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🌈Sarah Pauling

@sarahpauling.bsky.social

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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/

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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:

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🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 19h

immediate nyc vibes, including that they have a reputation for being “rude” but are actually nice and just want you to stop blocking the fucking sidewalk

🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 2d

we are on our way to Hong Kong!! The 13-hour leg to Seoul will set a record for my longest flight 😵‍💫

🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 2d

we are on our way to Hong Kong!! The 13-hour leg to Seoul will set a record for my longest flight 😵‍💫

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 4d

I had a story come out today!

If you think too much about fairy tale witches and also murder and complicated relationships, this one is for you.

theorangebee.substack.com/p/tasting-no...

Tasting notes

Issue seven: flash fiction by Cislyn Smith

theorangebee.substack.com

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 5d

We are $225 from MORE ART! We want to be able to commission one or more additional queer artists to create even more art! Think headers, dividers, the little flourishes and interior art details that bring things to life! Help us support more queer art! 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 15d

Turns out those initials are actually MD and the artist is UK illustrator Mark Duffin, who also did the Atari ST box art for Tempest, though Mark confirmed for OVGA that neither original painting was ever returned. Mark said both were a rush and had to be done overnight!

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 11d

good news everybody, there's a new Sarah Pauling story out in the world to read

🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 11d

My story is free to read today!! meet Gracie, a very responsible camper. please help Gracie save a terrible terrible child

Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 11d

Free Fiction Friday with
“Gracie and Leelanau Save the Worst Boy at Camp One-Pine”
by Sarah Pauling
magazine.trollbreath.com/gracie-and-l...

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🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 11d

My story is free to read today!! meet Gracie, a very responsible camper. please help Gracie save a terrible terrible child

Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 11d

Free Fiction Friday with
“Gracie and Leelanau Save the Worst Boy at Camp One-Pine”
by Sarah Pauling
magazine.trollbreath.com/gracie-and-l...

Free Fiction Friday with
“Gracie and Leelanau Save the Worst Boy at Camp One-Pine”
by Sarah Pauling
Trollbreath Magazine
Image of a bright green snake

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 19d

1 hour painting

A painting of the black hole scene from the film Interstellar

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🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 14d

Sending love ❤️

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 15d

OTHERSIDE is a cool new queer spec-fic magazine with awesome editors. If you don't already support through their patreon, consider a one-time donation via their Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

www.kickstarter.com

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🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 15d

it's here it's time!!!

OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 15d

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.

🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 18d

I didn’t know RCV had an account, you are very good at finding skeets!

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kelsey jaffer 👻 @kelatonin.bsky.social · 21d

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

Amber Carlson @aecarlson.bsky.social · 21d

Happy (rainy) Tuesday, #Boulder. I've got a new story for you all about a new temperature-stable, single-injection rabies vaccine developed by @colorado.edu researcher Ted Randolph.

www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

New single-dose, temperature-stable rabies vaccines could expand global access

CU Boulder engineers have developed a new method for making vaccines that combines multiple, timed-release doses into a single injection that doesn't require

www.colorado.edu

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🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 19d

everybody say good luck to my barbershop chorus that is participating in competition next weekend!! without me b/c i joined too late to save the date 😔

one day i will sing jaunty tunes about romantic drugstore ice cream trips on a stage…..one day

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · Apr 12

Bruce Pennington, British (1944- ), Eastern Shore, 1989

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Flávio Costa @fhreader.bsky.social · Jun 18

Art by Bruce Pennington for The Trail of Cthulhu by August Derleth, (1974)

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🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 22d

oh MCR on repeat is a great source of ideas. one must enter the MCR State

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 22d

Announcing The Random Prompts TTRPG Jam!

Sign up today for this jam hosted by @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social and we'll send you (on Friday, the official start date) a random prompt from our archive for you to make a #ttrpg Thing (game, module, scenario, setting, whatever) based on that prompt.

The Random Prompts TTRPG Jam

A game jam from 2025-09-26 to 2025-10-24 hosted by Far Horizons CoOp & Marx of High Water. Back in the early days of Far Horizons CoOp, we used to produce regular collections of short games. Sometimes...

itch.io

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 22d

The amount of support we’ve received since starting up our Patreon continues to blow us away. There are 189 of you—both free and paid—and in these times? That means a lot. As a thank you, when we hit 200 patrons we’ll do a giveaway of a 6 month Patreon subscription which gets you our first issue!

Get more from OTHERSIDE on Patreon

a magazine of the queer fantastic.

patreon.com

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Sep 12

paddle
@ipaddlearound
david attenborough: [mumbling] skip. i dont like this animal. skip it.
12:32 AM • Jun 25, 2023

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🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 24d

Thank u for your wisdom. This tracks

🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 24d

For real! I’m a haterism snob!

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🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 24d

sometimes i dislike a book enough to go to goodreads to find haterism comments but the minute all the haterism comments are like "this book used too many big words" i'm gone. how dare you insult this book

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 25d

Our Kickstarter launches in TEN DAYS! September 29 is in fact SOMEHOW ten days away!!! We’re nervous and excited and SO ready. We're only screaming intermittently.

Sign up to be notified when it launches. We have a lot of fun rewards and goals planned… you won’t want to miss this 👀

www.kickstarter.com

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · 27d

"To save face, turn away from the sun. Turn away from the spatter of cold rain against the cheek…" www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/safe... Out today for everyone in @nightmare-magazine.com

Safe Face - Nightmare Magazine

To save face, turn away from the sun. Turn away from the spatter of cold rain against the cheek, away from the hard light of the moon at its roundest, away from the snow-flecked wind, away from the ba...

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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