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Rien Gray
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Agender Intersex Butch | Author of F/F and F/NBi romance, fantasy, & horror | They/Them | 2026: GALEAS THE KEEN | #sapphicromance #lesfic

https://riengray.shop/
https://riengray.itch.io/
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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · Oct 11
🧷Hello! I'm an agender intersex butch writer of F/F and F/X trans fiction, both romance and speculative.

I currently work on a sapphic Arthuriana series named Out of True, but I also have a finished noir series starring a nonbinary assassin. #BookSky

riengray.itch.io
www.amazon.com/stores/Rien-...
There is white text on black rockers surrounding a circle version of the Progress Pride flag. The white text says "Guide to Pride" and "Rien Gray's Books". Eight of Rien Gray's books are overlaid on stripes of the agender and genderfluid flags. The title of the image is "Nonbinary MCs". The book titles in order are Love Kills Twice, Love Bleeds Deep, Love Burns Bright, A Love So Dark, Valerin the Fair, A Strip of Velvet, Double Exposure, and Seure the Tempered. Four of Rien Gray's books are overlaid over a stripe with lesbian flag colors. The title of the image is "Lesbian MCs". There are arrows underneath pointing to three of the books and a caption that says "they're butch, too". The books listed in order are Valerin the Fair, The Scales of Seduction, Her Wolf in the Wild, and Martis the Brazen. Six of Rien Gray's books are overlaid on stripes the color of the bisexual flag. The title of the image is "Bisexual MCs". The books listed in order are Love Kills Twice, Love Bleeds Deep, Love Burns Bright, A Love So Dark, A Strip of Velvet, and Double Exposure.
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neonufo.bsky.social
December's monthly experiment
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The year is over, but the fight continues.
Pick up your sword, friend, in hope and in defiance. ⚔️💕
Digital illustration on vertical canvas Theme: Fantasy / Dark fantasy, courage, hope, defiance Character: My OC Lubi, he/him, transmasc The piece features a somewhat disorienting perspective, in an unrealistic, wrapped semi-bird's eye view. A knight is place on top of the composition, rendered in a somewhat surrealist, occasionally abstract way, with softly shaded and pitch black shapes following along the anatomy. He is scarcely dressed, wearing only a helmet and a loin cloth. The helmet is in style of a pigface bascinet, with the visor somewhat resembling a heart shape. The top of the helmet is open, a blast of flatly stylized, orange fire coming out of it. The character has a heart-shaped hole in his chest, which is also spewing fire. He is kneeling in a puddle of murky water, in which we see the reflection of two very flat, stylized torches and window above him. He is extending his arm forwards, reaching for a sword on the ground. On the bottom part of the image are two more flat stylized torches, which we view from above. There is a reflection of a blinding vibrant sun below Lubi's reaching hand. The fire, sword, sun and Lubi are coloured largely in orange and blue, with a little pink here and there, while the rest is greatly dull and dark in colour. For the ground texture I used a photo I took of a street in Maribor. I used a photo from TrueRef as a base, and traced it with a lasso tool, bit by bit. The sword might look familiar, as it's made one from the same photo I used in the August piece this year. I painted directly on the photo of the sword. ------------ #DigitalArt #DigitalIllustration #Illustration #Artist #MyArt #Artwork #SupportArtists #HumanArtist #ArtSky #Fantasy #Fantasyart #DarkFantasy #SwordAndSorcery #OriginalCharacter #OCArt #OCSky #OriginalArt #QueerArt
December 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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visceralhit.bsky.social
Please. Authors and readers be aware of this. This is GREAT news for divesting from Amazon. Remember that buyers hold so much power and please support by buying from bookshop.org > Amazon. We are directly benefitted from purchases made outside of Amazon! And you get to pick the store that benefits!
clh2oars.bsky.social Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 6h
Oh my gosh, actual good news for indie authors distributing wide
A screenshot of a Draft2Digital popup that lets you know you can make your catalog of books available to bookshop.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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riengray.bsky.social
Today’s my birthday! If you want to give me a free gift, I’d love if you added my next lesbian knight romance, Galeas the Keen, to your lists on GR and SG

⚔️ blind butch knight X limited mobility femme
🔥high heat & lush prose
🎣 sapphic Fisher King

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
The cover of Galeas the Keen by Rien Gray.
February 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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iwaldrom.bsky.social
The space between worlds, a product of both and neither, a place of its own. And for those touched by it? Their lives never the same again.

Mayhap I can interest you in a sapphic shifter series? Dragons, wolves, and a world in which things aren't always as they seem.

www.amazon.com/Where-Our-Pa...
Where Our Paths May Cross
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January 28, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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December 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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stuckinapit.bsky.social
Handy
Drawing of a person's crotch area, over jeans and flanel they wear a leather toolbelt that also doubles as a strap-on harness, and on the belt they carry regular tools as well as adult tools. #peteart #peteNSFW
February 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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mzakharuk.bsky.social
After a century of siring new girlfriends, the vampire Olya has given up on love. Except messy relationships leave long traces, and one of them is about to bite back.

Read the preview chapter by subscribing to my newsletter - mzakharuk.com#newsletter
Preorder now - mzakharuk.com#appetite
Announcement for "Appetite: a novella" by M Zakharuk. "Love is dead--and hungry for fresh victims. Toxic vampire yuri; worst break-up ever; erotic cannibalism. Out Valentine's Day"
February 2, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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meadowdays.bsky.social
*need*
Maslow's hierarchy pyramid filled with "games where your mouse turns into a little gauntlet"
February 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
riengray.bsky.social
Today’s my birthday! If you want to give me a free gift, I’d love if you added my next lesbian knight romance, Galeas the Keen, to your lists on GR and SG

⚔️ blind butch knight X limited mobility femme
🔥high heat & lush prose
🎣 sapphic Fisher King

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
The cover of Galeas the Keen by Rien Gray.
February 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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zoetreez.bsky.social
Protect Thy Neighbor ❤️‍🔥

#pixelart #illustration #art
pixel art illustration by Zoë Treez - 2026 title font that reads “Fuck Ice” a cool toned, cloaked knight is surrounded by bold red flames. their hand that holds their sword has their middle finger extended out, again to express the sentiment of Fuck Ice! The corners at the top are framed with small spiked flails
February 1, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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juliebozza.bsky.social
Submissions are open for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"!

We want stories that include: an LGBTQ+ main character; a spec fic element; and an Arthurian element. Artworks or illustrations of stories also welcome!

Check out the details:
juliebozza.com/submissions-...
Call for Submissions banner
February 1, 2026 at 11:37 AM
riengray.bsky.social
I will be away for most of the next week on a birthday trip with my partner — might poke my head in on the day of (Feb 3) with a book-related link 👀
February 1, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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marafish.bsky.social
relevant to many of yalls interests.
a red and pink cross stitch on blue fabric. "everything I love causes carpal tunnel" surrounded by hearts, a needle and thread, and a skein of embroidery floss.
February 1, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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bsartsss.bsky.social
Its been a good month of shal nakedness
January 31, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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strangehouse.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 6:47 PM
riengray.bsky.social
spent 2.5 days making the best possible cookies as a gift for my femme, as one does
Six brown butter cookies mixed with white and dark chocolate and topped with sea salt cooling on a tray.
January 31, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”

― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
January 31, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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kendrawcandraw.bsky.social
Me: If I post any NSFW art I might lose job opportunities or even have my payment methods or bank accounts frozen
Every third dude in politics and tech: Hello Mister Pedophile may I request passage to Nubile Redhead Beach it seemed ever so interesting. Best Regards
Jeffrey Epstein: yea h / .,
January 31, 2026 at 4:28 AM
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erikwhalen.bsky.social
🔥🧊
January 31, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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androgynyfiend.bsky.social
i don't think it's a coincidence too that the anti-trans crowd has largely dropped their feminist veneer. me too is dead, they don't need to pretend like they care about women anymore. they love when men sequester and control women.
January 31, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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autumnwolff.bsky.social
It's my sincere hope community serves as the antithesis of AI slop. Indie authors build communities with other writers and readers who trust in the stories they're telling. We grow together. We sharpen one another. We support each other.
January 30, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
January 31, 2026 at 12:41 AM
riengray.bsky.social
Five classes I took in college:

Game Design Fundamentals
Developing Media Literacy (focus: Advertising)
Comparative Queer Literature
Japan & the Societal Other
German Longsword (really)
ericraglin1992.bsky.social Eric Raglin @ericraglin1992.bsky.social · 4d
Ooh, some great ones!

Geology of National Parks and Monuments
Arab and Iranian Film
Queer Lit
Screenwriting
Hitchcock
ascannerburkely.bsky.social A Scanner Blackhatly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 4d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

20th Century British Novels
20th Century American Novels
Film & Literature (noir/detective subgenre)
Philosophy & Literature
Seminar on the works of Virginia Woolf
January 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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authorizedmusings.bsky.social
I need you to know that you can buy individual crabs from LEGO and they are 21¢ each

www.lego.com/en-us/pick-a...
a red lego piece that is the platonic ideal of a crab. the lego nubbin is in the center of its back. Its claws are outstretched.
January 30, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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countess-sappho.bsky.social
The prose in The Scales of Seduction is exquisite, and the worldbuilding so immersive. The fact that it feels effortless as a reader really betrays how much time was actually put into refining it!
January 30, 2026 at 11:10 PM