by designers and players---to people in power with resources as well as our students.
Our position is much more "defense" than "offense," in other words.
Our position is much more "defense" than "offense," in other words.
November 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I’m lucky not only to teach at a games department, but at one that treats larp and TTRPG as worthy of academic attention.
Had an excellent time running FALL OF MAGIC by @rosscowman.bsky.social in my @nyugamecenter.bsky.social class!
November 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Had an excellent time running FALL OF MAGIC by @rosscowman.bsky.social in my @nyugamecenter.bsky.social class!
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Chatting to a friend about this yesterday, and realised I should re-plug it. Probably the most wholesome thing I've ever created, despite (er) everything.
My new game zine! HOW DO ALIENS DO "IT"? is a game about confused teenage aliens trying to work out what their information-scarce society isn't telling them. It's playful, but approaches big themes lightly. It's pay what you like, but do pay nowt. #ttrpg
kierongillen.itch.io/how-do-alien...
kierongillen.itch.io/how-do-alien...
How Do Aliens Do
The game of underinformed alien teenagers trying To work out what the hell is going on.
kierongillen.itch.io
November 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Chatting to a friend about this yesterday, and realised I should re-plug it. Probably the most wholesome thing I've ever created, despite (er) everything.
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Autocracies devalue education, immiserating their populations while also reducing their opportunities and access to the outside world.
Saying this LOUDLY rn.
Saying this LOUDLY rn.
"Several reports have highlighted the dramatic decline in Turkish higher education and, as a corollary, that of an entire generation of young people [...] 32% of young people aged 18 to 24 in Turkey are neither employed, in education nor in training"
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
La Turquie risque de perdre toute une partie de sa jeunesse, ni employée, ni scolarisée, ni en formation
Plusieurs rapports ont mis en lumière le décrochage vertigineux de l’enseignement supérieur turc et, en corollaire, celui de toute une génération, un tiers des 18-24 ans n’étant ni employés, ni scolar...
www.lemonde.fr
November 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Autocracies devalue education, immiserating their populations while also reducing their opportunities and access to the outside world.
Saying this LOUDLY rn.
Saying this LOUDLY rn.
It’s my semesterly game of @johnharper.bsky.social’s LASERS AND FEELINGS today!
Made the choice to assign GM roles to players who’ve never played TTRPGs before! Let’s see how this turns out!
johnharper.itch.io/lasers-feeli...
Made the choice to assign GM roles to players who’ve never played TTRPGs before! Let’s see how this turns out!
johnharper.itch.io/lasers-feeli...
Lasers & Feelings by John Harper
One page, one-shot, easily hackable rpg
johnharper.itch.io
October 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It’s my semesterly game of @johnharper.bsky.social’s LASERS AND FEELINGS today!
Made the choice to assign GM roles to players who’ve never played TTRPGs before! Let’s see how this turns out!
johnharper.itch.io/lasers-feeli...
Made the choice to assign GM roles to players who’ve never played TTRPGs before! Let’s see how this turns out!
johnharper.itch.io/lasers-feeli...
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Please note that billionaires backers of Cuomo's racist campaign are dumping MILLIONS into media that you and I might never be seeing.
Volunteer to get out the vote for Mamdani, friends. We cannot turn out city over to fascists. We just cannot.
www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/ev...
Volunteer to get out the vote for Mamdani, friends. We cannot turn out city over to fascists. We just cannot.
www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/ev...
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Please note that billionaires backers of Cuomo's racist campaign are dumping MILLIONS into media that you and I might never be seeing.
Volunteer to get out the vote for Mamdani, friends. We cannot turn out city over to fascists. We just cannot.
www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/ev...
Volunteer to get out the vote for Mamdani, friends. We cannot turn out city over to fascists. We just cannot.
www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/ev...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Argh! The leather-daddy who was my primary care physician is leaving the my hospital!
D’you know how valuable it is to have a kink-, sex-, & queer-positive primary care provider???
D’you know how valuable it is to have a kink-, sex-, & queer-positive primary care provider???
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Argh! The leather-daddy who was my primary care physician is leaving the my hospital!
D’you know how valuable it is to have a kink-, sex-, & queer-positive primary care provider???
D’you know how valuable it is to have a kink-, sex-, & queer-positive primary care provider???
I just got sent this cute pic of me speaking on a panel up at Dartmouth this summer and now I must subject you all to it
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I just got sent this cute pic of me speaking on a panel up at Dartmouth this summer and now I must subject you all to it
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one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly
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When I tell him
I recently got my booster shots
my brother-in-law rolled his eyes
and called me delusional
so I sent him a document
the White House had posted
saying the President
had received flu and Covid boosters
and in response
my brother-in-law changed the subject.
I recently got my booster shots
my brother-in-law rolled his eyes
and called me delusional
so I sent him a document
the White House had posted
saying the President
had received flu and Covid boosters
and in response
my brother-in-law changed the subject.
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
When I tell him
I recently got my booster shots
my brother-in-law rolled his eyes
and called me delusional
so I sent him a document
the White House had posted
saying the President
had received flu and Covid boosters
and in response
my brother-in-law changed the subject.
I recently got my booster shots
my brother-in-law rolled his eyes
and called me delusional
so I sent him a document
the White House had posted
saying the President
had received flu and Covid boosters
and in response
my brother-in-law changed the subject.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear
October 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear