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Homo-theory? yum @fruitlewds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

somewhat motivated by everyone’s response to Dolly and Tim Curry passing to remark: if you were moved by them be what moves you. Be kind, generous, make weird fucking art, help people, sing bawdy songs and do drag

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you see this, post a princess

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you're new to indie publishing and are looking for resources, cover artists, helpful websites, tips for traction or where to find your people, I have a handy post just for that! rebeccacrunden.com/resources-fo... [ #booksky | #writingcommunity | #indieauthors ]

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Resources for Indie Authors

General/Disclaimer I thought I’d share some links and communities for indie authors looking for resources as I know it can be difficult to even know where to start. Starting off without a reader ba…

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vcrarts 🔞 @vcrarts.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

(tw: blood) I really struggled to decide what to do with the background, but I decided to stick with the original. Hope you like 'em. <3 #bloodymary #rylandxsimon

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#Giveaway Time to prepare for #DVpit! Enter from July 13-18, 2026 to win query and/or first pages critiques from agents! TO ENTER: • repost this post • AND reply with your category & genre! (e.g. YA Fantasy) • Entries must be for completed, unpublished work. Full rules: dvpit.carrd.co#giveaway

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Note to self: never ever buy a different kind of cat litter again unless you're ready to face the consequences 🐈

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Authors over on the other apps showing off their beautiful writing corners, and here I am on the couch in a nest of five blankets, hunched over my laptop like a shrimp, with at least three empty cups around me. 💻🦐☕

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Adding tasks I've already completed to my to-do list so I can immediately cross them off Follow for more productivity hacks!

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Picture of a TV screen with teletubbies going to bed with the subtitles: I know you were high during my mother-in-laws wake

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

if you're going to hate anything today, hate gen ai 🥰

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Hades 2 is finally out on PS, so goodbye real world, see you in a few months, may moonlight guide me 🌙

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

We need to be loud about the things we love. We need to be loud about our favorite books, movies, songs, art; we need to shout them from the rooftops. Because you know who’s always loud? People who hate things. In this algorithm that rewards negativity, let’s be loud enough to drown the hatred.

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

QUEER LITTLE MERMAID 🧜‍♀️A mer princess losing her magical voice & memories of her love 🧙‍♀️Her love, a Spellweaver making a deal with her god to bring the lost memories back, or die trying 👑A storm mage ready to kill the mer for his freedom ❤️Can love truly save it all? #PosterPit #A #F #LGBT #Q #R #FT

A movie poster-like image depicting a mermaid sitting on the beach by the ocean. She has black hair and black fins. The title is "Beneath These Treacherous Waves". The text on top says: a mer princess. A sea witch. A storm mage. The text on the bottom says: What would you sacrifice to save the one you love?

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Roan, an arboreal mage, and Nev, a draconologist compete to restore a barren land. If Roan wins, she gets the cure to save her people. If Nev loses, she will be ostracized, losing everything she’s ever held dear. Only one can win. Falling in love might jeopardize it all. #PosterPit #W #F #R #LGBT

A movie poster-like picture for a book titled "Entangled". There are four pictures on the top: a woman's face, an illustration of a plant, a castle with a dragon flying over it, and the last one of a woman wearing a lace blouse, zoomed in on the lower half of her face. On the bottom is a picture of two hands, touching. The text in the picture says: "an arboreal mage", "a dragon researcher", "a contest to revive a barren land" and "a sapphic romantasy"

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

ISLE IN THE SILVER SEAxMALICE Míra, a mer princess, loses all memories of her love Skadi when she betroths a human king for military aid. Skadi makes a deal w a god: if Míra falls for her again, her memories will return. If Skadi fails, she'll become the god’s thrall #PosterPit #A #F #LGBT #Q #R #FT

Movie poster-like image of a book titled "Beneath These Treacherous Waves". There is a picture of a mermaid swimming in the sea in the background. In the middle there are three pictures, one of a red haired woman, the other of a black haired woman, and the third one of two people kissing. The text on the top says: a warrior princess, a sea witch, a storm mage. The text in the middle says: "To save her country, she gives up everything---her voice, her fins, and even memories of her true love. But true love has other plans. The text on the bottom says: found family, queer yearning, now querying

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Viðey, Iceland (note to self: take more pictures of sunsets)

Photo of a black, rocky beach with the sun setting in the background

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Hold music should be banned. Or AT LEAST let me turn it off before rage consumes me entirely

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

when you’re so tired it takes embarrassingly long to realize you’ve been trying to make a phone call in the calculator app

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

An agent's guide to 🌊BENEATH THESE TREACHEROUS WAVES🌊 a queer, adult reimagining of Andersen's The Little Mermaid in an Iceland-inspired setting. #amquerying #agentguide #agentsguide #ownvoices #writingcommunity #writesky #writersky #booksky

Underwater image showing a mermaid’s tail. Overlaid text reads: Beneath These Treacherous Waves - Sapphic reimagining of The Little Mermaid set in the dark, icy north. 105k adult romantic fantasy.

PITCH: Míra, a siren warrior princess, loses all memories of her beloved Skadi when she agrees to marry a human king in exchange for military aid. Skadi the mer Spellweaver strikes a bargain with her deity: if Míra falls in love with her again, her memories will return. But if she gives her heart to another first, Skadi will become the god’s thrall forever.

COMPS, showing two book covers. On the left is is Malice by Heather Walter with arrows labeled: touch her and you die, fairytale retelling, magic comes at a price, feminine rage and YEARNING. On the right is A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland with arrows labeled: YEARING, queernorm world, love vs duty, and found family.

EXCERPT: "The servant led her to a gold-embossed mirror Míra had avoided until now, dreading to face what she had become.
A stranger stared back at her. Her skin had lost its opalescent shine, scales replaced by freckles spilling across her cheeks, shoulders, and chest. She opened her hand, and the reflection did too. The webbing was gone between her fingers, her claws receded into round pink nails. The only thing familiar was her hair, red as sunrise, molten lava, a battlefield.
She wore a deep blue dress that was too tight, stretching on her shoulders and back, made for someone shorter and daintier. She’d scavenged tattered human clothes from among the ruins of sunken ships to play pretend as a child, but it had never occurred to her that she would one day be forced to wear one."

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

ADULT 🏳️‍🌈 LITTLE MERMAID Míra, a mer princess, loses all memories of her lover Skadi when she agrees to marry a human king for military aid. Skadi makes a deal w/ her god: if Míra falls in ❤️ with her again, her memories will return. Should Skadi fail, she'll become the god’s thrall #DVpit #A #F #LGBT

A moodboard of seven images with dark ocean vibes. They show a mermaid’s tail, a snowy fairytale castle, a black-clad crowned figure by crashing waves, a mermaid holding a human woman’s face who is leaning out of a boat, a sailing ship in fog, a woman in armor, and a rocky beach with birds flying overhead.

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

MALICExTASTE OF GOLD AND IRON A sapphic Little Mermaid retelling about a mer princess sacrificing her memories to wed a human king for military aid, and her sea witch lover striking a desperate bargain with an ancient god to undo it all—or be bound as the god’s thrall forever #DVpit #A #F #LGBT #R

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today is International Lesbian Day, and coincidentally also World Octopus Day, so please give it up for my girl Skadi the sea witch 🐙🏳️‍🌈

Line art of two feminine figures embracing and looking into each other’s eyes. One figure has long hair and a fish tail, while the other has octopus tentacles instead of legs and two curved horns.

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

OEAN'S ECHOxFRONTIERxME: OMEGA To secure meds for her BFF, Jay must return to the crime-ridden space colony she once called home to capture Zaain, a scientist who holds the key to feeding billions. As they fall in ❤️ Jay faces an impossible choice: betray Zaain, or doom an entire planet #DVparty #wip

A mood board of nine images in muted colors, featuring a crumbling concrete building, space travel, a mercenary outfit, two women kissing, and cityscapes of a dystopian cyberpunk city with skyscrapers and thick air pollution

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I stand behind a wall of people and thoughts Mind controlling And I hold a sword to guide me I'm fighting my way Underneath darkened skies There's a light kept alive Let love conquer your mind Just reach out for the light Warrior, warrior #DVparty day 5: theme song

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

#DVparty meme day Skadi after making a deal with her god, becoming human, and infiltrating the castle as a guard to make Míra—the lover who’s forgotten her—fall in love with her again Succeed, and Míra’s memories return but bloodshed may follow Fail, and Skadi’s soul will belong to the god forever

Picture of a small octopus and the text "I am simply too small and silly to be a national security threat"

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vcrarts 🔞 @vcrarts.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Rafael Nicolás - Angels before Man Michael & Lucifer #RafaelNicolás #AngelsbeforeMan

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The opening paragraph of my Iceland-inspired sapphic Little Mermaid retelling 🌊 #DVparty #A #F #LGBT

A moody picture with the title “Beneath These Treacherous Waves” at the top. Below the title, a passage reads: “Alda’s face was as beautiful in death as it had been in life. Míra forced herself to take in every little detail—the carved planes of her cheekbones, the small pearl of a nose, the deep brown hair fanning out in the ocean current. In a cruel twist of fate, this was the first time since the war began that Míra had seen her friend truly at peace.” The faint silhouette of a swimming merfolk is in the background.

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

All Míra the mer princess wants is to end the war that's been ravaging her country for years. Even if it means surrendering her magic, trading her fins for legs that bring only pain, and giving up the memories of her❤️Skadi, the mer’s Spellweaver But Skadi refuses to let her go. #DVparty #A #F #LGBT

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Stunning pieces of art created by the incredible @gildedruin.bsky.social and @kaidenchi.bsky.social for my sapphic Little Mermaid retelling. #DVparty #A #F #LGBT

Four people lying on a blanket. A red-haired woman with fish scales around her face, hugs a woman with long, flowy hair, and horns, dressed in a black dress. Nearby, a blonde-haired man with glasses and a flower crown, wearing an embroidered shirt, reads a book, while a dark-haired man holding a pipe playfully touches his hair.

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

happy #dvparty day 1! Beneath These Treacherous Waves is a sapphic retelling of The Little Mermaid🧜‍♀️🏴‍☠️👑🌊⚔️ #A #F #LGBT

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I'M OBSESSED ❤️😭 thank you @kaidenchi.bsky.social for this beautiful illustration of my mermaid book characters

A group of friends and lovers relax together on a blanket. A woman with long red hair, fish scales, and freckles on her face has her arm around another woman resting on her lap. The red-haired woman is wearing a white linen shirt. The woman on her lap has long black hair and horns adorned with silver chains, and she is dressed in a long black gown. Beside them are two men: one is blonde, wearing a white flower crown, a green-blue embroidered shirt, and round glasses. He's reading a book. The other man has long black hair, olive skin, and is wearing a dark burgundy shirt. He has a pipe in one hand and he's gently playing with the blonde man's hair with the other.

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

#CRPFireflies #OneLineMC "Míra attempted a curtsy, which the handmaidens had tried to teach her the previous day. It was neither fluid nor graceful, but bowing her head hid the scowl on her face."

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The Little Mermaid X Malice X A Taste of Gold and Iron "Malik was late, and for the first time in his life, Ren found himself hoping the mission would fail. Suffering King Henning’s wrath—and ending up on the gallows—would’ve been a better fate than having a mer as his queen." #1stLinePit #A #F #Q

Beneath These Treacherous Waves: Míra, a siren princess, has her memories of her beloved Skadi forcibly erased when she is offered in marriage to a human king in exchange for military aid in a relentless war. Unwilling to accept their fate, Skadi strikes a desperate bargain with an ancient deity: if Míra falls in love with her again, her memories will return. But if she confesses her love to another first, Skadi will become the god’s thrall forever.

A moodboard: picture of a mermaid underwater, a snowy castle, a prince, an ice lagoon, a black-haired and a ginger woman kissing, a ship, a ship's captain, coastline with basalt columns and the stormy sea, octopus tentacles

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

There are two wolves inside me. One finally got a chance to talk about her special interest to a bunch of people and even gets paid for it. The other hates public speaking more than anything. I just can't win.

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

aah, the feeling of opening a crisp new document for a #zerodraft

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 06/02/2025

Welcome to AK's Unsolicited Advice. Today's advice: Love stuff. Love doing stuff, enjoying stuff others have done, and love them unreservedly. And if anyone barges in with some BS about how it's so cringe and bad to love stuff, BLOCK THEM and go back to the COOL STUFF YOU LOVE.

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

there's a brutal storm that sounds like plane turbines right next to my ears, lightning and thunder (very rare this far north, my 3rd time experiencing them in 10+years) but the cat doesn’t care. In fact, I suspect she’s the one who conjured the bad weather just so we'd stay home with her

a cute cat curled up in a small box, taking a nap

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 29/01/2025

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA gaaaaasp AHAHAHAHAHAHA oh my God say it ain't so, imagine an AI company stealing intellectual property.

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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I am glad everyone is having a good time with the explain your book plot badly game but I for one spend too much time figuring out how to explain my book plot well to let myself backslide like this on purpose

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Can't believe that this draft is done!✨ I'd like to thank my espresso machine, a steady supply of pistachio ice cream, and Talisker for getting me through it. Extra special mention to @vcrarts.bsky.social without whom I'd have given up at least 285 times. ❤️

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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Me: I will write regularly in 2025, nothing can stop me. Heating pipe: Cute. *explodes*

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