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Agender Intersex Butch | Author of F/F and F/NBi romance, fantasy, & horror | They/Them | 2025: GALEAS THE KEEN | #sapphicromance #lesfic https://riengray.shop/ https://riengray.itch.io/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Rien-Gray/author/B091NLB554

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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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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 1d

!!!

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sexy ludovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · 18h

Enjoying some of the absolutely primo Little Guys on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens

Clay vessel in the shape of a hedgehog holding a bowl

Clay vessel in the shape of a bull, but its head is like a candle holder

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 4h

oh nice, have fun!

Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 9h

watched Monkey Man again with a friend and that movie is so good

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 14h

itch's collapse has choked my book sales considerably, but at least I keep getting short story acceptances that pay well 😅

Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 16h

there’s also a hot non-binary bodyguard love interest, so really it has everything to be topical

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 16h

it’s a little funny how hard it’s been to find a home for a book about a data scientist fending off the feds as true AI breaks into the surveillance state, considering

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

rest in power miss major. this is what it means to constantly be negotiating your existence!

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
3 hr. ago
Previous-Camera1641

I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 17h

I did this in Love Kills Twice!

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 1d

if you read novels to improve your writing but not poetry, you're probably missing an entire facet of your craft that's never been honed

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 1d

I also want this nerd shit if it helps 😂

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 2d

CANADIANS!! The official petition started by a member of Parliament to fight back against payment processors' censorship of legal content is only open for a few more days. Make sure you've signed it: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6695 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Ash @bsartsss.bsky.social · 1d

More Skadi🙏😌

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🌻The Killing of a Sacred Snep🪐 @fm-synth.bsky.social · 7d

I love Sword & Sorcery so got damn MUCH!!! FUCK

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 2d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Lyrakute, Ashtray Dyke [COMMS OPEN <3] @tarakute.bsky.social · 2d

Giving women the title of King is so hot to me like idk taking any traditional male title or role and giving it to a woman just rules so hard I fuck with it heavy. Sir, King, Lord, Prince, Page, Butler etc

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 2d

“Halve this synopsis wordcount”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3d

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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ahoguru🔞 | comms open @ahoguru.bsky.social · 4d

#Melnem from July poll! ♥️
#Hades2

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 3d

put trans women in your fiction. don’t be a fucking coward.

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megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 4d

KOSA just got a bunch of new cosponsors so, y'all, kindly tell them to knock it the fuck off.
Make this bill unpassable for the sake of keeping the open internet, enough of this censorship BS and "protect the children" excuses.

#savespeech #KOSA #stopkosa

www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Slashic Horror Press @slashichorrorpress.bsky.social · 22d

Lesser Hungers is getting inside people already... Will you satisfy your hunger?

Preorder Now.
Available everywhere November 15.

#BookSky

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