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A hype pitch event for work in progress lit. Brought to you by @CrystalBAuthor.bsky.social. Upcoming date is May 23, 2026.
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WIPPIT @wippit.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you everyone for making today amazing! I had a ton of fun & I hope you did as well. Keep lifting each other up & keep working to finish those projects, they all look incredible. We look forward to seeing you May 23! To everyone who celebrates have a Happy Thanksgiving! 🍂🍁
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Thank you everyone for making today amazing! I had a ton of fun & I hope you did as well. Keep lifting each other up & keep working to finish those projects, they all look incredible. We look forward to seeing you May 23! To everyone who celebrates have a Happy Thanksgiving! 🍂🍁
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November 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
I wanted to share the artwork I made for #WIPPit to use as backgrounds for #TheDragonblood and #InReverse, since the versions there were desaturated and darkened, with text overlaid. Here they are in full glory.

#Art #DigitalArt #Krita
It's nighttime on Trinity Street in Cambridge, UK, and the sky is cloudless. In the middle of the street, a circular portal opens onto a field of ferns, planted in rows, with a partially cloudy sky. This depicts a scene from The Dragonblood, although some artistic license has been taken, as the scene as written takes place in a dark alley off the beaten path, rather than a major street, but I wanted it to be at least somewhat recognisable as Cambridge. The portal is also described to warp the image of what's behind, but I simply drew the portal as overlaid on the background and fading at the edges. Made in Krita. The scene of Trinity Street was drawn from reference. The Toronto skyline, viewed from Lake Ontario. This is the main setting of In Reverse. Made in Krita, from reference.
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
#ThroughTheCracks: Life in the decentralised, fully automated, jobless space stations of the ALCEFS is idyllic. Everyone gets what they need for free. Yet even here, a couple independent bad actors can still slip through the cracks.

#UtopianFiction #SF #LGBT #A #WIPPit 🚀🛰️🧪🟥⬛
Cover mockup of Through the Cracks. The title is written at the top, and the author, @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social, is written at the bottom, but I would replace this with my name in the final version. Station 14, an ERSSHO (Enormous Rotational Space Station in Heliocentric Orbit), and one of 126 making up the ALCEFS. In the background, the constellations of Orion and Taurus can be seen, as well as Venus, Earth and the Sun. The cylindrical space station has one of its flat faces pointed at the Sun, which if shown, would be covered in solar panels. The opposite face, which is visible, has the space dock at its centre, surrounded by red text that reads 'ALCEFS' and 'Station 14', along with the anarcho-communist flag and the flag of the ALCEFS. A spaceship is currently taking off from the space dock, with a pair of glowing red heat radiators on either side. Around the rim of this face is the lookout area, a large window where residents can look out at the stars. There are more windows scattered around the curved face of the station, which would be transparent panels in the floor, again for residents to look out at the stars. Surrounding the station is the flywheel: two rings, one surrounding each circular face of the station, connected by beams (probably around five, although only two are shown). The flywheel rotates opposite the station to stabilise it. The station is around 50 km in radius, although the image is not to scale, and some aspects like the size of windows or the size of the spaceship relative to the station may not match this. Made in Krita. Through the Cracks -Hard utopian sci-fi -If Star Trek: DS9 had the tech level of The Expanse -LGBTQ+, polyamory and disability rep -anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian, anti-ableist message Setting: The ALCEFS (Association of Libertarian Communist Employment-Free Stations) -Solar System-based space stations -anarcho-communist -values sustainability -fully-automated and jobless -focus on human creations -liquid democracy -near-utopia with a tumultuous history MC: Skylar -37 yo special ed teacher -nonbinary -aroace -has vitiligo -devoted altruist Antagonists: Kye Peterson and Erron Colborne -villains at odds -individual bad actors who fell through the cracks -both ableist in opposing ways -methods: exploitive deals and propaganda campaigns, respectively Status: 1 chapter in, a long way to go yet Check out #ThroughTheCracksIntro for more info, or follow #ThroughTheCracks for random tidbits! Life in the decentralised, fully automated, jobless space stations of the ALCEFS is idyllic. There are no barriers to housing, food or any other essentials; everyone just receives what they need for free, without having to prove they deserve it. And so Skylar is surprised when they meet a homeless woman. A woman who gave up her home in a coercive deal with a self-styled businessman. But that is not all; Skylar will soon uncover a threat from another angle: a delegate using every trick in the book to promote themself and accumulate proxy votes. As it turns out, even in the idyllic ALCEFS, a couple independent bad actors can still slip through the cracks. “Hi Nelly. You like it out here in the gardens? Or just couldn’t get a place in the camping grounds?” “The gardens are nice,” Nelly replied. “But yeah, the camping grounds were booked solid until tomorrow.” “The camping trip really couldn’t wait, could it?” Skylar meant it lightheartedly, but could see by Nelly’s reaction that they’d hit a nerve. “No, it couldn’t, but –” Nelly started, frustrated. “It’s not a camping trip, okay? I just need somewhere to sleep.” “You got kicked out of home?” Skylar asked. “Why not stay at the temporary shelter?” After all, it’s there for people who need a place to stay while they apply for a new home. “That’s where I was staying for the past two months,” Nelly replied. “That is, until I got into an argument with someone there and, well, we agreed to put some distance between us.” “Two months?!” Skylar repeated, shocked. “It doesn’t take that long to get a home approved.” A couple days, at most. Usually they have it done the same day. “For a supplementary home loan?” Nellie remarked. “Apparently it does.” “Supplementary?” Skylar asked. “What about primary?” If you were entirely without a home, Skylar couldn’t imagine any reason you’d apply for a loan instead of permanent housing. “Oh, I didn’t apply,” Nelly admitted. “Why not?” Skylar pursued. “If I did, I wouldn’t be able to get…” Nelly started. “It was part of the deal, okay?” “A deal? You mean someone bribed you to leave your home?” “No, it’s not like – Okay, it is that. But –” Nelly took a deep breath. “You know Kye Peterson?”
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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jcmedwrites.bsky.social
It was really fun to participate in #WIPPIT today!! ELEVATION is still far from ready, but it was good practice! I enjoyed discovering amazing stories and writers all day! See you at the next pitch event 😃
jcmedwrites.bsky.social J.C. Medeiros @jcmedwrites.bsky.social · 2d
CONFORM x THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS

When Maree is promoted to desert city Abacria as a gatekeeper to Elevation—the only way to rewrite one's fate, she starts doubting reality itself under Abacria's oppression and her surreal attraction for two men from clashing worlds.

#wippit #A #DS #SFF
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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onceuponawrit3r.bsky.social
🏺DIVINE DAMNATION🏺

A Touch of Darkness x Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Most would kill for power, an honored place among the pantheon and the promise of eternal youth—but when the price is almost certainly perdition, who will pay?

#WIPPIT #NA #RF
A statue of a man in armor holding up a dagger A woman shrouded in black holding a flower and wearing a crown A statue of Poseidon holding his trident A mood board for Divine Damnation including: a limo, a group of paparazzi flashing pictures, the Greek gods standing around a dial, Mount Olympus, rain on a window pane, a long ornate hall with white marble, pillars, and gold adornments, a burning pyre and an altar
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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annkreeves.bsky.social
Squeezing in this second work in progress: #A #RF #WIPPIT

a devout moon priestess (not) falling for the Daemon (hottie🔥) while saving the world.

❤️‍🔥 allies-to-lovers
🥷 secret identity 
🛏️ always two beds (but he gets cold)  
🙋🏾 dude in distress
🔪touch her, ☠️
👿/🌞 she’s the grump, he’s mr. shine
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
wippit.bsky.social
While scrolling through to like and share I noticed some querying pitches and while I'm not upset, nor will I call anyone out, I want to use this as a moment to remind everyone to check the rules before you post your pitches. #WIPPIT is for works in progress books. Once books are query ready they...
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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roswordsman.bsky.social
Jenni discovers real magic and has a year to prove himself, working alongside new coworker Raph… but Raph has his own plans for magic-kind. Jenni and Raph grow closer; a threat to their society rears its head. Jenni must choose if being w/ Raph is worth risking his newfound way of life for. #wippit
Three sketched characters in action poses. Raph, top, a man with messy dark hair and stubble, holding a handful of blue whisky magic. Jenni, center, light hair, holding a fistful of playing cards in his right hand, stretching his left toward the viewer, blue streaks of magic around him. Frida, bottom, a dark-skinned woman with puffy curly hair holds a walking stick is pushing her hands to the ground, leaping up, surrounded by purple, static-like magic. Text around them is lyrics from AJR’s Sober Up: “and I wanna feel something again. Won’t you help me feel something again?”
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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smoking-gnu.bsky.social
G'morning #WIPPIT!

I present to you a new and improved #Agentsguide to...
CAVERN CLIPPER (Treasure Planet X Journey to the Center of the Earth) #A #SF #SFF
Join Samuel Clark as he tries to find out exactly wtf he's gotten himself into by dying, because none of this looks anything like an afterlife!
Background, Flying sail ships amids obscuring clouds. presenting an Agents Guide to: Cavern Clipper. Status: first draft complete at 117K words Image Credit: “The Stormriders: Steampunk Pirates” by neko1206 on Deviantart. Background, cavern lit up by bright orange-yellow light. The Pitch: WHEN SAMUEL CLARK DIES, HE AWAKENS IN A WORLD OF ENDLESS TUNNELS AND MASSIVE CAVERNS. JOINING A HUNTER CLIPPER CREW, HE GETS CAUGHT BETWEEN PIRATES AND A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER WHOSE URGENT MESSAGE COULD SAVE HUMANITY. 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 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.
November 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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michelleogilvy.bsky.social
Lucy just wants to get through first year university as one of the crowd.

No more talking about her. No concerned faces over her anxiety. No coming out.

But now her crush is living across the hall, newly single and snuggly and Lucy’s feelings are getting too obvious.

#WIPPit #YA #NA #Con #LGBT
Title 'friends & roommates' overlaid on top of various photos and subheadings. Subheading: anxiety with words “Fine sounds less accurate the more you say it” and the image of a woman sitting with her head on her knees and an arm wrapped around them. Subheading: crushes with text “soulmates can be platonic” and an image of a young woman with short hair looking back over her shoulder at the camera. Subheading: university with images of woman sitting on ground in dark reading a book and sitting on the floor, typing on a laptop. Subheading: parties with images of young people sitting on the stairs with drinks, laughing. Subheading: LGBTQIA+ with text “It’s pansexual, actually” and images of two gender-nonconforming young people leaning on each other and a young woman holding a rainbow-coloured heart on a stick and smiling. Subheading: new home with images of two women laying on their backs on a bed looking at a book together with their legs up the wall and people standing and sitting on a set of outside stairs, grouped together.
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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juliemarchbooks.bsky.social
Won't someone think of the poor mega-capitalists? Running a mining colony is hard. Surely a few casualties aren't that big a deal.

Well, Cary Patterson and his squad of outcasts have had enough.

OMEGA SQUAD: a novella, arriving 2026

#WIPPit #A #SF #DS #H?
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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izzygraceauthor.bsky.social
Introducing Scale 🗡️

Betrayed on the eve of her wedding, Annora enlists charming criminal Madoc to enact her revenge, but when her quest unravels the truth of a trade in wyvern scale and a long-awaited prophecy, she must choose between vengeance and justice.

Gothic #NA #RF on sub in 2026 #WIPPIT
Annora Rainecourt would do anything for the boy she loves - the kingdom's saviour - including defying her low-born status and the nobles who scorn her false arm to prove herself worthy. But on the eve of their wedding, Lucan betrays her, and she can't fathom why. So she escapes into the night, her life of sweet smiles and unfaltering loyalty shattered. Madoc Emory is running out of time. If he can't repay the loan on his tavern, his crew - the only family he has - loses everything. So when a beautiful, intriguing maiden appears begging for help in exchange for payment, he jumps at the chance. Problem is, she wants revenge against the untouchable. The Prince's favoured, and the man prophesied to restore magic to the realm thanks to his discovery of Scale, a weapon forged from wyvern hide. Still, Madoc's desperate and Annora impossible to deny, so they strike a deal. His crew will infiltrate Lucan's empire, and tear him down. But when they uncover a horrifying truth at the heart of Scale, Annora is faced with a choice. Vengeance, or justice. And changing paths may just unravel her fragile bond with the misunderstood Madoc, and the prophecy her entire kingdom relies on. Comp titles: House of the Dragon, A Fate Forged in Fire, The Knight and the Moth, Throne of Glass, Six of Crows, A Tempest of Tea Excerpt: Most brides would think a storm on the eve of their wedding an omen, but for Annora Rainecourt it was the greatest blessing she could receive. Because a storm meant chance of a sighting. And what could be more thrilling than that? She scoured the skies as lightning flashed, illuminating the distant castle and the manor dwellings around it in a shock of monochrome clarity, and there — beyond the turrets — she saw her first of the night. Thin membrane, spindly tendon and bone, that unfathomable combination of sharp claws and curved edges, swiftly flying through slick rain and thick cloud until the darkness crowded in again and she lost it. Annora smiled to herself. They always liked storms. The wyverns. “They’re quiet tonight,” she said, staring out of the lancet window as rain lashed against the panes. Lucan rolled on the bed to face her, the sheets draped between his legs as if she hadn’t been privy to what was beneath them moments ago. “Or perhaps they’re beyond sight,” he said, and ran a hand through long, light hair, pushing it back from his slim face. “The view from here is perfect,” she murmured, frowning. Lucan’s manor was on the outskirts of Gaet, the small city of Vlintlann that was home to the nobility and merchant class. The east window of his bedchamber had one of the best views of the kingdom. To the north, Annora could see the long carriageway curving round from the front entrance of the manor to the cobbled road that led to the royal castle — its sharp turrets spearing through mist like the teeth of beasts. To the south, past the gardens and a small stretch of woodland, were the mountains. The looming black rock surrounded most of Vlintlann, bar the stretch of land where the border with Coperlann and The Disputed laid. And to the east, in the distance, Annora could see the shimmering lights from the cramped streets of The Bowl, the town where those without riches in Vlintlann lived. Her old home, once upon a time. Scale
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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izzygraceauthor.bsky.social
🖤 Gothic romantasy
🖤 Lovers to enemies
🖤 Unique twist on wyverns
🖤 Chosen one as the villain
🖤 Disabled FMC
🖤 Heists and found family
🖤 Politics, prophecies, corruption and betrayal
🖤 Female rage
🖤 Multi POV
🖤 Queernorm world

#NA #RF #WIPPIT
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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maholland.bsky.social
THE ENGINES THAT DIVIDE

Sometimes the easiest decisions to make are the hardest to live with.

A YA/NA dieselpunk novel about two sisters, one a mechanic, the other a pilot, following different paths through a world at war.

#WIPPIT #YA #NA #SFF
A mock cover for the novel THE ENGINES THAT DIVIDE, with the title over art of a dieselpunk fighter plane (art by Ryan Li), with the tagline 'Sometimes the easiest decisions to make are the hardest to live with', and the byline, 'A Novel By M. A. Holland'.
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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themissinglink97.bsky.social
In a world where corporations can kill gods, and life is lived through implants, Sophia just wants answers. Answers for her parents’ death, for the voice calling itself god. With the help of strange allies, she seeks to infiltrate the entertainment world to find them

#WIPPIT #A #SF #DS
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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rosemaryvictus.bsky.social
What if instead of a fairy godmother, Cinderella was forced to make a bargain with a dark fae: kiss the prince by midnight or be Jaxis's prisoner forever. 🖤

Also, what if upon learning the magical rules, Cinderella realizes she can turn Jaxis into a bunny? 🐇

#WIPPIT #RF #A #Romancelandia
Kombucha girl meme Getting the romantic kidnapping treatment from a dark fae Turning him into a bunny and forcing him to do chores (I haven't titled this project yet)
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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jcmedwrites.bsky.social
CONFORM x THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS

When Maree is promoted to desert city Abacria as a gatekeeper to Elevation—the only way to rewrite one's fate, she starts doubting reality itself under Abacria's oppression and her surreal attraction for two men from clashing worlds.

#wippit #A #DS #SFF
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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mr0mega.bsky.social
#WIPPit #YA #F
INDIANA JONES X FALLOUT

After a bad heist, a thief must trek across the cursed fields to lie low. But he winds up getting caught up in a race between an eccentric alchemist, a neo-monarchist militia and a doomsday cult to solve the puzzle showing the way to an ancient treasure.
November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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maggiesbooks.bsky.social
BEFORE SUNRISE X BOOK LOVERS

In Barcelona on a sisters trip, law school grad Spencer runs into her ex. All's well until her sister's erratic behavior adds to her mountain of stress. She must decide if a relationship is something she can hold space for. #wippit #a #r
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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jeward.bsky.social
Having a ball writing my new one, a supernatural thriller:

A university professor haunted by a ghost; a beautiful and mysterious medium; midnight séances; and for good measure, an unhinged British royal on a transatlantic ship where it all comes to a head.

#wippit #a #t #m #pn #agented
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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adlinktauthor.bsky.social
🇵🇷Irene's Summer Plan:
🧓🏾Visit Abuelo, but guess what he's evil
🌀Stumble into a new world via a portal
🏝️Learn Taíno gods are real
🌟Unlock her star magic
🦜Wake Slumbering Parents
👻Purify a spirit
💎Destroy a medallion
🕷️Stop a power hungry chieftain
#WIPPIT #Q #MG #F #OWN #LGBT
Moodboard for The Amulet of Kakata, my middle grade portal fantasy following a 10 year old Puerto Rican gamer girl. The story's comps are Percy Jackson and the Olympians meets The Chronicles of Narnia.
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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sillyartcollector.bsky.social
WISHAPON
A teen girl finds a capsule vending machine that grants wishes. She wishes to be rich, but the thing about a gashapon machine is that you don’t get to choose what you get.

✨magical realism
✨author illustrated
✨comparative to Free Piano (Not Haunted)
✨editing in progress

#MG #GN #F #WIPpit
A drawing of two girls in an arcade, one plays games in the foreground, while the other stares at her, about to put a coin in a gashapon machine. Stars fill the page, a shooting star spells out "Wishapon" by Mazie Lovie. A drawing of a gashapon capsule with a shooting star inside, the side of the capsule reads "Wishapon"
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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mr0mega.bsky.social
#WIPPit #SF #SS
Last Voyage of the Neo-Pangea
RETURN OF THE OBRA DINN X CYBERPUNK 2077

It was supposed to disrupt the very idea of a nation. An innovation on the concept of state. A floating paradise where the brilliant could shine freely.

A crew of four is sent to investigate what went wrong.
November 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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lpetersonwrites.bsky.social
At school, perfectionistic Magdalena Erikson can’t stand Kadhir Mandeep, an obnoxiously carefree fellow student. Meanwhile, on Discord, Magdalena goes by Lane, uses they/them pronouns, and is quickly becoming close to someone called Aaron . . . who’s actually Kadhir. #WIPPit #YA #R #LGBT
An eight-image moodboard. The top row includes three photos: a person draped in a nonbinary flag, a white teenager looking down at their phone, and a phone displaying the Discord logo. The middle row includes two photos: a white person washing their hands and a white person reading a paperback book. There is also a text box in the middle of the row; it says, "Magdalena Erikson." The bottom row has three photos: a stack of hardcover books, the top of someone's head bearing a crown of candles, and a white person typing on a laptop.
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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scarletvmitchell.bsky.social
People are spontaneously drowning in London, far from any source of water.

On the case are a new-age priest looking for answers and an atheist looking for a thrill.

If they can keep their heads above water, they may find that their city lives and breathes.

#WIPPIT
#U #F
Moodboard for Child of the Thames, a Mudlarks Paranormal Investigation. Two women viewed from behind holding hands, as one pulls ahead of the other. A London manhole cover. An overhead view of the Thames. A woman's face just under the surface of water. In the corner is a man dressed sharply in a tweed suit and a pinup drawing of a laughing blonde woman.
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM