Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕

@restingdinoface.bsky.social

Bronto-queen, big cat, best-selling and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, When the Earth Was Green, Tyrant Lizard Queen (out October 27), and Megatooth. 🔞 she/they/it. Skreeonk. rileyblack.net

"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com

If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.

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"To you I am obscene, but to myself I simply am." - The Creature, Frankenstein (2025) This will be available as prints for Furrydelphia! And boy howdy holy fuck did it take me a while to finish. Thank you everyone for the words of encouragement along the way :')

I went to a university hospital to keep up my HRT. The experience was frustrating and demeaning, the endo staff in full gatekeeper mode. I set up a Planned Parenthood telehealth call to get HRT from them instead. Easy, quick, meds right to the pharmacy and yes I'll up my prog, thank you for asking.

Less than three months now until Tyrant Lizard Queen stomps your way! It’s a toxic yuri dinosaur tale founded in the latest science, depicting a cast of Cretaceous characters not often seen together, illustrated by the amazing @korybing.bsky.social. Something to sink your teeth into.

Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore

From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T. rex from hatching to adulthoodTyrannosaurus rex is a prehistoric celebrity. Exceeding 40 feet in length ...

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Goo morning, monsters. There’s nothing wrong with slow. Sliming, stretching, splorping, endurance can cover distance just as easily as a sprint. And those frantic runners need to rest sometimes, to recover and replenish. Keep creeping along. When they sleep, slow suddenly becomes so terribly fast.

For a recommendation— @restingdinoface.bsky.social’s “The Last Days of the Dinosaurs,” which is about the asteroid impact, but more importantly the life that grew out of the extinction, told in a series of narrative vignettes. The central metaphor has carried me through the past few years.

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books!"This is top-drawer science writing." —Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers th...

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This Thursday, 7:30pm Central Time: I'm told "Ghosts" will be the first piece of the night! Gender Fucked is offering livestreaming on their YouTube if you want to tune in! (I'd encourage you to still buy a ticket to support them even if the livestream is public on their YouTube)

Big Dyke Energy@azurebitch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Last year a trans playwright reached out and asked about doing a short 10-minute stage adaptation of my story "Ghosts" for a trans playwright festival in Chicago Turns out it'll be happening this August! www.genderfucked.org/trans-scribe...

Clearance Sale!!!!!! Large pride stegosaurus stickers are now only $4.00 These are the final days before extinction. What I have left: Agender Aromantic Asexual Bisexual Demigirl Deminonbinary Gay Genderfluid Genderqueer Intersex Lesbian Non-Binary Pansexual Polysexual Pride Rainbow Transgender