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E. Saint @saintwinther.bsky.social · 1d

Loser | Tame Impala is a vibe

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bon appé{𝖙𝖎𝖙} @decadentjackal.bsky.social · 1d

PEACOCK 🦚

Las Vegas, 1962:
Calder is an ambitious young man with ties to a criminal underworld, Ansel is the mysterious object of his desires, and love is nothing more than a game. ♠️

Chapter 1 free to read here: decadentjackal.neocities.org/peacock/ch1
digital edition coming soon 💙

#SLUDGEPIT #DR

Ansel with a hand buried in Calder's open shirt as Calder lounges in his trendy apartment.

Before he could say anything, Ansel had him pinned against the wall of the entry way, his bony fingers clasped around his wrists like handcuffs, his teeth bared and snarling.

“Why? Why did you do that?”

Calder smirked quizzically. “What do you mean? Kiss you? I was celebrating our victory.”

“Our.” The word came out rough like sand in his raspy growl. Ansel loomed closer, his nails digging into the skin of Calder’s wrists, the musty scent of too many cigarettes on his breath. “You ruined everything.”

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メガネ @ SICK ! @fourandmoreeyes.bsky.social · 1d

WOES OF A HUNGRY GHOST hits #sludgepit

👫 Soulmates with a dark twist
👫 Trans body horror
👫 Obsessive romance
👫 Depersonalisation + identity horror
👫 "In this world, it's eat or be eaten."

"Oh darling, even death could never keep us apart." 💘

#WIP #HR #DR

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E. Saint @saintwinther.bsky.social · 1d

Week.03 of my October Project uses the #wolfetober prompts ‘unfulfilled wishes’ + ‘sharp gills, sharper teeth’

E. Saint @saintwinther.bsky.social · 1d

Week.02 of my October Project uses the #wolfetober prompt ‘soaked through’

(I forgot I was going to post updates)

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Alex @alexmicati.bsky.social · 6d

Life's too short. One day, you end up on your deathbed, smelling like rotting flowers. Your mind is filled with unfulfilled wishes and "what if" questions. You hold onto dear life, even though you're on the side of a titanesque cliff.

#Wolfetober Unfulfilled Wishes
#VssMystery Rotting

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E. Saint @saintwinther.bsky.social · 1d

Def going in the cosmic direction

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E. Saint @saintwinther.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah! The muses just sang when I saw some of those prompts

E. Saint @saintwinther.bsky.social · 1d

Love a good unfathomable orchard. I’d get lost in one for sure

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Wolfe 🪳 @wolfehorror.itch.io · 1d

Happy #sludgepit & yes I am still behind with Crushed Plums 🫡
Are you looking for a childhood best friends to undead lovers horromance between a trans woman with rats just trying to get by & her emotional support he/him butch?

Arcs coming soon once I recover from the ableist 28 hours of travel🧟🌸

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🐣 Migi ➡️ SKIAMAKHIA drops 10/31! @tdcloud.bsky.social · 2d

Final 2026 project for #sludgepit: PHILAIMATOS

🩸Book 3 in the DVerse
🩸1930s Chicago
🩸standalone prohibition/organized crime vamp thriller
🩸human speakeasy owner x ex soldier boy vamp
🩸need over love, transaction over romance
🩸vamp fight clubs
🩸power vacuums, secret heir, post-war trauma

#T #WIP

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Maxime Jaz🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @maximejaz.bsky.social · 2d

It's #SLUDGEPIT day!
As ever, I'm back with my minotaur retelling, which is still work in progress... but hopefully soon...
🐂blood-thirsty minotaur
👨arrogant idiot Theseus
🍆💦very much dubcon hate sex
🍆🥵getting addicted to giant minotaur cock
🩸💀blood and gore
🐂❤️‍🔥👨man and monster or monster and man?

On black background with green letters and motives top Sludgepit, under it a moodboard: top left a man's blue eye, middle a statue of Theseus fighting the minotaur, top right a bull's eye, bottom a bull's head, skulls, bottom left a warrior with a dagger. a red string goes over the pics. Quote in the middle: "You hate me? Let me give you something to hate me more." Maxime Jaz. Captions on the pic Minotaur cock, monster fuckery, hot hate fucks, humans as dinner, WIP

sludgepit monster fuckery
quote: His jaw clenched, just a breath as the monster pushed in, hard. Thinking he would split, Theseus swallowed a moan, trembling, still, because he could not help that. He braced himself a bit on his forearms, to let his forehead rest on that cool stone, breathe against it as the monster slammed into him, those merciless thrusts not leaving him time to think, cutting almost his breath too. Both of them, drenched in hate, that hate mirrored in his mute, stubborn breathing and in the monster’s thrusts. That hate, warm, flooding their bodies with sweat. Sharp breaths, mouth and nostrils wide open. A grunt from the monster as he came deep inside of Theseus, again. Pulling out, careless, that whack on his ass reverberating in that large hall.
Theseus could not move, not for a while, riding that ache, but somewhere deep, also feeling empty… Fuck.
Maxime Jaz

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Revon M. Castillo 🏳️‍⚧️💖 Writing !! @themythiclibrary.bsky.social · 2d

ALLIGATOR BOY

[ a bloody & queer erotica coming 2026. ]

🐊 latino trans man with agoraphobia
🐊 south carolina swamps might be sentient & equipped w/ a god
🐊 hea achieved thru eating your enemies
🐊 sloppy swamp sex

thank u @wolfehorror.itch.io for the templates!!

#sludgepit #wip #erotica #e #h #r

A trope map made for sludgepit. An edited photo of a pile of alligators gathered together, blurred and colour changed, makes up the background. The forefront contains SLUDGEPIT at the top with large letters. Glowing at the bottom is the words, 'ALLIGATOR BOY BY REVON M. CASTILLO'. In the middle is the placeholder cover of Alligator Boy, which is the ghost of a man imposed on the image of a greyed out cypress swamp. From top to bottom, left to right, in clockwise direction, the trope map reads: Revenge Against Abusers, Alligator Swamp God, Lots of Kinky Sex, Transition Through Monstrous Means, Bloody Happily Ever After, Queer Rage x Queer Gore, Overcoming Agoraphobia, Trans Man MC x Cis(?) Gay Man.

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Andrea Marie Johnson @authorandimarie.bsky.social · 2d

For #sludgepit I'm offering up enby pixie wip. I love this dark little fantasy romance so much.

🧚 changeling as a trans metaphor
🧚 assassination attempts
🧚 praise kink
🧚 everyone is bi
🧚 MMXF why choose
🧚 soulmates
🧚 forced proximity or die
🧚 hurt/comfort

#W #DF #R

Pixie art by me 😊

Background: black with green designs like blood splatters, poison bottle, rapier, heart in a cage. There is an illustration of a purple person with giant purple swallowtail wings and sparkly magic

Text reads:
Sludgepit
Max: human, heir apparent, forced to give up birthright to satisfy a centuries long peace treaty with the fae.
Except, it turns out they're not so human and if the Seelie prince finds out, that could spark a war. Max does to do whatever they can to keep this secret and preserve peace. They'll take their life if they have to.
When the Raven King shows up in their new cage of a bedroom to kidnap them, they go willingly. Even if it means trading one prison for another.
ENBY PIXIE WIP

Background: black with green designs like blood splatters, poison bottle, rapier, heart in a cage. There is a 3x3 aesthetic. Pictures left to right in the first row are: gothic arched ceiling, crying statue, Gothic castle. Pictures left to right in the 2nd row are: book and glasses on desk, rows and rows of 2 story bookcases, desk covered in books. Pictures left to right in 3rd row: misty pine forest, forest from ground level, close-up of mushrooms.

Text reads:
SLUDGEPIT
No matter how much mother deluded herself, I'm not a woman who wears dresses. I'm not a woman period.
ENBY PIXIE WIP

Background: black with green designs like blood splatters, poison bottle, rapier, heart in a cage.

Text reads:
SLUDGEPIT
“My King, you cannot come until our little flower does. That’s your punishment for earlier.”
“E-earlier?” Éan asks, moaning the word as I go back to stroking and sucking.
“When you came while we were playing our game.” Kaelith tsks. “Naughty boy.”
“I didn’t mean to, sir,” he says, his voice tight, his rising shame sour against my skin.
“It’s okay, my King. If you’re a good boy, I’ll let you have a taste of me.” Out of the corner of my eye I see Kaelith jerk his hand over his cock, once, twice, three times.
Éan’s eyes watch the movement with rapt attention. He licks his lips. “Yes, sir. I’ll be a good boy for you.”
“I know you will,” Kaelith croons.
ENBY PIXIE WIP

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✨️ mars 🪽 is writing @marsadler.bsky.social · 2d

My second #SLUDEPIT post is for my published taboo horror novelette, FULGURITE. #P #HR

⛈️ the horrors of growing up different in a small town
🖤 isolated cabins in the woods
⛈️ weirdly sexual dreams
🖤 the great outdoors
⛈️ a creeping sense of dread

Find it here:
payhip.com/b/aAUSq

A sludgepit template trope map with the fulgurite cover in it and green elements all around the edges. Text is in a light yellow with dark yellow arrows.

T4T uncle x nibling
Folk horror
Grief and loss and family
Lichtenburg figure scaramouche
Cockwarming
Came back wrong

Old Gods of Appalachia x The Summer Hikaru Died

Luce stands and swings the door open, and his brain must still be half asleep, catching and winding up around the sight of Jasper’s long, pale legs under Luce’s shirt. It swamps them, swallowing their fingertips and brushing mid-thigh. Luce has never felt much larger than Jasper, but seeing it firsthand is doing something strange to him, something twisting in his gut and fluttering up in his esophagus.

He blinks, rubs a hand across his chin, and focuses on the two mugs of coffee Jasper is pouring instead.

“I hope you don’t mind that I borrowed your clothes,” Jasper says.

“You didn’t bring anything?”

“No.”

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 2d

Baby's first #SLUDGEPIT? Ayo. Let's talk about my upcoming novella, MONITORED ACTIVITY.

📼 Sentient malls
📼 Serial killer/Final 'Girl'
📼 80s through 00s nostalgia (derogatory)
📼 MC [🏳️‍⚧️&🏳️‍🌈] is more than a little fucked up.
📼 Aliens...? Cults???
📼 "That should NOT be a kink, dude. JFC."

#WIP #H #D

A three by three image mood board that has a long underground hallway without end, a lit up skeeball machine, the back light of a car with a metal plate that says 2000, a brutalist structure, a sandy beach, a hand gripping someone else's forearm, a screen filled with lines of green code, blood on white tile with a hand doing the sign of the horns and a pair of white sneakers almost out of frame, and a single illuminated escalator in a dark room. In neon green text are the words Monitored Activity, Horror, Sci-fi, Unficion, @Astramachina. The overall background is a glitchy mess in tones of dark blues and purples.

MONITORED ACTIVITY: A state-of-the-art security system arrives with the New Millennium, and shoppers at Prime Plaza can now spend their time and hard earned money with newfound peace of mind. That same luxury doesn’t extend to the mall’s employees.

Hallucinations of missing girls and impossible hallways haunt Shaw's every shift. Footage of bloated corpses vomiting sand, violent indiscretions committed by management, and a hell-dimension of perverse delights makes the security guard equal parts sick and turned on.

It’s a good thing that Shaw is impervious to shame. There is no serial killer, haunting, or starved alien life-form that can stop him from getting what he wants: PTO, and in his boss' pants.

The overall background is a glitchy mess in tones of dark blues and purples.

Two rough black and white sketches in the form of Polaroids. The one labeled Shaw Price '01 is of a young man with dark eyes and eyebrows, long hair tied back in a ponytail, he looks cocky and gay. The one labeled Eddie Conners 2001 is of a basic looking middle-aged man with short hair, serial killer glasses, and bags under his pale eyes. The entire graphic is covered with 2000s style sticker decorations: a glitter heart, a glitter star, a CD, and a swoopy star circle in neon green. The overall background is a glitchy mess in tones of dark blues and purples.

In bright green text: Nov. 12, sentient malls, nostalgia-bait, final "guy", sexy hell dimensions, getting off on company time, t!m/c!m, evil DILF propaganda, everyone's an asshole, serial killer/potential victim. At the center of the graphic is the book cover for Monitored Activity by Mitch Miller: a mostly purple background with gltched out CRT monitors, and a banner on the bottom that says Welcome to the night shift. The graphic's overall background is a glitchy mess in tones of dark blues and purples.

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #Sludgepit #H #D :)

Sludgepit - Death, sex, monsters - Coming soon - Slowly, almost carefully, a pair of pale, gloved hands slide into view, gripping the dark bedframe as the room’s other inhabitant drags his huge, heavy body out from under the bed. Nausea rolls over Atlas in a wave, vision blurring, ears ringing. All he wants to do is scramble out of bed and throw himself into the hall, away from the fucking thing under the bed, but he’s frozen to the mattress, immobile as the thing’s wild, multi-coloured curls peek out from under the bedframe. The breathing is growing even heavier, its pale, painted white forehead coming into Atlas’ blurred view, long arms pushing through the bars of the bedframe, grabbing at the blankets, seeking. One hand wraps around Atlas’ ankle, and then a loud burst of tinny laughter sounds right in Atlas’ ear. - Releases October 31

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🐣 Migi ➡️ SKIAMAKHIA drops 10/31! @tdcloud.bsky.social · 2d

Next up for #sludgepit: RELIQUARY (2026 project)

The sequel to my award winning queer erotic horror novella OSSUARY.

💀erotic horror (this time with smut)
💀cursed witch boy x elder vampire monster
💀obsession, identity loss, and genderfucky horror
💀hill house flavored
💀sometimes, dead is better

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✨️ mars 🪽 is writing @marsadler.bsky.social · 2d

My first #SLUDGEPIT pitch is for my published taboo horror novella MADE IN BLOOD #P #HR

✨️ Annihilation weird place vibes
🖤 routine supply run gone wrong
✨️ trapped underground & in the dark
🖤 Gross™
✨️ fuck the govt & eat the rich

Find it here:
payhip.com/b/09TF8

A sludgepit template trope map with the cover of Made in Blood (illustrated by Mitch Green) with dull pink words and dark pink arrows

Post Apocalyptic
Trans dad x son
Exploring an abandoned military base
Eat the rich
Wound fucking
Cosmic and body horror

Color Out of Space x The Last of Us

Callum looks over at Julian, eyes flashing in the light. He doesn’t look like Julian’s son. He doesn’t look like the perfect little boy that Julian and Cecily created, twenty-four years ago. He’s more. He’s everything, Julian’s whole goddamn world, and he will do anything to save him. Callum smiles, and his teeth are sharp. Predator’s teeth. “We have everything we need right here,” he says. “Remember?”
Julian breathes out, slow and steady. He tries to forget what it is to feel fear. He listens to the hum of the earth, of what rests below them, just a bit to the right.

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(V)Ladz The Impaler @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 2d

OUR CRIMSON CAGE (F/F/F horror erotic novella)
A Polish retelling of Carmilla coming Q1 2026

🩸 Perverted marriage rituals & corrupted motherhood
🩸 Fuck, marry, kill
🩸 Blood as metaphor & medium
🩸 Red wings (iykyk)
🩸 Polish Catholicism, ritual, & folklore

#sludgepit #toxicyuri #H #E #WIP

A 3x3 grid of images all sourced from Unsplash

Top row: a pale blonde woman looking out a window, an Eastern European foggy manor, a brunette in a silky robe

Middle row: snow woods, OUR CRIMSON CAGE #sludgepit, blue roses

Bottom row: A skeleton, snowy woods, a black-haired person drenched in mist and light

IF YOU LIKE... vampire teeth

Cage of Roses, the visual novel by ebi-hime
Bloodborne
A key
My Carmilla by Anita Zara
Unholy with Eyes Like Wolves by Morgan Dante
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Lefanu

Get ready for Q1 2026 with a cum splash

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Royal W. Isaac @r-wi.bsky.social · 2d

It's #sludgepit time! So enjoy - Your Mouth's Abominations 🦷

This horror duology is inspired by my misfortunate adventures with various throat and mouth related medical emergencies. Think the kinda weird surreal shit your brain comes up with when in too much pain and morphine, lol.

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E. Saint @saintwinther.bsky.social · 2d

Project END is a queer cosmic horror short story collection in the early stages of planning and drafting.

Shout out to @wolfehorror.itch.io for hosting this event! And for the #wolfetober prompts that inspired this project.

#SLUDGEPIT #WIP #H

Neon yellow and green text surrounds a collection of three pictures. The title reads: “Sludgepit.” Text bottom tagline reads: “Project END #wip” and “E. Saint @saintwinther.” The first photograph spans the middle area in a filmstrip frame, an image of clouds fill opposite corners with a diagonal streak of clear skies between. Eye graphics of various sizes appear in the clouds. A pink neon sign hovers in the upper left corner, reads: “Nothing to see here.” Small cursive below it reads: “this is not the end” and the word “end” is slashed out. Nearby text reads: “m X cosmic abomination.” The second photograph stands vertically near the right side with a phone camera frame. It shows a pair of statues, one being Jesus with a golden halo. Black scribbles cover this figure. Nearby text reads: “detachment from reality.” The third photograph centered in the lower area is a Polaroid, the portrait of an angel statue with crossed arms, and a bloody handprint covers her face. Nearby text reads: “grief.” Small cursive written on the Polaroid frame reads: “he can never recover from.”

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 2d

My next novel, FLESH OF MY FLESH, DARK OF MY DARK, here for #SludgePit!

🖤 Abyssal body-snatchers in a murder competition
🖤 Oracle breaking from theocracy
🖤 Gross corpse shenanigans
🖤 So many freak lesbians
🖤 Is it a happy ending if we fuse bodies?
🖤 Dermatillomania rep

#D #F #A #H #R #LGBT #WIP

A green graphic titled "sludgepit" in a graffiti-esque font. Open mouths, stars, and trash border the graphic. In the center is a book cover, surrounded by arrows.

The book cover features "The Gothic Arch" by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Over this is "Flesh of My Flesh" in a serif font, followed by "Dark of My Dark" in a handwritten-looking font. "ALEX HARVEY-RIVAS" is at the base, followed by "An industrial gothic romantic fantasy".

The arrows surrounding the cover from left to right and top to bottom read as follows:

- Autism and transness through corpsehopping
- Feral lesbians
- Is it necro if I'm sentient?
- Knifeplay as curiosity vs religious worship

At the base of the image in glowing green font is the phrase "THIS ONE'S FOR THE DYKES"

A green graphic titled "sludgepit" in a graffiti-esque font. Open mouths, stars, and trash border the graphic. In the center is a screenshot from a word document, framed top and bottom by a series of words

At the top: NONA THE NINTH x THE CRADLE OF ETERNAL NIGHT

At the bottom: Industrial gothic romantic fantasy

The screenshot reads as follows:

Its legs go still, the deteriorating flesh pulling taut. Its mouth, sticky and sour-sweet like overripe fruit, dries as she rolls her chair across the stone floor. She comes to a stop between Vaż’s legs, nudging them apart to give herself more space. Her gloves are frigid against the bare and mottled skin.

“It will be but a few moments,” she says. “Ready?”

Vaż nods.

With far more care than Vaż deserves, Lejla plunges her fist into its chest and takes hold of its abyssal heart.

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Linn Foster/Silver 🐺 @linnfoster.com · 2d

Bell is a gumiho who only wants one thing: true love-- & they might've found it. The problem? They want to kill & eat him too.

Full synopsis & 1st chapter:
linnfoster.com/bymms/

Preorder the ebook:
platinumsoul.shop

Follow for signed copies:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

#SludgePit #R #WIP

A "trope map" for Linn Silver's novel, Between You, Me, and the Moonlit Sea. It says: genderfluid main character, aro-pan love interest, queer side cast, romantic rival, strangers to friends to lovers, seaside city, family drama, shapeshifters, monstrous appetites, nonhuman/human relationship, fox politics, music appreciation, and more. (Art by @cryling.)

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🐣 Migi ➡️ SKIAMAKHIA drops 10/31! @tdcloud.bsky.social · 2d

First up for #sludgepit is my halloween release SKIAMAKHIA

🩸90s era corporate vampire thriller
🩸transmasc ceo protag
🩸500 year old vamp LI
🩸familial toxicity, political subterfuge, vampire bullshit
🩸stand alone in a series of 8
🩸 #H #T #R

Pre-order now: www.tdcloudofficial.com/books

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