🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 1hI know none of you care about barbershop music (for shame) but I need someone to see this tag we found 020
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026this is barbershop harmony. at least I think so 120
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I am in Boise for a barbershop harmony convention so please pass along Boise recs if you’ve got ‘em. I liked the art museum 230
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“At Generic State, it’s normal for crowds…to chant, scream, cry, and occasionally bleed while exploited youths risk their bodies and minds in ritual violence to sate the bloodlust of their watchers. Surely this must be Dark Academia somehow.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/gen...mcsweeneys.netGeneric State University Pivots to Dark Academia“Generic State University has been proudly upholding its mission to provide opportunities and build character in all students since its founding. Now, we tur... 121
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingOTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We are opening submissions for our fourth and final issue of the year in October! SOON! Issue 4 has a theme: EXPLORATION 🪐🗡️ Early opening for trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors: October 1-7 General submissions: October 8-21 Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/othersidespec.comSubmission Guidelines - OTHERSIDESubmission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit. 05350
Reposted by 🌈Sarah Pauling𝕾𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 @strangehouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Cover art I made for the Italian edition of Between Two Fires. Available to pre-order from Mercurio Books 433661914
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingMerc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We are REAL CLOSE... come back #OpportunityWindow, get some awesome #timeloop stories!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m... 01716
Reposted by 🌈Sarah Paulingmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube 171696250
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026everyone in a given writer’s circle has an important social role. my role is “doesn’t shut up about tiptree” 160
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026for blood on the clocktower last night i couldn’t decide if I should go for “literal witch casting spells” or “why on earth would I have killed my husband, officer?” So I split the difference 390
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingDavid J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I'm not saying it doesn't HAPPEN, but "all weird indie TTRPGs are a kink thing" is reductive. There is also "designing RPGs to publish your worldbuilding bible", "designing RPGs because you invented a neat dice trick", "designing RPGs to win an argument", and "designing RPGs as an act of self harm". 451006265
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026god dc comics are stupid (she said, lovingly). i should get back into reading dc again 000
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingMax the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026 127332
Reposted by 🌈Sarah Pauling70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Last day to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io This one gets weird: We're looking at the coolest cover art on corporate annual reports from across the 1970s. 19220
Reposted by 🌈Sarah Paulingmeagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Remember Me in the Meat, @sarahpauling.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com - This one had me from the title and did not let go. Lobemeat! Cults! Girlbosses! Memory! I found the twist here particularly effective, in that stomach-dropping kind of way. clarkesworldmagazine.com/pauling_02_26/clarkesworldmagazine.comClarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & FantasyClarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Remember Me in the Meat by Sarah Pauling 261
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingAdria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 31/08/2026Have you read? Mother Mansrot in the Glass Mountain by Sarah Pauling at Otherside How could she sit in an icy room with nothing in it but a four-poster bed and pace, and pace, and let the filth of the world watch her, and not want to smash through the glass with her own two hands?othersidespec.comMother Mansrot in the Glass Mountain - OTHERSIDEThere were walls within the glass mountain, just as clear as its sheer cliffsides. There were floors within the glass mountain—and ceilings, too—but they left just as little to the imagination. A… 041
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingTom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Narnia books as Isekai Manga 2235661284
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingMax the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026 319629
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026dental hygienist looked in my mouth and said “oh yeah I remember now” am I cooked? 040
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026best (worst?) thing abt conventions is how quickly my "to read/watch" bookmarks multiply 170
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026SOON the mystery rpgs talk is at 11pm EDT which means i am here to support the australians. australians, assemble 121
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingMemento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026high fantasy has an elevation of at least 2000' above sea level and has a cooler, windier climate than low fantasy, which is less seasonal and lacks joshua trees 0225
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026cheating bc i already talked about this like a month ago but i read THE GONE WORLD by tom sweterlitsch and lost my goddamn mind. good and idiosyncratic prose, strong characterization, complicated emotional valence, "time travel as cosmic horror" 153
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026this was real real good and now i want to play girl frame even MORE 010
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingAmanda Helms - Preorder THE UPPER TENTACLE @amandaghelms.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's September 18, which means that in exactly one month, my special call for @diabolicalplots.com, Diabolical Rot, will be opening for submissions! Check out the full details here: www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-general-s...diabolicalplots.comDP General Submission Window and “Diabolical Rot” Themed Window – Diabolical PlotsIf you are thinking about starting a short fiction publication and would like to discuss with someone experienced how to get started, please do contact us! 04132
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026the mystery rpg ted talk is in part an excuse to give recs recentish games whose handling of mystery stories i will enthuse about include Psychic Trash Detectives by @brigittewinter.bsky.social, Alice is Missing by @spenserstarke.bsky.social, and of course The Between by @jasoncordova.bsky.social!! 030
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingSmall Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 16/09/2026Co-editors Stephen and Cislyn will be at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social this weekend! FoF is a mutli-disciplinary virtual online convention running round the clock during the 60 hours of the event. There's lots of casual fun stuff in addition to presentations, panels, and workshops. Check it out! 0114
Reposted by 🌈Sarah Pauling🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026i am going to Talk About Things at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social! 1) I love slush reading at @diabolicalplots.com and @smallwondersmag.com AND 2) I am neck-deep in mystery ttrpgs and ready to make that everybody else's problem 2198
Reposted by 🌈Sarah Pauling🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026i've been so deep in the tabletop mines in the first place because i’m lead writer for wyrd mist, a ttrpg with deck building elements forthcoming from gameswell! i've been pitching it as "nancy drew twin peaks." the playtest packet is available online: gameswell.shop/pages/wyrd-m... 141
Reposted by 🌈Sarah Paulingash vs the evil dead @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Vampires! Eldritch whales! Pathetic lesbians! Weird science! Vengeful trees! Sadness! As always, this issue has everything you crave 1188
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingSid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This weekend!! Still spots left to sign up. Come learn some techniques and journaling prompts to generate infinite ideas from observations and obsessions, then how to connect them together into a single story seed. metrowestwriters.myshopify.com/products/sin...metrowestwriters.myshopify.comSingle-Session: Sid Jain teaches The Charged Field: How Writers BuildJust in time for our busy drafting season, this class is perfect for the writer looking for new ways to cultivate story ideas! Every story starts with an idea, and accumulates new ideas with every sen... 043
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingRainbow Space Magic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Your last chance to apply for Opening Pages Consults! Deadline is today (Monday September 14th)! Want feedback from a professional editor on the opening pages of your #QueerSFF novel? Submit your novel's opening pages to apply for a one-to-one session. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 023
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026i've been so deep in the tabletop mines in the first place because i’m lead writer for wyrd mist, a ttrpg with deck building elements forthcoming from gameswell! i've been pitching it as "nancy drew twin peaks." the playtest packet is available online: gameswell.shop/pages/wyrd-m... 141
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingDevan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🍂👻Starting your autumn reading? HONEY AND HARM IS full of scary fairy tale moments, magical food, and complicated family relationships! 033
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026i am going to Talk About Things at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social! 1) I love slush reading at @diabolicalplots.com and @smallwondersmag.com AND 2) I am neck-deep in mystery ttrpgs and ready to make that everybody else's problem 2198
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026if i can't find a good canva template for a single-axis left/right scale can i just draw on the futch scale 120
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingEd Morland @edmorland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026As we're getting into the back half of 2026 do think about whether there's any works you'd recommend for the Otherwise Award for SFF "that expands or explores our understanding of gender". The jury can't consider works they aren't aware of so do give them a heads up of stuff they shouldn't miss.otherwiseaward.org2026 Otherwise Awards Recommendations « Otherwise AwardRecommend works here for the Otherwise Awards jurors to consider! 12123
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingSt. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 29/09/2025This movie is back from the unhinged days of Sesame Street, where you think it’s going to be about looking at paintings with your friends but then Big Bird befriends the ghost of a 4000-year-old ancient Egyptian boy and faces down the god Osiris to let him into the afterlife 4409
Reposted by 🌈Sarah Paulingval - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 10/09/2026hi yes I'm SO excited that my trans giant robot flash fic is out now at @lightspeedmagazine.com. please enjoy "The Chrysalis of Moth One" 💜 this one is a bit Pacific Rim drift compatibility but make it angry and defiantly trans. I'm so proud of this one ✨ www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...lightspeedmagazine.comThe Chrysalis of Moth One - Lightspeed MagazineThey didn’t want either of us to live this long. Sucks for them—we’re good at living in spite. We’re good at surviving, at fighting, at never stopping. Today is the last day we exist in spite of Comma... 36547
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Spent half of my voice lesson just quizzing the guy on music theory. i wish i had fifteen degrees 010
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingMike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Thinking about this exchange today 34181024488
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingThomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 08/09/2026PAX West 2026 is in the books! Thanks to some lovely friends for keeping Kelly and me rolling at the show. Rayne, Andrew, Davi and Sarah—y’all are the best. (Bonus points to Sarah taking pics at the booth) 021
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingGuan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I am teaching a class on Sunday at ConSyderation on "Short Story Essentials". Writers, what are some of the things you wished you'd known when you started out writing short stories? 152311
🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I’m at PAX today with @gameswell.shop!! Say hi. Learn abt our PNW ttrpg (I have lovingly referred to it as “Nancy Drew Twin Peaks”) 030
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The king's adviser is actually a nice guy: 6957191591
Reposted by 🌈Sarah PaulingRick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026My very upstate poem “Natty Bumppo Bums a Smoke Outside the Stewart’s Shop” is in this issue! 1289