🌈Sarah Pauling
@sarahpauling.bsky.social
Neon SFF, TTRPGs, and gaudy boots. Pub'd in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, &etc. She/her. #vp23; James White Award shortlist.
https://sarahpauling.com/
https://sarahpauling.com/
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🌈Sarah Pauling
@sarahpauling.bsky.social
· Aug 14
oh my god hi i'm finally here?? hi. what is bluesky.
i am an SFF writer in the PNW whose work has showcased distinctive character voice, post-cyberpunk and space opera influence, and slightly unhinged women who are annoying 😌😘
highlights include:
i am an SFF writer in the PNW whose work has showcased distinctive character voice, post-cyberpunk and space opera influence, and slightly unhinged women who are annoying 😌😘
highlights include:
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Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
excommunicated from the group chat for calling the dragon gates built into Hong Kong high rises “dragon holes”
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
excommunicated from the group chat for calling the dragon gates built into Hong Kong high rises “dragon holes”
[coughing up blood] finding markets....for short fiction.....is worth it.....
November 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
[coughing up blood] finding markets....for short fiction.....is worth it.....
Safely context-less examples
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Safely context-less examples
Truly a great and fairly low-effort thing you can do for your writing friends is make memes about their work. I’ve been doing this on and off for years and the reaction it gets is its own reward
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Truly a great and fairly low-effort thing you can do for your writing friends is make memes about their work. I’ve been doing this on and off for years and the reaction it gets is its own reward
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“to die, to sneep; to sneep, perchance to dream—for in that sneep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffned off this mortan coin, must give us pause, there's the respect, that makes canamity of so nong nife” - hamnet
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“to die, to sneep; to sneep, perchance to dream—for in that sneep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffned off this mortan coin, must give us pause, there's the respect, that makes canamity of so nong nife” - hamnet
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convincing you to read my novel THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by sharing the first page ~ feel free to share yours if you'd like!
![[chapter marker—a silhouette of a fairy]
The Island tracked everything that washed ashore.
An invisible barrier surrounded it, a shimmering wall
a hundred kilometers in every direction. Canoes sank in
crossing; navigators lost sight of the stars. Later, trawlers and
airplanes split themselves against nothing, and the probes
they sent into the water returned out of sync or cracked
precisely down the middle.
Only the birds arrived unscathed. Only the foxes, floating
in on driftwood rafts.
So the Island embraced them with limestone arms and
swaying trees – as it did the corpses, the broken gunports.
Death is the way of things, after all, and who was it to
question the sea?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f3yjzasbymajtauls5m5arvd/bafkreigmi2w5u2nn6v6gmxlliwkhmjxyqkquismnhrftbi3l45pkc46viy@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
convincing you to read my novel THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by sharing the first page ~ feel free to share yours if you'd like!
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Reminder:
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award
Recommend works here for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider!
otherwiseaward.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reminder:
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
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Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches.
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches.
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
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Absolute banger, one of my favourite books I've read this year
I'm thrilled to see EMBODIED EXEGESIS included in this amazing list of transfem literature! This is some incredible company to be in!!!
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Absolute banger, one of my favourite books I've read this year
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Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk
Been obsessed with this one from go
Meet the 800 year old thirty-year old man in Timothy Quinn's "The Warfighter":
The Warfighter - Small Wonders
Cadence noticed the warfighter on her way to school, and then later walking home along Sixth Avenue he was still in the tiny fenced park and there was a pigeon watching him, which the police had thought at one time was a good way to disguise a camera.
smallwondersmag.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Been obsessed with this one from go
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Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia!
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia!
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
dnd is about playing a cleric, to me
(ironic thing to say about these two in particular but)
(ironic thing to say about these two in particular but)
has anyone been watching critical role. wick and tyranny were designed for me im pretty sure
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
dnd is about playing a cleric, to me
(ironic thing to say about these two in particular but)
(ironic thing to say about these two in particular but)
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We won a World Fantasy Award!! I have more words than Bsky has characters so added a screenshot of my IG post for a proper caption 🤣
Special thanks to my co-editors @sundialgirl.bsky.social & Anna Sanchez!! This book wouldn't exist without them.
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social #WorldFantasyAwards2025
Special thanks to my co-editors @sundialgirl.bsky.social & Anna Sanchez!! This book wouldn't exist without them.
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social #WorldFantasyAwards2025
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 AM
We won a World Fantasy Award!! I have more words than Bsky has characters so added a screenshot of my IG post for a proper caption 🤣
Special thanks to my co-editors @sundialgirl.bsky.social & Anna Sanchez!! This book wouldn't exist without them.
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social #WorldFantasyAwards2025
Special thanks to my co-editors @sundialgirl.bsky.social & Anna Sanchez!! This book wouldn't exist without them.
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social #WorldFantasyAwards2025
has anyone been watching critical role. wick and tyranny were designed for me im pretty sure
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
has anyone been watching critical role. wick and tyranny were designed for me im pretty sure
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Oh is woke back? Has it risen from the dead? Did the people rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number? Is the old world dying? Is the new world struggling to be born? Babe, wake up, now is the time of monsters.
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Oh is woke back? Has it risen from the dead? Did the people rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number? Is the old world dying? Is the new world struggling to be born? Babe, wake up, now is the time of monsters.
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Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in
October 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in
if you need a good couch co-op game that’s forgiving to different skill levels we are really enjoying split fiction. EA-ness aside
November 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
if you need a good couch co-op game that’s forgiving to different skill levels we are really enjoying split fiction. EA-ness aside
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It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
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Honoured to be a Pushcart nominee for "A Parable of Slow Songs"! Thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for all that he does. You can read the micro here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Honoured to be a Pushcart nominee for "A Parable of Slow Songs"! Thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for all that he does. You can read the micro here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
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If you're a bookseller or tabletop designer with thoughts about DriveThruRPG's Partner Shipping Program -- specifically its cut from sales -- I want to hear from you for a followup article!
Email: chase@rascal.news
Signal: ChaseTC.24
Or DM me here.
Email: chase@rascal.news
Signal: ChaseTC.24
Or DM me here.
DriveThruRPG has launched a new program to sell publishers' offset books and other physical products. It's a boon to smaller creators, but also further consolidation for the one of the hobby's largest digital platforms.
DriveThruRPG is now selling offset print books in the US
A step towards consolidating digital and physical tabletop RPG sales.
www.rascal.news
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
If you're a bookseller or tabletop designer with thoughts about DriveThruRPG's Partner Shipping Program -- specifically its cut from sales -- I want to hear from you for a followup article!
Email: chase@rascal.news
Signal: ChaseTC.24
Or DM me here.
Email: chase@rascal.news
Signal: ChaseTC.24
Or DM me here.
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"Little Known Facts About Dragons" was also published by Worlds of Possibility, in June 2024.
www.juliarios.com/introducing-...
www.juliarios.com/introducing-...
Introducing the June 2024 Issue of Worlds of Possibility
This issue contains seven stories, three poems, three original illustrations, and two reprint illustrations.
www.juliarios.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"Little Known Facts About Dragons" was also published by Worlds of Possibility, in June 2024.
www.juliarios.com/introducing-...
www.juliarios.com/introducing-...
Tattoo ppl……is the attached wonky line something that touch-ups can actually improve? I looooove this tattoo but I have a free touch-up this year still. Just not sure how she’d fix this other than making the line thicker
October 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Tattoo ppl……is the attached wonky line something that touch-ups can actually improve? I looooove this tattoo but I have a free touch-up this year still. Just not sure how she’d fix this other than making the line thicker
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We don't talk enough about the brilliant work that artist Jesse Santos did for bottom-of-the-barrel comic publishers like Gold Key. Just look at this Doctor Spektor cover art!
October 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We don't talk enough about the brilliant work that artist Jesse Santos did for bottom-of-the-barrel comic publishers like Gold Key. Just look at this Doctor Spektor cover art!