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🌈 sffh writer | new england🌲 → seongnam🇰🇷 | audhd | 💛🤍💜🖤 | 🖋️ Eat Them wip (27k of 90k goal, adult horror) LLL draft (102k EDITING!! adult sci-fi) LM wip (21k of 90k goal, adult fantasy) BUG wip (0k of 100k, coming soon I guess haha) 📚 |🚫AI🚫|

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
cat on a statue
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ursiday @ursiday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm so excited about the newly described Leopardus tilcayo #cats
Digital illustration of a Leopardus tilcayo with two images of the cat in profile and in a crouched pose
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
literally me writing a three-paragraph email in response to a one-line clarifying question from a friend about her WIP
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From LLLwip :) #writingcommunity #queerwriters #wipsnips
“Fuckers,” I mutter.

“Language,” says Rile.

“What are you, religious?”

“Yeah. Problem?”

“No.” I tear the wrapper on the second bar. “I saw the teeth downstairs. You’re okay with it?”

“Of course,” says Rile. “They belong to a friend.”

“Oh,” I say. “My condolences, then.”

“No, thank you.”

There’s a weird silence, and I’m haunted by the idea that this might be how other people feel when they talk to me. I try to remember what I was asking originally. “How did you link up with Stray?”
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Back to school. ❤️
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
finished LLLwip and sent chapter one to my critique partner! also went ahead and drafted up a query letter and synopsis as a way to step back and look at the project as a whole and I'm feeling pretty positive about it? now brainstorming my next novel :) #writingcommunity #queerwriters
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
not sure if this is "contradiction" but a recurring theme is how much of ourselves do we make vs how much is made by other people mentally and physically and emotionally? sort of nature/nurture but "nurture" is broadened to everyone who impacts us through life #writingcommunity #queerwriters
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
making good progress! just hit 94k on LLLwip and I can't believe how close I am to finishing this draft. 50 days ago I hadn't even conceived of this novel. suddenly I've got an entire world at my fingertips. writing is really like magic. #queerwriters #writingcommunity #amwriting
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“Artificial intelligence labs are in a new arms race to buy up millions of rare books, slicing them open, scanning the pages and pulping the remains — sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed on an industrial scale.”
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C. Lockheart @lockheartfiction.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
High risk... #WIPSnip I will give one context clue, this is Rollan. Have fun: - As he wobbled to his feet, he said, “I am far too cursed to die.”
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Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚 undead & thriving 🦇👻😱 @vampireantihero.com · 29/07/2026
High risk #WIPSnip game? Ooh, let's see... Such Sweet Sorrow: The living room would be a minefield for me; all of the nostalgia of my past mixing with the yearning and grief that came with my parents’ loss. 1/2
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Jessica (Ka) Burbank @kaburbank.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Re: AI companies buying old books in bulk and destroying them If you have info on this (or know someone who does) signal is kaburbank.77 I will protect your anonymity with my life
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 25/07/2026
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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questpit || next event: NOV 4th @questpit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Thank you all for an incredible #questpit on friday. We wanted to wait a moment to discuss this, but we have been witnessing an uptick in AI usage in our events. We want to state that this is strictly against the rules, and though we function on an honor rule basis— (1/3)
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
it's been a very good writing week for me! got about 12k words written even with my dad visiting, bringing my total up to 44k. I'm honestly so excited about LLLwip. my goal was to average 1k words per day and my current average is 1.6k, so I'm really proud of that. #writingcommunity #queerwriters
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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000's setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R
My Sweet Unbecoming
A forbidden gothic romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026Comps & Pitch
The Phantom of the Opera
Jane Eyre
Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another. 
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.Tropes
Forbidden Romance
High Society Match Making
European Setting
Slow Burn
Love VS Duty
Black Swan-esque Awakening 
Masquerade Ball
2000’s Setting
Obsessive yearning
Secret Lake Meetings
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Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
HAZELTHORN X YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES Portrait of a Fawn- a Gothic, YA Speculative Horror 🦌 #revpit 2026 Winner 🥀botanical eco horror 🥀bickering ghost hunters 🥀a haunted, forest-infested theater 🥀found family & dysfunctional families #Q #YA #H #S #Questpit
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A.B. Lane @ab-lane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
SWAN LAKE X CEMETERY BOYS All Jamie wants is to prove they belong in ballet. But when they grow close to a boy cursed to turn into a swan unless someone declares love for him, they must set ballet aside and dismantle the walls around their heart or watch him fly away forever #QuestPit #Q #YA #F
9 pictures in a square mood board. Upper left is a person in white shirt in a ballet position with their arms reaching toward a blue sky. Upper center is a white swan floating on a lake with its wings halfway folded in. Upper right is a show of ballet dancers in white tutus in the tendu position. Left middle is a masc ballet dancer in a dimly lit room in a lunge with one arm reaching behind. Middle center is a silhouette of a dancer jumping above a lake at sunset. Middle right is two ballet dancers on a dimly lit stage with a light behind them, one is lifting the other. Middle bottom is a picture of a dancer's feet in pointe shoes. Bottom center is two swans on a lake creating a heart shape with their necks. Bottom right is a close up shot of a pair of pink pointe shoes.
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Unruly flight risk Lyric is bound by medical debt to his sponsor. Along with childhood friend Y, now a perplexingly obedient corp soldier, he’s assigned to track down a killer. But the killer offers a tempting bargain: freedom in exchange for help with her revenge. #W #A #SF #lgbt #queer #questpit
title: LLL WIP
quote 1:  "“Let the record show,” I dictate, kicking my bike back into gear, “that everyone here was fully aware of my proclivity for absconding before we ever touched down on this planet.”"
topics: rage & revenge, trans + bi MC, autistic LI, romance with a messy history, bionics + gender dysphoria, corporate investor villain
meta data: genre: adult sci-fi, word count: 41k of 110k goal, vibes: chaotic, romance: unapologetically queer
quote 2:  "She opens a binder on the desk right in front of her. A physical copy. I have a covetous respect for her drama. “It’s been two years since your last successful job. The partner assigned to you described you, in her report, as intentionally difficult, frequently petulant, indifferent to hierarchy, insufficiently prepared, given to chasing booze and locals, and, I quote, a bit of a dick.”"
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Forced to work for his debt sponsor, unruly flight risk L is partnered with childhood friend Y, now a perplexingly obedient corp soldier, to track down an interplanetary killer. But the killer offers L a tempting deal: his freedom in exchange for help with her revenge. #W #A #SF #lgbtq #questpit 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
Mood board for LLL wip (adult sci-fi with a dose of queer romantic subplot) with various images of space, spaceships, a river, trees, two people being tender towards one another, a scalpel, an injection, pills, and sharks. quotes include:
"even luck like yours will run out eventually." - "I have a penchant for running away." "Yes, we're aware that you are prone to … flightiness." - "You're asking me to help you become a fugitive." - "You're a killer." "You're surrounded by killers. I can help you." "I don't believe you.' - "You're not a charity case. You're an investment." - "Do you actually care if you were my first kiss?" - "at least part of me is still human."

science fiction/fantasy, lgbtq, queer romance, trans MC, autistic LI :)
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lily is querying!📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ABOVE THE SEA AND SKY; GODKILLER x THE GRISHAVERSE x PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 🏴‍☠️ lesbian pirates; ❤️ slow burn; 🔥 elemental magic; 🫂 found (and lost) family; 👩🏻 female focused and character driven; “No place for mortals. So, I said, ‘I will no longer be mortal.’” #QuestPit #F #A #LGBT #Q
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bettebergeron.bsky.social @bettebergeron.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Happy #QuestPit Day #writingcommunity! Sharing my #agentsgude for THE SEA CURSER, an adult speculative novel. 🌲🌊 Nan arrived on Maine's remote Rose Bluff Island to unite with her half-sister. Will both survive The Creature’s curse… #Q #F #A #S #WF #amquerying #amwriting
Agent’s Guide for The Sea Curser by Bette Bergeron (Speculative/Adult, 84,000 words).

Background photo of angry waves over dark rocks.

Themes and Tropes: Closed-Setting, Folklore, Contemporary, Mythical Creatures, Loss & Reconciliation, Remote Island, Maine, Women’s Retreat, Ancient Curses

Pitch: Compelled by a mysterious invitation from Celofaye, who claims to be her half-sister, Nan agrees to meet during a retreat held at an idyllic Maine inn. As she struggles to navigate her relationship with Celofaye—and the back-stabbing antics of the retreat’s other women—a series of sinister events turns her focus to one of survival. When guests vanish, and a beast brutally attacks Celofaye, Nan learns of a cursed Creature of the sea intent on destroying them all. But the Creature is not the only one on the island who is cursed…
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el🦋 | drafting🌿 @thatfunkylilfey.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
a guide to MOTHLIGHT — an adult urban fantasy for fans of ARCANE, JOHN WICK, and SIX OF CROWS featuring; 🦋 a shapeshifter 🦋 a charming rogue 🦋 revenge + romance 🦋 dual pov [ #QuestPit ; #W ; #A ; #F ]
A Reader's Guide to MOTHLIGHT by @thatfunkylilfeyOverview

Ever since their sister’s death, Aeramis—a shapeshifter—has been aimless, moving through life in a haze. Then, six months ago while working on a contract for a group of rogues known as the Serpents, they discovered evidence leading them to believe their sister might still be alive. Since then, the shapeshifter has been on their own, following a path they know ends in blood. 

When Aeramis’ hunt leads them back to Bastien, the captain of the Serpents and a man willing to break his code for them, the two of them find that their paths may have been entwined from the start, unraveling secrets long since buried in the past. Contents

NB MC x Trans MMC
Dual POV
Memory Loss
Found Family
Breaking + Entering
Mutual Pining
Eerie Underground Forests
Urban Fantasy
Queer Normative World
Revenge
Grief
Identity + Belonging
Shapeshifting as a Metaphor for Gender Identity/ExpressionComps

Arcane: science x magic + morally ambiguous characters
The Cask of Amontillado: questionable conversations over wine + leading men to their deaths (literally)
John Wick: revenge in the name of those you love + revenge as a way to process grief/trauma
Monkey Man: revenge against corrupt leaders + revenge as a way to process grief/trauma
Thornhedge: twists on changeling + foundling lore
Six of Crows: banter + criminal pulling off impossible jobs
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M.K. Smith @maevewrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#W #A #D #SF #questpit Introducing my current work in progress, PROJECT WINTER
an agent’s guide to PROJECT WINTER

a dystopian work in progress by MK SmithTHE PITCH

Isaiah spends his days tending to the last garden on a frozen Earth, convinced that humanity’s endless winter is God’s divine judgment. 

When the Council announces that a crew of souls will be chosen to carry humanity to a new heaven among the stars, Isaiah believes he has found his divine purpose. But as he competes for a place aboard the sacred vessel, buried truths begin to surface, forcing him to question the future awaiting humanity and the faith that has shaped his entire life.THE COMPS & TROPES

Survival. Found Family. Queer MC. Rivals to Lovers. Secrets. Academy Setting. Deadly Trials. Social Hierarchy. Yearning.THE OPENING

“On the first day, God withdrew his Light.”

The brothers' voices rose as one, filling the vaulted chamber with a rhythm Isaiah had recognized since before he could read the sacred Texts himself. The words rolled through the cavernous sanctuary, echoing from steel columns and painted walls.

Isaiah bowed his head, but not before stealing a glance from beneath the shadow of his hood.
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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
Agents guide on a star background.
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Forced to work for his debt sponsor, unruly flight risk L is partnered with childhood friend Y, now a perplexingly obedient corp soldier, to track down an interplanetary killer. But the killer offers L a tempting deal: his freedom in exchange for help with her revenge. #W #A #SF #lgbtq #questpit 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
Mood board for LLL wip (adult sci-fi with a dose of queer romantic subplot) with various images of space, spaceships, a river, trees, two people being tender towards one another, a scalpel, an injection, pills, and sharks. quotes include:
"even luck like yours will run out eventually." - "I have a penchant for running away." "Yes, we're aware that you are prone to … flightiness." - "You're asking me to help you become a fugitive." - "You're a killer." "You're surrounded by killers. I can help you." "I don't believe you.' - "You're not a charity case. You're an investment." - "Do you actually care if you were my first kiss?" - "at least part of me is still human."

science fiction/fantasy, lgbtq, queer romance, trans MC, autistic LI :)
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Tereza Maze @terezamazura.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
📁 CASE FILE: GAMA // QUERYING 📌 Location: Post-apocalyptic Switzerland 👉🏼 When her brain chip starts failing, Anna must return to the scientific collective she fled, where trusting the mysterious stranger she saved may cost her the only thing she has left. Her sanity ☠️ #QuestPit #Q #A #RS #SFF
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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#Editors Heists, spice, and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to leave Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #R #SF
The first page of a pitch deck. A neon pink art deco border pulls words out of a romantic starry space background. This border and background repeat over the following images. The title page reads in art deco gold and neon pink: An editor's guide to -- Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel -- A Sci-fi Romance by Ellie Rhymer. Representation Christi Cardenas.Romantic pink and sci-fi neon and stars: Pitch. Good heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry.

Anora is the quick-thinking manager of an illegal casino, fleeing the assassination of her gang's boss with the hyperspace treasure maps thrust into her hands as he died.

Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler from the wrong side of the hyperspace lane with the only ship that can get Anora off Hecate IV before the emperor's relic-hunting space witches close a net around the planet.

The two bad-at-feelings bisexuals try to tamp down simmering, inconvenient attraction as they are forced to work together with the scrappy, tight-knit crew of the Helle Wanderer to survive in the criminal underworld and discover the secret at the end of the dangerous maps.

Their love story is a heist and they're stealing more than each other's hearts.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie RhymerRomantic neon pink and a starry background: Excerpt. “Those are pre-set…” Jayro warned as Anora toggled a series of switches at the nav computer and began actively moving data streams around the screen.
“Pre-set for scans for //stationary objects//. You pick out your nav programs like you pick out your paint schemes?”
Jayro felt annoyance rising up in him again. The cockpit was his domain. Never mind that he agreed with her about the deco. “It took Fish weeks to get those programs running!”
“Look, unless you want to meet an asteroid face to face, shut the hells up and let me work.” Anora frowned as she watched some data return from the program. “Call engineering.”
“Gladly.” Jayro opened the channel on his wrist communicator. 
“Yeah?” Fish’s voice responded.
“The new navigator is having trouble with her—” Jayro broke off as Anora grabbed his forearm and yanked his wrist in front of her own face, causing his chair to whirl towards her.
“What are your pre-sets accounting for?" [...]Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of a three book series). Scum and Villainy (TTRPG) (An image of a book cover with a spaceship flying towards a jumpgate). Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. #AnnoyanceToLovers #FoundFamily #QueerStories #DisasterBisexuals #ForcedProximity #Scoundrel4Scoundrel #NeverTellMeTheOdds #DualPOV. Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer.
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M.E. Ulleland @meulleland.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Betrayed by Blackcroft, Hawk hunts his former friend through the centuries to stop him from changing their timeline—but as lives are saved and wars dissolve, Hawk begins falling for the dangerous idea of Blackcroft's utopia. #Agentsguide #Querying #UpmarketFiction #SciFi #LitAgent
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M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
JANE LAWRENCExTHE EVERLASTING meet my queer horror romance disasters: worst nightmare to have ever lived x made him that way answered “to get to you” x asked “why do you need an angel” wrote x kept the letters prayed for you x dreamt of you died x not unless I say so #QuestPit #W #A #DR #H
background is a painting of two hands below reaching for a hand above on a dark background. foreground has two screenshots of social media posts. post over the two hands below reads: somebody matched my freak and we almost died by @jpbrammer. post over the hand above reads: “match my freak” match my tragedy. become doomed by the narrative with me by @nfjaay. 
background is painting of hands holding an open box with an eyeball in it, with dark background. foreground has three screenshots of tumblr posts. post 1: kind of fucked up that I can’t be the blood running through ur veins by @bleedingspiral. post 2: baby, no…the sex is great, I’m just worried about why your leitmotif starts playing in a minor key whenever we get down to it by @ foone. post 3: when I’m six feet underground the bugs in my body will dream of u by @cutevirgin. 
background is painting of a reaching hand in the dark. foreground has three screenshots of tumblr posts. post 1: other people’s emotions are deep and complex and beautiful but mine are proof that there is rot at the core of my being by @freakoutgirl. post 2: we can’t talk here contact me in my dream tonight by @vrtualdreamgirl. post 3: the consequences of my actions seem concerningly obsessed with me by @biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist.
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Stacey Nash @staceynashauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
BREATHER. 71K words. #YA #SF adventure. #q #amauerying #questpit #agentsguide When a disgraced scientist’s daughter discovers she can breathe her alien world’s toxic atmosphere, she becomes a feared mutation and must uncover the truth about her father’s failed expedition before she’s put down.
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Suzy A. Win @suzyawin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A martial artist must weave scarves for her brothers, and questions her existence when she discovers she's a creature she loathes and one a sorcerer seeks to experiment on—a destroyer of her homelands. 🦢 The Six Swans loose retelling 🇲🇲 Lethwei MC ⚔️ Ares-inspired ML 🧚and faes! #QuestPit #W #F #SFF
first- some star flowers
second - an extreme close up of a asian girl's face
third - bandaged wrapped around an arm
forth - geese flying from the water
fifth - a guy and a girl sitting together on a hill
sixth - a torso shot of a woman looking around
seventh - a girl with a flower crown
eighth - dirty bare feet
ninth - a head of a marble stature stuck in some vines
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Cursed with uncanny luck, asset and flight risk L is partnered with childhood crush Y to solve a massacre. Sick of violence, trapped by medical debt and Y’s perplexing obedience to corporate overlords, L’s only way out might be helping the killer in her vengeful rampage. #W #A #SF #lgbt #questpit
Mood board for questpit LLL wip with various images of space, spaceships, a river, trees, two people being tender towards one another, a scalpel, an injection, pills, and sharks. quotes include:
"even luck like yours will run out eventually." - "I have a penchant for running away." "Yes, we're aware that you are prone to … flightiness." - "You're asking me to help you become a fugitive." - "You're a killer." "You're surrounded by killers. I can help you." "I don't believe you.' - "You're not a charity case. You're an investment." - "Do you actually care if you were my first kiss?" - "at least part of me is still human."
science fiction/fantasy, lgbtq, queer romance, trans MC, autistic LI :)
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I honestly don't care for them. I don't mind a map at the beginning of a novel that really warrants it, but I actively dislike illustrations of the characters. I want the story to build the idea in my mind instead. #pretendpanel #writingcommunity
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Sometimes while writing LLL WIP I think “wait this is a future with space travel surely this mundane thing doesn’t exist anymore” but then I think about the real world and I’m like nah no one fixed that
Post from toottootthetefomstimmy reads: “turns out the only part of futuristic sci-fi movies that was fictional is that the robots would do the dishes so we could have time to make art. Instead AI makes our art while I still have to do the dishes.”
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
from Eat Them WIP, adult horror following a cohort of grad students in a spooky town. new kid Tiago is awfully cute and also definitely up to something … #wipsnips #writingcommunity
The bus wheezes on its way, and Tiago gives me a little wave akin to a salute. “You’re a cool dude, Leto,” he says. “See you around.” And away he clanks with his bags full of maybe photography equipment. I’ve forgotten to ask where he’s going.

I’m heading the other way, past the overgrown graveyard with its spindly iron fence and around the corner to the neighborhood where I grew up. The houses here huddle nervously together, the once-bright paint on their shingles now long faded and peeling away. Most of them have been divvied up into multi-family units, so that extra doors and porches are haphazardly stuck on here and there. Too many people’s junk crowds the little brown yards out front, and the half-paved driveways are stuffed with dirty vehicles.
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
quick question why tf isn't there a pinecone emoji
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
These two have been reunited for less than 24 hours and already getting up to some nonsense From new WIP, adult sci-fi :) #wipsnips #writingcommunity
“I’m not disobeying commands,” he mutters, and he keeps cinching the thick strap across his waist. “No one at any point said I can’t test out the contaminants we might find here.” He hesitates so briefly I almost miss it. “But they probably will if I ask for permission, so …”
“So you want me to play mad scientist with you as my test subject? Absolutely not. Get up from there.”
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
from Eat Them WIP (adult horror). sketchy pollution out in House. surely couldn't have anything to do with the literature society at the university. surely not. #WIPsnips #writingcommunity
We take Onyong through wooded trails to Red Cove Beach and end up sitting on a decrepit bench overlooking the sea, passing a cigarette back and forth. Further out is an old lighthouse, long disused, at the end of a stone pier. The maroon water below bubbles fretfully, leaving a pinkish froth on its surface. There’s some nutcase out there, at the base of the lighthouse, who keeps leaning over the pier as though looking into the depths. People do that sometimes — the fumes will mess your mind, get you kind of high. They’ll also drive you mad, eventually, if you’re not careful. Our grandmother died of it in her sixties; she was a proper pollution huffer.
We grew up here, with this view, this air, this sludgy, noxious beach. In the distance, the Beldam Bridge stretches the mile over into Briarwood. I ask Aster, “Does Harrowville have any big factories?”
She exhales smoke in a pungent cloud. “Hell no,” she says. “Wouldn’t want to fuck up the view from the university.” And then she laughs.
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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026
Disability Pride Month seemed a good time to do a; ♿Disabled ✍️Writers Thread! 🧵 @roselinbooks.bsky.social @wasphole.bsky.social @sadhbhgirl.bsky.social @debraguckenheimer.com @vincentlore.bsky.social @ferretlord.bsky.social @reyanth.bsky.social @leehulme.com @riengray.bsky.social (1/?)
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Blu (is querying soon!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
chapter 1 of new sci-fi wip😌 having a lot of fun with this one #WIPsnips #writingcommunity #sffwriters
Bullshit. “The program was dissolved a decade ago.”
“Yes and no. The experimental base was moved elsewhere for scientific conservation. Your old January facility continues to train acquisitions, albeit with more sufficient safety standards than were in place for your cohort.” She comes around the desk and leans back against it so she’s looking down at me. “Rather, I should say, they were continuing. The facility appears to be compromised.”
“Compromised,” I repeat. A ghost of the place flits through my mind: echo-filled training halls, air thick with wood polish and sweat and the clattering of weapons; steel and glass laboratories, needles and straps and screams; sun-kissed gardens and sweet red sap tea and kissing a boy behind the harbinger tree. “Good.”
“There are children there.”
I let out a bitter laugh. “And I’m sure their safety is your priority, is it?”
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Nel @wasphole.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
🧛‍♂️ A Gentleman's Tour of the Empire 🦇 Dr Edwards' bedside manner leaves a lot to be desired. #wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity
He held the door open, but rather than marching through it, the guard lingered, shuffling awkwardly from one foot to another.

“Listen, doctor, while we’re here… I have this rash…”

Dr Edwards groaned loudly and rolled his eyes, making the round-faced guard cringe. Men did this everywhere he went. Doctors were not as expensive as sorcerers, but his time still cost enough that people were always trying to get it for free. Anywhere they could corner him; be it a ballroom, the park, or even while he was trying to sip his brew in peace. Someone would always sidle over ready to slip their oozing, creaking ailments into conversation. Rebrand a ‘consultation’ as a ‘chat’ and magically the price dropped from a quarter-sovereign to nothing at all.

"Well? Where is it?" he snapped. The guard flushed and looked sheepish. "Of course it is. Fine! Fish it out then- let's get this over with!"
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I would kill or die for Larry
A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT
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