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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From LLLwip, adult sci-fi with queer romance ✨now querying✨😃😃😃 but it’s gonna be a WIP until someone pries it out of my itchy edit-y fingers lol #wipsnips #queerwriters

The mock nature around us is off-putting. It’s too silent, I realize. There are no insects, no birds, no rustling breeze. We’re the only fauna here, our seven bodies filtering recycled air, soggy hearts pumping away. Raon stands close to me. My pulse fills my ears. It’s all much, much too still, and my body is a riot by comparison.

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

went with "disable" :) has the same vibe in this context, I think from LLLwip, adult sci-fi #writingcommunity #wipsnips #queerwriters

The screen flickers and resets. Then a new message comes up: <Lyric, are you fucking serious right now?>
As a general rule, Shen doesn’t swear. Something about it is immensely satisfying.
“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.”
<How did you disable the tech?>
Is he trying to distract me, or is he not suspicious of Raon yet? “A little tactic I call making friends,” I send back. “Also how I got a bike and supplies. You should try it, darling.” I’m being such a dick. It’s either that, or panic.
<Lyric, don’t be stupid. You’re going to get yourself killed.>

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

went with "two" instead from LLLwip, adult sci-fi with queer romance :) #writingcommunity #wipsnips

And then: <You know I’m going to catch up. Just wait wherever you are. I’ll come find you.>
I can’t even tell if this is a threat or if he’s trying to express concern. I fumble for the tablet and switch the whole damn thing off. Then I remember Silver or Stray might try to contact me and switch it back on. My thoughts are scattered in every direction. I’m definitely not on any kind of trail anymore. There’s radio silence for a while, and I glide through the dark wilderness, rain pattering around me, foliage brushing my sides, snakes watching curiously from their cool, soggy outcroppings. A strange, beautiful, alien world that I should have belonged to.
Finally, as the night starts creeping toward early twilight, I get a message from Stray: <Silver says you’re closing in. Is it still lucky if I give you some directions? Not to interfere with your process, but you’re gonna go over a ravine in about two minutes.>

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Blu (is writing✨) @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 writing✨) @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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Blu (is writing✨) @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 writing✨) @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 writing✨) @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 writing✨) @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 writing✨) @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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Blu (is writing✨) @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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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

this book has one of the most unique character dynamics I’ve ever read. don’t miss out!! #booksky 💙📚 #fantasy #retelling #greekmythology 🪐📚 🌈📚

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

upcoming titles for your #tbr I’ve had the pleasure of receiving ARCs of as well, to add some more variety! Fantasy, horror, paranormal, and literary here :) #pride #booksky #queerbooks #diversebooks 💙📚🪐 🩸📚 #fantsybooks #horrorbooks #bookrecs

Lessons in Magic and disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
The mercy makers by Tessa gratton
The ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery by Clarence a. Haynes
Palaver by Bryan Washington
Herculine by Grace Byron
The good vampire’s guide to blood and boyfriends by Jamie d’amato

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

happy #pride!! here are some of my favorite queer books :) most of them I read this year, though I snuck in a few older favorites #queerbooks #bookrecs #booksky

An unkindness of ghosts by rivers Solomon
Harrow the ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The spear cuts through water by Simon Jimenez
The song of Achilles by Madeline miller

hell followed with us by Andrew Joseph white
What moves the dead by t. Kingfisher
A psalm for the wild-built by Becky chambers
Cemetery boys by Aiden Thomas

These burning stars by Bethany Jacobs
Love after the end anthology
The see by Chana porter
Flight of the fallen by Hana Lee

Someone you can build a nest in by John Wiswell
A master of djinn by p. Djeli Clark
What the woods took by Courtney Gould
The tainted cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

mini book haul🤩 José Esteban Muñoz’s work has had a huge impact on the way I understand queerness and I’m so excited for Amplitudes. Forest Euphoria popped up as a “related read” and it’s giving Staying with the Trouble vibes so I had to grab it😌 #amplitudes #foresteuphoria #queerbooks #bookrecs

Amplitudes: stories of queer and trans futurity edited by Lee Mandelo

Forest euphoria: the abounding queerness of nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

you ever read anything so good you despair of writing anything worth reading yourself #booksky #bookcommunity #bookrecommendation #luminous #silviapark

Cover art of Luminous by Silvia Park. A colorful, mosaic tiger paces atop a mountain divided by two different shades of green against a strong purple background.

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Grad student Leto remembers his life all wrong. When bodies start piling up—including his own—his investigation leads him to a secret society that abuses an ancient power for financial gain. That power has a voice, and it speaks to Leto: some people deserve to be eaten. #questpit #a #f #h #lgbt #w

Mood board with images including dead flowers, books with tea, a girl in a mirror, and hands cupped around a candle

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

a strangely accurate description of how the romance in ETwip is going #writingcommunity #amwriting #queerwriters #horrorwriters

Janet from the Good Place saying “love isn’t a triangle. It’s a five dimensional blob, so …”

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

um how cool is this cover can’t wait to read the spookies inside from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social

Cover of The Skull & Laurel. It depicts a black buffalo (?) with golden eyes and horns, swirls of neon-pastel smoke billowing from its mouth against a black background

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I mean, this is what’s going on right in front of my reading couch:

chaotic photo of two dogs and three cats being rambunctious and very distracting

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

if WIPs you gave up on ages ago could text

Message from 4/24/14 reads “you shouldn’t waste your time with a loser like me” followed by message from 5/27/14 reads “or should u”

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It’s “goo time” hahaha … ha ha From ETwip🫀📚🪐 Went from “whim” to “without thinking” on this one #wipsnips #sffh #queerwriters #writingcommunity

Excerpt from my fantasy horror book ETwip:

“It’s the same stuff.” Without thinking, I reach for your wrist, meaning to show you that the pearly, sinewy string of the friendship bracelet is exactly the same as the longer strands of goo laced along the wall like the web of a talentless spider. But I’ve forgotten how you reacted before, and this time you’re even quicker. You snatch my wrist before I can make contact and your forearm snaps tight against my triceps, effectively arm-barring me straight into the goo.

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

(forgot about this for like a week haha WHOOPS) Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 10/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #amreading #photographer #DidierLefèvre

The Photographer by Didier Lefèvre and Emmanuel Guibert

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

this is the first novel I’m writing that’s both fantastical AND contemporary so text messages are a fun addition to the cosmic horror happening in this town #wipsnips #writingcommunity #queerwriters

(Italics) Leto. I’m so serious, text me back.
(Normal) And then, about ten minutes after that: (italics) You said there was nothing here.
(Normal) My heart rattles around in my ribcage. Oh my god, if the neighbors saw — you must have climbed the fence and found the unlocked storage door. I’m both mortified and pissed, and I’m struggling with putting this into a scathing text when another message pops up.
(Italics) Need your help.
(Normal) I hate you. I hate you so much. I’m gonna kill you when I get there. I text you back: (italics) On my way.

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 9/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #writesky #thegoldencompass #philippullman

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

big ETwip vibes at the sunset last night with the beach and the snow and the bloody horizon and my skin basically icing over while I took this #writingcommunity #booksky #horrorwriters #queerwriters

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

well he closed my laptop so I guess that’s enough writing for tonight

A tabby cat lies with his head stretched upward against my laptop, which is now shut on my lap. I am reaching out to scratch his squishy tum tum

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 8/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #writesky #stitches #davidsmall

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Only always black😬 I have very simple taste buds lol And I don’t go to Starbucks anymore but this Year of the Ox mug is still my favorite

A pale pink mug with a stylized, raised image on the front of a cute little white cow with ornate silvery patches on their back and face

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 7/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #writesky #themushroomattheendoftheworld #annalowenhaupttsing

The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins by Anna lowenhaupt Tsing

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

QRP with something watery!🌊🐙 This octopus is one of my favorite patterns I’ve designed, and I chose the BEST glass for it. The color is entirely dependent on the light. #stainedglass #art #handmade #craft #marinelife #octopus

Stained glass octopus held up to the sun. It seems to be a fiery mottled red

From the different angle, the octopus seems a mottled pink, green, and blue

With the sunlight directly on it, the octopus is clearly iridescent and very shiny

The other side of the octopus is a darker fiery red with mottled maroon patches

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I live in a half-basement apartment with the cool bonus that I get to see all the backyard wildlife and today there was an owl out in the snow (I was so excited I dropped my phone like 2 seconds after this) Nature is SO COOL

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 6/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #writesky #storiesofourlives #nestcollective

Stories of our lives: an archive of Kenyan queer narratives by the nest collective

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Oh awesome! Okay so then should this be lined up with his left eye?? Maybe it’s just me but it looks he’s just got it smack on his forehead

Pic of the back of a leica m3 (googled it real quick)

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

He seems to be looking with his nose, assuming the viewfinder is somewhere alone the top of the camera. Also note the inconsistent finger sizes

same image as above, with problem areas circled and outlined

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I’m not a photographer but I’m pretty sure this is not how you look through a viewfinder

A man hold a camera to his face. He has a tiny right pinky, a fat left pinky, and a tiny left thumb (we’ll assume he was just born this way). His right eye is squinted closed. His left eye can’t be seen, but the viewfinder seems to be somewhere between the closed eye and the bridge of his nose.

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 5/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #writesky #thespiritbaresitsteeth #andrewjosephwhite

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 4/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #writesky #utopia #thomasmore

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 3/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #writesky #myfavoritethingismonsters #emilferris

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris

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Blu (is writing✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

this is what conservatives are terrified of (they look so good) #eurofigure #exhibitiongala

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