Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr)
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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr)
@sbdrag.bsky.social
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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.
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I've done art of a lot of the plants, too! And these of Petal ha ha - crushferns are based on the Rose of Jericho, but if it was big and deadly and moved like Theo Jansen's beach sculptures lol
An image of a mass of fern tendrils holding up a sign that reads "emotional support", with the word "animal" covered in red paint scribbles. The plant os also holding a paint brush with red paint on it. Text below reads: "Petal can support youre emotions, not your spelling." An illustration of three large fuzzy balls with flowering, antler-like branches growing out of them chasing after a small ball of fern tendrils in a field of purple grass An illustration of a ball of fern tendrils tugging on the ends of stronger vines playfully.
October 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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@chucktingle.bsky.social made this post on Threads and this? This is the appeal of fanfic.

Fanfic as a writing space is so freeing because the focus is just on writing something you like without a pressure to conform to industry standards so people "take you seriously" as a writer.
A screenshot of a quote post from Threads. Original post by username cult_papa reads: "i mean this with the most respect to chuck tingle, but reading one of his shorter books makes me calm down about how overly critical i am of my own writing not being good enough." Reply by username chucktingle reads: "thank you buckaroo and no offense taken. emotional and fast and sloppy music with 'mistakes' is called punk rock. emotional and fast and sloppy WRITING with 'mistakes' is called wrong. with my tinglers i would like to change that. there is a time and place for the trot of creation without revision and publishing is one of the few mediums that does not really recognize this particular type of creativity."
October 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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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
Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text. Text: Indie Book Sale indiebook.sale Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror August 23 - 25 Banner designed by Arden Powell A illustrated cover titles The Grand Duke's Masseur featuring a large pink and white furred dog-man with four arms and horns holding a white human man with black hair, both staring at each other with soft intensity within a solarium.
August 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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...
An illustrated cover title The Grand Duke's Valet featuring three people sitting together on a carpet under a peach tree orchard. The is a white human man with straight black hair and red eyes, who is gently smiling at a large dog-man with four arms and horns, who had tan skin with white patches, curly pink fur with white patches, curly pink hair with white streaks, prick ears, and golden eyes. Behind both of them sits a smiling second dog man with smaller horns, dark brown skin, long ears, and straight black hair and fur. All three are wearing Regency-inspired short sleeved shirts and shorts. Text over the cover illustration reads: tm/tm/m; Regency romantasy; mixed romantic and queerplatonic polycule; freyromantic side character; and cw: wanted unexpected pregnancy.
August 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Oh hey! It's a thing I have a thing for! Happy #SelfPublishedAuthorsAppreciationWeek!
An inforgraphic featuring an illustrated cover title "The Grand Duke's Masseur" in the center. It features a large, four-armed, horned dog-man with curly pink fur wearing a dress shirt half-off gently holding a smaller white human man with straight black hair wearing loose, comfortable clothing. They are staring at each other with soft intensity. Text around the edges reads, in counter-clockwise: Marriage of convenience; autistic LI & MC; trans man MC; sex-positive, non-monogamous, queernormative society; aspec LI & MC; Regency inspired; and polyamorous endgame.
July 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Also the book is a chonker half to set up the world building and half to set up all of the four future love interests after the first.
A photograph of a white person holding a book titled "The Grand Duke's Masseur" in front of their face. The cover features a large, four-armed, horned dog-man with curly pink fur gently holding a smaller white human man with straight black hair back in a bun. They are staring at each other in soft intensity, the dog-man's dress shirt half off and the human man in loose, comfortable clothing. A photograph of a white person with pink hair in a mohawk, blue eyes, a nose ring, and untrimmed beard holding a thick book next to xyr face with a playfully concerned expression at the book. The spine of the book reads "I: A Man That Smells Like Flowers."
July 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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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
An inforgraphic featuring an illustrated cover title "The Grand Duke's Masseur" in the center. It features a large, four-armed, horned dog-man with curly pink fur wearing a dress shirt half-off gently holding a smaller white human man with straight black hair wearing loose, comfortable clothing. They are staring at each other with soft intensity. Text around the edges reads, in counter-clockwise: Marriage of convenience; autistic LI & MC; trans man MC; sex-positive, non-monogamous, queernormative society; aspec LI & MC; Regency inspired; and polyamorous endgame.
July 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Ah, it's #portfolioday! Hi, I'm Rori, I like monsters and fantasy!

I make my own covers and am open for commissions for covers, character art, and ref sheets! (Bearded vulture woman is @nintendonut1.bsky.social's)

You can see more of my work and commission info here: ko-fi.com/rorileethorn...
An illustrated cover titled "The Grand Duke's Massuer." It features a large dog-man with four arms, horns, a tail, prick ears, and digitigrade feet with white streaked pink hair in a bun and pink fur with white patches holding onto a smaller white human man with long black hair in a bun and a scar on his cheek. They are staring at each other with soft intensity while sitting on a padded bench in the middle of a solarium, with lavender plants behind them and a mountainous wilderness view through the floor-length windows. An illustrated cover titled "Demon King's Gardener." Five people stand in a loose semi-circle, from left to right: a white human man with wavy brown hair a little past his shoulders wearing medieval-style work clothing; a large blue-skinned man with horns, four arms, and red eyes with one hand on the human man's back, wearing a short and loose tunic; a young human-elf woman with brown skin, long straight black hair, clawed feet, and pointed ears wearing a matching skirt and cropped top and grinning while hugging the woman next to her; a tall, brown-skinned Inuit-coded elven woman with long slightly pointed ears, long straight black hair, snow leopard legs and feet with a matching tail, and matching dark brown spots on her skin wearing Inuit-style clothing; and an older white human man with long, wavy brown hair going grey pulled back into a low ponytail wearing Inuit-styled clothing. They are standing in a largely red and maroon-colored garden. An art nouveau style illustration of an anthropomorphized bearded vulture woman in a flowy, deep red dress. She has red hair done half up with ringlets hanging down, and behind her is a circle featuring the berry, flower, and bud of the belladonna plant. Around the edge of the circle are skulls of various shapes and sizes. An illustration of a sunflower-yellow skinned bipedal man with brown giraffe spots and matching giraffe ears, horns, hooves, and tail. He has a mane of seafoam green hair with the fur at the end of his tail matching. One of his legs is much smaller than the other, and he uses metal crutches.
July 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Your purse strings might be loose, but this novella series is free!

My adult slice-of-life romcom starring two autistic aroace leads in their 40s in a queernormative fantasy setting, Demon King's Gardener!
UBL: books2read.com/u/31QvP7
Itchio: sbdrag.itch.io/demon-kings-...
An infographic featuring an illustrated cover in the center titled "Demon King's Gardener". It features a large, demonic blue-skinned man sitting beside a white human man on a bench in a night-time garden, the demon man watching the human man whittle a small statue. Text surrounding the cover reads: slice of life; high fantasy, low stakes; aroace MC and LI; queernormative setting; fluff; mutually oblivious; neopronoun users; men loving men with the Achillean rose; sentient plants; leads in their 40s; and romantic comedy with comedy underlined. Text pointing to the demon man reads "non-human lead", with autistic written over his shoulder. Text pointing to the human man reads "secret royalty?" with auDHD written over his shoulder.
June 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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An illustrated gif of a blue-skinned man with magenta skin markings, tusks, and horns. He has four red eyes with black sclera, and is looking down while blushing and poking the index fingers of his four hands together, the top pair of hands larger than the bottom pair.
June 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Retired adventurer Page's past comes back to haunt him when the sea prince he saved as an egg - child of Deep King Rhakhaasch, the sea dragon he gained fame for taking out the eye of - wants to enroll in his training school for adventurer wannabes. 📚🌈

#hotwetpitch #hotwetqueersummerjam #wip #f
An infographic featuring an illustrated cover titled "In Deep by Rori Thornton". It features a white human man lying back in a relaxed pose on a beach topless, which shows his top surgery scars which are stylized similar to bull horns. He has short blue hair and a matching beard, as well as a wooden prosthetic left arm. Looming over him is a very large monstrous scaled man mostly in shadow due to having dark blue scales and sunset lighting behind him. His one golden eye stands out from black sclera, and behind his horned bony crest are glowing, light green feathery gills like a mane. His left eye is replaced by a black pearl prosthetic. Text around the image reads: "Dad x Dad", "Old Enemies to New Lovers", "Trans Man Lead", "Dual POV", "Retired Adventurer", "Sea Dragon King", and "You're so into me it makes you look stupid". Bottom text reads: #HotWetQueerSummer.
June 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Let's see...
-Regency-inspired romantasy, marriage of convenience with a bestial grand duke LI and a transman MC
-novella series of two aroace autistic men in the 40s falling in love for the first time with each other
-single author anthology of mostly monsterxhuman queer romances, largely transmasc
An illustrated cover titled "The Grand Duke's Masseur." Features a large, bipedal man with four-arms, horns, and a canid face with dog feet, ears, and a fluffy tail. His hair is pink with white streaks, and his curly fur covering his arms and back is pink with white patches. He has golden eyes, light tan skin with white patches, and is wearing a dress shirt half-off. He is holding a white human man with black hair, red eyes, and a scar on his left cheek wearing loose green robes. They are staring at each other with soft intensity, one of the human man's hands pressed to the larger dog man's, the other on the dog-man's bare chest. An illustrated cover title "Demon King's Gardener." Five people stand in a loose semi-circle, from left to right: a white human man with wavy brown hair a little past his shoulders wearing medieval-style work clothing; a large blue-skinned man with horns, four arms, and red eyes with one hand on the human man's back, wearing a short and loose tunic; a young human-elf woman with brown skin, long straight black hair, clawed feet, and pointed ears wearing a matching skirt and cropped top and grinning while hugging the woman next to her; a tall, brown-skinned Inuit-coded elven woman with long slightly pointed ears, long straight black hair, snow leopard legs and feet with a matching tail, and matching dark brown spots on her skin wearing Inuit-style clothing; and an older white human man with long, wavy brown hair going grey pulled back into a low ponytail wearing Inuit-styled clothing. They are standing in a largely red and maroon-colored garden. An illustrated cover titled "Qozy Queerotica" by Rori Thornton. Features a textured green background with several monstrous hands reaching around the title and author byline from the edges of the cover.
May 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The Grand Duke’s Masseur is a Regency-inspired #achillean spicy romance with a trans man lead and polyamorous endgame for the series! 🌈📚

Available on most major retailers and itchio!

#romancelandia #booksky #queerromance

books2read.com/b/b5Pr1A

sbdrag.itch.io/the-grand-du...
An illustrated cover title "The Grand Duke’s Masseur". It features a large, four-armed dog man with horns wearing a shirt half off, with pink fur and hair. He is holding a white human man with long black hair pulled into a bun wearing loose-fitting and comfortable clothing. They are staring intensely at each other, sitting on a cushioned table inside a solarium.
May 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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I have been very busy with college lately - including designing an #indiettrpg based on the world of Demon King's Gardener!
It's designed to facilitate high fantasy low stakes campaigns, in the #sliceoflife style of the source material. Currently looking for #playtesters! DM if interested! #gamedev
A two page spread from the Thirteen Realms TTRPG, covering the introduction to Magic and Spells. It features an Inuit-coded elven woman named Eweylona Ealdwine as a sample spell caster with many ice spells. A two page spread from the Thirteen Realms TTRPG covering the basic world lore of the setting. It features two illustrations: on the left, a quadrupedal dragontaur using a wing to shade a Hawaiian-coded elven woman with cat feet and her fae woman partner, who has purple skin, moth wings, and hooves. The second features a small, dark brown-skinned man covered in dense hair holding up his laughing, bird-person husband. A two page spread from the Thirteen Realms TTRPG listing various Professions and suggested Skills to accompany them. In on corner, an illustration of a giraffe-like demon using crutches with a congenitally small leg named Ierge serves as an example character, with his Stats and other character information listed next to him.
April 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Unicorntaur Purity Silvermane goes in search of a dark mage to lift a curse. Ethical dark mage Dragis and his demon partner Darmoral might end up at the better end of the deal when they agree to help.

#nsfw #tailplay #quadruped #orgy #polyamorous #mlm #mlnb #centaur #monsterfucker
A partial black and white illustration featuring a pair of human feet, two cloven hooves, and a thin spade-ended tail with a large hand wrapped around one of the human feet's ankles.
February 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Obra'ad finds his Mate while observing the new Flatlanders fighting with the Yassakul. Human computer engineer Skylark finds he's more okay with that than he thought he would be.

#fatedmate #alienmate #quadruped #transman #mlm #sizedifference #meta #monsterfucker
A partial black and white illustration featuring four large feline paws and part of a tail.
February 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Demon King Xyrathayn wakes up from his thousand-year slumber to begin the cycle of conquering the world anew - unless a sultry retired adventurer can convince him otherwise.

#mlm #transmanLI
A partial black and white illustration featuring a pair of reptilian feet standing behind a pair of human feet.
February 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Arraden the sorcerer wakes up in the care of a beautiful harpy woman named Shayshola after being injured in a successful battle with a demon.

#t4tmf #transman #transwoman #harpy #sizedifference #nsfw #cloaca #t4t #monsterfucker
A partial black and white illustration featuring large taloned feet in front of feathered wings and a tail.
February 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Aevan takes a break from adventuring to run a remote lighthouse - but a late shipment of suppressants puts him into a surprise heat. Luckily, the pretty mer he's befriended is nearby to help.

#merfolk #nsfw #omegaverse #transman #transmasc #mlnb #oviposition #sizedifference #monsterfucker
A partial black and white illustration featuring a human foot next to a scaled torso, with arms wrapping around the leg.
February 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Ice dragon Lord Shilvain has an unexpected guest drop in on him during a blizzard - and of course, a man of position must show the utmost hospitality.

#dragon #cloaca #hemipenes #nsfw #icegiant #mlm #tailplay #sizedifference #monsterfucker
A partial black and white illustration featuring a pair of reptilian feet entangled with a pair of bear-like paw-feet.
February 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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The Winter King of the fey receives a surprising gift from a human named Maxie - the man himself, in whatever way the Winter King wants him.

#faeerotica #fae #domsub #queer #mlm #lightbondage #nsfw #monsterfucker #orgasmdenial
A partial black and white illustration featuring a pair of large paw-like feet entangled with a human foot, and a fluffy tail next to them.
February 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Happy Valentine's Day! If you're looking for some spicy and sweet #monsterlover #erotica to celebrate, look no further!

Read the anthology @selfpubreview.bsky.social calls "A witty fling into some fantastically bizarre bedrooms... a boundary-pushing tour de force with a touch of snark and whimsy."
An illustrated cover titled Qozy Queerotica by Rori Thornton featuring a subtle patterned background with hands of various monstrous origin surrounding the edges.
February 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Aleksi did such an incredible job on the endpapers, I just adore them!

And y'all should definitely check out his work - Spidersilk and Fell Swoop are the two I've read, and they are both absolutely top tier!

In fact, I backed the Kickstarter for physical copies!
A photograph of four graphic novels; three volumes of Spidersilk on the left with each cover featuring a single fantasy character from the thighs up, and Fell Swoop on the right featuring a human and alien in an embrace. Spidersilk list Aleksi Gray as the author, while Fell Swoop lists P. Kotila.
February 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I love coming up with demon plants for the gardens.
Wooly Moss grew in large brown, gray, and blond balls that ranged the area - in the wild, it would often be mistaken for an animal. While it was safe to touch, it became a deadly poison once ingested - usually, its prey would die near enough for the moss to settle on top of and absorb the corpse into itself to feed on. A few rolled over to greet Braelin, and Petal seemed quite taken by the large moss balls. It climbed on top of one of the nearest ones, waving tendrils in the air. What made the moss effective within the castle gardens was the Blooming Antler Branches growing out of them - a symbiotic relationship that both made the moss look more like an animal and could produce a sap toxic to the touch, and cause that sap to seep out from the rest of the Wooly Moss ball. Jurao noted the way the plants kept their fake, also toxic to the touch antlers well away from the human - though it did have a slightly comical effect of making them appear turned around. The Trapdoor Stumps placed around the gardens appeared, as the name implied, as tree stumps - but that was actually the top part of a root plant, with a mouth that could painfully dragon prey down a tunnel of inverse spikes to be crushed to death and ingested in the main body underground. Planted around them were Joy Blossoms, which gave off a euphoria-inducing pollen meant to confuse and lower the guard of those nearby.
December 29, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Links to check out Demon King's Gardener:

Universal Buy Link for Book 1: books2read.com/u/31QvP7

Serial posting sites:
Tapas: tapas.io/series/Demon...
RoyalRoad: www.royalroad.com/fiction/6525...
ScribbleHub: www.scribblehub.com/series/12614...
An illustration featuring a large blue-skinned man with four eyes and horns hugging and softly kissing a white human man with wavy brown hair and freckles. Title beneath reads: Demon King's Gardener.
December 29, 2024 at 4:09 AM