Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· 10d

I painted this with @felinefero.bsky.social 's acrylic paint markers the other day and it was SUPER fun. Made the shapes by overlaying 2 emptied tile sheets from the Dorfromantik boardgame. Which is also fun. #art #dorfromantik #green #blue #gold #silver #dontknowwhatImdoing

A pattern made with acrylic paint pens. It begins with a central dodecahedron of royal blue, framed and crossed with metallic gold. Out from that, stretch 12 elongated pentagons of varying shades of blue-green, each grounded with an open arrowhead of gold spitting two dots of gold. At the tip of each pentagon is a teardrop of silver, the trailing point of which is followed by two more dots of silver, nearly meeting the gold dots in the middle. Running down between each pentagon, towards the blue and gold centre, from squat pentagons at the top, are lines of silver. The squat pentagons are silver, too, with teardrops of gold in their centres. Above the squat pentagons are 12 hectagons shaped like pentagons with blunted shoulders. These are various shades of yellow-green. From the bottom two corners of each to their crowning points is a V, 8 of silver and 4 of gold, with 2 of the gold ones shooting a gold line off the page. Each heptagon sports 6 dots of gold, 3 in each blunted corner, and a run of 3 silver dots within the spread of each V. Between the bottom corners of each heptagon are tiny sharp coffins of gold. In the 4 page corners, those coffins stretch up into lines that meet 2 lines coming from larger gold coffins. In the space between the split of these larger coffins is a yellow kite (4 in total) framed and split by silver lines. In the 2 yellow segments are 3 dots of gold. Bursting from the blunt-shouldered heptagons, down the outermost left and right side of the page, are teardrops of silver and gold. All is on a white background.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· 27d

Hydrate, Don't Hate #writing #poem #LGBTQIA #queerwriters #transwriters #talktobigots #hydrationisimportant #T

16th July 2026 12:39

I'm never more hydrated than when I'm talking to you.

I put the straw to my lips
when you chat shit;
take a sip
every time you do a racist bit;
swallow like I'm aerophobic
when you bash the queers;
and when you misgender me
it's like I've not drunk in years.

Without you, my kidneys might not be so healthy.
My lips would be crispy and my hairline, stealthy.
I wouldn't have the energy to do what I do.
So thank you, simply, for just being you.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· May 20

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture

The photo shows two black cats seemingly facing each other but actually staggered in placement on a light wood and glass coffee table. The closest one sits on a pile of books, the top of which is Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James (a great book). This is largely obscured by her butt and tail curling over it. She looks out of a window which is not in the frame of the photo, though its light pours in.

The farthest cat lies half on his side, paws loafed, in a shallow cardboard box full of (invisible) musical tools. He is not a musical tool, though he appears to be deep in the throes of an existential and/or identity crisis as he looks away from the window and into the room.

Behind the cats is a blue curtain with a million pulls from claws because these particular cats know how to open curtains to get to the windowsill where they watch and chatter at the local crow population.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Apr 28

Managed to get out for a walk today. Nothing else to report. I hope these photos bring you joy, just as the place brought me

A wood statue of a woman holding her belly with one hand and reaching up to the sky with the other. The sun shines down through the trees and lands in her hand.

The underside of tree leaves layered in sunlight and their own shadows. The clear blue sky can be glimpsed between.

Bluebells drooping between sleek green leaves, all nestled between two sheer mossy rockfaces.

The branches of a tree as viewed from its roots, reaching up towards the blue sky and shaded with bright green leaves.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Apr 8

Not so elegant now, eh?

Black cat (previously described as elegant) looming over a pillow, mouth wide open, tongue twist-lolling to one side, appearing goblin-like and quite unelegant

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Jul 26

Excuse me, that "thing" is a complex character: at times, a fresh and delightful sunflower (who resents your tone, btw); at others, a void.

The shadowed shape of a house cat (features indiscernible) looms towards the camera, dominating the frame. The feral beast (note: he is only feral when he wants pets, such as now) is silhouetted by barred beams of a streetlight pouring in between the blinds of the living room window, and a rainbow-lit keyboard (because the human inhabitants of the house are gay af).

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Jan 29

#fantasyindiesJanuary 28. Taru's goals shift from escapism to activism; Quincy's aren't quite so clear 29. See image: I have several, (including one that's almost exclusively NIN instrumentals) but here's 9 tracks from my 58 track "Write - General" playlist

Horizon of Memories - Bianca Ban (Eternal Eclipse)
Festival of Light - Audiomachine
The Outer Worlds Main Theme - Celestial Aeon Project
Awakening - Johannes Bornlof
Waltz for the Wicked - Eneide
Altostratus - Franz Gordon
History Maker (From Yuri!!! On Ice) - Celestial Aeon Project
The Antique Store - Johannes Bornlof
Something Familiar - Johannes Bornlof

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Jan 29

The Cogs Turn Quietly is about Shudean engineer Taru Aether Charsen finally getting what she's always wanted and, as a result, questioning everything she knows about the world. Amazing cover art courtesy of @felinefero.bsky.social It'll be out sometime this year, likely on RoyalRoad.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Jan 27

#fantasyindiesJanuary 24. Taru: oil and dust; Quincy: lemon and ginger tea, bergamot 25. (see images) 26. I work on one or two at a time but they're all part of a single series and are, therefore, liable to change according to one another 27. Air-carriage and air-omnibus. In Shude, anyway!

"Oh, Quincy," Lilyana sighed. "My entire reasoning behind keeping him with me was that my parents would be able to help with his upbringing but they... they simply refuse. If the problem can't be solved with hard discipline or emotional blackmail, they are at a loss."

Taru’s muscles shook as she lay on her back, her shoulders aching and furiously itching. She sobbed a curse as she shifted them, chest heaving with her stuttering breaths. It was unbearable. The pain was unbearable. She tried to pull in a deep breath, but her shuddering throat wouldn’t let her. She swallowed the emotion down, trying to shove it away, but it escaped through her eyes, hot on her skin as it ran, cold when it was gone.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Jan 23

#fantasyindiesJanuary 15. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 16. Taru would rather forget that other people have parents; Quincy would rather forget his own 17. I was a pantser, then I tried planning, now I do a mix of the two 18. (see images) 19. Scenes where each character has an ulterior motive

Quincy laughed quietly. “I have been busy, you see, with the ins and outs of learning my role.”
“You’ve been doing it on the quiet, then,” Winterbourne decided to interject. “The engineers I speak to on the regular say they’ve seen neither hide nor hair of you.” Quincy couldn’t help a sharp glance aside to his traitorous neighbour as he furiously formulated a reasonable excuse. He made sure to screw up his eyes in amusement to go with his subsequent chortle.
“Quite so, friend, quite so. I confess, I’ve yet to visit the terminal. I had some books delivered to the Manor and I’ve been reading quite avidly.”
Winterbourne narrowed his eyes and half-opened his half-hidden mouth.
“In any case,” Quincy began loudly, turning back to Petra, “my sincerest apologies for not letting you know sooner. I didn’t want to write you. I thought in person would be best.” He darted a quick and admonishing glare aside at Lilyana. “Though I knew in public would be worst.”

“Taru!” yelped Mary—a wiry custodian—from the front door. She hurried down the path as Taru awkwardly waved hello.
“A welcoming committee?” Enna muttered, sounding amused. “They must be hungry, eh?”
Taru chuckled and turned to say goodbye, but Mary grabbed her arm in a bruising grip.
“Come on, love, let’s get you in’t kitchen. Thanks for bringing her home, Sire Charsen! Safe journey! Did you get the meat? You’re a bit late, in’t you?”

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Jan 23

#fantasyindiesJanuary 7. Show don't tell 8. I don't watch TV or films sooo... 9. Taru would like to try leaving Shude; Quincy would like to try living 10. I get complimented on my descriptions 11. (see images) 12. 🐉⚙️💫🫖 13. The Chronicles of Narnia 14. Taru heals too quickly; Quincy's pain is psychic

William explained how the elevator worked as they descended through darkness, but Quincy would never remember. His breathing was coming fast and short and he was fighting not to succumb to panic as they plunged through such darkness that he couldn’t even see his hand in front of his face. The low drone of William’s voice, however, provided something else to focus on which Quincy sorely needed.
Then, suddenly, light. Glaring daylight.

Taru glanced past the pair of them to watch the kludde and Skye weaving in and out of the highly-decorated elders, play-fighting. The kludde was incredibly nimble, despite her size. More than once, Taru’s shoulders bunched, ready for a head-on collision with a trunk or the ground, but the kludde flitted around or changed direction quicker than Taru could.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Jan 22

4. Pride:

“I tell you,” Rovena began as the temporary trio’s heels tapped hollow, staggered noise on pied tiles, “the other nobles certainly noticed you were gone.”
As Quincy smiled proudly to himself, they passed glass doors in which each pane was a puddle, the muffled clinks of teacups and hum of conversation and laughter behind them growing louder and quieter as each one went by.
“I suppose there were plenty of chins wagging,” he said.
“Oh yes very much so!” Rovena’s sly sidewards glance had Quincy’s smile losing the fullness of pride. “At first, anyway.” At the top of a gently curling staircase was a curving mezzanine overlooking a tea garden with trickling fountains and gold faelights. “I’m afraid you were gone for so long that they have grown utterly bored of being without you and moved onto other, more interesting topics of conversation.”
“I was gone little over an accord,” Quincy complained.
“Quite so, old chum, quite so. You were gone for a ball, a masque, and a whole season of feastdays.”
Quincy tutted and rolled his hand through the air, saying, “Well, no matter. I suppose they simply have shorter attention spans than I expected,” while trying to smother the nugget of hurt that turned his tone petulant.

Taru stuffed it into her rucksack, then looked towards the giant trees. Any pride she’d felt from the nearly flawless descent and receiving her gift dissipated into the writhing mass of shadowy figures.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Jan 21

#queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

“Danger?” Enna laughed. “They’re no danger, Taru, they’re just bigots. Got gobs bigger than their fists, they have. Brains smaller than the top knuckles of their little toes, too. They’re no threat to no one except them-ruddy-selves.”

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Jan 20

#fantasyindiesJanuary Yeah I'm late to the game but time is a concept and this looks like fun, so I'm going to be cramming all my answers into the next few days because time may be a concept, but it's one I believe in and January is coming to an end.

1. Introduce yourself & WIP
2. A few books from your TBR
3. Free Friday or your/MC's hobbies
4. Saturday Snippet: Pride
5. Superstitions in WIP
6. MC sense of humour
7. Best & worst writing advice
8. WIP fancast
9. Something MC would like to try
10. Free Friday or your writing strengths
11. Saturday Snippet: Fight
12. Describe WIP using emojis
13. Favourite childhood books
14. Illness and injury in WIP
15. 2025 book releases your excited for
16. Things your characters would rather forget
17. Free Friday or are you a procrastinator or a planner
18. Saturday Snippet: funny
19. Favourite type of scenes to write
20. Religion or spirituality in WIP
21. WIP subgenres
22. Do your characters like to plan or make it up as they go?
23. How does your MC deal with confrontation?
24. Free Friday or what scents do you associate with your MC and/or WIP?
25. Saturday Snippet: emotional
26. How many WIPs do you work on at one time?
27. Travelling in WIP
28. MC Goals
29. WIP playlist
30. Preferred reading format
31. Monthly Wrap-up

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Jan 20

For those who don't know, Quietly is currently on hiatus due to data-scraping concerns. In the interest of getting it back up ASAP, I have just sent an email to the site I was posting it to, asking a few questions about their AI policies and toolkit.

Concerns about Artificial Intelligence Data-scraping and Protecting Your Creators

From: Emrys Francys (there is a photo of Emrys with one of their two black cats in the foreground)
To: feedback@tapas.io (and various other addresses)

Hello Tapas,

I am unsure which is the right place to send this, so I am copying in the addresses I've found related to the subject of my inquiry.

Some information on me: I have, previously, uploaded parts of my novel onto Tapas but, due to my concerns about this issue, I have taken it down until I am confident that my work will be protected.

Recently, AI data-scraping and deep learning have developed at a staggering and unwieldy rate. I and countless fellow creators have increasing concerns regarding its use. Tapas' Content and Community Guidelines state, "AI generated content is not allowed on Tapas". We commend this statement but we would also like to know:

1. What tools are you using to identify AI works?
2. How accurate are these tools?
3. How are you enforcing this rule?

Additionally, the security of intellectual properties hosted on your platform is (obviously) a priority to us and, we hope, to you. As such, we would also like to

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Additionally, the security of intellectual properties hosted on your platform is (obviously) a priority to us and, we hope, to you. As such, we would also like to know:

4. How are you protecting creators' work from data-scraping and deep-learning tools?
5. Do you utilise or promote technologies such as Glaze, Mist, or Nightshade to protect comics?
6. Do you have a statement anywhere on the site which prohibits data-scraping of written work?

Yours is a large platform, with a vast quantity of intellectual property stemming from a huge number of creators. The size of your platform means you have a big responsibility to protect your creators from IP theft. Any and all information that you can feasibly share with us regarding how you are working to do this would be greatly appreciated.

If this is the wrong place to send this email, and you cannot see the correct place in the list of recipient emails, please inform me of the address I need to send it to. Otherwise, if it would be quicker for you to forward it on, please feel free to do so.

Thank you for your time!

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 22

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

The image shows the book The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin, illustrated by Charles Vess. The cover image is an embossed line-art of a young person stood with a staff, looking up at a dragon who is coiling around the person and looking down at them. Well, it's more of a wyrm than a traditional western dragon, but it does have big wings and little legs.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 22

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

The image shows the book The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien, illustrated by Alan Lee. The cover image is a huge dragon sat on an even larger pile of gold. Spoiler, ig.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

The image shows the book Peter Darling by Austin Chant. The cover image shows illuminations of a open window with light streaming in hanging in the sky over a turbulent ocean in which there is a kraken-like creature to one side and a three-masted ship to the other. Over the kraken flies the silhouette of Peter Pan-esque figure, arms out to either side like a plane.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

The image shows the book Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo. There is a quote from Ali Smith that says, "Bernadine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life." The cover image is of a smiling, kind-featured older Black man in a well-fitting, plain three-piece suit. His waistcoat, by contrast, is jacquard and his tie is checkered. Hanging loose over the waistcoat is a medium-to-thick gold chain. The man's hat is narrow brimmed, with a ribbon running around the dome. Feathers jut out of the one side which is curled upwards. Behind the man is a brick wall.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 16

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 16 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

This images shows the spine of the book Moonstone by Sjón.

This image shows the front cover of Moonstone by Sjón, though it bears no text (hence me sharing a photo of the spine). Instead, all that is here is a calm beach on some kind of river or strait. On the far side is a steep, shadowy mountain, partially enshrouded in mist.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 15

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 15 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

The image shows the book Little Gay Reykjavík: Queer History and Anecdotes by Gudjón Ragnar Jónasson. The design of the cover is simple: the bottom half shows the title and the author against a blank background. The top half is a rainbow drawn with oil pastels or crayons.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 14

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 14 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

The image shows the book Literature as Exploration by Louise M. Rosenblatt with a foreword by Wayne Booth. The cover illustration shows some kind of abstract painting that the original poster cannot make heads nor tails of. There is what at first seems to be a marble statue, but upon closer inspection it's wearing grey trousers. In front of that, and in the middle of the image, is an easel with a technical sketch/illustration of the intersection of some buildings. It is all lines and no colour. On the other side of that is a shadowy archway and above that is... I don't even know how to put this without getting flagged... it looks like it is possibly something that one might find at the tip of the external primary sexual characteristic of a person for whom testosterone impacted the majority of their pubescent development. Or it could be the back of a bald person's head.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 13

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 13 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 12

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 12 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

The image shows the book The Fairy Queen (part 2) by Edmund Spenser. The cover shows a painting of a woman who, if she is not Elizabeth I, looks very much like her, with curls piled high upon her head as well as tumbling around her shoulders. She has a tall peacock-tail-shaped, stiff lace collar, pearl and ruby necklaces, and a quilted cape over one shoulder.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 11

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 11 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

The image shows the books Sebastian O by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell, published by Vertigo. The cover shows four figures: one large figure at the back reading a small book; another wearing a suit with a thigh-length overcoat and a bowtie, looking into the camera; a third sits in an armchair with a pipe, wearing a sport-style suit. The final figure stands front and centre, wearing a three-piece suit with a bow-tied cravat and a flower button-hole, hair styled in curtains, smoking a cigarette in a cigarette-holder, and holding a thin walking cane.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 9

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 10 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

The image shows the book The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin, published by Panther Science Fiction. A fake sticker says, "Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for the year's best S.F. novel".

The cover art shows a brutalist-esque structure - a palace or city - with lots of hard angles juxtaposed with gradual curves rising out of still water or, more likely, a lake of ice. The structure stands stark against a starry night's sky and a giant moon.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 8

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 9 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

The image shows a book containing two stories from Tales of Narnia by C.S.Lewis: Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The cover of the book shows a teenage boy with mid-length hair, dressed in fine velvet and jacquard clothes, a horn and a cloak, riding a horse as his cloak blows in the wind. He looks nervously to the side.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 8

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 8 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

The image shows a book called The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. It is noted that it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007, was an international bestseller (at time of print), and is thought to be 'Beautifully written... more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time' by Philip Pullman. The cover illustration is of a man looking out over a city skyline from within an archway. He wears long thin clothes, suited to a hot climate, and is holding sunglasses in his hand.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 6

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 7 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀

The image shows a book called The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. The tagline says "It's never too late to follow the dream" and there is a fake sticker with an endorsement from V.E. Schwab saying "Simply perfect".

The cover illustration is of a large, fancy brick house with a patina roof and a tall chimney. It sits atop a cliff, the underside of which has been worn away by the sea so that where the house sits at its peak hangs precariously over the water. In the gap between cliff and sea, the sun is sitting neatly on the horizon.

The top of the cliff is covered in grass, there are a couple of leafless trees, bending away from the house as if they have grown constantly blustered by strong winds. Between them and the house is a square car and a narrow drive. To the side of the house is a round pavillion.

Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ryaloren· Nov 5

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 6 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚👀