Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr)
@sbdrag.bsky.social
Aroace nonbinary author of queer fantasy romcoms. Peer-reviewed autistic.
In college for Animation Game Design. Draws sometimes.
Minors DNI, I engage with and repost NSFW.
In college for Animation Game Design. Draws sometimes.
Minors DNI, I engage with and repost NSFW.
Pinned
Realized I never actually made a post for my most recent published story, The Grand Duke's Masseur! 🌈📚
Find it on most retailers: books2read.com/u/b5Pr1A
And Itchio: sbdrag.itch.io/the-grand-du...
#queerromantasy #mmromance #transmc #historicalromantasy #spicyromance #queerromance
Find it on most retailers: books2read.com/u/b5Pr1A
And Itchio: sbdrag.itch.io/the-grand-du...
#queerromantasy #mmromance #transmc #historicalromantasy #spicyromance #queerromance
This thread is exactly why I'm working on a game design degree even though I primarily want to be a narrative designer, which is not really part of the program I'm in.
Understanding medium is the key to writing for that medium.
Understanding medium is the key to writing for that medium.
One of the things that will benefit you when you come and work at Mischief as a narrative designer is having a skill other than just writing.
Like yes, obviously, having professional narrative experience is a massive plus, and as a professional you understand the medium you're writing for.
Like yes, obviously, having professional narrative experience is a massive plus, and as a professional you understand the medium you're writing for.
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This thread is exactly why I'm working on a game design degree even though I primarily want to be a narrative designer, which is not really part of the program I'm in.
Understanding medium is the key to writing for that medium.
Understanding medium is the key to writing for that medium.
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I also need to promo the bundles I'm in this week, so hey! For #AceWeek we have bundles over on itch! With several authors! I'm one of them!
Mega Bundle: riyati.ink/acepride2025
Bundle 1: riyati.ink/ace2025-1 (has all the books from the mega bundle not on bundle 2)
Bundle 2: riyati.ink/ace2025-2
Mega Bundle: riyati.ink/acepride2025
Bundle 1: riyati.ink/ace2025-1 (has all the books from the mega bundle not on bundle 2)
Bundle 2: riyati.ink/ace2025-2
October 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I also need to promo the bundles I'm in this week, so hey! For #AceWeek we have bundles over on itch! With several authors! I'm one of them!
Mega Bundle: riyati.ink/acepride2025
Bundle 1: riyati.ink/ace2025-1 (has all the books from the mega bundle not on bundle 2)
Bundle 2: riyati.ink/ace2025-2
Mega Bundle: riyati.ink/acepride2025
Bundle 1: riyati.ink/ace2025-1 (has all the books from the mega bundle not on bundle 2)
Bundle 2: riyati.ink/ace2025-2
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Middle of the week, have you checked out the Ace Pride Week itchio bundle yet? 50+ books featuring ace authors and/or ace major characters!! There's so many good books, so you should do yourself a favor and check it out!
(WHEREVER THE STARS CALL & Laurel are included!)
💜 riyati.ink/acepride2025
(WHEREVER THE STARS CALL & Laurel are included!)
💜 riyati.ink/acepride2025
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Middle of the week, have you checked out the Ace Pride Week itchio bundle yet? 50+ books featuring ace authors and/or ace major characters!! There's so many good books, so you should do yourself a favor and check it out!
(WHEREVER THE STARS CALL & Laurel are included!)
💜 riyati.ink/acepride2025
(WHEREVER THE STARS CALL & Laurel are included!)
💜 riyati.ink/acepride2025
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oh heck! it's #AcePrideWeek and here's a fantastic bundle deal of ace books! 51 books for only $50! 🌈📚
riyati.ink/acepride2025
riyati.ink/acepride2025
October 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
oh heck! it's #AcePrideWeek and here's a fantastic bundle deal of ace books! 51 books for only $50! 🌈📚
riyati.ink/acepride2025
riyati.ink/acepride2025
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it; Ive had a lot of fun making the Demonae language and thinking up new ways for plants to eat people, ha ha. 💜
Rating: 4.75/5 ☆
Genre: Cozy Fantasy, LGBT, Romance
Pages: 411
Long Form Review and photos in 🧵
Of this lovely edition from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social and @sbdrag.bsky.social of The Demon King's Gardener
#booksky💙📚 #diversebooksky #readersky #queersky #recs #rainbowcrate #review
Genre: Cozy Fantasy, LGBT, Romance
Pages: 411
Long Form Review and photos in 🧵
Of this lovely edition from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social and @sbdrag.bsky.social of The Demon King's Gardener
#booksky💙📚 #diversebooksky #readersky #queersky #recs #rainbowcrate #review
October 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it; Ive had a lot of fun making the Demonae language and thinking up new ways for plants to eat people, ha ha. 💜
I was trying to figure out this new attitude I kept seeing popping up about "epithets are lazy writing" - there have always been people who dislike epithets, but I've noticed this idea coming into more prominence lately and I was curious as to why.
And of course, it's because of fanfic. 🧵
And of course, it's because of fanfic. 🧵
October 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I was trying to figure out this new attitude I kept seeing popping up about "epithets are lazy writing" - there have always been people who dislike epithets, but I've noticed this idea coming into more prominence lately and I was curious as to why.
And of course, it's because of fanfic. 🧵
And of course, it's because of fanfic. 🧵
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Okay, so ttRPG companies are always trying to design tabletop that appeal to a younger crowd.
"Opps & Ohio"
"Your Main is defined by their six Vibes. These are, in order; Yeet, Skibidi, Dank, Clapback, Brat, and Rizz. Bet."
"Opps & Ohio"
"Your Main is defined by their six Vibes. These are, in order; Yeet, Skibidi, Dank, Clapback, Brat, and Rizz. Bet."
October 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Okay, so ttRPG companies are always trying to design tabletop that appeal to a younger crowd.
"Opps & Ohio"
"Your Main is defined by their six Vibes. These are, in order; Yeet, Skibidi, Dank, Clapback, Brat, and Rizz. Bet."
"Opps & Ohio"
"Your Main is defined by their six Vibes. These are, in order; Yeet, Skibidi, Dank, Clapback, Brat, and Rizz. Bet."
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🪄 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!
💙📚
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!
💙📚
September 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🪄 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!
💙📚
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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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.
#booksky💙📚 #diversebooksky ##readersky #queersky #tbr
Authors and titles in alt.
September 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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.
#booksky💙📚 #diversebooksky ##readersky #queersky #tbr
Authors and titles in alt.
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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
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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
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Poff vs. Hysteria. Who would win?
September 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Poff vs. Hysteria. Who would win?
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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...
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...
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...
www.backerkit.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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...
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...
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Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
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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. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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. 🖊️🦑
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Lesbians OCs,,,
Chinese princess and medieval knight
Chinese princess and medieval knight
August 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Lesbians OCs,,,
Chinese princess and medieval knight
Chinese princess and medieval knight
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August 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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
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
@sbdrag.bsky.social #NarratessIndieSale
Sale buddies! If anyone is interested in a queer, poly monster romantasy with autistic rep, you should check out Rori's The Grand Duke's Masseur. Xyr an awesome author with awesome rep!
indiebook.sale
Sale buddies! If anyone is interested in a queer, poly monster romantasy with autistic rep, you should check out Rori's The Grand Duke's Masseur. Xyr an awesome author with awesome rep!
indiebook.sale
August 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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
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
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
Check out all the books on sale on e the main page here: indiebook.sale
August 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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
Check out all the books on sale on e the main page here: indiebook.sale
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#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...
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...
August 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#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...
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...
#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...
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...
August 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#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...
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...
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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
go.bsky.app/Fkos7Kg
July 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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
go.bsky.app/Fkos7Kg
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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
Use this site to keep up to date on the fight!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Stop payment processors from censoring games!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
August 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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
Use this site to keep up to date on the fight!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
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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!
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!
August 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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!
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!
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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!
Cavemate, Part 1 is now available to pre-order as a physical comic! It's 100 pages of silly, spider-y goodness and/or some merch from the series if you so choose! #monsterboy
Pre-order the book here: darkchibishadow.bigcartel.com/product/cave...
Buy the PDF here: darkchibishadow.itch.io/cavemate-p1
Pre-order the book here: darkchibishadow.bigcartel.com/product/cave...
Buy the PDF here: darkchibishadow.itch.io/cavemate-p1
July 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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!