sarahijackson

sarahijackson, 2 months ago to random

I was looking for a free alternative to Duolingo and it turns out I can get free self-guided online language courses through the library. Of course I can! Honestly, man. Libraries. Use them, love them, defend them 📚❤️

sarahijackson, 3 months ago to random

Guess who just learned about sea pens! 🤩

Some fabulous words in their classification info too:

🪸 cnidarians
🪸 pennatulacea
🪸 octocorallia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_pen

Two orange creatures on a sandy sea bed that look like curled ostrich feathers
A yellow creature on a sandy sea bed with a central stem or spine and fronds coming off it on both sides, this one looks less like a feather and more like an alien
A yellow creature on a sandy sea bed that resembles a quill pen with an ostrich feather

sarahijackson, 4 months ago to random

Posting for myself and anyone else who needs a lil boost rn

(sorry I know he's a cop but he's a magical fictional good cop)

sarahijackson, 6 months ago to graffiti

#SilentSunday #graffiti

sarahijackson, 9 months ago to random

Feeling strong kinship with Lilaeleaf's Suffering Goblins

https://www.tumblr.com/lilaeleaf/726047738609926144/digital-download-available-in-my-ko-fi-shop?source=share

Small round green goblin looking sad under a banner reading "My tummy hurts" with small text below that reads "And I'm being so brave about it"
Green goblin with eyes closed wrapped up in a blanket with an empty battery icon over their head, text below reads "recharging"

sarahijackson, 4 months ago to Minerals

Ancient snail shells fossilised into ghostly blue chalcedony spirals.

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/rosesofthetwilight/741889490039242752/briery-epigenised-opal-ct-lussatite-helix

#minerals #geology #chalcedony #fossils

Underside of fossilised snail shell, now pale blue and grey translucent stone

sarahijackson, 1 month ago to random

Fairly obsessed with this little guy I found in an article about a diving robot.

The article: https://mymodernmet.com/rov-subastian-new-underwater-species-chile/

The guy: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/science-blog/mysterious-identity-bright-red-sea-toad

sarahijackson, 1 month ago to Bloomscrolling

I went out for a ride on my tricycle and walked around a park and touched some grass 🏅 Here are my #bloomscrolling and #florespondence offerings

Lots of bluebells with some orange leaves in the background
A cluster of white blossoms
Bright yellow buttercups pop against a background of green leaves and bluebells

sarahijackson, 5 months ago to random

"You have to try, as hard as you can, to be mediocre constantly. Allowing yourself mediocrity everyday is about freedom. It is about allowing yourself the pleasure of getting through something without feeling that you must work harder than anyone else or that you must prove yourself to be more exceptional than anyone else. It’s about allowing yourself the pleasure of just doing something for the sake of doing it."

https://www.alicesparklykat.com/articles/249/Practicing_Mediocrity/

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingLife

sarahijackson, 5 months ago to poetry

Issue 47.1 of @sfpoetry journal Star*Line is out now! Featuring my poem "The Existence of Dragons" and this beautiful cover art by Dante Luiz
https://sfpoetry.com/sl/issues/starline47.1.html

#SFF #SpecPo #Poetry

sarahijackson, 9 months ago to art

I love these watercolour paintings of different editions of Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Left Hand of Darkness', by Tuesday Smillie

https://tuesdaysmillie.com/section/514492-Book%20Covers.html

#art #watercolour #UrsulaKLeGuin

Watercolour painting showing a worn copy of The Left Hand of Darkness with an illustration of two mountaintop castles emerging from blue mist into yellow sunlight

sarahijackson, 8 months ago to animals

Argh, I have so much to do but I'm transfixed by my cat, in her sleepy fluffy majesty

#CatsOfMastodon

A sleeping white and black cat lies on a floral bedspread, slightly rolled on her back with one paw over her face, her belly is extremely fluffy
A sleeping white and black cat lies on her side on a floral bedspread with her paws curled over her face, her tummy is sheer fluff

sarahijackson, 4 months ago to HorrorBooks

👻 The Haunted Tea Set & Other Stories is out today! 👻

A collection of darkly comic supernatural stories in which horror and wonder bleed into everyday life.

Available as a paperback and ebook from most of the usual places, links here: https://sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/writing/

#bookstodon #NewRelease #HorrorBooks #HorrorFiction #WeirdFiction #Uncanny #GhostStories

sarahijackson, 4 months ago to weirdfiction

🎉 🎺 Writing news! 🎺 🎉

Over the holidays I gathered 20 of my gently unsettling, darkly funny stories into a tiny cursed ebook! 👻 📗

If you were so inclined you could get a copy of 'The Haunted Tea Set & Other Stories' via Smashwords right now: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1502444

Or preorder it at various non-Amazon places for next week: https://books2read.com/b/HauntedTeaSet

(CWs at the back!)

#HorrorFiction #WeirdFiction #GhostStories #SpeculativeFiction #Uncanny #Horror #HorrorCommunity #HorrorBooks #NewRelease

sarahijackson, 9 months ago to Horror

Just had a little flurry of sign ups for my upcoming online workshop about the uncanny 🖤 Not sure where they came from but they're very welcome 😊 Still plenty of places left!

Write The Uncanny ✨💀✨
Sat 7 October, 3-5pm BST, £7-£18

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-the-uncanny-tickets-682760423807

#Uncanny #HorrorFiction #Horror #WeirdFiction #SpeculativeFiction

sarahijackson, 8 months ago to sciencefiction

Oh nice, two drabbles accepted for Shacklebound Books 'Programmed Hearts' anthology! On one of my favourite topics, too: robots and feelings 🤖❤

(Submissions are still open as far as I can see https://shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/)

#MicroFiction #ScienceFiction

sarahijackson, 19 days ago to random

Just a reminder that the fedi timeline filter feature is an absolute gift 😊

https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon/

sarahijackson, 8 months ago to random

There's an absurdly good selection of affordable, inclusive writing workshops and courses open right now at Crow Collective, and I'm not just saying that because one of them is mine!

Take a look: https://crowcollectiveworkshops.com/category/workshops/

#WritingWorkshops #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritersOfMastodon

sarahijackson, 6 days ago to random

Well this is hecking adorable. Stop motion animation in which one of the baby kaiju (I'm not sure which one) tells Godzilla that they are trans 💖

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG1T0URuTWw

sarahijackson, 8 months ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub 1 Oct: Shameless self-promotion. What's your WIP? What's it about?

My big WIP is a historical fantasy novel set in 18thC London, in which a siren teams up with a tailor's apprentice to steal a fortune, using magic, murder, and impeccable manners 😊

sarahijackson, 4 months ago to random

Statues and silence: the uncanny in The Winter’s Tale and its mythical sources

https://sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/statues-and-silence-the-uncanny-in-the-winters-tale-and-its-mythical-sources/

(this is my undergrad dissertation! I enjoyed re-reading it recently and I thought it might be of interest to fellow fans of the uncanny and/or The Winter's Tale, which is still my favourite Shakey play)

#Uncanny #Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #TheWintersTale

sarahijackson, 9 months ago to random

Behold, the Secret Project I've been working on for the last several months...

Introducing @innerworlds! A digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives http://www.inner-worlds.org

#SpeculativeFiction #SFF #SFFH #LitMag #ShortFiction #SubmissionCall

sarahijackson, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to solarpunk

Hey #solarpunk fans! Please can you point me to any short stories (or books, though I have a few suggestions now) that feature a forest city, or very green city? Descriptions of buildings / structures mingled with trees (intentionally, rather than through neglect) is what I'm after. Thank you!
🌳🏡🌳🏠🌳🏘🌳🏡🌳

sarahijackson, 11 months ago to random

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sarahijackson, 5 months ago to random

Eeee just got the proofs of a poem I wrote which is coming out in a journal soon! Especially proud as it's sci-fi, which I find quite challenging as a non-scientist.