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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The pillow shifted, the alarm stopped, and Skye was about to go back to sleep. Wait. She opened bleary eyes to see a cute, chubby face looking back at her. Large, beady eyes. Whiskers brushing against her nose. There was a seal in her bed. #wipsnips

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Off to a glamping adventure this weekend! No internet, no phone service. Looking forward to just shutting off and writing for a few days! #writingcommunity #writesky

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Knowledge: There fun shape mac and cheese costs more per ounce Wisdom: I'm a goddamn adult and can buy myself the fun shapes if I want.

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

"He took your coat, and he trapped you. He forced you to stay with him. And now he's out there looking for you, and you're sitting in my kitchen, eating all my raw fish and drinking my milk. Is that about it?" "I've also eaten the raw beef," Aurora admitted. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I haven't trunked it for long, but I do have a completed queer romance I put aside for a while after getting some edits on it. I need to think about what I want it to be and whether I can actually kill some of my darlings. #writingcommunity #writesky

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I will finish this book by the start of book club tomorrow but by god I hate it #booksky

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Is there a Monday equivalent for the Sunday Scaries? Monday Mopeys or something, is that a thing? Whatever it is, I'm feeling it.

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

an important part of the writing process is crying

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

#Queerpit yesterday was such a fun experience! Good luck everyone who got agent likes!

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

#queerpit #FR #A “You’re the chosen one?” Percy forced himself to ask. “But – I’m the chosen one!” “That may well be; I suppose there is no fixed limit on how many of us there can be. Chosen for what?” 💙grumpy/sunshine 🏰high fantasy 🧚‍♀️fairytale retellings 🗡️one-sided enemies to lovers

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AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers @amaralynn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

NON-BINARY WONDERLAND x BEAUTY AND THE BEAST The fearsome beast Jabberwocky is nothing like the poem Alois read as a child; They're kind, gentle, & love books. And Alois has fallen for them. If they want their HEA, they must end the corrupt Red empire’s destructive reign. #A #FTA #FR #QUEERPIT

A digital art by Amara of Alois, a person with pink hair, wearing a red and black dress, looking up and smiling at Jabber, a person with a skull face, horns, brown hair, wearing a suit and a dark cloak.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 15/08/2025

WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, ship's cook Tai is stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QueerPit #A #Q #R #SF

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 110,000 words

"Did you hear? There's a human on board."
A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling.
alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH:
Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist.
Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway?
That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no.

PRIORITIES:
make dinner
remain cozy
haul cargo
go for drinks
pull off one last score
try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE:

“Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.”
I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity.
“Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.”
“Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table.
It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best.
The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let themcome here.”
The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS:
Murderbot by Martha Wells
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

TROPES:
Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm
lying to themselves
non-human perspective (afraid of humans)
neurodivergent main characters
metaphorically disabled protagonist
slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship
disabilitynorm and queernorm setting
found family
lovable pet/terrifying monster

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Ali Z @alizagame.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Leah is missing, and Brooke is ready to tear their cult-like church apart to find her. (Literally.) But no one, not even Leah's own mother, seems to remember her. Signs of sacrifice point to the truth being stranger than any nightmare. #QueerPit #lesbian #ya #thriller #querying

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Joy is ✨querying✨ @joyiswriting.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

In the life of a Victorian noble, society will rip you to shreds—but in Greer Manor, so will the flowers . . . 🥀 🔍 whodunnit mystery 🥀 deadly botanicals 🗝️ “Everyone in this manor has secrets” 🍃 searching the lake at night 🕷️ creepy crawlies & ghosts #QueerPit #MG #M #H

What Lurks Beneath the Glass, a MG Botanical Horror

Pitch:
The gardens at Greer Manor used to be the pinnacle of botanical pursuits, until the gardeners tending the rare flowers started rapidly disappearing around the estate.
When two girls discover it's the bloodthirsty plants lurking around the manor that are causing the disappearances, they must quickly nip this deadly case in the bud, before they become playthings for the monstrous flowers that have more than just sharp thorns . . .

Completed at 49k words w/ Big 5+ editor interest

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

#queerpit #FR #A UNMAKING PERCY Percy grew up being told he is the chosen one, only to discover that he is, in fact, the chosen one's assistant. Now he has to help the actual chosen one, Evans, in the epic quest that should have been rightly his. And try not to fall in love in the process.

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Alec @alecjmarsh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Scotland, 1925: A gentleman thief, a lonely demon hunter and a married sorceress embark on a glittering heist to bring down the English occult. Forbidden passions, demonic conspiracies, and their own ambition threatens to bring them down. Bi rep, ace rep, mf, mmf, mm #queerpit #a #f

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Diane Billas (she/her) queer YA author @dianebillas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

QUEER NANCY DREW 17-yr-old Emmie has the coolest job at a bookstore in Philly with her sapphic crush, but when a patron dies during her mom’s book event, all eyes are turned towards her. She needs to get her life back and not get killed in the process. #Queerpit #YA #M

Mood board: Blonde girl holding a pumpkin, halloween candy, woman dressed like Harley Quinn, Woman in a bookstore, murder board, yellow crime scene tape, police car, woman holding a coffee cup, books with a single light hanging down.

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Aria Mora @ariamora.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

LEGENDS AND LATTES X MIDNIGHT DINER X BLADE RUNNER ☕️ Karmic coffee. Illegal tomatoes. And an ex who still looks way too good in leather. Welcome to the underground café where redemption comes with oat milk foam. #QueerPit #SF #D (cozy dystopia—you read that right!) #A

The pitch again but make it neon and cute

Tropes and comps: cozy dystopia, found family, redemption, queer rep, Legends and Lattes, Midnight Diner

Quote: Life is bittersweet. Like a good coffee. Like the same family of plants that can give you golden fruit or deadly poison. And sometimes, it surprises you.

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Mariah Stillbrook @mariahstillbrook.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

BUFFY X MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM 🔮90s horror 🔮18 yo MC Roxy is a closeted lesbian 🔮Found family 🔮Vengeful haunted mannequin 🔮So much witchcraft 🔮Steam powered carousel 🔮Small town America #QueerPit #A #Q #H #F

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

#queerpit #FR #A UNMAKING PERCY "Percy belonged to that noble breed of people for whom resentment aged like a fine wine." 🔮 chosen one isn't actually the chosen one 🏰 epic high fantasy 💚 queer romance 🧚‍♂️ subverted fairytale tropes

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Bee 🐝 has a BOOK DEAL! @beemorris.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

#QueerPit #Q Reluctant medium Alice moves to the coast for some peace and quiet. Instead, she accidentally lands a job cleaning houses and exorcising restless spirits. 🧠 Neurodiverse protagonist 🌈 Queer & trans rep 🔪 Serial killer mystery 👻 Ghosts, ghosts & more ghosts 📖 YA/NA

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Beatrice Mckinsey @oroboro.itch.io · 15/08/2025

#QueerPit #R #SPF #A Fractures Between Sapphic romance Second chances Alternate worlds Theo finds herself in an alternate world in which her first crush Summer is still alive, and is torn between wanting to return home, and falling in love with this woman who both is and isn't the person she knew

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Jeannie (Jay) Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Potion for disaster: 🧑‍🌾 1 witch 🏡 1 witch's garden (alive/undead?) 🛣️ a crossroads of ancient faerie paths 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 2 new neighbours 🛠️ 1 very ill-advised fence 🧚🧌🧝1 unstoppable annual migration 1️⃣ that inch that no-one will give #A #F #H #MYTH #N #QueerPit

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Ryan (is Querying ✉️) @ry-is-writing.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay). When an attractive alien named Caelum crash-lands in Bennett’s small town, Bennett must help the alien find his way home while dealing with his own developing feelings and the truth behind why Caelum ended up on Earth. #QueerPit #YA #SF #R

Starboy

LGBTQ+ YA Sci-Fi

Complete at 83k words

Blurb

When Bennett Barker is forced to move to a small town for his senior year of high school, he thinks his biggest problems will be missing his friends, figuring out his back-home situationship, and coming clean to his mom that he isn’t following in her footsteps by majoring in astronomy. Then an alien named Caelum crash-lands into his life. Literally. Bennett rescues the alien when his pod slams down to Earth while Bennett is out delivering pizza. But this isn’t an E.T. situation. Caelum is tall, turquoise, and incredibly kind, which makes it hard for Bennett not to catch feelings. Now Bennett has to find a way to get Caelum back home. But as Bennett grows closer to the alien, he starts wondering if his extraterrestrial crush is hiding the truth about why he ended up on Earth.

Characters

Bennett
Bummed he moved to a new town his senior year
Likes learning (hah, nerd)
Works as a pizza delivery boy
Wants to become an engineer
Gets fixated easily on projects and people

Caelum
Home planet is thousands of light-years away
Likes plants and flowers
Doesn’t enjoy wearing clothes
Can photosynthesize, would rather drink coffee
Moon-shaped eye marks glow when he’s happy

Vibes

It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay).

IF YOU LIKE
First encounters
Nerdy boys flirting
Having to hide a hot alien in the bedroom
Traumatized intergalactic cinnamon rolls
Kids on bikes saving the world
Earth food taste testing
Super-powered pacifists

SIMILAR STUFF
Starfire from Teen Titans
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

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Ash Gabrielle @ashgabrielle.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

-CONAN THE BARBARIAN BUT LESBIANS -CENTRAL ASIAN FANTASY -BIG STRONG LADY x SHY SMART LADY -D&D PARTY IN THE DESERT VIBES Zenosheh is a feared crime lady looking to get on the right side of the law. Julia is the shy priestess she saves from slavers. Their quest? Treasure. #queerpit #amquerying

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Heists, spice, and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your illegal dark hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QueerPit #FR #A

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Aster HG @asterfish.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Riley Stein’s senior year to-do-list: 🦇Learn the name of one song by The Cure 🦇Experiment with some new pronouns 🦇Ask out the coolest goth girl she knows 🦇survive senior prom 🦇Figure out who bit her 🦇Do something about her future as a member of the undead #queerpit #ya #cr

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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The worst thing Sam ever had to deal with was telekinetic ducks. That’s until the Grim Reaper HERSELF appears in his living room. Now Sam & Grim must work together to solve a royal mystery, with reality itself at stake! SPIRIT RIDER: THE ROYAL PROBLEM #QueerPit #Q #F #MG / #YA

Spirit Rider The Royal Problem moodboard with pictures
1- a snowy village with a central snowy church
2- a ruin amongst deep snow
3- a palatial hall
4- silhouette of a grim reaper
5- a malevolent duck in snow
6- a golden crown
7- body shot of dark suited person
8- blue flames

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R. E. McManus @earthkids.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

DANNY PHANTOM x SCOOBY-DOO Guitar just wants to play the cello, it's not his fault that he can also see ghosts. When Denny Dragan, ace monster hunter, asks Guitar to help stop a serial killer ghost, he refuses even though his lil crush on Denny insists he should say yes. #QueerPit #YA #M #H #F

The meme of the man looking back at another woman while the woman's hand he holds is upset. The man is labeled Guitar and he looks back at Guitar's cello while the hand holding woman is labeled "Denny who needs Guitar's ghost seeing skills to save lives."

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Neira @neirawrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

DARK ACADEMIA X MAGICAL CHERNOBYL When his body and soul are separated, Yasmin, an ambitious med student with a troubled past, must stop sentient, malignant magic from destroying the world. #QueerPit #F #NA #A

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Twenty-year-old Percy Freel grew up being told he is the chosen one, only to discover that he is, in fact, the chosen one's assistant. 🔪 one-sided enemies to lovers 🏰 epic high fantasy 🧚 subverted fairytales 💪 himbo love interest 🔥 slow burn #queerpit #FR #A

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Oh man, I completely forgot about #weeknightwriters tonight! Alas - next week!

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Looking at general word counts and realizing this WIP should actually be 15k longer than I plotted it out to be... This might be a problem. #writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

MAN DOWN! Get it, because it's the down arrow? ...I'll show myself out #writingcommunity #writesky

A picture of a computer keyboard with red backlighting. The down arrow key is no longer connected.

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

This week in "Leo tries to do social media": Has Bookstagram not figured out that Joanne is a massive TERF, or do they just not care? More at 10.

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

"A mocking corner of Percy's mind recalled how, just a few minutes ago, he was convinced he was being put to the test, and how it had vexed him. There had indeed been a test, but it wasn't meant for him at all – and that vexed him more." #writesky #amwriting #romantasy

barrelofbreadcrumbs.com

Unmaking Percy Archives - Barrel of Breadcrumbs

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The WIP I've been working on this past week is a paranormal queer romance placeholder titled "Magical seal roadtrip", about a selkie that gets stranded in Lake Michigan and convinces a human to take her back to the ocean (with some stops along the way). No links yet but someday! #WeeknightWriters

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I'll second what a lot of folks have said about this weekly engagement! (though if someone wants to poke me at some point over the weekend and yell at me to clean my apartment, I wouldn't say no to that either) #WeeknightWriters

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This one will be rough, and it might be overambitious. But I really need to clean my living space. I know my mental health is better in a clean space, it's just been rough keeping up with all the chores with the mental health problems and it's turning into a vicious cycle. #WeeknightWriters

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Like I said, this week has been rough, but I just today received a boardgame I bought for myself as a little reward, so I'm looking forward to playing that. It can be played solo, so that's what I'll be up to after I log off tonight! #WeeknightWriters

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

#WeeknightWriters I'm doing great! (they say with a fake slapped on smile). Things have been rough this week and mental health hasn't been super, on top of the aforementioned headache. But writing continues, in little bits and pieces around my work schedule and my mental breakdowns. Could be worse?

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Hello all! Leo checking in with a not great week. Been battling a headache I think is linked to wildfire smoke since Sunday :/ But the WIPs chug along. I've been focusing on my cozy queer paranormal romance for the past few days and feel like I might(????) be making progress #WeeknightWriters

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Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

About to go outside and do some errands and it immediately started pouring. Guess this is a sign to just stay in and do some more writing! #writeskye #amwriting

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JD Cadmon @jdcadmon.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

#LateNightWrite I'm updating my personal site. Important because I have a new novella #TheHandymaamAndTheWerewolves out in three weeks! Until then, visit my LinkTree. You can find all my individual titles and the anthologies with my short stories. Had 2 new shorts in July. linktr.ee/jdcadmon

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jdcadmon | Instagram | Linktree

Indie writer of romantic sci-fi and fantasy. Bonus MG short stories for fun.

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