you know in booktok when people say ‘*author* basically raised me’ ?? well i have that, but its kinda weird. obviously rick riordan, cause his books were the ones that made me realize how much i loved reading. then chris colfer, cause he’s a genius and when i read them for the first time i just fell for every single character. little me who loved disney movies loved tlos just as much. then there’s james riley, and that’s the weird thing. i never read one of his books completely. i read the first 100 pages of half upon a time but i never finished it. and i started story thieves but also dropped it. and somehow, still, i feel such a connection to his books and the way he writes. i used to reread story thieves all the time, but i have never read the end. never. and i have no idea why. i just dropped it every time.

This might be extremely niche but did anyone else read "Story Thieves" by James Riley? Because watching Across the Spiderverse, all I could think was that The Spot reminds me way too much of Nobody.

goddamn there's a movie coming out called Orion and the Dark?? a collective RIP to any fellow Story Thieves fans who will get excited seeing post titles and expecting Kid Twilight content

Series info:

Book 1 of Story Thieves

Book 2: The Stolen Chapter

Book 3: Secret Origins

Book 4: Pick the Plot

Book 5: Worlds Apart

old art of the timeless one !!! this book fully destroyed me :’D

for @james-riley-author !

Book poll round 2 #4

where it says 4 books its supposed to say 12 -_-

Character Aesthetic - Sgt. James "Gunner" Riley - WIP: Dead Embers

(he/him) 30s A bullheaded Scot who dislikes Fireflies isn't what one would expect in a PMC full of them, but he's spent over a decade shouldering rifles and as far as his boss is concerned there's nobody better to have at your back. He's a smartass and often difficult to read behind the mask but nobody's getting left behind. Not on his watch.

Group C Round 1

[image ID: the first image is of Sawamura Testuo, a man with short, light colored hair, wearing a suit and tie. he's holding a lit cigarette. a clocktower can be seen behind him. the second image is of Kid Twilight, a boy with purple hair in a purple and red superhero outfit, including a purple cape. a black mask covers his eyes. end ID]

Sawamura Testuo

Main character from a manga that no one should ever read and also everyone should read because he’s fantastic. Trans man living in 50’s Japan with a mysterious background who within like a chapter of meeting him burns down the other MC’s apartment to incentivize him to work with him and like, does not even try to hide it but succeeds anyway. Cannot be summed up there’s seriously no way I can do him justice here. He’s everything 

Kid Twilight

Story Thieves is a middlegrade book series about "what if fictional characters were real and we could visit them and give them existential crises about not being real?!". / Kid Twilight is a minor character from a comic book world the main characters visit. He's a snarky, orphaned sidekick to the mc's dad. he has abandonment issues but won't talk about his feelings. MC's dad forgot the guy existed. the author forgot the guy existed. the fandom forgot he existed... PLEASE PUT MY BOY IN HE DESERVES TO BE REMEMBERED- /lh nf

Just your friendly reminder that JAMES RILEY the AUTHER hiMSeLF declared that Ria is canon and that Cyrus is omnisexual AND has a crush on Fort.

Owen to Bethany, lying facedown on the bed, regretting everything: And then I called him dad

Christian, downstairs in the kitchen with Catherine, on the verge of tears: And then he called me dad :)

Did you know?

Shannon Messenger an James riley have the same publisher and used to have the same editor.

In fact they've met, before and shannon messenger acknowledges James riley in a lot of her books

Barry Trivers and Gerd Oswald dropping “The Conscience of the King” on December 8th of 1966, only to never elaborate on Tarsus IV and Kirk’s past there

I kind of want to reread Half Upon A Time before reading Once Upon Another Time, but that might just end up discouraging myself from reading it at all :/

Series info:

Book 1 of Half Upon a Time

Book 2: Twice Upon a Time

Book 3: Once Upon the End

FULLY forgot to share this… anyway for my besties who read “every second counts”, my revenge of magic fic, here’s a playlist of songs that remind me of my fic !!