Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr)

🪄 HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT🪄

I am SO EXCITED to share THE THIRD ANNUAL #thiswitchreads October Team Readathon and Competition.

🔮 How do I take part? 🔮

-Running on Discord or Instagram (links in bio)

-Complete as many of your group's prompts as possible during October - every page counts!

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#ThisWitchReads physical TBR The Witch Hunt: The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings The Witch Trials: Foxhole Court by Nora Sokavic The Familiar: Katabasis by RF Kuang The Supreme Witch: Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel Shoot For The Stars: Beasts of Prey by Ayana Grey Dice Roller: The Fraud by Zadie Smith Tea Leaves: The Demon King's Gardener by Rori Thornton Mind Reader: Godly Heathens by H.E Edgmon Predict It: Cursebound by Saara El-Arifi Randomize it: House of Frank by Kay Sinclair Shuffle It: The Apples Hung Like Stars by Alli Williams Flip Reverse It: The Legend of The White Snake by Sher Lee

Finally made my TBR for #ThisWitchReads using books I've had on my shelf for awhile. Half of these reads are from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social no surprise there.
#booksky💙📚 #diversebooksky ##readersky #queersky #tbr
Authors and titles in alt.

we're on the precipice of a universal antiviral medication, mRNA technology is out here curing cancers every other month, HIV is cureable AND preventable, renewables generate more energy now than fossil fuels worldwide and and more cost-effective, coral reefs are growing back all over the world rn

Poff vs. Hysteria. Who would win?

If I can cuddle them both, then I win. (Yes, I read the second post.)

@alakotila.bsky.social did the interior! And I am still so in love with it! 😍

Hi, author here! It uh. It is spicy, not a lot in this volume, but the weird plant activities are the primary spice. 😅

Just to be clear in case that would not be of interest.

Lesbians in Space 2: The Sapphics Strike Back Enjoy the followup to our bestselling anthology, Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before! Can't get enough? This time we've got another 20 great stories for you in Lesbians in Space: The Sapph...

I've got a #sapphic short story about a spaceship and will-o-the-wisp who fall in love in this anthology 💙📚

Only 19 days left if you'd like to read my weird ass love story about inorganic sapient beings! If we raise another $500, all us authors will get paid more!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Lesbians OCs,,,
Chinese princess and medieval knight

Narratess Indie Book Sale, August 23-25. Banner shows several ebooks around a graphic of a dragon reading.

✨ SALE HAPPENING NOW ✨

🔗 [ indiebook.sale ] | 💙📚

Sale buddies!! 😲

And if you're looking for a slow-burn sapphic kingdom builder with cozy found family in a dangerous world, you should grab Friendly Fyre! I absolutely adore the characters, and Kia has made such an awesome connected universe in the NPSeeds stories!

#NarratessIndieSale

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text. Text: Indie Book Sale indiebook.sale Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror August 23 - 25 Banner designed by Arden Powell

A illustrated cover titles The Grand Duke's Masseur featuring a large pink and white furred dog-man with four arms and horns holding a white human man with black hair, both staring at each other with soft intensity within a solarium.

The Grand Duke's Masseur, my adult queer Regency romantasy, is on sale for 1.99 this weekend as part of the Narratess Indie Sale!

Check out all the books on sale on e the main page here: indiebook.sale

An illustrated cover title The Grand Duke's Valet featuring three people sitting together on a carpet under a peach tree orchard. The is a white human man with straight black hair and red eyes, who is gently smiling at a large dog-man with four arms and horns, who had tan skin with white patches, curly pink fur with white patches, curly pink hair with white streaks, prick ears, and golden eyes. Behind both of them sits a smiling second dog man with smaller horns, dark brown skin, long ears, and straight black hair and fur. All three are wearing Regency-inspired short sleeved shirts and shorts. Text over the cover illustration reads: tm/tm/m; Regency romantasy; mixed romantic and queerplatonic polycule; freyromantic side character; and cw: wanted unexpected pregnancy.

#ARCReaders wanted for Book 2 in the A Man That Smells Like Flowers Series: The Grand Duke's Valet! 📚🌈

Grab it on #booksirens! Book 1 recommended but not strictly necessary (and also still has some arc copies available on book sirens!) #queerromantasy #transmc

booksirens.com/book/M8AX5NQ...

An illustrated cover title The Grand Duke's Valet featuring three people sitting together on a carpet under a peach tree orchard. The is a white human man with straight black hair and red eyes, who is gently smiling at a large dog-man with four arms and horns, who had tan skin with white patches, curly pink fur with white patches, curly pink hair with white streaks, prick ears, and golden eyes. Behind both of them sits a smiling second dog man with smaller horns, dark brown skin, long ears, and straight black hair and fur. All three are wearing Regency-inspired short sleeved shirts and shorts. Text over the cover illustration reads: tm/tm/m; Regency romantasy; mixed romantic and queerplatonic polycule; freyromantic side character; and cw: wanted unexpected pregnancy.

#ARCReaders wanted for Book 2 in the A Man That Smells Like Flowers Series: The Grand Duke's Valet! 📚🌈

Grab it on #booksirens! Book 1 recommended but not strictly necessary (and also still has some arc copies available on book sirens!) #queerromantasy #transmc

booksirens.com/book/M8AX5NQ...

Here's a starter pack for all the Yaoi Bundle Artists and Developers. These folks deserve so much of your love and support and could really use some boosts on their posts! Thanks everyone, please share this!

go.bsky.app/Fkos7Kg

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

I fully intend to revive the Yaoi Bundle in some way, but the dust needs to settle first. If this delay upsets you, please make your calls, send in letters, do anything! We need all hands on deck for this fight!

Use this site to keep up to date on the fight!
stop-paypros.neocities.org

An ad announcing the delay of the Yaoi Bundle!

The Yaoi Bundle had to be delayed, now what?🌈
For #yaoiday check out my blog post on how you can support our affected artists: www.darkchibishadow.com/post/the-yao...

And don't forget to follow the starter pack too: go.bsky.app/Fkos7Kg

Thank you for your support!

This is still ongoing by the by! Gonna put my order in as soon as possible when I get home but I still need a few pre-orders to help out with costs. Please share, thanks!

🎶 it's the best of both worlds🎶
bsky.app/profile/emry...

STEAM CAMPAIGN TIMELINE In response to false claims and misinformation about our campaign, we're setting the record straight. Some have asked why we involved payment processors, and others have claimed we are responsible for Itch.io removing all NSFW content. We raised our objection to r*pe and incest games on Steam for months, and they ignored us for months. We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond to us. We called on Itch.io to remove r*pe and incest games that we argued normalised violence and abuse of women. Itch.io made the decision to remove all NSFW content. Our objections were to content that involved s*xualised violence and torture of women.

Collective Shout admits on Facebook that they pressured payment processors into destroying the livelihoods of game makers because their games made the group feel icky

I think the problem (for me) is that I often write from the POV of the monster and I want them to feel the soft and gentle press of lips 🥺

Human mouths are *so* sensitive compared to many other species. Proboscis kisses sound adorable though omg 💜

Hopefully it was just an automated response from being part of the previous guidelines they can reverse for those affected

I have heard of some people's payments being withheld for not complying to the new guidelines retroactively, but it sounds like Itch got flooded with requests and is trying to sort through things.

At least in my personal circles the general sentiment has been "we're mad at how Itch handled this, but the issue is the payment processors, here's how to fight them" so I've honestly been surprised to see so much vitriol still directed at Itch for more broad scale reasons

Lol also aroace and I write a lot of closed mouth kisses because I like them more than open, so 😅

But having a lot of chaste licking with my canid species has been fun lol

I know many ppl also found the salute emoji in particular insulting, reading it as an "f u" - maybe generational, I saw more as a "godspeed". But that disconnect in communication set a tone for a lot of people and how they perceived Itchio's feelings on the matter (right or wrong)

For me, I feel if you have time to post an emoji you have time to post something like "due to new payment processors guidelines were have to take immediate major action on site, more info to follow". I get they might not have been able to explain, but just something so users knew info was coming