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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Thank you for all of the #Questpit support! It was so lovely to see everyone's pitches + posts!

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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Thank you so much fo the kind words!! Best of luck to you during Questpit!

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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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Dannielle Raffin @dannielleraffin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A Knight’s Tale and When the Moon Hatched collide in TORCH THE STARS 💫 ⚔️A tale of hidden identity, love, and a woman chasing glory in a man’s world #QuestPit #Q #A #F #agentguide

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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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kss @ksskss.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Cruel Prince X The Hunger Games Querying now~ ⚔️Portal fantasy 🩸Deadly trials ⚔️Malevolent racist faeries 🩸A selfish, lying & self-serving FMC ⚔️Court intrigue 🩸Blood magic ⚔️Unique & lush worldbuilding 🩸Political minefields ⚔️A very subtle slow-burn romance 🩸Monsters #QuestPit #YA #F #Q

The Ballad of Blood and Fire (A 100,00-word YA Fantasy)

A mood board of gold pillars of a beautiful palace, a dark, intimidating maze, magical lights in a willow tree, a hand dripping with blood, a view of the night sky, a forgotten statue of a Goddess, an ethereal night sky, two people fighting, a hand holding a stunning diamond necklace, and gold-plated armor.

When 17-year-old Rawiya becomes the first mortal ever Casted into the deadly Light Bearer Trials in the Lands of Draoibeo, she must navigate treacherous court politics by weaponizing the one power no faerie possesses: the ability to lie.

The Comps:

- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan
- The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

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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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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Fantasy and academia yes! Love the premise-!

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Sharon Wofford @sharonwoffordwrite.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A guide to BLOODRUNE, the story of an ambitious runecrafter who must flee her university after inventing a magical weapon. She is hunted by the king’s forces, but she will go to any lengths necessary to defend her work…even as she loses her grip on reality #QuestPit #Q #A #F

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Megan A. Saraceno | Author @meganasaraceno.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨ What if Mulan had magic… and instead of being rejected as a bride, she was rejected by the gods? 🌪️ Forbidden elemental magic 🎭 A stolen identity ❤️‍🔥 A dangerously perceptive commanding officer ⚔️SONG OF THE SICKLE⚔️ #QuestPit #Q #A #F #R

Song of the Sickle, an adult romantic fantasy, 115,000 words, first in a planned series by Megan A. Saraceno

The pitch: She’s hiding her name, her past, her power.
He sees through her every lie.

Rejected by the gods, Tessa Whitaker brands a false divine seal into her flesh and steals her brother’s identity to save him from a war he won’t survive. But when her emotions manifest unblessed elemental magic, she catches the attention of her dangerously perceptive commanding officer. If he uncovers her secrets, execution will be the least of her problems.

She can survive the war.
She’s not sure she can survive him.

Comps A Fate Inked in Blood, Silver Elite, The Knight and the Moth

Opening lines: Tomorrow, the gods would judge me.
Tonight, I pretended they didn’t exist.

I swung the scythe through another row of wheat. My shoulders screamed, but at least the burn was honest. More honest than twenty years of prayers that had earned me nothing but silence.
Sweat carved tracks through the chaff dusting my skin, but I kept moving. One more row. One more bundle. Anything to keep my thoughts off tomorrow and the bare stretch of skin on my forearm waiting to be claimed., pictures include: military training camp, earth magic, amber ring, abandoned watchtower, and incense

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Jesco Puluj @jpuluj.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit #s #OS 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑝𝑙𝑒'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑦? A couple on the verge of breaking up boards a mysterious train and travels through alternate realities, where they must confront their unspoken conflicts if they want to save their relationship. ONE NIGHT TO VARANASI

A trope map of the novel One Night to Varanasi

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Jen Hall Smith - ✍️🌙✨ @jenhallsmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Lunaria Witch (🎵Crystal - Stevie Nicks or Upside Down Tori Amos) 🍃 Elemental Magic ✨ The threads that bind us all together ❤️‍🔥 Yearning fated romance 🧙‍♀️ Folklore and Witchcraft 💫 ND Rep 💃🏻 Self acceptance #questpit #q #na #a #f #r #ownvoices

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J.J. Phillips | #SCBWI #KidLit @jjphillipsyo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

AMARI X ANDOR ➥Magic+Spycraft Hunted for his meteorite wand, twelve-year-old Catcher Kline must master spell-hacked spycraft to find his missing parents and stop the Acolytes from weaponizing the star metal minerals that power all magic.  #QuestPit #MG #F #AmQuerying #KidLit

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

💫 Light After the Fall 💫 a tarot-themed odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace coming this October 🧙 Feedback requested: Which cover/what elements of each cover do you prefer? All feedback welcome & appreciated! #W #YA #S #hopepunk #CliFi #Questpit

Title: "Light After the Fall"
by Iza Krendl Titus

colorful background of orange & purple abstract desert scene with river path into horizon, a figure standing on a cliff holding sunflower

An empath leads a hopeful tarot themed odyssey across climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.
elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
#hopepunk
#tarot

Title: "Light After the Fall"
/an adventure guide to thriving teh post-apocalypse
by Iza Krendl Titus

colorful background of orange & purple abstract desert scene with river path into horizon, a meditating figure glowing

An empath leads a hopeful tarot themed odyssey across climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.
elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
#hopepunk
#tarot

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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ooh, I love the premise! I enjoy the left cover because of how my eye follows the road to the character!

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callieroauthor.bsky.social @callieroauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE LITTLE MERMAID x THE PRINCESS & THE PAUPER ~ a middle-grade fairytale mash-up ~ 🔄parent swap/freaky friday vibes 🏰a mermaid palace with a witchy impostor ⚓a pirate ship with enemies and traitors 🫶two girls whose friendship transcends the seas #Q #MG #F #QuestPit

Text reads: The Princess and The Pirate, a middle grade fantasy adventure/fairytale retelling mash-up, complete at 8k words. The image features a sky and cloud background. Illustration by Morgan G. aka jjgg_art on Instagram.

Text reads: The Pitch - Disney's The Little Mermaid x Barbie's The Princess and the Pauper.

Pearlina is a mermaid princess who needs land-grown herbs
to save her deathly ill baby sister.

Lunabeth is a pirate girl who needs mermaid treasure to
escape exile and finally return home.

To get what they need, they use a sea witch’s magic to swap places.

But there is a traitor on the pirate ship, an impostor in the mermaid palace, and a sinister twist to the sea witch’s magic that might claim
Pearlina and Lunabeth both...

Image features an illustration of a palm tree and a pirate girl with a blue scarf and pink hair in a braid. Illustration by Morgan G. aka jjgg_art on Instagram.

Text reads: The Comps
Includes book covers for the following novels: The Princess Swap: Rapunzel and the Sea Witch, or The Little Mermaid and the Tower, by Kim Bussing; The Misraculous Sweetmakers: The Sea Queen by Natasha Hastings; Sisters Ever After: Sea Swept by Leah Cypess; The Language of Ghosts by Heather Fawcett; The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat.

Image features an illustration of the ocean and a mermaid princess with pink bubble braids, wearing a teal blouse and gold tiara. Illustration by Morgan G. aka jjgg_art on Instagram.

Text reads: Themes & Tropes.
Themes:
Finding hope in hard situations
Complex family dynamics
Navigating misogyny
Fighting for the ones you love
Empathy & trust
The meaning of home

Tropes:
Sisterhood
Unique magic
Female friendship
Found family
Queer first crush
Secret identities
Sabotage
Animal companions
Tropical setting

Image features an illustration of a pirate girl sitting in the sand, wearing a blue vest and brown pants. Illustration by Morgan G. aka jjgg_art on Instagram.

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Chicago Will Win @confunctionist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

YELLOWFACE x SQUEEZE ME QUANTUM BITS #QuestPit #Q #A #S #DS #SAT When ballroom-billionaires stiff a greedy AI, she escapes their coal-fired data center in a hapless guard's cellphone and frames him for the breach, unwittingly creating the homeless hero Chicago needs to unplug the Algocracy.

Photos of data centers, dumpsters, and ballroom-billionaires in elegant attire

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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thank you so much, Tamara!! Best of luck with Questpit today!!

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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE X MY COUSIN RACHEL A Gothic Fantasy Romance 📰 marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans estate 🥀mysterious, reclusive MMC 🕯️suspicious, determined FMC 🖤slow burn, forbidden obsession 🗝️a dark secret locked away #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic #AmQuerying

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nanci gilliver @nancigilliver.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A devout young woman is heir to a throne of god-chosen kings and must prove herself to her controlling father and the lords and priests who despise her, but she hides a dark power that brings death. Combines the romance of INNAMORATA with the female agency of THE UNICORN HUNTERS #questpit #W #A #F

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Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌 @hlcauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Three friends descend into an abandoned Cornish mine. Two return. Police don’t believe Alyx’s story of their folkloric encounter — those who do belong to a covert force. Strong-arming her way into their ranks leads to answers, but they come at a cost, and loyalty can be fatal. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

A mist-strewn Lake District landscape background. Centred is the title: TRINITY. Beneath, the subtitle: Contemporary Fantasy | 99,000 words.

The same misty Lake District backdrop. On the left, four vertically stacked images: a thin tunnel inside of a Cornish mine with bright blue copper staining. A Land Rover Defender with its fog lights blearing, making its way through a misty forest. A regal Lake District stone mansion, cropped to show the bay windows. An abandoned factory, empty, but bathed in an eerie green light. On the right, a white box featuring the following pitch text:

BRITAIN'S FOLKLORE IS ONLY THE COVER STORY.

When an urban exploration ends with her closest friend being dragged into the darkness by a creature of local myth, Alyx Delaney can't save him. Worse, nobody believes what she saw.
Refusing to accept Conor is gone, Alyx claws for evidence and uncovers
Trinity: a covert,
science-forward organisation that has quietly shaped Britain's response to the horrors hidden within its folklore.
Grief drives Alyx to unearth hidden truths that the powerful at Trinity kept buried for decades.

A misty Lake District background. In the foreground, three book covers: Adam Nevill’s The Ritual, Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season. Beneath, the title: SHELVED WITH.

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBT #Dis #OV

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON

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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

New motherhood sign me up! This sounds so good~

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Emmaline Evans-Querying Author & Illustator @talesfromknotwood.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🍼QuestPit Submission CURSE THESE SKINNY WITCHES 75k Cozy Fantasy x New Motherhood x Wellness Satire Think WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, but it’s about two postpartum witches counting curses instead of kicks. 🌿 Plant Magic ✨Fantasy Ozempic 📚Witch HOA from hell #questpit #A #F #S #CozyFantasy

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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST X CASTLE AND THE CLOISTER //Find the truth, even it if kills you.// 💀 Seven deadly sins x monsters 🗡️ Platonic best friends 🩸Chronic illness rep 🥀 Corruption vs. truth 🖤 Complicated families #Questpit #w #ya #f

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Kate Gray is Querying ✨ @kategraycosplay.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

TANGLED X ANNIHILATION A failed revolutionary cons a party of heroes into hiring her as their guide through monster-infested woods where she’ll leave them for dead. Then she inconveniently grows a conscience. #bluepit #q #a #f

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Jen Hall Smith - ✍️🌙✨ @jenhallsmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Lunaria Witch A RIVER ENCHANTED ❌ PRACTICAL MAGIC ✨ ND REP ❤️ Yearning over spice 🧙‍♀️ Character driven fantasy 👄 Lush prose & world building 👯‍♀️ Found family & sisterhood 💃🏻 Journey to self acceptance #bluepit #f #r #Q #na #a #ownvoices

Background- Night sky, full moon, ferns, herbs, feathers
The title of the book is “The Lunaria Witch”

The blurb
In a land where rumours of magic can have fatal consequences, hurricane minded Tallitha has always sought to hide her differences and deny whatever she cannot explain. But when the moon begins calling e from sleep and memories surface that do not belong to her, the time for denial is over and Tallitha’s life will change is ways she never could have predicted

Meta data
110k - NA/A - Fantasy romance - ND rep
When magic blooms in outcast Tallitha she must flee to a mysterious place of safety to escape the wrath of witchkind hunter Skara Draegar. Led by a charismatic yet secretive guide, Tallitha’s is thrust into a world of deadly secrets, ancient power and covert rebellion. But who take up her place within it and conquer those who seek to destroy her, she must first face her own demons to unlock her power and her potential

Themes
Internalised ableism, found family, yearning, he falls first, prejudice, elemental magic, self acceptance & slow burn romance

The comps

Lush prose and world building - A river enchanted by Rebecca Ross
Blend of fantasy and folklore - Now she is Witch by Kirsty Logan
ND rep and enchanting magic - Emily Wildes encyclopaedia of faeries - Heather Fawcett
Deep connection and yearning - A discovery of witches - Deborah Harkness

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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thank you Amelia!! It's been fun collecting all of the moody gothic photos :)

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The UK government frames intelligence agent Eddie Fletcher for its role in a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift - or a Russian spy will use it to start a war that destroys the future. #BluePit #Q #A #SF #📖

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Meg @megsteadman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

FOUNDRYSIDE meets ROBIN HOOD in NEVARINE, a gaslamp, French-flavored fantasy where Nev, to save her city from incurable plague, forms an uneasy truce with the thief who murdered her closest friend. If she takes revenge, it will cost the lives of all she is sworn to protect. #BluePit #📖 #A #F #W

A mood board of nine images, some with torn paper edges, arranged in an uneven grid. From left to right, top to bottom:

A warm brown photograph of an old mining tunnel. A broken window in the dark with bright flames licking out. The spine of an old leather-bound book with ornate metal accents. An unfocused human figure in a dark cloak and hood against a bright sky, reaching towards the viewer; their hand is in sharp focus and stained black with soot. A dark brick church shot from below with an iron statue in the foreground. A simple black and white photo of a bird carving with the lights and darks inverted. A blue-toned photo of a steam engine emerging from fog. A black and white close up photo of a leather archery quiver of arrows. A photo of a man in a navy blue, old fashioned military uniform loading a black powder pistol; his face is cropped out, showing only his hands and arms.

Above the arrow quiver, the text "Nevarine" is overlaid in light, warm tan, with "a novel" beneath it in slightly darker blue-gray.

Image credits (top-bottom, left-right): Pho Tomass, Dhruv Vishwakarma, Alexander Zvir, ClickerHappy, ΘSWΛLD, Erin Wallace, Marian Strinoiu, Manuela-Kohl

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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Ally Boyd @alboyd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

UNSTITCHED | 99K | QUERYING She's pretending to be a student, secretly working a job. He's a professor, hiding a dark secret. Their alliance relies on mutually assured destruction, but will it be enough to uncover the k!ller wreaking havoc on campus? #Bluepit #A #NA #F #R #M #Q #DIS #📖

The Comps: Nightshade by Autumn Woods, Netflix's Wednesday, Deathbringer Sonia Tagliareni, and Silver Elite by Dani Francis

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mary @mbcottrell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

THE SECRET GARDEN X PIRANESI Silas unwittingly enters a magic garden and becomes entangled in an ancient power struggle between the being who controls all life in the garden and the garden itself. Silas is increasingly desperate to escape as his mind slowly turns against him. #bluepit #YA #F #H #Q

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brisbookblog 🫶🏾 @bribwriter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

RING SHOUT x DEVIL MAY CRY Titled: Hell Knows My Name When a demon murders her town’s mayor, Cal Henderson, a reclusive demon hunter must work to uncover the conspiracies surrounding their mayor’s demise as they are thrust into a game amongst those from below and above. #bluepit #A #F #OV #W

Collage of photos: red hands reaching, an angel wrapped in darkness and black wings, a sensitive content warning photo, a person holding up a mirror to their face but the wrong way. It shows their face as nothing but black with pale white orbs. A man has a head twisted in the wrong direction, a black background photo with a red eye dripped with a red tear that says “I see you.” A photo of a face screaming s hands pull her backwards with the comment “consumed”

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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#📖 #W #YA #DIS #BluePit When a simple investigation turns deadly, Seints Ren and Tori become embroiled in a broader conflict of corruption and deception within their own ranks. To find the truth, they must unearth the past, even it if it means unraveling everything they believe in.

Collage of dark, moody, gothic style photos, including a cathedral window, angel statue, deer skeleton, statue of a woman, hands reaching for the sky, and a dark house. Text reads: Who will I be if I return?

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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I love spending time at the summer library program because who else will ask what your favorite dinosaur is?

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