🤍Rayne🤍

Hi there! I’m Rayne and I love to write fiction. Ask and tag game friendly!

Welcome to The Circus:

In March 2026, I started a new project: a standalone set in 1800s Europe where the poor perform in a circus designed to entertain the rich. It follows Colette de Castillon, a girl born into a rich family sold by her father after he gambles away his life fortune. In The Circus, she meets Valerie Loveday, a girl who’s been there longer than anyone else has ever survived. It follows a desperate fight by a girl who knows she deserves better and a girl who only knows how to survive, not to live, and their ensuing escape… but the longest anyone has ever escaped for was thirteen days.

This story is a romance, focused on themes of learning to love in a broken world and finding light when you only knew darkness. I love these two girls with all my heart, but I will be torturing them beyond what is holy.

So… welcome to The Circus. All is Hell.

tags: #welcome to the circus #colette de castillon #valerie loveday

total word count = 18,338

The Zavaryan trilogy:

Since February 2024 I have been working on a trilogy, with three books entitled The Twelve Blessings, The Twelve Curses, and The Thirteenth Star. At its heart, it is a story about humanity, and four broken children trying to do right in a world that constantly wrongs them. That world is called Zavarya, created by the Twelve Zodiacs, and it’s been breaking long before my characters have been able to get their hands on it… whether to help it or pull it apart further, they’re not quite sure.

This trilogy has stolen my heart because it’s a fusion of all my favourite themes: found family, corruption of power, and the nature of humanity versus the divine. I love to yap about it so please ask me questions if you have any 🫶

tags: #the twelve blessings #the twelve curses #the thirteenth star #parker odysya #roksi swyls #harlyn #zebedav #quincey quetzytav

total word count = 242,926

Left for Dead:

In September 2022, I began a standalone book about a dystopian world in which boys are taken to learn to fight to protect the government, who retreated into a house when the apocalypse started, never to be seen again. The main protagonist Levi Ansel earns his status as a guard after thirteen gruelling years, but finds there’s more to the house than what people say, and begins to wonder if the government are hiding secrets rather than protecting their safety.

I unfortunately lost the document to this project in 2023 and only have a couple of printed pages. I don’t usually post about it on tumblr and I’m slightly too heartbroken to go back and rewrite it, but I’m still open to answering questions if anyone has any!

total word count (was) = 82,613

About me!

I’m from England

My favourite animals are dogs and okapis

My favourite colours are pink and purple

I play bass guitar (favourite bass lines to play are Soul to Squeeze by the RHCP, Sweet Child of Mine by Guns N Roses, and Hysteria by Muse)

I adore Ancient history and literature. At any given opportunity I will geek out over the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid. Some Greek theatre I’ve read includes Frogs, Bacchae, and the three Theban Plays.

My favourite books are The Grace Year, All for the Game series, Lord of the Flies, Lord of the Rings, Six of Crows, and the Song of Achilles.

My favourite video games are Legend of Zelda, In Stars and Time, Stardew Valley, and Hades.

My favourite music artists are Frank Turner, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Three Days Grace, Paramore, The Lottery Winners, Halestorm, PVRIS, YUNGBLUD, Sleeping With Sirens, Palaye Royale, McFly, All Time Low, Citizen Soldier, Sleep Token, The Rasmus, and Icon for Hire.

Other random things I like include Shoot from the Hip, Epic: the musical, and playing board games (favourite is Destinies).

i have had this sitting in my drafts since march 14th and just never posted it, so remedying that now. i was tagged by @cat-esper and my word was penumbra! :D

P - Perhaps those filthy actors were like me, human and ruined, but they promised I could turn to the Zodiacs and they’d make me clean, make me valuable.

E - Even as thunder sings its melody overhead, I trace the name on the gravestone again and again, skin soft against derelict cracks and overgrown moss.

N - “No one has ever gotten better by giving up on themself. So don’t give up. Not on yourself, not on us, not on… not on me.”

U - Useless, she said, but even the bluntest sword could provide a heavy-enough blow in a crisis.

M - My name and the broken promises it holds are torn ropes around my wrists, frayed and rough and binding.

B - “Besides, it isn’t always a bad thing to remember your past. There’s solace to be found in the suffering, always.”

R - Rain has turned his long hair limp, tied in dark bunches down his back, but the distant lantern-light of the worshippers’ flames casts a gilded glow across his tanned skin.

A - A flash of iridescent silver among the spilled rain begs my attention.

i’ll tag @purple-dinosaur27 @inedibleparchment @askyaphelion @asterrwritess @writingwithpen

if you want to participate, your new word will be… absolute!

have a wonderful day everyone 🩷

they’re tied together by the same trauma and childhood promises but have they ever actually been allowed the space to grow past each other? and when the pain of the journey does inevitably change them, and they look into each other’s eyes and see a person they hardly recognise, can you blame them for feeling hate?

what would happen if they met later on… forget love, forget friendship, forget loyalty; would they even like each other?

Do your characters call each other any nicknames?

hello!! i love this question, thank you so much for asking! unfortunately i don’t use nicknames a whole lot, but here’s what i do use

parker usually shortens roksi to ‘roks’ and quincey to ‘quince’. they feel very vulnerable and childish the first time they do it for each, but in a way they kind of like that it’s childish because it’s a small way they’re able to reclaim some of the innocence they lost in childhood. both girls love when they use those nicknames.

roksi is hardly ever caught using someone’s real name. parker is ‘four eyes’ ‘star kid’ ‘curly’ etc. harlyn is ‘red’ or ‘darling’ and quincey is ‘flower’ or ‘sunbeam’. she only ever tends to use real names in serious situations, of which she tries her very best to ignore and make light-hearted again, but if you hear roksi say your real name then you know something is seriously wrong

harlyn calls everyone by their last name by default. at the point the story starts, she is on a first name basis with quincey. she switches to saying roksi about halfway through the story. the first time she says parker is towards the very end. no one ever lives down the high of harlyn saying your first name for the first time

quincey hardly ever uses nicknames as she recognises the respect and importance a name can hold. however, she does call harlyn ‘harley’ due to an inside joke (they were both crying so hard the first time they exchanged names that quincey misheard her and it’s been harley ever since). if anyone else calls harlyn harley they’d better start praying for salvation right that moment, but quincey can do it all she likes

for the circus girls, aside from calling her a rat upon first meeting, colette never uses a nickname for valerie. she loves her name too much and sees it as an honour to be able to say it as valerie doesn’t share her real name with many people. she likes savouring all the syllables as she says it slowly and it fills her with pride every time

valerie calls colette ‘sunshine’ sometimes. colette is the closest taste she’s had of sun for years, after all. however, she’s mostly the same, and uses her full first name as a sign of care and respect and love. valerie will never say colette’s last name though, as she hates her family and everything the name stands for. colette admires valerie all the more for it.

besides valerie would much rather imagine colette with her last name but that’s irrelevant-

I saw your post about Eurovision and I can’t believe I forgot to ask you: What’re your favorite songs?!?!!?

(I’d also like to say that Britain was fire this year)

hii and THANK YOU someone who likes Britain!!

my favourite was Romania’s by far, I’ve literally been listening to it on repeat I love it so much. This year was actually the first time I thought screw it and spent my money on votes just for them, lol. They would have been amazing winners but I’m glad they came third, they deserve it

It’s up there with Hurricane and Veronika from 2024 and Jezebel from 2022 as my top favourite Eurovision songs

To be honest I ranked this year’s songs as they went in the final so I might just copy my full ranking below, under the cut though cause it’s probably long

Did you watch the competition then? What are your favourites? and hope you’re having a good day <3

another stunning piece of art made by @ren-the-fae … roksi and harlyn in all their glory

something i love about rosewater as a couple is that they’re not necessarily perfect for each other; i don’t believe in the concept of soulmates and i believe that ‘true’ love is simply a person whom you can find respite and happiness with. they’re not ‘made for each other’ by any means whatsoever but they still love each other and find paths to healing in each other.

the masks on roksi’s side and the nooses on harlyn’s are such a perfect detail representing their biggest fears in life, but i’m interpreting the art to represent that they can still find this safety away from it all in each other’s care.