Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 26/10/2025TOMORROW SUNDAY OCTOBER 26TH I will be having a book release party for my first ever published book, _Civilization Stained These Young Things_, at The Mint Karaoke Lounge at 7pm. Come on down! Buy a copy, if you want! Buy me a drink, if you want! 002
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 25/10/2025I'm in the middle of my FIRST EVER book signing! At @clockworkalchemy.bsky.social in Redwood City, excited for people to come by my FIRST EVER book, Civilization Stained These Young Things, and Other Works by Emily Loretta Flummox! 001
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 08/10/2025And I will HAPPILY sign it for you! dookyzines.com/2025/07/17/c... 020
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 08/10/2025 sensuous as it is sharp in its societal commentary and razor slicing prose. An unforgettable and unapologetic exploration of love, loneliness, and identity through fairies and fog water. A must read. -Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito, Qilin Press and Demagogue Press. Only $12 in paperback and $4 on Kindle! 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 08/10/2025nominated poet Sumiko Saulson! Check out the title story, an ecokinky mythopoetic erotica flash fiction about pixies doing knifeplay! Or my grimy devotional poetry. Or the essay "My Arrows are as Numerous as Dust, My Shield as Inevitable as Trash"! “Civilization Stained These Young Things” is as 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 08/10/2025glitter bombs… then Civilization Stained These Young Things would hold the secret password to get in.” – Angela Yuriko Smith, Publisher of Space and Time It's a short chapbook collection of poetry, short prose fiction,a nd short nonfiction, and it has AMAZING cover art by twice Bram Stoker Award- 110
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Since I published my book back in August, I've had a bunch of folx ask how they can buy my book. Well, my life has been all a-tizzy ever since, so I am FINALLY letting you all know how to buy it! “If literature had a secret underground club… the kind with fairy wings, blood rites, and metaphorical 130
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I need to build up my October karaoke repertoire.... What are your favorite Samhain, Halloween, creepy, horror, morbid, ghostly, scary songs? 010
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 13/09/2025We have 5% of the world's population and 25% of its prison population. AND California, the state whose refusal of slavery sparked the Civil War, refused to finish the job of abolition last year 000
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 13/09/2025"Political violence has no place in the United States" Qween, what? We spend more money than any other country in the world on political violence. Our army gets now money than, what, the next 25 countries on the list combined (prolly more at this point), of which all but one to three are allies. 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Has anyone else noticed a rise in algorithms pushing white supremacy? From facebooks relatively subtle inclusion of "pretty white blonde girls oppressed by people of color" stories to YouTube feeding me "why Wolfenstein is anti white" videos, I've definitely noticed an increase of fnords ... 100
Reposted by Toy P. SaulsonCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I would be happy if I never heard the name Graham Linehan again, but I do feel the need to comment, because the nature of a lot of the abuse trans people receive is straight up sexual harassment, but is not recognized as such because the victim is trans. What Glinner is doing is sexual harassment. 1140511288
Reposted by Toy P. SaulsonGeneral Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 29/08/2025IT FINALLY HAPPENED @reforest-kelley.bsky.social, usually when someone compliments my bajorestine pin i say "thanks! do you know what the other flag is?" and invariably they do not (tho many love it once i tell them) but tonight at karaoke azim said "bajor, right?" 2342
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I think modern horror (literature, film, games) needs a John Waters-like figure ... If there already one out there? Who is it? 010
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 18/08/2025If you think about anything too hard, you'll find it will become religion, horror, erotica, or romance. And if you KEEP thinking about it, you'll realize those four things are one thing. 000
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 17/08/2025URGENT: I'm in Seattle, and the poolhouse where my sweety and I are having our wedding reception needs to get cleaned out today of at all freaking possible. It's in South San Jose - can anyone help us out, please? 010
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 15/08/2025You know... The more hours I spend in Seattle (been here since Wednesday night) the more I understand why Shadowrun uses Seattle as its focus city.... Why does your favorite IP focus on the city it focuses on? 010
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Does anybody know if there's already a mashup made out there of "California Dreaming" and "California Hotel"? 000
Reposted by Toy P. SaulsonGrandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Xyresic [Zye-res-ik] (adj.) - Being as sharp as a razor. From Greek "xyresis" (razor) Used in a sentence: “Harvey, fancying himself the next big insult comic, has earned himself more than one visit to the HR department thanks to his xyresic sense of humor.” 09221
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 04/07/2025It's totally awesome when you show up the Friday of Con, already behind in sleep and exhausted, right? Anyway, weeeee, hi @baycon.org , I have arrived!!! 030
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 04/07/2025How long has sex work been around? How often do we see any of those statements about sex? What about sports? Poetry and the other arts (well, excluding ttrpgs, since they were the original question)? Also, that's not what scabs means, unless your suggesting a GM labor movement fighting bosses. 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Nuances (poem) * The Fog of Time Means We’re Everywhere (short story) * The Ceremonies Begin (poem), * A Prayer from a Blacksmith’s Apprentice (flash fiction) * We Are Already So Many Different Kinds of Ancestor (poem) * My Arrows are as Plentiful as Dust, My Shield is as Inevitable as Trash (essay) 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 03/07/2025The complete contents are: * Kiss Me, I’m A Prince (poem) * Civilization Stained These Young Things (short story) * Tlazolteotl (in the Language of Asatru and Hinduism) Or: Because I Do Not Know Your Language Well Enough Yet (poem) * Like All That Lives, We Eat Death: The TTRPG (essay) * Mammalian 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 03/07/2025poetry as well as the previously unpublished “The Fog of Time Means We’re Everywhere” and select unpublished poems. The title story, "Civilization Stained These Young Things," is a dark fantasy about faeries and a dangerous and magical dance as old as time that brings the colors to roses in bloom. 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 03/07/2025TABLE OF CONTENTS REVEAL for "Civilization Stained These Young Things and Other Works by Emily Flummox" Emily Flummox’s unapologetically Queer debut collection published on Sumiko Saulson's Dooky Zines imprint and available in a few weeks) includes eir previously published essays, short stories and 110
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 01/07/2025sosososososososo EXXXCITE! This is over 9000! The cover artist is Miki Bizet, and the editor is two-time Bram Stoker Award nominee Sumiko Saulson. 000
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Hey, look! It's the cover of my SOON TO BE PUBLISHED chapbook, "Civilization Stained These Young Things, and Other Works by Emily Loretta Flummox"! Isn't it GORGEOUS?? My **debut** collection of short stories, essays and poetry on is coming out on DookyZines just in time for @baycon.org 2025! I'm 110
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025see all of y’all there ~ BayCon was the very first speculative fiction convention I ever attended waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy back when it was at the Doubletree, so it does have a wee bit of a special spot in the convenient parallel dimension that is my heart! 000
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025FURTHERMORE, I will have some advance copies of my SOON TO BE OFFICIALLY PUBLISHED chapbook of poetry, prose fiction, and essays, “Civilization Stained These Young Things, and Other Works by Emily Flummox” to sell at the Con, and will do something to celebrate its release, as well!!! I’d love to 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Game Master for the last three years, as many of y’all know, so I’m all fit to talk about what works for me, what is difficult for me, and how professional GMing is different from casual GMing for fun or performance GMing on Actual Play livestreams! Theya re, after all, three very different skills. 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025have a few such friends as interested in such things as I am! And the, finally, come listen to me talk about the work of mine that lines my wallet the most: “PROFESSIONAL GMING” at 11:30am (half past 11 o’clock) on Monday (dies Lunae) the 7th of July in Sierra. I’ve been working as a professional 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025HORROR VIDEO GAMES ON TELEVISION” at 8pm (20 o’clock) in Sequoia again ~ certainly a joy for anyone else interested in not only interactive literature but the ways in which both static literature and interactive literature cross over and breed with each other and understand each other! I **know** I 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025SPECULATIVE POETRY” at 10pm (22 o’clock) in the Sequoia room. The next day, good ol’ Saturn’s Day, July 5th, I’ll be on “POE-ETIC PONDERINGS: INFLUENCES OF POE ON HORROR AND OTHER DARK SPECULATIVE POETRY” at 4:15 (quarter past 17 o’clock) in the Sierra room, and “JOYSTICK TO SCREEN: THE RISE OF 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025convention, so come check them out! On Friday (dies Uenerii, Freyasdæg), July 4th, ignore the jingoistic ra-ra holiday and check out the panels “PERFORMING SPECULATIVE AND HORROR POETRY” at 4:15om (quarter past 16 o’ clock) in the Newport Beach room and “QUOTH THE RAVEN: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I’m going to be at @baycon.org this weekend at the Santa Clara Marriott, which is ALSO WesterCon 77 this year! The theme is “A Convenient Parallel Dimension”, with a focus on the spookier side of speculative fiction. So you KNOW that I am excited to be there. I’m on five panels throughout the 110
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Waiting for an appointment at San Francisco Human Services. Some qween just walked through the waiting room yelling the opening to The Prisoner at top volume. Yes, the old psychedelic spy show from the 60s that was really amazing. I swear being poor is fucking surreal sometimes lol 010
Reposted by Toy P. SaulsonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Today the GOP justices on the Supreme Court endorsed migrants being sold into slavery. They'll claim otherwise, but that's the reality — today's decision permits Trump to send people from countries around the world to any global hellhole that accepts a U.S. financial incentive. 7041061941
Reposted by Toy P. SaulsonRoger @rogger.bsky.social · 17/03/2025A bit of "woah, D&D sure is horny" chat today, so here's my $0.02. TTRPGs are an organising framework for narrative creativity, and human creativity is driven by one of three fundamental impulses: - horny - spite - someone else's horny and/or spite because they have money and the rent is due 281
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 02/06/2025OMGz a friend of mine gifted me the MOST BIMBONICEST OUTFIT and I just *had* to take selfies in the bathroom at the karaoke bar! *Giggle* how do I look? (Objectifying response welcome, but not required) 000
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 28/05/2025I just realized that "Walk without rhythm so the worm doesn't get you" also applies in the modern surveillance state. (Since gait recognition exists) 000
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 09/05/2025characterization, but ended with a small plastic statuette of a dog getting animated through the magic of vampire blood. So . . . while I'd prefer to tell a horror story, the audience might use their donations to create chaos lol DM me if interested, please (I'm cross-posting this a bunch of places 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 09/05/2025no pay, as this is a fundraiser. All character ideas accepted, very permissive to 3rd-party and homebrew content. I'm definitely a World of Darkness nerd, so feel free to hit me with your nerdery lol. The last session started out as a fairly serious horror game with bits of over-the-top 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 09/05/2025This time, I will be running it on Meadowlark Productions, the charity Actual Play channel on Twitch run by my friend Baba Yaga. I need 3-5 players and already have two. SF goths, horror writers, and poz folx will get priority, with other marginalized peoples also being moved to the front. There is 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 09/05/2025RECRUITING: I will once again be running a livestreamed actual play of Vampire: the Masquerade 5th edition as a fundraiser for the SFGoth AIDSwalk team, raising money to fight AIDS (which, despite what some highly unaware folx have tried to tell me, is not over) and to support poz folx while we do. 100
Toy P. Saulson @skunkheart.bsky.social · 09/05/2025this was recently sent to me from someone but I see that it's two weeks old ~ are yous till casting? 100
