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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · 23h

A STUDY IN DROWNING x ALL THAT CONSUMES US

A grieving teen deciphers her sister’s journals, uncovering a scavenger hunt through her elite academy’s dark secrets—but the truth could bury her alive.

#DVpit #YA #F #Latine #MH #LGBT #POC #WOC

camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · 1d

A STUDY IN DROWNING meets ALL THAT CONSUMES US in a south-american inspired world:

"A grieving sister’s scavenger hunt through her dead sibling’s journals uncovers a secret society, a vanished prodigy, and ghosts that won’t let her graduate alive."

#DVpit #YA #F #Latine #MH #LGBT #POC #WOC

camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much for the ❤️! I sent you my query mid-August through your normal QM link. Let me know if that's ok or if I should withdraw and resubmit :)

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · 1d

A South-American inspired Gothic Fantasy:

Santa Lirya’s Academy built its prestige on bones. Now Nora Foscara digs up its colonial sins, but the deeper she goes, the louder the ghosts scream—and the harder it is to tell visions from reality.

#DVpit #YA #F #Latine #MH #LGBT #POC #WOC

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · 1d

In an academy built on colonial bones, Nora Foscara chases her sister’s ghost through a labyrinth of lies—but the truth might drown her in its rot.

🌦️ grief & sisterhood
💘 trans love interest
🗡️ an academy w/ sins
🌛 colonial history
🔅 south america inspired

#DVpit #YA #F #Latine #MH #LGBT #POC #WOC

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · 1d

A STUDY IN DROWNING x ALL THAT CONSUMES US

When Nora Foscara unearths her sister’s scavenger hunt, she’s plunged into a world of a secret society, colonized magic, and whispers from the grave—but the truth could devour her before graduation.

#DVpit #YA #F #Latine #MH #LGBT #POC #WOC

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · Aug 20

my #agentsguide for my:
A STUDY IN DROWNING + ALL THAT CONSUMES US + 1870's Southern Latin-America

🌦️ grief & sisterhood
✨ forgotten magic
💘 romance sub-plot (ft. trans LI)
🔪 an academy w/ sins
🌛 colonial history
🔅 toxic friendships

#writingcommunity #amquerying

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thanks so much for the ❤️! I sent you my query yesterday through your normal QM link. Let me know if that's ok or if I should withdraw and resubmit :)

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Ash is 🌟vague🌟 @ashleyrugg.bsky.social · Aug 16

BRIDGERTON x DRACULA x PRINCE HARRY+MEGHAN DRAMA
✨6 ms requests✨

🪦Vampires are going extinct.
🫦Eden shouldn’t have survived his bite.
⚔️Now she has to try to survive his family of Romanian royals
🩸Blood is thicker than water… 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑦.

#PosterPitQ #SPF #R #H #PosterPit

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thank you <33

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Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · Aug 15

THE HUNGER GAMES meets DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a shapeshifting fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything.

#QueerPit #A #FR #F

Book cover with title "The Heart Devourer's Song" and author name "L. Liu" over illustration of a smiling bard and stern hunter standing underneath pink blossoms.

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · Aug 15

When Nora Foscara unearths her sister’s scavenger hunt, she’s plunged into a world of a secret society, colonized magic, and whispers from the grave—but the truth could devour her before graduation.

#QueerPit #YA #F

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · Aug 15

In an academy built on colonial bones, Nora Foscara chases her sister’s ghost through a labyrinth of lies—but the truth might drown her in its rot.

🌦️ grief & sisterhood
💘 trans love interest
🔪 an academy w/ sins
🌛 colonial history
🔅 south america inspired

#QueerPit #YA #F

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kal 🐦‍⬛🖤 @noonveiled.bsky.social · Aug 6

Shadow&Bone + FBAA + Kiss of the Basilisk

🩸feral vampire-ish FMC
🌾Slavic folklore
🔗exploration of motherhood
🪞ownvoices diaspora identity
⚖️ apocalyptic stakes
❤️‍🔥tug of war love triangle
🐉meddling, morally grey gods
⛓️magic as a metaphor for control & consent

#QuestPit #A #W #F #RF

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Lee🍄🌈🍉 @leeiswriting.bsky.social · Aug 6

A political marriage to end a war.

A human princess left catatonic & brimming with witch power. Nymael longs for peace but must find her will to fight.

A fae hunter in human skin. Runnan itches to draw her sword but must resolve to stay her hand.

#QuestPit #W #A #RF #Sapphic

A start night sky in the top right, a mossy forest floor in the bottom left. A torn old page ripped between them with the word Incarnation in purple writing. Antlers and a star adorn the words and pressed flowers decorate the edges along with a yellow moth and blue butterfly on either side.

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Lee🍄🌈🍉 @leeiswriting.bsky.social · Aug 6

Romeo & Juliet x My Happy Marriage but Sapphic.

💍a political marriage to end a war
👑a catatonic princess brimming with witch power
🗡️a fae hunter in human skin

Not all are willing to let go of the past but Nymael and Runnan must if their desire for peace is real.

#QuestPit #W #A #RF

Mood board. Green to purple-blue colour way from right top corner to bottom left corner. Text on torn paper reads lyrics from Hozier’s Work Song: lay me gently in the cold dark earth, no grave can hold my body down, ill crawl home to her.
Pics top to bottom, left to right: a white woman with blonde hair in a garden. Green hair in a braid. green leather armour. A hand against the backdrop of an evening sky and crescent moon. Holding hands. A forest with yellow eyes peering out. A woman in pretty dress. An eye glazed with swirling starlight. The back of a hood figure with a bow and arrow.

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bia is drafting (17.4k) 🫧 @biaonomatopoeia.bsky.social · Aug 6

Upon discovering her latent ability, Renata is taken to the Menagerie. There, espens like her are molded into weapons or disposed of. To escape, she must evade the empire’s most dangerous weapon—but he’s already set his sights on her.

#questpit #W #A #SF #DS

a 9x9 green/blue colored moodboard with (from top left to right, then down): two silhouettes about the kiss, a blurred face of a man, dna on a computer screen, a hand breaking through ice, a woman with her hands over her eyes and smoke around her, an eye that's swirling with light, a lab/chamber-like hallway, a girl strung up by wires, a man wrapping his injured hand.

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el🦋 | drafting🌿 @thatfunkylilfey.bsky.social · Aug 6

ARCANE x JOHN WICK

A shapeshifter searching for their missing sister. A conman searching for his missing memories. When their paths entwine, they begin to unravel secrets long buried in the past, ones that reveal they may have been bound from the start.

[ #QuestPit #W #A #F ]

3x3 grid with the text "MOTHLIGHT" laid overtop

row one: a staircase leading underground with moss growing on concrete beside a sewer line ; moths flying in a line ; close up of spider webs

row two: a blond figure resting on a rock in a river ; two figures in shadow posed above each other's throat ; a man's face half obscured by shadow

row three: a hand emerging from water, surrounded by ferns ; an x-ray of a serpent ; an empty subway station

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el🦋 | drafting🌿 @thatfunkylilfey.bsky.social · Aug 6

a guide to MOTHLIGHT

— an adult urban fantasy for fans of ARCANE, JOHN WICK, and SIX OF CROWS

featuring;
🦋 a shapeshifter
🦋 a charming rogue
🦋 revenge + romance
🦋 dual pov

[ #QuestPit ; #W ; #A ; #F ]

A Reader's Guide to MOTHLIGHT by @thatfunkylilfey

Overview

Ever since their sister’s death, Aeramis—a shapeshifter—has been aimless, moving through life in a haze. Then, six months ago while working on a contract for a group of rogues known as the Serpents, they discovered evidence leading them to believe their sister might still be alive. Since then, the shapeshifter has been on their own, following a path they know ends in blood.

When Aeramis’ hunt leads them back to Bastien, the captain of the Serpents and a man willing to break his code for them, the two of them find that their paths may have been entwined from the start, unraveling secrets long since buried in the past.

Contents

NB MC x Trans MMC
Dual POV
Memory Loss
Found Family
Breaking + Entering
Mutual Pining
Eerie Underground Forests
Urban Fantasy
Queer Normative World
Revenge
Grief
Identity + Belonging
Shapeshifting as a Metaphor for Gender Identity/Expression

Comps

Arcane: science x magic + morally ambiguous characters
The Cask of Amontillado: questionable conversations over wine + leading men to their deaths (literally)
John Wick: revenge in the name of those you love + revenge as a way to process grief/trauma
Monkey Man: revenge against corrupt leaders + revenge as a way to process grief/trauma
Thornhedge: twists on changeling + foundling lore
Six of Crows: banter + criminal pulling off impossible jobs

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el🦋 | drafting🌿 @thatfunkylilfey.bsky.social · Aug 6

ARCANE x JOHN WICK

When Aeramis was a child, their village was destroyed. No survivors save for them and their sister.

Twenty years later, in the wake of their sister’s disappearance, Aeramis seeks revenge on those that stole everything from them.

[ #QuestPit ; #W ; #A ; #F ]

3x3 grid with the text "MOTHLIGHT" laid overtop

row one: pictures on a wall covered in a sheet ;a modern city at night ; books of fairy tales

row two: stone masks ; a painting of someone opening their chest to reveal moths tangled in vines ; photos and notes pinned to a wall linked by thread

row three: close up of a belladonna plant ; close up of spiderwebs ; a person lying down in a bed of daisies

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el🦋 | drafting🌿 @thatfunkylilfey.bsky.social · Aug 6

for fans of ;
— ARCANE + SIX OF CROWS

🦋 NB MC x Trans Man LI
🦋 mutual yearning
🦋 secondary world urban fantasy
🦋 grief is unexpressed love
🦋 revenge against abusers
🦋 shapeshifting as a queer/trans metaphor
🦋 memory loss
🦋 breaking cycles of trauma

[ #QuestPit ; #W ; #A ; #F ]

3x3 grid with the text "MOTHLIGHT" laid overtop

row one: a serpent baring its fangs ; a person lying down with a streak of golden light going across their neck ; an empty subway station

row two: picture frames on a wall covered in a sheet ; text that reads "Every face wears a mask" ; hotel room keys on hooks

row three: twisting trees in a forest ; a person turned away from the viewer with long wavy bond hair ; jaws of a crocodile where only the teeth are wholly visible, the rest is in darkness

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · Aug 6

— a south-american inspired gothic fantasy

🌦️ grief & sisterhood
🗡️ forgotten magic
💝 romance sub-plot (ft. trans LI)
🌛 colonial history

#questpit #Q #YA #F

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · Aug 6

A STUDY IN DROWNING meets ALL THAT CONSUMES US in a south-american inspired world:

"A grieving sister’s scavenger hunt through her dead sibling’s journals uncovers a secret society, a vanished prodigy, and ghosts that won’t let her graduate alive."

#questpit #Q #YA #F

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · Aug 6

thank you!!

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · Aug 6

When Nora Foscara unearths her sister’s scavenger hunt, she’s plunged into a world of a secret society, colonized magic, and whispers from the grave—but the truth could devour her before graduation.

#questpit #Q #YA #F

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