Torrin Taigh

Official blog of author Torrin Taigh, featuring musings, shitposts, and occasional deleted chapters and scenes.

[torrintaighofficial]

My Books:

Series:

The Godhunter Saga:

“Dawnfire and Spellweave" (Paperback Nov 2, 2025; ebook Nov 3, 2025)

“Hellfire and Healing Grace” (ESTIMATED RELEASE Nov 2026)

“Melody and Majesty” (WIP)

"Embers and Empires" (WIP)

"Fury and Fate" (WIP)

Runaway Duology

"Runaway Love" (working title, WIP)

"Runaway, Love" (working title, WIP)

Standalone:

"But Who's Counting?" (WIP, contemporary romance)

"Before You Leaf" (WIP, contemporary sapphic romance)

"The Secret Candles" (WIP, queer YA)

"Paragould Rising" (WIP, southern gothic horror)

AO3 Works:

"Blood and Radiance" (WIP)

[pomegranatefae]

You disassemble John? You disassemble John for eating peanuts and also doing countless atrocities? Oh! Oh! Disintegration for Mercymorn! Disintegration for ten thousand years!

[rainintheevening]

Okay, we got a new one, boys.

[fleshengine]

Close enough welcome back Chekov's gun.

[comma-souptra]

Prev you can’t bury this in your own tags

[hope-chest-resources]

ID: A screenshot of tags left on the tumblr post. They read "#it's actually kind of a reverse Chekhov's Gun #Chekhov's Gun says "If there is setup there must be payoff" #Asimov's Tail says "if there is payoff there must be setup" #and I think the tail is also important #a tail is not something you'd expect to see on a character unless explicitly pointed out #someone stepping on the tail not only reveals its existence but also tells us things about it #eg it's floor length sensitive and the character either can't or won't keep it out of the way of foot traffic #the upshot seems to be "acclimatise your audience to things they don't understand before you use them" #you don't need to explain how a gun on the mantelpiece works in the same way you need to explain how your protagonist's tail does" End ID.

[cass-a-rollie]

oopsie~ o///o

Emeryne's crow friend, blueberry, flies to see her in the middle of winter. Thank goodness she's okay, it's so cold these days and- oops.

(also it's hard to tell but darcy/blueberry is carrying an acorn in her mouth that's stem is connected to another acorn, as a sweet gift of love)

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

GASP

MAGIC CROW GIRLFRIEND

[ravioliet]

and what if i said Rocky and Adrian with Grace

[strvdivarius]

but if you ever think it’s a bad time to send me headcanons just consider this

its not

[trigona-necrophaga]

my devoted but dangerously unstable knight will be hearing about this

[typebeanie]

Happy Pride Month from Dalinar Kholin

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 8 hours 17 minutes

[torrintaighofficial]

Presenting the blurb for book two:

As the Godhunter makes His first grabs for power, two women find themselves drawn into a conflict that threatens the kingdom of Viremor — and the careful balance between mortals and the gods.

Selene Morvane is a captain in the Viremorian army, maintaining unwavering dedication to her king even as vicious rumors swirl about her parentage. Isolde Caerwyn is a Rhuvenite laypriestess trapped in the gilded cage of temple life, trying to balance her own sense of morality with the demands of her Goddess.

After Isolde defies orders to save Selene’s life, each of them is drawn to the other in ways that neither can ignore. When events bring them together again, the two must navigate societal expectations, dead gods, and their own burgeoning attraction — all while the influence of the Godhunter grows with each passing day.

Perfect for fans of sapphic romance and moral ambiguity, Hellfire and Healing Grace is the next installation in an increasingly tense tale of sacrifice, power struggles, and defiant hope.

[fandomsandfeminism]

*sigh* Its that time of year where freshman high school classes start reading Romeo and Juliet.

And I'm just so tired of the "well they werent REALLY IN LOVE they were just dumb teenagers with hormones" take.

What do you mean "not really" in love? They werent real people. They are fictional characters. The story says they are in love. The omniscient chorus says they are in love. The themes of the entire play are built on the fact that they are in love.

So what does it add to undermine that except as an excuse to not engage authentically with the story? To suggest that actually it's the two teenagers fault that they died because they were being stupid and hormonal, rather than society and their families for the senseless hate that forced them to extreme measures? Does that seem like Shakespeare's intent? Does that seem like an interesting or useful reading, or as a cop out reason to role your eyes and refuse to engage with the play at all?

I understand that we are now in an age where "love at first sight" isnt really a valid literary trope anymore. Even Disney is taking shots at it. But this play was written in 1597- when the omniscient chorus tells you that they are in love, it isnt tongue in cheek.

[lostsometime]

romeo and juliet is about a certain kind of love that isn’t adequate, and it’s not the love of romeo or juliet!

it’s about the way their parents and families failed to love them enough, or failed to demonstrate that love adequately.  it’s about how putting pride and honor and revenge above things like “love” and “the safety and happiness of your children” is a shitty way to parent.

idk i think it’s really interesting because that’s actually kind of a subversive message!  the message “children have a responsibility to respect and obey their parents” was fucking everywhere in Shakespeare’s day, even more than it is today.  it’s kind of a big deal to say “hey also, parents have a responsibility to love their kids more than they love themselves.” 

[theroguescientist]

Romeo and Julliet were a pair of teenage dumbasses. But teenage dumbasses grow up to be functioning adults all the time. Being a teenage dumbass is a step on the path to adulthood. It is the adults' responsibility to create an environment in which being a teenage dumbass is not a death sentence.

[fandomsandfeminism]

I mean, yes, I agree with the sentiment.

But I do want to push back on the idea that Romeo and Juliet are "dumbass teenagers."

The things people generally point to as them being dumb tends to be fast/impulsive decisions, but there are reasons in the narrative for why they are forced to make those decisions quickly. The violence and Juliets impending arranged marriage put them on a timer that they didn't choose. If they had waited, not gotten married, not been together on their wedding night- they might have lived, but they also wouldn't have had even those few fleeting hours together.

Juliets feigned suicide with the sleeping potion is supposed to allow her to sneak away with Romeo without escalating the bloodshed by getting Romeo accused of kidnapping, and without her being forced into the *deadly sin* of adultery if she were forced to marry while already being married. She BEGS her parents for more time, to delay the marriage to Paris so she can think of something better, and is told no.

And the plan WOULD have worked if the messenger had successfully reached Romeo- but didn't because of plague slowing travel.

So you know, they tried. And I think while it may appeal to teenagers to characterize them as dumbasses (teenagers love to criticize other teens, and then they can engage with the story by listing all the things THEY would have done differently), I don't think it's particularly fair to do so. And more importantly, I think the more emphasis we put on Romeo and Juliet being impulsive or dumb, takes away from the tragedy of the circumstances they were forced into, and undermines that their love was true. Their first conversation forms a sonnet, the rhyming couplet at the end is sealed with a kiss. They *should* have been together, and...come hell or high water....they would be together.

[thefriendlypigeon]

❤️💙💛GRACEFUL💛💙❤️

⭐[my social media links]

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[torrintaighofficial]

I finally watched Project Hail Mary and it hurt even worse than the book ughhhhhh

[feefal]

Oyster mermaid~

[feefal]

Curious pond greets butterflies

[enkephalinpilled]

in order to preserve my internet privacy i’ll have to start feeding everyone misinformation about myself. i don’t eat. i don’t sleep. i don’t breathe. i don’t blink. i don’t have “blood”

[teaboot]

unfortunately, classifying all points as definitively false also presents your audience with data. you gotta present a mix of unverifiable information in a broad range of veracity. I don't have blood. I DO have teeth. How many teeth? 53. I subsist primarily on synthesized potassium compounds and sleep in my closet three nights a year