Sarah Avery
@sarahavery.bsky.social
Mythopoeic Award winning fantasy writer 🪐📚, escaped academic, beginner permaculture gardener, Gen X Army brat, DC area local, she/her, https://SarahAvery.com, https://www.patreon.com/SarahAvery
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Sarah Avery
@sarahavery.bsky.social
· Sep 10
Announcing – Tales from Rugosa Coven
Candlemark & Gleam is delighted to announce that we’re bringing Sarah Avery’s 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Winner Tales from Rugosa Coven back into print in a new and revised edition. This volume of ...
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The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
December 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
Hey I heard it's irrelevant and undeserved prize day!
I just won the My Cat Sits in My Workspace Award!
What did you win?
I just won the My Cat Sits in My Workspace Award!
What did you win?
Hey I heard it's irrelevant and undeserved prize day!
I just won the Melody Pratt Award for Melodious Prattle!
What did you win?
I just won the Melody Pratt Award for Melodious Prattle!
What did you win?
Hey I heard it's irrelevant and undeserved prize day!
I just won the Coldstream Pipers' Perfect Attendance award!
What did you win?
I just won the Coldstream Pipers' Perfect Attendance award!
What did you win?
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hey I heard it's irrelevant and undeserved prize day!
I just won the My Cat Sits in My Workspace Award!
What did you win?
I just won the My Cat Sits in My Workspace Award!
What did you win?
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I took care of numerous kids with fulminant hepatitis B in the 90s before the switch to getting the first vaccine at birth. I don’t recall having one since. I do not miss caring for that disease.
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I took care of numerous kids with fulminant hepatitis B in the 90s before the switch to getting the first vaccine at birth. I don’t recall having one since. I do not miss caring for that disease.
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Re-upping this again:
If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.
Hyperbole Bookstore
A family-owned independent bookstore in College Station, TX
hyperbolebookstore.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Re-upping this again:
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
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based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
August 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
I named my fists Arsenic and Old Lace because poisoning your elderberry wine would be way more effective than punching you.
I named my fists Hercule and Poirot because they’re about to be covered in someone’s little grey cells.
…also because I prefer to sit in an armchair and let my burly sidekick actually do the physical work.
…also because I prefer to sit in an armchair and let my burly sidekick actually do the physical work.
I named my fists Pride and Prejudice, because it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of two fists must be in want of whupping ass
December 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I named my fists Arsenic and Old Lace because poisoning your elderberry wine would be way more effective than punching you.
First night of #Nutcracker Tech Week. Younger Kid went from playing Fritz (Clara's bratty little brother) last year to doing five lifts as a member of the adult company. Older Kid is obsessed with building muscle to improve his lifts. It turns out that #Ballet Gym Bro is a genre of guy. Who knew?
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
First night of #Nutcracker Tech Week. Younger Kid went from playing Fritz (Clara's bratty little brother) last year to doing five lifts as a member of the adult company. Older Kid is obsessed with building muscle to improve his lifts. It turns out that #Ballet Gym Bro is a genre of guy. Who knew?
Started my #FountainPen ink advent calendar! I celebrate the winter solstice, so I got a head start. So far, I've opened two of these beauties. Oh, and look who's photobombing. 1/
#Diamine #InkventCalendar #Cat
#Diamine #InkventCalendar #Cat
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Started my #FountainPen ink advent calendar! I celebrate the winter solstice, so I got a head start. So far, I've opened two of these beauties. Oh, and look who's photobombing. 1/
#Diamine #InkventCalendar #Cat
#Diamine #InkventCalendar #Cat
@blackgate.bsky.social A game our late Goth Chick, Sue Granquist, would have loved.
@jemsmith.bsky.social and I made a 2D physics-based game in 4 days with sounds and music by Jaybooty Sutherland!
This is Fallbearers.
Here's a little clip of the other jammers playtesting it:
#gamedev #gamejam #indiegames
This is Fallbearers.
Here's a little clip of the other jammers playtesting it:
#gamedev #gamejam #indiegames
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
@blackgate.bsky.social A game our late Goth Chick, Sue Granquist, would have loved.
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Weirdly, this is all part of a 50-year-long plan to get their parents back together
The identical twin brother of MAGA Texas Rep. Troy Nehls is hoping to replace his brother in Congress after Nehls announced his retirement on Saturday.
MAGA Rep. Tries to Hand Seat to Literally Identical Successor
Trever Nehls is hoping to replace his brother, Texas Rep. Troy Nehls, in Congress.
trib.al
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Weirdly, this is all part of a 50-year-long plan to get their parents back together
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If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
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@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, you must cancel your partnership with OpenAI now. This company cannot be allowed anywhere near children.
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, you must cancel your partnership with OpenAI now. This company cannot be allowed anywhere near children.
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
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There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
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Today I made a donation to Aftyn Behn's campaign for House seat in a special election. We take one more vote away from the House Republicans if we support this Democratic candidate in Tennessee.
WATCH — @tonolatino.bsky.social : “Remember how it felt on November 5th? We have a chance to do that again in Tennessee’s 7th District. @aftynbehn.bsky.social has Republicans scared sh*tless, spending millions on a seat Trump won by over 20 points.”
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Today I made a donation to Aftyn Behn's campaign for House seat in a special election. We take one more vote away from the House Republicans if we support this Democratic candidate in Tennessee.
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Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
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I just want to remind everyone, again, that before you start talking about smug shitlibs like Gavin Newsom as inevitable “because no one else will stand up to Trump”: nobody had heard of Zohran Mamdani a year ago, and heretofore, nobody has humiliated DJT as effortlessly. life comes at you fast
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I just want to remind everyone, again, that before you start talking about smug shitlibs like Gavin Newsom as inevitable “because no one else will stand up to Trump”: nobody had heard of Zohran Mamdani a year ago, and heretofore, nobody has humiliated DJT as effortlessly. life comes at you fast
How to Shoot a Fictional Character
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#SFF #Fiction #Novel #AmWriting #AmResearching
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November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
How to Shoot a Fictional Character
A post for Patreon subscribers
#SFF #Fiction #Novel #AmWriting #AmResearching
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#SFF #Fiction #Novel #AmWriting #AmResearching
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Nurses!! 💪💪💪💪💪✨️❤️✨️
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Nurses!! 💪💪💪💪💪✨️❤️✨️
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days