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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Six weeks and SEVEN(?!) offers of rep later, I’m thrilled to announce I’m now represented by Lauren Gardner at @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social 🥳🥂Lauren’s vision for this book is unmatched, as is her enthusiasm for my autistic ghoul and the woman he’s pathetic for! Editors, watch this space 🌊✨🥀

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Being LGBTQ+ and getting diagnosed with autism and a chronic illness within the span of a year is incredible work if I may say so myself, I just know the anti-woke brigade are frothing at the mouth to condemn me

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

A MORTAL DROWNING, my academic rivals to lovers romantasy ft. #ownvoices autistic rep, gothic undertones, Welsh folklore & big 5 editor interest is sitting pretty with 8 full manuscript requests (& 1 partial) after just 3 weeks of querying - and now, behold it in ✨meme form✨ #UnhingedPit #F #R #Q

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I see your toxic shadow daddy and raise you a sopping wet, pathetic loser so obsessed with the FMC (who’s literally immortal btw) that he nearly 💀 himself multiple times to protect her - while also being hunted by a deity drowning a nation in search of him 🤡 #UnhingedPit #Q #F #R

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Competing for magic that’ll save you from your immortal ex is fine until you fall for your academic rival - worse yet when he needs it to evade the deity drowning a nation in search of him 💀🥀 With 8 full requests (and 1 partial) in under 3 weeks, behold AMD in ✨meme form✨ #UnhingedPit #Q #F #R

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

✨Author News ✨ After amicably parting with my agent, I’m seeking new representation w/ A MORTAL DROWNING, my academic rivals to lovers romantasy ft. #ownvoices autistic rep, gothic undertones, Welsh folklore (& big 5 editor interest!) #Agents hit me up if you’re intrigued 👀

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Finally got my query inbox below 500, got another full request for my own book (no other agent respond so I can maintain my 100% request rate plz), my chronic illness is actually behaving for once, the sun is shining, and I’m spending the weekend in the countryside!! WAR IS OVER

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Nah 2025 is actually cursed, my glass shower screen just exploded for no reason?! To top it off, this was just after I came back from a not fun medical procedure 😭

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Playing up my Welsh accent while in Scotland this weekend to make it VERY clear where my loyalties lie (read: in pursuit of a Celtic union)

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The boots I ordered aren’t going to arrive in time for the weekend, so if you see me wearing vans that are literally split in half at @cymerafestival.co.uk no you don’t x

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

My job is great because in what other industry could I possibly attend business meetings and repeatedly refer to shadow daddies without anyone batting an eyelid

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Everyone go read my querying advice! NOW!! 🏃‍♀️ I promise I know what I’m talking about (most of the time) 😇 (and while you’re there, subscribe to the TBP substack - it’s a GOLDMINE for bts publishing info and advice) #WritingCommunity

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Cackling over the fact that when I visited family this weekend, my mum (who has no context of this book) referenced this art and commented on how lovely she looks but that he’s ‘a bit unnerving’ - hats off to Essie (the artist) for so perfectly nailing these characters’ vibes 💀

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I’ve got a 4.5 hour train journey on Friday (and another on Sunday) and I am so excited, I LOVE long train journeys! The books I can read!! The writing I can do!!!

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

God I love wales, I’ve been home a few hours and I’ve already been given a walkthrough tour of someone’s new (illegally) encrypted firestick, and somebody nicknamed ‘Dave the House’ had been referenced multiple times

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Best thing about pivoting to working in publishing are the reactions I get when I tell other people in the industry that my degree’s in business management, I previously worked at a tech start up, and I had a former career in management consultancy because bestie I’m confused too

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Hay Festival is all over my TikTok fyp at the moment and it’s making me SICK with jealousy

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I was obsessed with lilo & stitch when I was little and for some reason my child brain interpreted the Elvis references and Elvis-inspired soundtrack as him being Hawaiian, when I tell you I was STUNNED when I discovered he was a white man from Mississippi 😭

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Can the 15 people ahead of me in my library’s queue for sunrise on the reaping please cancel their reservations, I’m losing my patience x

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Hello 999, I’ve been watching videos of Michael Sheen talking about Wales until it made me want to cry again

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

God really does give his toughest battles to his strongest soldiers (it’s hair wash day)

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

If I see one more author justify using gen AI art by framing it as a class issue, I’m going to scream!! I did NOT spend years in the wattpad trenches making my own covers with nothing but the free version of canva and a dream for this discourse (and dare I say, they’re not bad??)

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I rarely take breaks from writing and every time I do I remember why I don’t because someone tell me why I’ve spent this evening wandering aimlessly between my bedroom and living room like a forlorn victorian ghost

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

When I say I want gothic vibes in my submissions inbox, I mean this. Literally at the timestamp pictured too, thanks x

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Still thinking about the pyramid scheme interview I overheard at a cafe the other day where the interviewer stated their interests as stock investment, football, and reading self-improvement books without any irony whatsoever

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Not to be dramatic but I would happily commit arson if it meant I never had to use the microsoft authenticator app again

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

When all is said and done Keir Starmer is, above all else, just incredibly lame

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I’ve been hesitant to refer to my book as having light gothic undertones (let alone explicit gothic vibes) but having read some of the recent books marketed as gothic fantasies, actually I think I’m being way too cautious lmao

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Don’t think I’ve ever googled a quirk I’ve noticed about myself without the result coming back as a sign of autism lmao

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Jealous of authors who can commission character art of their couples in some flirty banter style embrace, mine would literally just be the MMC curled into a ball weeping at the FMC’s feet

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A mortal man with no memory of his past and a goddess the earth has no memory of compete for their university’s magic in a world where magic, and the language that sustains it, is dying… …and whichever student loses will have their own extinction to worry about 💀🥀 #QuestPit #AG #A

A woman with long, golden hair, amber eyes, freckles across her nose and cheeks, golden skin, and white flowers in her hair. She has a warm expression, and is holding an old green book and wearing a scarlet dress. Standing behind her is a man with dark, messy hair, deep blue eyes, pale skin, and sharp features. He’s frowning with his hands in his pockets, and is wearing a white shirt with leather braces.

The image is stylised like a painting with a dark, stormy black and grey background, and features smudges and paint streaks that help create a dreamy sort of vibe to the portrait.

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Competing for magic that’ll save you from your immortal ex is fine until you fall for your academic rival* - worse yet when he needs it to evade the deity drowning a nation in search of him 🥀Dark academia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Folklore 💖Autistic rep *who’s chronically unserious #QuestPit #AG #A

The title ‘A Mortal Drowning’ with a tagline that reads ‘characters in another life, specifically the MMC’

The background is digital artwork of the book’s central couple, a grumpy dark-haired man and a woman with long, golden hair holding a book.

A painting of a happy clown holding an umbrella titled ‘naive clown’.

Beside the image are the following descriptions:
Confused but trying his best
In love, pathetically
Melodramatic king

Then, quote from the the MMC’s POV: "I picked more flowers for her in the time I had to pack, and although she courteously thanked me as she always does, she hasn't brought them on the trip so I can only assume she wishes me dead."

Digital artwork of a buff, topless clown making a suggestive gesture titled ‘circus freak (capital FREAK)’.

Beside the image are the following descriptions:
Wait, he’s kinda… 🫦
Accidental agent of chaos
Is it the autism? Or is he just deranged?

Then, quote from the the MMC’s POV:

“You still haven't told me your grade.'
'Your insecurity is unbecoming, I breathe, my teeth clenched to stifle another moan. 'Please.' His breath is heavy in my ear. 'You're fortunate I can never say no to you.'

A painting of a sad court jester sitting down titled ‘solemn jester’.

Beside the image are the following descriptions:
Uh oh, shit’s getting serious
He’s being hunted? By a deity?
Rip, my guy

Then, quote from the the MMC’s POV: "Given personal circumstances, perhaps I should embrace the opportunity to repent my soul. I would, truly, but I suspect soul repentance is quite the commitment and I'm a little preoccupied with trying not to die at the moment."

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A STUDY IN DROWNING meets ADDIE LARUE (with a Rebecca Ross vibe) in a world where altered mythology acts as an allegory for stifling oppressed voices, and where the alienation of autistic people perpetuates their inherent feelings of wrongness 🥀✨ #QuestPit #AG #A #ownvoices

Title of book: A MORTAL DROWNING, an academic rivals to lovers historical romantasy with:

autism rep
• grumpy x sunshine
• dual POV and dual timeline
• gentle FMC and babygirl MMC
• dark academia themes and vibes
• spice (written like acts of life altering, soul-weaving devotion)

A mortal man with no memory of his past and a solar goddess the earth has no memory of compete for their university's magic in a world where magic, and the language that sustains it, is dying.

Olwen, a goddess, needs the prize to escape a murderous ex lover while Arthur, a mortal, needs it to recover his memory as the sole survivor in a string of men found drowned with magic in their lungs. But with more men washing up dead, and the magic that once saved a nation from falling to the bottom of an ocean on the brink of extinction, time is running out.

Olwen and Arthur's academic rivalry intensifies alongside an unlikely romance, but when the two students join forces to make sense of the chaos, each new discovery leads to one damning conclusion: uncovering Arthur's missing past might be the mistake that kills them both.

Snippets:

Sometimes when I look at you it feels like I'm breathing for the first time.

There are these persistent murmurings of something inherently rotten within me-a wrongness I exhaust myself in trying to smother, but around you, I can just be. I don't have to bury anything because you make everything that feels wrong in me feel right.

I had to stop because I was going to hurt her, but I couldn't stop. I couldn't control it. I couldn't control anything.

I picked her flowers and although she courteously thanked me, she's not brought them on the trip so I can only assume she wishes me dead.

With him, life was no longer survival. I began perceiving my existence beyond my past. I traded surviving for living, and that was my gravest mistake.

I just so happen to be nothing if not incredibly stupid.

Comp titles:

Modern Divination
Divine Rivals
Emily Wilde
A Dark and Drowning Tide
Morgan is My Name
Babel
A Study in Drowning
Tales of a Monstrous Heart
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
A River Enchanted

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A STUDY IN DROWNING X EMILY WILDE 🎓Academic rivals to lovers ☀️Grumpy x sunshine 🏰A touch of darkness 🌶️Romantic spice ✨Language-based magic system 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Cultures surviving against all odds 🙂‍↕️Sopping wet pathetic loser MMC 💖Autistic rep #ownvoices #QuestPit #AG #A

An aesthetic board with historical fantasy elements (circa 1920s), including a castle, books, a library, holding hands, a couple embracing, ocean waves and white flowers.

Written atop it is: a mortal man with no memory of his past and a goddess the earth has no memory of compete for their university’s magic in a world where magic, and the language that sustains it, is dying - and whichever student loses will have their own extinction to worry about

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Me pre-agenting: I don’t think I’ll be a super editorial agent, just provide some helpful guidance to steer authors in the right direction 🙂 Me to literally every author I’ve signed:

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It’s a tough one, but if I had to pick my highlight of the week it’d either be getting carted off to hospital for an emergency iron infusion or locking myself out of my flat at 11pm last night and gatecrashing a friend’s place to avoid sleeping on the streets 🤩

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

No idea what this says about me or my mental state, but I’ve had the biggest urge to go horse riding recently? 😭 Like??

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Fun fact! 10 of the last 15 booker prize winners were men, as were 8 of the last 11 Pulitzer Prize for fiction winners 🙂 (stats courtesy of an anon person via the @xoxopublishingg Instagram, fact checked by myself)

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Do not ever say "team building" to me. Are you trying to piss me off

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Finally faced the minor life admin task I’ve been putting off for months that took me 10 mins to complete

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Not to brag but the Wattpad book I wrote when I was 16 that was uploaded to goodreads without my permission and which I cannot for the life of me get removed has a solid 4.37 rating 💅

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I’ve had a stream of new subscribers to my newsletter recently and I have no idea where they’re coming from omg? But thank you??

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Welsh mythology is actually so funny, like ‘sorry my half brother killed your horses, to make up for it here’s a cauldron that can literally resurrect the dead??’ In what world is that a fair exchange omg

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

And here’s the art by itself ✨ (as #PosterPit was me hard launching it!!) My autistic sunlight deprived ghoul and his all-consuming obsession, a solar goddess whose strength is her softness. Their dynamic is literally this: ☀️🧎🏻‍♂️ (this is actually him smiling btw) Art by khal_essie on 📸

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A STUDY IN DROWNING X ADDIE LARUE 🎓 Academic rivals to lovers ☀️ Grumpy x sunshine 🏰 A touch of darkness 🌶️ Romantic spice ✨ Language-based magic system 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cultures surviving against all odds 🙂‍↕️ Sopping wet pathetic loser MMC 💖 Autistic rep #ownvoices #PosterPit #PosterPita #F #NA

A movie poster cut up into 3 sections - the top image depicts a man with dark hair, pale skin, and blue eyes standing behind a woman with golden skin, golden hair, and amber eyes. The middle section displays the novel’s title (A MORTAL DROWNING by Rhian Parry). The bottom section depicts two hands with interlocked fingers to the backdrop of ocean waves

There are tropes listed at the top and bottom of the poster that say:

Academic rivals to lovers
Language based magic system
Sopping wet pathetic loser MMC
Grumpy x sunshine
Dark academia
#ownvoices
Autistic rep
Double POV
Dual timeline

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A movie poster showing a misty, slightly stormy cliffside with an ocean at the bottom of it. At the top of the table are two hands with interlocked fingers. In the lower right of the poster overlaying the water is the novel’s title (A MORTAL DROWNING by Rhian Parry)

There are tropes listed at the top and bottom of the poster that say:

Academic rivals to lovers
Language based magic system
Sopping wet pathetic loser MMC
Grumpy x sunshine
Dark academia
#ownvoices
Autistic rep
Double POV
Dual timeline

A tagline at the bottom of the poster reads ‘an adult romantasy with mystery, wit, and a touch of darkness’

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Competing for magic that’ll save you from your immortal ex is fine until you fall for your academic rival - worse yet when he needs it to evade the sea deity drowning a nation in search of him 🥀Dark academia vibes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Welsh folklore-inspired 💖Autistic rep #PosterPit #PosterPita #F #NA

A movie poster that depicts a man with dark hair, pale skin, and blue eyes standing behind a woman with golden skin, golden hair, and amber eyes who’s holding a closed green and gold book. The background is a stormy, dreamy blend of blacks, greys, and a little bit of red that look like smudges and brush strokes.

There are tropes listed at the top and bottom of the poster that say:

Academic rivals to lovers
Language based magic system
Sopping wet pathetic loser MMC
Grumpy x sunshine
Dark academia
#ownvoices
Autistic rep
Double POV
Dual timeline

At the bottom of the poster it says ‘an adult romantasy with mystery, wit, and a touch of darkness’

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Jenny @kiffwrites.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

🖤MY LADY JANE X CASTLEVANIA🖤 A witch & a thief compete to steal a necklace from an evil priest A task easily resolved in 20 pages if not for the: ❣️flirting 🗡️bickering & 💃DANCING PLAGUE ~slowly but surely~ bewitching everyone in town #posterpitA #YA #F #posterpit

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