As a frequent user of the ponds, it disgusts me that terfs are taking a beautiful place and pouring their hate into it. Please fill in this survey if you want to protect this space for all women and make trans women feel. PS the ducks think terfs suck. And the friendly fox. And the crows.

anyone london based - there's a consultation on whether trans women and men will continue to be able to access the hampstead ladies and men's ponds, or if they should be forced to use the one for their 'biological sex'. please respond, it's quick. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

As an immigrant to the UK, I was grateful for years to have arrived during the last Labour government, before the Tories imposed such cruel restrictions on immigration. Now, listening to the current Labour government's even crueller plans... I hate how anti-immigrant mainstream discourse has become.

good time to call your democratic reps and describe to them what having a spine might look like

I've been thinking a lot lately about writing as joy and art - the things I want to write - and writing as the thing that pays my bills. I hope I can always align those two things, but I do wonder. I wonder.

people saying the wuthering heights trailer is bad because it's horny and the book is not: did we read the same book?

On this and all social media platforms,all artists NEED to support NSFW art. If your ace (like me) or don't like porn it doesn't matter. The freedom to draw nudity and sexually explicit work for adults shouldn't be demonized because some people find it offensive or refuse to parent their kids.

My favorite doctor and companion

JKR and others are utilising the law to their benefit, and I'd suggest funding one of the best organisations fighting back - the Good Law Project - which takes donations: goodlawproject.org/campaign/tra...

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

Kirkus gave a starred review to THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA and I am putting it all here proudly for you, like a cat with an extremely fine mouse, etc etc

so: a very dear friend of mine passed away last week, unexpectedly and unfairly. his family set up a college fund for his six-year-old daughter. any shares or $ would be appreciated 💙 gift.my529.org/Q0M52E

rolling on the floor with delight!!!!!!!

I hope some of you are watching The Legend of Zang Hai, because it's really, really, really good.

actually it is genuinely very funny to be nominated for a series hugo for a fantasy series about lesbians in the year a panel description says there are too many lesbian-focused books. like genuinely you couldn't write this.

“We’re all tired of queers, right?” is the sum total of this panel description, whistling to dogs through a fig leaf of “strong women,” & I think it’s disgusting & irresponsible & reprehensible. It’s bad panel-writing, it’s bad ethics, it’s the stupidest shit, & Seattle deserved better than this.

if your response to the loser worldcon panel description that asked 'why are strong women in fiction all lesbians' is 'these authors write strong women who aren't lesbians' you're just reinforcing that the lesphobic statement has validity, babes - the homophobia is the problem!! focus!!!

@tashasuri.bsky.social you rang?

Thrilled to see titles from @olivieblake.bsky.social, @tashasuri.bsky.social, and @hannahnicolemae.bsky.social included on @publisherswkly.bsky.social's Top 10 SFF picks for Fall 2025! #TeamTriada #BookSky www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

this book is out today and i don't know you but i know it's exactly what you need right now (ecstatic, brutal, brilliant visions of the future) bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...

what exactly IS the point of labour

I'm thrilled that the Burning Kingdoms trilogy is a finalist for the Best Series Hugo Award!! It's in wonderful company.

I finished The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social and I wept like a tiny child, it's beautiful and heartbreaking and a love story and an incisive commentary on propaganda and fascism and also the knight is hot and scarred and fucks.

very excited to go on a writing retreat soon, where I may finally read two novels I've been dying to dive into (the everlasting, and a witch's guide to magical inkeeping)

The cover of THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA, my sapphic lady knight/witch reincarnation romance, out in October. ⚔️🔮🌊

Finally starting reading the trilogy, so wanted to share this art of Priya and Malini I did for @tashasuri.bsky.social for The Lotus Empire 🪷

I have a cover reveal for THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA on Friday. ⚔️🔮🌊

If like me you're struggling to fill this in, ALCS has guidance: www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

noble knight won't be coming home to her princess my ten of swords card for @novamali.bsky.social lovely tarot deck! ⚔️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/nov...

one of the worst things about editing a book is that I cannot read when I am editing, my brain turns to sludge. and I have a bunch of wonderful books on my tbr: the gentleman and his vowsmith by rebecca ide: regency queer historical with murder and high heat, out april

This one goes out to anyone reading @tashasuri.bsky.social's _The Lotus Empire_.

I wanted to share the title of my next book, out in October 2025: THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA.

Lae'zel not understanding Shadowheart's hair change... or her own feelings yet. 🤭

I have not seen Arcane (at all) yet, or the Wicked film. I have failed in my sapphic responsibilities. Instead I have been watching one (1) sad Tudor man on repeat.

I am not quite sure where we are in terms of award nominations, but I'd dearly love you to consider the burning kingdoms, if you enjoyed it.

One of my favourite things I did for THE LOTUS EMPIRE release was host a launch at the queer, intersectional bookshop The Common Press. They're currently fundraising to survive, and I just wanted to share their crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-c...

I have not been on bsky regularly so I was delighted/surprised to see so many tags and mentions for me, about The Lotus Empire! I am so thrilled people are enjoying it!

So happy celebrating the release of THE LOTUS EMPIRE with @tashasuri.bsky.social - the conclusion to a sweeping, heartbreaking, World Fantasy award-winning fantasy series.

Happy UK publication day to @tashasuri.bsky.social with THE LOTUS EMPIRE, the final book in THE BURNING KINGDOMS trilogy! I love this series so much and can’t wait to read the final part! (Although I’m scared it’s gonna break my heart!)

The Lotus Empire is out in less than two weeks, and here's some gorgeous art of Malini and Priya by finn_frei to celebrate. The trilogy is almost complete. 🔥

It's Diwali/Kali Pujo today; reposting my cyberpunk Kali creation myth story 'Kali_Na', which won the Shirley Jackson Award in 2020. Kindly reprinted here by Tasavvur magazine, first published in THE MYTHIC DREAM, ed. Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien:

I never shared this here, so I'm turning up a little late to say - I've sold another two books, and the first will be a sapphic reincarnation romance between a knight and a witch!

Spent the last few days on Twitter because something incredible happened there: thousands of people reading and translating Refaat Alareer's last poem, "If I Must Die," into, by now, probably over a hundred languages. You must see the replies and quotes of this tweet. twitter.com/blkpaws/stat...

Delighted to see THE TEN PERCENT THIEF on this list! www.desiblitz.com/content/20-b...

G: My dear doctor, it's all true B: Even the Lower Decks mobiles games? G: Especially the Lower Decks mobile games

finding out garashir became canon in a lower decks mobile game has absolutely bodied me. I need to lie on the floor for a decade, I will not recover.

Hastily put together a 2023 awards eligibility post for THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS because I want to remind award-nominating people that my book exists! And also that yes it came out only a few months ago, it may seem like five years but it isn't really vajra.me/2023/11/19/2...

I've been collecting some pithy bits of advice that come out of these panels, and today's gem is from @tashasuri.bsky.social: "there are also people who are just garbage." crowdcast.io/clips/ba91f4...