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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 used to come on social media to watch funny cat videos, and now I come on to find out which government or billionaire bombed, trafficked, abused, shot, tear-gassed or imprisoned a child today.
February 1, 2026 at 1:35 PM
tashasuri.bsky.social
excuse me, what the fuck is this
bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 11d
We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it.

AI can help us do that.

Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
Poorest pupils to be given AI tutors
Bridget Phillipson says tuition would no longer be the preserve of ‘the lucky few’
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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tgk.bsky.social
Everybody shut the fuck up and pay attention to the most important thing happening at this moment.
An instagram post by Sarah Michelle Gellar, where she shares a screenshot of a tweet by user @godimsuchadyke. The tweet is a photo of Buffy and Faith standing close together lesbianly from Season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with the caption "this was my heated rivalry". Sarah thanks user @godimsuchadyke in the caption of her post.
January 22, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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This is why they could never make me hate you, Emily Henry.
HENRY Well, thank you. This is where I can get onto a long rant. I hear a lot of feedback from people who aren't really romance readers, who think of it as sheer escapism, and that has not been my experience as a writer or a reader or a watcher. The reason I love romance so much is because it takes the brightest parts of life and the darkest parts of life, and it puts them side by side in a way that feels safe because you have that safety net of a happy ending. I have a real issue with the fact that a tragic love story is treated as more important or more artistically valuable than a love story that ends in a place of hope and optimism. Because, in real life, if you are a person who wants a monogamous, long-term relationship, your best-case scenario is you meet someone, you fall in love, you love each other your entire life and then one of you dies, and it is the worst, most excruciating pain. By putting that end cap on the moment that they're happy and they're hopeful, you are - I'm getting teared up. This always makes me emotional because it makes me think about my dogs, honestly. You are saying that the value, the important part of the story, is this moment when they are happy and they are together. And that's my worldview. It's like, things really suck a lot of the time, but love is the thing that makes it all worth it.
January 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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zmeess.bsky.social
*draws cartoons like one of your live action movies*

i'm still and forever on that Kryn Drow Are Bug Elves train, so i absolutely had to redraw that beautiful shot with my version of kryn armor!

#CriticalRoleFanArt #CriticalRole #MightyNein
a semi-realistic painterly re-draw of a still from Mighty Nein Animated, depicting Caleb Widogast kneeling in the foreground and looking up at Essek Thelyss, who has just landed on a pile of debris further into the composition, his silhouette stark against the night sky. Caleb is a light-skinned ginger human with messy chin-length hair and a beard, wearing a dark cloak, a patched-up coat underneath it and a long scarf. he is mostly turned away from the viewer, but surprise is clear on his face. Essek is an elf, which is apparent from his long pointed ears, but his body is otherwise obscured. he is depicted wearing dark shiny armor, organic and insectoid in its design. the helmet looks like the face of a cricket, with large glowing almond-shaped eye holes and spiky horns reminiscent of a stag beetle's. the breastplate looks like a beetle's elytra, and the slightly translucent iridescent double cape whipping in the wind behind him appears to be similar to an earwig's fan-like wings. the characters are framed with the remains of a destroyed wall and the floor above, and the night's starry sky looks light in comparison to their shaded figures.
January 6, 2026 at 8:12 PM
tashasuri.bsky.social
There's one critique of ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA I need to respond to: a medieval lesbian having a strap isn't anachronistic. There's a lot of purposeful anachronism/timey-wimey shit in ISLE, but the strap isn't one of those things.
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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patricknessbooks.bsky.social
Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.
ulycia.bsky.social pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · Dec 2
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading. From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community. There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation. Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us. We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
tashasuri.bsky.social
I want historical romance to come back so desperately. I miss books about bluestockings and terrible dukes. Where is my comfort genre.
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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got asked, by a very nice person, 'why don't you use chatGPT in your writing' and their argument was that it's just like using google to research: a modern tech that will enhance my work. all the obvious issues aside, I don't want to be modern. I want to be artisanal.
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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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...
www.crowdcast.io
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Zadie Smith.
writeups.org Writeups.org @writeups.org · Nov 12
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
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zmeess.bsky.social
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
tashasuri.bsky.social
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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jamesjeanart.bsky.social
Good morning! Here is the full uncropped poster that I did for @realgdt.bsky.social for Frankenstein
October 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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
tashasuri.bsky.social
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
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louiestowell.bsky.social
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
tashasuri.bsky.social
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.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
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