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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#UnhingedPit #A #LGBT #W anon pls! this up-and-coming actor is pretending to be his dead best friend at a pub in vienna! got into a tussle with a 3-time grand slam winner 👀 MY METHOD ACTOR, for those that wanted their gay contemporary THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY... or CHALLENGERS minus tennis 👀

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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

yeah yeah the brother was practically president of the 80s. shit started sliding right after thriller. elsewhere, however, www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH-r...

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Janet Jackson - Black Cat

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Charlie is juggling projects @cardaminecrone.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Our lonely, lovesick narrator, invisible to his eccentric family, invites his best friend and her older brother to his huge English country house one summer,and finds the more freedom he’s given, the less he knows who he is - and that happiness is swiftly followed by grief. #A #LF #W #Questpit

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

💙MARTYR! x THE SHAPE OF WATER 💙 A young artist must figure out what draws—and keeps— her mother in the local pond to save her from the town's ostracization. But the water calls out to her, too... #questpit #q #a #u #f

An upmarket fantasy novel: Nymph's Pond
“My grandfather and my dad both, they wanted this place to become a café. Where people could chat and talk to a really, really nice scenery. Peaceful and quiet, with a little koi fish—” she made a little wave with her hand to indicate swimming fish. “And so I want to take up that dream where they left it off. I want to open the Worthington Gardens. And this place, I thought of calling Nymph’s Pond.”

The Pitch:
Damla needs the perfect portfolio to get into art school—and her mother would make the ideal subject. Only her mother refuses, escaping to the mayor’s pond, dwelling there despite the family not wanting her to. But what keeps her here?
How can Damla convince her mother to sit for her?
And what is it with the water that calls out to them both?

Snippet:
She decided to approach the figure.
The figure had a stillness to it that was familiar. But there was also an energy to it, one that Damla palpably felt like dew on her skin, if dew was covered in metal. When the figure saw Damla approach, it stood even straighter, opening its shoulders wide, as if bracing for whatever it thought Damla would do. She stopped then as well, by this point quite close to the pond’s edge, ahead of even Stella. She could slide into the pond’s surface since the water had receded quite the distance to gain the height that it did, but doing so — the thought of doing so — made her feel cold all over. And there was this wave, just above her head. She felt as if she’d stepped into a shadow.
“Tell me this is a dream,” Damla said.
The water told her no such thing. Of course it didn’t. The kind of reality that Damla wanted was only available for Jazmine. She got this instead. Something hard and stony settled inside of her. She couldn’t reach to hit it. Her throat locked up when she wanted to scream. The metallic dew on her face and neck made it hard to move. If this was the sublime, it was the ugliest shade of silver she’d ever seen.

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

MARTYR! x THE SHAPE OF WATER A young artist must figure out what draws—and keeps— her mother in the local pond to save her from the town's ostracization. But the water calls out to her, too... #posterpit #q #spf #f #a

A pink-haired woman is sitting on the grass with an umbrella. Text reads: "an artist's coming of age... the complicated bonds of mother and daughter... the water that keeps calling at her... NYMPH'S POND"

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY x BIRDMAN At the end of his rope, an Oscar-nominated actor is offered a getaway in Vienna, only to meet the family of his dead best friend. He promptly assumes his friend's identity to find out what really kept them from being together. #posterpit #a #w

A young blond man is on all fours. Text reads: "Acting for the camera is one thing. Doing it in real life is another. MY METHOD ACTOR."

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

MARTYR! x THE SHAPE OF WATER 🧜 an artist's coming of age 🧜 complex mother-daughter relationships 🧜 a hostile small town 🧜 majority queer female cast 🧜 battles w/ self-esteem 🧜 water powers reflecting emotional states & past trauma #MENAPit #A #Qu #F #L #MR #LGBT

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

@uncut.at grüss euch! wisst ihr, ob bi gan's resurrection in die österreichischen kinos kommt? vielen dank schon im voraus!

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

MY METHOD ACTOR A closeted Oscar nominated actor attempts his most daring performance yet: to act as his dead (and homophobic) best friend amidst the people that knew him well... #BluePit📖 #BluePit #W #A #POC

A series of images containing male models looking forlorn with a blue (first row) green (mid-right) and red (bottom row). A poem is written in the middle that reads: "Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan. / I'm drowning in debts up to my ears. / I'll have to pay for myself / with my self / give up my life for my life." This poem is by Wislawa Szymborska, from “Nothing’s a Gift”.

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

9 images, 3 in each row, all in a greenish shade, containing either a female figure or an eerie, mystical vibe containing nature of some kind. bottom right is an image of a mansion.

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

hi! i'm going to do the 12 movies by 12 friends challenge for 2026 - please recommend me a movie to watch! <3 can be of any decade, length, and language

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

@uncut.at grüss euch, wisst ihr zufällig, ob knives out 3 in österreich spielen wird? danke im voraus!

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

BOOK OF LOVE x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA 🧜 an artist's coming of age 🧜 complex mom-daughter r/s 🧜 hostile small town 🧜 majority queer female cast 🧜 battles w/ self-esteem 🧜 water powers as a gate to past trauma #questpit #W #A #F #L

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x MARTYR! Want to draw your mother? Get her out the pond first. Keep her in the pond. Make use of your superpowers. Figure out your artistry - all of this in more or less this order, and before the crazy town you live in can harm her. #questpit #W #A #F #S

Nymph‘s Pond, an upmarket fantasy at 80k

The pitch
Damla needs a personal element for her art project. Her lifeline is her mother who not only refuses, but disappears to a local pond. It turns out she‘s a nymph and claims that pond is hers. The pond owner disagrees with her. The town disagrees with her general existence.
Caught between her mother’s mercurial moods, townspeople that egg her house, and the desire to figure out her own burgeoning sexuality and artistry, Damla’s own powers become and more unpredictable, threatening to erase her identity altogether...

Vibes and comps:
🧜 an artist's coming of age
🧜 complex mother-daughter r/s
🧜 a hostile small town
🧜 a queer & female cast
🧜 battles w/ self-esteem
🧜 water powers reflecting emotions & past trauma

Snippet:
There she was. Out of the surface of the water her mother rose. A totally naked, stick-thin Derya Degirmenci stood in front of them all. Her skin looked as if she was made of algae and moving bruises, her hair was an ochre color, her green eyes darker than Damla had ever seen it, round and big to boot. She had no nose, and her skin shimmered in a way that it would on a fish’s scale. She did not at all look like the nymph paintings by John William Waterhouse. Her mother didn’t look like a human at all. She looked, instead, like she belonged to the sea, was a deep-sea creature best left untouched that had now been brought back on land to everybody’s chagrin. Here on land to haunt everybody it came across.
But that was Hollywood, and this was real, and she was pissing Damla off.

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

i'm supremely excited to share one of my favorite short stories, now online on the new absurdist! a period piece on a punk rocker with shifting identities and a permanent nightmare... CW for blood and general unsavoriness newabsurdist.com/editors-pick...

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Mudman • The New Absurdist

Mudman follows a young man temporarily called Mickey attempting to escape his past and identity. But the past has a way of catching up, and in Mickey's case, it may be particularly muddy…

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

When a nymph disappears into the local pond with no intention to leave, her daughter must risk her art school dreams to save her—from both the owner who wants to dry the pond and the town that wants them gone for good. Meet NYMPH'S POND💙 #roundtablementor #A #F #L

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Damla needs the perfect portrait for art school. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who refuses to leave the local pond. When its owner wants to dry it and the town grows violent, Damla must risk her dream to save her mom. Meet NYMPH'S POND💙 #roundtablementor #A #F #L

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Meet NYMPH'S POND, mentored by @cjsubko.bsky.social! ♥ BOOK OF LOVE x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA 🧜 an artist's coming of age 🧜 complex mom-daughter r/s 🧜 hostile small town 🧜 majority queer female cast 🧜 battles w/ self-esteem 🧜 water powers as a gate to past trauma #roundtablementor #A #F #L

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

unbelievably happy and excited to be published in blue moon review💙 this is one of my most beloved short stories, about artistry, connection, and solace. finally many of you can read my girl damla for the first time! www.bluemoonreview.org/portrait-osc...

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Portrait of a Man as an Oscar-Nominated Actor — Blue Moon Review

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

the tatami galaxy is everything... both the anime and its novel are incredible

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

i am officially back #amquerying my novel NYMPH'S POND - here is my agent's guide! ft. 🧜 an artist's coming of age 🧜 complex mother-daughter r/s 🧜 a hostile small town 🧜 a queer & female cast 🧜 battles w/ self-esteem 🧜 water powers reflecting emotions & past trauma

NYMPH‘S POND AN 80K UPMARKET FANTASY NOVEL

THE PITCH: Damla needs the perfect portrait for art school. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who refuses to leave the local pond. When its owner wants to dry it and the town grows violent, Damla must risk her dream to save her mom.

COMPS:
* Julia Armfield - Our Wives Under The Sea
* Adrienne Young - The Unmaking of June Farrow
* Kelly Link - The Book of Love

Snippet:
Damla stretched out her hand. She put her palm up, and a drop fell in a dull thud. Thud, thud, thud, thick drops of water crashed against her palm. It was soft to the touch, not as cold as she thought it would be. Just like her mother, who had let the drops speak for her. Whose silence was her sharpest weapon. Whose anger was ice.
Was this her mother?

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

BOOK OF LOVE x JUNE FARROW x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA 🧜 an artist's coming of age 🧜 complex mother-daughter relationships 🧜 a hostile small town 🧜 majority queer female cast 🧜 battles w/ self-esteem 🧜 water powers reflecting emotional states & past trauma #DVPit #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Damla needs the perfect portrait for art college. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who refuses to leave the local pond. When the owner wants to dry out the pond and the town wants her gone, Damla must risk her dream to save her mother. #DVPit #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x BOOK OF LOVE x JUNE FARROW Damla needs the perfect portrait for art school. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who refuses to leave the local pond. When its owner wants to dry it and the town grows violent, Damla must risk her dream to save her mom. #DVPit #A #WOC #SPF #LGBT

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

BOOK OF LOVE x JUNE FARROW x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA What if you wanted to get to art school but your muse was a water spirit and refused to be drawn? 🧜 water magic galore 🧜 late winter norcal vibes 🧜 outcast women must stick together 🧜 closeted lesbians #DVPit #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

When a nymph disappears into the local pond with no intention to leave, her daughter must put everything on the line to save her—from both the owner who wants to dry the pond and the town that wants them gone for good. #DVPit #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Want to draw your mother for your portfolio? Get her out the pond first—if you're strong enough to use the water as well as she, a nymph, can. Should you fail, the pond owner will dry it and the town will force her out of here. #DVPit #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

BOOK OF LOVE x JUNE FARROW Want to draw your mother for your portfolio? Get her out the pond first... if you're good enough. 🧜 complex mother-daughter relationships 🧜 small-town dread 🧜 majority female cast 🧜 battles w/ self-esteem 🧜 an artist's coming of age #DVPit #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

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Alex, the Hero of Write @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

FINAL FANTASY 10 x THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER 🌊 A world of islands 🌊 A dragon-ferret companion 🌊 A Maltese-inspired setting 🌊 A mortal trans woman choked by grief 🌊 A starborn woman with an impossible choice 🌊 A fight against a cosmic threat 🌊 A community rebuilding after tragedy #preDV #A #F #LGBT

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

A young artist needs the perfect portrait for art college. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who refuses to leave the local pond. When the owner wants to dry out the pond and the town wants her gone altogether, the artist must risk her dream to save her mother. #preDV #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

A young artist needs the perfect portrait for art college. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who disappears into the local pond and stays there. When the owner threatens to dry out the pond and the town wants them gone, the artist must risk her dream to save her mom. #preDV #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x THE BOOK OF LOVE x THE UNMAKING OF JUNE FARROW A young artist needs the perfect portrait for art college. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who disappears to the local pond and has no intention to leave it. #preDV #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

THE BOOK OF LOVE X THE SHAPE OF WATER Want to draw your mother for your portfolio? Get her out the pond first... if you're good enough, that is. 🧜‍♀️ complicated mother-daughter relationships 🧜‍♀️ creepy small-town 🧜‍♀️ majority female cast 🧜‍♀️ an artist coming of age #preDV #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

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Cammie 🦋 @aninkwellofnectar.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

YELLOWFACE X THE SECRET HISTORY She’s the Substack queen of feminist rage. He’s the YouTube darling who profits from quoting her. She finally confronts him live. She wins. And now he won’t leave her alone. #A #LF #BVM #PreDV

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Alex, the Hero of Write @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

WIND WAKER x THE TIGER'S DAUGHTER A woman stuck in her wife's shadow seeks her own identity and purpose while sailing across her drowned world to help fight a cosmic force intent on devouring all life. #F #A #LGBT #preDV

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

When a nymph disappears to the local pond with no intention to leave, her daughter must put everything on the line to save her—from both the owner who wants to dry the pond and the town that wants them gone for good. #preDV #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

EVERY FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE SONG x LOOK BACK tfw you want to draw your mom but she decides she's fusing with the pond which btw is going to be dried out soon bc the owner doesn't want her in there #UnhingedPit #A #F #LGBT #W

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a cartoon of a boat splashing water and the words we would be so hydrated

ALT: a cartoon of a boat splashing water and the words we would be so hydrated

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Wanna Hear Some Halo Lore? @stefanheck.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

JAMES BOND (Tom Holland): (into smart watch) Alexa, I need your help! I can’t get into the Amazon fulfillment centre to save the Prime Minister! There’s a large group of pro-union protestors blocking the way! MILF YOUNGLY (Lauren Sanchez): Perhaps I could be of service, Mr. Bond. I am 24 years old.

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

MARTYR x THE SHAPE OF WATER a young artist needs the perfect portrait for art college. her muse? her mother — but not only does she disappear to the local pond, she is also a nymph and has no intention to leave. #posterpit #posterpitq #spf #f #a

A young woman submerged in water, with her long blond hair flowing. The text reads: NYMPH'S POND to the left, and next to it:
The struggling artist of MARTYR!
small-town magic of THE BOOK OF LOVE
ostracized water creatures of THE SHAPE OF WATER
further below:
an adult fantasy by
Elif SInem Erdem

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

SHARP OBJECTS x THE SHAPE OF WATER a young artist needs the perfect portrait for art college. her muse? her mother — but not only does she disappear to the local pond, she is also a nymph and has no intention to leave. #posterpit #posterpitq #spf #f #a

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(picture of a pond) Nymph's Pond - an adult fantasy novel

The pitch:
Small towns gossip... and being different may prove fatal to her mother and Damla...
Damla wants nothing more than to get into art college. But when her mother, the person she’d most like to draw, disappears into the town’s local pond, Damla must set out to retrieve her — only to realize that not only is her mother a nymph, she has no intention to leave that place.
And what’s so special about that pond anyway? Damla uncovers a secret that could upend her life as she knows it... and powers she never knew she had.

Comps to the left:
* Kaveh Akbar's MARTYR! (künstlerroman)
* Kelly Link's BOOK OF LOVE (small-town magic)
* Zen Cho's BLACK WATER SISTER (filial piety vs freedom)
* THE SHAPE OF WATER (dir. Guillermo del Toro) (inter-species (queer) romance)
To the right - themes & elements:
* a small-town with a secret
* the struggles of a young artist
* nymphs as sea-creatures
* female-centric & sapphic cast
* complicated mother-daughter relationships

Snippet:
Her mother, clearer than ever, and yes, more home than ever, too. Wet and looking calm, no unnecessary skin on her, thin but not skeletal, gaunt but not haunted. Blond hair almost golden from the water. Hazel eyes glimmering like polished wood. This was an image that Waterhouse would not have messed up. He’d have thought of it, and here it was, right in front of Damla, her own, personal Undine. But in her head, the image turned out ugly just by having Damla’s name on it. She thought of the arm that she had drawn earlier that day, the mangled arm that had mangled everything else about the artwork, and she knew that her mother was right. She had no skill. She didn’t know what she wanted besides wanting out. She couldn’t get into college. She was stuck with her mother, an artist without an artwork. All she did was paint Damla’s world black from the comfort of her big bathtub.

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James A Lyons @jalwrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Here We Go Again x Kinky Boots An adult contemporary, drag, gay road trip RomCom. Follow Harri as he joins crush Jack on a chaotic trip to find the iconic 1980's drag friends of Wilma Cockburn. Will their secrets about his adopted family's past change his life forever? #Queerpit #A #CON #editors

A poster with three drag queens looking up to a bright blue sky. Across the centre is the text East End Boys and West End Girls, a novel by James A Lyons. The character names Harri Forrester, Wilma Cockburn, Princess Thigh-Ana and Jack Montague are across the top. All main text is yellow. a sticker on the bottom right says on sub this September

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Bree Buonomo @breebwrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

AN EDUCATION IN MALICE x HOUSE OF HUNGER 🧛‍♀️ Vampires ⛰️ Appalachia 💀 Toxic relationships ❤️‍🩹 Healing from trauma ⛏️ Mining history 🩸 “Be careful in the company of monsters that you don’t become one.” 💜 Ace rep #queerpit #A #H

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SHARP OBJECTS x THE SHAPE OF WATER When Damla's mother, the person she’d most like to paint, disappears into the town’s local pond, Damla must set out to retrieve her. But her mother is a nymph, and she has no intention to leave. #questpit #A #W #F

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

To get into art college, Damla needs the perfect portrait. She'd been planning to paint her mother, at least until she disappears into the town’s local pond. Retrieving her is difficult: she is a nymph—and has no intention to leave. #QuestPit #A #F #S #W

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

the great tran anh hung's movies are more vibe than argument, and i love them all for it. or almost.. here they are worst to best theturkishrug.com/2025/07/18/t...

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Tran Anh Hung, Ranked

One of our great sensualists, worst to best!

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