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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable)

@rorymichaelson.com
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#1 Best smelling author of the LESSER KNOWN MONSTERS series. Queer, AuDHD chaos goblin. Fuck GenAI. They/them(bo). 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ rep: @inthesestones.bsky.social linktr.ee/rorymichaelson

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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 59m
👋 👋 👋
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 25/09/2026
I fear I’ve author-humoured so hard this does a full circle back into being not funny again.
The meme where that guy is looking at another woman on the street and his girlfriend looks annoyed but Rory Michaelson’s head is badly photoshopped onto the guy and they’re looking at a semicolon while their em dash girlfriend looks annoyed
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 21/09/2026
Actual image of me when someone’s long hair blows and touches my bare skin on public transport.
A creepy alien looking disgusted
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 13/09/2026
Life is hard so here I am, feeling pretty, cos why not?
Rory Michaelson shirtless and hairy posing a bit
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 26/08/2026
What first attracts rich and powerful figures deeply entrenched with corruption, sexual abuse, and discriminatory practices to putting crosshairs on vulnerable minorities to distract from their despicable conduct?
Mrs Merton holding a clipboard and smirking knowingly
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 21/08/2026
I may not have a book deal yet, but it’s #flexfriday and I’ve been working hard and feel good ☺️
Rory Michaelson flexing with no top on
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 19/08/2026
Me: “I’m an author” Also me:
A picture of Rory Michaelson with the caption ‘guess who’s on annual leave’
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 10/08/2026
Finally hit 1,000 ratings on Goodreads! Well, 999 because I decided long ago that I myself would be the 1,000th 🤣 If you haven’t read it, give it a go, it’s a good time and I’m sure it’ll make you smile 💚💚💚
Review of Rory’s book Lesser Known MonstersRory’s review of the book showing four stars and acknowledging it’s not perfect but they still love it and had fun writing it six years ago and reading it again recentlyA list of things Rory promises in the book including silly jokes, emotional relationships, and queer characters who are fully realised and grow
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 07/08/2026
Just finished two full months of six days a week at the gym including running my first 5k, so why not celebrate by doing flex Friday as a treat? Progress is slow, but I’m determined 😼
Rory Michaelson in red shorts flexing
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 07/08/2026
I’ve had a day to reflect and am now genuinely upset I was only 4 marks off being about to do one of my favourite vocal stims whenever I talked about this
SpongeBob with 74 gold stars
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 06/08/2026
My formal assessment results are back. Always with an A+
A formal rating scale for ADHD out of 100 with Rory scoring 78
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 02/08/2026
Me hitting 5k: “YEAH, LETS GO! LETS KEEP RUNNING FOREVERRR!” Me three seconds later going into cooldown: “oh no.”
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 12/07/2026
Doing my bit for the ‘block and never buy a book from them’ effort. Tell me you shouldn’t be writing marginalised characters without just saying it. Oh, comparing writing marginalised people with writing aliens or murderers? How fresh and dynamic, I’ve definitely never heard that before 🫩
Author on Threads lkderhake whose profile lists them as a spicy MM author asking (paraphrased) “do you think all books should only be written by owned voices? Like only LGBTQ people can write LGBTQ characters and only cat ladies can write cat ladies? Would that mean only murderers can writer murderers?”
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 12/07/2026
Rory Michaelson In a white vest and red shorts with the caption ‘hello in a lifeguard (I can’t swim)’
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 12/07/2026
If you’re worried I’m never publishing any more books again, don’t. I refuse to be defeated until I’ve published something with this line in it:
“We’re just normal men”
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 22/06/2026
Might as well have some nice chicken as we descent the slippery slope of total obliteration.
Selfie of Rory Michaelson with the writing ‘getting in a cheeky BBQ day before London is incinerated by the sun’
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 03/06/2026
This week is my three month anniversary since starting strength training at the gym 🥳 well…minus a month for some minor surgery then a holiday abroad 😅 I’m not sure about ‘progress’ or ‘gains’ physically, but I definitely have those in my wellbeing ☺️ (except for when I’m doing hack squats).
Rory Michaelson pictures side by side one after three months at the gym looking leaner and flexing
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 01/06/2026
Just had a little trim. Goodbye mullet, it was fun 😘🥰
Rory Michaelson  looking a bit tired with floppy hair
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 23/05/2026
Heatwave in London and I did about a thousand things today but didn’t get chance to do any writing 😭 There was ice cream tho.
Rory Michaelson posing
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 22/05/2026
Happy fat clock Friday
A fat clock (cogsworth)
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 19/05/2026
The autism test. I passed. www.idrlabs.com/final-fantas...
A test saying I’m 95% like Cloud Strife out of Final Fantasy Characters
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 16/05/2026
Forty one years old today
Rory Michaelson in a white top and glasses
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 16/05/2026
The creators of ‘The Night Manager’ TV series to every queer character:
Rulers giving the thumbs down for execution
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 15/05/2026
Been a little while since I did a thirst trap here but it’s my last day of being 40 so why not…
Rory Michaelson shirtless and hairy
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 11/05/2026
Hello 😏
Rory Michaelson with glasses on looking a bit cute with a beige top and green earring
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 08/05/2026
I too am a visual thinker and have chronic health conditions that limit my ability to write. I do not however use genAI to write, because I’m actually a writer and author and not an unimaginative theiving hack, and I actually aspire to continue to learn and grow. You do you though, I guess.
Cassiecarterauthor saying they use AI to write because they’re a visual reader with chronic health issues and gen AI is a powerful tool
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 08/05/2026
Hello
An email saying that the audiobook of the torn Earth is complete
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 08/05/2026
I’m begging y’all. This was dystopian nightmare fuel, not an instruction manual.
The TV show poster for ‘Years and Years’
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 07/05/2026
Can someone do one of those paintings that ages instead of me? I’m cool with turning into a ghoul provided I can have immortal life.
Rory Michaelson looking stressed with a caption saying 8 days TIL I turn 42 and I’m definitely not panicking about the years of my life falling away like grains of sand in an hourglass, you are.
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 01/05/2026
Same holiday destination, same me, one year apart. Started a bit of a health journey this year—which took a quick pause for some surgery and recovery but will getting be back on track starting next week. Turning 41 in a couple of weeks 💚
Side by side pictures of Rory one from 2025 and 2026, 2025 with blue shorts and 2026 lilac shorts, looking a little thinner in 2026
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 18/04/2026
29 hours of travel but I still arrive on holiday feeling cute, so I put in my Zoro earrings for the first time. NGL, I’m obsessed.
Rory Michaelson looking tired with three dangly gold earrings in a row
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 27/02/2026
Just a casual Friday off out for a walk
Rory Michaelson posing in a mirror again then time with a vest and glasses on
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 25/02/2026
It’s 19oC in London. Wrote 4,200 words of Gay sky pirates today.There was some booty boinking in a bathtub. Everybody clap, I’m going for a long walk then to have some rum.
Rory Michaelson walking through a park looking a bit sweaty
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 24/02/2026
Hello everyone, I’ve worked very hard today and been to a training session, hit my protein and excercise goals, and done some book stuff, and now I would like one (1) attention, please.
Rory Michaelson with glasses on showing their armpit a bit
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 23/02/2026
Did some HIIT, went to the supermarket, and am now writing. Just here to prove I live on, consider my quietness a deep breath in…
Rory Michaelson looking a bit tired and scruffy in a cardigan
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 14/02/2026
My valentines gift to myself 🥰
For the last few years I’ve struggled with the fact that time as my pseudonym, Rory Michaelson, felt much better than my life as [NAME]. It brought me freedom to really be myself, and felt less like putting on a costume and more like taking one off. 

Going into 2026, the answer feels strangely simple. 

I'm just going to be Rory Michaelson all the time, the time I have to spend as [NAME] is the costume.


Rory Michaelson in a green t shirt
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 07/02/2026
As someone who seems to have peaked looks-wise at age 40, I feel like I should send pics to my exes. Some of them out of spite and some of them just to be like HEY LOOK AT ME?! I know all of them dumped me for my personality (which is still terrible) but it’s fun that I look prettier with it now.
Rory Michaelson looking cute but a bit pale in a red top
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 03/02/2026
Guess who proofed 15 audiobook chapters today for the Torn Earth… 😜
Roy Michaelson looking a bit tired in a cardigan
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 30/01/2026
Got a soft mullet and wanted to make sure I could still trap thirsts.
Roy michaelson with a soft mullet wearing just a cardigan
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 27/01/2026
If anyone needs me I’ll be lingering in the doorway where the dramatic lighting is.
Rory Michaelson pouting in dramatic lighting
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 22/01/2026
Sky news joining the anti ND movement. Wanna know why ADHD ‘drug’ (yes careful not to say ‘medication’) use has rocketed? Because of improvement in diagnosis and more appropriate care. They even say at one point “not all ADHD counts as a disability.” Literal health disinformation. Disgusting.
Sky news articles around ADHD sacking why ADHD drug use has rocketed and how ADHD is changing the world of work
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 18/01/2026
I have arisen. Special thanks to antibiotics and steroids.
Rory Michaelson not quite as sick anymore in a vest pouting
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 17/01/2026
How I feel more than ten days into being sick:
Smaegol becoming Gollum saying he has forgot the taste of bread the sound of trees the softness of the wind and even his own name
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 14/01/2026
This guy is telling me I should get a mullet
Connor storrie with a soft mullet
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 09/01/2026
I am three goblins in a trenchcoat.
“What kind of enby are you?”
Options are all little cute drawings and include: fae shapeshifter, hivemind, sentient AI, goblin in three trench coats, androgynous prankster, shapesona, and ethereal mist
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 05/01/2026
Here I am 30 minutes before the nice picture when I got out of the shower just to give some context
Rory Michaelson looking scruffy with wet hair pouting
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 05/01/2026
Everybody stop! I look like this today, for literally no fucking reason. I feel so pretty 🥲 Okay, continue.
RoryMichaelson looking really nice fo some unknown reason with a jumper on
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 04/01/2026
I was getting ready for bed and brushed my hair into a full Quentin Coldwater and my fiancé could not look at me without laughing 😢
Quentin Coldwater with long floppy hair over one eye
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 04/01/2026
Since there’s a small chance I may be forming some new working partnerships in 2026, in just gonna leave this picture of different reasons why I’m great to work with right here in case anyone sees it…
A mature of Rory Michaelson surrounded by great things about working with them including what sort of books they write, their pronouns, their professionalism and ability to take feedback, their love of travel and learning, their tendency to make playlists of their books and read emails carefully, and that they’re very awkward so you’ll never be the most awkward person in the room again.
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Rory Michaelson (submitted and readable) @rorymichaelson.com · 04/01/2026
Oh no
Me incredible meme one looking happy that his butt already aches after his new glute workout the other looking traumatised in black and white realising how it will feel tomorrow
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