🌈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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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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it's @itch.io Creator Day, which means 100% of proceeds go to creators!
in celebration, i'm having a 20% off sale, plus even cheaper if you buy the bundle of all 4 TTRPGs! 🎲 if you've been considering picking up my games, now is a great time!
🔗: itch.io/s/170188/jum...
in celebration, i'm having a 20% off sale, plus even cheaper if you buy the bundle of all 4 TTRPGs! 🎲 if you've been considering picking up my games, now is a great time!
🔗: itch.io/s/170188/jum...
you can find all my games on my @itch.io page: jumpgategames.itch.io
this includes the CRIT Awards Best GMless Game of the Year going rogue 2e, and the @ipr.bsky.social bestselling game I Have the High Ground!
hear about my work by signing up for my email newsletter: jessfrom.online/newsletter
this includes the CRIT Awards Best GMless Game of the Year going rogue 2e, and the @ipr.bsky.social bestselling game I Have the High Ground!
hear about my work by signing up for my email newsletter: jessfrom.online/newsletter
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
it's @itch.io Creator Day, which means 100% of proceeds go to creators!
in celebration, i'm having a 20% off sale, plus even cheaper if you buy the bundle of all 4 TTRPGs! 🎲 if you've been considering picking up my games, now is a great time!
🔗: itch.io/s/170188/jum...
in celebration, i'm having a 20% off sale, plus even cheaper if you buy the bundle of all 4 TTRPGs! 🎲 if you've been considering picking up my games, now is a great time!
🔗: itch.io/s/170188/jum...
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Realms of Fantasy Vol. 2 #3 'Justice' by Tom Kidd 1996
#fantasyart
#fantasyart
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Realms of Fantasy Vol. 2 #3 'Justice' by Tom Kidd 1996
#fantasyart
#fantasyart
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Wondering what to get from me during this Itch Creator Day sale? Check out this new solo journaling game about cooking:
What Should We Have Tomorrow? Full Course is now available in PDF! You can get both the English and Japanese language versions now at ehronlime.itch.io/what-should-.... It's a solo journaling game about managing your pantry and cooking a week of meals for your loved ones.
What Should We Have Tomorrow? Full Course by ehronlime
A solo journaling game about managing your pantry and cooking a week of meals for your loved one(s).
ehronlime.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Wondering what to get from me during this Itch Creator Day sale? Check out this new solo journaling game about cooking:
keeping us entertained(?) on the three-hour drive to Portland by reading from the Wikipedia pages of different apple varieties. the citations for red delicious are all like this
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
keeping us entertained(?) on the three-hour drive to Portland by reading from the Wikipedia pages of different apple varieties. the citations for red delicious are all like this
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The only way to save humanity and unite the people is more Sword & Sorcery paintings on the side of vans.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The only way to save humanity and unite the people is more Sword & Sorcery paintings on the side of vans.
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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