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Tasha Suri
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Writes stuff. Out now: THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA. (She/Her)
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I have an online event this afternoon with the amazing narrator of THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA! It's my one digital event, and therefore my one US event, so please do come along: www.crowdcast.io/c/isle-in-th...
Love at First Listen: THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA with Tasha Suri, Shiromi Arserio, and moderated by The Ripped Bodice
Register now for Love at First Listen: THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA with Tasha Suri, Shiromi Arserio, and moderated by The Ripped Bodice on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on November 12, 2025, 03:00 PM...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Zadie Smith.
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With alt text.
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
tashasuri.bsky.social
it's so strange to me seeing some people in the USA harping on about how dangerous London is, when it is simply as dangerous as any other big city, and quite a nice place to live overall
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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i just wanted to do a little study of Wick's and Yanessa's features over the weekend (totally headcanon that they basically have the same face), and then it spiraled out of control

#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanArt #Araman
a set of semi-realistic sketchy head shot portraits of several characters from campaign 4 of Critical Role. Azune is a young human with a short beard and long wavy hair in a messy braid. he has a thin faded scar running up his cheek and through his facial hair, and a large birthmark over his left eye. he is looking up with a hopeful expression. Tyranny is a young-looking demon with pierced goat ears, horns growing out of her forehead, a pointy goatee, and long straight hair with short bangs. she is depicted in profile, her mouth open as if speaking and her hands folded in front of her face in a prayer. Wick is a young human with short hair curling delicately around his face. he has several simple tattoos on his face, including a stripe running down his bottom lip and chin and through his short goatee. there is a diadem resting on his forehead, decorated with crystals. he is looking at the camera with a serene smile. next to him is his grandmother Yanessa, an older woman with features very similar to Wick. she is wearing an elaborate up-do with a halo-like crystal ornament woven into her hair. she is smiling at the viewer with the same smile as her grandson. Teor is lion-folk with a septum piercing and a braided beard. he's looking wistfully into the distance. Occtis is a young human with dark shoulder-length wavy hair. he appears slightly tired, looking down. Julien is a young human with thick curly hair. he has a bit of stubble on his chin and a few moles on his face. he is staring at the viewer from under his eyebrows with angry defiance.
November 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
tashasuri.bsky.social
The Isle in the Silver Sea is a USA Today and Sunday Times bestseller. Which is wild and lovely and I am simply overwhelmed. But in a lovely way.
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I am dying for everyone to read The Isle in the Silver Sea by @tashasuri.bsky.social: An island sustained by stories relived by people called incarnates — until a knight and a witch doomed to destroy one another decide to change the narrative. Absolutely brilliant, @hawkwinglb.bsky.social was right.
The Isle in the Silver Sea
Buy Now From World Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri comes The Isle in the Silver Sea, a heart-shattering romantasy of sapphic longing, medieval folklore and a love that spans the centuries.I…
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October 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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I'm so excited for this event!
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA is out in the world. ⚔️🌊🔮
A curly haired woman holding up a copy of the novel the isle in the silver sea
October 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Good morning! Here is the full uncropped poster that I did for @realgdt.bsky.social for Frankenstein
October 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Hello everyone.

Talented artist, reviewer, and beloved member of our community Archita Mittra is going through some really hard times currently. If you can spare a few $ it would make a world of difference ❤️

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Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
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October 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
tashasuri.bsky.social
"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."
October 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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This is the month that THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA releases (Oct 21st!) and I wanted to share that I have a number of UK events, including an event with VL Bovalino and Samantha Shannon at a church, which feels slightly bonkers: tashasuri.com/events/
Events
22nd October: Tasha Suri and V. L. Bovalino with Samantha Shannon. Covent Garden Waterstones, London. 24th October: An Evening With Tasha Suri and V.L. Bovalino. Birmingham Waterstones, Birmingham.…
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October 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
tashasuri.bsky.social
I fear Critical Role Campaign 4 is going to be my entire personality.
October 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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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.
sophiemolly.co.uk Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · Oct 1
The Gender Critical have already inundated this survey with their disgusting views on banning trans people from using the ponds.

Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
Public Consultation on Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds | Commonplace
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October 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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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
Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds
Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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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.
September 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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alixeharrow.bsky.social
good time to call your democratic reps and describe to them what having a spine might look like
If passed, the law would prohibit trans surgeries, strip [health insurance] Medicaid coverage from transgender people and ban Pride flags from public buildings, such as schools and universities.
September 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
tashasuri.bsky.social
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.
September 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
tashasuri.bsky.social
people saying the wuthering heights trailer is bad because it's horny and the book is not: did we read the same book?
September 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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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.
August 17, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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My favorite doctor and companion
Dr. Julian Bashir and his friend Garak the tailor from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
August 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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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...
Stop the UK’s attack on trans people | Good Law Project
The Supreme Court has ripped up the Equality Act without hearing a single trans voice — it’s time to take on a ruling that breaks the UK’s own human rights laws
goodlawproject.org
August 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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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.
JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.
August 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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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
"hat if the characters in a fairy tale wanted out? The titular Isle is a magical version of England, a patchwork of times and places ruled by the Eternal Queen and stitched together by a network of tales. If these tales are not strictly reenacted by incarnates—people born to play their roles in a specific tale—the land associated with it and all the creatures living on that land disappear, so the people of the Isle have a vested interest in ensuring that incarnates perform as expected. Sir Lavinia and Simran are the latest versions of the Knight and the Witch, the two main characters in a sad tale of evil enchantment and star-crossed love that concludes with a murder-suicide. But these two incarnates are not quite like their predecessors: Vina’s mother and Simran both come from Elsewhere, a fantasy equivalent of India." Elsewhere, a fantasy equivalent of India. That culture has essentially been written over by the power of their tale, but their continued treatment as outsiders, their overwhelming love for each other, and Simran’s mysterious affinity with limni ink (used both to write tales and perform powerful, reality-altering spells), give them the strength to seek out a destiny beyond their foretold unhappy ending. The key to their quest may lie with a dangerous immortal who is killing incarnates and has kidnapped Simran’s dearest friend. Previous Suri works (e.g.,Empire of Sand, 2018) have featured unique, fascinating magical systems, and this book continues in that vein. It’s one of the more innovative and thoughtful uses of fantasy to explore colonialism and the potential poison of assimilation, popular genre themes in recent years. The novel takes two fundamental British myths—King Arthur and the concept of the British Empire as a realm on which the sun never sets—and uses and uses them to show the thin line between preservation and stagnation. A desperate need to adhere too perfectly to an ideal and/or the status quo makes it more likely that it will come crashing down. Beautifully inevitable and surprising at the same time; dark, sharp, clever, lovely.
July 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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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
gift.my529.org
July 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM