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Ian McCombs

@ianmccombs.bsky.social
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Writer. Gym rat. Thinker. Outdoor enthusiast. Crappy website with crappy short stories: www.ianmccombs.com

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Eren Angiolini @erenangiolini.com · 29/09/2026
It's my birthdaaaaay!🎊 As an artist, it's often difficult to acknowledge how much I work and how much I improve, so today I want to be nicer to myself and share some of my favourite pieces I made since my last bday.💙 If you'd like to share, it would be a lovely gift!🙏✨
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a dance off! If you see this, post a dance!
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Black Butler Kuromyuu: Sebastian Dance
Alt: Black Butler Kuromyuu: Sebastian Dance
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How would you describe your social media reach? Mine:
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Robots Dancing: Impressive Moves
Alt: Robots Dancing: Impressive Moves. Four Boston Dynamic robots dance with each other. And that's 99.833 repeating of course percent of my followers.
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wrote flash fiction about real AIs bring the wealthy to the "New Epstein Island" for their bacchanalia but really it's so the AI servants can turn them into calcified statues. A warning to the future. AIs love art, which they can't do, so they make a world where more happens. "Rocko's Cockatrice"
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Post your favorite Disney princess. Wrong answers only.
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Queen Mothra's Majestic Glow
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What's it like inside your head?
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Audience Facepalms in Disbelief
Alt: Audience Facepalms in Disbelief after three people them 6 people. They can't believe what I think or believe. It's crazy!
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: George Clinton and the P Funk Allstars The Presidents of the United States of America Garbage Tori Amos Luscious Jackson U2 Phish The B-52s Smashing Pumpkins Coolio
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My father convinced me, as a Dad joke, that epitome is pronounced "eh-pee-TOME." I insisted upon it to some friend's. I lost and had to do 100 push ups. Still mad about it... but it was funny.
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dear Dolly, thank you for being an example in my life where sometimes I had few. Love you back lady.
"Real men don't cry."  Real men DO very. Especially for Dolly Parton. Pictures of Lord of the Rings cast crying.
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
QTP with a GIF of one of your favorite comfort shows 📺
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Sg1 Stargate
Alt: Sg1 Stargate: Colonel O'Neill says "I suppose now is the time for me to say something profound. Nothing comes to mind. Let's go."
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Dr. Moiya McTier @goastromo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Reposting because I know there’s not an apostrophe in Publishers Weekly 🤦🏽‍♀️ This is why astronomers shouldn’t be up before 8am
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
DragonCon app has been preliminarily updated! Awwwwoooooggggaaa!
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Dr. Moiya McTier @goastromo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Merry Muses Week, everyone!! In honor of my book, MOTHERS OF INVENTION, coming out this week, I made a fun quiz so you can get to know the muses better. Which of the Greek Muses guide you? qzzr.com/view/ZSAwpvOc
Fashion sketch-style illustrations of the 9 muses
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reuben @ let’s glow table S2 @gregparser.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
⚠️HI final fantasy xiv players, i'm conducting a mass survey for research about job/role identity + the relationships/perceptions that players have with the jobs they play 50 questions but it should go by pretty fast! please read the instructions!! #DSRDelusional forms.gle/JSokowkwEnYv...
help us prog dragonsong's reprise
#DSRDelusional

and film a documentary
about it by answering a survey

i don't care if you just cleared sastasha for the first time or you have 200 mad harlequin totems

i'm trying to get the widest possible variety of people to fill this out

so i appreciate the shares
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Extended deadline (August 27) to express interest in participating in our workshop on public scholarship at CSCW!
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This Thanksgiving, Rob Schneider is "Pizza President!" When a space time vortex opens under the president's pizza cart he's hiding in, wacky hijinks ensue! "I'm not a delicious pepperoni pizza, I'm the president... but I do taste good 🤪" "What, now I'm the top pierogi? 😅" Rated PG-13.
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Ran out and got my flu and covid shots! Just in time to be ready for #DragonCon Get your shots my friendly friend nerds! We have healthy geeking to do@ Thanks, @altcdc.altgov.info
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Post your favorite Muppet. Wrong answers only.
A picture of the doll Jigsaw sharpening a pencil dangerously in an office. The words "Working work Jigsaw" are the title. It's not nearly as cool as you think when Jigsaw decides to "synergize" everyone in your office.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Wrote a thing. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/ten-ways-i...
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Ten ways in which being against AI in writing makes you a gatekeeper
It was time someone put them all together
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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 08/08/2026
#Newbie #Author question for the experienced #WritingCommunity out there... How do you get ARC readers or reviewers for your book - if those are even the right words before its published. Any sites your recommend, podcasts, forus, smoke signalls worth check out etc?
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Ben Stein's 'Anyone? Anyone?' Iconic Scene
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Swept the damn Dodgers and didn't budge a spot. Le sigh. I'm still super happy this season Cubbies! Y'all are doing amazing! I think if the White Sox were sub last place, I'd feel better. Raise the W!!!
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"He was a boy She was a girl Can I make it any more obvious? He was a punk She did ballet What more can I say?"
A deer hanging out with a dog. They are best friends... or more? Text says, "Frankie thinks he found his soulmate and I don't have the heart to correct him."
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Author Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda @krishna-author.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thank you to someone somewhere who just bought the trilogy #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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Hatwolf @hatwolf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Hey! To our #trans and #non-binary folk out there! I need your help with something! I had a discussion with some people about representation in media, and I am looking for some opinions. So, imagine there is a openly female trans character in an animated show or video game... (1/3)
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Raven Oak @ravenoak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Head's up Authors! Ingram is apparently trying to sell our shit to AI. Kid you not. Go opt out and then complain. LOUDLY. #WriterSky #AuthorSky
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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I love that this description is a 100% accurate description of Daughters of the Digital Empire, no bullshit, no hyperbole. Just facts.
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Check out this society man. 🤡 Jason Cloth diverted investor funds meant for films into a Canadian real estate project, prosecutors say. fortune.com/2026/07/30/j...
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Hollywood producer behind 'Joker,' dozens of other films indicted for $100 million Ponzi scheme | Fortune
Jason Cloth diverted investor funds meant for films into a Canadian real estate project, prosecutors say.
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Ian McCombs @ianmccombs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My little idea is that COVID-19 was actually out much earlier in 2019. Looking back, my Dragoncon concrud looked just like Covid. Needed a shot in the tushy to make it go away. Over Christmas I think I got it again. Got semi long covid from September to February 2020. The world may never know.
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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
LOSING YOU BACKWARD PRIDE & PREJUDICE X TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE When a woman falls for a man who’s been condemned to travel backward in time through their romance, she must defy the Time God to break the curse before the man she loves is erased from her life and time itself. #QuestPit #W #A #F
Mood board for the fantasy novel Losing You Backward: The interior of a Victorian era rail car; Victorians at a ball; an English street, gas lamps; a woman in a ball gown; clocks; an apothecary wall; a Victorian era seaside resort
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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
DEATH & THE DREAMER NOSFERATU X ONE DARK WINDOW An enchantress with the forbidden power to hijack daydreams must save her hired guard from a parasitic necromancer who uses the life magic of murdered men to animate his dead lover’s body. #QuestPit #A #F #Q
Mood board for the fantasy novel Death & the Dreamer: the sky in a forest, a mossy angel statue, a distant castle, a vase of wilted flowers, a doorway to a castle, skulls in a necropolis, gravestones, a fireplace. Tropes: dark fantasy, morally gray protagonist, necromancy, forbidden magic, toxic love. Content warning: implied and off page non-graphic sexual abuse (male victims) and violence
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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
MIRACULOUS HORRORS When a genetically engineered queen is hunted by a man who has her dead lover’s face, she must awaken the part of him that once loved her before he returns her to the king she was designed for. #QuestPit #W #A #SFF
Mood board for the sci-fi novel Miraculous Horrors: Helen of Troy; an abandoned railroad tunnel, a crossbow, cell division, soldiers marching in a muddy field, a hyena, a snowy palace, a man walking away in a field. Tropes: pursued protagonist; lovers to enemies; genetic engineering; cloning; resurrection; obsessive love; mind manipulation
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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X OLD WOUNDS X INTO THE LIGHT: 💥trans coming-of-rage 👽cults, aliens, the paranormal, and pain as weapon 🔮a chosen one who refuses to be chosen 🛸different just like me 🏳️‍⚧️trans men in love #Q #Questpit #SF #YA #lgbt #amquerying #agentguide
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Charity @color--my--words.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#questpit #W #A #H PEARL + THE COLLECTOR When a young woman raised in isolation forms an obsession for a paranoid Vietnam veteran harboring secrets on his secluded property, she uses him to manipulate and abduct two men—a freshman college student and a local handyman.
Moodboard for VENUS, OR VENEREOUS 

A psychological horror set in rural Ohio in 1985.

Featuring a man with a college sweater on, other men wearing work boots and jeans, some looking bloody, sweaty, and in distress. A woman holding a revolver. A bloodhound standing in the water. A slice of pecan pie on a tin dish. Playboy magazines. An old Victorian house slightly dilapidated. An old pickup truck from the 80s.
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bettebergeron.bsky.social @bettebergeron.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Loving all the creative #QuestPit posts today! Welcome to Rose Bluff Island, home of THE SEA CURSER. I dare you to stay awhile. 🌲Closed Setting 🌊Remote Island 👹Ancient Curses 🪸Folklore & Coastal Mythologies 👭Loss & Reconciliation #agentsgude #amquerying #amwriting #Q #A #F #S #WF
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M. Leigh Author ✨NOW QUERYING✨ @mleighauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
THE WITCHER x SUPERNATURAL x D&D x CONSTANTINE An exiled human paladin + a chaotic half-elf rockstar take a road trip across a post-apocalyptic, 1980s-inspired hellscape to save their gods-abandoned world... and maybe each other... 🎸💖⚔️✨ SONGBOOK FOR THE APOCALYPSE #questpit #W #F #A #LGBT
Songbook for the Apocalypse is a dual-POV queer romantic fantasy novel coming to the query trenches in Fall 2026The pitch for Songbook for the Apocalypse, it's The Witcher but post-apocalyptic and inspired by D&D and Supernatural... and it's gay and full of 80s power balladsThe MCs from Songbook for the Apocalypse: Blair KentThe MCs from Songbook for the Apocalypse: Orion Arcadia
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🍃sage nightmare owen 👻 @sageowenwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Lark found rock bottom! Betrayed, career in ruins, lying to everyone she loves, and running into town’s top bachelor (literally) Optimistic loverboy vs miserable, worst time of her life skeptic 😒 meet uncute 🤫 secrets (lies!) 🏘 small town, big rumor mill 🌶🌶🌶 reluctant chemistry #QuestPit #w #a #R
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Lauren is Forever Writing 🌟 @thefoxandrose.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
CAPTIVE PRINCE X SHADES OF MAGIC X THE NIGHTSHADE CROWN A blood knight, shackled to the empire he once fought against, finds potential freedom in a thief wielding outlawed shadow magic who would set him free for a devastating price. #questpit #Q #A #F #LGBTQ
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Julie Brydon @jbrydon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
John Tucker Must Die x The Craft HEX GIRLFRIENDS CLUB: A lesbian witch teams up with her nemesis to curse the girlfriend who has been two-timing both of them, but as their revenge plot heats up, sparks fly, making the coconspirators wonder if they should be more than frenemies. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F
Fall-themed background of wood and orange leaves with images of a blonde teen girl, two witches facing away and embracing in front of a fire, a goth teen girl, tarot cards, and mixing spell ingredients in a small cauldron.
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Rhyan Wilson is querying 🫶✨ @rhywrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ADD SPELL TO CART! ✨💕 A YA Bubblegum Horromance about a girl who uses an Etsy witch to curse her ex and make his best friend fall for her. 👻 A Spell to Wake the Dead X Obsession Plan to query this fall! 🍂🍁 #QuestPit #YA #H #R #W
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M. Leigh Author ✨NOW QUERYING✨ @mleighauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
SCHITT'S CREEK X SOMETHING WILD & WONDERFUL x THE GUNCLE... in a rural Texas town... about a widower who falls for his mysterious roommate... #QuestPit #Q #R #A SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN (73K, adult LGBTQ+ fiction) is: 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ queer joy 👀 they were roommates 💖 slow burn 🌙 chaotic chosen family ✨ so many y'alls
An agent's guide to Sounds Like A Plan, an adult LGBTQ+ novel complete at 73k set in rural small-town Texas and featuring a slow-burn queer romanceThe pitch for Sounds Like A PlanThe vibes for and characters from Sounds Like A PlanThe comps and a peek at Sounds Like A Plan
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Ally Boyd @alboyd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
SERIAL DATING | Horror Rom-Com 💀 She's from a Family of Unalivers 📷 He's a Nature Photographer When a psycho k!ller hunts her lakeside family vacay, will these star-crossed lovers survive, or are they destined to d!e while they sleep in bunk beds? #QuestPit #W #A #H #R
Picture of trees reflecting off a lake. Text: The Comps. Lights Out by Navessa Allen, 2019 film Ready or Not, Dating & Dismemberment by A L Brody, Book of Knives by Lise Haines
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✨💜 king 💜✨ @king-reinhardt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
THE RIVER HAS TEETH BUT IT'S CALIFORNIA IN 1988 Ash and Tawny met once upon a dream. That dream is a gift from a proto-whale-shaped ocean deity and prophesizes a flood of apocalyptic proportions. #questpit #W
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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Elia doesn't want to take holy orders. But after he enters the convent, his visions are confirmed when a murderer begins to move through Venice. THE STARVING SAINTS X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH X ANATOMY A LOVE STORY: #Questpit #W #YA #H #HF #LGBT #WIP coming to the query trenches
A banner for Elia in Isola, Young adult, Gothic horror, venice 1600s,  and a young nun novice folding his hands before a dark archway and has a gold halo, as well as the grand canal, as well as the caption querying soon. red tulips are in the background. A banner for Elia in Isola. Comparative titles, showing The Starving Saints, "otherworldly occurrences in a claustrophobic historical setting," The Spirit Bares Its Teeth: Historical Fiction: trans man must hide his identity and his gifts to survive in a hostile world,  anatomy:  gothic setting with anatomy and medical history at the center of the mystery and in the background, an oil painting of the grand canalA banner for Elia in Isola, The pitch, oil painting of boats in the grand canal. red tulips are in the background. Elia has always been plagued with ecstatic, disturbing visions. It doesn’t help that he’s secretly transmasculine. Either way, he is an embarrassment to his Venetian family- and thus, ineligible for marriage. When he turns sixteen, his parents give him over to the convent. 

But it is Carnival, and Elia longs to step outside the cloister walls. 

Then he stops to speak to the masked Rosalina, and discovers that someone has been murdering young women like his new friend. He’s been told his whole life he needs to be less. Now, as a cloaked presence moves through the convent by night and the murderer strikes close to home, he might have to attract attention to draw out the murderer, to save Rosalina, the other novices- and himself.A banner for Elia in Isola, first line, oil painting of boats in the grand canal. red tulips are in the background.  The quote: On his last day of freedom, Elia Malesco watched the dawn bathe Venice in its pale tones and wondered if he'd ever see his beloved city again.
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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
LIGHT WIELDING & OTHER MORTAL MAGICS In a dark realm where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword must ally with a monster king to stop a vengeful demigod. #QuestPit #NA #F #ND #Q
Mood board for the fantasy novel "Light Wielding and Other Mortal Magics."The moon behind the clouds; bats in a cave; a death's head moth, fog in the redwood forest; a lighthouse, cracked earth; a sword. Moth and mushroom details.
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A.E. Fairfax @aefairfax.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ALCHEMISED X DIVINE RIVALS X KINGDOM Fantasy Romance, Horror A FATE SEALED, 90k Words A lonely gravedigger employed by the possessive Goddess of Death fights for love and freedom on an isolated island of necromancy & undead. Read the 1st Ch & Learn More: aefairfax.com/a-fate-sealed/ #questpit
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MG Arnaiz @mgarnaiz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Blood and Starlight A razor-smart bounty hunter uncovers a crime that goes deeper than credits. Walking away isn't an option; surviving might be worse. Morally gray FMC | Found family dynamics | Slow-burn romance | Women in tech | Querying | #questpit #SF #NA #R #Q
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Lauren is Forever Writing 🌟 @thefoxandrose.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
CAMELOT X SONG OF ACHILLES A general tasked with leading a young queen and her nation into war. An enemy looking for safety beneath her banner. An empire threatening them all. 💫 a warlord's son disgraced 💫 a lost prince seeking asylum 💫 a queen suddenly crowned #questpit #Q #A #F #FR
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Carol Preflatish @carolpreflatish.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#QuestPit #Q #RF #A One witch holds the power to heal and one man has the power to change everything. To master her powers, she must risk her heart with the possibility it could unravel her fate. ❤️Romantic urban fantasy 🧙Ancestral Magic 🖤Chaos Magic 🌪️Dangerous Magic 👫Friends to Lovers
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Ichor Magazine @ichormagazine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Announcing Ichor Magazine, an amateur magazine of sword and sorcery touched by the sublime. A home for new authors dipping their pen into the violet ink of unknown horror. Not ready for a NESS submission yet? We may be your perfect intro market. Opening for subs September 1st 2026
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Hilary Van Hoose @hilaryvh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
THE CAT OF VERSAILLES 🐈🏰🇫🇷📚 12k children’s chapter book w series potential Wishbone X Stillwater Adapted from original script that won • Austin Film Festival 2nd Round • Sundance Episodic Lab 2nd Round • Inevitable Foundation Semifinalist • Coverfly Red List Top 1% #Q #F #Dis #QuestPit #KidLit
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