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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 17d
THE ARGONAUT'S SON

The Song of Achilles x The Women

In Ancient Greece, when one man’s dream of family and brotherhood collides with another’s quest for honour, can their bond survive the trauma of war?

#BluePit #Q #A #LGBT #ND
#HS #R #Myth
Sepia toned image of a Greek hoplite warrior walking head on in a field of long grass. In the background, clouds are gathering. Text overlaying a sepia toned background: THE ARGONAUT'S SON - THE PITCH A fictionalised retelling of Sophocles' Ajax In Ancient Greece, when one man’s dream of family and brotherhood collides with another’s quest for honour, can their bond survive the trauma of war? Once his father passes him into the service of King Telamon, Euaristos believes his dream of family and brotherhood to be lost. At Prince Ajax's homecoming, he's proved wrong. But as Ajax pursues his destiny at Troy, can their bond survive the trauma of war? Father complex Found family Brothers-in-arms Friends to lovers Big shields. Bigger egos Sensitive Representation: Mental Health Neurodiversity LGBTQ #BluePit #Q #LGBT #ND #HS #R #Myth 113k words In the bottom corner is line art depicting the battle for Patroclus' body from the Iliad. Text overlaid a sepia toned background image of one strong, male hand holding another's. Text states: THE ARGONAUT'S SON -Excerpt "I meant what I said. Earlier. I trust you." There was a strange intensity to him, almost unsettling. “Thank you. I won't let you down. Your father wouldn't let me.” This time it was Ajax who didn't smile. He smashed the shell against a rock, leaving a sharp, jagged edge and pressed it into his hand. The wound took a moment, then welled with blood. “Bind with me.” At my shock, his eyes narrowed, as if wary. “You are scared?” “No!” Though I knew it to be stupid. Dutifully, I held out my palm, gasping at the bite of the shell, the pain sharp and precise. Our hands dripped as we grasped each other's, hot blood mingling and running down wrists. It was risky, juvenile. But in that moment, it was as though everything leading to that point had been a conspiracy to have the two of us crouched and clasped in the chill gloom of the cave. We were bound forever. Brothers in blood. Nothing could part us. Page showing comparative titles, including the cover of the respective books. Included are: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller The Queens of Themiscyra by Hannah Lynn which are included because of similar Ancient settings, and themes of doomed romance and hubris, prophecy, and fate. Also included: The Women by Kristin Hannah The Judas Tree by Amanda Jennings and The Binding by Bridget Collins which are included because of themes of childhood trauma, PTSD, Father issues, and Forbidden love.
velf.bsky.social
Tories ARE awfully good at partying

BBC News - I joined the Conservatives for the partying, says Kemi Badenoch - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I joined the Conservatives for the partying, says Kemi Badenoch
The Tory leader opens up about her life and career - and chooses her favourite music - on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 8:31 PM
velf.bsky.social
'Seeing mundane images of the Nazis makes it harder to dismiss them as simply devils: They were real people like us,’...
'Take away that buffer, and the bigger question is exposed: how did ordinary people succumb to such a poisonous ideology?'

‘The play we need now’ — share.google/YJ9YAv6jkMhT...
‘The play we need now’ — how images of Auschwitz staff at leisure became Here There Are Blueberries
A drama based on an SS officer’s long-forgotten photo album forces uncomfortable reflection
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January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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ladyboater.bsky.social
Executed James, he was executed after being beaten
January 24, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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djrothkopf.bsky.social
Trump knows Carney spanked him at Davos and is now having a predictable petty despotic meltdown. But what he will never understand is that in doing so he is proving the points Carney made in his landmark speech.
January 24, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7d
They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence.

newrepublic.com/article/2055...
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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The balls on the likes of #Trump , #Musk and Vance lecturing us and the rest oh Europe on the decay of our civilisations whilst this mental shit is going down

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Minneapolis shooting: man shot dead by federal officers was 37-year-old US citizen, police chief says – live updates
Officials in Minneapolis plead for calm amid ‘anger and questions around what happened’; shooting comes less than three weeks after Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE officer in the city
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:23 PM
velf.bsky.social
Funny coincidence, isn't it, that the greatest attack on critical thinking - AI, closure of humanities courses, etc, etc, should come at just the same time we're being told to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears?
January 24, 2026 at 5:39 PM
velf.bsky.social
While a celebration that honours all of the United States, Trump's deliberate provocation: failure to recognise European response to Art5 post 9-11, dishonouring of UK troops, backstabbing re Chagos, threatening of allies... means the King's visit cannot go ahead
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 24, 2026 at 5:28 PM
velf.bsky.social
With 3/4 charities using AI but less than half having a digital strategy in place & ever decreasing headspace to formulate one, this will be such a useful resource.

Conscious AI Campaign for charities.
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#Charity #Digital #AI #EthicalUse
Campaign launched to address concerns over charities’ use of AI
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January 21, 2026 at 1:13 AM
velf.bsky.social
Homegrown sunchokes, roasted with a bit of garlic and thyme, are both utterly delicious and aggressively full of inulin 😳
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January 16, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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MOTHER OF MONSTERS. Outcast Echidna & her family must stop spree killer Harry, who has targeted them in order to prove himself to his father in an inverted retelling of Hercules’ Labors. Featuring a cast of modern analogues to the characters of Greek and Roman myth. #bluepit📖 #A #SP #F #Q
Image from an ancient vase. Hercules fighting Cerberus the hound of Hades.
January 13, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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🌟 THE DIVINE RITUALS 🌟

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A bronze age adventure to attack and dethrone god!

⚔️

✨ Magic as science
✨ Heroes on a journey (but not a hero's journey)
✨ Ancient people doing even more ancient archaeology
✨ Melting pot city states
✨ Oh no, the god emperor is hot
✨ Horse

#BluePit 📖 #A #F #W
A moodboard with the text THE DIVINE RITUALS superimposed on it. The moodboard images feature horses in a field, a salt flat mirror lake, inside ancient ruins, an altar, a skull, hieroglyphics, a desert landscape, a black rock, ancient Egyptian art, and a mysterious spacey image.
January 13, 2026 at 11:15 PM
velf.bsky.social
THE ARGONAUT'S SON

The Song of Achilles x The Women x The Binding

In Ancient Greece, when one man’s dream of family and brotherhood collides with another’s quest for honour, can their bond survive the trauma of war?

#BluePit📖 #Q #A #LGBT #ND
#HS #R #Myth
Close image of the shoulders and the nose and mouth of a marble statue of a young male in the classical style. To the right, the text: "Bound. Brother-in-blood. Nothing could part us."
January 13, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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An immortal guardian of god-magic comes out of hiding in modern London when immortal extremists exploit his daughter’s death to establish a new age of gods on earth.

HIGHLANDER meets GOD OF WAR

#BluePit📖 #A #F #Q
Grid of nine images: old car outside London Town home,man on London’s Southbank, angel statue on a grave, treeless landscape, blaze of fire, Greek temple, man in church, cemetery, sky garden at the Gherkin
January 13, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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PERCY JACKSON X GIRL, INTERRUPTED X THE NOTEBOOK
🐉Retelling myths & monsters
💋Slow-burn
🤬Gritty dialogue
👿Angry women
🥰Found family
💪Strong female characters
☮️Self-Acceptance
#bluepit📖 #OV #DIS #bluepit
Vibes👉 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#Q #Genreblending #A #NA #F w/ elements of #R & #H
FROM THE ASHES PLAYLIST - YouTube
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January 13, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY

When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures.

#BluePit 📖 #A #D #F #H #W #DIS
Book cover for "Mark of the Jester" by B. van Bodegom (author of Dad Bodies). Dark fantasy novel. Features a split jester mask in black and white halves with a red smile on the white half. 'The' runs vertically down the center, with decorative silhouettes of roses framing the mask. High-contrast graphic design in black, white, and red.
January 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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Agent's Guide to KORI'S DESTINY WITH THE MULTIVERSE

AMARI x LOKI

After a meteor crash Kori learns her grief transcends the multiverse when doppelgängers attack. Now Kori must save herself, from herself or risk imprisonment in a time loop
#BluePit 📖 #Q #MG #SP #DIS #OV #POC #AmQuerying #AgentsGuide
January 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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rammwriter.bsky.social
An agent's guide to Time's Signature.

#agentguide #litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #bluepit
January 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSub 2026!)

Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe?

#BluePit📖 #BluePit #YA #R #M
#DIS #LGBT #OV #OS
Editor’s Guide To: The Things We Run For YA Drama Mystery with Romance 94k Words Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media 4/13/1995 Run. What a powerful instinct. Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after. The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden. What we know: -Runaway in Hiding -Fake Identity (turned real identity) -Mental Health Rep -Genderfluid and Pan Rep -Found Family -90s Small-Town Nostalgia At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys 6/23/1995 “The Hills have Eyes” There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy at a school desk, writing something into a notebook. In the bottom right, it says Going on submission in 2026
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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READY OR NOT X VARIATION
Struggling with unplanned motherhood, ballerina Theodora won’t waste her chance as the lead of a new production. But juggling a baby, unforgiving rehearsals and the cute lawyer crashing into her life risk crushing her way before opening night
#bluepit 📖 #R #A #W
January 13, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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celticxpanda.bsky.social
ARTHURIAN LORE X SAILOR MOON

👑 Reincarnated King Arthur
⚔️ Knights of the Round Table as Magic Weapons
🌩️ An Utterly Devoted, Godly Love Interest
🌈 Trans Boy Merlin? Trans Boy Merlin
🪶 The Morrigan's favorite host
❌ And a Mordred that gives you the Biggest Ick

#BluePit📖 #NA #Q #F #LGBT
moodboard for She is King including art by ariasama_ and tactictiankate
January 13, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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akiwitch.bsky.social
David and Wallace run a magical anomaly investigation agency. It's become routine for them, but a simple job with a new employee will test everything - their own abilities and their friendship. After all, who could prepare for demons?

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #F #A #OnSub
A moodboard for Summoning Trouble. It has a picture of the city at night in the rain, potion bottles, two cups of coffee, a magnifying glass on top of old books, and sunlight coming through trees
January 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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JEWISH BLUEBEARD + FEMINIST TWIST

Promised to a witch before her birth, Talia must now spend a year with the woman to pay off her parent's debt. But with demons threatening to steal her away, The "witch" might just be Talia's best hope at keeping her head. #BluePit #W #YA #F 📖
Jewish fantasy mood board featuring demons and crows
January 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM