Tara Sim

A dark purple cover for THE MERIDIAN FORGE, featuring a chalice, cosmic designs, and a geometric pattern like a stepwell

🌌 COVER REVEAL! 🌌

The fourth and final installment of the Dark Gods Saga, THE MERIDIAN FORGE, drops November 2026 from @orbitbooks.bsky.social , only 5 months after THE DAWN THRONE!

Cover design by Lisa Marie Pompilio

Engaging in the age-old ritual for fantasy writers: meticulously researching ships/boats

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. According to The Atlantic, they receive 47 days of training — in honor of Trump, the 47th president, naturally. Many of them, also, can barely read or write, apparently. The ones I spent the weekend following around didn’t even have proper uniforms, with some wearing sneakers. In Minnesota. In January. These dipshits are also wearing camo in the snow. They clearly do not have any training when it comes to their own weapons either. Multiple times over the last few days, I watched officers fire pepper spray balls at the feet of protestors barely a few inches away from them. These weapons are basically paintball guns full of concentrated pepper spray. So when they hit a target, they explode into the air. Which meant ICE agents regularly ended up poisoning themselves with their own weapons. I also watched two agents ask each other if a canister they were about to fire at the crowd was tear gas or a stun grenade. (It ended up being a stun grenade that then ignited the tear gas they had already shot at us, which started a fire in the street that a protestor had to help them put out.)

ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

the kids are alright

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

a screenshot of a tweet by frogs4girls that says "the circus does not condone the actions being taken by its monkeys"

House Lastrider when Taesia goes rogue

Pokemon rumble spheal casting a spell The text says "WOOSH. YOU WILL NOW HAVE A GOOD 2026" happy new year

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Telling myself to play the game I just bought instead of replaying Stardew Valley again

IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR (B&N preorder sale) ☀️

Grab THE DAWN THRONE now: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dawn-t...

a man with a beard is holding a gun in front of a building ALT: a man with a beard is holding a gun in front of a building

I am SO stoked that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won not only GOTY, but so many other awards it absolutely deserved! Love this game so, so much

Look I’m just gonna say it: it’s difficult for me to believe that this level of disrespect is not tied to this series being about gay people. I’m the first one to talk about how much privilege white ppl have in this space, but I can’t imagine this level of casual for a het book becoming a smash hit

HOW DO YOU ASSESS WHAT A SPOILER IS, AMAZON

An LLM, and I cannot emphasize this enough, cannot discern what a "SPOILER" is

Wake Up Dead Man was DELIGHTFUL

I’m howling.

*cries in just-finished-an-epic-fantasy-quartet*

The thought of writing an adult Indian epic fantasy calling to me like the Green Goblin mask

I have books to write and people to take care of. I don’t have time to get Covid or a cold!

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

this feels like........a slippery slope.....

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Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!

For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.

Imagine what we could do with $$$

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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Dark spirit of the north pole for sure

Damn Pluribus is SO good so far and scratching that Severance itch

GDT's Frankenstein was awesome. Gothic and delicious.

Ofc I now have to peddle my Indian Frankenstein book for those of you who, like me, wonder what would happen if Victor was a teen girl.

www.penguinteen.com/978059340742...

GDT's Frankenstein was awesome. Gothic and delicious.

Ofc I now have to peddle my Indian Frankenstein book for those of you who, like me, wonder what would happen if Victor was a teen girl.

www.penguinteen.com/978059340742...

NYT headline: “MAMDANI'S IMPROBABLE RUN ENDS IN VICTORY”

Savor this moment, friends.

They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

AS THEY SHOULD BE