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Kate Cooper

@authorkatecooper.bsky.social
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Contemporary romance author ❤️ | Unapologetic book nerd 📚 | Living vicariously through fictional characters😎 | she/her Instagram: @authorkatecooper #amquerying my debut romance novel OVERCOMING 🚫DMs

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Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
First year university. Add in: 🥰 A not-so-secret crush 🙉 Housing that's never quiet, empty or drama-free 🫢 A drunken confession she can’t take back ❤️‍🩹 Her first sapphic date/dating disaster. All on an anxiety overloaded brain. Lucy’s fine. Stop asking. #BluePit #📖 #YA #Q #LGBT
Poster. Top image is of young woman with hands covering face. Text overlaid states: First year university, housemate drama, sapphic crushes, anxiety overwhelm.

Middle contains text: YA contemporary by Michelle Ogilvy. Fine Means Stop Asking.

Bottom image is of a group of friends all putting on a smile for a group photo. Overlaid text reads: A story about keeping yourself together, or at least convincing everyone you are.
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Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Dean and his girlfriend want to explore polyamory. Dean is not out as bisexual so it needs to be secret. 🤫 They just met a really cute, funny guy they both like a lot. 😍 The guy lives with Dean’s classmate, who is also crushing on Dean. 😰 Things are about to get messy. 🫣 #BluePit #📖 #NA #R #Q
Three images in foreground: man being silenced, woman with finger to  lips, and another man with cheesey grin. Words: The Great Throuple, NA Romance by Michelle Ogilvy. Background image is of three people's arms touching each other.
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#WIPSnips June 1 - loss Who doesn't love a little unrequited love (or so he thinks) in a fake relationship? #WIP #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts
It’s too easy to get lost in the lies and forget what’s real and what’s not.
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
1. fmc has an old stuffed rabbit with one button eye 2. mmc has an unexpected kid on the way 3. mmc's grandma is named Lois #CampRevPit #CampTrivia #CRPSirens
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
In my current WIP, FMC thinks MMC is still married for a majority of it, so every time they get close she pushes him away and runs in the opposite direction. #CRPSirens #CampRevPit
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Trying to figure out what my original thought was for a revision before I went down the rabbit hole of ideas🤪 #GifRevisions #CampRevPit #CRPSirens
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Does grandma meddling from beyond the grave count as a trope?😂 #CRPSirens #CampRevPit #TropeSunday
background: evergreen forest
image in middle: man kissing woman against wall
text: top - friends --> strangers --> lovers
right - second chance
bottom - white heart
left - forced proximity
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Kai and Georgia have been friends since they were babies. She spent more time at his grandma's house than at her own partly because they were best friends and partly because her parents were never home. #CRPSirens #CampRevPit
The main road through my hometown brings back memories from my childhood. All of them include Kai. The ice cream shop we always loved. My favorite bookstore where he would find a graphic novel and read while I browsed for hours or talked to the owner about what I’d been reading. The town square where we ran around during the town festivals.
Wind whips through my open windows as I make my way to Lois’s house on the outskirts of town. The long driveway makes me nostalgic for the old days when things were easier. The gravel crunches beneath my tires. I pass the spot where I wiped out on my bike and Kai carried me into the house when we were kids. The first tree I ever climbed. The trails through the woods we liked to run through.
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Georgia: runs away so no one can hurt her, ghosted Kai for a decade because she was in love with him and he was getting married Kai: doesn't tell Georgia he's divorced but continues to chase her because he's been in love with her since they were kids #CharacterFlaw #CampRevPit #CRPSirens
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
“Fine. Run away again. It’s what you’re good at.” #DialogueDrop #CampRevPit #CRPSirens
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Fun fact: the background image of the snippet is one I took at the house that inspired my setting! #CRPSirens #CRPBeemine #CampRevPit
A bingo sheet. The text reads: BeeMjne & Sirens Cabin Mixer Bingo: forced proximity, slow burn, found family, sunshine and grumpy, second chance romance, dysfunctional family, title is a pun, troubled but cute, secret relationship, insta love, historical not set in the UK, friends to lovers, partners in crime, one bed, enemies to lovers, fake dating 

X on forced proximity, slow burn, second chance romance, dysfunctional family, friends to loversbackground: sunset over lake
text: I didn’t fall in love with him all at once. It wasn’t love at first sight or whatever the kids are calling it these days. It happened slowly. So slowly, in fact, that I don’t think I even realized I loved him until the ring had already been purchased, the plans for his engagement to another woman set.
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
#CampRevPit
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a man in a suit and plaid shirt is waving his hand in front of a black curtain with #fallontonight written on it
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I always require some form of caffeine and music. Noise canceling headphones are a must a lot of the time if I want to really stay focused. My cat is usually nearby to judge me while I work too😂 #CRPSirens #CampRevPit
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Hi fellow #CRPSirens! I'm Kate & I write contemporary romance. My book, OVERCOMING, is currently in the trenches & I'm working on a new project that's friends ➡️ strangers ➡️ lovers. My intention is to set aside time specifically to work on this during #CampRevPit. Hoping to make some new friends too!
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
BOOK LOVERS x MILE HIGH 😠 reformed womanizer 🏀 sports romance 👩‍💻 career-driven FMC 🤫 secret relationship 💙 he falls first 💔 betrayal #PosterPit #W #R #A
Top image: basketball after swishing through hoop
bottom image: two hands connected by hooked pinkies

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workplace romance, he falls first, headstrong FMC, sports romance
Promise You'll Stay
She wants to be taken seriously. He wants to keep his bachelor lifestyle. Only one of them can get their way.
Now revising
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Elizabeth Sanders @e-sanders.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Alexis Sinclair is a feared hedge fund manager competing for partner in a boys’ club where image is everything, until she hires a charming escort to be her fake date to a high-stakes wedding and discovers the one thing she can’t quantify: love. #posterpit #q #r #a
Two pairs of sandy feet canoodling on a tropical beach
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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 18/04/2026
Can't wait for Franchaela in Bridgerton's fifth season? While you wait, shall I suggest my sapphic historical fantasy filled with family drama, dangerous magic, and so much yearning? 🌹 1908, Belle Époque, France 🔥 Slow-burn sapphic romance 🗝️ Cozy *and* Gothic #PosterPit #P #A #F #HF #LGBT
A poster, featuring an illustrated portrait of Aubeline de Sterraux from A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE. She is a white woman with brown hair tied in an intricate hairstyle. She wears a black dress with puffed sleeves and white earings. Aubeline is shown kneeling and praying, her head looking up.  The top of the poster is colored, and the bottom part is black and white, the two part being separated by a red stain reminiscent of blood.  The title of the book is in the center. Underneath is more text reading "A novel by Millie Abecassis," then a quote by April Yates reading "A gothic gem, rich with dread, desire, and a magic system as haunting as it is original."  Under the quote are the names of several characters, listed as if they were actors: Aubeline de Sterraux, Vinnie Anneton, Damarisse de Sterraux, and "unhinged dudes."  At the top are Cannes festival-style quotes reading "dangerous body-based magic" and "slow-burn sapphic romance."
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Gracie M. Lee || Writer @gracemawrtina.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
When a shared injury reluctantly brings a champion figure skater and NHL-bound hockey player together, they have to decide if their love for the ice outweighs their resentment for each other ⛸️🏒❤️‍🔥 #PosterPit #A #R #C #Q
Figure skater on the ice.
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Sheila Bliss @blissbooks.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Gilmore Girls x The Housemaid #W #T #A #PosterPit Veronica Sinclair has an idyllic life but when her vivacious daughter comes home from college sullen with bruises and an unsavory boyfriend Veronica’s immaculate life tarnishes and she learns getting down and dirty has its advantages
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Gracie M. Lee || Writer @gracemawrtina.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
DIRE BOUND XX THE BRIDGE KINGDOM After her brother passes away, an impulsive princess is forced to enter a deadly competition at Kingdom College, where she risks losing the two men she's come to care about... and her entire Kingdom ⚔️🌊 #PosterPit #F #RF #A #Q
Princess holding her arms in the air with green coloring surrounding the photo.
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Donna Ho @handle.invalid · 18/04/2026
IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED x THE INVOCATIONS When her missing lab partner turns up as a ghost begging for help, a prickly teen medium determined to ignore both the living and the dead is dragged back into a gift she’s spent years suppressing— #PosterPit #Q #SPF #P #T #YA
A shadowy figure in between tall trees is in the background. Two hands almost touching, one being translucent and double-exposed (meaning ghost) are in the for front. Title is: In Between.
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Sierra Janae (Farrare) | Fantasy Author @bysierrajanae.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
❤️‍🔥⚔️ THE WARRIOR & THE POET PRINCE ❤️‍🔥⚔️ Bound by vengeance & haunted by the sins of their lineages, the warrior, the poet prince & their unlikely ally are pulled into a dangerous attraction that defies their bloodlines, their oaths & the laws of the kingdoms they mean to save. #W #F #R #A #PosterPit
A book mockup titled "The Warrior & The Poet Prince." The top half features a black-and-white portrait of a warrior woman with intricate face markings, holding a shield and spear. Above her, text highlights tropes: "Forced Proximity," "Warrior x Protector," "M/F/M Romance," and "Dire Wolves." The center title uses a mix of bold white and blue script. The bottom half shows a close-up of hands holding a highly detailed, jeweled crown. A gold tagline reads "Three bloodlines. Two thrones. One forbidden bond," and the bottom text says "Querying Soon."
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Christine O. Adler @artsavestheworld18.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
When your family, society and the law are against you, falling in love is a lot more dangerous. You know you can’t change yourself. But can you learn to love yourself? With true historic characters and a fictional contemporary timeline. #PosterPit #Q #WF #H #C #R #DualTimeline #LGBTQ
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Natalie Sell @authornataliesell.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
CITY OF EXPIRATION Conform meets To Cage a Wild Bird With only a year left to live, Summit decides to take the fate of her child’s life into her own hands and leave the supposed utopia in search of a life the city claims cannot exist. #posterpit #W #SF #D #NA
A male and female silhouette with a futuristic city in the middle of the silhouettes. The title City of Expiration lies in the middle. This book is a 113,000-word dystopian romance novel featuring high-stakes survival, a corrupt government, found family, and a doomed romance. Written by Natalie Sell, this WIP will be queried soon.
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🦋💙🦋Dog mom🦋💙🦋 @bikediva.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
#PosterPit #W #C #A The predatory coach had escaped every town, every victim, and every consequence. Until this one. STAND UP AND HOLLER is a thriller about the reckoning that comes when he finally meets someone who makes sure he can't do it again.
Poster for Stand Up and Holler, a novel by Leslie Barber, presented by Elsie Press. A young female basketball player with long hair flying behind her looks upward with intensity, holding a basketball in a gym setting. The title appears in large gold and red retro lettering. Two laurel badge icons flank the author's name, labeled Contemporary Thriller and Predator Reckoning. The tagline at the bottom reads: Some men mistake a small town for a safe one.
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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
#posterpit #NA #southwesterngothic #spf #h #q #lgbt When a trans healer steals his mother's car and flees her cult, he picks up a hitchhiker who caught a meteorite: they roadtrip to a UFO festival. They’ll have to get there before his mother catches up and the cult reclaims its healer.
a poster of a desert at night, silhouettes of two men, one helping the other up a hill, the text reads Promisedland by Galen Bunting, the tagline reads A runaway, a hitchhiker, one car. the road to Roswell- and a cult chasing them down. southwestern gothic, lgbt+, 96k words, querying now.
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Victoria Lurie is querying @vic-and-twisted.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
SHE’S THE MAN x DAISY JONES & THE SIX Lolly Markham is lying to the nation, finishing her twin brother’s 1983 tour while he's secretly in rehab. When rehab fails, Lolly must choose: save her brother or save his legacy, even if the truth ruins both their lives. #Q #upmarket #A #NA #Posterpit
The blond frontman of a 1980s hair band stands in front of a mic, identity obscured by the words “a novel” written over his eyes in cursive, to advertise Victoria Lurie’s THE FRONTMAN, a book where a young woman pretends to be her rockstar twin brother on his tour so he can go to rehab without his fans or label knowing. When rehab doesn’t work, she must choose: save her brother and ruin both their lives, or keep lying to save his legacy. Original photo courtesy of Witch via The Guardian.
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Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
First year university. Add in: -A not-so-secret crush -Housing that's never quiet, empty or drama-free -A drunken confession she can’t take back -Her first sapphic date/dating disaster. All on an anxiety overloaded brain. Lucy’s fine. Stop asking. #PosterPit #Q #YA #C #LGBT
Poster. Top image is of young woman with hands covering face. Text overlaid states: First year university, housemate drama, sapphic crushes, anxiety overwhelm.

Middle contains text: YA contemporary by Michelle Ogilvy. Fine Means Stop Asking.

Bottom image is of a group of friends all putting on a smile for a group photo. Overlaid text reads: A story about keeping yourself together, or at least convincing everyone you are.
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Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Dean and his girlfriend want to explore polyamory, but Dean isn’t out as bisexual so it would be a terrible idea to choose the housemate of someone from Dean’s acting class as a third. Unless the housemate is really cute and funny and they both like him a lot… #PosterPit #Q #A #NA #R
Poster with image of three people dancing at the top. Text in the middle reads NA romance by Michelle Ogilvy. The Great Throuple. Image at bottom of a man being silenced with tagline: If their secret comes out, so does he.
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m 🌸 @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ten years after family tragedy ended their relationship, she reconnects with her ex at a family wedding and confronts the difference between loving a person and yearning for nostalgia when her insecurities are tested. #posterpit #a #r #q

None of This Was Real

Comp Titles
Every Summer After
Happy Place
How to Hide in Plain Sight

When her ex is at a family wedding, reopening old wounds might not be worth a second chance at happiness.
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL LIFE x MARLOWE BANKS, REDESIGNED 👩‍💻 workplace romance 😠 enemies to lovers 👫 close proximity 💚 mental health representation 📌Agent guide pinned! #PosterPit #Q #R #A
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contemporary romance, mental health rep, forced proximity, enemies to lovers
Overcoming
She's afraid to fly. He's afraid to fall. Together, they'll face their fears and uncover the truth.
Querying now
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Jade Mason @jademasonwrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
First article from my series, The Life That Didn’t Happen, is live!!! It’s all true, all authentically me, and may include some cringe and humor in it depending on the reader. #writingcommunity #writers #writesky open.substack.com/pub/jademaso...
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Many Shades of Jade
Green, lavender, white, black—I contain multitudes, and apparently, a full color palette
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Most anticipated is any book I get to read this summer when I have free time again! #RevPit #RevPitWaiting
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I write in far too many places to take pictures of all of them. My top 3 are usually my couch, my porch, and my favorite coffee shop. My couch usually involves my cat invading my space and making it difficult to type 😂 #RevPit #RevPitWaiting
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Is he a human? Is he a cat? Heck if I know! 😂 Bandit is an absolute menace and I love him to pieces❤️ #RevPitWaiting #RevPit
Cat sitting in a chair at the counter like a human
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
There's not a lot on this one, but I make a playlist for everything I write and add to it as I find songs that remind me of the story #RevPitWaiting #RevPit
screenshot of a playlist
GRAVE - Avery Anna
My First Heartbreak - Myles Smith
Into You - Ariana Grande
forever and a day - Abe Parker
Kiss & Tell A Phone - VOILÀ
Two - Sleeping At Last
Heaven - Maddie Zahm
Chasing Shadows - Alex Warren
Leave Me Alone - Karsen Veazey
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
One of my absolute favorites that came from my last round of revisions! #RevPitWaiting #RevPit
Orange background with couple kissing on the right beneath a basketball hoop with a basketball sitting by their feet

text: I never understood the difference, but now I do. You can love someone and survive without them. Being in love and being without them feels like dying a slow and painful death.
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Dual POV! Hadley is headstrong and very focused on her career and success. She's guarded and doesn't like letting people help her. Miles is ill-tempered and cocky, and he enjoys sleeping around and getting into fights. When he falls for Hadley, he falls hard. #RevPit #RevPitWaiting
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
My #RevPit submission in a nutshell: 🏀 sports romance 👩‍💻 career-driven FMC ⛹️‍♂️ womanizing star player 💙 he falls first 🤫 secret relationship #RevPitWaiting
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Middle school teacher by day, writer whenever I can make time. I live vicariously through books and spend a lot of time snuggling my cat 😸 #RevPitWaiting #RevPit
black and white cat with green eyes
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Threw together a quick graphic for my submission while I'm #RevPitWaiting! #RevPit #writesky #writingcommunity
Wood background with text on ripped paper (left to right, top to bottom)
Promise You'll Stay by Kate Cooper
sports romance
career driven FMC
reformed womanizer
he falls first
secret relationship

image on left: cover of Emily Henry's Book Lovers
image on right: cover of Liz Tomforde's Mile High
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
#RevPit submission ✅ First time I've entered anything like this. So excited!😊
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I love a good happy ending, and that's typically what I write. I wouldn't be opposed to writing tragedy mixed in with a happy ending though! #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
No physical injuries, but definitely psychological ones. Rowan has anxiety, particularly around flying. Charlie is scarred from being left at the altar. It's all from their past and they work to heal their psychological wounds throughout the story. #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Had to throw a few memes together for my WIP, in which Miles is a total moron no less than 50% of the time #W #A #R #UnhingedPit
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Abigail is Agented @abigailwadlington.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
SUPERNATURAL 13X16 (SCOOBYNATURAL) BUT MAKE IT GAY Small town secrets. Magical forests. Four friends. Maybe they’ll kiss?? 🏳️‍🌈 Scoobboard included below on what else to expect: #UnhingedPit #YA #LGBT #F #Q
Colorful collage of Scooby Doo faces with “autism”, “shaggy at 1% power”, “that’s sus”, “the gang?”, and “GAY!!!!” written over it
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