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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Unfortunate Garden Witch’s Guide to Kissing Girls is like if Glinda and Elphaba had to take care of Audrey 2 without getting caught. And also they kiss. #DVpit #A #F #R #Q #DIS #LGBTQ

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

one cursed to die if he speaks against the throne, the other cursed to watch him day and night Featuring: - a disabled trans prince - a sweetheart bodyguard - a sassy twin brother - flower language - a really weird take on elves #DVpit #Q #R #F #A #LGBT #DIS #OWN

Brown skinned elf embracing pale man with glasses and curly hair

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if T Kingfisher wrote an Alexandra Rowland book, it would be A Prince(ss) and His Royal Guard

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A trans prince must escape the palace before his wedding as a princess in three week’s time, with or without the beautiful elven guard cursed to watch him day and night. #DVpit #dis #own #A #F #R #lgbtq

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

THE SPELLSHOP X THE HONEY WITCH a cottagecore romance featuring: - a disabled witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ - a butch werewolf grocer 🐺 - an intersex half-devil 😈 - a love-struck siren 💗 - a not-cat 🐈 - a ghost or two 👻 - a bunch of old folks 👵🏻 - a mysterious blight 🪾 - a small town 🏡 #DVpit #LGBT #OWN #DIS #A #F #R

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WICKED x LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS When Zenora, a trans autistic garden witch with a brown thumb, accidentally becomes responsible for the flowery source of all magic, she must work with a rival music witch to care for it without getting caught—or falling in love. #DVpit #A #F #R #own #lgbtq #dis

Blonde music witch saying do the cha cha slide
Black garden witch saying i am not doing the cha cha slide

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To evade eviction, a disabled witch recruits a butch grocer to work for her failing apothecary until she can cure the mysterious fruit blight ravaging the town. #DVpit #A #F #R #lgbtq

Cozy drawing of living room and kitchen with a woman reaching to pet a cat in front of the fireplace

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Step inside Aline’s apartment from You Bloomed in Winter, my #amquerying lesbian cozy fantasy romance #writesky #art

Moody apartment with reds and browns and yellows and blues

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m gonna start posting here more hi friends

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

reading an ARC and it’s my second five star read of the year and i’m only 50 pages in

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Really could use a book deal right about now

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

i just received my first ever upgrade from a partial to a full 😭😭😭

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

THE GOOD PLACE X YOUR NAME A miserable woman and a burnt out man die in a freak accident and wake up in each other’s bodies, only they both feel better than they ever have. The problem is, they’re too afraid to tell each other. #litagents #WIP #writesky #queer #trans

Collage of pastel pretty things, very cutesy and bright with trans symbol

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

New WIP: THE GOOD PLACE x YOUR NAME with a trans twist

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rihdara klay 📖 @rihdaraklay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE: AGENT GUIDE 🫀 Presenting my 90,000-word fantasy horror about a college freshman who joins a club of pre-meds to harvest the organs of the elite with body magic🩸 #agents - if you're looking for guts and gays, this is for you! #agentguide #querying

WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE - adult fantasy horror, 90,000 words - in which a college freshman joins a club of pre-meds to harvest the organs of the elite with body magic. dark academia x body x horror dual timeline - south asian rep x bi4bi x STEM - vengeance, moral ambiguity, and guts galore

blurb - please DM for text version due to character limit!

vibes - books: honey by imani thompson, ninth house by leigh bardugo, if we were villains by m.l. rio, and kill billionaire by anders lustgarten. songs - pictures of you by the cure, fireproof by mitski, them changes by thundercat, little dark age by mgmt

first 300 words - please DM for text version due to character limit!

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

sentence i just typed: “Wood was supes expensive”

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

WICKED x LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS A sapphic cozy fantasy rom-com grumpy x sunshine? more like rage-baitee x rage-baiter. both apply, but one is more emotionally astute. #agentsguide #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky #litagents #fantasy #romcom #amquerying #art

Blonde girl saying do the cha-cha slide
Black girl saying i am not doing the cha-cha-slide

The Unfortunate Garden Witch's
Guide to
Kissing Girls by victoria jayne

When Zenora, a trans autistic garden witch with a brown thumb, accidentally becomes responsible for the Allflower. the source of all garden witch magic. she must work with a rival music witch to care for it without getting caught--or falling madly in love.

EVERYTHING
SHE DOES IS
Magic
for readers
who loved the
BREWED
WITH *
LOVE
아
Smash!
Pass
-BRIDGET MORRISSEY glinda! elphaba vibes
+ SHELLY PAGE + sapphic
witch partnership
autistic lesbian MC

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

WHEN YESTERDAY ENDS, my cozy fantasy about moving on from your yesterdays, is out now in ebook & paperback! 🌿 a slow-burn mm romance 🌿 grumpy herbalist 🌿 flirty fey 🌿 curses to break 🌿 lost in yesterdays Buy today! Uni: books.earlronove.com/whenyesterda... itch: earlronove.itch.io/whenyesterda...

When Yesterday Ends by S. Jean Out Now graphic. To the left is a 3D version of the book, and in front of it is a phone with the cover on it. There is a short description to the right, and where to find it at the bottom. The text reads:
An herbalist, a fey lord, and a curse before summer ends...
Nettles Hollow is as good a place as any to restart your life.
At least, until Ambrose learns the town’s secret: Renwick, the hidden fey lord cursed to eat human hearts. Ambrose is his next victim, unless he can break a fifty-year curse before summer ends.
The problem? He’s never broken a curse in his life and trying to solve this one might just kill him anyway...
Ebook & Paperback available now!
books.earlronove.com/whenyesterdayends

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In honor of Sweet & Wild's one year anniversary, both Sweet & Wild and A Taste of Wild Honey are 50% until August 3rd on Itch and Ko-Fi! Itch: itch.io/s/196800/swe... Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur...

Sweet & Wild Anniversary Sale - 50% off Sweet & Wild and A Taste of Wild Honey on Itch and Ko-Fi
A picture that depicts Terran, a man with tan skin, dark brown and green hair, and antlers lifts Micah, a man with light skin, blonde hair, and a straw hat as they kiss. There are flowers and trees behind them
A pale yellow background and a wildflower border

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Mary S Morrison ✏️🧬🧫🇨🇦🏛️ @marysmorrison.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x HIGHER MAGIC DO NO HARM has… 🎩Retro-Victorian dark academia 🩸Murder and intrigue 👨‍🎓Plus-size PhD student MMC 👩🏽‍🎓Disabled punk activist FMC 🩺Medicine & magic 🧬Fictional magic, real science 🧑‍🔬Save the enby, save the world #Questpit #Q #A #F #SFF

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Hey #questpit writer friends! Do you struggle to make pitch graphics for events? I’m giving away eight free pitch posts! A collage, a comps page, a snippet, a tropes page, or anything else you have a vision for! First come first serve! 🥰 comment or DM to claim

For Readers Of:
Late
Bloomer
coworkers to lovers
magical mishaps
whimsical worldbuilding
the
sapphe
SPELLSHOP
yearning
SARAH BETH DURST
the VERY a
SECRET SOCIETY
• * IRREGULAR
Witches.
SANGU MANDANNA
HONEY WICH
SYDNEY ) SHIELDS

Coworkers to lovers
Cottagegore
You Bloom In Winter
Witch x werewolf
Instalike but slow burn
Femme x
Butch
Pining and yearning
winter vibes

يرر(وررار)).
A Prince/ss) And His Royal Guard

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Cara Castro @caracastro.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

LEGALLY BLONDE X WITCH'S GUIDE TO MAGICAL INNKEEPING A first-year public defender for sorcerers must help her newest client prove his innocence without accidentally falling in love with him. rep: WEAVER LITERARY #QuestPit #OS #A #F #R

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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My Darling, Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society A fabled witch howled the Blackstone Curse and mired generations in madness, murder, and mayhem. Only a monster and an heir to an earldom may break the spell, but first they must find each other. #QuestPit #Q #Gothic #A #H #LGBT

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit #A #R #F #Q Imagine a romance between a trans prince and the elven guard cursed to watch him day and night… now add in a soft magic system, hEDS rep, and autism rep.

A PRINCE(SS) AND HIS ROYAL GUARD
BY VICTORIA JAYNE

PUTTING A TRANSMASC
TWIST ON:
TASTEO GOLD IRON
OL ROWLAND
C.:
S.
PACAT
CAPTIVE PRINCE
BOOR ONE IN THE CAPTIVE PRINCE TRILCOY
bodyguard
romance
magical court intrigue
forced proximity
tense battles
OUN
HIS HESE SON SEASE RARE VEERA
SWORD CROSSED
FREYA MARSKE

Darrow pressed two hands down on the bed, missing my dress by a finger-length. Focus, Casper. "You must not fear me. I have been-I've sworn to protect you, Princess Cassandra."
Prince Casper, my mind corrected as my right eye twitched. My mouth stayed silent. There was an earnest expression on Darrow's face, one that seemed complementary to the rest of his flat, creaseless features. Even his eyelids were flat—no fold in sight. It was a feature I'd only seen on some dwarves, a few humans. His cold eyes, though open and welcoming, could cut a stone. Every glance sent lightning surging through my veins, and I wasn't even a lightning mage like my Father was. I mean, I could perform all types of elemental magic, but I was a fire mage with minor healing capabilities. Very minor. Not like Amber, with her magic hands.
The point was, Darrow was nice to look at. At least he had that going for him. But now I had a guard to contend with. This complicated things.

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit #A #F #R #Q THE HONEY WITCH x THE SPELLSHOP A slow-paced 78k cozy fantasy romance with mystery elements and the character focus of women’s fiction.

Faced with eviction in two months, Aline, a disabled witch, charms a business-savvy grocer into saving her failing apothecary, at least until Aline cures the mysterious produce blight ravaging the town. The problem is, Robin is distractingly beautiful, and watching Robin carry heavy boxes is much easier on Aline's buzzing mind than focused research.
Still, the blight is harming the townspeople, so as the town's only witch Aline must push through her pain and brain fog to cure the blight, even if it means Robin's time at the apothecary will come to an end.

Robin
coworkers to lovers
love triangle (with a twist)
fat butch lead
witch x werewolf
hEDS & AuDHD rep
unreliable narrator
Aline

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit #ya #r #f #q WICKED X LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - childhood friends to lovers - MC who is bad at magic - first love - interstitial songs - autism - references to One Piece and Sailor Moon - everyone is gay actually

I sigh, rubbing my forehead. I can hardly believe this. Seeing Melody here, it makes things more real. My hands shake. We're going to defy all of witch society by breaking a cardinal rule of witchdom: working together for a witch event. A music witch and a garden witch. Sweat gathers on my brow. I wipe it away, clench my fists by my side, and nod. There's no going back. What would Luffy do? I can't ask what Buggy would do because Buggy would run away. Luffy, though... Luffy would fight. "We're doing this. You are going to teach me magic and help me take care of the Allflower in secret. And supposedly, you get something out of this, too."
"The chance to look after the Allflower! Are you kidding me? I'm so excited! Are you excited?" Melody asks, and it's an affront to my senses. She shimmers and shines as she speaks, and it's the very limit of what I can reasonably tolerate. I'm not miserable. Just quieter. Quainter. More autistic.

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit #A #F #R #W I am proud to present YOU CHANGED IN SPRING, a F/NB best friends-to-lovers standalone cozy fantasy rom-com featuring a Siren with BPD and a half-devil who might be the most oblivious being alive. ON THE SAME PAGE meets THE EX HEX

they/ them
she/ her
Siren Kendra Starbrook is finally ready to declare her love for her lifelong best friend, half-devil Trixie. When
Trixie shows up to their outing with an annoyingly charming witch on their arm, Kendra must battle her over-the-top Sirenic jealousy and sudden, fleeing instincts to save her friendship with Trixie, even if it means breaking her own heart.

For
Readers of
BOOKSHOP
AND THE
BARBARIAN
MORGAN STANG
cozy fantasy
THE EX HEX
ERIN
"STERUNG
comedic melodrama
DELILAH GREEN
DOESN'T CARE
ASHLEY HERRING BLAKE
sapphic casts
TRON THE ALTHOR OF MOSE WHO WA HALEY CASS
On the
SAME PAGE
friends to lovers

best-friends to-lovers
love triangle (with a twist)
slow burn
femme falls first and falls down
AuDHD rep
BPD rep
Tropes

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The UK government frames an intelligence agent for a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift, before a Russian spy from the future uses its secrets to start a war that will destroy everything. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

WE NEED HELP! Donation 🔗 below. I’m fighting for SSDI, because of my many chronic conditions and recent spinal surgery that leave me unable to work consistently. I’m forced to come off the one medication that helps because we can’t afford it. I’m bedridden.

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨ SIX OF CROWS X ARCANA ACADEMY✨ After an ancient prophecy resurfaces mid magic trial, six artists must uncover who is trying to enact calamity. This Adult Epic Fantasy features: 📜Deadly Deals 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets Best Left Unspoken 💔Rivals to Allies to 👀 #questpit #F #DF #R #A #Q

An Artistic Deception - An Adult Sapphic Epic Fantasy - A girl dancing in an abandoned church

Enemies to lovers
Sapphic
Sentient Magic School
Indigenous Diaspora
Can Your Fate be Changed?

Martyred by her people, a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced through time to find her sacrifice in vain.

Agni attends a magical college to build a new life, but when the past resurfaces, she must either embrace martyrdom again or flee, leaving behind the life she’s built and the woman she loves. before fate claims another kingdom.

Reads like Hozier’s Yell

Putting the con in economy - The lies of locke lamora
a deadly education - my school is trying to kill me
six of crows - ensemble cast x found family
witch hat atelier - magic consequences for me like 💀
arcana academy - so you like pining?

Character art of Agni and Fala

“Can’t you ever do as you’re told?” Fala snaps.
“No.” The word rolls off my lips, sweet as candy.
“Impudent.”
“Arrogant,” I bite back.
We are toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose, her amber irises trembling.
“You know nothing.” Fala seethes. I laugh, drunk on her wild temper on I can ignite. That may have been true at the beginning of term but not now.
I know all about the woman I’ve spent the year ruefully falling in love with.

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Emmaline Evans-Querying Author & Illustator @talesfromknotwood.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🍼QuestPit Submission CURSE THESE SKINNY WITCHES 75k Cozy Fantasy x New Motherhood x Wellness Satire Think WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, but it’s about two postpartum witches counting curses instead of kicks. 🌿 Plant Magic ✨Fantasy Ozempic 📚Witch HOA from hell #questpit #A #F #S #CozyFantasy

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit #A #F #R #Q THE HONEY WITCH x THE SPELLSHOP A slow-paced 78k cozy fantasy romance with mystery elements and the character focus of women’s fiction.

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sierramoeykens.bsky.social @sierramoeykens.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In an alternate, magical Regency era, Lucy Korvas must hide her "improper" wings from high society while finding a cure for her curse, or she will be transformed into a crow forever. 📖 Pride & Prejudice x 🐦‍⬛ Howl's Moving Castle x 🪷 Graceling #Questpit #Q #YA #HFR #F #RF #HF #R #HR

A woman with large black wings attached to her shoulder blades.
Text: Pluck by Sierra Moeykens. Pride & Prejudice x Howl's Moving Castle x Graceling

An illustrated lady in a Regency era dress with large black wings over a ballroom background.

Text: The Pitch
Nineteen-year-old Lucy Korvas has worse problems than complying with high society’s tedious etiquette — she must steal a diamond necklace from the Duchess of Thistal, or her cursed father will perish.
In an alternate, magical Regency era where ladies and gentlemen with improper magic are shunned from high society, Lucy Korvas has hidden a pair of giant, unladylike crow wings beneath her dresses for years, but tonight she risks exposing them to save her cursed father. She needs that diamond necklace to afford his cure. How dastardly it is, then, when she discovers soft-spoken Lord Simon pilfering his own mother’s jewelry first.
But when Lucy and Simon are cursed while trying to steal the necklace, Lucy slowly transforms into a crow and Simon starts dissolving into flower petals. Lucy must find a cure while posturing as the presentable, composed lady that she isn't before she loses her cursed father, the shy gentleman she's becoming smitten with, and her humanity.

Three transparent symbols, a heart, a scroll, and a banner, with lists in each symbol. The background is a photo of white feathers.

Text: Romance. Slow-burn & Yearning. Cinnamon Roll x Chaotic Flirt. Touch-Starved. He Falls First. Historical. Witty Regency banter. Literal Ladybird (she's transforming into a crow). Dukes, Duchesses, and Pirates. Fantasy. Repressed Magic. Curses. Magical flowers with restorative properties.

Three book covers with an arrow under each of them describing their properties. The background is a photo of a lotus.

Text: Comps. A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin. Dry humor and witty voice. Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater. Accessible, creative world-building & magic. A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft. Regency romance with an abundance of yearning.

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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.

EXCERPT STARTS BELOW

“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

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

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.

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

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

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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Millie Kensen @milliekensenauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

PALADIN’S GRACE x THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY 🦿 Disabled MMC 🎭 Scrappy FMC 🦄 Animal companion 🌊 War-torn river delta 🥰 Wit + warmth 🩷 Slow burn #QuestPit #F #R #A #W #WriteSky Querying Late 2026

A dark sage green graphic with a gold-beige border of ferns and leaves. Text reads: The Courier & The Chamberhand. Adult Fantasy, 90k Words. Millie Kensen.

A dark sage green graphic headed THE PITCH, bordered by a gold-beige fern in the top left corner, a tied scroll bottom left corner, and a shield crest with reeds in bottom right corner. Text reads: He's a courier who took an oath to never get involved. She's an imposter who is about to make that impossible.

A dark sage green graphic headed THE ELEMENTS, bordered by a gold-beige fern in the top left corner, river graphic with reeds on the right, and a pair of theater masks in the bottom left. List reads: dual POV, grounded fantasy, cinnamon roll MMC, forced-proximity travel adventure, hidden identity, slow burn, too many mosquitoes.

A dark sage green graphic headed THE COMPS, with a gold-beige fern in the top left corner and a beige feather in the bottom right corner. Left: the cover of Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher. Right: the cover of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen. Text lists shared elements: wit and warmth, vulnerability and emotional intimacy, character-driven fantasy, ordinary people, dry humor.

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Sadie A Lindgren @sadiealindgren.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A “Princess & the Pea” Retelling for adults who grew up on Shannon Hale & Gail Carson Levine and still comfort-binge THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 💚 Neurodivergent FMC 🌱 Plant-based magic 🇸🇪 Swedish folklore 📜 1790s Scandinavia 📖 Standalone Querying late 2026 #questpit #W #A #F #RF #HF

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ARRIVAL X PARKS & REC A burnt-out lawyer escapes Earth expecting to build humanity's future, only to discover first contact is just another office job—with stranger coworkers, messier politics, and exponentially more paperwork ✨ Monet Inspired Planet ✨ Flirty Bi Alien ML #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

An Agent’s Guide to MEETING OF HONESTY by Florrie Auclair

A 100K romantic science-fiction novel

Title slide shows two characters in a romantic dip: an angry human woman in modern clothes and an alien man with flowing, iridescent hair against a soft pink gradient

Pitch Slide:
First contact has more paperwork than Gloria ever imagined.

When aliens arrive on the same planet Gloria's crew intend to colonize, of course they want the same land: the Sunny Spot, the only area with enough light to grow crops with a unique biome. But their territory dispute is moot if a toxic moss ravages it first. Gloria must now facilitate first contact and work with Emeric, the charming alien leader, to manage their shared collaboration.

From alien strangers to bickering rivals, Gloria finds herself developing feelings for Emeric. Until secrets shatter their growing bond. Now she must weaponize bureaucratic red tape and enlist the help of her crew to negotiate—but it means coming clean about her own secrets. At the risk of losing the only people she cares about (including the alien causing her problems), Gloria must be honest with them—and herself—to ensure humanity has a home and its autonomy.

Comp Slide:
The Left Hand of Darkness
Arrival
Parks & Recreation
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Translation State
Overruled

With the text: diverse cast, examination of cultural values, alien diplomacy & communication, bureaucratic satire, lush colony planet, legal conflicts, workplace rivals-to-lovers, and prickly FMC

Excerpt Slide

Image of Gloria, a human woman wearing business clothes with a clipboard obscuring the bottom half of her face

Text:
His other hand pointed to their adjoined palms. Beginning at their pinkie fingers, he bounced to the next digit and enunciated a new, unintelligible word. Each finger anointed until reaching her thumb. This was the oddest difference between their hands; his was longer with an extra joint. Clarity crashed into her. Her inhale sharpened.

Five fingers.

Across the universe, she met a new lifeform and they both had five fingers on each hand.

"Oh my god," Gloria breathed. Ironically, it was their shared features that overwhelmed her. Comfort should accompany commonality, but instead, it made this fever dream of an experience harder to deny. It was tangible that she was standing here with a bipedal humanoid with five fingers, even if his skin was blue and he had rainbow hair and feathery moth antennae. Either she was going to start laughing hysterically or throw up.

Warble, the alien agreed (she had no idea if that was an affirmative).

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Ruchi @ruchi-writes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

💖 SHE’S THE MAN x ICEBREAKER, BUT MAKE IT E-SPORTS 🎮 To join her dream esports team, Cam let everyone assume she's a guy. Now all she has to do is survive the captain, who's sure she's the weak link — without falling for him first. #Q #R #A #questpit #agentsguide #amquerying

Last Pick by Ruchi Dave is an e-sports romance novel, complete at 75k words.

Cameron Day has always felt like a loser—except in the video game League of Champions, where she dominates. So when an esports team mistakes her for a guy and recruits her, she doesn’t correct them.

But to Jacob—their ruthless (and distractingly hot) captain who’s already seen one ex-teammate implode under pressure—she’s a risk they can’t afford. If she cracks, they all go down with her.

The only way forward is to prove she’s not a liability, but the key to pulling them out of freefall.

Contact the author at **@ruchi-writes on x or @ruchi-writes.bsky.social**

Moodboard for Last Pick. Professional esports gamer vibes.

Snippet for Last Pick

“The others got over it much sooner than you did.”

“I didn’t want to complicate things.”

“Why would I complicate things?”

“You know why.” He tucked a stray hair behind my ear, and my skin felt electric where his fingers brushed against me. I leaned into him as his hand slid to the nape of my neck, tilting my head toward his.

“What happened to keeping things professional?”

“This is professional,” he murmured. “Kevin and I do this all the time.”

Comps and Tropes

- **enemies-to-lovers**
- **woman in a male dominated field**
- **Chaos GOBLIN HEROINE**
- **forced proximity**
- **underdog story**
- **impostor syndrome**
- **good intentions, bad decisions**

She’s the Man - **WOMAN PRETENDING TO BE A MAN IN A MALE DOMINATED SPORT (E-Sports)**

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace - **team captain/mentor who is convinced she’s a liability**

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood - **fake-it-till-you-make-it energy**

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J.J.W. Lovell (He/Him) @jjwlovell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NEVERMOOR x TURNING RED x TREASURE PLANET Two tiny purple creatures told him he was a Druid. He didn’t believe them. He was wrong. 🐻 Shapeshifting 🐉 World Mythologies ⚔️ Found Family ✨ Portal Fantasy 🗝️ Hidden Heritage #Questpit #MG #F #Q

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Chase Grayson is Agented🌙 @adropofmagick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A STUDY IN DROWNING X GILMORE GIRLS Atticus moved to Havenvale so he could attend the most prestigious knighthood academy in the kingdom, but there's a rose-scented ghost haunting his manor, & he's learning it's hard to focus while falling in love...👻🖤 #AG #YA #F #RF #QuestPit

A HAUNTING TO HOLD
Ghost Romance
𝙷̶𝚒̶𝚜̶ ̶𝙵̶𝚒̶𝚛̶𝚜̶𝚝̶ His Forever
Cozy Fantasy Town
Magical Lantern Festival
Star-Spinning Magic
Gothic Manor
Griffin Riding
Knighthood Academy

THE PITCH
COZY YA FANTASY 89,000 WORDS

After fleeing from his war-ravaged hometown, a timid boy enrolls in an elite knighthood academy while falling for the ghost haunting his rose-scented manor; but when enemy knights invade his cozy new town during a festival that allows the dead to live for a single night, he must learn how to rally his courage before the girl he loves is lost forever.

CHAPTER ONE
My ghost never hides in the shadows.
When the afternoon burns brightest, I’ll catch her silhouette in the sunshine. When night steals the sky I glimpse delicate blue eyes peeking out behind moonbeam curtains. It’s been five weeks since we've moved in, yet I've only ever found her in the light.
“She’s not your ghost,” reminds Olive. “I can see her, too!”
But my sister’s claim rattles out like a lie. Looking at her now, she’s scrunching her face up, squinting real tight, yet her eyes never seem to find the shimmering girl that runs through Rosefall Manor.
Not like mine do.

FOR FANS OF...
The sweeping, magical romance of…
A cozy fantasy town inspired by…
The lush prose and gothic atmosphere found in…

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Jules @jules.northsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE SHADOWS (WIP in 3rd Draft) #W #F #A #QuestPit A middle-aged shopkeeper & retired magical con artist takes one last job to save store & family. She could end the corrupt power of the Skyborn mages. She could end up losing herself, her magic & all she holds dear. Talk about a midlife crisis.

Moodboard for The Shadows WIP. Upper left: Illustration of a crowded, cramped city alley. Upper mid: Four black-clad people with face masks in a warehouse. Upper right: Shadowed cobblestone alley with someone at the mouth sweeping. Mid left. Two memes. "A niche character trope I like is the person who is nice, a good person and acts well-adjusted, then they do something where it's like oh you're secretly a little bit insane actually. Middle: A shadowed portrait of a woman with sparks coming out of her hands. Mid right: A meme: Original poster: "80% exhaustion 10% sarcasm %20 don't care" Reply poster: "that's 110 percent". OP: "20% of me doesn't care." RP: "should've seen that coming." Bottom left: Warmly lit storefront doorway on a cobblestone street. Bottom mid: Painting of fancy buildings on islands floating well above the ground. Bottom right: Cramped thrift store with shopkeeper.

The Shadows: The Pitch

The worst day of Ania’s life was when her beloved cousin Piren was dragged off to the floating towers of the Above to serve as a source to the Skyborn mages. The second worst day was when he was returned. Discarded. Drained of his magic and broken in spirit.

Ania left behind her rebellious past to support her cousin as he once
supported her. In a city where any display of magic makes you a target
of the Skyborn, keeping your head down and your magic a secret, taking care of your friends, your family and your neighborhood is the only safe way to survive.

But now, everything she’s built over twenty years of safe, carefully
constructed life is falling apart. To recover what she’s lost, Ania takes on one last dangerous heist that strikes at the heart of the Skyborn’s power. She may end up losing herself. She may just bring the entire system crashing down.

The Shadows: Comp Titles
MA Carrick: Mask of Mirrors. Con artist MC out to save her family (and maybe the world).
Shannon Chakraborty: Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi. I'm retired. Really. Okay, fine, one last job.
Robert Jackson Bennett: Foundryside. Magical technology, a corrupt ruling class and problematic heists.
Fonda Lee: Last Contract of Isako. I'm too old for this shit but no one else can do it.

“Except you can help me without bringing the bluejackets and their hunters down on my head!” Ania yelled, throwing her arms in the air. “All I’m asking you for is money. You’re asking me to risk my life! My family’s life!” She glared at him, grinding out her words through clenched teeth. “You want me to dust off magic I haven’t used in twenty years! How is that fair?” She spat the last word.
“It’s not fair!” Verasi spat back at her. “None of this is fair!” He flung a hand out. “Our people, our friends and family, our neighbors, are ripped from their homes in the middle of the night. They’re enslaved, ridden so hard they break. Maybe it takes a year. Maybe it takes five. Maybe it only takes a couple of months.” He continued in a harsh whisper. “We live in constant fear that it’ll be one of us. If not one of us, someone we know. Someone we love. Their propaganda machine is turning our own people against us. You know they’re not even testing people to see if they have any magical talent now? They’re just rounding people up at random and carting them off Above. None of them come home, not the same way they left.”

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBT #Dis #OV

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON

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Adelaide Cabernet @addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MATE X TENTACLES & TRIATHLONS After Noah, a hard of hearing thief, moves in with siren Jasper, their accidental, corrupted mating bond must be severed before it kills them. 🧜‍♂️ Siren x The Surfer Immune to His Song 🌊 Fantasy Set in San Diego 🏄‍♂️ Standalone w/ Series Potential #QuestPit #Q #A #PR

A man on a surfboard turns away from the camera to look at a siren who is perched on rocks. Text reads: “The Deaf Man’s Guide to Seducing A Siren” and “An adult paranormal romance complete at 72k words”

The siren is back with a text block that reads: Determined to stay in affluent Sunset Cliffs, hard of hearing surfer Noah strikes a sugar agreement with standoffish siren Jasper,

The surfer returns with a text block that reads: “Tropes:billionaire/thief, Fast heat, slow burn, grumpy/sunshine, Reformed playboy, monster fucking, Touch him and die, He wears his sweater

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 24/07/2026

Nia Moredi just wants to look out for her little brother. Miss Laval needs to attend a governess-teacher meeting. Baarsin Dorvierre's being watched. Pickpocket Wren needs to recharge her misdirection charm. If only Nia could remember which of them she's supposed to be today. #QuestPit #YA #F #LGBT

A Pickpocket's Guide to High Society
(And Higher Mathematics)

YA Fantasy 80K words
Catherine Winters dot com

Against a subtly textured background of mathematical formulae and a hexagonal summoning grid feature a collection of intriguing objects:

The outstretched hand of some mechanical clockwork automaton made of white porcelain.
A purple and gold masquerade mask.
A set of brass architect's tools: a compass, a protractor, calipers.
A set of gears laid out, pulled from some kind of mechanism.

The Pitch
When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had and catches the attention of people she doesn't want to know. Blackmailed into stealing a mysterious box, Nia accidentally awakens a living clockwork doll—that promptly runs away.

Accused of betraying the blackmailers, Nia and her band of would-be thieves go on the run, pursued by magehunters, street gangs, and the secret police.

When the doll returns to make a deal, Nia turns to the man whose lucky coin unlocked her magic, only to find him missing. Caught in a lie, Nia’s soon posing as an heiress, in the clutches of the man’s elderly landlady—who's intent on introducing the girl she knows as “Baarsin” to high society.

As Nia finds herself disappearing into the role, she and her friends must race against time to track down the people behind it all: a secret society of mathematicians whose influence reaches all the way to the governor herself.

Excerpt
Caz tensed. “There’s someone following us,” she hissed.
“I know,” Nia said. The man had been tailing them through the crowd for almost six blocks now. “He won’t be the only one.” She tugged Caz into the empty foyer of a boarding house and pulled out her misdirection charm. “Take my hand and stay quiet!”
“That won’t work on me,” Caz protested.
“No,” Nia said, willing herself to believe. “I can do this.” With all her strength, she pushed more of herself into the charm, the equation unfolding in her mind’s eye. She reached out, and as the world darkened around them, turned the doorknob, Caz clutching her arm. Nia pulled the taller girl close as the man pushed past them, failing to notice the door was already opening.
On the busy sidewalk, Caz let out a breath. A small boy leaning against a nearby lamppost glanced in their direction, an uncertain expression on his young face.
Caz cringed. “Sorry!” she mouthed.

Comps & Tropes
Includes the covers of four books:

Never Ever After by Sue Lynn Tan
Den of Liars by Jessica S. Olsen
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo's
Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland

"Tropes" is loosely used here and includes:
Stealing is magical (literally)
Fish out of water (you probably guessed)
Working for the wrong people
Ancient magic (in over their heads)
The MacGuffin is blackmailing us
"Aren't you a little young to be a criminal?"
Metaphorically dyslexic LI (she's also dyslexic)
Creepy clockwork doll that complains all the time
Good at magic, as long as she has a compass & protractor
Grifter vs. con artist
Sword lesbian (in training)
Lying (a lot)
Found family of scoundrels
Ace protagonist (who hasn't had time to think about that)
One big job and then we can retire (oh no, somehow everything went wrong)
Let's break into a data centre!
No chosen ones, no choosing ceremonies, just hard work and practice.

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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE X MY COUSIN RACHEL A Gothic Fantasy Romance 📰 marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans estate 🥀mysterious, reclusive MMC 🕯️suspicious, determined FMC 🖤slow burn, forbidden obsession 🗝️a dark secret locked away #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic #AmQuerying

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Kat is querying! @katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ETERNALLY DEAD explores how an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom--only it's by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm. When blood shortages hit the Realm, she's forced to confront if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for🩸🧛‍♂️🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 103k words, by @katgoestoshows." A one sentence pitch is featured on bottom that reads: An injured musician gets a second shot at stardom -- only its by joining an all-vampire rock band in the blood-thirsty vampire realm. A red splatter of blood is splashed is corner.

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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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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#Q #A #F #Questpit ASHMARKED: Feminine rage, social commentary, dangerous power... "They made obedience feel holy and used it as permission." Querying now!

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