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Pax Asteriae
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M/M fantasy romance and erotica author. Also known as Aphna.

Midlands, UK. Transmasc non-binary, they/them.

#MMRomance #GayRomance #AmWriting

https://www.paxasteriae.co.uk
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Pax Asteriae @paxasteriae.bsky.social · 10d
For newly-dumped psychic Gabe, maybe Hallowe'en isn't such a dead end: distractingly hot Jude has also been ghosted on the steps of this haunted house. But will Gabe's light-hearted livestream turn dark in the shadow of the house's curse?
#BluePit 📖 #W #A #PN #R #LGBT
Moodboard for the story Ghosted. The book cover, showing two men in jeans holding hands with 'Ghosted' in a handwritten font across the middle, is at the top left corner. Beneath is a gloomy shot of the haunted mansion with some windows lit. Top middle-left is shattered glass, bottom middle-left is a dark, stained doorway with shadowy hands pressing at the windows. Top middle-right is a faded image of an oxygen mask, bottom middle right is Jude with his hood up standing at the steps of the building. Top right is a faded image of the dilapidated hallway, with missing and cracked tiles and a stained carpet running up the damaged stairs, and bottom right is two mens' hands reaching for one another. In the middle is the text, "He'd never screamed and run from anything before, but he had absolutely no problem with there being a first time."
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Do you like my stuff? My romantasy, dark fantasy, and smut?

Is my stuff worth one energy drink a month to you?

Then please, sign up for my Patreon. It helps me give everyone free stuff!
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D.D. Ward is Writing | Patreon
Various salacious fiction
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January 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Thanks everyone for a fantastic #BluePit!

We saw so many great pitches (around 1800!) today and wonderful support!

Around 200 published works too! (Our #BluePit Published feed lasts 1 week, so go shopping while you can!)

The next pitch event coming up is #SmallPitch! Learn more @smallpitch.org!
smallpitch.org #SmallPitch @smallpitch.org · Dec 6
SAVE THE DATE! #SmallPitch comes back for another indie/small press-focused pitch event on January 19-25, 2026 🌊

This time, it will be open to all underrepresented authors from the #WritingCommunity, agented and unagented alike.

Check our website for more details ⬇️
#SmallPitch, the big pitch event for small presses
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January 14, 2026 at 6:00 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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Tangle and Tether
Teen scientist Brilliance Overland and her bestie Annie complete her late mother's quantum wormhole tech!
They escape to a promising world beyond. But something breaks that promise.
Their exploration is mired in loss, loneliness, and a childhood bond that no longer works.
#BluePit
Old school looking book cover: Ominous redheaded girl overlooking the Earth. Book title, Tangle and Tether, Brilliance of Earth, Book One. More about the book: Brilliance Overland is a prodigy who craves answers and adventure. Her invention— latticed entanglement aperture passthroughs (LEAP)—opens a quantum-based wormhole to a world more advanced, yet far more backward than she imagined. With her best friend Annie, Brilliance enrolls at Avram Circle, the premier science academy in a system of interlinked worlds, hoping to unravel their origins. But in a place where every relationship is entangled, every truth is knotted with lies, and every discovery leads to deeper complexity, Brilliance finds that her will and scientific principles alone can’t untangle the mess. Brilliance relies on Annie’s empathy to navigate the social brambles rooted in this new world, but as Brilliance buries her own “unproductive” feelings, Annie’s patience frays. When their friendship is tested, Brilliance must confront the tethers that bind her: Unspoken grief for her mother, whose voice and lessons echo as AI in her mind; the causal chains that connect her actions to unintended consequences; and the realization that even in a universe of infinite possibility, some bonds—of love, loss, and home—are impossible to sever. To survive forces that want to control them, Brilliance must learn that true understanding isn’t just about unraveling mysteries, but about embracing the beautiful, messy tangle of relationships and the tethers that hold us together—even across worlds. Themes: - Quantum entanglement as a metaphor for the complexity and messiness of relationships, regardless of time or distance. - Tethering as both a source of strength (home, love, memory) and a challenge (grief, responsibility, causality) - The interplay between scientific genius and emotional intelligence - The search for origins—of worlds, of self, of the bonds that shape us
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 AM
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lizking.bsky.social
Los Angeles, 1931. Down these mean streets, a man must go… possibly at speed, accompanied by a chatty dame he’d really like to keep alive. Between the cops, the mobsters and a possibly resurrected mummy, it’s quite a task.

Hammett meets Hawks, with a dash of Hammer

#BluePit📖 #BluePit #W #M #HS #F
January 13, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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boringstorybook.com
Rainbow the unicorn hates the nicknames friends in Sparklevania give him (Cutie Patootie!?), but a run-in w/ a dracula bat transforms him into the fearsome (?) COUNT RAINBOW! His new evil persona drives his friends away until a nickname slip up rocks the town. #BluePit 📖 #pb #OS BrianKirbyStudio.com
Illustration of a vampire unicorn in a flowing cape in from of a stained glass window turning toward the viewer - text reads COUNT RAINBOW
January 13, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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jundlife.bsky.social
THE EXORCIST X THE BABADOOK
Plagued by Shadow People since almost dying as a child, Chris seeks to rid himself of his curse. Now, the Shadows are increasing, the Red Eyed God in the woods speaks of change, and a new Shadow wearing a hat awakens something inside him.
#W #BluePit #H #AgentsGuide
"Hat" or "Children of the Void" 84K Cosmic Horror, Betas Welcome, Querying Soon. Pitch: Chris is cursed to see Shadow people since almost dying as a child. Now, as the new MILLENNIUM dawns they are INCREASING in FREQUENCY and GAINING power. His peers think he is psychotic, The Red Eyed God in the woods speak of a great change, and a HATEFUL shadow wearing a hat seeks to use him for his own ends.
January 13, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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sillyartcollector.bsky.social
A cosy fantasy mystery inspired by farming sims like Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon

Eden is the last in line to inherit her great aunt’s farm, who disappeared years ago. As she finds her place in a new community, she begins to wonder what happened to Auntie Su?

#bluepit #w #NA #F #M
A collage including a line drawing of a woman pouring a watering can, a photo of a little red house on the edge of a meadow and forest, an arching bridge over a lazy river, another photo of stones placed in a circle in a foggy valley, and a photo of a forest of birch trees.
January 13, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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sageowenwrites.bsky.social
What do you do when the fling you ghosted shows up at training camp with the power to destroy your career?

Heated Rivary x Ted Lasso meets rugby and messy feelings

🌈 bi & demi discovery
🥺 yearning
🎤 mm athlete x journalist
🏉 forced to work with your crush

#BluePit📖 #lgbt #A #R #W
Moodboard for Sage Owen’s rugby romance novel WIP (tentatively titled The Re-Try). It features 7 images including anonymous men playing rugby, a tidy blond man in a collared dress shirt, Belfast at sunset, two cocktails on a moodily lit bar, and two men’s hands entwined on white hotel sheets.
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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prahajess.bsky.social
🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹

Mean Girls X Practical Magic
With Surfing

When a cocksure witch loses her magic to a cunning daemon, she hatches a plan to steal it back—betraying a grieving classmate who’s only just discovered the world of magic.

#BluePit📖 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Q #F #YA #Querying #witch
Images: beaches, forests, and three witches
January 13, 2026 at 7:45 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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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
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maegrenade.bsky.social
Heartstopper X Only Yesterday:

FALSE START is a gentle, second-chance sapphic romcom. When introverted demisexual Sera learns at a reunion that track star Reese secretly adored her back in school, she sets out to find out just what Reese saw in her.

#BluePit #BluePit💥 #F #R #Q #LGBT #OV #YA #A #NA
Illustration of cover art for False Start by Mae Grenade, featuring two girls facing away but almost holding hands
January 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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charliedeltawrites.bsky.social
Rayna Clay is a world-weary monster hunter with a reckless streak that tends to get her in trouble.

Simon is a naïve incubus having second thoughts about the deadly conspiracy he's found himself wrapped up in.

The question is, is there enough time left for them to stop it?

#BluePit 📖 #LGBT #F #C
Rayna Clay, Fullbody painting of a woman. She's white, with short brown hair, grey eyes, and dressed in modern clothes (jeans, boots, black tshirt, and brown leather jacket). She's holding an expandable security baton in one hand and wiping blood from her lips with the other. Art by Aowna Cover: Anthropomorphic by Charlie Delta Art By Conrad Altmann
January 13, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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paxasteriae.bsky.social
For newly-dumped psychic Gabe, maybe Hallowe'en isn't such a dead end: distractingly hot Jude has also been ghosted on the steps of this haunted house. But will Gabe's light-hearted livestream turn dark in the shadow of the house's curse?
#BluePit 📖 #W #A #PN #R #LGBT
Moodboard for the story Ghosted. The book cover, showing two men in jeans holding hands with 'Ghosted' in a handwritten font across the middle, is at the top left corner. Beneath is a gloomy shot of the haunted mansion with some windows lit. Top middle-left is shattered glass, bottom middle-left is a dark, stained doorway with shadowy hands pressing at the windows. Top middle-right is a faded image of an oxygen mask, bottom middle right is Jude with his hood up standing at the steps of the building. Top right is a faded image of the dilapidated hallway, with missing and cracked tiles and a stained carpet running up the damaged stairs, and bottom right is two mens' hands reaching for one another. In the middle is the text, "He'd never screamed and run from anything before, but he had absolutely no problem with there being a first time."
January 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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ottersediting.com
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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sebjameswrites.bsky.social
A disease born from trauma and grief claims more victims each day. Ezra is battling his own demons; his fiancé was sacrificed to the beast who began the spread of the disease. His only hope is a necromancer who has more secrets than even Ezra hides.

#BluePit #W #NA #F #H #R #LGBT #DIS
A lilac background containing 9 square images. 1. Two crossing swords 2. The silhouette of two men against the night sky 3. Black hands reaching through a thick smog 4. Distorted humanoid shadows 5. A skeletal hand locking pinkies with a human hand 6.the masts and sails of a ship 7. A hand reaching out of the ocean up towards a full moon 8.a deer skeleton 9. A frigid frozen mountainscape
January 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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salemszarek.bsky.social
OUT OF THE DEPTHS; Matthaios is a hacker — but hackers, even skilled ones, are nothing special in Detroit. So why has one of the richest women in the world contacted him for a job?

What is in the labyrinth under Argyris Inc.? #bluepit #bluepit📖 #W #SF #R #LGBt
A white, glitched labyrinth, with overlaying words reading: an erotic reimagining of the tale of the minotaur out of the depths written by salem szarek A faded white, glitched labyrinth, with overlaying words reading: minotaur x trans m sacrifice dystopian cyberpunk setting size difference hacker protagonist d/s dynamics touch-starved li human experimentation dubious consent topping from the bottom
January 13, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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voiquinn.bsky.social
A Little Witch is tasked with gathering important ingredients for the evening's spell: dinner.

Determined, she ventures into the garden and encounters a medley of punny produce to harvest from.

#LittleWitch
#WriteSky #BluePit #BluePit💥
#DigitalArt #Comic #WritingCommunity
#PB #F #PO #Q
Digital art and text, assorted anthropomorphized ingredients free float around text, a small bubbling cauldron sits beneath the text. Text reads: Little Witch by Voiquinn Digital art, an assortment of anthropomorphized ingredients free float around the text. Text reads: If you fancy cozy comfort, mellow vibes, and witchy stew, there’s a Little Witch ecstatic at the thought of meeting you! Digital art, an assortment of anthropomorphized ingredients free float around a little witch wearing a yellow hat, orange shirt, and red skirt and boots. She is holding a basket in the crook of her arm and looks determined towards the viewer.
January 13, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Nurse Margaret retreated to an island isolation hospital to escape the memory of her lost love -- and the eerie stories she used to tell.

But now Margaret's patients are dying, and she's hearing an all too familiar voice in the lapping of the waves.

#A #H #LGBT #OS #BluePit📖
Mock-up title page for a book: Salt Angels The story: Wales, 1897. Life as a nurse at Flat Holm Isolation Hospital at the end of the nineteenth century is exhausting, lonely, and involves a veritable ocean of unpleasant bodily fluids. It's a job few women would choose, but Margaret Gwilym isn't most women. Margaret left her home in the Rhondda under a cloud after an entanglement with Dwynwen Pritchard, the wife of a local preacher. Amid the suffocating fervour of a religious revival, Dwynwen's secretive belief in otherworldly creatures she called ‘angels' offered Margaret a glimpse of new possibilities. They fell into a passionate romantic relationship. But strange events swirled around Dwynwen like flies around a corpse, and Margaret began to doubt her own sanity. When Dwynwen's husband discovered their affair, Margaret was heartbroken. The isolated island of Flat Holm seemed like somewhere she might finally be able to heal. For a time, she's content, if not happy. But when her patients begin seeing eerie figures, Margaret recognises the visions they describe from Dwynwen's stories. Then they begin to transform into the strange creatures themselves, vanishing into the sea and leaving Margaret alone. When a letter from the mainland informs her that Dwynwen is missing, Margaret starts to have visions of her own where the ‘angels' call to her in Dwynwen's voice. As she fights to hold onto her humanity, a new possibility takes shape before her - that of undergoing a transformation of her own and joining her lover under the waves. Isolated and helpless in the empty hospital, she starts to wonder: could giving in really be worse than this? Adult horror ~30,000 words Screwed-up sapphics Island isolation Welsh history Body horror This religious revival is not as much fun as it looked Hot girls siarad Cymraeg Book quote: Her eyes were owlishly big and solemn, and for a split second, they found Margaret’s. They seemed to look into her, to penetrate to the hidden, wormy parts of her inmost being.
January 13, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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juliemarchbooks.bsky.social
⚒️ PREORDER NOW ⚒️
On a remote mining colony where bodies tend to pile up, one disabled convict and his squad of underdogs are tired of catering to mega-capitalists' feelings.

OMEGA SQUAD: A novella, out 2/28/26
#BluePit📖 #A #SF #P #DIS #OV
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Cover of "Omega Squad" by Julie March on top of a photo of an ice cave. White text around the cover reads: "Disabled Wrath;" "Gang of Underdogs;" "Evil Corporation;" and "Novella." At the bottom, white text reads, "Pre-order now. Releases 2/28/26," along with the logo for itchio and the word "wide." Cover description: Book cover for "Omega Squad" by Julie March, part of the "Archives of the VerdTech Resistance" series. Background is a silhouette of a man holding a ring light over his head like a halo, overlaid against a composite image of four red moons in space. All text is white and futuristic. The title is bold and semi-transparent. All other text is thinner, opaque, and reminiscent of a digital clock or old computer program.
January 13, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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Someone is killing the sorcerers of London.

Kit Tyburn, ex-soldier turned play-actor, has to dive into the arcane world of Elizabethan astrology & magic, hunting a vicious pair of killers intent on harnessing a weapon that threatens the throne itself.

3 Musketeers x Harry Bosch
#Q #BluePit 📖#A #HS
January 13, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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scarletvmitchell.bsky.social
The only place depressed goth-girl, Helena, feels at home on the cheery campus is the dark, haunted chapel. When the stones come alive to warn her of a demon invasion, she becomes entangled in a cosmic war.
And falls for a gargoyle.❤️
Don't Let the Forest In x City of Bones
#BluePit 📖
#YA #F #Q #LGBT
Moodboard for Rooted in Stone, sapphic gargoyle urban fantasy. Tagline”Somewhere away from this world, indistinct, infinite, and unknowable… What was beyond that veil?” 10 very dark, moody, grayish images around the edge include the hazy spires of Notre Dame with birds lying across, the Milky Way, a crow coming in the land, a gargoyle peeking over a ledge, a shadow crouching in a corner with piercing eyes, a young woman with black hair over her eye, a crow in front of a grave, a graveyard statue of an angel, and the interior of a church with a stained glass window. In the center of all this, is a bright painting of a natual landscape done in vivid sunset colors.
January 13, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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smoking-gnu.bsky.social
G'morning #Bluepit!

For your consideration, I present to you an #Agentsguide to

CAVERN CLIPPER
(TREASURE PLANET x JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH x THE LAST EXILE)

#Bluepit 📖 #A #SF #F #W
Background, Flying sail ships amids obscuring clouds. presenting an Agents Guide to: Cavern Clipper. Status: first draft being edited Image Credit: “The Stormriders: Steampunk Pirates” by neko1206 on Deviantart. Background, cavern lit up by bright orange-yellow light. The Pitch: A RECENTLY DECEASED HUMAN (SAM) AND A FORMERLY CAPTIVE CERUNAN (NYXEL) NEED TO DELIVER A MESSAGE CRITICAL TO HUMANITY’S SURVIVAL, ARE THROWN TOGETHER ON A PIRATE HUNTER SHIP AND ARE BEING PURSUED BY A RELENTLESS PIRATE FLEET - BUT THE LIVING MAZE OF CAVERNS THEY MUST TRAVERSE TO GET THERE MAY BE MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE PIRATES. Background, massive square cavern in background with small forest and deer in foreground. Comps: TREASURE PLANET X A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH X THE LAST EXILE Tropes and themes: • TRANSMIGRATION (ISEKAI) • AIRSHIPS • PIRATES • CAT AND MOUSE BATTLES • A MESSAGE THAT MUST BE DELIVERED! Background, Cavern with a skull face being watched by a woman. Excerpt: “CAPTAIN!” SAM SHOUTED AND POINTED TO THE SIGHT. HE SAW HER REACT, BUT DIDN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT HER RESPONSE WOULD BE. INSTEAD HE SPUN AROUND TO TRY AND FIND NYXEL. HE SPOTTED HER ON THE MAINMAST, SCANNING THE DECK AND LOOKING FOR TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY. “NYXEL! THE CABLE!” SAM SHOUTED. HE SAW HER HEAD SNAP TOWARDS HIM AND HE POINTED TOWARDS WHERE THE LAST CABLE WAS EMBEDDED INTO THE DECK, THEN SWUNG HIS HAND AROUND TO THE SLOOP. SHE FOLLOWED HIS HAND, THEN NODDED AT HIM AND LAUNCHED BACK INTO THE AIR, GRACEFULLY CURVING TOWARDS THE SLOOP ONE FINAL TIME.
January 13, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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karagoldwrites.bsky.social
WINTER'S ORBIT x SOME DESPERATE GLORY x FIREFLY

-Psychic bonds with spaceships
-Space pirate and a reluctant soldier
-Close knit crew trying to stay together at any cost
-Found family
-Enemies to lovers
-Slow burn
-Space Opera
-Queer normative world
-“We can’t lose us”

#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #LGBT #SF
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WINTER'S ORBITxSOME DESPERATE GLORY
A ship only lives as long as its heart

When a crisis leaves ex-pirate Sol without a ship, he steals and bonds with one. This puts him on a collision course with Ambrose, a reluctant soldier who discovers the theft as his home is invaded
#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #LGBT #SF
January 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM