writing sentences I used to think were quite profound

Writblr & bookblr by Griffin Raynor aka thatwitchrevan Read me: A Heavy Hug with Improbable Press (Dark Cheer Anthology) 'Change' and 'Name Redacted' with Paddler Press (Vol 6) 'The Portrait,' 'Space,' and 'The Church Wall' with Tales from the Radiator 'baby rat teeth' and 'Last Night (I had a dream) with BENDER zine .・。.・゜✭・.・。.・゜✭・. Nonbinary, he / she / they /it, 20s. I like to write about queer themes, sff, horror, and mental health. ☾ ⋆*･ﾟ:⋆*･ﾟ Header is 'Night and Her Daughter Sleep' by Mary Lizzie Macomber.

[ramblinggriffin]

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Hi, I'm Griffin Raynor! I'm an author and editor from the US, and this is my writing and book tumblr! My main blog is @thatwitchrevan!

I write fiction, poetry, and fanfiction. My prose is often in the speculative genres. Currently I'm working on a novel and several short stories, with some other novels in development.

I'm happy to be included in tag games, and I'm always open for asks! If you reblog ask games from me, please try to send one as well! I don't do tag lists very often but if there's a particular wip or something you want to receive tags for let me know!

I have a short story in a wonderful indie anthology called Dark Cheer from Improbable Press! The anthology is two volumes of stories about humans interacting with cryptids, where comfort and compassion meets the unknown. My story 'A Heavy Hug' is about a shadow monster that lives in a young person's bedroom and keeps them company through their grief.

I also have two poems published in Paddler Press - 'Change' and 'Name Redacted' - which you can read in Volume Six here!

Three of my microfics have been adapted as an episode in the Tales from the Radiator podcast! You can find them here, and check out the rest of the amazing stories there!

Finally, I have a poetry chapbook available on itch.io and ko-fi. 'Marching On' is a 6k+ collection of poetry and flash fiction about spring, cycles, recovery, and rebirth. She's a messy passion project and my first ever collection and I'm so proud of her <3

This tag contains all the writing I've posted to this blog, this is my general talking tag, and here is my kofi!

A little about me: I'm in my mid-twenties, currently out of school and working a day job. I am white, queer, trans, and disabled. I use he/she/they/it pronouns! Other than writing I like to play games, listen to music, and make jewelry.

A lot of my writing is deeply queer, with themes of disability, mental illness, and anti-capitalism. I also try to include diversity in all my stories and characters. I am a radical inclusionist and against gatekeeping and respectability politics. We love people and fuck shit up here.

My WIPs:

Painted Waves - a queer, polyamorous, low fantasy pirate adventure novel about Reyna, a painter's apprentice who runs away with Chiyako, a pirate captain. Waves is about found family and finding your own place in the world, or making one together.

Advent - a historical fiction novel about a fractured royal family, a murderous and power hungry king, and his angry and rebellious daughter. Grace is the crown princess who wants to see her father Henric destroyed. Advent is about revolution, family, cycles of violence, and forgiveness. It features queer characters and romance.

Revelry - a gothic fantasy short story about friend group drama and romance

Space is Cold (So Stay with Me) - a short scifi romance in space about clones, identity, and ex best friends

I Will Fill Your Dark House With Light - a fantasy romance short story about a cobbler's apprentice and the witch who lives in the enchanted forest

Hazel and the Healer - a horror fantasy short story about a witch who sold xer body to a death god for revenge and the sweet innocent healer who's trying to help xem

My Fanfiction:

I have loved fanfiction since I was a small child, and it always came hand in hand for me with writing my own stories. For me, both come from a place of loving stories and characters and wanting to explore all the corners of my imagination. I try to alternate between writing original fic and fanfiction to give my brain the variety and enrichment it needs!

Currently I mainly write Star Wars fanfic, especially for Knights of the Old Republic. I've also written some fanfiction for Kingdom Hearts, Steven Universe, and RWBY among other things. You can find me on ao3 here. I also post fic snippets and commentary semi-regularly to my main blog.

[petaltexturedskies]

I feel entirely dehumanized by the sun now and wish for fog, snow, rain and humanity.

Virginia Woolf in a letter to Edward Sackville-West written c. September 1926, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

[booksandmore]

you dont get how refreshing anne of green gables is like yes sometimes you really must imagine there are dryads combing their hair in the woods and little girls in the cupboard who love you and places called the lake of shining waters and lovers lane and be glad you live in a world where there are october’s and be full of love and wonder and whimsy and imagination

[apostateapologist]

characters being defined as much as who they arent anymore as who they are. yummyy yummyyy yummmmyy

[valtsv]

tagging/content warning systems for media are often mocked outside of fanfic which is kind of too bad because i do think it'd be a really interesting vector of literary analysis to examine what the author or publisher thinks they should be informing their audience about vs. the actual content of the media in question

[valtsv]

tagging my work devoid of any explicit sexual content as "dubcon" and sitting back to watch people fight over what i could have meant by this like i'm a roman emperor watching gladiators being devoured by lions in the coliseum

[outofcontextdiscord]

[walmart-the-official]

Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

[bleu-guacamole]

Might I add, free database of mostly European folklore and myths

[bogleech]

A Book of Creatures by @a-book-of-creatures doesn't update these days but is another thing along these lines, really huge, fully illustrated all by the author and cites all sources

[yamalvr]

i have a personality flaw that always positions me on the side of characters who are hiding everything and refuse to accept help. like do NOT confide in people. confiding in people is the enemy. REAL winners lie and lie and continue lying until they ruin every single thing theyve got going for them & didnt fix a single goddamn thing. keep digging grandpa youre almost there

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

i need to read everything ever before the end of the summer

[oedipalrivalry]

can everyone start writing fic about the hyperniche ship only i'm interested in. please.

[solcaeruleus]

Ah yes, my favourite flavour of fanfic.

Everything Is Fucked And Nobody Gets Fucked.

[chroniclebooks]

[calebwittebane]

you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for an amazing reason

[dieanywherelse]

2004

[shaneposting]

'he would not fucking say that' maybe he would if he knew he was starring in his very own porn fic for the sole purpose of delighting some freaks on archive of our own dot org. maybe he'd play it up for the cameras. ever consider that

[softest-butch]

you can prise the canon divergent pornographic character study out of my cold dead hands

[cogentranting]

Observed today:

Two little girls playing gently with a daddy long legs.

Girl 1: can it die?

Girl 2, in a calm happy even tone: of course. Like all living things it can and must die.