Sharang Biswas
@sharangbiswas.bsky.social
Games, writing, art. ENnies, IndieCade, IGDN winner. Teaching at NYU & Fordham Words: Eurogamer, Lightspeed, Augur, Strange Horizons, Baffling. SFWA member THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS is out from Neon Hemlock Press! Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social
I am begging organizations to stop using AI-peddlers for their newsletter, decision making or any other capacity really. They have a personal interest in being pro-LLM. Please for the love of God.
Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · yesterdayThere is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
I'm going to be roaming and running games at @flamecon.bsky.social this year! Hit me up if you're in town and wanna chat etc. etc.
1/ For the last few years, I've been working with Liz Gorinski & folks at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social as a co-editor on ANDROID IN THE ARCHIVES! We paired 8 authors with faculty at the college to create new stories that @lightspeedmagazine.com will be publishing over the next year.
Android in the Archives Archives - Lightspeed Magazine
The Dartmouth Speculative Fiction Project paired eight faculty-members at Dartmouth College with eight veteran speculative fiction authors. Through design activities, panels, symposia and a mountain l...
lightspeedmagazine.com
I have acquired my flight tickets to Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco! Ping me if you’re around!
We have made our initial goal! Onward to stretch goals! (Also if you are a sick freak that likes video content, please click through to our first update where @pegasusunder.bsky.social has a rad video answering some questions about THESE HOLLOW BODIES)
Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 4d agoLooks like we are one Club Serpentine paperback backer away from meeting our initial goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
The Bridgerton instrumental soundtracks make for excellent work-music, just saying.
My friend & I made it to the last season of @mousehole.press’s KORIKO: A MAGICAL YEAR! It’s definitely risen to become one of my favourite RPGs of all time. Both exciting and bittersweet, because we’re close to the end! We’re sure we’re gonna cross the 100 pages threshhold (we’re at 86)
Today I ran the start of a short campaign of GODSEND by Khelren. Very intrigued by the complex PvP structure. You play gods; some of you want to destroy the world, while the rest want to preserve it. You also play as EACH OTHERS' holy avatars. Lots of communucation & negotiation needed!
Hey, you. Update your CV. I have to write everything I've ever done for my tenure review and forgot somehow I was a multiple Ennie winning teams one year. 😅 My embarrassment of not having this on my CV is probably because my mental health was hanging on by a thread after 2020. Do your bookkeeping!
Today is my birthday (turning 30), which is the only time each year when I ask you for a repost should you like my art. Have a good day! 🦦🌿✨️ - Simon
we require everyone's gay dollars please process them here (if you have straight dollars we will take them as well but the exchange rate is weird so you should give us twice as many)
Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · last wk.You can back the crowdfund here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.
Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic
The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.
axios.com
During the Create Your Own Novel panel at SDCC this year, the best proposal I have ever heard from another panelist was made, specifically: writers should have walk-on music like wrestlers when we come out for panels.
I was telling a friend how much I enjoyed the new AVATAR move and he was like “Oh you mean FIRE & ASH?” and if he hadn’t been in the phone, I would’ve vomited into his mouth.
My friend @marieanello.bsky.social recently ran 9 LIVES TO VALHALLA by @gemroomgames.bsky.social for me! Viking cats in a post-human world. You only roll dice when something (ANYTHING) needs to be killed; failure is always death. But you have 9 lives, so… gemroomgames.itch.io/9-lives-to-v...
9 Lives to Valhalla by Gem Room Games
The Age of Man is over, now dawns the Age of Beasts!
gemroomgames.itch.io
A Thursday bump on this, brought to mind because folks have started picking up the new hardcover and I really appreciate it! And you could be one of them!
ndp 🔥 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium@ndpdesign.com · last mo.A Sunday reminder that I'm fully restocked with World Wide Wrestling, including the new hardcover version (with a reference-friendly flexible binding and bookmark ribbon!), the Promotion supplements Warlock Pro and Five Rings Wrestling Alliance, and Move Cards. www.ndpdesign.com/wwwrpg
actual reasons to make games (or idk, something more straightforward like going up a mountain)
maybe: annie rauwerda@annierau.bsky.social · last wk.starting a collection of quotes like this
Indie game day yesterday! We played @superdillin.bsky.social's GUYS IN CHAIRS (featuring a punctuation-based superhero) & continued @jdragsky.bsky.social's YAZEBA'S BED & BREAKFAST (where we got to put a sticker on our frog-chef & unlocked a major protagonist!)
It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
We are thrilled to announce the return of Sharang Biswas to KBtL. Leveling up from erotica readings, Sharang will be teaching a full class with us this year. Gamers (or rather… gay-mers?) out there, you won’t want to miss this one. Stay tuned for more details. #kinksky #conference #kinkstersofcolor
asked the publisher reps at lavendercon for “weird.” immediately pointed at this book. reluctantly had to go “yeah that one was, uh, already on my list - my friend sharang wrote it”
Sharang Biswas@sharangbiswas.bsky.social · last wk.LavenderCon was excellent! Met cool writers, awesome readers, and was reminded numerous times that my book is actually quite good. Maybe you want to vote for it for the Ignyte Awards (voting is open to the public!)
hi we're comparatively pretty close to the next stretch goal for seven-part pact, which will see all the fantastic artists and editors who helped make seven-part pact a reality get a bonus! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...
Seven-Part Pact
A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.
kickstarter.com
This fall, Fortunate Horse is open for business. We made Worlds Beyond Number, Fun City, Rude Tales of Magic, Oh These Those Stars of Space, and now we can help you make your thing: stories, sounds, and music across podcasts, video, and games. Pitch us here: fortunatehorse at gmail dot com
So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
LavenderCon was excellent! Met cool writers, awesome readers, and was reminded numerous times that my book is actually quite good. Maybe you want to vote for it for the Ignyte Awards (voting is open to the public!)
Sharang Biswas@sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy first book, THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS is a finalist for an Ignyte Award! I share the spotlight with some excellent authors (across the various categories). Check out some excellent speculative writing & vote by August 16! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/
For a single line of text, I once read a whole paper on crocodilian locomotion (with an accompanying video!)
Wyrd Science Magazine@wyrdscience.bsky.social · last wk.People writing books and/or RPG adventures, what’s the nerdiest, most pointless bit of research you’ve done in the name of worldbuilding that you very probably didn’t need to do & no one else cared about? I just found my old notes with all the phases of the moon & tides in Northern England in 1566
Illustration by yours truly 📘 Massive thanks to Neon Hemlock for giving me the chance to make this, go check their crowdfund out and support it if you can!
Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 2w agoAs part of the launch of our novella crowdfund, hype to share the cover for THESE HOLLOW BODIES by Z.K. Abraham (@pegasusunder.bsky.social)! The cover was illustrated by Anan Sonn Kaaren @acloudboiii.bsky.social 🖌️
