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🪶Writer•📖Bookdragon•🌈She/They•✨Looking for Fanart, Inspiration and Customised Funko Pops•🗡️History and Literature Nerd•🪷Querying Dark Queer Fantasy

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WhrainAsh✒️Querying @whrain.bsky.social · Jan 24

An #agentsguide to A VOW TO BE BROKEN - "Sometimes dying is the only way to escape a vow you never made."
my #queer Adult Dark Fantasy, featuring a disgraced noble who just can't stop adopting people his own age.
#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #Fantasy

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✿ E.L Blackwood @evelynlblackwood.bsky.social · Feb 12

Threads of Aerythel: Dragonfly is a 126,000-word dark epic fantasy. It is the first in a planned trilogy but stands alone with a complete narrative arc. It is a character-driven tri-perspective novel for an adult audience.
#QuestPit #Q #A #DF #LGBT

A lost heir, a hunted woman, and a fallen sigilbearer unravel forbidden truths in a world where magic is bound by faith and prophecy. As allegiances shift and ancient forces awaken, they must defy their destiny or be consumed by it.

Genre: Dark Epic Fantasy
POV: Tri-Perspective
Audience: Adult

Subgenres:
Political Fantasy
Gothic Fantasy
Sapphic Romantic Fantasy
Mystery

Word count: 126k
Prose Style: Literary leaning, atmospheric and gothic undertones with heavy subtext. Writing that trusts the reader.

Core themes:
Love and possession
Power
Truth and deception
Legacy
Moral ambiguity

The novel blends the political intrigue and sapphic themes of The Jasmine Throne (2021), the multi-POV complexity of The Shadow of the Gods (2021), and the atmospheric tension and moral ambiguity of Empire of the Vampire (2021).

In a world where magic is bound by doctrine, power, and belief, the ruins of the holy city of Cael’Thorin remain buried beneath ice and time, its secrets long forgotten—until now.
Isolde Ridelle has spent her life in the quiet village of Rosewater, far from war and the unseen forces that shape the empire of Delheim. When she is hunted for reasons she does not understand, she is thrust into a world of forbidden magic, shifting allegiances, and a legacy she never asked for.
Elara Eastwell, a devoted weaver bound by sacred oaths, uncovers secrets that threaten the very foundation of her order. The deeper she delves, the more she is forced to ask whether upholding her vows is worth the cost—or if breaking them is the only way to protect what truly matters.
As Sigilbearer of The Circle, Aleric Belmont is no stranger to power, but the ruins hold more than redemption. When old sins resurface, he must decide whether atonement is within his grasp or if it was never his to claim.
As their paths converge, Isolde, Elara, and Aleric become entwined in a divine conflict that will challenge their beliefs, test their loyalties, and unravel long-buried truths.

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WhrainAsh✒️Querying @whrain.bsky.social · Feb 12

An Agent's Guide to my Dark Fantasy Novel:
A Vow to be Broken
aka Robin Hobb's "Fitz and The Fool" meets Anthony Ryan's "The Covenant of Steel"
#questpit #QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF

A grey image of charging horses showing the novel's title: "A Vow to be Broken."
and tropes marked by white arrows:
"Mental Illness Rep
Character Driven
Dark Fantasy
Politics and Sword Fights
Queer Rep
Vows and Promises
Reluctant Allies to Lovers
Found Family"

Grey image of a crow grabbing a dove. The text reads "The Pitch: When words can serve as the noose around your neck, a young noble is doomed to die for a vow he never uttered while a mercenary is forced to live by another he shouldn't have made.

Grey image of a gothic window. Text reads: "Opening Line: Anyone who claims death to be a peaceful affair has never been stabbed by a god."

Grey image of a sword. Additional pictures of the book covers of Assassin's Apprentice, Nevernight, The Pariah, Golden Terrace and Soul Keeper. Text reads: "Narrative - Character Driven Fantasy, Atmosphere - House Politics & Secret Societies, Setting - Grimdark Medieval Eurasia, Themes - The price one pays for duty, Themes - The price one pays for faith"

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WhrainAsh✒️Querying @whrain.bsky.social · Jan 27

Nan Chan 南禅 - Tangjiuqing 唐酒卿
I have a beloved, over the mountains and across the seas… I’m his reverse scale… My name is Jing Lin… Ming Jin Stage…

Updated my Cang Ji because I encountered the amazing fanart of @a1nform on X

WhrainAsh✒️Querying @whrain.bsky.social · Jan 26

Realm of the Elderlings
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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Behold the saddest man who ever lived aka Fitz Chivalry Farseer dearly missing his Fool and inspired by the design of the amazing @luinquesse.bsky.social.

WhrainAsh✒️Querying @whrain.bsky.social · Jan 24

Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson

Odium can pry Kaladin, Adolin and Shallan from Dalinar's and my cold dead hands!
Also don't sleep on the amazing Bulgarian covers by @yasenstoilov.bsky.social and shoutout to @jacobaybara.bsky.social on insta who inspired Kaladin's design.

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Aaron Olátunjie Cole is ✨Vague✨👀 @aaronolatunjie.bsky.social · Jan 24

HUNGER GAMES × COBAB × FOURTH WING

Inspired by the Central African mythology of the Underworld of Kalunga

A boy with dangerous blood magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mother's soul, before it's sacrificed to the Gods of the Underworld

#YouDeservepIt #YA #OS

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WhrainAsh✒️Querying @whrain.bsky.social · Jan 24

Saw Magnud archives and went Follow, reblog, heart XD. I need more brainrot where people softly pine while the eldritch horrors run rampant!

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🦋 Gabriel Yuriria @gabriel-yuriria.bsky.social · Jan 13

THE SHERIDAN TAPES X THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES

Fake paranormal investigators + real witch = real encounters they weren't ready for

🖤 missing person mystery
🖤 soft pining
🖤 eldritch gods & locations
🖤 religious trauma
🖤 gothic podcast vibes
🖤 two timelines
🖤 creepy forests

#BluePit 📖 #H #Wip #A

Upper left: abandoned house
Upper right: half lit staircase
Center: old recorder
Lower left: darkened underground hallway
Lower right: lone person standing in a field

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Morgan Wodring 🦑 NEW WEIRD NATION @morkalmarrh.bsky.social · Jan 24

PERDIDO STREET STATION x ANNIHILATION

Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is.

#YouDeservePit #SF #A #Q #LGBT #ND

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Jan 24

#AgentsGuide
AN EMBER IN THE ASHESx4TH WING
FMC must marry into power during a martial tournament but decides to compete & fight for her people.
Seducing & battling, her plans unravel when she's paired with the vexing future King, falls in love, & joins the Duke's hitlist
#Q #F #R #RF #YouDeservepIt

A Guide to
To Cage a Shadow
A 90K Word YA/Adult
Crossover romantasy
By Marceline Greyfield

Pitch
Ferne, a shadow-wielding spy, infiltrates the annual magical martial tournament to manipulate and marry one of the three powerful men. When she finds out that the tournament winner receives anything they want, she enters the competition to fight for her people’s survival.
In doing so, Ferne falls in love with her loathsome, irritating tournament partner and endangers herself and everyone around her when the Duke grows suspicious of Ferne and stalks her every move.

Themes and tropes
Sarcastic FMC
Morally grey FMC
Ensemble cast
Overcoming grief
Trauma as a lingering ghost
Supporting women's rights and wrongs
Power or family?
Angsty slow burn
Forced proximity
Obsessive love
Secret identity
Criticism of capitalism
She saves him
BETRAYAL

Comps
An Ember in the Ashes: FMC operating as spies in a hostile environment with political intrigue
From Blood and Ash: Hidden magical identity and a FMC discovering her true power.
Fourth Wing: Competition-based plot structure and battery enemies to lovers
Red Queen: Magical hierarchy and political manipulation.
These Violent Delights: Forbidden romance and complex family loyalties.

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · Jan 24

In 18th century Slovakia, a young widow murdered and turned to vampirism by a herbalist sect must confront their elusive leader to reclaim her humanity.

THE HISTORIAN X A DOWRY OF BLOOD

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Agent's guide included 📖

#YouDeservepIt #A #H #Q

#gothic #literary #vampire #writesky #folkhorror #LGBT 🏳️‍🌈

A visual with a dark blue background and dark grey border. To the left is an image of a empty glassless black chapel window looking from below with the text "The Black Cathedral Chapter XIV" beneath it. To the right is the text
"An agent's Guide to Bunika
A Gothic Novel by S. B. L. Grant
All art and photography original."

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"Introduction
BUNIKA is an adult Gothic horror novel set in 18th century Slovakia. It combines the period elements of Kostova’s THE HISTORIAN, the queer narrative of THE GILDA STORIES and the lavish literary style of A DOWRY OF BLOOD."
To the right is a photograph of an iron ouroboros on a black door with the text "Ouroboros Door Chapter II" beneath it.

A visual with a dark grey background and dark grey border. To the left is a map which says "Horné Uhorsko (Slovakia) 1712". To the right is the text
"Pitch
February 1712
After Marika is murdered at a witchcraft trial by a herbalist sect, she awakens as neochotný - “The Unwilling” - a half human/half vampire whose nature is in constant conflict.
Fleeing to Modra Castle she becomes smitten with its heiress Ruzena, but is informed that an elusive cult leader named Bunika has orchestrated her turning.
Marika must embark on a journey across Slovakia to confront Bunika, to be reborn into humanity and live peacefully with her lover.
She must unite her conflicting nature, become stronger than she knows, or remain eternally tormented by psychological strife."

A visual with a mid blue background and dark grey border. To the left is a photograph of a castle tower under a dark grey sky with the words "Hrad Červený Kameň, Slovakia (Basis for Modra Castle) Chapter III" beneath it. To the left are the words
"For those who enjoy:
Historical Gothic romance (86k words)
Remote European settings
Traditional vampire folklore
Gritty, uncompromising horror
Strong LGBT themes
Emotional erotica
Dilemmas of identity
Layered narrative and symbolism
Shocking outcomes
Moral relevance
Re-readability and discovery"

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Ziv @zivmontenegro.bsky.social · Jan 24

5TH WAVE meets NOPE meets ARRIVAL meets INTERSTELLAR

After encountering an alien while dealing with grief, Astra, a runaway, must choose between saving humanity from an alien invasion and reconciling with her dad before it’s too late.

#YouDeservePit #YA #literary #scifi

This is isn’t real but I like to manifest.

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WhrainAsh✒️Querying @whrain.bsky.social · Jan 24

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