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ANIMORPHS X HUNGER GAMES

The clock is ticking for Raquel to become a Touranimal champion before she loses her ability to transform into a bird. When a recruiter arrives, she gets her chance.

Can she and her team, The Underdogs, overcome a rigged series of games in time?

#BluePit📖 #W #YA #ND #F
A collage of photos (right to left, top to bottom): a flying bird of prey, a green maze, a large sports stadium crowd, a green viper, a clownfish, and a dog obstacle course.
ottersediting.com
Loved seeing everyone's #BluePit posts!

Thank you all for sharing and engaging! 💜
January 14, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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magicariot.com
Profiles in cowardice from the publishing industry.

Myself and many other queer independent authors are out there putting our work into the world whether publishers have the good sense and guts to or not.

Support indie & self-published queer authors.
January 13, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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citruspropaganda.bsky.social
The Serpent’s Rise is a mythological thriller intended for ages 10+. It stars a shapeshifter by the name of Jorden Casillas who is pulled into a plot far larger than himself when he’s tasked with stealing a powerful magical artifact.

#BluePit📖 #F #P #MG #YA
A large feathered serpent hovers over the Los Angeles General Medical Facility
January 14, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social
FULL METAL ALCHEMIST X WITCH KING
Loyalty and love are at war in MAGE BY BLOOD.
🏳️‍⚧️#OwnVoices trans man MC
♾️ Magic rune tattoos
🌌 Unique fantasy world
🩸Siblings at war
🌈 Queer relationships
💔Broken family dynamics
🗡️Fierce female characters
❤️‍🔥Lies, betrayals, secrets
#BluePit #P #A #F #LGBT
An edit of a movie poster featuring an image from Canva as a background. The image is of a hand with smoke coming out of it on a black background. Over the image are the words “Mage By Blood” in red letters. In smaller white letters are the names Theodore Snapdragon, Izak Biralei, Theodoric Heirdic, Adaline Helmorpus, and Nalai Biralei. In the bottom in yellow letters is the questions “Where do your loyalties lie?”
January 14, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
Hellllloooo

What’s this?
January 14, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social
When he’s shot in his own office August Lloyd can use his limited time-shifting abilities to escape, but he has no idea who wants him dead.
Many with unexplained abilities, like him, are targeted. To survive, they must uncover the secrets of their own magic and identities.
#BluePit #Q #A #F #LGBT
A movie poster edited in Canva. It features the title “AUGUST OUT OF TIME” in large, pale text around an hourglass with bright green sand. In smaller white text are the words “A Novel by Theodore Snapdragon” and “NOW QUERYING”. It’s over a grainy textured background with a gradient from green to black. Note: image created by @MotThePaladin originally
January 14, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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ANIMORPHS X HUNGER GAMES

The clock is ticking for Raquel to become a Touranimal champion before she loses her ability to transform into a bird. When a recruiter arrives, she gets her chance.

Can she and her team, The Underdogs, overcome a rigged series of games in time?

#BluePit📖 #W #YA #ND #F
A collage of photos (right to left, top to bottom): a flying bird of prey, a green maze, a large sports stadium crowd, a green viper, a clownfish, and a dog obstacle course.
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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sagecollins.bsky.social
SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS

🏟️ Summer & Winter princes compete to become the next Mother Nature
👨🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏼 Grumpy x sunshine
👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼 Friends ➡️ rivals ➡️ lovers
🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 A touch might kill them
🫣 Love & betrayal
🪩 Winter ball shenanigans
🥵 Climate change (& 💘) melts Jack Frost’s heart

#BluePit📖 #Q #YA #F #LGBT #CLI
January 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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vampireantihero.com
SONG OF ACHILLES x INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE x IRON DRUID

Cypress lives a normal life until they get bit by a dog and his life goes down the drain. Out of options, he moves into a run down church in the middle of the woods, but nothing is entirely what it seems.

#BluePit📖 #A #PN #F #LGBT #OV #P
The cover of Lemon Balm by Artemis Quinn and Auden Eris-Everen. It's purple, with silver filigree around the sides showing a bat holding a moon in its paws. In the center is a bundle of lemon balm held together with a bow. A man fiddles with his shirt sleeve in front of a bright orange art-deco mural. Lemon Balm Contemporary Dark Fantasy with vampires, werewolves and witches, hidden in plain sight, horror and romance elements Soft Magic System LGBTQIA+ (ace-spectrum and nonbinary) rep 1st of a series 1st person POV vampireantihero.com A vampire stands in front of an ornate stained glass dais with their head tilted to the viewer's left, crying blood. They're holding a rose in their hands, and the vines are trailing up their arms. The border is art deco, and behind the border are pretty flowers and drawn traces of white thorns. There is a stone beneath the vampire's hands that says "Now I Lay me down to sleep."
January 13, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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vampireantihero.com
Rebecca's parents die; a crash that leaves her devastated. She moves from Chicago to Upstate NY to handle their affairs, but the house feels... Different. Not to mention, her aunt doesn't take too kindly to being left out of their will, and fully intends to fight it...

#BluePit 📖 #A #PN #H #W #LGBT
A Moodboard for Such Sweet Sorrow by Artemis Quinn. Top left - a lake covered by fog in autumn, a lonely bench on the shore. Top middle - an ornate door knocker on a green cabinet Top right - a woman kneeling in the forest, crying Middle left - a dark figure surrounded by slashes of light in a doorway middle - lilacs, with the words Such Sweet Sorrow over top middle right - a gravestone littered with flowers and gifts bottom left - three candles burning in the woods by a lake. bottom middle a stairwell with mahogany paneling and deep, velvety green walls bottom right - a path in a red autumn forest
January 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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queerenigma.com
FRIEREN x SILVER CHAIR

When Helio is killed by the deep mage Riptide, he inexplicably wakes miles away, in the body of a young man named Hadley. As he lays low, pretending to be this spoiled lord's son, he learns about himself through Hadley—and through Riptide.

#bluepit📖 #A #F #Q #LGBT
A mockup cover of a book titled "Sunfall." Two characters stand at the foreground. The first, a dark haired young man with an encouraging smile, is holding his hand out to the other. The second, a strawberry blond young man with a considering expression, is hesitatingly taking it. Behind them is an orange-gold background with an eclipsed sun hanging high above them. A man in a suit hovers in front of the sun, magic burning in his hands. Orange text on a black background. It's the text of the poem "A Question" by Robert Frost. "A voice once said, Look me in the stars / and tell me truly, men of earth, / If all the soul-and-body scars / Were not too much to pay for birth."
January 13, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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vriccithode.bsky.social
Vesper is disabled, divorced and depressed, ready to give up on the worst Halloween of her life. Then she falls through an open grave into a dark world of magic and second chances. THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS x THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE #BluePit📖 #Q #A #F #R #H #OV #LGBT #DIS #novella
a spooky collage moodboard. top left going clockwise: two jack-o-lanterns by David Menidrey; candles, flowers and gourds by coincidence; a woman in a black veil dying flowers by Marco Guerrero; a man in blacklight reactive sugar skull paint by Kevin Dous; a spiderweb by Nicolas Picard; a misty forest by Branimir Balogovic.
January 13, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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wrigleyfield.bsky.social
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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authorajs.bsky.social
✨ONE DARK WINDOW x KATABASIS✨

Lola Knight is cursed with a violent dark magic. When it kills her best friend, she must attend Le Fay academy to seek control before it kills again-or consumes her. But the monstrous mystery waiting for her could consume her entire world.

#bluepit📖 #A #F #LGBT #Q #OV
A shadowy school building, stars in the sky, and the text: an agents guide to the bells of le fay, adult dark academia fantasy, A. J. Sable The silhouette of a woman holding a ball of light in front of trees. The text reads: pitch, Lola Knight didn’t mean to murder her best friend. When her violent and volatile magic spirals out of control, instead of punishment, she’s enrolled in an elite magical academy to seek control before it kills again. But there she finds herself at the centre of a monstrous mystery; one that could rip the human world, and the witching world, apart. A spell book lying open amongst candles and a mirror. The text reads: tropes, sapphic enemies to lovers, female rage, elite magical university, secret society, body horror, underworld realm. The shadow of a woman standing before a giant misty creature. The text reads: with the cathedral-like academy behind her, the gothic towers soaring above the treetops, it felt like she was in a fairy-tale. But if that were true, she was no princess. She was the monster they had to defeat.
January 13, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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wintersleep85.bsky.social
NAUSICAÄ X FF7

Nature is decaying, nobles are hoarding magic, and demons prey on everyone. A possible chosen one, a man who failed his destiny, and a woman rejected by fate must work together for one last chance to save the dying world.

#BluePit 📖 #A #F #Q #agentguide
Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words. Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved. A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/Sunshine. LGBTQIA+. Multi POV. A dark forest. Snippet. She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!” The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death. “Magic should never return.” After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended. Sent him back to his body.
January 13, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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lumaris.net
Hello #PortfolioDay! I’m Yukimi Lumaris, queer fantasy romance author-artist ⚔️💜🐉 here are some of my favorite works from last year 💜
January 13, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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muzetrigger.bsky.social
✨Magical Academia!
💜Disaster Sapphics!
🔥 Arson!
😭Misbegotten Curses struggling to do "the Right Thing™️"

Lion Girl and the Ember Maiden is about being wrong, loving others, and fighting for your truth amidst the laws of a magic library!

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #MG #YA #F #SP #W #OV #LGBT #POC #TR
A mood board featuring (from top left to bottom right) a shot of flooded rice terraces, the card art from "Royal Magic Library", the alpine wildflowers of Mt. Rainier at sunset, a shot of Fountaine from Genshin Impact, the character Ajna from Indivisible, concept art of the Imperial City from the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, a sunset photo of the sunflower fields in Hakodate Japan, art from the promotional video of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree of Miquella riding Torrent, and a tulip field from the Puyallup Tulip Festival
January 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
ottersediting.com
I don't work on edits if I feel bad. Why? I believe clients deserve quality work.

Instead, I rest and recover. Then the next day or so, I can edit much better.

#Editing with a clear head and plenty of energy is important.

- Brought to you by insomnia and bad mental health day 😔
January 13, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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catandherwips.bsky.social
🐲 Medieval gothic set in a winter manor
🌝 Beast + eldritch horrors
🎀 Sapphic triad (of 3 unhealthy ladies)
📖 Memories corroded by trauma
❤️‍🩹 "at least I'm with you at the end"

VULTURES WIP - out late 2026

#BluePit📖 #W #F #H #A #LGBT
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January 13, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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dmcieran.bsky.social
ENCANTO vibes in a post-modern setting!

✨Varied magical gifts
🎤Finding Your Voice
🧐Uncovering Hidden Truths
🧵Fixing Broken Magic
🌎Sustainability
🏘️Small Town
🌵Sonoran Desert

☀️UNDER THE BRIGHT SUN☀️
2025 RevPit Runner Up

#BluePit📖 #Q #MG #F #SP
image is of a desert with a cliff and canyon in the background. In the foreground is a girl wearing a backpack with long dark brown hair and looking over her shoulder toward the camera.
January 13, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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theeldervampire.bsky.social
What do a grieving witch, a vengeful hunter, and a closeted gay farmer's son have in common?
When a Puritanical cult threatens their lives, duty, loyalty, and magic collide as they must help each other survive.

"The Witch of Eden Hollow," a 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 queer fantasy romance.
#BluePit📖
#W #A #F #R #TR #LGBT
A mood board with square dimensions and nine images surrounded by dark brown borders. In the center is a ruddy brown title card bubble where the title, "The Witch of Eden Hollow" is the focus with the caption, "by G.T. Anthony" is written below it in a smaller font. Images starting from left to right, top to bottom: 1. a tree with mushrooms growing on it with deep brown tones to the images 2. A patch of white daisies 3. An autumn forest floor backdrop with thin, pale arms touching the leaves towards the center of the image. 4. An autumn forest background with bare trees and leaves littering the forest floor. There is a stream running through said forest. 5. A darker image of an empty church with pews placed at the left and right edges leading towards the center. 6. A close-up of autumn leaves. 7. A grayscale photo of a person wearing dark pants and leather boots walking down a stone walkway. They're wearing a dark cape that billows behind them. 8. A close-up silhouetted photo of a couple leaned close and about to kiss. One of them has their hand caressing the other's chin. 9. A close-up of a rainy forest floor with a puddle at the center of the image. Character sheet for Inquisitor T. Sterling, from The Witch of Eden Hollow The background is a photograph of deciduous trees in a dense forest. Character art from a picrew by crowesn picturing a heavyset white man with brown eyes and brown hair on his head and beard. Character profile: feat. trans pride flag and masc-loving masc pride heart, he/him pronouns Age: 43 Hometown: Sutton Occupation: Witch Hunter Loves: His family, his job Fears: That everything he'd done was for nothing. He's the most prolific hunter this side of the world, and he'll stop at nothing to rid it of magic. Excerpt: Sterling lit a candle once he was in his empty home, only packing what he needed. He hoped that he would not be gone for long. There was still work to be done. He rifled through his belongings and sat on the bed, gathering one last item. It was a woven trinket made of branches. Such an item could even dub himself as a blasphemer, but it was one of the last items from his past that he possessed before converting. He could not part with it. It held too much weight. Sterling pressed it to his lips before setting it into his pack, sighing... ...These good people were truly in harm's way, left to languish at the hands of such a foul creature. He would not stand for it. He would not hesitate to help. Come the end of the month, that witch would be good as dead. In the bottom right corner is an Anti-GenAI symbol Character sheet for Elias, from The Witch of Eden Hollow The background is a photograph an autumnal forest floor. Character art from a picrew by crowesn picturing a thin white man with pointed ears, long black hair, and gray eyes. He has green flecks on his forehead, cheeks, and shoulders. Character profile: feat. trans and demisexual pride flags, he/him pronouns Age: ~400 Hometown: The Elder Grove Occupation: Forest Guardian Loves: Nature, Sage (his cat), Mother Earth (his goddess) Fears: Death, Being alone His life is tied to the Elder Grove. Unfortunately, things have been in a steep decline, as of late, which is detrimental to his health. Excerpt: "This is the northern border." Elias was looking towards the mountain range. "The forest's natural end is here. So many acres had been lost over the centuries, but here?" He took a breath of the clean air. "This place has always remained untouched." "I've never seen anything like it," Sterling gasped. "And you never will." He looked over. "Perhaps it will help you learn to appreciate magic better." He rolled his eyes. "Magic has nothing to do with this view. These are all common occurrences in nature." "You take 'magic' too literally." Elias went over to one of the trees that grew right near the edge of the cliff. He leaned against the trunk. "Magic is not just whatever you think witches conjure up. It's a feeling. It can bring joy. It can give you a new perspective. It can be beautiful... "...It breathes new life into a world that takes it for granted." The witch sighed, lowering his hand. "It breaks my heart to see so many want to destroy it." In the bottom right corner is an Anti-GenAI symbol Character sheet for Avery Miller, from The Witch of Eden Hollow The background image is a photograph of a patch of daisies. Character art from a picrew by crowesn picturing a thin white man with long black hair tied back in a ponytail, freckles, and gray eyes. Character profile: feat. gay pride flag and masc-loving masc pride heart, he/him pronouns Age: 20 Hometown: Eden Hollow Occupation: Farmer Loves: His father and brothers, and he loves his partner, Tristan Lowell Fears: Being outed. His life is tied to the Elder Grove. And it's the strangest thing. Plants seem to grow better around him. Excerpt: Despite his desperate prayers, [Avery] felt more comfort holding onto a tree than he ever did whispering to a figment that everyone insisted watched over him. As his burnt hand pressed against the bark, his breath caught in his throat. Something pulsed and thrummed under his palm. His fingers began to itch. It startled him, but it also brought him a sense of peace. This was tangible. This, he could believe in. He soothed his thumb over the bark and rested his cheek against the trunk. "I wish I could stay here for all my days," he whispered, a sad smile on his face. "If only Eden Hollow would ever love me like you do." He shivered when the thrumming under his palm grew stronger. It was in time with the beating of his heart. Startled, Avery pulled back, looked down at his hand, and removed his bandages. The burns and blisters were gone. There was no trace of them, like it had never happened. In the bottom right corner is an Anti-GenAI symbol
January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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jlizhill.bsky.social
As a mortal and a vampire, Kathian and Jehani have no business developing feelings for each other, yet they can’t resist. Those in power demand Kathian’s blood for their pleasure and Jehani is obligated to provide it. Can a mortal be more to a vampire than blood?
#BluePit📖 #A #PN #R #LGBT #TR #Q
Background: an aerial shot of a city at night with the moon visible. Text: The Vampire and the Vintage By Liz Hill When blood is the center of your world, can you ever see past it? Adult Paranormal Romance Enemies to Lovers Slow Burn Forced Proximity Agender Rep LGBTQ+ Now Querying
January 13, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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jpspalding.com
PlanetSide Consulting: The Possession Of Ares

Murderbot x Firefly
#Bluepit
When terraforming stalls, you call in the consultants. The men and women of PlanetSide are guaranteed to get your planetary engineering moving again.

A snarky, swashbuckling, gunslinging western-in-space 🚀
#SF #W #A #scifi
Planetside consulting the possession of ares
January 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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lilyshadbolt.bsky.social
THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI X
GODKILLER

After causing a magickal outburst that engulfs her home, Naomi flees aboard a pirate ship. She’s lured in with the chance at a new life, but malevolent gods and mortals seek to drag her back and use her magick for themselves.

#BluePit📖 #A #F #Q #LGBT
January 13, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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alexabosy.bsky.social
⚔️ SHADOWS OVER CORENE ✨
Tegan and Isla have their lives turned upside down when soldiers arrive one morning to burn their home to the ground. They work with a strange masked man to evade capture, and along the way uncover a conspiracy at the heart of their kingdom.
#F #YA #Q #LGBT #BluePit 💥 #GN
a illustrated mock book cover for a fantasy graphic novel. in the foreground are two twins with red hair and pointed ears. one wields dual swords, the other is casting golden magic in her palm. they look over their shoulders in concern as a mass of shadows seem to be on their tail. the title "shadows over corene" is overtop. an illustration of three elves on a white background. the first, isla, has white skin, green eyes, and long maroon hair. she wears a yellow vest over a white shirt and a green skirt and she is happily casting magic. the second, tegan, has white skin, blue eyes, and short maroon hair. she wears a top with a light ivory bodice and black puff sleeves and dark leggings. she brandishes two swords. the third, hamish, has brown skin, yellow eyes, and white hair. he wears a black shirt and grey leggings a line up of fourcharacters. a middle aged blonde elven woman in a purple dress, a middle aged stocky elven man in a blacksmith apron, and two soldiers clad in black. a line up of three characters. a young man with dark skin and brandishing a rapier, a middle aged woman with dark skin and long black hair wearing finery, and a middle aged man with silver hair also dressed in fine clothing.
January 13, 2026 at 8:19 PM