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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

One year ago today we brought this little lunatic home. We still sometimes discuss what we would have named her if the folks at the shelter hadn't already given her a name (Nimona, Stitch, and Chaos Ball are usually mentioned). But she answered to Jelly Bean, so that's what we stuck with.

Her majesty, Jellificent Bean. Jelly Bean for short

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

That's not the title I would have come up with for this playlist, but sure Sporify

Spotify playlist, pink pilates princess new wave of recession pop Wednesday early morning. Songs include Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Basket Case, Paradise City, We're Not Going to Take It, and Smoke on the Water

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Super fancy (and tasty) desserts with my Darling Youngest

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Scene from a small town PA demonstration. #BucksCoPA #NoKings

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Behold the shade of a corgi who ran up the stairs when I announced it was time for a walk. (It just started raining the second after I asked) #corgilife

Unamused corgi does not wish to go walkies in the rain

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Went to a drag show last night and had a lot of fun. My friend got this book last night as a gift but I think everyone at our table wants their own copy!

Pride flag and book, Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Today's tea scroll and flower arrangement for tea lessons today. #chado

The scroll (very roughly) translates to "the air from the mountain setting around us as in old times".

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

When I was a kid, I wanted to be the type of lady who switches out her decor every season. Turns out I'm not. 😅 But I do switch out my tea bowls for the appropriate season. #Pride

A Japanese tea bowl with a rainbow pattern and silver and gold accents

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

One of the benefits of working from home is you can start singing "I want more caffeine" to the tune of "I want to break free" and only your corgi will judge you.

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Jelly Bean: The audacity... the absolute audacity Me: That man couldn't pet you all morning. He had other things to do. Jelly Bean: THE AUDACITY

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Jelly Bean, looking soulfully at an imaginary camera: Every day corgis are ignored and abandoned Me: I had to use the baby gate in the kitchen. You were going for my knees while I was doing cardio! If I fell I could have hurt you. Jelly Bean, howling: In the aaaarms of an aaaangel...

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Behold! The face of evil according to my corgi Jelly Bean. I have no idea why she's scared of it. I'll just add it to the list of things that make her weird.

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

You may have heard about the situation at the Idaho townhall where a woman was restrained with zip tied and dragged out by (then unidentified) security agents. Here's the GoFundMe for her legal fees. www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...

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Donate to Justice for Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl: Fight for the First, organized by Alicia Abbott

On Saturday, February 22nd, citizens gathered at a town hall in K… Alicia Abbott needs your support for Justice for Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl: Fight for the First

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

This charming human showed up to a local protest against the muskrat's meddling. She clearly didn't get enough attention growing up. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Yt6Lqu/

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Moms for Liberty are a hate group #m4l #momsforliberty #mfl

TikTok video by CBSD School Board Watch

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Look what I got when I participated in my local library's #blinddatewithabook I had to break out my Sailor Peru mug!

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Spending my afternoon backing up my Kindle ebooks. And thinking about my e-reader options going forward. Very open to hearing about what other folks use and why. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMoC...

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Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books - you have 10 days to react

YouTube video by CriminOlly

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 15/02/2025

Tea industry trend forecast for 2025! Do you agree or disagree with my thoughts here? 🍵🤓 #teasky #tea #industrytrends

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

If you go out today, keep these tips in mind

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I'm not really a football fan, but it's hard to counter this point. Go Birds.

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Ok I used "throw" not "pitch", but if vibes are allowed... #WIPSnips #questpit

“Ah, this feels wonderful. Like getting into a jacuzzi. Not only did you create a good place for me to keep an eye on things, you’ve sewn in some restorative energy. It’s both camouflage and a perfect resting spot. Well done,” Ajani said.
The poppet started walking and moving its arms around. Rina was pretty sure Ajani was trying to flex his biceps inside it.
“I’ll throw in instructions for a quick energy signature dampening charm too as a bonus,” Ajani added. “It isn’t super strong, but will do against most Abiding in a pinch, especially if they haven’t noticed you first. Remember, it’s always safer to assume an Abiding is dangerous, because we usually are. Trying to get away is your best option. Hiding should be your second.”

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Adding this to my to-read list

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Beth Michaela...querying writer. @bmfwriter.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

What kind of book do you get from a hopeless romantic & devourer of @stephenking.bsky.social, fueled by feminine rage, and ready to demand the attention fierce female writers deserve... ❤️‍🔥 Reign of Nightmares; a genre-bending, trope twisting, dark romantic fantasy. ❤️‍🔥 #questpit #Q #A #RF

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Vee Haacke 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ is querying! @goddessvicky.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

💫 CROWNED IN LIGHT 💫 NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES 🌹Romance/Romantasy 👨‍👨‍👧Polyamory ❤️‍🔥Slow Burn 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦Found Family ⚖️Gods & Goddesses 🎵Music! ♿Diversity 🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+ 💖Soul Mates ✨Magical Realism Agent's guide included 📖 #2025Pit #Q #A #YA #R #NA #F #RF #SPEC #SPF #LGBT #OV

A photo collage that features a woman wearing a crown, a college campus, a hand playing the guitar, piano keys, and a pair of bloody knuckles

A photo that reads:
Crowned In Light
A literary agent's guide to the first book in the Crowned Series
As 85k word Urban Speculative Romance/Romantasy
First three books are finished, edited, and ready to query!
This one has it all!
- Magical Realism
- Slow Burn
- Found Family
- Gods and Goddesses
- Music Heavy
- Soul Mates / Past Lives
- Strong Female Friendships
- Disability/BIPOC representation
- DAVID BOWIE?!?!

A photo that reads:
The Pitch!
It’s the end of a hot Iowan summer, and twenty-four-year-old Matilda West is gearing up for her sophomore year of college at Oak Ridge University. A scholarship student, she is swayed by the suggestion of her favorite professor to join a study group he’s created for his Classical Mythology course. The students in the group adopt her quickly, but Matilda’s past has made her wary and anxious of new people and their intentions.
When she finds herself drawn toward two of the people in the group, including an unexplainable feeling like she’s met one of them before, Matilda is thrown in the middle of a situation she couldn’t have seen coming. Weird dreams and the fact that her life might not be what she thought it was force Matilda to question whether her fate was already decided, or if someone else is pulling the strings… How does one juggle school work, healing trauma, finding love, and supporting a diverse community, while also fighting for their fate and the rest of the world?

A photo that reads:
For Fans of:
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Maggie Stiefvater
Richelle Mead
Laurell K Hamilton

Adults over the age of 18 whp enjoy a world sprinkled with mythology and More, and fantasy rooted in reality.
Reader who enjoy diverse, complex characters, especially LGBTQIA+ characters, those with disabilities, and those deailing with PTSD and trauma in an honest and real way.
Romance Readers who enjoy things like friends to loves, enemies to friends, slow burn, found family, angst with a happy ending, and polyamory.

Playlist:
Have I Found My Home by Paden
What A Good Woman Does by Joy Williams
Dear Happy by Gabrielle Aplin
Breathe Me by Sia
Stuck In My Head by Blue Eyes
Silence by Marshmello & Khalid
The World We Made by Ruelle
Like That by JP Saxe
Safe Place by RuthAnne
Hurts Like Hell by Fleurie & Tommee Profitt
Somebody Loved by The Weepies
For You by Angus & Julia Stone
Past Life by Morgan St Jean
Atlas: Heart by Sleeping At Last

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Liz Newman @liznew212.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Worlds collide when a dark queen's journey to break her curse forces her to take a human prisoner back to her realm. His brother will do anything to find out what happened, including infiltrating an exclusive nightclub where men seem to disappear. #P2Ppit #a #f #q #amquerying 📖

A graphic with wrath of a Wildflower in the center. Bubbles of text around it say: Morally grey, urban fantasy, cursed dark queen, two realms, dual pov, romance, missing brother, new adult

The pitch. Decades ago, the princes of Lucis realm cursed her before they left to take over earth. Liming the days she can cross realms to hunt them and forcing her to take a mortal soul each visit has made killing the princes difficult, but not impossible. Now she is finally closing in on the prince with the key to breaking her curse, but she doesn't know that one of the mortal monsters she took on her journey to vengeance has a very loyal brother. Ryland finally has the job he needs at greeds, the exclusive nightclub where his brother was last seen two years ago. As he gets closer to discovering what happened to his brother and a trail of other missing men, he meets a beautiful partner to help him with the hunt. Together they find that their government is lying to them and monsters are real. And they are hunting one.

Book comps: the book of azreal, city of gods and monsters, throne of the fallen

The playlist: horns by Bryce fox monsters by ruelle, control by Halsey, kill of the night, hbic, happy clever after by Gin Wigmore

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KM Langevin | Here for the Writing 🖋️✨ @kmlangevin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🔥 THE BRIDGE BETWEEN 🔥 EVERY HEART A DOORWAY × THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA Avery (16) runs from her problems straight into a world with its own. In Iris, spirits & humans coexist. But peace is fragile and if Ave can't outrun a vengeful being, both realms will burn. #QuestPit #YA #PortalFantasy #Q

A visual inspiration collage for The Bridge Between, featuring a mix of nature, movement, and mystical elements that reflect the novel’s themes.

A close-up of a husky’s mismatched blue and brown eyes, evoking Avery’s mystical guide, a Catahoula leopard dog.
A runner moving through a sunlit forest trail, symbolizing Avery’s journey between worlds.
A vibrant sunset over a lake, reflecting the magic and beauty of the Iris Isles.
A path covered in pink petals, framed by cherry blossom trees, mirroring the ethereal landscape Avery enters.
A cloud formation resembling a shimmering portal, hinting at the liminal gates in the story.
A wildfire burning through a forest at dusk, representing the growing danger and destruction in both realms.
A rainbow arcing across a golden sky, birds in flight, capturing the bridge between worlds and the novel’s themes of transformation.
A field of irises bathed in golden light, symbolizing the Iris Isles, where spirits and humans coexist.
In the center, a note taped to the collage reads “Sharing some visual Book Inspo”, tying the images together as inspiration for The Bridge Between.

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✿ E.L Blackwood @evelynlblackwood.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Introducing the three POV & the lovely Widow for my novel Threads of Aerythel: Dragonfly - a dark epic fantasy. Check out all my questpit posts for a full picture! #questpit #A #Q #DF #LGBT Post 2/4

Isolde Ridelle
Eye color is lilac
Hair color is ptinum
Signet is the emerald signet

Isolde Ridelle has spent her life in the quiet village of Rosewater, far from war and the unseen forces that shape the empire of Delheim. When she is hunted for reasons she does not understand, she is thrust into a world of forbidden magic, shifting allegiances, and a legacy she never asked for.

Isolde, on the contrary, admired the old stone cottages, with their pastel-colored window shutters, well-tended flowerbeds, and ornate awnings. Many of the houses had stood there for several generations, worn by time but no less loved. It was that steadfast spirit that characterized her childhood. Burdenless.

Name: Elara Eastwell
Eye color is Amber
Hair is chestnut
Signet is the ruby signet

Elara Eastwell, a devoted weaver bound by sacred oaths, uncovers secrets that threaten the very foundation of her order. The deeper she delves, the more she is forced to ask whether upholding her vows is worth the cost—or if breaking them is the only way to protect what truly matters.

Elara raised a brow, Cassandra's warm breath close to her lips. She wanted more—and loathed to admit it. There was provocation in the way she smiled that could not be overlooked. She might have fallen into the Widow's web, but she was too careful. The Weaver had already learned that lesson.

Name: Aleric Belmont
Eye Color: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Region: Delheim
Signet: Sapphire Signet

Description:
As Sigilbearer of The Circle, Aleric Belmont is no stranger to power,
but the ruins hold more than redemption. When old sins resurface,
he must decide whether atonement is within his grasp or if it was never
his to claim.

Excerpt:
Aleric stood by an old brazier and warmed his hands above the crackling
flames. They fought the freeze but could never win. He lingered for a half
hour or more, breathing in the musty scent of dust and the deep, earthy
smell of leather bindings. He once relished the quiet, when he could
settle undisturbed into the depths of his thoughts. The illusion of peace
could never last. Now, his own mind had become a prison.

Name: Cassandra
Eye color: Brown
Region: Alphentine
Hair colro: Dark
Signet: Onyx Signet

Cassandra El'Diar, known as the Black Widow, is the head of the sigilbearers and a formidable agent of The Circle. As wielder of the onyx signet Yndral, she commands both political influence and ancient magic in her tireless mission to safeguard what she believes most precious. Behind her carefully measured authority lies deeper motives that blur the lines between protection and possession.

Cassandra observed a brilliant Frucalen with ribbed leaves and intricate petals. The mauve flower released a sweet, fruity fragrance—The Weaver's favorite. Elara could not help but wonder at her game. Everything felt intentional, and she would not put it past the Widow to have planned every minute detail of their meeting.

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Greatest Showman x The Invisible life of Addie La Rue A gymnast is forced to perform in a magical circus alongside a man she doesn’t recognize, but he knows her… and he’s watched her die dozens of times. 💕”Who did this to you?” 💫Grounded fantasy 🖤Dark whimsy 🎪Atmospheric #Questpit #F #Q #A

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

CABIN IN THE WOODS X JOHN DIES AT THE END X KNIVES OUT When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #MY #W

moodboard layout with 9 squares 3 x 3, 6 have over the top terrified men (the dads), along the top and bottom 3 squares. Blood decal drips from top squares through the middle to the bottom ones. A Victorian mansion silhouette sits in the middle most left square, the title DAD BODIES in the middle, and right of that is the silhouette of a d20 with a skull icon showing.

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Alyssa Rabil @lilybob.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THE GOOD PLACE X DOGMA X BOOK OF REVELATIONS X PARADISE LOST What if God was one of us? Just an ego-maniac like one of us? What if the only way to stop him from taking over the afterlife was trusting the Devil? #questpit #W #A #dystopian #fiction #existentialism #MY #amquerying

An agent's guide to God Forbid
Ecclesiastic Fiction

Comps and pitch for God Forbid
Dogma meets Albert Camus' The Stranger
a middle eastern atheist kills himself and winds up in Heaven with God. Heaven is fairly monochromatic and appears to be lacking in DEI initiatives. God tells the man he's actually Jesus Christ, though the man has no memory of this. Then he meets the Devil, the only other brown-skinned person around and a mystery unfolds...

Tropes:
Amnesia
Chosen one
Secrets
Questionable utopia
Reluctant hero
hidden world
off-limits crush
found family

In the beginning...
He stands on the edge of the bridge on the wrong side of the railing. Below is a highway. It’s quiet tonight. The weather is bad, and most people are at home.
He plants his feet. He doesn’t want to fall. He doesn’t want this to be a mistake or an accident. It has to be deliberate. It has to be his choice. He has to make it right.
Rain pours down. Thunder rumbles in the distance.
He takes a deep breath and lets go of the railing.
He jumps.

Favorite moment:
“So, I’m Jesus, but I don’t have powers?” he asks.
“Basically,” answers Lucifer.
“And you kissed me and betrayed me?”
“That’s not why he kissed you,” says Gabriel.
Lucifer shoots him a look.

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Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜 @pamelajeong.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

For fans of LEGENDBORN and IN OTHER LANDS... ...meet THE KINDLER 🇰🇷🇺🇸 immigrant BIPOC FMC as chosen one 🦋 coming-of-age 🔍 family secrets 🌈 inclusive cast 🫶 found family ❤️‍🔥 slow burn x love triangle 💬 plenty of banter ✨ magic school for nature lovers 🦉 talking animals #Q #YA #F #RF #QuestPit

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Diana 💖💜💙 is beta reading @dianascribbles.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Theoray always thought she’d do anything for a chance to live in the real faerie world - until she enters a series of magical trials which force her to choose between her sister and her life’s dream. And something ancient and all-seeing is eagerly watching her every move. 👁️ #A #F #Q #QuestPit

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Crissie (C.T. Wood) @crissthecreative.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A Greek God Got Me Pregnant is PERCY JACKSON x TWLIGHT but for adults because immortals dating teens is actually kind of weird when you think about it… Think Sally Jackson’s story but with Apollo and a happy ending 🥰 #questpit #W #A #R #PR #RF

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

AGATHA ALL ALONG X BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER with a Latina lead. A grief-stricken Latina witch must team up with a foreboding Japanese fox spirit to retrieve her niece’s soul and prevent a civil war in Philadelphia’s faerie queendom. #QuestPit #Q #SFF #F #ContemporaryFantasy #amquerying

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Self-published friends who are looking for an agent might want to look her up.

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

None of my current projects fall into this category, but I feel like I may know people who are working on something like this.

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Doing agent research? Today is a good day to take some notes and build up your "to-query" list.

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