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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 10h

[sniffing a hot piece of toast] get this into my bloodstream

🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 11h

Hozier said to always keep them on a leash.

air dry clay, 12+ hours

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 1d

best of luck!! 🤞

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 1d

I simply have to make my novel’s main trio next 😈

🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 1d

I had *so* much fun playing with clay again after not touching it for 16 years! muscle memory is incredible.

this is my D&D tiefling, everyone’s favourite funny guy and resident troublemaker 💜

Clay bust of a tiefling, neutral expression

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 2d

Capitalism wants us productive. Art reminds us to be present. Capitalism wants content. Art wants meaning. Capitalism isolates. Art connects. Even when made in private, even when it never leaves your notebook, art is still a way back to yourself. Above all, art connects us to the spirit of creation.

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Amy "Thunderjam" Chase - ABUZZ 🐝💖 @amythunderjam.bsky.social · 2d

Very proud of my brilliant friend Mar, watching her work tirelessly on her manuscript. I've had the chance to read a few chapters and it's beautiful and thoughtfully done. I want her to have every success!!!

🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 2d

IF WE WERE VILLAINS x THE DREAMERS (2003)

Three messy bisexuals who make each other worse navigate the challenges of adulthood in 90s Europe.

💌 men who yearn
💕 bisexual love triangle
📚 antique bookshops
🗡️ support women’s wrongs
🌾 working class immigrant MC
🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ rep

#questpit #Q #A #LF

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 2d

how dare you make me cry!!! 😭

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 2d

we need a lot more of these in literature!!

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 2d

vampire cowboys with Castlevania as a comp is so specifically my jam 👻

Kelton Davis is writing! 🦇⚰️🤠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · 2d

SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA

There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky.

Corado's about to break all three.

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying soon!
#A #F #W #QuestPit

Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible.
Text:
A Novel By Kelton Davis
Blood Red Sand
109000 Words
Adult Gothic Western Fantasy
Querying Soon

Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark

Title: Comparable Titles
Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian.
Text drawn with an arrow from each image:
Found family (from the Devils)
Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller)
Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit)
Unlikely travel companions (from all).
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Title: Pitch
Text: Corado is just trying to survive the night—every night. Being a nightrunner, one of the few brave or foolish enough to defy humanity's vampire masters to traffic himself and others across barony lines, doesn't make it any easier though. With vampire posses stalking the desert during the day and their ravenous Horde filling the sky each night, it's a miracle he's survived as long as he has. Some of it he chalks up to skill, some to instinct, but he knows that when the dawn comes, the main thing seeing him through the night is good old-fashioned luck.

Nothing lasts forever though, and Corado's lucky streak soon comes to a quick and bloody end. After nighttime attack from the Horde leaves him stranded in the desert with a newly-orphaned boy named Hectar, he finds keeping the rest of the world at bay may not be as easy as he thought. Newfound companion in tow, he sets out to find what remains of the boy's family and finally put the whole thing behind him.

But as he knows by now, no job is ever so simple. As he tries to escort Hectar to safety, whispers of rebellion start drifting on the wind. With a world free of the Horde beginning to look like a real possibility, Corado must face vampires, twisted monstrosities, and the darkness lurking in men's hearts before he decides whether the world he's cut himself out of is one worth fighting for after all.

Background image: same as other slides

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 2d

the strongest cosy vibes reading through these 💗

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 2d

taking a break from editing and watching the inbox to participate in another pitch event, which turns out is just what I needed to retrieve a little joy ❤️ so much talent, so many fun books!!

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 2d

Take me with you 🫀

man the chokehold this movie has on me #frankenstein

illustration by Abigail Larson inspired by Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein". The scene depicts Frankenstein's monster carrying Elizabeth Lavenza.

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds like so much fun!

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 2d

I would devour this in a heartbeat. Punk, my beloved!

Grace Hertenstein is querying ⚡️❤️‍🔥🤘🏻 @gracehertenstein.bsky.social · 2d

Almost Famous X Oliver Twist

Set against the gritty backdrop of late 70s Hollywood, Pip, a lonely teenager, finds himself submerged into the bowels of punk subculture. But he soon learns that being an undesirable might be unsustainable.

The Undesirables • #questpit #YA #NA #Q

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 2d

we support simps in this house

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 2d

I wanted to read a novel that felt like this lyric from The Last Shadow Puppets' song "She Does the Woods", so I wrote it.

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 2d

IF WE WERE VILLAINS x THE DREAMERS (2003)

Three messy bisexuals who make each other worse navigate the challenges of adulthood in 90s Europe.

💌 men who yearn
💕 bisexual love triangle
📚 antique bookshops
🗡️ support women’s wrongs
🌾 working class immigrant MC
🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ rep

#questpit #Q #A #LF

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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 13d

My dream job is to run a cozy little bookshop, but without worrying about having to succeed as a small business. So basically a money laundering front where I get to read

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Euronews @euronews.com · 21d

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

l.euronews.com

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 24d

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 21d

when i say i need books/shows/films to destroy me this is what i mean

🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 21d

finished watching both seasons of IWTV and gave myself an unquantifiable amount of psychic damage

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 21d

Define your music taste in eight artists:
- Sade
- Hozier
- Nothing but Thieves
- The Last Shadow Puppets
- Joesef
- Matt Corby
- The Marías
- Olivia Dean

Amy "Thunderjam" Chase - ABUZZ 🐝💖 @amythunderjam.bsky.social · 21d

Define your music taste in eight artists:
- Dessa
- Alanis Morrisette
- Liz Phair
- LEXXE
- Concrete Blonde
- Larkin Poe
- Pat Benatar
- Bastille

Zoe Tunnell @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 21d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

The Killers
The Beastie Boys
Paramore
Tyler, The Creator
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Scene Queen
Chappell Roan
My Chemical Romance

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 26d

Oh hey, look what I pre-ordered 👼 @amythunderjam.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

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