Sarah Porter
@sarah-porter.bsky.social
Author of peculiar novels (PROJECTIONS, VASSA IN THE NIGHT, etc.) Bram Stoker finalist. Spiritualism and creativity nerd. Also artist.
I got some unexpected good news for the end of a very strange and often difficult year--speaking personally and not about the shitshow. Tell you soon.
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I got some unexpected good news for the end of a very strange and often difficult year--speaking personally and not about the shitshow. Tell you soon.
My baby asked for a Goth Art Panda cake for their eighth birthday. Guess what they're getting? I'm especially proud of how Goth Art Marzipanda himself turned out. I didn't know I could make such a cute panda.
December 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
My baby asked for a Goth Art Panda cake for their eighth birthday. Guess what they're getting? I'm especially proud of how Goth Art Marzipanda himself turned out. I didn't know I could make such a cute panda.
I've had intermittent trouble with a pinched nerve in my hip ever since I got an injury at Burning Man twenty stinking years ago. And six months of Pilates has completely fixed it. No pain, no flare-ups, just plain gone.
December 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I've had intermittent trouble with a pinched nerve in my hip ever since I got an injury at Burning Man twenty stinking years ago. And six months of Pilates has completely fixed it. No pain, no flare-ups, just plain gone.
The thing that kills me about the fetishizing of white (hi, Pantone!) as tasteful and classical is that it comes from people fixating on Greek statues as the pinnacle of elegance, and they were actually painted in all kinds of screaming-bright colors and patterns and the paint just wore off.
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The thing that kills me about the fetishizing of white (hi, Pantone!) as tasteful and classical is that it comes from people fixating on Greek statues as the pinnacle of elegance, and they were actually painted in all kinds of screaming-bright colors and patterns and the paint just wore off.
Cranberry curd tart with walnut-almond shortbread crust and meringue stars.
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Cranberry curd tart with walnut-almond shortbread crust and meringue stars.
I turned off Smart Features in gmail a couple days ago and it buried me in spam as punishment.
But it turns out that gmail was sending REAL messages to spam all along. I'm finding five year old messages that say things like "Can I please have a signed bookplate for my student whose sister just died
But it turns out that gmail was sending REAL messages to spam all along. I'm finding five year old messages that say things like "Can I please have a signed bookplate for my student whose sister just died
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I turned off Smart Features in gmail a couple days ago and it buried me in spam as punishment.
But it turns out that gmail was sending REAL messages to spam all along. I'm finding five year old messages that say things like "Can I please have a signed bookplate for my student whose sister just died
But it turns out that gmail was sending REAL messages to spam all along. I'm finding five year old messages that say things like "Can I please have a signed bookplate for my student whose sister just died
Okay this is a wild longshot: I'm thinking I'd like to do an interdisciplinary phd in creativity, but it would have to be funded--I'm not in a position to hemorrhage money--and I can't leave NYC. Unsurprisingly, I'm not finding anything on the web. Is there something I'm missing?
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Okay this is a wild longshot: I'm thinking I'd like to do an interdisciplinary phd in creativity, but it would have to be funded--I'm not in a position to hemorrhage money--and I can't leave NYC. Unsurprisingly, I'm not finding anything on the web. Is there something I'm missing?
I opted out this morning and google mail responded by flooding my inbox with over 7,000 old spam messages. It was comically gross.
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I opted out this morning and google mail responded by flooding my inbox with over 7,000 old spam messages. It was comically gross.
NOT ASHAMED ENOUGH BITCH
‘Deeply ashamed’ Larry Summers steps back from public life over Epstein links www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Deeply ashamed’ Larry Summers steps back from public life over Epstein links
Former treasury secretary steps away to ‘rebuild trust’ after severe backlash but will continue teaching Harvard classes
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
NOT ASHAMED ENOUGH BITCH
I'm feeling despondent over my writing career and wondering if I should go back to school for... something.
November 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I'm feeling despondent over my writing career and wondering if I should go back to school for... something.
I wish Bluesky had a pun-blocker.
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I wish Bluesky had a pun-blocker.
I got my covid and flu shots yesterday and I feel thoroughly lousy. Buuuuut you know what feels worse? Yeah.
(I'm reading this lovely eerie book in bed.)
(I'm reading this lovely eerie book in bed.)
November 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I got my covid and flu shots yesterday and I feel thoroughly lousy. Buuuuut you know what feels worse? Yeah.
(I'm reading this lovely eerie book in bed.)
(I'm reading this lovely eerie book in bed.)
My baby wants a Goth Panda theme for their 8th birthday party and a cake that looks like it's covered in paint splatters with a Goth Panda on top and it shall be so.
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
My baby wants a Goth Panda theme for their 8th birthday party and a cake that looks like it's covered in paint splatters with a Goth Panda on top and it shall be so.
It's my birthday and my kid has been sick with weird unexplained dizziness for two weeks, and after two pediatrician visits and one ER all we really know is that she doesn't have a brain tumor--yay, as far as it goes--but anyway I'm not exactly feeling festive.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It's my birthday and my kid has been sick with weird unexplained dizziness for two weeks, and after two pediatrician visits and one ER all we really know is that she doesn't have a brain tumor--yay, as far as it goes--but anyway I'm not exactly feeling festive.
There is precisely one New Yorker hotter than Zohran and that is his wife Rama holy cats.
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
There is precisely one New Yorker hotter than Zohran and that is his wife Rama holy cats.
If NYC does secede and become an independent city-state, then we could legally change our name to New York Fucking City, just saying.
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
If NYC does secede and become an independent city-state, then we could legally change our name to New York Fucking City, just saying.
It really was the K-Pop Demon Hunters Halloween; not just the ubiquity of Huntrix and Saja Boys costumes but Golden blasting through the streets everywhere. What does it mean that such a hopeful song has become the theme music of such a grim era?
November 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It really was the K-Pop Demon Hunters Halloween; not just the ubiquity of Huntrix and Saja Boys costumes but Golden blasting through the streets everywhere. What does it mean that such a hopeful song has become the theme music of such a grim era?
There was an apocryphal story I heard in college; I can't vouch for its truth. But it was said that a group of students got drunk and wandered out of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with a Picasso. The next day they panicked, then got caught trying to put the painting back.
October 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
There was an apocryphal story I heard in college; I can't vouch for its truth. But it was said that a group of students got drunk and wandered out of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with a Picasso. The next day they panicked, then got caught trying to put the painting back.
Date night in Chelsea. (We went to Viola's Room by Punchdrunk--pretty amazing--then drifted to a random cocktail bar on 8th Avenue.)
October 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Date night in Chelsea. (We went to Viola's Room by Punchdrunk--pretty amazing--then drifted to a random cocktail bar on 8th Avenue.)
New York City is out in force.
October 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
New York City is out in force.
It REALLY would have been smarter for them to completely ignore No Kings, or at least to pretend to ignore it. Their naked panic shows that we have far more power than we knew.
See you soon, friends.
See you soon, friends.
October 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It REALLY would have been smarter for them to completely ignore No Kings, or at least to pretend to ignore it. Their naked panic shows that we have far more power than we knew.
See you soon, friends.
See you soon, friends.
Wouldn't miss it for the world! See you all on Saturday.
Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."
October 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Wouldn't miss it for the world! See you all on Saturday.
I have a sick feeling that the only real question at this point is whether the US breaks apart with extreme violence and loss of life, or relatively peacefully.
October 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I have a sick feeling that the only real question at this point is whether the US breaks apart with extreme violence and loss of life, or relatively peacefully.
Okay I did it, I got really good tickets for Wicked for my kiddo's 8th birthday. I'm so used to being broke that it stresses me out to spend that much money, but the fact is I'm doing better this year and it's okay.
October 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Okay I did it, I got really good tickets for Wicked for my kiddo's 8th birthday. I'm so used to being broke that it stresses me out to spend that much money, but the fact is I'm doing better this year and it's okay.