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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 12/07/2025

Nothing like flagging on your run and the Elden Ring theme song coming on, screaming at you to GIT GUD.

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 03/07/2025

STOP BRINGING MY SHIT INTO YOUR BULLSHIT

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Marisa @classiestcat.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I just DEVOURED Single Player by @taratai.com and I’m in love. As a romance reader and gamer I have never felt such joy at seeing two of the things I adore the most be combined!! I LOVED this!! 🩷

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🏳️‍🌈 This one is for the gaymers! 🎮 @taratai.com and I talked about the best romantic storylines in games, and how they wrote a rom-com about two game devs who butt heads while writing romantic storylines in a new video game. Meta! Listen in the Rebel Ever After feed: open.spotify.com/episode/5QnE...

“To make a romance really sing in a video game, there has to be something that you as the hero are uniquely positioned to help this character with. There's probably something you have to sacrifice that is a measure of how much you love them. Especially in a Choices Matter game, are you willing to go after this love interest if it jeopardizes your chance of getting the special weapon that will help you one-shot that boss?” - Tara Tai

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 14/06/2025

I had so much fun recording this! 😊

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 09/06/2025

I can't get over this wonderfulness. 🥹

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 31/05/2025

Some days, you share an elevator with a PEN/Hemingway award winner but don't recognize her, and when she asks about your Baldur's Gate 3 shirt, you tersely say, "It's an owlbear." Then you see the line for people waiting to get books signed by her and realize your mistake. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 10/05/2025

See y'all at PAX. Didn't have enough time to get my Lune cosplay together so I'll be Alta from Wanderstop. Ask me for tea. (Really.)

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 08/05/2025

Wife scored a free exhibitor pass to #paxeast, and if that's not the single most Single Player Cat Li thing to happen to us, idk what is.

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Allegra <3 @faerally.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Just started reading Single Player by @taratai.com and as a queer person who left a steady career in healthcare admin to go to school for game dev, I feel so seen lol

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 27/04/2025

If you're a type A, chronically burnt out person and want to cry at least once an hour, I highly recommend Wanderstop. What a deeply clever, deeply introspective, not-quite-cozy game.

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makana yamamoto @makana-yama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

aloha Boston!!! if you know me, you KNOW I'm a big gamer. come to Panethnic Pourovers on April 25th and listen to me and @taratai.com yap about heist movies, romances in video games, and our TTRPG characters! admission is free, but RSVP at the link in the comments!

flyer for an event at Panethnic Pourovers in Boston. the flyer has a white background, with a red ring on the righthand side. a photo of Tara Tai, a person with long dark hair and dressed in a red button down, is positioned above a photo of Makana Yamamoto, a person with purple hair and wearing a blue dress. the title of the event is "How Narrative Medium Impacts the Craft of Storytelling" and the text reads "The novel is often held up as the most immersive form of storytelling, but what can movies, TV shows, and even stage plays do that novels can't? What lessons can we learn from these other narrative mediums as we write ever more novels?" the details of the event are April 25th, 2025 at 6pm at Panethnic Pourovers on 186 W Squantum St., Quincy, MA 02171

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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

It feels like shouting into the void these days because it seems like a lot of allos don’t care, but when our own community doesn’t care either? Yikes. Anyway in case it helps reach even one more ace person… a lot of my books have ace rep! These are some!

Book cover for Tarnished are the Stars by Rosiee Thor: blue and purple starry background with an outline of an astronomical clock. The title is made up of gold and silver mechanical parts.

Book cover for Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor: the title is written in gold against a dark blue starry sky. In the foreground, a white girl with brown hair stands with her back to the audience wearing a black and gold gown that sparkles with magical flames.

Book cover for Life is Strange: Steph’s Story by Rosiee Thor. Steph, a white girl with shoulder length light brown hair, is in the foreground wearing a beanie and a blue and pink jacket. Behind her are band posters, a flyer for nayte do the bands, drumsticks, and a d20.

Book cover for Being Ace: an anthology of queer, trans, femme, and disabled stories of asexual love and connection edited by Madeline Dyer. The title is written in bit black letters against a purple to pink gradient background. Interwoven with the letters is a person with purple skin, black hair, white clothes, and platform boots. They are holding the asexual flag between their fingers.

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 02/04/2025

Gosh... Split Fiction. What a masterpiece. Literally dripping with creativity. GenAI could never.

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Lily Du @lilydu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

im gonna scream if I see one more well-intentioned person be like AI is bad but I only use it for cover letters/travel itineraries/dumb innocuous thing. It uses SO much WATER!!!! It is bad for the EARTH. Just write that shit yourself you will be FINE. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots

AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.

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The Halfling and the Spaceman (podcast) @andhalfling.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

We were happy to talk with Tara Tai. They are an Asian American writer. Their love of video games and tabletop RPGs has led to their first novel, “Single Player”, which has just come out. Check us out on YouTube! @taratai.com youtu.be/D1r7rzVZzA4

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A Talk with Tara Tai - Author of Single Player

YouTube video by The Halfling and the Spaceman

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 18/03/2025

SINGLE PLAYER author event coming your way, LA. See you next Tuesday, March 25, at @geekyteas.bsky.social with the inimitable @erikaishii.bsky.social 🎮! Make sure to RSVP 💛.

Promotional poster with images of author Tara Tai and actor Erika Ishii. Event for March 25, 2025 @ 7pm at Geeky Teas & Games in Burbank, CA. RSVPs requested.

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 09/03/2025

One hour into Split Fiction and I can't stop grinning. What an awesome co-op adventure game. Thank you, @hazelightgames.bsky.social ✨!

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 17/02/2025

Have y'all tried writing? It's, like, the hardest thing in the world. ⚰️

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 08/02/2025

Yayyy happy reading and happy Valentine's Day! 💘

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 03/02/2025

“You want your taxes to pay for an immigrant to—“ YES! Yes! I want my taxes to pay for asylum and housing and schools and affordable health care! Sign me the fuck up! That’s why I want a government!

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 01/02/2025

Just romance writer drafting woes: I can't tell if this is dumb... Or hot.

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 01/02/2025

"I can’t think of a more appropriate finale than one that feels like it represents the world its creators hope to see, even as the world we live in now gives us every reason to fall to despair." Well said 👏🏼.

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 31/01/2025

🐉 DnD'd 🦄 for the first time since my book came out and everything thereafter. 3 hours of PCs and NPCs flirting and playing "Never Have I Ever" as an in-game reprieve from world-ending events. I feel so healed. Play more games, y'all. It helps a lot. 💛

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 30/01/2025

The BioWare layoffs are such a gut punch. Mass Effect and Dragon Age saved me in small and big ways (and obviously heavily influenced my writing as well). I hope all those devs out there know they're frickin' heroes (of the galaxy, of Ferelden, etc.).

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 28/01/2025

NorCal friends! Tonight: catch me and the incomparable @taleenvoskuni.bsky.social at Books, Inc - Mountain View at 7 PM. It's a Lunar New Year special, and we'll be talking about all things love and nerdiness. ❤️ @booksinc.bsky.social

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 27/01/2025

📚 Giveaway 📚 time! Check out how to enter below!

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 27/01/2025

Oh-em-gee, when I say I based this book in CO because of True Colors and Steph’s Story by @rosieethor.bsky.social was one of my favs of 2023. 🥹

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 26/01/2025

I'm never more upset about my Chinese illiteracy than when RedNote is showing me the cutest, twee-est, lesbian manhwa. #le #wlw #小红书

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Eric Palicki @ericpalicki.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

THE meme of 2025 for me.

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 25/01/2025

It's a "practice your DnD monster voices in the gym locker room and get weird looks" kind of day.

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 22/01/2025

morning buds; be the gaymer you want to see in the world (illustrious art by the inimitable @jbailey1717.bsky.social )

My pfp in black and white with the words “Be the gaymer” in fancy font

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Now, more than ever, we have got to commit to being full of whimsy

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 18/01/2025

Pretty sure I just saw Cat on my flight to Colorado... ✅ East Asian ✅ Pink nail polish ✅ Big stuffed moose on her backpack ✅ Hoodie that literally reads CAT #SINGLEPLAYER

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 16/01/2025

This is my new favorite photo. Specifically, the left hand side. Also, everyone tell @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social to play #baldursgate3. It is essential. 🫰🏼

Authors TJ Alexander and Tara Tai in conversation at a bookstore

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 15/01/2025

The best uncle. 💕 Come out, New Yorkers! 🌈

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 14/01/2025

The funniest thing about the looming #TikTok ban is how it's driving users to #RedNote. Friends, RedNote's name in Chinese is #小红书, aka Little Red Book. Aka the book containing Mao's aphorisms that every person had to carry around during the Cultural Revolution. 😅

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 12/01/2025

Me, reading a book, musing out loud about a character: "Are you gayyy?" 👀 My wife, in the next room, enthusiastically: YES INDEEDY!!! 🌈

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 11/01/2025

The pup looking out the window at the snow. @literarilyjess.bsky.social's stunner of a debut in the foreground. 🎶

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 07/01/2025

My book, SINGLE PLAYER, a sapphic rom-com about two chaos gremlin gamedevs, is now out in the world. Go read it if you like narrative RPGs, DnD, and women and enbys being uselessly in love. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Jessica James @literarilyjess.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Today’s the day! My debut second chance romance about bringing the band back together, FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, is out now from Berkley/Penguin Random House! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/754980...

The book cover for FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, by Jessica James. The blue book cover has illustrated art of a white woman with pink hair and a white man with dark wavy hair. The couple is locking eyes over a shared microphone with a twirling yellow cord that weaves around them. They’re also surrounded by white stars and a whirl of colorful motifs in shades of pink, purple, and blue.

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Tony Wirt @tonywirt.com · 07/01/2025

HAPPY PUB DAY @taratai.com !!!!! Go buy SINGLE PLAYER right dang now.

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 29/12/2024

Your honor, I love her. Photo credit goes to u/griseldaknox on Reddit. #dragonage #veilguard #nevegallus #promosky

Neve Gallus, the gods' favorite detective

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Tara Tai (they/she) @taratai.com · 27/12/2024

F*cking thank god for this take. Support gay games, y'all. Even the ones that do a "mediocre" job with rep. The only way we dig ourselves out of this hole is if there's more, so we don't have only ONE nb LI in AAA gaming to point to.

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