Ryn
@rynrichmond.bsky.social
Editor, writer, poet, science communicator, former teacher. Passionate about language retention and revitalization, space, seahorses, dragonflies, disability, reproductive health. 🇺🇸 to 🇳🇿. 🏳🌈. Board game geek. Fibro+endo. https://ko-fi.com/rynrwrites
My 13-month-old kitty, Gilgamesh, aka GAY cat, aka sweet potato pie.
He chews my poems.
Husband calls him readers digest.
He chews my poems.
Husband calls him readers digest.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
My 13-month-old kitty, Gilgamesh, aka GAY cat, aka sweet potato pie.
He chews my poems.
Husband calls him readers digest.
He chews my poems.
Husband calls him readers digest.
Come along for a good science discussion.
October 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Come along for a good science discussion.
Gilgamesh thinks so, too.
June 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Gilgamesh thinks so, too.
Finally could take a photo where my cat, Gilgamesh, isn't sitting on them. #MWSecretSantaAoNZ
May 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Finally could take a photo where my cat, Gilgamesh, isn't sitting on them. #MWSecretSantaAoNZ
Gilgamesh is helping me write a note to my #MWSecretSantaAoNZ giftee
May 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Gilgamesh is helping me write a note to my #MWSecretSantaAoNZ giftee
#MWSecretSantaAoNZ
I'm an avid board gamer and am involved with the hB Geek Guild
I'm an avid board gamer and am involved with the hB Geek Guild
May 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
#MWSecretSantaAoNZ
I'm an avid board gamer and am involved with the hB Geek Guild
I'm an avid board gamer and am involved with the hB Geek Guild
#MWSecretSantaAoNZ
I have a nearly 7 month old void who thinks he's EvelKnieval. He's actually named Gilgamesh.
I have a nearly 7 month old void who thinks he's EvelKnieval. He's actually named Gilgamesh.
April 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
#MWSecretSantaAoNZ
I have a nearly 7 month old void who thinks he's EvelKnieval. He's actually named Gilgamesh.
I have a nearly 7 month old void who thinks he's EvelKnieval. He's actually named Gilgamesh.
Gil likes to help me work. It's sweet.
April 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Gil likes to help me work. It's sweet.
Come to the networking night! I'm hoping to build a community in Napier.
March 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Come to the networking night! I'm hoping to build a community in Napier.
Gil (Duke of Yellerton) takes his job of helping to choose the right poems for me to submit for publication very seriously. One of them may have involved fish.
January 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Gil (Duke of Yellerton) takes his job of helping to choose the right poems for me to submit for publication very seriously. One of them may have involved fish.
11. How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
Amber Dawn. As it is an autobiographical mix of prose and poetry, it deals with themes of poverty, sex work, queerness, and all the beauty and uglinessness. Only wish it were longer.
Amber Dawn. As it is an autobiographical mix of prose and poetry, it deals with themes of poverty, sex work, queerness, and all the beauty and uglinessness. Only wish it were longer.
November 22, 2024 at 12:13 PM
11. How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
Amber Dawn. As it is an autobiographical mix of prose and poetry, it deals with themes of poverty, sex work, queerness, and all the beauty and uglinessness. Only wish it were longer.
Amber Dawn. As it is an autobiographical mix of prose and poetry, it deals with themes of poverty, sex work, queerness, and all the beauty and uglinessness. Only wish it were longer.
10. Magic Remembered by Coralie Moss. An absolute gem. The older protagonist is fun.
November 22, 2024 at 12:03 PM
10. Magic Remembered by Coralie Moss. An absolute gem. The older protagonist is fun.
9. Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi. Loved the characters--LGBTQIA, disabled, wolfish, strange.
November 22, 2024 at 11:42 AM
9. Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi. Loved the characters--LGBTQIA, disabled, wolfish, strange.
8. Wisława Szymborska: Poems New and Collected. If I could read Polish, I'd read her Poems as she wrote them. The translator did a phenomenal job. The collection was really pivotal to me as a writer.
November 21, 2024 at 12:28 AM
8. Wisława Szymborska: Poems New and Collected. If I could read Polish, I'd read her Poems as she wrote them. The translator did a phenomenal job. The collection was really pivotal to me as a writer.
7. Goldilocks by Laura Lam
I like space thrillers. Can't get enough sci fi about space and the way sff shows us the cracks in our society.
I like space thrillers. Can't get enough sci fi about space and the way sff shows us the cracks in our society.
November 20, 2024 at 9:17 PM
7. Goldilocks by Laura Lam
I like space thrillers. Can't get enough sci fi about space and the way sff shows us the cracks in our society.
I like space thrillers. Can't get enough sci fi about space and the way sff shows us the cracks in our society.
6. The Summer of the Ubume
by Natsuhiko Kyogoku
So rarely do I read a book as quickly as I did this. Every spare moment I had was spent reading it. Weird horror mystery. It was my first book dealing with Japanese lore.
by Natsuhiko Kyogoku
So rarely do I read a book as quickly as I did this. Every spare moment I had was spent reading it. Weird horror mystery. It was my first book dealing with Japanese lore.
November 20, 2024 at 7:58 PM
6. The Summer of the Ubume
by Natsuhiko Kyogoku
So rarely do I read a book as quickly as I did this. Every spare moment I had was spent reading it. Weird horror mystery. It was my first book dealing with Japanese lore.
by Natsuhiko Kyogoku
So rarely do I read a book as quickly as I did this. Every spare moment I had was spent reading it. Weird horror mystery. It was my first book dealing with Japanese lore.
5. The Peace Keeper by BL Blanchard. I do enjoy a good what-if story+mystery. What if the US and Canada were never colonized? From the first page, I couldn't put it down -- I was so engrossed.
November 20, 2024 at 7:52 PM
5. The Peace Keeper by BL Blanchard. I do enjoy a good what-if story+mystery. What if the US and Canada were never colonized? From the first page, I couldn't put it down -- I was so engrossed.
3. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matte, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by @chanda.bsky.social
I loved the passion for the night sky and cosmology and appreciated the approach to about the ways academia and science could become less oppressive.
I loved the passion for the night sky and cosmology and appreciated the approach to about the ways academia and science could become less oppressive.
November 20, 2024 at 8:02 AM
3. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matte, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by @chanda.bsky.social
I loved the passion for the night sky and cosmology and appreciated the approach to about the ways academia and science could become less oppressive.
I loved the passion for the night sky and cosmology and appreciated the approach to about the ways academia and science could become less oppressive.
2. Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen. Loved the world-building and character development and West African lore.
November 20, 2024 at 6:28 AM
2. Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen. Loved the world-building and character development and West African lore.