since we're on topic, here enjoy some bounties from my winter garden! 🌿

preserving his legacy, and looking to the future—not with hope but with humble curiosity and melancholy acceptance.

R.I.P, Baba. You will always be alive in our hearts. ❤️😭

It was wonderful chatting w @talkingpeach.bsky.social & Shoi about our artistic journeys + navigating casteism in urban spaces as part of the Kolkata launch of @blaft.bsky.social's Anti-Caste SF anthology at Storyteller Bookstore! Thank you to everyone who showed up and supported the book! 🫶🌸

Subho Noboborsho 🌸; or, happy bengali new year to everyone! May the coming months be kinder, filled w peace & prosperity, bringing us closer to defeating the fascist powers and preserving our planet 🏞️

Meanwhile, enjoy these sunset shots from a walk through the Kolkata wetlands!

I QT-ed that extremely problematic Mithila Review tweet and his only response was to promote Deepseek. I really hope younger/newer SFF writers stay away from him and his magazine!

OMG naice! I love the cover. Mine looks like this (yeah, got up midway through dinner to look for my copy):

Had such a blast at my first ever Comic Con: dressing up as Wednesday Addams, chatting w fellow cosplayers, meeting Bill Golliher, John Layman & other comics creators, playing some VR games and running into one of my anthology editors @maralina.bsky.social, while also buying tons of merch. 🤖✨

Look what came in the mail this NYE! So grateful to be united w my contributor copy of @blaft.bsky.social's BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF that has my bittersweet sapphic story "Happily Ever After" about two dollmakers determined to survive against all odds! 🎎✨

guys, here's my award eligibility/visibility post of 2024. I have 3 short stories, 1 novelette & a bunch of SFF non-fiction/criticism, but if you have time for just one read, do check out my @lightspeedmagazine.com story "The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strain'd"! Full list of works + links in🧵

It's balloon day today and you can absolutely make MY day by reading my @lightspeedmagazine.com debut "The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strain'd" (link below)--a bittersweet love story about a lonely space scavenger and the derelict droid he befriends at a diner many galaxies away from home!✨

Finally got my contributor copies of @mitpress.bsky.social's DEEP DREAM edited by @indrapramitdas.bsky.social that contains my interview with @clarkesworldmagazine.com about the threat of generative AI in SFF spaces and beyond. So thrilled to be part of such a stellar TOC!

Calcutta folks, I'll be talking about writing/translating speculative fiction & building queer worlds, as part of this book launch event, along w other authors, translators & 🌈 activists on 31st August, Porshi Cafe (Jodhpur Park) from 1:30 to 4:30 pm. Do drop by & say hello!👇

So happy to finally get my contributor copy of HAUNTED HALLWAYS, a dark academia antho edited by May Celeste! My story "The Summoning" contains:
✨teenage MC w a speech disability
✨occult rituals
✨toxic BFFs
✨a midnight ball (but make it desi)
✨sapphic pining
✨revenge on school bullies (& worse)

just came back on here to post my new cherry coke hair 🫶

Blurb: Rapunzel's new life is far from a fairytale. Trapped in an abusive marriage with Prince Charming, and struggling under the weight of housework and severe hairloss, can she still somehow find her happily-ever-after? ✂️🎶👯

This absolutely beautiful book by @tashanmehta.bsky.social came in the mail today! Can't wait to sink my teeth into it 😍

made matcha ice cream at home today!