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Cherae @clclarkwrites.com · 13/07/2026

i think about form size a lot, bouncing between epic fantasy series and standalones, short stories, and novellas. generally, i’m pretty disinterested in the categories themselves, but i’m interested in using the space well, to best effect. so how do you write a good story at any length?

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

happy pride! i'll be reposting some of my older work this month

a design that reads "the homosexual and the transsexual must always seek to liberate the other for they fight the same fight!" to the right of the text there is a clump of dandelions. the entire image is textured to look photocopied.

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Read a lot. Read widely. Read challenging books and fluffy books and nonfiction books and literary theory. As an author, your books are you craft, and constantly training those skills is the best think you can do for your art.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 03/05/2026

it’s never too late to start learning how to draw - and as frustrating as it sounds, it’s a lifelong endeavor. if you pick up the pen today, you will be experiencing the same emotions, setbacks, euphoria, and accomplishments as someone who is sitting down for the 1826th consecutive day.

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It’s Trans Day of Visibility! Buying a book by a trans author is great, but don’t stop there! Make sure to call your representatives. Support your local trans communities. Donate to mutual aid organizations. If we’re going to make it through this we need you to do more than post on social media!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

You do not have to accept repeat Covid infections as inevitable. Mitigations work. Layers work best. Get your booster. Clean & ventilate the air. Test and stay home when sick. Perhaps most important of all, wear a well fitted N95. It protects you & those around you. Community care can save us!

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Doth @doth.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

babe are you ok you've barely touched your unread books

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Aria (Is Drafting) 🏳️‍🌈⚧️ @anariablooms.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The best writing advice I can give is add more lesbians. No, more. No, more. That's not enough are you even listening-- oh goodness thats a lot of lesbians. Well done. That's good art.

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Seren Kilig 🪉 @serenkilig.com · 28/05/2025

who was going to warn me that writing my characters being kind and compassionate to each other would help me learn to be kinder and more compassionate to myself. what on earth.

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King Leo @nywiseass.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Pls wash your hands twice as much as you already currently do…. We in a public health emergency

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

No single photograph -- not even the Napalm Girl photograph -- could change the course of the war. And if you talk to Americans today, the true cost of Vietnam to them is American lives lost, not the horror that was inflicted on the Vietnamese.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I don’t want to “streamline” my writing. I don’t want to “increase my output.” I don’t want to “write a novel with one click.” I want to write stuff only I can write. I want to read and write novels with soul and heart and a unique voice. Fuck AI. Long live real writers.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

As always, if you want to make one donation that helps multiple people on the ground in Gaza, I recommend the Sameer Project, a mutual aid groups that's doing incredible work despite the horrific conditions: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

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The Sameer Project | Instagram | Linktree

We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,

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Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE A hit man seeks revenge for his brother’s murder. A doctor hunts for the truth behind an impossible affliction. Together, they dive into a world of occult conspiracy and eldritch horror. But can they survive? #WIPPIT #A #H #T

A page from an old book showing a skull drawing and the word MORTEM, a well-dressed couple in shadow staring at you with glowing eyes, two skyscrapers looming overhead in the fog, several pistols lying in a cushioned case, a black hole, two doctors performing surgery, a man with his back turned and a woman's hand cradling his head, a cork board of documents and string, six figures cloaked in black and gathered in a semi-circle.

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I could absolutely screech with joy because: Hollow is on Netgalley!!!! Ahhh!! And not only is Hollow on Netgalley, but it’s on the front page of most requested horror books!! 😭😭😭 you can request Hollow now!!!

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tams! @maezanilla.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Harrow 🦴

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Hi again! This local trans person (who I was just hanging out with and can vouch for) just posted an update to her GFM. Good news: she has two promising job interviews! Bad news: she really needs help with June rent so she doesn't get evicted before she can line up a job. Please help if you can!

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Seren Kilig 🪉 @serenkilig.com · 19/05/2025

I can never advocate for the "write every day" advice. I think every writer should have a day during the week where they engage in the enjoyment of experiencing art in lieu of creating it.

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Seren Kilig 🪉 @serenkilig.com · 15/05/2025

the four types of book characters i write - self-deprecating rich asshole with a heart of gold - lesbian hooligan who's trying her best but only makes things worse - narrative foil to the protagonist who is just them except worse - aloof but secretly reverent love interest

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 12/05/2025

READ: “I pretend I’m full so my kids can eat.” Inside Gaza, parents are skipping meals, scavenging for firewood, and waiting hours in line for a single gallon of water — all while famine tightens its grip. t.co/UjJAxLtLRt

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rory g. | COME BACK WRONG @gilhouligan.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Graphic design is clearly not my passion but writing is! I’m stoked to announce that I’ve been accepted to the @lambdaliterary.org writers’ retreat this summer, and I’m currently fundraising tuition. It’d mean a lot to me if you check out my fundraising page or share this post. tinyurl.com/givliv

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Seren Kilig 🪉 @serenkilig.com · 10/05/2025

displacement is something I can’t not write about esp in my adult works, but I can’t wait to write more books set in the Philippines/-inspired places

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It’s important to pay attention to the fact that there are simultaneous efforts to criminalize mask-wearing by citizens and to standardize the wearing of face-obscuring gaiters by people purporting to be law enforcement.

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Minae @shiningvenus.northsky.social · 10/05/2025

Nighttime reminder: It’s okay to rest. You’ve made it through the day, and that’s enough. You’re allowed to log off, breathe deeply, and just be. No goals, no pressure. Let the quiet settle in. Wrap yourself in softness, whatever that means for you. You deserve peace tonight.

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A💤ul @passionpeachy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

let’s be luminous with mama #mothersday

A white sea turtle with a blue mosaic shell with gold edges swims peacefully with the moon and her babies on her back. The baby sea turtles circle around the moon, illuminating them.

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Beck 🌈📚 (she/they) @becklovesbooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

it has been a LONG time since I shared this starter pack. I've made wonderful friends with so many of you on it, but I need to know... how is it not full yet? Who have I missed? <3 go.bsky.app/DYyTzWE #booksky #queersky

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Reflections ✨️

A peach-pink glowing mermaid sits amid a rock pool surrounded by leafy plants.

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Seren Kilig 🪉 @serenkilig.com · 08/05/2025

Kay and I went vague at around the same time, and I can't be happier to see her match with someone who loves her work as much as I do 🥹✨

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M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

EVOCATIONxJANE LAWRENCE why do you need an angel? according to the codex his teacher wrote, that’s the most important question to ask when summoning them. simon knows his answer: there’s someone he worships—the teacher he built a cult around—and he won’t stop until he has him. #QuestPit #A #H #wip

red and black-themed moodboard. around the top border and right border: someone falling through red-tinged clouds; someone in white embracing a dark shadow with a halo behind them; someone standing at the top of some stairs, surrounded by giant red bulging eyes; a faded black and white photo style picture of a dark smudge shadow and the shape of someone hooking their head over the shadow’s shoulder, crying dark tears; red-toned painting of an angel with three eyes. The left space is occupied by a text image, gothic white on red, that reads ‘the problem with angels is sometimes they talk back’ over and over again. on top of that picture, picture of a painting of an eye with a large gold star growing in it.

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Jax Devora (is writing) @jaxdevora.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Barely a week into his first adventure with his mage best friend(/crush), luckless Mick finds himself stuck in the body of a dragon with a god in his head. Now he and mage Eleanor must navigate what it means to be the dragons' chosen—before his existence triggers a divine war. #QuestPit #W #NA #RF

Three-panel moodboard consisting of three pieces by Alphonse Mucha.

Left: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies.
Center: The Moon. A woman wearing nothing but a navy blanket covered in stars stands against a backdrop consisting of the night sky and a crescent moon. She covers her smile with one hand. This image is noticeably lower in quality than its neighboring panels.
Right: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer.

A golden filigree lines the bottom and frames the sides, partially covering the left and right panels.

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Neѕѕα @nessamoulay.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

introducing the agent’s guide to: ⤜ THESE WISHLESS SOULS ⤛ 🌙 North African myths 🌊 a sentient lake 💀 soul-starved ghouls ❄️ a flesh-eating frost ⚔️ a little heresy #YA #F #Q #questpit #agentsguide #amquerying

An agent's guide to THESE WISHLESS SOULS, YA fantasy

Moodboard + Tropes: ancestral guilt, north african monsters, flesh-eating frost, sentient lake, deadly vows, meddling gods, "her life before yours", "rebel & losing herself; obey & losing everyone else"

Pitch: When a flesh-eating frost starts killing her family one by one, 17yo Chemsa must bring her "chosen one" sister back to life to stop it—before the frost claims her next.

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Chapter One:
It's my mother who found it first.
I deserve a lashing for referring to my aunt as *it*, but this is considering what little the curse has left of Tata Fatima.

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Ayla Yergin @aylayrgn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Garden of Gods 🩸🌹 THE HURRICANE WARS x THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER (I like to think of it as Attack on Titan set in the Ottoman Empire with more magic and more romance) #questpit #q #a #f #r

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Demri Redmon @demri18.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

An #agentsguide #pitchcard of THE RESURRECTED KING Tropes: ☀️ Forbidden Romance ☀️ Egyptian Mythology ☀️ 1920’s Egypt ☀️ Dis Rep ☀️ Archaeology ☀️ “Coming-of-Rage” FMC Inspired by my travels while residing in Egypt 🇪🇬 #questpit #Q #HF

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Happy Place (but gay) x Emily Wilde In a town wrapped in fairylore, a group of roommates discover stories of fairies stealing people away in the night aren’t what they seem as they suspect their romantic partners might be more legend than human 🧚🏼 #QuestPit #W #A #R #S

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

There’s something in the water 🌊 When an island whispers different versions of unwritten local legends & turning into a creature of the deep as a result of heartbreak makes you want to drown your ex- no one is safe Especially not the ex boyfriends #QuestPit #Q #A #R #S #SFF

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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Presenting to the #questpit & #writingcommunity crew… Reasons to love To Ruin the Sky ⚡️ Kingdom of the Wicked x Crescent City ♥︎Led by a sassy, 'shadow mommy' FMC 🫶🏼Fresh take on Romantasy 🪞#MiddleEasternRep 🚨Fills that Xaden-shaped hole in your life #agentsguide #RF #Q #NA #writersky

ELECTRIC SEXUAL TENSION.
Excerpt reads: There's a possessiveness in how he touches me and I wish I hated it.
"How would you punish me?" I breathe out, unable to control my impulses.
Fingers touch my zip as he slowly slips it down, millimetre by millimetre. My body is completely in his thrall, unable to decipher the beat of my heart from the thump of the speaker's bass.
Cloudy background with one half of a lightning bolt

MORALLY-GREY IS THE COLOUR OF CHOICE...
Two moodboards with information about the two main characters

INCLUDES TOP TIER TROPES...
Four book comparisons: Crescent City, Kingdom of the Wicked, Book of Azrael, Quicksilver with tropes attached
The other half of a lightning bolt with a cloudy background

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Tali Shammas @talishammas.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

In 1900s Latvia, Stasi imbues paint with blood magic to create art that becomes reality, but when she discovers a plot to eradicate blood-magic women after entering a prestigious art competition, she rises against those who threaten her kind. #W #A #HR #S #H #questpit

Cover image for the agent's guide of my 70K sapphic horrormance with magical realism elements titled The Colour of Blood.

Tropes, themes, and comps for The Colour of Blood:

🔥 Coming-of-rage
🇱🇻 Latvian mythology and folklore
🎨 art-based magic system
🌲 Sentient baltic forest
⚔️ Rivals-to-lovers
🛌 Only one room
💕 LGBTQIA+ rep

Comps are Blood Over Bright Haven for misogyny, feminine rage, and colonialism; Mexican Gothic for sexism, exploitation, and generational trauma; and Juniper & Thorn for Eastern European Setting, creepy mansion, and gothic horror.

Blurb for The Colour of Blood: In 1900s Latvia, women wield blood magic that, when combined with paint, creates art capable of shaping reality. Stasi, an ambitious artist, is overjoyed when she's selected to compete for a coveted year-long residency at the Von Nachtraben estate, home to Europe’s most powerful paint magnate, but she soon learns the competition is far from idyllic.

When a talented competitor dies during the first trial, Stasi suspects the competition’s purpose is not recruitment but the elimination of the world’s strongest magical women, making women easier to control. Stasi's fears deepen when she discovers the Von Nachtrabens have developed a toxic green pigment to weaken women like her.

As a forbidden romance kindles between Stasi and her rival, and more girls vanish, Stasi must navigate an increasingly dangerous maze of deception, power, and control to stop the wealthy elite that would have her kind silenced forever.

Excerpt from The Colour of Blood: I press the heels of my palms into my eyes until sparks bloom, white light piercing darkness like the moon trailing a path across the night sky. During my childhood summers in Tiraine, I was taught the story of Mēness, the moon god who traverses the sky atop a white horse. Mēness was married to Saule, the sun goddess. When he was unfaithful, the goddess sliced him into pieces, creating moon phases. Like the sun, I too will carve into pieces those who tried to break me.

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Seren Kilig 🪉 @serenkilig.com · 07/05/2025

Beneath the ground, huge mechanical beasts are rousing from slumber, and the Cassiopeian Orchestra may hold the only musicians left alive who can quell them. It’s quite a shame, then, that they’re merely a gaggle of thieves unloved by history. #QuestPit #AG #WIP #A #F #SF #SFF

Burgundy background with red splatters throughout. In the middle is a picture of a solar eclipse, as well as Aria’s title, by Seren Kilig. Surrounding the picture are quotes in white. Each quote corresponds to a character in the book. “I am a woman driven by my desires, and they will ruin me. They will unspool me inch by inch until I am nothing but bone.” – N. Onja. “There’s great humor to be found in my father’s name doing as much for our group as your instruments. Perhaps I am an instrument, then? I quite like that.” – L. Autissier. “Memory is an unforgiving warden, and I am her eternal prisoner. I wish to forget, to slip into the comfort of the unremarkable meany.” – A. Sarata. “People will only see what they want to see, even without my hand in that. I cannot force fortune out of falsity, and in any case, I’d rather live in imagined extravagance than in misery with the rest of you.” – S. Irfani. “Look up. They wait for you. I’ll live lifetimes of stories for you when we reunite, an

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Allie Pearl @alliewrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The Lamb × To Be Devoured Toeing the line between love and obsession for her High Priestess, Haidee must play the Gods' game, for in her mind they have given her a test and a craving for human flesh too. Is Haidee meant to survive or will she lose it all, including the one she loves? #questpit #W

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Anna Deh-is editing✍️ @annadehwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

MONSTERS INC X NOSFERATU YA Horror Romance When a horror fan’s exorcism fails, she finds that the monsters aren’t just on the page—they’re real, and she must blend in their world while finding a way back to the world of the living before the monsters discover she isn’t one of them #questpit #YA

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Kelton Davis is ON SUB! 🦇⚰️🤠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

BONE SHARD DAUGHTER x GODKILLER When an assassin nearly kills her mother, ruler of her people and living goddess, Niozene must chase redemption into a forbidden land to win back the throne...and her mother's love. 🏹 Strong FMC 🏹 Disgraced Heir 🏹 Cyclical Trauma #F #W #A #questpit

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Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | WIP | Estimated at 109K words

Background: Amethyst Geode | Six images surrounding a quote: A red forest, a sunset, hammer striking hot metal, red arrow fletching, an old, grizzle man, and a red-haired woman archer.
Text: "You might be too broken to help me yourself," she said, all pretense of courtesy gone, "but if you're a shadow of the man he said you were, you ought to still know something at least.
"Have you ever heard of an assassin who could change their shape?"

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Title: Comps
Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps.
Text:
From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS)
From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others)

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Title: Pitch
Text: For Niozene, eldest daughter and crown heir to the Mother, the living goddess that rules her country, perfection is not a goal to strive toward; it is the base expectation. And despite her every effort to the contrary, Niozene is not perfect. Her flawless scholar’s education and polished career as a ranger have failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest mistake: she was born without the holy power that marks her family as divinity and grants them their divine right to rule.

When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she officially runs out of time to impress. She is stripped of her titles and given a choice: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication—banishment from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as her last chance to show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter.

Allowed only the help of another excommunicated criminal, a surly, aged tracker named Sonsan, and facing an assassin who could be anyone, she dreads her chance is over before it starts. But when Sonsan reveals the same shape-changing power as the assassin, she realizes there is more to her quest than she has been told. As they chase the assassin deep into a forbidden land, they must confront the buried history they discover they share, as well as the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, if they are to return alive.

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Tini Wider @tiniwiderauthor.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Practical Magic x Go Hex yourself #P2Ppit HEARTS & HEXES Witchy Cozy RomCom #Q #UW #A #RF ❤️ Mentor/Mentee 🧹 Witches are real 🥰 Overcoming grief/building trust 🌟heart wrenching secrets 🧙‍♀️ Granny knows 😍 slow burn 🤣 rom-com 🌶️ low heat 🏠 Sentient house ❤️ HE

A collage of witchy images, a grimoire, a house, a door to a cottage, a granny, candles, a vintage cup of tea

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Seren Kilig 🪉 @serenkilig.com · 07/05/2025

THE NIGHT CIRCUS x FIRE & BLOOD Orphaned by the Cosmic War, heartstring player Nasudi bends audiences to her will. Traveling with thieves disguised as an orchestra, she refuses to let her past snag her, even if it means betraying her new family. #QuestPit #AG #WIP #A #F #SF #SFF

A dumping ground of inspiration, themes, and images related to Aria, by Seren Kilig. The manuscript comps The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin, and A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal. The manuscript evokes emotion akin to the songs Sleeping Giants by The Crane Wives and Inkpot Gods by The Amazing Devil. Set in a rich science fantasy world, the images of harps, pocket watches, blood moons, and red thread evoke a tense adventure. There is text that reads ARIA, as well as three quotes. “Doom yourself before the narrative does.”; “There’ll be no hymns to our Glory. History has cut our throats.”; “I am an unforgivable creature. But darling, I will love you. I will love you through all my disgusting performances.”

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Charisma | Romance Author | Nigerian Characters @charismawilliams.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

BEACH READ x LOVE ISLAND desperate for the 💵, Jesutoni must work w/ the person she hates - her ex- before she embarrasses herself on TV/disappoints the person she loves the most...their child. -romance author x horror author -reality show setting -fuck u...fuck me #questpit #Q #OWN

3 x 3 collage of nine photos (cozy)

Top row, left to right: a reality show setting, where a camera is focused on a woman smiling, Miles actor from How to get away with murder, a selfie view of a black couple holding hands but far from each other where the woman is smiling and their background is the beach and sunset.

Middle row, Left to right: a warm picture of the sunset set against blacklit palm trees with the sky an array of purple, blues, reds and oranges, a cozy picture of an open laptop with Google Docs on a bed, a picture of the Fiji beach with blue waters, white sand, and the forest further away from the camera.

Bottom row, Left to right: woman laying on the sand while the man is holding her by the leg and doesn't seem to be dragging her, a close up of a black woman with her natural hair fully out wearing a white cardigan and black camisole, a filming setting closeup of a video camera.

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