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...and for some of you, at the stroke of midnight tonight....

SUNFALL: a genre-blending fantasy about a mage who dies fighting his enemy and then falls in love with him, in that order. 🛏️ isekai-inspired 📻 hidden identities x enemies-to-lovers 🚗 road trips x tragic monsters 🎵 a 1940s superheroes feel x examining hyperindividualism #DVPit #A #F #R #LGBT

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 18h

When the archmage Helio dies at his enemy's hands, he doesn't expect to get a do-over. So when he wakes up in a stranger's body, he swears he won't waste it. Falling in love with said enemy was not a part of the plan. 🪄 Enemies-to-Lovers ☀️ Sun & Moon Pairing 🛏️ Isekai-inspired #DVPit #A #F #LGBT

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 21h

#ARCReaders who love queer cozy holiday romance novellas, check out Dancing in the Snow! 🌈💜📚💙 This sapphic FX romance features bi, nonbinary and polyam characters, queerified campy romcom tropes, and cozy winter magic for degenerate nonbelievers. 🌬️💃 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Infographic on a snow cityscape background. In the middle is the cover of Dancing in the Snow, featuring a queer masc/fem couple dancing in the snow (shocker). The masc character is Asian American, with a shaved head and glasses, wearing a purple puffer coat. The fem character is white with brown curly hair, glasses, and wearing a Camel trench over a red dress and combat boots. In the background is the Mississippi in Minneapolis, featuring the Stone Arch Bridge.

Header reads: ARC readers wanted! Tropes listed are Fake dating, Insta-crush, set in Minneapolis, winter solstice romance, red flags are so festive! Text along the bottom reads: out Nov 11 and sapphic with nonbinary bi and polyamory rep. Cover artist Otte Lotee

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 21h

For the latest Sheridan Bell mystery, it was definitely the (mostly) period-accurate public mediumship demonstration! Balancing the historical tricks mediums would have used with real magic existing AND modern reader expectations was challenging, but I love challenging 💪

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 21h

We've restocked our store with: -Strange, grotesque horror about transformation, lust, violence, grief, and yearning (Lupus in Fabula 🐺) -Weird horror about encounters with forces beyond our comprehension (Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces 🫨) -And much more! Browse away: www.cursedmorselspress.com

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Home | Cursed Morsels Press

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 21h

THE SILVER CHAIR x TGCF After giving his life to save his friends, Helio wakes miles away in a new body. Without hesitation, he hunts down the deep mage Riptide to finish their fight—only to find himself falling for the man, instead. It's too bad Riptide doesn't know who he is. #DVPit #A #F

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Welcome to #DVpit 2026! Now until 8:00PM Eastern unagented marginalized creators can pitch their unpublished project in 300 characters to participating literary agents & editors! Remember ❤️ are for agents & 🔁 are for editors! Good luck! Have fun & please be respectful! More info dvpit.carrd.co

#DVpit 2026
September 30, 2026
8:00AM - 8:00PM Eastern Time
A bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities
Follow Up @dvpit.bsky.social
find rules & more info at dvpit.carrd.co

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 04/09/2026

SURPRISE! SHERIDAN BELL RETURNS TODAY! If you're looking to get in the Halloween season spirit, sign up for free at www.queerenigma.com to follow along with this fantasy mystery webserial. New chapters publish every other Friday. Read more about it below ⬇️

Graphic text: The mystery continues...mediums and seances, attempted murder, shifty fae...September 4! www.queerenigma.com

The graphic features a book cover with a man with pointed ears and long silver hair standing and staring at the viewer. The title reads: "Sheridan Bell and the Confession of a Medium."

a book cover with a man with pointed ears and long silver hair standing and staring at the viewer. The title reads: "Sheridan Bell and the Confession of a Medium," a novella by Em Rowene.

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Finn McLellan @saranadosfiction.com · 05/09/2026

No chapter today because pain flares aren't conducive to in-depth writing, but have a brief snippet from back before Blood on the Snow, and something of a role-reversal when it comes to being sick and being taken care of: saranadosfiction.com/2026/09/05/k...

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Keeping Watch

[No chapter today, because the combination of pain flare and migraine has absolutely kicked my ass when it comes to ability to think coherently, but have a very short snippet from a way back before…

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nipinet @enaami.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

freehand cobra for lauren! this is from forever ago, i’m finally getting around to posting my backlog of tattoos from the last year or so oops

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 24/07/2026

A guide to SUNFALL, an M/M fantasy. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT "A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth." -Robert Frost, A Question

A purple to red gradient with fluffy clouds and an art deco border. Text: A guide to SUNFALL, an M/M Romantic Fantasy complete at 102k words

A red to orange gradient with the text: "The Pitch...The mage-hero Helio is the only thing stopping the Deep from destroying his world. So when he dies at the hands of the deep mage Riptide and wakes inexplicably miles away in the body of a boy named Hadley, he hurries back to the fight he'd left behind. But through Hadley's own past with the Deep, Helio gets to know Riptide and, eventually, grows to love him. It leaves him with a choice: the world he loves, or the deep mage trying to destroy it.

An orange to yellow gradient with more clouds in the background. The text: "The snippet..."

“What did you think of Helio?” Helio asked, trying to look more interested in the orange he was peeling than the question. They sat on the porch, settled in its creakiest chairs, and Helio made a game of rocking to a rhythm in his head.
“He seemed lonely,” James said. “On friendly terms with everyone, but always on his own.”
“Oh,” Helio said.
“By the way, I bought you something,” the man went on, digging in his bag and passing Helio a silver cylinder with a sunstone embedded in the lid. It was a powder box for a girl’s vanity, and Helio frowned at it until James said, “You wind the bottom.”
“Oh!” Helio said again. He wound it, and when he lifted the lid, the box chimed a sweet melody in a minor key. Helio smiled at the start, but as the song went on, he found was something terribly sad about it. Familiar, too, like a press on a fading bruise. He immediately rewound it to press again.
“It’s an old Theian hymn,” James said, watching him closely. “Do you like it?”
“Very much,” Helio said. “I don’t know why, but it makes me feel…Well, I don’t rightly know.” He stared at it a moment longer, then looked up and brightened. “Oh look, here comes Louie! Hello, Louie!”

A yellow to purple gradient with more art deco borders. The heading says "For those who enjoy..." and the first subheading reads: "Character-led melancholy like..." Following this subheading is an image of the cover of Frieren and the 2004 film the Fall. The next subheading says, "Unstoppable and inevitable love like..." Under this heading is a picture of the cover of Heaven Official's Blessing as well as a promotional poster for Hadestown the musical. A third subheading reads "Pastoral prose and witty dialogue like..." Under this heading is a photo of a Robert Frost poetry collection and a promotional poster for the film the Philadelphia Story.

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SUNFALL: about a mage named Helio, who dies at the hands of his enemy and wakes miles away in a new body, with a fresh start. 💥isekai-inspired 💥enemies-to-lovers 💥magical pacts 💥sun & moon 💥examining american hyperindividualism through a 1940s-inspired pastoral fantasy 😊 #QuestPit #F #Q #A #LGBT

A mockup cover/digital painting of two men standing facing each other, one offering the other his hand. The background is red and orange with an eclipsed sun, and the title reads SUNFALL

Red text on a black background: "a voice once said, look me in the stars and tell me truly, men of earth, if all the soul and body scars were not too much to pay for birth." -A Question, Robert Frost

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#QuestPit 🏹THE BIRD AND THE BLADE🍃 🪶 MM Fantasy Romance 🪶 Bandit x Noble 🪶 Kidnapping! 🪶 Questioning Power Structures 🪶 Singing Bandits 🪶 Robin Hood Vibes 🪶 Certified Bird Guy #W #A #F #RF

Over a green background: THE BIRD AND THE BLADE: MM Fantasy Romance
Comps: Not For the Faint of Heart, The Scottish Boy, Greenwode
Tropes: 🪶 MM Fantasy Romance
🪶 Bandit x Noble
🪶 Kidnapping!
🪶 Questioning Power
Structures
🪶 Singing Bandits
🪶 Robin Hood Vibes
🪶 Certified Bird Guy
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Blurb: Callum Amberline is about to get married, but there is one small problem. He’s been kidnapped by bandits. Callum should be furious and indignant, but he’s not these bandits seem to understand him better than his family or betrothed ever have. Especially Wilder, the son of the bandit queen. But one shouldn’t be friendly with one’s kidnappers.
Wilder may have made an impulsive decision kidnapping the betrothed of his arch nemesis, but he’s having a hard time regretting it. He likes Callum, noble though he may be.
As the unfortunate circumstances of their meeting catch of with them, Callum and Wilder must ignore the simmering attraction between them. You can’t fall in love with your kidnapper.
Right?

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 24/07/2026

HEAVEN OFFICIALS BLESSING x THE SILVER CHAIR The hero-mage Helio falls in love with a boy. Thanks to a spell, every night, that boy turns into Helio's archenemy, the infamous mage Riptide. Will Helio be able to save him, or will he have to stop him? #QuestPit #A #F #Q #LGBT

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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

UPROOTED x BRIDGERTON Heidi isn’t interested in her family’s chosen suitor. She’d rather study the cursed forest to secure her tenure track. 📚 Grad School 🏳️‍🌈 Non-binary love interest 🪲 Giant sentient beetles 🎩 Regency vibes 🏛️ Natural History Museums 🐷 Truffle Pigs #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q #LGBT

A drawing of a woman standing looking out against a red sky. She’s dressed in a white button up shirt, a brown vest, and a purple shawl. She’s holding up a pencil and a journal filled with scraps of paper. At her back stands a dark misty figure in a dark green cloak. Where their left eye would be there is a swirling galaxy instead.

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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Excited to finally share my novel, THIEF OF THE VASTBORN, for #questpit!! THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI x THE SONG OF ACHILLES: Fate swap. Drowned world. Queer M/M romance. Enemies to lovers. Sea-dragons?! And more! Read the agent’s guide below. Querying soon! #F #A #RF #Q #W

An agent's guide to Thief of the Vastborn by C.M. Sullivan, adult fantasy + romance, ~112,000 words. The graphic shows a dragon and a sailboat with charts and maps as the background vector.

TEXT: Pitch: In a flooded world survived by waterborne cities, young Zev is given a prophecy that he will die by the same illness that killed his mother. A decade later, when a dying Zev decides to take fate into his own hands, he accidentally swaps fates with the Prophecied Divine, a handsome and sheltered man destined to end the worldwide flood. The graphic shows a sailboat and more charts.

TEXT: Tropes: Queer M/M romance, fate swap, drowned world, sea-dragons, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, slow burn, animal companion, prophecies, pirates, cults. The graphic shows a leaf, an hourglass, and more charts and maps.

TEXT: Comps: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty, high seas adventures; The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller for mythical doomed yaoi; The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon for dragons; The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart for drowned world. The graphic shows columns and charts.

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring his god back and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 99,000 words."

THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.

An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING. Next to the excerpt is character art of the main character. He has light bright skin, dark brown hair, facial hair, and a simple jerkin over white shirt. His eye is glowing like the sun.

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“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.

A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.

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Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨ @qziontgipson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Presenting a gorgeous reader's guide for my debut YA climate romantasy novel, THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, which will be releasing in summer of 2027! 🌸 Stay tuned for more exciting updates! #QuestPit #YA #F #P #TBP

On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:

A Reader's Guide to THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, a YA Climate Fantasy Coming Summer 2027 by Q'Zion T. Gipson

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PITCH - After a failed experiment to make plants live forever, all toxic vegetation was burned for the sake of humanity. In 2091, when 16-year-old Vee discovers Evergreen, an enchanted garden with roots to her ancestry, she must embrace the forbidden magic blooming in her veins before Evergreen and The Human Realm fall to an eternal darkness.

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COMP TITLES
Divining the Leaves by Shveta Thakrar: Enchanted Garden
House of Marionne by J. Elle: Botany Boarding School
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn: Found Family

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THE VIBES
A mood board consisting of 9 square photographs with a green, blue, and, pink, yellow and white color scheme. In the center, there is a teenage Black girl in an enchanted garden, with the photos surrounding her illustrating the beauty within it: a feeding hummingbird, a calm lake, baby ducklings, a resting butterfly, and magical white and pink blooms.

In white text, there is a list of tropes in THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, including:
Black girl MC
Plant magic system
Near future
Magical blooms
Botany boarding school
Found family
Human x fae romance
He falls first and harder
Female friendships

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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000's setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R

My Sweet Unbecoming
A forbidden gothic romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Comps & Pitch
The Phantom of the Opera
Jane Eyre
Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Tropes
Forbidden Romance
High Society Match Making
European Setting
Slow Burn
Love VS Duty
Black Swan-esque Awakening
Masquerade Ball
2000’s Setting
Obsessive yearning
Secret Lake Meetings

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 24/07/2026

man, it's been so long since I've participated in a hype/pitch event 🙏 I'm glad I found out about this one in time!!

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#QuestPit 🌷Flower Fairy WIP 🧚 🪻 MM Fantasy Romance 🪻 Fairy x Gardener 🪻 Sweet Garden Setting 🪻 Healing and Growing 🪻 Grumpy Fairy 🪻 Patient Gardner 🪻 Love in Many Forms 🪻HEA #W #A #F #RF

Over a background of chicory flowers: FLOWER FAIRY WIP - Cozy Fantasy Romance
SNIPPET: The human let out a long, low whistle, surveying the garden. Chicory felt a swell of pride for a moment. Yes, human, look upon his garden and see the beauty! See the wonder! Look at all the hard work Chicory put in! All the plants, bugs, and animals are so well cared for! The garden is a wonder! A masterpiece! A—
“What a mess!” The human laughed, running a gloved hand through his hair. “They weren’t kidding about it being a fixer-upper. Oh well, I wanted a project. The gods provide.”
Chicory was stunned for a moment, too shocked to do anything but watch as the human turned back towards the cottage. Then anger boiled through him, burning him up like he had been laying in the sun at the height of summer.
How dare he? How dare this interloper… this stranger… this… this… this human come to Chicory’s garden and insult it like that? The garden was not a mess! It was not as neat as some gardens, granted, but Chicory had been taking very good care of it. He was proud of this garden.
TROPES: 🪻 MM Fantasy Romance
🪻 Fairy x Gardener
🪻 Sweet Garden Setting
🪻 Healing and Growing
🪻 Grumpy Fairy
🪻 Patient Gardner
🪻 Love in Many Forms
🪻HEA
BLURB: Chicory the Flower Fairy has lived in the garden all on his own for years. And his garden is perfectly fine, thank you very much! It may be a little overgrown, but it’s his home. His solitary existence is disrupted by the arrival of Silas Glenn, a human farmer who wants to “fix” Chicory’s garden. Chicory will have to learn to get along with Silas for the sake of the garden, and perhaps for the sake of his own heart.
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Hi, I’m Caitie @findmeinfairytales.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

An agent’s guide to SWAN SONG, a Swan Lake x Cyrano de Bergerac reimagining. A grieving sister uses letters to manipulate the only girl who can break her brother’s curse using true love’s kiss, but the girls accidentally fall in love instead, jeopardizing the brother’s life. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿🩸devil's minion pilled🩸 @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

i've put my old MM inktober comic on my kofi 🖤👻 30+ pages of a victorian gentleman yearning after the ghost of a medieval knight ✨ ko-fi.com/s/5e7b17e1b2 ✨

Cover of my comic "a rose by any other name" a victorian gentleman and the ghost of a medieval knight hold each other in a tender embrace.

An inked page from my old inktober comic. It has 3 panels.
1. A close up of the gentleman and knight smiling.
Gutter: Knight says "He is my secret and all that I hold dear."
2. The gentleman and knight hold hands as they walk down the hall.
Knight: "It has been too long since I danced!"
Gentleman, mutters fondly with a smile: "I hope I am not a disastrous partner!"
3. The Knight and Gentleman keep talking as they make their way through the corridor, past framed portraits and framed landscapes.

An inked page from my old inktober comic. It has 5 panels.
1. Unlit candles in a candelabra.
2. The Gentleman reaches out for the Knight with a wide smile.
3. Framed portraits, and the Knight's ghostly tendrils swirl.
Knight: "Oh!"
4. A vase of flowers, a bust of an unnamed noble. Music notes begin to drift across the panel.
Knight: "I hear music!"
Gentleman: "Isn't it wonderful?"
5. The Knight and the Gentleman stand next to each other before a closed door. The Gentleman rests his hand on the Knight's shoulder. Music drifts from the door.
Gentleman: "Hmm." "It appears as though they started the party without us."

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Brielle 💖 @briellebear.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I really hate the “I don’t owe anyone anything” mentality because we actually owe each other and this planet a lot. You don’t have to be selfless all the time or burn yourself out but you should be kind and helpful and compassionate to the best of your ability. We need to care about each other more

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 30/06/2026

Hear ye, hear ye! It's time to OFFICIALLY announce our Table of Contents for Issue 11. Releasing on July 31 (iykyk), it's a summer special with stories and poetry from new and old friends!

A view of Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island. The landscape is tinted purple with "Issue 11" in white text with a watercolour heart behind the first letter

A pink flat background with watercolour flowers around the corners. The list of the contributors in Issue 11 is in white text.

The list reads: Fiction, Moh Afdhaal, Hap Aziz, Ares J. Benoit, J. A. Espersmyth, Esther Lim, Avra Margariti, Jillian Schedneck, T.R. Steele. Poetry: Chris Clemens, Wren Douglas, R. F. Hovis, Diem Okoye, Julia Sinclair

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 19/06/2026

Helio, Louie, and Peggy from Sunfall!! I love how they turned out so much 🧡

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Virgil Casper 🏳️‍⚧️💫💕 @vcyarr.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

for @queerenigma.com ! Thank you so much for commissioning me. I loved drawing these guyssss~ #artsky #ocart #ocsky #commission

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿🩸devil's minion pilled🩸 @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

a trans knight to celebrate my 2 years on testosterone anniversary! 🏳️‍⚧️✨⚔️

A rough sketch illustration of a black armoured knight. There are top surgery scars on his breastplate. He leans forward in a movement of action, wielding a longsword and holding a shield with a rising phoenix emblem. Fire burns in the background in the trans flag colours.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/06/2026

If you are looking for a way to help the folks in Minneapolis, a member of the National Lawyer's Guild passed along this fundraiser for legal costs for those arrested yesterday: chuffed.org/project/1865... You can also donate directly to the NLG: www.paypal.com/donate?token...

chuffed.org

Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers

On the morning of June 16th 2026, fifteen anti-ICE organizers were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities.

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 01/06/2026

HAPPY PRIDE and have a SHORT STORY! Feat. a trans paladin and his feelings toward his former goddess. ⚔️🛡️ For fellow lovers of D&D and havers of religious trauma. www.queerenigma.com/sun-shears/

Header: New short story! Feat. a transmasc paladin and his troubled relationship with his former goddess.

Snippet: "Delidah only has a short time in our world, as she returns to her mountain each morning and greets the sun. She spends that time searching, not presiding over old temples." "Searching? Searching for what?" Tam asked. "Someone she lost," the paladin said softly. "Someone who no longer exists. So you see, the gods do mourn. They remember us, as small as we are."

Graphic: Image contains two photos, one of an angel statue and one of a knight in an illuminated manuscript.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

While the killers of Renée Good and Alex Pretti walk free, the DOJ is busy bringing bogus charges against protesters. The Administration thinks intimidation will make us back down. They keep learning the same lesson: Minnesotans don't scare easily. We organize for our rights ✊🏽

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 16/06/2026

the hardest part of transitioning, to me, has been looking in the mirror & seeing more of my father's face every day, almost an exact copy-paste. there's a sadness there, in having pride in being his son and seeing so much of him in me, yet knowing that when he looks, he sees someone else entirely.

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J || Vampire Pyramid Scheme 🦇 🏳️‍⚧️ | ✨ Sleepiest Vamp🩸 @vampirepyramid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🩸🦇 Applications for Vampires of Color/After Dark 2026 are open! Details and application forms are here: vampirepyramidscheme.com/bipocvampday/zine-2026/ Contributor submissions close on 6/30/2026 at 11:59pm PST. #vampires #callforsubmission #art #writing #charity #anthology #sicklecellawareness

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✷vetiver✷ @vetiverfox.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

The creature hunts at dusk 🌒

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

i'm sorry, "apparently some readers only read dialogue now, so make sure you put anything important in quotation marks"

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 12/06/2026

Okay don't ask me to explain this, but if you like both fantasy and Sufjan Stevens, you will probably love Sunfall.

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 12/06/2026

Those people who proudly read by skipping everything in the books but the dialogue.

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Brainfall: Mentality’s Requiem @itsphetz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Here I go again on my phone

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 11/06/2026

Most recently, Peter Darling by S.A. Chant and A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske!

Cover of A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 11/06/2026

Am I missing something here? Ellipsus Emboss isn't deciding what's "natural" human writing or not. It's giving you advanced metrics and the *option* to share them with readers if you so choose. Like, it's literally just a number? The number of times you paused more than five seconds?

"Emboss is a proof-of-work layer for your writing; a visible record of the care, time, sessions, cadence, pauses, edits, and revisions that tell the story behind a piece of human-written work.

Emboss is not an AI detector. We know “AI-powered” detectors are faulty and unethical in practice. Emboss lets you share your metrics with your audience to show the human processes and labor behind the work, capturing how a document was written—the sessions, the edits, the time you put in, as positive evidence of human authorship.

Emboss is also private by default, and only visible if you choose to share your metrics with your work.

No AI is used in the compiling of these metrics."

"Word count: The full word count of a document or draft.

Active writing time: The time spent writing on a document or draft.

Sessions: The number of separate writing sessions (a new session begins after a gap of more than 30 minutes).

Average writing speed: Measures words written per active minute (excluding pasted test). (Typical human range: 30-70 wpm).

Thinking pauses: Measures pauses longer than 5 seconds during active writing sessions.

Total edits: How many saved changes were recorded after the first version of a document or draft.

Words-to-edit ratio: The number of words divided by the number of edits in a document or draft (lower numbers mean more revisions).

Paste ratio: The percentage of all characters ever added to the document/draft that were inserted by pasting."

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Virgil Casper 🏳️‍⚧️💫💕 @vcyarr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Happy Pride! I'm Virgil Casper 👋🏽🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✨️ I'm a Black, Indigenous and Iranian American, queer, alt and trans artist and writer. Querying agents this year! Pearls of Wishes is a queer upmarket fantasy about a future prince consort reconnecting with his culture while pursued by a nationalist cult. ✨️🦪👑

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Yes. 100. Also for queer BIPOC work too. Sure people can write what they want and I do enjoy it regardless of who the author is. BUT also often when you talk about queer BIPOC characters a lot of the time the biggest recs/huge sellers are not by BIPOC writers.

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