Arien (Arrrrr-ee-en)

A Latina person with short dark hair wears a spiderweb themed colorwork yoke sweater in front of a winter landscape

Back view of a colorwork yoke sweater with a spiderweb motif. The main color is rich variegated black-purple-red with a bright white contrast

A pair of colorwork mitts in charcoal and silver. Each mitt features half of a realistic skull image.

My Arachne pullover is one of my spookiest knits! But the Necromancer Mitts are one of my all time faves.

#ShowMeYourKnits

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Anyone headed to Oregon Flock and Fiber next weekend? Please say hi if you see a dorky masked person with a mohawk!

#oregonflockandfiber #handspinning

Time for a cup of transparency • Oregon Capital Chronicle The world’s largest coffee company has dodged about $1.3 billion in taxes over the past decade through the use of a subsidiary.

Commentary: If you get your coffee at Starbucks, you may want to ask for extra sugar. That’s because recent news about the company’s tax avoidance schemes sure leaves a bitter taste.

A Mouthful of Dust Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle."Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High HillWanderi...

Hey. Hey.

On sale TOMORROW is my standalone novella A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills Cycle!

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The story-collecting Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant are headed to Baolin, a town known for its incredible pork and a famine that occurred eighteen years ago.

Handspun yarn, a bright purple pink and natural chocolate

If wpi too skinny, why gauge so chunky in knitted swatch? (I know, I know, keep sampling and swatching)

A tabby kitten approaches a coffee cup

A vicious predator spies her natural prey

#handspinning #handspunyarn

A bright spindle turtle of neon sunset colors sits on a table in front of a planter

A long haired tabby kitten delicately laps at the rim of a coffee cup

We have a new trouble maker

Californians: do it

Several women in the forest reach out to a knight with a heart on their tabard. It is the illustration The Fairy of the Dawn (1906) by Henry Justice Ford. Overlaid in orange text is Sapphic Knights for Sapphic September.

Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Valerin the Fair overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.

Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Martis the Brazen overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.

Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Seure the Tempered overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.

It's the best time of the year! #SapphicSeptember is here and one of this year's themes is sapphic knights, which is one of my favorite things to both write and read about.

You can get this lesbian-centered, trans-inclusive, high heat Arthuriana series direct at my shop: riengray.shop ⚔️

A tray of broiled tomatillos and onions ready for blending

A Pyrex pan holds sliced sweet peppers

September is peak food season in the PNW. Very grateful for a mostly successful harvest season, including loads of peppers and tomatillos. #pnwfarming #localfood

A small frog perches on a plastic pot edge

A small green frog clings to a mint leaf

A frog faces the camera head on, perching on a plastic bucket edge

A small gray frog blends into wet concrete

Get partners who send you frog pics. That's it. That's my life advice.

Share this with a SWERF or any chronically online person between 18-30 years old

Purple fiber? A Rube Goldberg machine for dispensing blackberries?

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

It's my birthday! Please call about the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

A green Turkish spindle with green fiber and singles sits on an oilcloth tablecloth next to a tumbler of jamaica

Dumb little hobbies connecting us in a deeply fucked up world! I'm ready for #TourDeFleece2025, trying to finish up some spindle spins. Coincidentally, all the fiber I'm working on comes from rad, sustainably minded businesses.

I have Calypso on a sock yarn base, one of my favorite colorways!

Just realized I dress more revealingly for fiber shows than drag shows. Tbf, evenings here get cold!

A Latina woman with a very cropped mohawk wearing a speckled handknit Ripple Crop Top in gray yarn stands in front of a bookshelf

Ready to go pet some sheep at @blacksheepgathering , let's gooo!!!

Please say hi if you're a fiber friend! Will probably be wearing a pink mask, but really I think the crop top plus mohawk should be distinctive enough 😆 #blacksheepgathering #handspinning #fiberfestival

reblogging to remind myself, and to ask my fellow Oregonians, to make the calls urging them to challenge this provision.

Worth checking R H Lindsay if you're in the states! Very mixed options, but the cheviot top I got from them is delightful.

Who's going to Black Sheep Gathering in Albany this weekend?? I'll be there a good chunk of Saturday! #blacksheepgathering #wool #fiber #handspinning

I'm feeling both older and younger than ever, naive and revolutionary, protective of the next generation while also stuck in that extended millennial adolescence--and embracing aging, because what's the alternative? I want to grow old in a new world

I'm flippant here because of course the world is on fire. But also, idk, I think there are some deeper threads here about the need to reconfigure society. How have we ended up with a culture that simultaneously demonizes youth and aging?

Being in your 30s is all about being hotter than ever but also making spreadsheets about new furniture purchases

Everything You Need to Know About My Next Novel! Photo: Daderot/Wikimedia It’s almost six months before my next novel comes out on Aug. 19. Lessons in Magic and Disaster is my first novel for adults in...

My novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster comes out in two months!

🔥 a trans witch teaches her lesbian mother to do magic
🔥 we see the struggle for queer liberation in 1996 and 1736
🔥 how do you rediscover desire in the heart of grief/trauma?

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