Tara Sim
@tarasimauthor.bsky.social
Author of THE CITY OF DUSK (Orbit), WE SHALL BE MONSTERS (Penguin), Scavenge the Stars, & Timekeeper. Biracial/desi. Grumpy. BLM. She/her.
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Tara Sim
@tarasimauthor.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Intro post! Hello folks, I'm an author of YA and adult fantasy that's goth, 🏳️🌈, and WILL destroy you.
Girls with swords and boys who cry. Unspeakable horrors. An embarrassment of skeletons. We've got it all.
linktr.ee/tssim53
Girls with swords and boys who cry. Unspeakable horrors. An embarrassment of skeletons. We've got it all.
linktr.ee/tssim53
this feels like........a slippery slope.....
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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 $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
Donate - Authors Against Book Bans
Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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 $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Damn Pluribus is SO good so far and scratching that Severance itch
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Damn Pluribus is SO good so far and scratching that Severance itch
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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...
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...
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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...
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...
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...
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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...
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...
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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.
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.
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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.
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.
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Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.
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BREAKING: California voters approve a new House map designed to help Democrats net 5 seats next year, NBC News projects, countering Republican redistricting in other states.
California voters approve Democratic-drawn congressional map as national redistricting battle spreads
NBC News projects that a ballot measure has passed allowing California Democrats to bypass an independent redistricting commission and counter GOP efforts around the country.
nbcnews.to
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
BREAKING: California voters approve a new House map designed to help Democrats net 5 seats next year, NBC News projects, countering Republican redistricting in other states.
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ACA = “Obamacare”. Same thing. Its proof that many white folks would rather shoot off their own foot if they knew something helped a black or latino person get by too. Its no different from how they used to fill public pools with cement during integration resulting in everyone being hot & miserable.
America is so racist that some Americans believed SNAP benefits were for white people and food stamps were for black people and they did not know they were the same thing and are now horrified to learn they are losing their food subsidies.
November 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
ACA = “Obamacare”. Same thing. Its proof that many white folks would rather shoot off their own foot if they knew something helped a black or latino person get by too. Its no different from how they used to fill public pools with cement during integration resulting in everyone being hot & miserable.
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I know a lot of people are already spreading this info, but hoping to spread it a little further: donating to a food bank, food pantry, or food distribution mutual aid group is really important right now, as TFG and the fucking GOP are shutting down snap benefits on November 1. I'll link to a few
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I know a lot of people are already spreading this info, but hoping to spread it a little further: donating to a food bank, food pantry, or food distribution mutual aid group is really important right now, as TFG and the fucking GOP are shutting down snap benefits on November 1. I'll link to a few
THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM (2023)
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM (2023)
WE SHALL BE MONSTERS (2024)
October 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
WE SHALL BE MONSTERS (2024)
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This is amazing news and a win for the freedom to read. And I want to add that it was students who first told me of my book being pulled and who led the effort to petition the board. What a testament to the power of young people and collective action.
And thanks @heykellyjensen.bsky.social!
And thanks @heykellyjensen.bsky.social!
EVERY BOOK BANNED FROM THE READING BOWL HAS BEEN RESTORED!!!!!
The kids will be able to read and compete over all 20 books. Raising the issue made a difference. Teen advocates made a difference.
docs.google.com/document/u/0...
The kids will be able to read and compete over all 20 books. Raising the issue made a difference. Teen advocates made a difference.
docs.google.com/document/u/0...
October 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is amazing news and a win for the freedom to read. And I want to add that it was students who first told me of my book being pulled and who led the effort to petition the board. What a testament to the power of young people and collective action.
And thanks @heykellyjensen.bsky.social!
And thanks @heykellyjensen.bsky.social!
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Seconding this and adding that it really is that bad in terms of the lack of marketing for BIPOC authors esp. And as bad as it is in adult, it's worse in YA and kidlit.
Novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia breaks down the slump in book sales, what this means for marginalized writers, & what we as readers can do: www.patreon.com/posts/boycot...
Boycott? Not likely | Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Get more from Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Patreon
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October 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Seconding this and adding that it really is that bad in terms of the lack of marketing for BIPOC authors esp. And as bad as it is in adult, it's worse in YA and kidlit.
You know...I really did write THE CITY OF DUSK for the tiefling rogues of the world
October 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
You know...I really did write THE CITY OF DUSK for the tiefling rogues of the world
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A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...
t.co
October 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV
"I know what this chapter is missing," I mutter to myself as I dial up the gay meter
October 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"I know what this chapter is missing," I mutter to myself as I dial up the gay meter
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doomscroll break
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
doomscroll break
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The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
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He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.
The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.
There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!
www.gov.ca.gov/contact/
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.
The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.
There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!
www.gov.ca.gov/contact/
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.
The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.
There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!
www.gov.ca.gov/contact/
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.
The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.
There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!
www.gov.ca.gov/contact/