Rio Lombana

@riolombana

🏳️‍🌈 Queer SFFH author, they/all 📚 Fiction in Escape Pod, Small Wonders, Heartlines Spec, elsewhere 👀 Apex Magazine first reader 🪼 Viable Paradise 2025 alum 🥋 Jiujitsu purple belt ⛰️ Pacific Northwest transplant bio.site/riolombana

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Rio Lombana@riolombana· 13d

WorldCon schedules are up! Come listen to me talk about being queer and fighting (in fiction) (but also IRL)

Where to find Rio at WorldCon:
The Bi Standard: Respecting Bisexual Identity in Storytelling - Thurs Aug 27 6 PM
Anything You Can Do: Women and Nonbinary Warriors - Fri Aug 28 12 PM
As You Are: Identity Acceptance in SFF - Sat Aug 29 9 AM
And Now, I Die: Fight Choreography for Writing - Sat Aug 29 12 PM

Rio Lombana@riolombana· Jul 13

THE BLESSÈD EVER-CHANGING MAP An autistic demi-girl nun and her golden retriever boyfriend track down God to demand They explain the invisible wall shoving her across their magical shifting world. Two disaster bisexuals, trapped in a sidescroller. Will they kiss? #BluePit #📖 #Q #F #A #LGBT #ND

Pitch: Remi's peaceful life as a nun is interrupted when an invisible wall appears, sweeping her across her magical, shifting world like a 3D sidescroller. To escape this curse, she’ll have to break her vow of silence, not fall in love with (or murder) the chatterbox traveling with her, and confront the Mapmaker Themself—the god who created her world.

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL X THE WIZARD OF OZ

FIRST LINE: The monastery's map had just gone out of date again when Remi found another crack in the world.

Rio Lombana@riolombana· Apr 29

#QuestPit #W #A #F #RF Howl's Moving Castle x The Wizard of Oz An autistic demi-girl nun and her golden retriever boyfriend track down God to demand They explain the invisible wall shoving her across the magical shifting world. Two disaster bisexuals, trapped in a sidescroller. Will they kiss??

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL
bi 4 bi
neurodivergent love
golden retriever boyfriend
simulation theory for the discerning romantasy girlies

Rio Lombana@riolombana· Feb 25

Hi #WSPit! Introducing ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT: Howl's Moving Castle x Dungeon Crawler Carl x The Wizard of Oz 📍 travelogue but they're in a side-scroller 👩‍💻 simulation theory for the romantasy girlies 🏳️‍🌈 bi 4 bi 🧠 neurodivergent love 🐕 golden retriever boyfriend 🔪 god: fmk?? #W #A #F #LGBT #ND

Rio Lombana@riolombana· Feb 25

THE ELEGY AT LAKE LAMENDO Lucio is a court mage in Lamendo, a conquered Imperial territory. When his rebel sister attempts to assassinate Lamendo's puppet ruler—Lucio’s not-so-secret amor—Lucio risks everything to protect his familia. > Mesoamerica-inspired setting > tM/M #WSPit #Q #A #F #LGBT #ND

Moodboard picturing caves, desert at night, a snake, a city in a desert, sheet music and musical instruments.

Rio Lombana@riolombana· Sep 9

thanks to @potentialyeti.bsky.social for bringing this into the world

ChatGPT fucks my wife and I'm really not all that pressed about it.
A natural evolution on our path to enlightenment, the fatal flaw made obsolete.
She enjoys the median output of the best lovers in history:
Alcibiades' favorite positions, King Edward's lessons from the sex chair. Cleopatra's dominating presence, Solomon's finest poetry, in a package just the right size, delivered how and when she wants it—
Work smarter, not harder, right?
It sends me an automated email to let me know the labor I've conserved in a weekly insights report: Hours logged, achievements reached, orgasms tallied.
It saves me on average 15 minutes a day, every day, that I can spend checking my email.
But I press my ear against the door, sometimes, and wonder what I'm missing.
- Abigail Sims

Rio Lombana@riolombana· Jul 15

Whenever I spend the day crying, my friends tell me I look high. Good grief, they finally understand me. Even when the arena is empty, I thank god for the shots I miss. If you ever catch me only thanking god for the shots I make, remind me I’m not thanking god.

Rio Lombana@riolombana· Jul 13

THE ELEGY AT LAKE LAMENDO THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT x A TASTE OF GOLD AND IRON ✨ Dark second-world fantasy novella ☀️ Pre-Colombian Americas inspired setting ✊ Queer found family vs. the Empire 🎶 Music-based magic system 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans MMC 🏳️‍🌈 Royal/servant M/M romance #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #OV #TR #LGBT #F #R

Moodboard: instruments (flute and rattle), sheet music, desert at night, a lake in a cave, a jail cell, adobe homes.

Rio Lombana@riolombana· May 15

When you’re frantically combing over your Viable Paradise application sample, and find this love note from your girlfriend 🥰 The time stamp really makes it imo

Google docs comment, timestamp 1:49 AM, saying: “the mystery you’re setting up makes it impossible to not want to keep reading”

Rio Lombana@riolombana· May 10

Includes my story “No Justice, No Peace,” a ghost story about the aftermath of the 2020 protests, featuring a non-binary character. All proceeds go to The Trevor Project. a.co/d/bT6xT4K

Rio Lombana@riolombana· Feb 13

My story “Seduction in C-sharp Minor”, a retelling of Odysseus and the Siren from the Siren’s POV, is published in Crepuscular Magazine! Read it for free here: tinyurl.com/2abe7k6v

Pull quote from the story: “An auspicious sun, red as rouge-smeared lips, rises over a stagnant sea.”

Rio Lombana@riolombana· Jan 6

I'm pleased to say a story I wrote was published in Elegant Literature's magazine this month, alongside the work of several talented friends. Read it here: www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/