Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr)

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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.

An illustrated book cover back showing water rushing up a shoreline and a bucket of seashells. Text reads: Dahm Veshal has been in love with Nie Wahnera for almost their entire six years of friendship. Grand Duke Wahnera has known this for a grand total of one month. He and his two husbands return from summering in the country ready to hear Dahm's confession through an opera composed by Famehn Yelnah, his current romantic partner—who is also in love with Nie. A fall seaside holiday is arranged for all parties to explore their feelings away from the prying eyes of the public—and for Dahm to begin healing from other secrets revealed in the opera.
An illustrated gif of a muscular man from the waist up poking the fingers of two sets of hands together while blushing. He has blue skin with magents, slach-like markings on it, straight black hair tied half up, horns, tusks, and four red eyes with black sclera. White horns sweep back over his head, and he is wearing a sleeveless top with a wide woven belt, with metal cuffs and bracelets on all four wrists.
An illustarted cover title "The Grand Duke's Star & Songsmith", featuring a group of people cuddling in a pile with gentle smileson their faces on a blanket on the beach. In the center of the group is a white human man with straight black hair and red eyes. Lying on top of him is a fat dog-man with four arms and horns, tan freckled skin, long dog ears, purple eyes, a fluffy tail, curly golden-brown fur and curly light brown hair. On the human's left is a taller dog person, also with four arms and horns, short gray fur, prick ears, pale skin, a whip tail, and straight white hair wearing glasses. Around cer back is a thin dog-man with brown skin, long straight black hair and fur, long ears, smaller horns, a long furry tail, and brown eyes. Lying nearby on the right is a tan-skinned dog man with four arms and horns, golden eyes, curly pink fur with white patches and curly pink hair with white streaks, curly-furred tail mostly off screen. His skin also has pale patches of skin from partial albanism. Text list on the left reads: Regency Romantasy; Trans Man MC; Friends to Lovers; Dramatic Confessions; Polyamorous Puddle; Queernormative Setting; Open Door Explicit. Text in the top right reads: Releases December 1st!
An illustration featuring a line of five humanoid people that all have digitigrade legs, ling tails ending in a tuft of fur, long diamond-shaped ears, solid white eyes, Nx horns. From left to right: a smirking dark blue-skinned man wjth wavy black hair tied up, crystalline purple horns, teeth, and toe claws, wearing a dark colored two piece outfit featuring many buckles; a snarling purple-skinned woman with short curly gray hair and small white horns wearing only a chest wrap and shorts with scars covering much of her body; a blank-faced shorter red-skinned man with shoulder-length straight gray hair and wavy white horns that go back over his head wearing long, dark tunic over pants; a grinning snow white-skinned woman with shoulder-length slightly wavy white hair wearing a long-sleeved top and cropped pants with leg wraps; and a yawning, heavily freckled green-skinned man with short, curly yellow hair and black horns sweeping back over his head wearing a long-sleeved shirt with a simple vest and long pants.
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."
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."
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 "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.
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 partial black and white illustration featuring four large feline paws and part of a tail.
A partial black and white illustration featuring large taloned feet in front of feathered wings and a tail.
An illustrated cover titled Qozy Queerotica by Rori Thornton featuring a subtle patterned background with hands of various monstrous origin surrounding the edges.
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.
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.
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.
An infographic titled "In Which a Demon King Does Not Have a Romantic Interest in His Human Gardener", featuring an illustration of a large blue-skinned man with four arms, horns, and a tail seated on a bench watching a white human man with wavy brown hair whittling a small statue. The Indie Ink Awards by Write Hive logo is beside it. Text beneath the illustration reads: Writing the Future We Need: Asexual of Aromantic Representation and Writing the Future We Need: Neurodivergent Representation by a Neurodivergent Author.
A collage of illustrations all featuring a heavyset, freckled white man with wavy, shoulder-length brown hair and very pale blue eyes. He is wearing several variations of medieval style clothing and has a trimmed beard and mustache.
A graphic titled "In Which a Demon King Does Not Have a Romantic Interest in His Human Gardener" featuring an illustration of a large blue-skinned man with horns seated next to a white human man with wavy brown hair on a bench in a night time garden. The logo for the Indie Ink Award by Write Hive is over the corner of the illustration. Below the illustration reads: Writing the Future We Need: Asexual or Aromantic Representation and Writing the Future We Need: Neurodivergent Representation by a Neurodivergent Author.
An illustrated cover titled "A Man That Smells Like Flowers". It features a large man with four arms, wavy pink hair with white streaks, and canid features holding a smaller white human man with straight black hair wearing loose clothing. They are sitting on a bench in a room full or plants.
An illustrated cover titled Demon King's Gardener by Rori Thornton. It features five people standing in a loose circle, from left to right: a white human man with wavy brown hair wearing medieval gardener clothing; a large blue-skinned man with four arms, horns, and four eyes wearing loose, short style robes; a young woman with leopard-spotted medium brown skin, long straight black hair, and pointed ears hugging the woman next to her while wearing a crop top and long skirt; a tall woman with leopard-spotted medium brown skin, long straight black hair, and snow leopard legs and tail wearing light blue Inuit-style clothing; and a white human man wearing matching light blue clothing with graying wavy brown hair. They are surrounded by red and white colored plants, including maroon grass.
Screenshot of a recommended Steam game review that reads: Trained a sentient sludge to follow me Grew the sludge until it became powerful enough to inflict random staus effects to anything it would attack Sludge attacks a legendary enemy, randomly procs the "In Love" status effect causing him to fall in love with me The sludge, jealous of out newfound love, proceeds to murder us both 10/10 would do the sludge live triangle again
An illustrated image of a topless woman with a ruby red snake tail and golden wings sitting inside of a wine glass with a ring around the bottom. Text in the right corner reads Scorpio Sun by Yoshi Yoshitani.
“Are you alright?” the unicorntaur asked in concern, stepping up next to the man. The way the human grinned lit up his entire face like a child told a ridiculous lie, “You were expecting to beg?” “Well, why not?” Purity asked, “I’d heard humans are quite fond of people begging—kings and such especially. Centaurs usually make you beat them in a race or other athletics—very uncouth, if you ask me. Impossible to maintain grace while running at that speed—but begging can still be quite pretty, can’t it?”
This isn’t one of those ridiculous alien mate situations, is it? Skylark thought to himself in amused horror. He liked those kinds of stories, but something like that didn’t happen in real life. Right? His captor continued nosing gently against his neck and shoulder, still purring as they wrapped more arms round him. They rubbed their cheek against his, the soft fur almost silken. An alien mate story would call this scent marking, he thought, with growing panic, But again, that’s ridiculous.
“People do seem to fear anything to do with the Demon King,” Xyrathayn agreed, walking over to the window. It gave a good view of the street behind—more of the picturesque little demon-touched town. There were still some people out, milling about idly through the streets. “I don’t,” Kaldri said. Xyrathayn paused, and looked over with an arched brow.
They were interrupted from more by a gurgle— followed by Pearl stumbling their way out of the bedroom. They trilled at spotting Aevan, padding across the short hall and sitting right on the floor as they wrapped their arms around Aevan’s waist and seemed to fall asleep again. It was several moments before Aevan managed, “Did ya know mer can turn their tails into legs?”
“Saber cat is gamey,” the dragon replied, eyes glued to his book, “You may keep the meat for yourself.” “Of course,” Yok said, then asked, “Since I’ve been out – did you need… attended to, sir Ilvai?” “Yes,” the dragon replied, shifting to lay on his stomach—his tail naturally causing the robe to ride up, “I am feeling fatigued—refresh me.”
“Yes, well,” the human cleared his throat, continuing to rub his arms, “I thought, that being the case, I would give you a gift. After all the ones you’ve given to others, that is.” “And what is this gift?” the Winter King asked. “Oh, well, this may sound… perhaps vain or presumptuous, but uh… me,” the human said, with another nervous smile, holding out their arms briefly.
An illustration of a leafy ball of moss holding a sign that says "emotional support" with the word "animal" covered by red painted gibberish. Text at the bottom of the image reads: Petal can support your emotions, not your spelling"
Surgery question reads: (OPTIONAL) Reason NOT to implement AI solutions. Answer reads: Listed under previous section, but - generative AI is ethically dubious AT BEST and absolutely destroying the environment with its cost to run. The lack of differentiation in this survey between generative and other forms of AI assistance feels disingenuous and purposefully obfuscating in order to obtain a more positive result from those that would consider using AI for non-generstive purposes. Positing AI above as "new technology" people are afraid or unable to learn doubly so. There are plenty of new game technologies emerging that are not AI related, and people are eager to learn them.
An illustrated tarot card featuring a woman with purple skin, small horns, digitigrade legs, and a long tail ending in a large tuft of fur smirking and flexing at the viewer. She is standing in a forest of blue bamboo. Title at bottom of the card reads: 7, The Champion.
Tweet from Unhinged AO3 tag reading: porn with feelings, but they fuck nasty don't worry
Tweet from Unhinged AO3 tag reading: slut (affectionate)
Tweet from Unhinged AO3 tag reading: sneaky breeding kink
Tweet from Unhinged AO3 tag reading: boypussy and girlcock solidarity
Tweet from Unhinged AO3 tag reading: sex so raw it will summon Gordon Ramsey
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An illustrated cover with the title: Demon King's Gardener. Features a large, four armed blue-skinned man with horns and a tail sitting on a bench next to a white human man with wavy brown hair whittling a stature. They are in a garden at night and surrounded by floating balls of light.
An illustrated cover featuring various monstrous hands holding onto the title and byline, which read: Qozy Queerotica by Rori Thornton.
An illustration featuring a large harpy woman with rainbow colored wings and a matching rainbow crest standing on avian legs and wearing a simple dress tied up either side. Next to her stands a white human man half her height with straight ginger hair down to his shoulders, wearing a dawn colored coat over a simple tunic and pants.
An illustrated book cover featuring various monstrous hands holding onto the title and author credit on a minimal background. Title and by line read: Qozy Queerotica by Rori Thornton.
An illustrative reference sheet featuring fantasy plants, including: -A clay gazebo covered in re "iron ivy", with a salmon pink feathery "caustic feather fern" hanging from the ceiling. -A larger picture of the caustic feather fern -A pink "beguiling lotus" that sits on a large purple leaf, with very think gray-purple roots beneath
A reference sheet of various plants, including: -Nightmare shrooms, a bright blue and dark purple trumpet fungus with netting growing under its caps. -Stone blooms, a puffball fungus with a flower-like cap beneath it and glowing spots. -Blanket bush, a purple leaved bush bearing dark blue pomegranate-like fruit.