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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚

@rorymichaelson.com

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#1 Best smelling author of the LESSER KNOWN MONSTERS series. A queer, AuDHD chaos goblin that’s all out of spoons and now only has knives. They/them(bo). 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ rep: @inthesestones.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/rorymichaelson

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7h

Shout out as always to @catandcrown.bsky.social for the beyond perfection art

Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7h

Not linking cos this sale is pretty wide and covers Nook, Apple, Kobo, and Amazon, plus itch so buy em where you want em!

Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7h

Attention gay monster lovers:

To celebrate spooky season and 5 YEARS of Lesser Known Monsters, my ebooks are on sale most places for October!

This includes the first book of the series (Lesser Known Monsters) being 0.99, the accompanying short story collection being FREE, and omnibus for 6.66 💙📚

Amazing artwork shaking a mm couple in a cemetery and the book Lesser Known Monsters and lots of arrows to the two characters labelling the tropes including cinnamon roll turns spicy, dark past seeking redemption, immortal x mortal, monster boyfriend, reluctant chosen one

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 16h

This is confusing me too.

So…

“Let him cook” is like, let them keep going this is gonna be good.

“I am cooked” is bad like im in trouble.

“She is cooking” she is actively doing a great job (which is extra weird because letting someone cook isn’t good yet but actually cooking is doing great?)

Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 1d

This week’s spooky season read was Broken Hearts & Zombie Parts by @whusseyauthor.bsky.social and I had a super fun time with it! Lots to love and another fantastically written story 😍 🧟‍♀️

www.goodreads.com/book/show/78...

Cover of Broken Hearts and Zombie parts by William Hussey, pink and blue background cover with two boys filming

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 2d

Me getting involved in a conversation at work today when I overheard someone say “well she doesn’t seem autistic.”

a close up of a person 's face with a bandage around his mouth .

Alt: a close up of a person 's face with a bandage around his mouth looking angry

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 3d

I had a shut down at the end of last week and was totally wiped out for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Getting up was super hard, most of my time was spent flat and spaced out. Managed to get up today though and work out and do some writing 💚

Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 3d

Thank you 🥰

Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 3d

Yeah I did a virtual fit but they look better in real life! I think I’ve learned from all this that the only frames that work on me are clear or super thin wire because so few others fit the angles of my face and become very distracting!

Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 3d

Thank you! They’re bigger than I was going for but I think they fit better that way

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 3d

It’s been such a journey to find ones that I don’t hate! Normally I hate wearing all glasses but I’m trying these baby steps to get myself into them 🤣

Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 3d

New glasses who this

Rory Michaelson wearing glasses and looking fake thoughtful

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7d

Very that!

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7d

Yes thank you just deleting all dms at this point 🤣💚

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7d

I don’t think they knew what pockets were. And that was the public replies 💀

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7d

Full tea though the selfie that got this response nearly made me delete instagram.

A screenshot of 9998 likes 374 comments and 158k views on insta

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7d

I guess the problem was I was ADHD so everyone wrote my autism off as just adhd when I was in fact a combo meal.

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7d

I don’t know how to explain it but this picture of me as a child makes me wonder how the fuck I wasn’t diagnosed as autistic til my mid thirties 🤣💚

Rory Michaelson as a child wearing a ghost busters tee and dungarees

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7d

Yeah I can’t switch it on or off unfortunately; since I ran til burnout it was a hard drop!

Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7d

Yep, they wouldn’t even mind if we were fighting something or someone else, their problem is that we’re fighting back.

Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7d

Yeah it’s all or nothing to me too

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7d

Yeah I think that’s what I felt like at first, it’s also different knowing if people don’t like me it’s because I’m being me not being who I think I’m supposed to be acting like which I didn’t really care about lol

Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7d

My social anxiety has gotten so much worse as I’ve unmasked post autism diagnosis.

At first I thought I was just finally letting how I feel show more.

Then I considered it skill regression.

Now I actually think a lot of it is that it’s a lot scarier being authentic even if it is more rewarding.

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7d

I’m not saying that violence is the way, but I am saying that when you wound people and corner them and sneer in their faces telling them you hold all the power for long enough, soon enough some of those people will start showing their fucking teeth or giving you a feel of them, and that’s on you.

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 7d

While I’m on a posting spree, something annoys me about ‘there’s a rise of political violence on the left.’

Right-wing extremism is removing people’s rights. It’s giving people more power to abuse vulnerable groups than those groups to exist.

The natural response is called ‘fight or flight.’

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