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
Inkvent Day 8: Dream Catcher
I love the purple metallic sheen on this blue ink. It's great to see what visual artists are doing with these inks, but I'm a word girl, so I'm especially appreciative of inks that show off their tricks even with a relatively fine nib. This one's very satisfying.
I love the purple metallic sheen on this blue ink. It's great to see what visual artists are doing with these inks, but I'm a word girl, so I'm especially appreciative of inks that show off their tricks even with a relatively fine nib. This one's very satisfying.
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Inkvent Day 8: Dream Catcher
I love the purple metallic sheen on this blue ink. It's great to see what visual artists are doing with these inks, but I'm a word girl, so I'm especially appreciative of inks that show off their tricks even with a relatively fine nib. This one's very satisfying.
I love the purple metallic sheen on this blue ink. It's great to see what visual artists are doing with these inks, but I'm a word girl, so I'm especially appreciative of inks that show off their tricks even with a relatively fine nib. This one's very satisfying.
Inkvent Day 7: Blush
An earthy pink with green glitter. This is the ink the unicorns of Equestria use for party invitations.
An earthy pink with green glitter. This is the ink the unicorns of Equestria use for party invitations.
December 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Inkvent Day 7: Blush
An earthy pink with green glitter. This is the ink the unicorns of Equestria use for party invitations.
An earthy pink with green glitter. This is the ink the unicorns of Equestria use for party invitations.
Inkvent days 5 and 6. After advent, I may play around with Marie Rose alongside other inks—by itself, it doesn't sing to me, though it could be good for making maps and prop documents for RPGs. Fir & Fog is my favorite fountain pen ink from the calendar so far, and maybe ever.
December 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Inkvent days 5 and 6. After advent, I may play around with Marie Rose alongside other inks—by itself, it doesn't sing to me, though it could be good for making maps and prop documents for RPGs. Fir & Fog is my favorite fountain pen ink from the calendar so far, and maybe ever.
Inkvent days 3 and 4, playing with a glass dip pen in my laborious italic and scrawly handwriting. Carousel is a flagrant red I plan to use for marking up manuscripts when I need a little extra magic. Smoky Tobacco looks like the ink a sentient mushroom who was also a witch would use for spellwork.
December 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Inkvent days 3 and 4, playing with a glass dip pen in my laborious italic and scrawly handwriting. Carousel is a flagrant red I plan to use for marking up manuscripts when I need a little extra magic. Smoky Tobacco looks like the ink a sentient mushroom who was also a witch would use for spellwork.
Day 2's ink is Energy, a satisfying rich matte purple. It seems to give me a wider line even on the same nib. 4/
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Day 2's ink is Energy, a satisfying rich matte purple. It seems to give me a wider line even on the same nib. 4/
Here's my #GlassPen. My first novel was set in a fantasy city where glass pens were the default writing implement, so I wanted to try them out. Those glass grooves are surprisingly capacious. A single dip is enough for me to fill half a legal pad page with longhand. 3/
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Here's my #GlassPen. My first novel was set in a fantasy city where glass pens were the default writing implement, so I wanted to try them out. Those glass grooves are surprisingly capacious. A single dip is enough for me to fill half a legal pad page with longhand. 3/
Day 1 is Celestial Skies, a sort of dark teal with glitter. Now you see why I'm not an influencer: the glitter's not as apparent in the photo as on the page. I think a wider nib might have shown the glitter off to more advantage. 2/
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Day 1 is Celestial Skies, a sort of dark teal with glitter. Now you see why I'm not an influencer: the glitter's not as apparent in the photo as on the page. I think a wider nib might have shown the glitter off to more advantage. 2/
Started my #FountainPen ink advent calendar! I celebrate the winter solstice, so I got a head start. So far, I've opened two of these beauties. Oh, and look who's photobombing. 1/
#Diamine #InkventCalendar #Cat
#Diamine #InkventCalendar #Cat
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Started my #FountainPen ink advent calendar! I celebrate the winter solstice, so I got a head start. So far, I've opened two of these beauties. Oh, and look who's photobombing. 1/
#Diamine #InkventCalendar #Cat
#Diamine #InkventCalendar #Cat
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
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.