🌈Sarah Pauling

Turns out those initials are actually MD and the artist is UK illustrator Mark Duffin, who also did the Atari ST box art for Tempest, though Mark confirmed for OVGA that neither original painting was ever returned. Mark said both were a rush and had to be done overnight!

good news everybody, there's a new Sarah Pauling story out in the world to read

My story is free to read today!! meet Gracie, a very responsible camper. please help Gracie save a terrible terrible child

A painting of the black hole scene from the film Interstellar

1 hour painting

Sending love ❤️

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it's here it's time!!!

I didn’t know RCV had an account, you are very good at finding skeets!

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

everybody say good luck to my barbershop chorus that is participating in competition next weekend!! without me b/c i joined too late to save the date 😔

one day i will sing jaunty tunes about romantic drugstore ice cream trips on a stage…..one day

Bruce Pennington, British (1944- ), Eastern Shore, 1989

Art by Bruce Pennington for The Trail of Cthulhu by August Derleth, (1974)

oh MCR on repeat is a great source of ideas. one must enter the MCR State

The Random Prompts TTRPG Jam A game jam from 2025-09-26 to 2025-10-24 hosted by Far Horizons CoOp & Marx of High Water. Back in the early days of Far Horizons CoOp, we used to produce regular collections of short games. Sometimes...

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paddle @ipaddlearound david attenborough: [mumbling] skip. i dont like this animal. skip it. 12:32 AM • Jun 25, 2023

Thank u for your wisdom. This tracks

For real! I’m a haterism snob!

sometimes i dislike a book enough to go to goodreads to find haterism comments but the minute all the haterism comments are like "this book used too many big words" i'm gone. how dare you insult this book

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Safe Face - Nightmare Magazine To save face, turn away from the sun. Turn away from the spatter of cold rain against the cheek, away from the hard light of the moon at its roundest, away from the snow-flecked wind, away from the ba...

"To save face, turn away from the sun. Turn away from the spatter of cold rain against the cheek…" www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/safe... Out today for everyone in @nightmare-magazine.com

watched excalibur (1981) for the first time and was so excited to notice shots that monty python and the holy grail parodied!

...only to realize monty python and the holy grail came out in 1975. did excalibur (1981) reference monty python, i ask you.

Strange Horizons was my first sale and this anniversary makes me so happy!!

actually does anybody have recs under this criteria?

6) Cozy SFF works best when there's a bit of contrasting spikiness. Sure a pure idyll is nice, but having some psychological depth, some challenge, a hint of a not completely benevolent world makes the day to day niceness stand out in relief. Not universally so, but the genre tends bland w/o that.

Yooooo

Writing Queer Desire. Gabriel Hargrave, Antonia Aquilante, Claire Houck, Victoria Krouse, Laura Weyr. Rainbow Space Magic. October 4–5. RainbowSpaceMagic.org. Logo: A fountain pen draws a circle around the rainbow-colored letters RSM, ending in a little flying dragon and a ringed planet. Background: A starry sky with a rainbow.

This is just one of the many panels that's happening Oct 4 & 5 at the 6th annual Rainbow Space Magic. This free virtual con is for writers & readers of queer speculative fiction. Full schedule at www.rainbowspacemagi...

#LGBT #writing #ScienceFiction #fantasy

Black and White Sci-Fi Bold and bright colors are one of the most definitive markers of 1970s and '80s science fiction book covers across the US and UK markets. I'd call them the definitive trait. Going into the decade, pu...

I love this edition of @70sscifiart.bsky.social newsletter focusing on Black and White Sci-Fi art. It's absolutely freaking gorgeous.

I'm going to put aside the weird feeling of seeing a saint born after I was, but since we know the guy was big on halo 2 there are now people who in 2004-2005 got fragged by a saint on xbox live

Wow... 75% funded in less than a day!! Help us push our sapphic adventure anthology over the finish line!! 🏳️‍🌈😍🦄