Thinking about this exchange today

PAX 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)

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

Yooo the booth looks so good

I 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?

Yooo the booth looks so good

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

I’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”)

I’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”)

The king's adviser is actually a nice guy:

I do yearn for more tattoos but I have such a wide range of ideas that I’m scared to do anything lest I run out of canvas. which is big talk from a woman with one (1) tattoo

My very upstate poem “Natty Bumppo Bums a Smoke Outside the Stewart’s Shop” is in this issue!

Trollbreath Magazine@trollbreathmag.bsky.social · last wk.

Welcome to Issue 9, fall of 2026! We've got a fantastic slate of authors and poets for you this time around, so as the days get shorter and cooler, you should relax, get cozy, and enjoy some delightful short fiction. Subscriptions are only $5 per issue, or $20 per year. magazine.trollbreath.com

Love the deli paper on the doctor’s table. Mmm I’m a sick little sandwich

a sentence that just keeps going

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 2w ago

hey just making sure everyone knows tom hardy put out a rap album where he does the “"now is the winter of our discontent” monologue from richard III in the bane voice on one of the tracks. okay have a good weekend

This held up all the way through btw. extremely trippy world building around how to make causality in time travel make sense…supercharged with enough dread to sit in my stomach like a stone

🌈Sarah Pauling@sarahpauling.bsky.social · 3w ago

i am halfway through the gone world by tom sweterlitsch and it's so good?? how is it so good. love when science fiction and cosmic horror become indistinguishable genres

there’s an alternate universe out there where this is emblazoned on countless sasunaru edits

I'm excited to have a story coming out in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social early next year! "The Propagandist's Last Victim" is, in a departure for me*, a queer story about "Technology creates problems 😕 (future bad)". Also I memed it; hope you remember this in six months! * insert Lying Cat meme

tim curry too????

Cover reveal! No release date set, but we're drawing closer to finalizing our first anthology! 60 stories and 24 poems published in Trollbreath Magazine over the course of our first two years. It will be available in ebook & print. Cover art: Betidraws Trollbreath Magazine: Volume One (2024-2025)

You still have time to register for Flights of Foundry when it returns next month September 18-20, 2026 flights-of-foundry.o...

I have a new solo RPG out! In SHATTER THE SUN: QUEER TALES OF UNTOLD ADVENTURE by @neonhemlock.bsky.social, my game “Within His Coils We Bask” uses myth-interpretation as a core game mechanic. Will you affirm or reject the teachings of the Coiled Wyrm as you attempt to save your community?

i am halfway through the gone world by tom sweterlitsch and it's so good?? how is it so good. love when science fiction and cosmic horror become indistinguishable genres

"alice is missing" is sooooo good btw. the timed clue reveals alone rock (as does the timer playlist), and that's not even considering the main hook of silent text communication www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysOO...

Alice Is Missing - Animated Timer

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🌈Sarah Pauling@sarahpauling.bsky.social · 4w ago

for absolutely no reason at all, does anybody have recs for very good mystery-centered or detective TTRPGs? I'm already honed in on Alice is Missing, Brindlewood Bay, Gumshoe, Monster of the Week, Psychic Trash Detectives

really good idea to pick a partner with different but complimentary annoying nerd traits. that way you can both explain coffeeshop AUs to them at 12am AND receive science articles titled “If The Universe Were A Computer” sans context during the work day

for absolutely no reason at all, does anybody have recs for very good mystery-centered or detective TTRPGs? I'm already honed in on Alice is Missing, Brindlewood Bay, Gumshoe, Monster of the Week, Psychic Trash Detectives

I think about this a lot.

Dancing Skeletons — Kawanabe Kyōsai, ca. 1880 Painted silk 136 x 66 cm www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

love eating a whole bag of sour skittles and absolutely SANDING my mouth. inner cheeks in tatters. it’s like rug burn …typed all that out and realized maybe should have prefaced w/ “is this normal?”

We can deduce from this photo that I did correctly embarrass my sister w/ my wedding toast

me tricking people into playtesting a ttrpg

zaratustra@zaratustra.bsky.social · last mo.

To give everyone an idea of where I'm at for reading all the author newsletters in my inbox, I just read The Death and Rebirth of the Queer Bookstore from @charliejane.bsky.social As usual, I loved this issue of the newsletter. Wonderful history & roundup of queer bookstores.

The Death and Rebirth of the Queer Bookstore

Hi! Before we get started… Right now, you can get a Humble Bundle including everything Annalee Newitz and I have published with Tor for just $18 (plus...

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