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
Home from the UK. Had a great time at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social , where most people I met insisted they’d heard of my work, though they couldn’t remember what or where. And I got to see the British Museum Reading Room, where the poet I wrote my dissertation on liked to do some of her writing.
November 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Home from the UK. Had a great time at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social , where most people I met insisted they’d heard of my work, though they couldn’t remember what or where. And I got to see the British Museum Reading Room, where the poet I wrote my dissertation on liked to do some of her writing.
Court Sculptors of Nimrud:
Behold the mighty King of Assyria, conquering the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates, so full of life! Behold his armies, presenting the heads of his enemies to the Royal Clerk to be counted!
Me, a Marylander:
Ooh look, a crab!
#Art #Sculpture #Mesopotamia #BritishMuseum
Behold the mighty King of Assyria, conquering the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates, so full of life! Behold his armies, presenting the heads of his enemies to the Royal Clerk to be counted!
Me, a Marylander:
Ooh look, a crab!
#Art #Sculpture #Mesopotamia #BritishMuseum
October 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Court Sculptors of Nimrud:
Behold the mighty King of Assyria, conquering the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates, so full of life! Behold his armies, presenting the heads of his enemies to the Royal Clerk to be counted!
Me, a Marylander:
Ooh look, a crab!
#Art #Sculpture #Mesopotamia #BritishMuseum
Behold the mighty King of Assyria, conquering the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates, so full of life! Behold his armies, presenting the heads of his enemies to the Royal Clerk to be counted!
Me, a Marylander:
Ooh look, a crab!
#Art #Sculpture #Mesopotamia #BritishMuseum
Our housedragon, for World Lizard Day.
August 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Our housedragon, for World Lizard Day.
Happy World Lizard Day to all who celebrate!
August 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Happy World Lizard Day to all who celebrate!
My sign for the #GoodTrouble protest. Every time someone first saw it, their faces were stricken, like, Oh, that’s now actually relevant about America, and then their faces would get resolved. Which is probably what happened to my face when I came up with it and then decided to make it.
July 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
My sign for the #GoodTrouble protest. Every time someone first saw it, their faces were stricken, like, Oh, that’s now actually relevant about America, and then their faces would get resolved. Which is probably what happened to my face when I came up with it and then decided to make it.
Well, between the rain and the heat, only one kiwi berry remains to form on my massive hardy kiwi vine. Here’s what the flowers looked like, though. It’s so cool how they look like the cross-section of a kiwi fruit.
#permaculture #gardening #HardyKiwi #flowers
#permaculture #gardening #HardyKiwi #flowers
June 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Well, between the rain and the heat, only one kiwi berry remains to form on my massive hardy kiwi vine. Here’s what the flowers looked like, though. It’s so cool how they look like the cross-section of a kiwi fruit.
#permaculture #gardening #HardyKiwi #flowers
#permaculture #gardening #HardyKiwi #flowers
Small good news, in case you need some: those blobby green dangly things are not pupating butterflies, they are immature pawpaws, currently about three centimeters long. Pawpaw trees are native to North America, help manage stormwater runoff, and produce tasty fruit you can’t find in stores.
June 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Small good news, in case you need some: those blobby green dangly things are not pupating butterflies, they are immature pawpaws, currently about three centimeters long. Pawpaw trees are native to North America, help manage stormwater runoff, and produce tasty fruit you can’t find in stores.
If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!
May 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
May 3, 2025 at 3:32 AM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
My novella "The Imlen Brat," cover art by Kate Baylay, design by Design for Writers.
April 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My novella "The Imlen Brat," cover art by Kate Baylay, design by Design for Writers.
And the #TeslaTakedown Oscar for Best Special Effects goes to this protester on #Rockville Pike in #Maryland.
April 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
And the #TeslaTakedown Oscar for Best Special Effects goes to this protester on #Rockville Pike in #Maryland.
March 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
And as a parting note for today, my favorite grace note: the monstrous hand emerging extradimensionally through the seat of Lovecraft's chair — beware, beware. These teenagers really understood Lovecraft, Shelley, and the general sense of the lineage leading up to and away from them.
March 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
And as a parting note for today, my favorite grace note: the monstrous hand emerging extradimensionally through the seat of Lovecraft's chair — beware, beware. These teenagers really understood Lovecraft, Shelley, and the general sense of the lineage leading up to and away from them.
As an author who keeps writing about the abiding messed-up love between the flailing living and the meddlesome dead (which is one way of naming history), I loved the evocation of these troublesome forebears, and their appearance at an event dedicated to other art forms entirely than their own.
March 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
As an author who keeps writing about the abiding messed-up love between the flailing living and the meddlesome dead (which is one way of naming history), I loved the evocation of these troublesome forebears, and their appearance at an event dedicated to other art forms entirely than their own.
The mix of live plants, live-ish cut flowers, and conspicuously dead and dried plants is so perfectly #Frankenstein. Our future does seem likely to involve weird hybrids of the living and the dead, with a possible side order of artificially created thinking beings, so okay, Mary Shelley.
March 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The mix of live plants, live-ish cut flowers, and conspicuously dead and dried plants is so perfectly #Frankenstein. Our future does seem likely to involve weird hybrids of the living and the dead, with a possible side order of artificially created thinking beings, so okay, Mary Shelley.
The delightfully-named Grumblethorpe Youth Volunteers came up with this design. From forty paces, at first sight of those purple tentacles, I knew #Lovecraft was involved somehow.
March 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The delightfully-named Grumblethorpe Youth Volunteers came up with this design. From forty paces, at first sight of those purple tentacles, I knew #Lovecraft was involved somehow.
Without downloading any new pictures, where are you mentally?
February 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Without downloading any new pictures, where are you mentally?
Solstice vigil fire. We’re having our annual family sleepover by the hearth. This year, Older Kid is using all his Boy Scout firetending skills to make sure the sun rises in the morning. Younger Kid has built an epic blanket fort.
December 22, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Solstice vigil fire. We’re having our annual family sleepover by the hearth. This year, Older Kid is using all his Boy Scout firetending skills to make sure the sun rises in the morning. Younger Kid has built an epic blanket fort.
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie.
November 28, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie.
Brought my manuscript to Brookside Gardens. Needed natural light on a rainy day, needed to breathe the breath of plants in the first real cold of our November.
November 21, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Brought my manuscript to Brookside Gardens. Needed natural light on a rainy day, needed to breathe the breath of plants in the first real cold of our November.
Post a picture you took to bro g some zen to the skyline.
November 16, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Post a picture you took to bro g some zen to the skyline.
Younger Kid and I spotted this plant in a concrete retaining wall’s drainage hole. It made us feel hopeful all out of proportion. Younger Kid named it Jim. One of these photos has better composition, but the other makes Jim look like a character in a musical who’s about to burst into song.
April 13, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Younger Kid and I spotted this plant in a concrete retaining wall’s drainage hole. It made us feel hopeful all out of proportion. Younger Kid named it Jim. One of these photos has better composition, but the other makes Jim look like a character in a musical who’s about to burst into song.
Keeping the solstice vigil by the fire, making sure the sun rises in the morning.
December 22, 2023 at 6:45 AM
Keeping the solstice vigil by the fire, making sure the sun rises in the morning.