Rien Gray
@riengray.bsky.social
Agender Intersex Butch | Author of F/F and F/NBi romance, fantasy, & horror | They/Them | 2025: LESSER HUNGERS | #sapphicromance #lesfic
https://riengray.shop/
https://riengray.itch.io/
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Rien-Gray/author/B091NLB554
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-...
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-...
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It's been a while since I updated this but if any butches would like to be added, please advise! I know we are getting a bit of an influx of new people around here lately
#writingcommunity #butch
go.bsky.app/DtTZc62
#writingcommunity #butch
go.bsky.app/DtTZc62
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
It's been a while since I updated this but if any butches would like to be added, please advise! I know we are getting a bit of an influx of new people around here lately
#writingcommunity #butch
go.bsky.app/DtTZc62
#writingcommunity #butch
go.bsky.app/DtTZc62
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The moderate position is indeed The Hague
January 3, 2026 at 6:45 AM
The moderate position is indeed The Hague
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There is not limit to the war on AI they are poisoning entire towns of non-white people to create an engine to steal the world's knowledge and turn it into a scam and sexual exploitation machine we must fight until our last breaths
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
January 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM
There is not limit to the war on AI they are poisoning entire towns of non-white people to create an engine to steal the world's knowledge and turn it into a scam and sexual exploitation machine we must fight until our last breaths
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
1st book of the year finished (although I started it last month)! Good prose, well-embedded in time and place, with a knack for building subtle and deeply queer dread.
However, if this was a starred review, I'd nix one for doing the thing I dislike most in modern horror. Alas, but for 3 pages.
However, if this was a starred review, I'd nix one for doing the thing I dislike most in modern horror. Alas, but for 3 pages.
January 2, 2026 at 6:25 PM
1st book of the year finished (although I started it last month)! Good prose, well-embedded in time and place, with a knack for building subtle and deeply queer dread.
However, if this was a starred review, I'd nix one for doing the thing I dislike most in modern horror. Alas, but for 3 pages.
However, if this was a starred review, I'd nix one for doing the thing I dislike most in modern horror. Alas, but for 3 pages.
1023 words today!
875 words today!
January 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM
1023 words today!
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“oh, i wish there were some kind of punctuation to chain these two sentences together”
the humble semicolon:
the humble semicolon:
January 2, 2026 at 1:42 PM
“oh, i wish there were some kind of punctuation to chain these two sentences together”
the humble semicolon:
the humble semicolon:
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if you still use Twitter please understand that you are enabling and supporting this.
It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.
It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.
For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok.
Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 1:05 AM
if you still use Twitter please understand that you are enabling and supporting this.
It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.
It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.
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I'm still sitting at 605/956. We are so close to paying my rent. Please keep pushing. I only have 3 days left.
www.paypal.me/devyntheauthor
www.paypal.me/devyntheauthor
Pay Devyn Kennedy using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/devyntheauthor and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
www.paypal.me
January 2, 2026 at 12:08 PM
I'm still sitting at 605/956. We are so close to paying my rent. Please keep pushing. I only have 3 days left.
www.paypal.me/devyntheauthor
www.paypal.me/devyntheauthor
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.
I’m overflowing river in the Sierra Nevada (the California mountains, not Spain)
I’m overflowing river in the Sierra Nevada (the California mountains, not Spain)
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.
i’m decades of conversion therapy from my fundamentalist shrink parents
i’m decades of conversion therapy from my fundamentalist shrink parents
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.
I'm Infected Vocal Chords
I'm Infected Vocal Chords
January 2, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.
I’m overflowing river in the Sierra Nevada (the California mountains, not Spain)
I’m overflowing river in the Sierra Nevada (the California mountains, not Spain)
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CR: Love Burns Bright by Rien Gray
This series of F/NBi thrillers have been a comfort read for me this past month.
The characters are interesting & the prose is first-rate.
Honestly, I don’t care much about the thriller plot (I feel the same way about mysteries).
I just love a well written book.
This series of F/NBi thrillers have been a comfort read for me this past month.
The characters are interesting & the prose is first-rate.
Honestly, I don’t care much about the thriller plot (I feel the same way about mysteries).
I just love a well written book.
January 2, 2026 at 1:18 PM
CR: Love Burns Bright by Rien Gray
This series of F/NBi thrillers have been a comfort read for me this past month.
The characters are interesting & the prose is first-rate.
Honestly, I don’t care much about the thriller plot (I feel the same way about mysteries).
I just love a well written book.
This series of F/NBi thrillers have been a comfort read for me this past month.
The characters are interesting & the prose is first-rate.
Honestly, I don’t care much about the thriller plot (I feel the same way about mysteries).
I just love a well written book.
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WOOO!!! 2026!!!! THE YEAR OF THE LESBIAN!!!
January 1, 2026 at 10:11 PM
WOOO!!! 2026!!!! THE YEAR OF THE LESBIAN!!!
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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Happy New Year!
With the new year, the Sapphic Book Bingo 2026 has started!
Our year-long reading challenge is a fun way to find new favorite sapphic books & authors and win prizes.
Download a bingo card on my website & start reading:
jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...
With the new year, the Sapphic Book Bingo 2026 has started!
Our year-long reading challenge is a fun way to find new favorite sapphic books & authors and win prizes.
Download a bingo card on my website & start reading:
jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...
January 1, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Happy New Year!
With the new year, the Sapphic Book Bingo 2026 has started!
Our year-long reading challenge is a fun way to find new favorite sapphic books & authors and win prizes.
Download a bingo card on my website & start reading:
jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...
With the new year, the Sapphic Book Bingo 2026 has started!
Our year-long reading challenge is a fun way to find new favorite sapphic books & authors and win prizes.
Download a bingo card on my website & start reading:
jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...
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on this first day of the year, a new yuri is here, greater and more powerful than ever
January 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM
on this first day of the year, a new yuri is here, greater and more powerful than ever
From early in Galeas the Keen, where Galeas is acquiring her quest from two old and very married lesbians:
January 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
From early in Galeas the Keen, where Galeas is acquiring her quest from two old and very married lesbians:
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SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
For the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's 2026 fiction series.
We pay pro rates for up to 5000 word stories focusing on lesbian/sapphic themes in pre-1900 settings. See the guidelines for details.
alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...
For the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's 2026 fiction series.
We pay pro rates for up to 5000 word stories focusing on lesbian/sapphic themes in pre-1900 settings. See the guidelines for details.
alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...
Call for Submissions: 2026 Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Fiction Series | Alpennia
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast will be open for submissions in January 2026 for short stories in the lesbian historic fiction genre, to be produced in audio format for the podcast, as well as publ...
alpennia.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:05 PM
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
For the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's 2026 fiction series.
We pay pro rates for up to 5000 word stories focusing on lesbian/sapphic themes in pre-1900 settings. See the guidelines for details.
alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...
For the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's 2026 fiction series.
We pay pro rates for up to 5000 word stories focusing on lesbian/sapphic themes in pre-1900 settings. See the guidelines for details.
alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...
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Another thing I would really liked to do re my reading goals for 2026 is that I would like to read more 2026 releases by transfem authors who so far haven't really seen their work reflected in TFR's award. I know there are always a lot of works that I just haven't gotten around to reading last year.
January 1, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Another thing I would really liked to do re my reading goals for 2026 is that I would like to read more 2026 releases by transfem authors who so far haven't really seen their work reflected in TFR's award. I know there are always a lot of works that I just haven't gotten around to reading last year.
you know, sure, why not
January 1, 2026 at 5:25 PM
you know, sure, why not
Finishing Galeas the Keen. Just have a few other daily things to do and then kicking off my first writing session of the year.
What’s the first writing related project you plan to tackle for the new year? #WritingPrompt
January 1, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Finishing Galeas the Keen. Just have a few other daily things to do and then kicking off my first writing session of the year.
I'm glad you enjoyed The Scales of Seduction so much, thank you!
Good morning!!! Throwing my top ten book list that took me way too long to narrow down. I read so many amazing, queer, sapphic books in 2025 yippee 🥳🎉 and there's lots more that I'm looking forward to reading this year too!! 💙📚🌈
January 1, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I'm glad you enjoyed The Scales of Seduction so much, thank you!
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For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction
January 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction
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spending my last moments of 2025 finishing LESSER HUNGERS by @riengray.bsky.social was a good choice
January 1, 2026 at 8:28 AM
spending my last moments of 2025 finishing LESSER HUNGERS by @riengray.bsky.social was a good choice
on this first day of the year, a new yuri is here, greater and more powerful than ever
January 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM
on this first day of the year, a new yuri is here, greater and more powerful than ever
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You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check
December 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check