R.K. Thorne
@rkthorne.bsky.social
Author of romantasy + space opera. Mom + secular homeschooler. Game design + UX. #indie #fantasyromance #spaceopera #hopepunk Bard/skald/artist at heart, but I tend to play a paladin. www.rkthorne.com https://shop.rkthorne.com https://linktr.ee/rk_thorne
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R.K. Thorne
@rkthorne.bsky.social
· Jul 25
Me in a few words:
✨ Optimistic, epic, sweeping stories 🌙
🏰 Romantasy and Space opera 🚀
💘 Writes a lot of "falling for the wrong person--dang it" 📚
🔮 Also a gamer, D&D fan, and tarot card reader 🍀
⚔ I play green paladins a lot. 🌳
✨ Optimistic, epic, sweeping stories 🌙
🏰 Romantasy and Space opera 🚀
💘 Writes a lot of "falling for the wrong person--dang it" 📚
🔮 Also a gamer, D&D fan, and tarot card reader 🍀
⚔ I play green paladins a lot. 🌳
What's your favorite way to get inspired to write? Working on a video about my creative pre-writing ritual. I don't know why but I feel like a candle just really gets me focused. But looking at amazing fantasy art definitely gets the creative juices flowing! #writingq #writingcommunity #writersky
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
What's your favorite way to get inspired to write? Working on a video about my creative pre-writing ritual. I don't know why but I feel like a candle just really gets me focused. But looking at amazing fantasy art definitely gets the creative juices flowing! #writingq #writingcommunity #writersky
Happy Día de los Muertos! Remembering my aunt and other folks I've lost tonight.
November 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Happy Día de los Muertos! Remembering my aunt and other folks I've lost tonight.
How is everyone's Halloween Hangover?
November 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
How is everyone's Halloween Hangover?
Happy Halloween. Stay safe. Glow like the elder spirit that crawled out of the bog and is ready to possess your family heirlooms!
Just so you don't get hit by a car, ya know. Safety first.
Just so you don't get hit by a car, ya know. Safety first.
October 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Happy Halloween. Stay safe. Glow like the elder spirit that crawled out of the bog and is ready to possess your family heirlooms!
Just so you don't get hit by a car, ya know. Safety first.
Just so you don't get hit by a car, ya know. Safety first.
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For the last day of #Arachtober, here's a favorite from a few years ago. It's not a posed shot. We'd put a decorative pumpkin by our front door a couple of weeks earlier, and the day before Halloween, I found that a black widow spider had made her home in the hollow space under the pumpkin. 🕷️🎃 🐙🌿
October 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
For the last day of #Arachtober, here's a favorite from a few years ago. It's not a posed shot. We'd put a decorative pumpkin by our front door a couple of weeks earlier, and the day before Halloween, I found that a black widow spider had made her home in the hollow space under the pumpkin. 🕷️🎃 🐙🌿
October 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
My book Knight Devoted is part of the FaRo Society Book Blast going on today. I'm also reading the first chapter on my Youtube channel. So good, definitely worth a browse: farosociety.com/bookblast/
October 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
My book Knight Devoted is part of the FaRo Society Book Blast going on today. I'm also reading the first chapter on my Youtube channel. So good, definitely worth a browse: farosociety.com/bookblast/
Halloween Book Blast! Stock up for your November binge with some amazing Fantasy Romance stories, all $0.99 - blast is going today only! farosociety.com/bookblast/
🎃 99c Book Blast 👻 - FaRo Society
These fantasy romances and paranormal romances are all 99c on Oct 30th only. Stuff your ereader (and tell your friends)! And if you'd like to celebrate the holidays with a daily free book throughout…
farosociety.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Halloween Book Blast! Stock up for your November binge with some amazing Fantasy Romance stories, all $0.99 - blast is going today only! farosociety.com/bookblast/
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
Why you gotta come for AI like that.
computer: "Hello! I have a new technology!!!!"
me: "Does it work?"
computer: "lmao no"
me: "Does it work?"
computer: "lmao no"
October 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Why you gotta come for AI like that.
This looks like it could be fun!
Announcing #Writevember!
Whether you're doing classic NaNoWriMo or setting your own writing goals, join the tag for weekly progress updates, accountability, and community. I'll post the week's prompt on each date for folks to quote repost.
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt #AmWriting
Whether you're doing classic NaNoWriMo or setting your own writing goals, join the tag for weekly progress updates, accountability, and community. I'll post the week's prompt on each date for folks to quote repost.
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt #AmWriting
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This looks like it could be fun!
The FaRo Society has curated a selection of fabulous fantasy romance included in Kobo Plus. Want to learn more? Start here: www.kobo.com/p/kobo-plus-...
October 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The FaRo Society has curated a selection of fabulous fantasy romance included in Kobo Plus. Want to learn more? Start here: www.kobo.com/p/kobo-plus-...
Looking to diversify where you buy your books? Check out Kobo Plus.
Several of my books are now included in their catalog, and it doesn't require an exclusive contract from authors.
Several of my books are now included in their catalog, and it doesn't require an exclusive contract from authors.
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Looking to diversify where you buy your books? Check out Kobo Plus.
Several of my books are now included in their catalog, and it doesn't require an exclusive contract from authors.
Several of my books are now included in their catalog, and it doesn't require an exclusive contract from authors.
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rushing to integrate undercooked, misrepresented, and misunderstood technology into every corner of our lives just so a handful of terrible people could make more money might have been a bad idea
“An artificial intelligence system apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.”
US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for firearm
Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
rushing to integrate undercooked, misrepresented, and misunderstood technology into every corner of our lives just so a handful of terrible people could make more money might have been a bad idea
Coming up with a series name is so difficult. How to capture all this in a fun and exciting and dramatic sounding way? How do you come up with titles or series names?
#writingq #writingcommunity
#writingq #writingcommunity
October 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Coming up with a series name is so difficult. How to capture all this in a fun and exciting and dramatic sounding way? How do you come up with titles or series names?
#writingq #writingcommunity
#writingq #writingcommunity
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I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT
October 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT
Well, I’m really glad I didn’t schedule that post about how you can read my audiobooks on Spotify. 🤦🏻♀️ Visit your local library, friends!!
October 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Well, I’m really glad I didn’t schedule that post about how you can read my audiobooks on Spotify. 🤦🏻♀️ Visit your local library, friends!!
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Another theme in Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring that I feel like we aren’t talking about enough is the importance of hiding from your weird relatives when they come over. #booksky #lotr #hobbits #fellowshipofthering
October 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Another theme in Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring that I feel like we aren’t talking about enough is the importance of hiding from your weird relatives when they come over. #booksky #lotr #hobbits #fellowshipofthering
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"You are welcome here. Bring your true, authentic self. Wear your hair extensions and cornrows or shave your woolly hair down close to your scalp like those warrior sisters I’ve seen in the framed art aisle at HomeGoods."
Come as You Are, Unless You’re Noticeably Black or Disabled
You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies...
buff.ly
October 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"You are welcome here. Bring your true, authentic self. Wear your hair extensions and cornrows or shave your woolly hair down close to your scalp like those warrior sisters I’ve seen in the framed art aisle at HomeGoods."
Fmc? Her rebelliousness. Mmc? His determination.
October 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Fmc? Her rebelliousness. Mmc? His determination.
This month, there's a wonderful selection of curated fantasy romance reads available in Kobo Plus. I recently signed up for Kobo Plus and am enjoying it a lot so far! Check the books out here: www.kobo.com/us/en/p/kobo...
@kobobooks.bsky.social #koboplus #romantasy #fantasyromance
@kobobooks.bsky.social #koboplus #romantasy #fantasyromance
October 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This month, there's a wonderful selection of curated fantasy romance reads available in Kobo Plus. I recently signed up for Kobo Plus and am enjoying it a lot so far! Check the books out here: www.kobo.com/us/en/p/kobo...
@kobobooks.bsky.social #koboplus #romantasy #fantasyromance
@kobobooks.bsky.social #koboplus #romantasy #fantasyromance
Finally watched kpop demon hunters! What a great movie, I see why there’s so much hype.
October 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Finally watched kpop demon hunters! What a great movie, I see why there’s so much hype.
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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Republicans are lying about the peaceful No Kings Day protests because they’re desperate — the GOP is losing the shutdown fight while Americans reject Trump’s authoritarian takeover in huge numbers.
“These are the threats of a regime that is not secure in their power.“ - @ezralevin.bsky.social
“These are the threats of a regime that is not secure in their power.“ - @ezralevin.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Republicans are lying about the peaceful No Kings Day protests because they’re desperate — the GOP is losing the shutdown fight while Americans reject Trump’s authoritarian takeover in huge numbers.
“These are the threats of a regime that is not secure in their power.“ - @ezralevin.bsky.social
“These are the threats of a regime that is not secure in their power.“ - @ezralevin.bsky.social
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The newbie's going to have to learn fast and not die.
Former telepath Talia is struggling with trauma while embroiled in a perilous mission, and working to trust her new compatriots.
#spaceopera #specfic #sf #sapphicbooks #sapphic #QueerBooks 💙📚 🌈📚🪐#Booksky
books2read.com/b/rattri
Former telepath Talia is struggling with trauma while embroiled in a perilous mission, and working to trust her new compatriots.
#spaceopera #specfic #sf #sapphicbooks #sapphic #QueerBooks 💙📚 🌈📚🪐#Booksky
books2read.com/b/rattri
October 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The newbie's going to have to learn fast and not die.
Former telepath Talia is struggling with trauma while embroiled in a perilous mission, and working to trust her new compatriots.
#spaceopera #specfic #sf #sapphicbooks #sapphic #QueerBooks 💙📚 🌈📚🪐#Booksky
books2read.com/b/rattri
Former telepath Talia is struggling with trauma while embroiled in a perilous mission, and working to trust her new compatriots.
#spaceopera #specfic #sf #sapphicbooks #sapphic #QueerBooks 💙📚 🌈📚🪐#Booksky
books2read.com/b/rattri