🌈Sarah Pauling

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

it's @itch.io Creator Day, which means 100% of proceeds go to creators!

in celebration, i'm having a 20% off sale, plus even cheaper if you buy the bundle of all 4 TTRPGs! 🎲 if you've been considering picking up my games, now is a great time!

🔗: itch.io/s/170188/jum...

Realms of Fantasy Vol. 2 #3 'Justice' by Tom Kidd 1996
#fantasyart

Wondering what to get from me during this Itch Creator Day sale? Check out this new solo journaling game about cooking:

keeping us entertained(?) on the three-hour drive to Portland by reading from the Wikipedia pages of different apple varieties. the citations for red delicious are all like this

The only way to save humanity and unite the people is more Sword & Sorcery paintings on the side of vans.

Lyrics on a karaoke machine: I guess it rains down in Africa I guess it rains down in Africa I guess it rains down in Africa

Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday

excommunicated from the group chat for calling the dragon gates built into Hong Kong high rises “dragon holes”

[heaving out internal organs] updating….my submission grinder stats…….is the prosocial thing to do……

[coughing up blood] finding markets....for short fiction.....is worth it.....

Part of the reason I know it’s so good is that now sometimes people (Guan Un) do it for me!!!!!

Usually I open up a meme generator and browse for awhile…..remember what memes there are in the world…..

Safely context-less examples

Truly a great and fairly low-effort thing you can do for your writing friends is make memes about their work. I’ve been doing this on and off for years and the reaction it gets is its own reward

Congrats!!

“to die, to sneep; to sneep, perchance to dream—for in that sneep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffned off this mortan coin, must give us pause, there's the respect, that makes canamity of so nong nife” - hamnet

I can probably connect you to a geologist, assuming he’s interested—want me to check?

convincing you to read my novel THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by sharing the first page ~ feel free to share yours if you'd like!

2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award Recommend works here for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider!

Reminder:

Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:

otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...

Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Nonfiction: We are looking for personal essays, literary/media criticism, creative nonfiction, and more by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only considering full pieces (up to 4,000 words) and cannot consider pitches. Open November 24, 2025. Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."

Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Reprints: We are looking for previously published speculative short fiction (up to 17,500 words by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only looking for stories that cannot currently be read online for free. Open November 24, 2025. Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."

Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches.

📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Absolute banger, one of my favourite books I've read this year

Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk

Been obsessed with this one from go

I bet a million dollars this will occur. IF movie is good

Screenshot of lawmakers' names & phone numbers Mark Kelly (AZ): DC office, 202 224 2235. Phoenix office, 602 671 7901 Elissa Slotkin (MI): DC office, 202 224 4822. Detroit office, 313 961 4330 Jon Ossof (GA): DC office, 202 224 3521. Atlanta office, 470 786 7800

Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia!

Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.

If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!

Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.

i am excited to see my very annoying son damian wayne in such a movie

dnd is about playing a cleric, to me

(ironic thing to say about these two in particular but)

they are SO COOL and VERY WEIRD

Pic of me holding 3 World Fantasy Award trophies--one for each of us Mapping New Stars co-editors

Screenshot of my IG post caption, which is too long for Bsky

Pic of the World Fantasy Award trophy

Close up pic of the trophy

We won a World Fantasy Award!! I have more words than Bsky has characters so added a screenshot of my IG post for a proper caption 🤣

Special thanks to my co-editors @sundialgirl.bsky.social & Anna Sanchez!! This book wouldn't exist without them.
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social #WorldFantasyAwards2025

has anyone been watching critical role. wick and tyranny were designed for me im pretty sure