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lily📖🎭🎀

@lilyshadbolt.bsky.social

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22 y/o author of fantasy; sci-fi and horror! she/her 🏳️‍🌈 currently editing third draft of my sapphic adult fantasy—Above the Sea and Sky https://linktr.ee/lilyshadbolt

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lily📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 2d

absolutely

lily📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 2d

silly sapphics

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #horror #LGBTQ+

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lily📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 3d

#WIPSnips word: loaf

had to break out the fanfiction for this one, literally zero ‘loaf’ mentions in any of my original works🫢

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #fanfiction #hungergames

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lily📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 4d

#QueerPrompts
(avoiding the obvious of putting ‘gay’ for each character)

(ATSAS) Naomi: yearning
(FFTR) Sebastian: pawn
(FFTR) Cisne: angry
(MALEDICTION) Vance: unreliable
(BAB) Lamorna: disillusioned
(WICS) Isleen: metamorphosis

🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 5d

#QueerPrompts October 16: Dictionary Day: What word in the dictionary would have your MC's face next to it?

Graphics: The background is pumpkins surrounding a stack of books. The border has broken chains saying "BANNED", a rainbow saying LGBTQ History, books wrapped in tape or chains, pride flags, and cute Halloween characters.
Text: "October 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font.
Center text is:
#QueerPrompts October 16: Dictionary Day: What word in the dictionary would have your MC's face next to it?

lily📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 4d

#WIPSnips word: might
wip working title: FREEDOM FOR THE ROTTEN
genre: STEAMPUNK SCIENCE-FANTASY

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #steampunk #scifi #fantasy

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lily📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 5d

wip working title: WHEN I COULD SCREAM
genre: ADULT HORROR

#WIPSnips word: care

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #horror #LGBTQ+

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CR Wolfe 🌌 🌊 (they/them) @crwolfe-author.bsky.social · 5d

Introducing An Agent’s Guide to BRIGHTER THAN TWO MOONS, a sapphic science fiction complete at 99k words. #WriteSky #AmQuerying #scifi #queer #AgentsGuide

Text on top of an image of a sailboat on a sea, on a sea against the backdrop of a glimmering night sky. Text reads: “BRIGHTER THAN TWO MOONS | An Agent’s Guide | Adult Sapphic Sci-Fi at 99,000 words”

Text reads: “THE PITCH | Lyr delivers goods to the last of humanity on an asteroid-wrecked planet. When her sailboat’s AI glitches, Lyr sets sail in search of the last scientists to save her. With the aid of unwelcome allies, and obstruction from unexpected enemies, Lyr discovers yet another asteroid headed for her planet—and uncovers what doomed humanity in the first place.

Love, lies, and asteroids collide in this slow-burn sapphic sci-fi mystery.”

Background image is two moons above a dark sea. Moodboard images include an alien landscape; a comet; a redhead woman staring up into the sky; a sailor seated with their legs crossed; and a city crumbling into a sea.

Text reads: “WRITING SAMPLE | I consider the woman in front of me, poised on the balls of her toes, like she’s ready to take off running for the docks the moment I give in; those eyes, so bright and full of hope; and come to the conclusion that she’s not a manipulative mastermind.
No. Thalia Pellon is a naive idiot.
I don’t get many visitors up here, she’d said. Sheltered up in that pretty little house, she’s probably never been hungry a day in her life. She’s never had to contend with the harshness of this planet, the anger of the sea, the ruthlessness of humanity. That’s how those green eyes got so wide; she never learned that it’s safer to keep them down, minding your own damn business.
How did Dara pick this girl?
“You’d really send a thousand pounds of dibizmine to Kojan for the vague promise of changing the future of humanity?” I sneer.
It comes out just as cutting as I’d hoped. She deflates, rocking back on her heels. “Well, yeah. She says it’s going to help humanity survive our new reality—thrive, even. Haven’t you heard stories of what it used to be like on Salvar? Don’t you want that back? Don’t you want something more than… this?”
She gestures down to the land again. Farmers work the field, knees in the dirt, woven baskets strapped across their backs, moving like the slow, deliberate hardback racha. Stalks of tall vegetation sway in the breeze, the sun’s rays catching in their purples and blues, illuminating them from the inside out. Beyond the edge of the fields glimmers that vast sea.” Set against a background image of two moons above a dark sea.

Images show covers of comparable novels, which include: A CLOSED AND COMMON ORBIT, SOME DESPERATE GLORY, and THE BLIGHTED STARS. Themes from these books similar to BRIGHTER THAN TWO MOONS are highlighted, and include: found family, AI sentience, soft sci-fi world, aliens, mysterious interstellar threats, headstrong female protagonists, and a queer slow-burn love story.

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lily📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 5d

all your comp books are on my tbr hehe

lily📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 5d

apparently not a word we love to use :o

lily📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 5d

a woman is surrounded by police officers and says i volunteer .

ALT: a woman is surrounded by police officers and says i volunteer .

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lily📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 5d

my touch starved queen

lily📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 6d

had to scour the wips for this day’s word, and this is the only instance of it appearing at all :0
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