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Sharang Biswas

@sharangbiswas.bsky.social

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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)!

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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...

The cover of THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS, featuring a superhero and a man on the balcony of a South Asian-style palace, beneath a floating garden of purple-green vegetation.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 13h

Right? I think in a dating app, specificity is useful!

Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 14h

That’s an interesting interpretation, though I do find it odd for someone to identify as attracted to a “sex” rather than a “gender”, right?

Like most gay men I know would think of trans men as within their dating pool!

Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 20h

I am very confused when someone on a dating app says they’re “agender” and “straight”…

Like, confused at a practical level.

Does that mean they’re into…people with a gender?

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 20h

Nah, Death of the Author.

Gillen gets no toast. Only internet fame, the purest currency.

Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 21h

🤣🤣🤣

Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 21h

Is this the legendary Homosexual Agenda?

I shall endeavour to propagate it.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 1d

I almost made this joke again, but I then remembered that I'd already posted it.

Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · Jul 31

For a group to play Monsterhearts, the players have to accept that the Turn Someone On move will as likely as not make their characters feel attraction to more than one gender. It requires Bi-in.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been enjoying THE SUMMER HIKARU DIED on Netflix!

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 2d

I have bought the Samin Nosrat book.

I have made the Burnt Honey Hot Fudge.

I have topped my homemade matcha ice-cream with it.

I have found joy.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh!

Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

Just came out of PRINCE FAGGOT and it's a really excellent play about race and class and desire and privilege and the lived experience of marginalization and even a little bit about kink.

Would highly recommend.

(Even if the rope work looked a little wonky.)

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

Nice!

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3d

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

Send us your larps!!

The Golden Cobra Challenge @goldencobra.bsky.social · 3d

Sssubmissssions now arriving!!

We needss them.

We needss YOURSS.

Due: Monday

goldencobra.org

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 4d

Just confirmed that one of my upcoming short stories is going to have an audio version and I’m kinda excited.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 4d

It absolutely was!

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 5d

I really like this, and I think it’s a crucial problem to solve, and I’m happy to pitch in any way I can to help.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

I think Paul, of blessed posting memory, is entirely right here, and I say this *even though* the young people I know remain highly literate and engaged, because I think his sample is way more representative than mine.

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A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 5d

Acquired at @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social after my reading there of THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS.

I’m gonna read a poem a day!

“Night Sky With Exit Wounds” by Ocean Vuong

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 6d

Another session of our @nyugamecenter.bsky.social faculty campaign of EARTHBORNE RANGERS!

@marcelineleiman.bsky.social, @halfrobot.com, Beau, & I are having a good time!

The four of us sitting at a long table with the game set up before us.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 6d

Am I doing a reading or conjuring up a ball of hallowed energies?

Thanks to @syr.bsky.social for inviting me to read from THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS at hivemindbookstore.bsky.social last night!

Sharang standing in front of an audience doing a reading in a bookstore. The lamp next to him is creating a dramatic lens flare.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 6d

If you're a RPG designer in (or near enough) to London and want to run a promotional intro game in our little shop, get in touch. We've got a weirdly large pool of TTRPG-curious people chatting to us every day. NAB THEM BEFORE 5E GETS THEM!

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 7d

Submitted my first-ever Fulbright recommendation! Woo!

Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 7d

Okay, so like does anyone else get super emotional after every interaction with Hades?

Like, even the salute has me all 😫

“In Shadow, I serve.”

“To Shadow, you’ll return.”