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hey there! i'm ren (or moth or nemo), 28, webdev by day, writer & wannabe artist by night. pronouns are he/they. i'm aroace, fan of fantasy, mystery and some sci-fi. when i'm not here, i'm usually playing ffxiv, destiny or league, or whining about how much longer i will have to wait for the next dragon age (surprisingly little now??? whew!). favorite books are lotr, asoiaf, the broken earth and more.

links: twitter | bluesky | goodreads | ko-fi

current projects:

#fantasy romance wip

a young boy is saved from the wild hunt by the god of the forest. more than a decade later, he is a hunter with the weight of his dying village on his shoulders when a second meeting with the god of the forest changes everything - again. (intro | tag)

#anti snow white

in a world that was once covered and ruled by a magical, bloodthirsty forest and its monstrous inhabitants, a young prince is exiled to its borders for mysterious reasons. ten years later, he finally manages to escape. his goal now is simple: get his throne and kingdom back. (intro | tag)

#sunset prince

the youngest prince of a bloodthirsty empire is kidnapped while returning from a diplomatic mission, unraveling a web of conspiracies and secrets. (intro | tag)

#dragonbond

in a world where dragon bonds are fueled by magic and emotion, a forgotten prince's hidden rage is the spark needed to start a war centuries in the making. (intro | tag)

you might also be interest in:

my interactive fiction games

common bonds: a speculative aromantic anthology (i have a story in there!)

the aroace database of characters in sff (i'm the dev for this)

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #writing community #fantasy writers #queer writers #writeblr intro #writeblr community #idk what else to tag this buuuut

my peeps, anyone up for testing my newsletter? 👀 i just finished coding the whole thing (i hope) and want to test if everyone who subscribes is getting the welcome email + an email i will send to all subscribers later tonight. everything would be very obviously a test - like "test email" with "test post 1" etc.

the second email will have an unsubscribe button so you can do that if you don't want to receive anything from me ever again lol (or you can just send me a message and i'll delete you from the mailing list!) if you want to help out -> nyphren.com/subscribe

my first post (out sometime in the next week or even this weekend, maybe) will be about my short story in COMMON BONDS 1 vs COMMON BONDS 2, focusing on how i write about platonic relationships now vs then.

ty for the help in advance 🥹

#ren.txt #also you can probably look around in the website and like #its all placeholder aslkdjsalda i will fix it all for the Official Release(tm)

ravioliet

god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies

#touche

rewrote the first chapter of fantasy romance wip and honestly i hate it

#i cant find rowans voice its driving me insaneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee #ren.txt

professionallyunstable-deactiva

there's not a single nonchalant bone in my body. I care so much I could literally vomit.

#sorn willowdew #my loser 🥹

whooo! got my COMMON BONDS 2 copies!!! always bonkers to see my name on a real, physical copy lol. if you want to get one, there are links for a bunch of stores here :D

#ngl i cant even read my short story on the physical copies bc it feels weird lmao #ren.txt #also yes thats one of my cats zuko #he likes to inspect everything that crosses our door

hiveswap

big fan of when you peel back all layers of a character and at the bottom of it there's love

hiveswap

why are they doing this? because they loved someone so much it caused the plot to happen. Grief counts btw

hiveswap

ESPECIALLY a big fan of when this isn't enough to make them a good person

#the underlying mythology of the world of fantasy romance wip in a nutshell kind of

bonivers

one must always ask themselves How Can I Make The Most Niche Content Possible That Only Caters To Me

i have a title for fantasy romance wip and currenly only one person know about it other than me

#im afraid of ~announcing~ it and then changing my mind lmao #fantasy romance wip #ren.txt

ullathynell

Tree House, 2025. A closer look at one of the new illustrations I made for my art book Faraway Dreaming, published earlier this year by Atthis Arts. I used mixed media for all the illustrations in the book, combining traditional ink drawing and digital coloring.

#so cool #art

commoncoot

people love to find progressive ways to say we should all be arranged into separate groups and try our hardest to not relate to one another

wilderlingdev

well, i figured out i should post about the game i'm kind of developing on my dev blog xD these are the main characters of the visual novel i'm slowly (sloooooooowly) in my free time. it's set in the same universe of my COMMON BONDS 2 short story. more about it here but in short: a city of witches, dead old gods and a mystical swamp and river. the game itself is about river (mc) returning to their abandoned family's manor only to find out it isn't that abandoned after all!

i'm developing it on godot and so far i only have the placeholder art for the rooms of the manor i want to be in the demo. the game will have some light point & click elements but it's mostly about river trying to figure out why their family was (supposedly) cursed and then why there is someone else living in the place now.

here's a quick video of how things look now:

i'm also having way too much fun planning this game. this is probably over scoped to hell and back and not all rooms will make it to the final game but here's the layout of the manor (so far):