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Athena Kane @athenakane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

curious about the weird take on elves 👀

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Athena Kane @athenakane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i love SDG!! nice to see a comp to it

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Athena Kane @athenakane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Connections Puzzle #1186 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

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Athena Kane @athenakane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Btw I’m blocking every account who has liked James Tullos’s Tweets being homophobic about Tamsyn Muir. In that screenshot she literally calls her partner her “platonic soulmate” so yeah Y’all are unsafe

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

men have figured out a new dating technique and it's "less personal grooming" it's a bold strategy cotton let's see if it works out for them

"some men are skipping showers before dates to embrace a new trend called "pheromone-maxxing" hoping their natural scent will make them more attractive

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Athena Kane @athenakane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

What a strange bump under the comforter… perhaps it is a #Dune #worm

The comforter is lifted to reveal a white & orange kitten

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Athena Kane @athenakane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I really should not be surprised that you are homophobic as well as misogynistic. Anyways I have unsubscribed. Please look up lavender marriages and stop embarassing yourself

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

#DVpit is returning in 2026 on Bluesky! A bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities to pitch their unagented projects to agents and editors! #DVpit will be on Bluesky on Wednesday, September 30, 2026! go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info and stay tuned for more announcements!

#DVPit 2026 a bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities
Wednesday, September 30th 2026 on bluesky
follow us for more: @dvpit.bsky.social
or go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info

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Loren 🦇 FORMERLY CIRCUSLOLLIPOP @vesperanth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ANATHEMA x EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE A fledgling vampire. A dark forest. Vampires and monster hunters at each other's throats, and a sinister plot in the shadows. A story of finding community in a world that deems you an Other. #QuestPit #W #A #DF #LGBT

Title slide of my agent’s guide. A black powerpoint slide featuring a withered rose and a faded forest. Text reads The Night Terrors, by Loren Finch. An agent’s guide. 104k word gothic fantasy

Second slide of my agent’s guide. A black powerpoint slide featuring a withered rose and a faded forest. Features an illustration of a black haired vampire man looking quizzically towards the camera. The text is a synopsis of the book and a brief blurb about the main character.

Third slide of my agent’s guide. A black powerpoint slide featuring a withered rose and a faded forest. Features comparisons to many comp titles: The Spirit Bares its Teeth, Empire of the Vampire, Frankenstein 2025, Witch Hat Atelier, and Anathema.

Fourth slide of my agent’s guide. A black powerpoint slide featuring a withered rose and a faded forest. Features the opening lines to the first book.

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Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BIG 5 EDITOR INTEREST🤯 W4D MENTEE W/ BIG 5📝 SOMEONE U CAN BUILD A NEST IN x PIRANESI A cat is drowned by her owner. Reborn a human godling, she competes to ascend to godhood for revenge—till a rival reveals things only her owner could’ve known. #Questpit #A #YA #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC

Agents guide for GODCAT, dark fantasy/horror.

Premise as written in post, plus comps to piranesi, someone you can build a nest in, chainsaw man, and the eyes are the best part.

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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

AVATAR X THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS (with a dash of canabalism) 👽 The alien Glishnagh is lost on a distant planet. With only sign language to communicate, he must find a way home, but things get messy when the local humans discover his blood is addictive and psychoactive. #questpit #Q #A #SF #SFF

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Meet my MCs! ⬇️🧵 #litagents #writingcommunity #amquerying #writesky 1st: A Prince(ss) and His Royal Guard 84k MM romantasy Casper is - trans - cursed to die if he speaks against the throne - betrothed to a stranger Darrow is - an elf - cursed to watch Casper 24/7 - really into flowers

Man with round glasses and curly brown hair next to elf with brown skin and black hair wearing purple

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

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Gravitational Waves @kearseymorton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Free Puppies for Everyone: 49.9% Permanent Diarrhea for Everyone: 50.1%

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

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ak-writes.bsky.social @ak-writes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A court musician will do anything it takes to reclaim her inheritance, until a runaway princess and political instability force her to choose between love and revenge. 🦚 Semi-occupied India-inspired 🎻 String instruments 💔 Lover to enemies 👑 Court politics 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic #QueerPit #F #A

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Ossei Odontidae @filitadraws.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

THE ANGELS’ SUCCUBUS 🌈sapphic polyam Two angels are sent to investigate demonic activities, enlisting a succubus cam worker to help them navigate the digital world; but the veil keeping Hell locked away thins and soon they’ll be fighting more than just their growing feelings #Queerpit #A #PR #Q

moodboard composed of 9 images (left to right) image of an elevator signaling they are going to hell, silhouette of a woman under read light, blurry black and white photo of an angel, coffee in red, two women gazing into each other's eyes, a LED sign that says HELL, three hands linked by their pinkies, dark room illuminated by a red LED sign that says tattoo, a white feather floating in water.

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rihdara klay 📖 @rihdaraklay.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

a dystopian epic fantasy about an uprising against a fascist queen whose touch turns bodies into sugar, led by a grieving royal translator who finds solace in outlawed books 🍰 french revolution x THG x babel 🍰 politics, found family, love triangle 🍰 POC cast #queerpit #F #D #A

a four-picture moodboard with a red and pink theme. in the top left corner sits a two-tiered cake with cherries placed along its edges. in the top right corner is the bodice of a noble woman; her dress is made from red and white lace. in the bottom left corner is a woman holding a sword, standing on a beach with her back towards the audience. in the right bottom corner is the interior of a chapel in Versailles with white columns, arched windows, and frescos of various paintings.

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Harriet Ward @harrietward.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

FATHOMFOLK x NETTLE AND BONE A mermaid hunter is forced to choose between her family and the girl she loves after a curse turns her into a flesh-eating siren. 🐬 Sapphic Grumpy x Sunshine 🐬 Secret Identity 🐬 Complex Family Dynamics 🐬 Nautical Horror Elements #QuestPit #F #R #WIP #agentsguide #A

"Drag You Down
92k adult nautical fantasy
querying soon"
Set over art of a blonde siren with a deep purple tail. She's smiling, but her teeth are sharp.

Nautical Horror Elements
Secret Identity
Complex Family Dynamics
Sapphic Romance
Grumpy x Sunshine
Gray Morality
Protagonist, Love Interest, and Villain PoVs

* Cordelia is a mermaid hunter who is cursed to come back to life as a flesh-eating siren after she dies at sea.
* She falls in love with a kind siren named Selene and keeps her identity a secret.
* When her family tries to kill Selene, Cordelia reveals herself to beg for mercy.
* Her adoptive brother gives her an ultimatum: return to the family fold and he'll leave Selene alone, or refuse and watch him slaughter everyone she's come to love.

"It was a child.
She shouldn’t have recognized it as such. The fish were a threat to society no matter their age. Creatures so vicious could hardly even be called animals, let alone people. Yet when she saw those eyes, all she could think was child. The same age she had been when her world nearly ended. The petrified whimper that drifted over the waves sounded the same as hers. In that moment, time stopped, and the difference that stood out to her wasn’t the sleek silver tail, but this: when Cordelia was scared, the people she loved had stepped in to make sure she knew she wasn’t alone.
The tiny mer had no one to stand in between it and the crossbow bolt pointed between its eyes. There was only the tremble of Cordelia’s own treacherous hands, and the fleeting, impossible thought that crossed her mind.
Am I a murderer?"

Black text overlaid on a transparent gray background on top of a black and white image of the bottom of a pier.

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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Memento = John LeCarré's the Constant Gardener x Stig Larsson's the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with a sprinkle of David Grossman's More Than I love my Life #unhingedpit #w #cs #a #t #sp (for speculative) #f (for feminist)

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Athena Kane @athenakane.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Dorian's Guide on Surviving a Horrifying Sentient Labyrinth that Wants to Eat You: 👣 1. Be a 💙-collar butch lesbian 🧡🤍🩷 👣 2. Go on a holy pilgrimage to save ur family from poverty 👣 3. Oh Shit! The Labyrinth is Trying to Eat You!! 👣 4. ???? 👣 5. Profit??? #UnhingedPit #W #A #F #SF #SFF #LGBT

static.klipy.com

Cthulhu Illithids

ALT: Cthulhu Illithids

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Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

⚠️TRADE OFFER ⚠️ I get: your worship you get: the birth of the *GOD OF REVENGE* (+1 dead animal abuser) - a murdered black cat reborn as a godling & needs ur worship to ascend� (w big 5 editor interest + mentorship w another big 5👀) #unhingedpit #A #DF #F #H #YA #T #W #POC #DIS

The TRADE OFFER meme image. a man in a purple lit background.

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Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

psspspsp cute black cat🐈‍⬛ ➡️drowned by abusive owner☠️ ➡️reborn as godling in limbo🤯 ➡️ascends into god of revenge🔥 ➡️kills owner🔪 ➡️everyone's happy!!! 🎉🥳🎂🎈 (with big 5 editor interest + mentorship w another big five 👀) #unhingedpit #A #DF #F #H #YA #T #W #POC #DIS

a meme of a black cat stretching out into a noodle with wide yellow eyes.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/06/2026

If you look at Des’s face and think they look like a lovely human being, you are 100% correct. Absolute sweetheart who deserves none of this. None of them do.

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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜

Anathema: Spec from the Margins is now OPEN for submissions from June 20th to July 20th! We’re looking for speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by queer creators of color! We pay a professional SFWA rate! Check the link in bio for submission guidelines!

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Madelyn Knecht ✨🌈 @madelynknecht.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I don’t like the reemergence of the “if you’re homophobic, you’re gay!” It leans into gay as an insult. And some people are just bigoted, y’all.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈✨

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Ossei Odontidae @filitadraws.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

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ak-writes.bsky.social @ak-writes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

a sneak peak into what i've been working on this year! CANAL BOYS🌊 #YA #FantasyMystery #SouthAsian #WIP

A girl in a vest is speaking to a boy in a sweater. She is irritated. The background is the night sky with faint constellations. A snippet reads:

Lamplight from Severich Row’s estate houses winked ahead, casting long, sharp shadows like teeth, like jaws made of greed and very expensive Yeshnian light bulbs. Without hesitation, Nir dragged them in between, her lungs burning like they’d caught fire. Saints, she hadn’t sprinted like this in a long time, and that too with a sprained ankle. Suddenly, she was grateful for Runner’s presence. Not that she would ever admit it.

He crouched beside her now, panting as he massaged his shoulder. “Have you—ever—considered—” An unflattering wheeze interrupted his sentence and he paused to regain his breath. “Have you ever considered that there might be more than one way to do a thing?”

Nir frowned, fighting the urge to cross her arms. “Please don’t tell me you’re complaining. For Parwal’s sake, we’ve got the invitations.” She flapped the gold-edged pieces of stationary in her hand like a fan. So what if they were slightly crumpled? It would get them in the door without questions.

Runner stood to face her, one hand pinching the bridge of his nose. “You
knocked that poor man out cold. He’s going to wake up with a nasty bruise, probably terrified—”

“He’ll be fine,” she broke in. Nir should have expected this. Ajay
Runner— a stickler for the rules. Who’d have thought, except, you know, everyone.

“That,” Runner said, “is not the point. Seriously, Nir, have you got no conscience?”

“No, I suppose I don’t.” She winked. “But you can be mine.”

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Dear fellow Democrats: Stop worrying about everything that could go wrong. Stop wringing your hands over worst case scenarios. This doesn't make you look thoughtful. It makes you look weak. It makes you look small. Have some goddamn pride. Have the kind of confidence undecided voters want to see.

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Jeni Chappelle @jenichappelle.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Q5 Adult fantasy. I've seen a lot of people comp to this particular author, but this is the first time I've felt like the querier really *gets it,* and that has me excited. I don't see a lot in the query that points to that, but it's a solid QL. #RevPit #10Queries

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rihdara klay 📖 @rihdaraklay.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

a glimpse of what the #agentguide will look like for this WIP ... 10+ agents have shown interest so far for WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE, my dark academia "eat the rich" fantasy horror, and here's another sneak peak at what to expect when i start #querying ... #agents #editors

can i convince you to read my dark academia, eat the rich, fantasy horror work-in-progress WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE in three slides?

FOR FANS OF NINTH HOUSE AND IF WE WERE VILLAINS: a harvard freshman joins a club of pre-meds to harvest the organs of the elite with body magic, hunting down the billionaire who killed his father. but when prolonged use of the magic leads to demonia, he'll have to decide if vengeance is worth losing his humanity

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT: dark academia x body horror x STEM; south asian rep x bi4bi; vengeance, moral ambiguity, and guts galore

several snippets of the book here - too many characters for alt text but please let me know if you'd like me to send you anything here separately!

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My academic book, ‘JK Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic,’ is out September 2026. It is my analysis of the moral panic from Edinburgh, the ‘city of JK Rowling,’ where I study and work at JKR’s former university as it became a hub for anti-trans organizing … ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

ohiostatepress.org

J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic

Weaves the author’s lived experience as a trans woman with pop culture and media analysis to dissect J. K. Rowling’s emergence as an anti-trans activist within the context of the UK’s anti-trans moral...

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

screaming this line into the void: "Entirely too many writers—and a fair amount of readers—think that all you need is two-finger prep, a 'good girl' and a 'you take me so well' and you’re all set."

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Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

My agent's guide to GODCAT, a PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN fantasy/horror (with big 5 editor interest + an award)! I'm #amquerying in a few weeks, so if you've liked a pitch for this, expect mail soon 👀 And if you'd like to see it too, let me know! 🐈‍⬛🫀🐦‍⬛ #writingcommunity

An Agent's guide to GODCAT, by Azi Ossman. 81k Adult Dark Fantasy/Horror with Big 5 Editor interest + The Word's 2026 Editor-Writer Mentorship Finalist

Pitch: Marsh, a black cat, is drowned by her owner. Reborn as a human-shaped godling, she compets to ascend to godhood in limbo for revenge--until she meets another godling who reveals things only her owner could've known. For fans of: Piranesi, Someone you can build a nest in, H.P. Lovecraft, Severance, The Eyes are the Best Part, Chainsaw Man.

A moodboard with different black cats with glowing eyes in creepy settings, plus tropes including body horror, liminal spaces, revenge plot, unreliable narrator, cat/monster pov, hard magic system, deadly competition, narrative whiplash, messy friendship, depression rep.

First 250 words: I am six months old when my owner drowns me.
I think. It’s what the godservant explains to me. That I, a female juvenile black shorthair cat, die of asphyxiation by drowning at 2:53A.M. on Sunday, May 31st, 2015, in Poppyfield, Michigan, in a puddle formed in my owner’s front lawn by a recent flash flood.
But it’s not what I remember. I remember shaking, thrashing, screaming for the hands forcing me down to stop until the muddy water flooding into my lungs buys him my silence. That I have no strength anyway, a sack of bones in fur and some cracked keratin for claws grazing hairy, damp skin. That I’m going to die, and that as my life slips from me, so too does my pain.
Until I wake up again. I lie on the lawn once more, my neck still raw. The sun’s beams bleach everything around me, from the short dry grass to the house’s peeling white paint.
Except there is no peeling. Why do I know what peeling is?
The house stands as new as an office shirt before morning coffee. Why do I know what morning coffee is?
The building towers an extra story. A dog barks from somewhere within. He has no dogs.
I push off the grass, shaking away foggy drowsiness, but the blades prickle me. I assess my arms—flesh. Pinkish hands, like the ones that killed me.
I jolt. My spine doesn’t flex the way I remember. Panic courses through me.
“Do you want to become a god?”

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Loren 🦇 FORMERLY CIRCUSLOLLIPOP @vesperanth.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE x CRITICAL ROLE CAMPAIGN 4 In search of his banished uncle, a fledgling vampire journeys to a realm of eternal night, where he must solve a string of disappearances before the local vampires and monster hunters descend into all-out war. #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

💙MARTYR! x THE SHAPE OF WATER 💙 A young artist must figure out what draws—and keeps— her mother in the local pond to save her from the town's ostracization. But the water calls out to her, too... #questpit #q #a #u #f

An upmarket fantasy novel: Nymph's Pond
“My grandfather and my dad both, they wanted this place to become a café. Where people could chat and talk to a really, really nice scenery. Peaceful and quiet, with a little koi fish—” she made a little wave with her hand to indicate swimming fish. “And so I want to take up that dream where they left it off. I want to open the Worthington Gardens. And this place, I thought of calling Nymph’s Pond.”

The Pitch:
Damla needs the perfect portfolio to get into art school—and her mother would make the ideal subject. Only her mother refuses, escaping to the mayor’s pond, dwelling there despite the family not wanting her to. But what keeps her here?
How can Damla convince her mother to sit for her?
And what is it with the water that calls out to them both?

Snippet:
She decided to approach the figure.
The figure had a stillness to it that was familiar. But there was also an energy to it, one that Damla palpably felt like dew on her skin, if dew was covered in metal. When the figure saw Damla approach, it stood even straighter, opening its shoulders wide, as if bracing for whatever it thought Damla would do. She stopped then as well, by this point quite close to the pond’s edge, ahead of even Stella. She could slide into the pond’s surface since the water had receded quite the distance to gain the height that it did, but doing so — the thought of doing so — made her feel cold all over. And there was this wave, just above her head. She felt as if she’d stepped into a shadow.
“Tell me this is a dream,” Damla said.
The water told her no such thing. Of course it didn’t. The kind of reality that Damla wanted was only available for Jazmine. She got this instead. Something hard and stony settled inside of her. She couldn’t reach to hit it. Her throat locked up when she wanted to scream. The metallic dew on her face and neck made it hard to move. If this was the sublime, it was the ugliest shade of silver she’d ever seen.

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