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Wolfe 🪳 @wolfehorror.itch.io · 26/03/2026

Ik it’s a lofty number but if like 100 of you bought an ebook from me I could afford to replace my iPad which is about to shit the bed 👎 and happens to be my main source of income (coms) So if you like strange horror & supporting indie check out my books here shop.wolfehorror.com/collection/e...

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H.S. Wolfe - eBooks

HS Wolfe is a queer author and artist from the midwest now residing in Denmark with their spouse and two bonsai trees. When they are not juggling manuscripts he can be found wrestling with procreate a...

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✨Riley✨ is in Reverent @rileydaemon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Some 15 year old story idea that I never gave up on for some reason. (My response to the fact I think there should be more xenofiction books for adult audiences.) #sludgepit #WIP #H #xenofiction

SLUDGEPIT
A novella about my old edgy DeviantART OC
Xenofiction but make it horror
The eerie dead silence of winter
MC is a Samoyed dog
It's like if Balto or some other dog story was mashed up with Hereditary
Questioning if what’s happening is real or not
White Demon

SLUDGEPIT WHITE DEMON
TALKING ANIMAL FICTION X SUPERNATURAL/PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR
Shiro has always tried to be the best samoyed that he can be, living in the small Alaskan town of Sycamore. Sure, he might be weaker and much more cowardly than his noble sled-dog sister, but being loyal to his humans is just as important.
However, Shiro's life is soon thrown into turmoil when he meets a wildfire of a schipperke named Sage. A dog with a mystic sense of adventure, she convinces him and his friends to go exploring the recently unearthed Devil's Maw, a strange system of caves not too far from where they live.
Little do the canines know that their little adventure will release something much darker. Something unholy with a taste for animal blood.
RELEASING OCTOBER OF 2026

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✨Riley✨ is in Reverent @rileydaemon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

#Sludgepit LETS GOOOOO! This time I made these in advance and didn’t wait till the last minute to put them together so I made little drawings for them. Here’s one for Unleashing Belial, the second book in my series. #WIP #Dystopian #Supernaturalfiction

SLUDGEPIT

Lots of secrets abound

"Looks like we're gonna have to kill this guy, Steven.”

Rebelling against the government

The "gay agenda" is making it legal to kiss demons

Catching feelings for the ancient deity you worship

Multi-POV

Unleashing Bellal
Bringing Forth Belial Book 2

SLUDGEPIT
UNLEASHING BELIAL
SUPERNATURAL X DYSTOPIAN
Being nearly caught by the Paladins of Exorcism, Alena's new vow to Belial begins to weigh heavily on her shoulders along with her growing feelings towards the demonic king. Her friends are willing to risk it all to forge a coven with her to take on the government, but will she be able to find others that do as well? Is it even possible to dismantle a system as brutal as Lenoria's?
After the incident at Alena's house the P.O.E. intern, Vero, struggles to come to terms with the fact that there are demons in the kingdom.
They just can't be seen with the naked eye. Haunted by their promise to keep Alena's demonic worship a secret, Vero goes to the only person they can trust: the king of Lenoria, Byron. Thus, the man sends Vero out on a seemingly impossible task, sending their previous monotonous life into turmoil.
As both Alena's and Vero's paths cross again, something darker begins to brew under Lenoria's heinous surface. Leading both of them to realize that not everyone around them can be trusted.
RELEASING SPRING OF 2026

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anita@escrevendo gays 🌈 @anakidd.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

bringing my short botanical horror to #sludgepit A grieving biologist loses herself in the woods looking for her missing ex. A peculiar comfort awaits in the heart of the forest. 🌱 vore 🌱 gore 🌱 unlabeled aphrodisiacs 🌱 plantfuckery 🌱 9K words link: anakidd.itch.io/drosera #P #HR

Cover of Doce Drosera showing a dark skinned woman with red and yellow tentacles entangled around her breasts and stomach, her mouth open and sweat drops on her body. We can see strands of brown hair and her open mouth, but her eyes are covered by a black line in the top of the illustration. In the black line there is the quote Forests are no place for lover's quarrels in white. The title Doce Drosera is in the lower half of the illustration, over her stomach and separated from the art by a pink background with very low transparence. Below the title we have the credits: story by anita and cover art by clara (mayalla on bsky)

Drosera magnifica - sundew with long green and pink stems covered in glue drops to attract food

“So? Are you coming? Last chance, darling.”

“I’ll pass. I have a paper to finish. Bring me a souvenir.”

The brunette leaned on the couch, focusing on running fingers through her loose ponytail to avoid the ginger’s unforgiving green eyes.

“Ah, so now you’re a nerd. Fine, Van. I’ll bring you the ugliest mug I can find.”

“Thanks, babe.” She winked, stealing the joint for herself. “I can always trust your bad taste.”

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Behold‼️ WHITEFISH. An M/M Contemporary Gothic/erotic novella set in the 1980s. A high school senior must decide whether to continue his beguiling father's legacy, or break away from the horrific cycle baked into the DNA of "American Family Values". It's not as easy as he hopes. #sludgepit #wip #E

a navy blue 70s car parked on a grassy hill. in white text: whitefish, three cheers for America's sweethearts.

as if written on a flash card: sludgepit. "local celebrity (45M) jealous of son's (18M) prom date (17F). is massive fucking loser about it."; He's 18 but like. c'mon man.; There's "toxic" and then there's THIS.; A 1980s American Gothic; WHITEFISH; Smut with plot; cis!M/trans!M; D/S dynamics; "do you WANT him or do you just want to BE him?"-type gender BS; daddy-o/sonny boy; a psychological horror masquerading as a "romance". The resurrection of Bt. Hearst.

Vincent Wright, charming, beguiling, and All-American family man—beloved television personality & Whitefish, Montana's Golden Boy—has a secret he will never tell. Milo Wright, high school senior, bully, and rebel without a cause—the son who'd been born a daughter—is determined to exploit it. Milo is off to college in four months. Vincent knows he's never returning home. They might as well play this depraved little game. A contemporary gothic.

a three by three moodboard: a diner booth, an open door, someone standing on an old TV, a small mountain town, a beam of light over bed sheets, an 'on air' sign, a 70s TV set up, a person's shadow, a young person laying back on snow with their face hidden by red and black squiggles. on top of the images is a piece of flash card that says "Whitefish, Montana, class of '86"

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Revon M. Castillo 🏳️‍⚧️💖 Writing !! @themythiclibrary.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

ALLIGATOR BOY To avoid the past, Kross tries not to leave his house unless beckoned by the charming & mysterious Malik, his "lover". When one call leaves him stumbling into every face he's avoided, Kross finds himself unearthing secrets the swamp itself can't bury. #sludgepit #wip #rf #e #h #a #dr

The background of a cypress swamp is covered by a gold disc, and the silhouette of a man standing before it on the upper half of the promo, with the author's name centered and at the very top, stating: revon m. castillo. On the lower half of the image, the lines of weeping willow trees on either side sweep inwards towards the title: Alligator Boy, as well as summary of the genres/themes, listed as: southern gothic, adult romance, bloody horror, queer revenge.

The background of a cypress swamp is covered by a gold disc in the upper half of the promo, with the author's name centered and at the very top, stating: revon m. castillo, as well as the title of the book, Alligator Boy. Below it, reads: tw: transphobia. On the lower half of the image, the lines of weeping willow trees on either side sweep inwards. It is covered then by black grunge paper on low opacity to allow the white text to come through that reads an excerpt from the book itself: "There's never anything to watch on the television anymore.

Since the electrical fire at the electronic store burnt the place down to a fine crisp, Kross and his mother haven't bothered to get another TV satellite. They once had plans to. But after they found their original satellite dish broken and vandalized on their front porch, they both came to a quiet agreement that it wasn't worth the hassle. While they never exchanged words, Kross could still remember the way his mother pointedly ignored the spray painted word tr*nny smeared across the remaining, intact pieces of it. It wasn't worth the trouble to get a new one then, or now."

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Ezra Arndt @arndtezra.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

My contribution to #sludgepit is my Gothic horrormance with people-eating necromancers, dubiously consented to servitude, and a feral black cat main character who would fight anything and anyone. #HR #DR #WIP

A dimmed photo of juicy-looking pomegranate seeds and the following text: The lich had the same warm aura, but instead of the welcoming heat of a radiant springtime sun after the cold winter, it was the aura of a fading twilight sun. Still trying to warm the world, but it left a bitter sensation upon the skin. “Come.” The lich’s voice was soft as his crimson-stained fingers curled around the curved handle of his cane, which Dobroslav numbly held onto. “You said you’d follow me into the depths of hell?” The lich’s smile was a warm contrast to his corpse-cold grasp on Dobroslav’s hand. “Let’s go deeper in, then.” Cannibal Candy by Ezra Arndt.

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Felix Graves 🏳️‍⚧️ he/him @authfelixgraves.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Eat Me #WIP #sludgepit #HR “You can’t consume me without belonging to me. You’ll never be rid of the pieces of me that cling to your insides, pooling into your pores, your glands, your viscera. When you are me, and I am you…this is love. And no one will be able to kill me in any way that matters.”

Eat Me WIP excerpt:

You can’t consume me without belonging to me. You’ll never be rid of the pieces of me that cling to your insides, pooling into your pores, your glands, your viscera. When you are me, and I am you…this is love. And no one will be able to kill me in any way that matters.

Eat Me WIP description:

It is an honor to be chosen to worship a goddess, one Ayuni is quick to accept despite the requirement of eternal chastity. But once she meets the goddess in the flesh, the intoxicating allure of this beautiful and powerful immortal might be too much to bear. Keeping her virtue intact is impossible when an entirely different kind of worship is within reach.

Dewi has spent centuries above and apart from mortals, never questioning her role as a goddess. when Ayuni, her eager new devotee, begins to make peculiar advances, dewi finally sees the loneliness of her own holiness. What depths of depravity will she descend into for a chance at love?

Eat Me WIP tropes:

Corruption arc. Cannibalism as love. Women’s wrongs. Purity culture and shame. Sapphic tragedy. Dark/toxic romance.

Eat Me WIP inspirations:

Angels Before Man by Rafael Nicolás. The Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray. The Brothers Grimm. Salem (tv series). Landscapes of Ephemera duology by Anne Bishop. Insolence by Gwin Savage.

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🐣 Migi ➡️ Sekaicon Artist Alley Table #I5 @tdcloud.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Bonus project for #sludgepit since I'm toying with this short story as well. 🍄 eroguro 🍄 vore 🍄 visceral pantheon 🍄 divine incest 🍄 the kind of cannibalism Vessel is actually singing about in all those Sleep Token songs #wip #dr #h

A muted moodboard with graphics of mushrooms, pomegranates, and teeth. Text: GODFLESH; a morbid pantheon | cannibalism | eroguro | hunger x decay.

“Hunger is just want that’s grown teeth,” came the next crooning lilt, the next wave of fetid, romantic waft. The rot clung to Hunger’s lips and Decay could do nothing but stare. “Should I show you, sweet Cousin? Should I venerate you properly for a change?”

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Maxime Jaz🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @maximejaz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

#sludgepit #WIP #R #DR Joining this year with my dystopian sci-fi. In a future where the rich rule the lower-level humans on a rotting Earth, two slaves are thrown together amidst the horrors, and fall in love. 👬an enslaved man and a trans man pet ⛓️🦋sentient objects 🫃forced mpreg 💦lactation

pic collage of 3 on the left and right and two in the middle, on black background.
Left pics top to bottom: a man's wide blue eye, a shabby city part at night, a man's chest and arm, greyscale, with a purple graphic chain over it. Caption River
Middle pics two men hugging greyscale, two men's lips close, under a showering water.
Right pics: a man's green eye, rimmed in black, a futuristic city landscape in blue tones, a man's thin back, ribs showing, greyscale. Caption Ciel
Quote : “You were free?”
“Yes...”
“What’s it like, to be free?”
“You can do whatever you want...”
“I already can.”
“No, you can’t... but you don’t know that. You’ve known nothing else.”

Maxime Jaz at the bottom

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🐣 Migi ➡️ Sekaicon Artist Alley Table #I5 @tdcloud.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Happy #sludgepit to those who celebrate. Currently working on PHILAMAITOS, book 3 in the #dverse, a vtm inspired dark vampire universe. 💀 1933 Prohibition Chicago 💀 Vampire Fightclubs 💀 Faithlessness vs Desperation 💀 Obsession over Romance 💀 Vampire Politics 💀 Post WW1 Trauma #wip #t #dr(?)

A teal moodboard with the text: Philamaitos #sludgepit.

Images of a darkly lit speakeasy, male hands holding a rosary, a spilled glass of wine, a male hand binding itself for boxing, a dark city street, and hands with brass knuckles clasped in bloody prayer.

Text: “Me or them, Sammy. Who’s the lesser evil?” and “Something tells me it wouldn’t matter what I’d rather,” Sammy said, voice lemon-tart. “Something tells me you’ve come this way before.”

Philamaitos: #sludgepit

The Premise: Sammy, the owner and operator of an underground speakeasy, is the illegitimate son of a prominent, AWOL Chicago mobster. The boss of the same family has died and he finds himself now embroiled in a power vacuum that threatens to destabilize the entire city. To make matters worse, he’s next in line to the Luminary eldership. Relying on James, a rogue Triarii who is more loyal to the task of maintaining his claim on his blood doll Sammy than his own organization, Sammy must keep his head above the subterfuge as the second-in-line to the eldership sets him in his sights and refuses to ignore the one obstacle in his path to the top.

The Dynamic: Sammy wound his fingers around the dog tags and used them like a leash to close the meager distance between them. He hovered his lips a scant inch from James’ jaw. “There’s something to be said for your… initiative, James.”

“Now I know that ain't a compliment.”

“You sure about that?"

James grimaced even as he allowed himself to be pulled closer, Sammy’s thigh slotting into place like a batter sliding home. “Coming from you? Almost definitely.”

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🔞Zack Prince Books🔞 @esteemedbastard.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Grace seeks aid from the great wizard Invokore, but it comes at a price: for one night, she is bound to him and his tower. WIZARD BIG MAGICALS: 🌺TFxM, trans woman subs 🧙‍♂️Older man on younger woman 🍈Breast growth 🪄Magic sex toys 🍆Silly and sexy #sludgepit #WIP #erotica #F #adult

A gradient blue and black background with a white tower in the bottom left hand corner. From the top window of the tower, yellow and white sparklers shoot out. The book is titled Wizardly Big Magicals by Zack Prince.

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Revon @ commissions open!! @themythicbunny.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

‼️ URGENT MUTUAL AID REQUEST ‼️ Please help me move out safely. I'm being kicked out of my current living space. I need to be out by April 1st. The details are in the post. I need a min.of 2000 CAD. Ko-fi link here: ko-fi.com/themythicbun... #mutualaid #trans #disabled #helpsky #disabledcrowdfund

Revon, a disabled man wearing his brace and using his cane, stands under a spotlight with the words in large letters: HELP ME LEAVE MY ABUSIVE HOUSE! aka, my abusive mother is kicking me out. Please. HELP.

Revon, a disabled man wearing his brace and using his cane, stands under a spotlight with the words detailing his request with some words emphasized: I'm making a mutual aid request. I need help.
My mother has issued me an eviction notice. I have to leave by April 1st, or she will kick me out with police force. She has threatened to do this a couple times. This time, I know she means it.
I will be moving in with @CryptAesthetics, who has been made aware of every step of her abuse since it began. We're aiming to move out by the end of March, and I need assistance raising money to pay for first & last month's rent, plus movers for myself since most of my friends do not drive, but can help pack. Whatever else we make will help me puchase house essentials & mobility assistance, and help pay part of @CryptAesthetics first/last, too.
We are looking to raise a minimum of 2000 CAD. 1500 for first/last on my part, 300 for movers, & 200 for a new mattress for myself.
If you can help, please donate to my ko-fi: ko-fi.com/themythicbunny or my paypal, linked in the replies of this post.
In the following image, I will be detailing the situation as it's unfolded, with the added notion that I do not have steady access to the kitchen, and thus haven't been able to keep or have food steadily since August, and must constantly order food, putting myself in debt to feed myself. I've saved up 200 the last two months by limiting food.

Revon, a disabled man wearing his brace and using his cane, stands under a spotlight with the words detailing his situation, with some words emphasized with different colour: In December 2023, I re-connected with my abusive mother who claimed to have changed and was 'doing better'. After a couple of months, I thought this change was permanent, and she made the offer to move in with her in April 2024, in my childhood home.
This was my mistake. I trusted her, and put faith in her, hoping that the change she displayed was permanent. It was not.
For the past two years, her treatment towards me has worsened significantly, especially these last several months. It turns out, just because someone doesn't beat you anymore, doesn't mean they've stopped being abusive altogether. She has completely iced me out while removing access to essentials such as access to the bathroom on the same floor my room is (I am disabled. I can't be constantly going up and down stairs. She forces me to do this anyways by locking the door every night), removed toilet paper handles, taken away essentials I helped purchase with my own money, financially abused and harassed me, gaslit me, has weaponized, discriminated, and mocked my mental and physical disabilities, because they 'made her life worse', threatened to keep me hostage in her house until I paid her back money that I owed her, and turned every single one of these situations into her being the victim. Now, she's misgendering me and actively insulting me and my siblings loudly on the phone and to friends, slamming doors, cussing and cursing about me when I'm home, and doing everything she can to scare me.
It's working. I'm scared. And I need out.

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Niranjan 🇮🇳 @ormakal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

So many genres, so many books at only $1 per book. This offer is there only till the 21st, so grab your copies before it's too late! 💙📚 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 itch.io/b/3231/small...

A graphic with 36 covers with text "Get 36 books for $36. Itch-io Bundle for Short Story/Novellas. Small is Magical. August 17 to 21.

Pilot Neto and his Holographic Elves
Visual Snow
The God Sun
Only My Eyes Move: The First Nightmare
The Man Who Was Born a Wolf
Rotten Roots
Dark Heart of Ilmoure
Dust & Lightning
Always an After
The Amber Isle
Gift of Light
Moral Laundry
Hunt Monsters, Do Magic, & Fall in Love
There Be Monsters: Hunter and Bait
Slutty Sorcerers
The Reckoning
Society's Foundlings
The Mouse & the Dragon
I Know You're Still In There
Rom and Yuli
The Selkie and the Minstrel
The Casebook of Harriet George, volume 1: The Dinosaur Hunters
Reset
Where Dreams Are Lost: The Second Nightmare
Someone Else's Horror Story
Emergence
A Magical Love Story 1
Love at First Bite
Water's Edge
Other Future Stories
The Casebook of Harriet George, volume 2: A Spy in the Deep

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

👁️ COVER REVEAL 👁️ Announcing BE NOT AFRAID, my fast-paced survival horror novella for fans of disturbing angels, deadbeat guitarists, and lead pipes as a weapon. Join Trent as he has the worst night of his life. Coming DEC 9th! 👁️ Pre-Order & details: sjean.carrd.co#benotafraid 💙📚🩸📢📚

A description graphic detailing the plot of Be Not Afraid by S. Jean. It reads:

"Deadbeat Trent Cain can't catch a break. Life's been one disaster after another, rent's always due, and he's always late. Even his band doesn't want anything to do with him anymore and playing the guitar was the one joy he had left in life.

When he takes a shortcut home through the park at 3AM, he walks right into another disaster: five angels waiting to greet him. Unfortunately, despite their proclamations of be not afraid, they mean him harm. His only hope is another angel wielding a lead pipe, but there’s something familiar about this one..."
At the bottom is where to find it to pre-order it, which is:
books.earlronove.com/benotafraid

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Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔 @voicesofvalhoon.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

ARC and street team sign ups for Songs of Broken Bells are now live! When a hungry flame reawakens and threatens everything Líadan holds dear, she must choose whether she’ll give in or fight back. But she doesn’t have to do it alone. Sign up bellow! ⬇️ forms.gle/BZZV6HAP4oqF... [💙📚] [📚 🌈] [📚🪐]

The cover for Songs of Broken Bells by Lilly Lockwood. It features the four main characters arranged in a diamond formation, a stained glass design at the top with a sun on one side and shadows on the other, and a string of cracked bells on the sides.
Liadan is at the bottom, holding up a candle. She has orange skin, silver hair, black rams horns, and black markings on her arms. She's wearing a green cloak and a yellow dress. Vasil is to her left. He is also holding a candle. Vasil has brown skin with a bark-like texture with patches of paler skin and moss. His hair is brown and curly. He is wearing a green caftan with yellow filigree. Minno is on the right, also holding a candle. They have pale skin, blonde hair with braided sideburns, and round framed glasses. They are wearing a white shirt with part of their kilt (in a brown and blue tartan) draped over one shoulder. Aila is behind the other three characters with her wings wrapped around them. She has pink skin, magenta hair styled in pigtail braids, and small pointed horns. She has a red scarf.

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Cat Voleur @catvoleur.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

RELEASE DAY!!! My new collection, NORMAL THINGS, is now available for purchase 💮 💀 🖤

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Louis Vernico (they/he) @louisvernico.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

#hotwetpitstop time!! I havent been writing as much as I would hope for life got in the way ofc, but I am glad to be writing regardless. This story already gave me multiple breakdowns (sorry yall) and I am not even halfway. But we move, unlike the world in there. #hotwetqueersummer

We Will Meet In Hell
Hot wet queer summer jam

The end of the world will be brought to you by many things and many people. Horses. Gods. The everlasting fires of hell. Three angels. The Lamb. A lone ranch. An even lonelier cowboy. Too many eyes. No witnesses left. Another cowboy. This one is dying currently. How, you might ask. Well, I'll show you then.

Louis Vernico

background image of a desert, it is very red

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piamo🌸 @piamo.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

👉 ppiamo.itch.io/negative-res... #hotwetpitstop "you're fucking out of control lmao (in a good way, I'm dyin)" -- @lorian.bsky.social "LMFAOOOOO wow I’m so charmed by both of them they’re so terrible" -- @floofylove.bsky.social "I would read a whole angst-ridden novel about these two" --AshSilver

ppiamo.itch.io

Negative Resist by piamo

engineering filth

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Remarkable that we've hit the halfway mark of the jam! Draft 1.5 of Lifting Waits is almost done (my alpha readers are seeing this, hi I'm overdue). The HEA eludes me because denouement is hard to write!! Next steps: illustrations, cover, and learning the formatting software! #hotwetpitstop

"Earth is Earth and Lune is Lune." Angler sighed, forearm across her eyes.
The room fell into the quiet hum of the AC and the steady melody of drums and strings, and Melody felt a shiver run through her beneath her frigid clothes. She thought back to the bulky beast shape that Rowen would shift into. The weight of them, the heat of their breath... "What kind of creature are you, then?" She allowed a grin to split her tusks as she looked over to the retreated elf.
Slowly, Angler lifted her forearm, one vibrant eye peering out at Melody. Her eye rolled away, but her gap toothed grin spread from ear to pointed ear. "Y'wanna take a shower? I hate making a mess with it." Without waiting for an answer, Angler hopped up from the couch and stripped off her wet shirt, revealing absolutely nothing underneath. Her tits were cute and perky, her nipples a strong blue, which surprised Melody, as Rowen's had been more of a purple tone.

A meme board for the book, Lifting Waits. Do you want: Middle-aged protagonists, Poly sapphism, Billionaires went extinct, All my homies are gay D&D OCs, Romantasy meets martial arts movie, Illustrated novella, Monster dongs and slimy transformations, Defeating money with the power of friendship?

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bird 🔞 \(⁠☉⁠д⁠⊙⁠)/ ! @emrynbird.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

It's #hotwetpitstop time for the #hotwetqueersummer jam!!! Because I've been consumed by other projects, I haven't made much progress with my short story HER PEARLS. But I am slowly chipping away at it. Recent victory was finding a poetic way to say "she nutted so hard, she got an orchiectomy" 🦪💦✨

Strings of pearls came cascading onto her tongue, bathing the muscle with sweet salt. She drank them all down, sucking deep, until one of the fruits balanced daintily on her fingertips was no more.
Caught in her ecstatic high, it took Dottie a moment to register what she had been alleviated of. When the warm haze clouding her senses dissipated, a great shock colored her expression. Before Dottie could vocalize her bafflement, the god tenderly squeezed the length balanced on her tongue with her lips and intoned—
“Now the other.”

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Bex 🥀 @angelicspikes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Super late but here's my #HotWetPitch! Just a little moodboard to show off the general vibes of the story as well as a title reveal; Twice Drowned. Western meets Fairytale, Historical meets Fantasy, CowboyxMermaid, a 1950s set adventure with a pinch of horror/romance #wip #r #h #HotWetQueerSummer

A moodboard of images that represent my wip, Twice Drowned, for the #HotWetQueerSummerJam. The first image is a crop of a painting of a blonde woman with a piercing gaze with flowers and leaves in her hair (Ophelia by Ernest Hebert). The second image is a neon sign of a cowboy riding a horse. The third image is a crop of a blonde woman in sunglasses and a hat, evoking the vintage femme fatale. The fourth image is a crop of a male presenting hairy chest with a blue shirt open, exposing a gold cross necklace. The fifth image is a crop of a woman in a flowing silk gown stepping out of the sea. The sixth image is of a vintage motel sign in the middle of the desert. The seventh image is of a mermaid rescuing a man, an illustration from Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid. The eighth image is of a pair of cacti in the desert landscape of Arizona. The ninth image is of a woman, dressed in a long white dress with her hair down, and a man, dressed in black, staring out at a desolare landscape or seascape (Two human beings. The lonely ones by Edvard Munch). The background features a lone figure in blue perched upon a rock formation, staring out to the sea (a crop of Odysseus and Calypson by Arnold Bocklin).

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Dhiyanah @bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I joined @monstermanorbooks.bsky.social's #HotWetQueerSummer jam! 🐉🌊🔥🌴 This story takes place in a corner of a universe I've been building/dreaming up for years. I'll find out more as I keep unfolding it! #HotWetPitch #HotWetPit #WIP #A #F #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #novella

A poster-like graphic with Dhiyanah's painting of sunlight streaming through palm leaves and text overlaid on it, which reads:

# Hot Wet Queer Summer
Meet my work in progress

Halaat the water dragon meets djinn-human Lama when they find themselves in a tropical realm at the edge of Creation. Though full of uncertainties, the pair learn to embrace their new lives and all they've lived through, opening up to new possibilities together.

Quiet fantasy - 10k words
"Water Me" WIP

@byDhiyanah
@byDhiyanah.bsky.social

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Ki @ NyanConning Suguru @magpiecrime.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Limited - What's a fledgeling vampire to do when their sire is murdered, they're the one to discover it, and all signs point to them being the next target for the murderer? #DR #T #WIP #hotwetpitch #hotwetqueersummer

Working title: Limited, a Vampire Crime Thriller by @magpiecrimes
Images show a bloody knife, a club masked in red light, tied hands, and an exposed sexy throat ready to bite.

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Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Excited to share my #hotwetpitch for #hotwetqueersummer !! Swim with Me, Darling is a sapphic horror romance with teeth. ❤️‍🔥 yearning ❤️‍🔥 body horror ❤️‍🔥 supporting women's wrongs ❤️‍🔥 someone's getting eaten (yes like that... and also like that) ❤️‍🔥 sapphic monster polycule #h #r #monsterromance

Moodboard images: murky underwater grotto, spooky moonlit lake, closeup of scales, closeup of piranha like teeth, a man sinking underwater, a silhouette of a woman's shoulders and head above water, two women embracing underwater, several hands reaching upwards, female bodies underwater
Text: "Swim with Me, Darling, a sapphic horror romance by Sylvie Helstaff"

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kauri c. kiliann @deadmanspoems.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Happy #hotwetpitch day! Coming with something small today #hotwetqueersummer #wip #f

A trope map graphic. The background is a photo of water, in the middle is a close-up of a candle with the text 'title & cover to be revealed'. On top is the hashtag #hotwetqueersummer and at the bottom #hotwetpitch. Around the candle is text that says "hurt/occasional comfort", "bpd & npd sapphics", "majorly trans cast", "aroace incubus", "cannibalism", "mc needs a hug".

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Revon M. Castillo 🏳️‍⚧️💖 Writing !! @themythiclibrary.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

#hotwetpitch #hotwetqueersummer #a #r #e #wip 🌊 DE LA MAR, CON AMOR 🌊 Presenting my project for the #HWQS Jam! This is very close to my heart: a mix of Nicaraguan culture with low fantasy and magic, with mermaids and more! An adult romance erotica low fantasy novel(?) coming soon!

A promotional piece for #HotWetPitch displaying a painted beach and ocean, overlaid with a pixelated book cover. De La Mar, Con Amor sits beside it, and a box overlaid on the beach portion states the following: Xionel's grandmother is dead.
In her will she leaves him everything from her home, her wealth, and makes a final plea to him: return to Nicaragua. The one place, in all his travels as a nature photographer, he never had the heart to return to. Xionel makes the decision to go, called by the ache of missing a home and culture he's never known but always loved, and finds the roots his grandmother buried go deeper than he could ever have imagined."

The same beach and sea painting overlaid with the same book with its pixelated cover saying Work In Progress, now centered, with tropes surrounding it. It includes, from left top and counter clockwise to the right, BIPOC trans MC x Cis(?) mermain LI, latin inspired witchcraft & mythos, mermaids & shapeshifters, hot ritual sex, finding your place & identity, family magic, queer rep, and finally: m/m romance.

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Angel 🦉❄️ @rottenborb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

FOX HUNT Rome, 2007. Humidity and smog choke the city, angels patrol the streets looking for demonic activity, and the two most toxic people you know are hooking up in a dirty club bathroom. Good thing there's no strings attached - right? #hotwetpitch #HotWetQueerSummer

A trope map page for Fox Hunt. At the top it says #HotWetQueerSummer and the tropes listed are: Urban Fantasy, Werewolf x Demon, Bullying as Flirting, "You want to fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid", Enemies to ???, "But it's my best friend's brother", Y2k Era Rome, and T!M/M.

In the center is a digital illustration of two men in a graffitied club bathroom. One, Marcus, wears very nu metal era clothes and sits on the counter with a bloody nose and skinned knees, pulling the taller one - Glasya - closer by the shirt. Glasya is grinning, smug, and Marcus is pissed off. It has very bisexual lighting.

The art also belongs to me :3 I drew that

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Claude Hamesh 🏒 mm author @shtetlslut.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It’s #wethotpitch ! Doggy Paddle has 🪩poolside pregnancy sex 🪩 (consensual) baby trapping 🪩 omegaverse mafia

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

MONITORED ACTIVITY rolling in with some— 📼 serial killer POV 📼 trans guy MC is fucked up but gets to have fun with it (until he doesn't) 📼 a single graveyard shift at what seems to be a sentient mall 📼 the true cosmic horror is working minimum wage #HotWetQueerSummerJam #HotWetPitch #WIP #H

in red text: #HotWetQueerSummer, Monitored Activity. in white text: It's the best time to work. High-schoolers have gone to bed, mothers haunt their homes, and the upstanding and respectable have long turned in. All that's left are the people with a story to tell—for the exception of Eddie Conners. Church-going, amicable, straight-laced father of two and husband to a former prom queen; Janice wonders why the hell he's working the graveyard among the unemployable queers and ex-convicts. She has her suspicions but likes to think that Shaw, the young transexual man she and her wife have begrudgingly taken under their wing, is much smarter than that. Horror - 25,000 wc. @astramachina The background is a closeup image of cassette tapes.

in red text: #HotWetQueerSummer, Monitored Activity. in white text: A horror novella about horrible people trapped in a horrible system. And a fucked up mall that may or may not be a cosmic entity wrapped in 2000s nostalgia. Featuring: An elder trans lesbian in constant ownership of all nearby brain cells. A serial killer who is totally absolutely 100% straight. A young trans guy who is desperate to get into said serial killer’s pants. Try it if you like: The Backrooms, The Ring (2002), Bag of Bones by Stephen King, Pulse (2006), V/H/S, The Walten Files, analog/digital horror, & creepypastas. @astramachina On the left side is the current cover of Monitored Activity by Mitch Miller. The background image is an angled photo of a 90s Macintosh desktop.

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🐣 Migi ➡️ Sekaicon Artist Alley Table #I5 @tdcloud.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🍁 fox god x lantern spirit 🍁 melancholic folkloric fantasy 🍁 m x transmasc 🍁 lots of thoughts about death 🍁 #R #F #WIP #hotwetpitch #hotwetqueersummer LAMBENT is a melancholic folkloric “romance” where everyone is sad, dead, and trying their hardest to make the best of what Fate has dealt them.

Pocket Pitch graphic for my book LAMBENT. Shows a cover in neutral browns and gold tones with a golden lantern at the center.
Text reads: "-a depressed fox god is too lonely to function, -a wandering lantern spirit struggles to adjust to being dead and aimless, -why is Fate’s representative so hellbent on pushing them together?

A fox god x lantern spirit “romance” where everyone is sad, dead, and just trying their hardest to make the best of what Fate has dealt them."

A moodboard in earthen tones with a misty forest, fox fur, botanticals, water, a hand holding a lantern, a central golden lantern, a shrine, a skull, and two hands reaching for one another. Gold filigree surround the graphics and between is the hashtag #hotwetqueersummer and @tdcloud.bsky.social.

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It’s #hotwetpitch day! I’m so excited to share more about my project for #hotwetqueersummer Ezra and August have taken up so much real estate in my brain, I hope y’all will love them as much as I do. Thank you so much @monstermanorbooks for hosting this and for all your support!

Image of a red moon above the dark sea. Title reads “Drag Me Under #hotwetpitch”. Under that the text reads, “Ezra’s whole world changes when his cheating boyfriend washes up dead on the beach. Not that he cares. Everyone thinks a shark did it, but Ezra isn’t so sure. He begins spending more time with August, a boy he used to love who he thought wanted nothing to do with him anymore. Something has changed in August, and Ezra can feel himself being dragged into his orbit. Drag Me Under is queer horror romance with a hefty dose of erotica”.

Background of a red moon above a dark sea. Title reads “Drag Me Under as Tropes”. In the center of the image is a painting of a person jumping out of the waves to try to catch a flying fish. The trope map around it reads “trans masc mc x cis male LI, sirens, seaside horror, omg they were roommates, ambiguous ending, cannibalism as a metaphor for devotion, this is a terrible idea (they’re going to do it anyway), angst and yearning”.

Background of a red moon above a dark sea. Title reads “Drag Me Under as Unhinged AO3 tags”. Underneath are various AO3 tags from the account @ao3struggles.bsky.social reading, “I’ll have you know my characters plot armor works in reverse and actively ruins their lives”, “fellas is it gay to transform and then fuck your roommate”, “‘cannibalism as a metaphor for love’ what if im just really hungry. then what”, “they’re not exes they’re something worse”, “You have no idea how much I love these motherfuckers and want to traumatize them even further”, “Consensual But It Shouldn’t Be”, and “a lot going on and none of it is healthy”.

Background of a red moon above a dark sea. Title reads “Drag Me Under as songs from my writing playlist”. Underneath the song titles read “Crush by Ethel Cain, The Offering by Sleep Token, It Will Come Back by Hozier, Pearl Diver by Mitski, DNA Guarantee by Kodi Rhianne, Will You Love Me When I’m Dead by Amira Elfeky, In My Room by Julia Wolf, and Outside by breakk.away”.

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Maxime Jaz🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @maximejaz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

#R #WIP #hotwetpitch #hotwetqueersummer Bullied to the brink of death by his rich asshole family, unloved and weary of life, Samuel plans to end it under the Greek summer sun. That is until one morning he meets a fisherman, with eyes like the sea.

Pic collage moodboard for Eros by Maxime Jaz, white font, title on top, author name at the bottom. On blue sea background, top left a man's blue eye, under it fishing boats, under it a hand under water reaching for a tangled net. Middle left a man in the waves. Caption Nikos. Top right a man's brown eye, under it a mega yacht's hull, under it a man's feet in the sand waves lapping on it, next to it a man sitting with a laptop in his lap on a pier. Caption Samuel. Quote in the middle in handwritten font: I wanted to die undee that summer sun. Various graphic elements of fish and an octopus on the moddboard.

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Linn Foster/Silver 🐺 Follow BYMMS on Backerkit! @linnfoster.com · 05/06/2025

🌙 BETWEEN YOU, ME, & THE MOONLIT SEA 🌊 Bell is a fox spirit who only wants one thing: true love. Sadly, it doesn't seem to be possible-- until they meet Tae. The only problem? They also want to kill him and eat his soul. #HotWetQueerSummer #HotWetPitch #R #PN #WIP

A "trope map" for Linn Silver's novel, Between You, Me, and the Moonlit Sea. It says: genderfluid main character, pansexual love interest, queer side cast, seaside city, family drama, shapeshifters, monstrous appetites, strangers to friends to lovers, nonhuman/human relationship, fox politics, music appreciation, (unwanted) arranged relationships, and more.

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Louis Vernico (they/he) @louisvernico.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

WE WILL MEET IN HELL A normal day in Hell for Shelomith simply starts and ends with taking care of the four horses of the apocalypse. It shouldn't start with an arrogant cowboy returning one of those horses or end with stopping the apocalypse. #HotWetQueerSummerJam #HotWetPitch #WIP #F #ADV

WE WILL MEET IN HELL
LOUIS VERNICO
cowboys in Hell
lots of banter
gave me multiple crises already
horses of the apocalypse
do not askwhy the Greek gods are here too
local man does not know howto ride things
they share one braincell (and a bed)
#hotwetqueersummerjam

Pictures:
Nine pictures in various shades of red and orange depicting cowboys, horses, the desert, riding equipment, a glass skull, boots and a silhouette of a person with a halo

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

#hotwetqueersummer #hotwetpitch #r #h #wip THE HEART YET BLEEDS A summer storm forces Anne inside the lovely Bellflower House, a country estate owned by the hauntingly beautiful Sabine. But as days pass, dark events unfold, & the rain keeps falling, Anne begins to wonder if she'll ever leave...

A trope map graphic for THE HEART YET BLEEDS. The background features a romantic style painting of a woman in a grassy field. The arrows pointing to the book's cover say:
"week-long storm", "hot vampiress, "sexual tension", "blood! angst!", "spooky mansion on a hill", "all female cast", and "Victorian lesbians"

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Artysan @skilledartysan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Decided to turn it into a slightly bigger piece of a little pally admiring the moon ^^ #FantasyArt #EnvironmentalArt #NightTime #Relaxing #MedievalFantasy #MedievalArt #Armour

A chibi warrior stands in the glade at night, gazing at the moon shining above him, mesmerised. He is a mere speck in the astral field that has opened up before him, and yet he feels at home here.
He's wearing a dark blue tunic, some light armour on his limbs and a helmet. His face is adorned with a fascinated smile.

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Artysan @skilledartysan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Today, I introduce to you Eden! A posessed porcelain doll with aspirations of becoming a knight! #DigitalArt #CharacterArt #ConceptArt #MedievalFantasy #Medieval #Gambeson #Armour

A girl sits on the floor of a chalet, patiently mending a gambeson. Her tongue is out in pure concentration. There is something strange about her, however: she appears to be entirely made of porcelain! Her joints are that of a doll. She is wearing a loose black tunic and her hair is of a pinkish, pale colour.

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Dae Storm @daestormauthor.com · 06/05/2025

Thank you to everyone who submitted to "A Thorn's Rose", regardless of if your story was accepted or not! There truly were such magnificent stories from first to last. The 9 others who will make 10 with me in "A Thorn's Rose", a sapphic erotic monster romance anthology, have been chosen!

A sapphic erotic monster romance anthology
d-author.link
10 erotic romance stories from 5k-10k words by 10 different authors.

featuring these but not limited to:

cis and trans characters
neurodivergent characters
mermaids
werewolves
mothwomen
headless horsewoman
dragon
dryad
A Thorn’s Rose
preorder coming soon

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Louis Vernico (they/he) @louisvernico.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Happy to report I'm finally over halfway into collection a pokémon card of every pokémon, I love a random side quest in life

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Louis Vernico (they/he) @louisvernico.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

PRIMUM NON NOCERE JANE LAWRENCE meets FRANKENSTEIN in a tale about a doctor returning from war to find his lover sick, and realises death will take what dearest to him once again. But this time, he will fight. Fight until he cannot anymore. #PosterPitW #PosterPit #a #h

Black white and red poster of primum non nocere with pictures of a house, black cat, skeleton and dark hands stretching out, and with various eyes in the background.

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Senna Byrd 🖋️🎨🎙️🎻💄 @sennabyrd.com · 08/04/2025

It's time for my annual Pay What You Want sale! From today through April 15, all of my books are on sale on itch.io for whatever price you'd like—including free! Check them out here! sennabyrd.itch.io [ #booksky | #booksale | #indieauthor | #indieapril ]

The cover for WIZARD OF THE CRUMBLING TOWER (THEY WERE ELVES VOL. 1), framed by gold filigree.

The cover for LORD OF THE NIGHT REALM: SOJOURN (BOOK I), framed by gold filigree.

The cover for LORD OF THE NIGHT REALM: REUNION (BOOK II), framed by gold filigree.

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I'm chronically very low energy and I have a lot of work hours for training atm because I got a new position, so I don't have enough brain to do anything else. So... have a low effort promo: I have a book coming out April 22nd! Please preorder! There's a punk, some wings, and some problems.