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PicantePit 🌶 @picantepit.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hola mi gente!

#writingcommunity we finally decided to come to Bluesky and will be hosting on both X and on here.

Keep an eye on this page for the next coming weeks!

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leila 🪲 @leilacs.lesbian.cat · May 7

THE LAMB x HANNIBAL

When her charming new neighbor breaches Amanda’s longterm solitude, she’s immediately addicted to her company. Nevermind that the meat Margot cooks tastes weird and Amanda feels watched all the time, even through her locked doors.

#QuestPit #A #H #W

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leila 🪲 @leilacs.lesbian.cat · May 7

TIME WAR x TUA

NEW MISSION: Find your fugitive ex-lover and eliminate her.

⌛️ time-traveling criminal organization
🧪 butchfemme partners to friends to lovers to enemies to
🩻 physical effects of longterm time travel
💫 morally grey cast
♟️ She Got Away

#questpit #A #SF #W

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leila 🪲 @leilacs.lesbian.cat · Apr 14

i feel like my brand is lesbians… lesbian cannibals lesbian vampires lesbian time travellers lesbian necromancers…..

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leila 🪲 @leilacs.lesbian.cat · Apr 14

can i interest anyone in lesbian vampires?

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leila 🪲 @leilacs.lesbian.cat · Mar 31

going back to writing!!! i’m going to finish this book and query it or else-

leila 🪲 @leilacs.lesbian.cat · Feb 14

every shitty situation i go through is more ammunition for putting my characters through the ringer

leila 🪲 @leilacs.lesbian.cat · Feb 14

trying to balance having stitches in my belly + psoriasis flare up + my meds being delayed with my writing i am one step away from becoming the joker

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leila 🪲 @leilacs.lesbian.cat · Feb 13

thank you everyone for the support during questpit yesterday 🖤🖤 it’s always so much fun!!! and it was nice participating in it here

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Jacob Foster (Querying) @fosterja8.bsky.social · Feb 12

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP

A retired explorer, torn between the fear of losing his wife and a desire to return to the wild, fixates on a towering, imprisoned forest.
Driven by an esoteric rumour, he heads for the forest.

And he will regret every choice from then on...
#questpit #W #SF #T #agentsguide

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Jeannette Lane is querying @cjtruwriter.bsky.social · Feb 12

NINTH HOUSE x A LESSON IN VENGEANCE
Aster would do anything to be the best writer the world has seen— even if it means spilling her blood to commune with the greats that came before her and losing the ones she loves the most.

#Q #A #DF #PR #QuestPit

A Victorian house, a dark forest, a woman with a mirror for a face, a fawn, moths with flowers, a university gate, words on a page, and a university library

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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · Feb 12

A genre-blending #YA #dystopian with horror and fantastical elements

📺 Ace/OCD rep
🩸 Effort today = Prosperity Tomorrow
📺 Voyeuristic Audience
🩸 Productivity Culture
📺 Traps & Twists & Trysts
🩸 A minute wasted is a future lost.
📺 Fast-paced + high stakes

#questpit #q #sff

6 images in a collage: dilapidated house in the woods; creepy woods; old iron gate to abandoned house; creepy old stairway; woman looking in broken mirror; red words ON AIR

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char 𖤓 @charyoung.bsky.social · Feb 12

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#questpit #Q #A #LF #MY

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS aka devilswip. in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

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Jessie Thomas @jessiethomasauthor.bsky.social · Feb 12

SAPPHIC POE REIMAGINING x CRIMSON PEAK

In 1880s Buffalo, NY, Madeline Montresor reunites with her lover in the hope of putting her house’s many ghosts to rest. As a gruesome past haunts them, they must escape the specter of Death when a killer unexpectedly resurfaces.

#questpit #A #HF #LGBT #W

A sepia/gray toned gothic collage. It features a dark haired woman holding a candle, a ghostly hand reaching from inside an elegant mirror, a pair of ravens touching their beaks while perched on a branch in front of a stately house, a translucent white ghostly woman dancing through a Victorian parlor, a closeup of a ouija board, and two women in a romantic embrace touching their foreheads together.

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leila 🪲 @leilacs.lesbian.cat · Feb 12

lesbian psychological horror with

🥩queer obsession&psych dynamic of hannibal
🫀girlhood&female desire of the lamb
🥀cannibalism as family trauma of bones and all
🔪unreliable narrator of eileen
🪦mommy issues&eating disorder exploration of milk fed

(ft meta board w inspo)

#QuestPit #W #A #H

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leila 🪲 @leilacs.lesbian.cat · Feb 12

THE LAMB x BONES AND ALL

Clementine ate her mother when she was eight, and she’s been starving ever since.

🥩cannibalism as a metaphor for shame and desire
🥩fix her? i can make her worse
🥩women’s wrongs
🥩motherhood&girlhood
🥩catholic guilt&religious trauma

#QuestPit #W #A #H

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Grace Morrow @realgmorrow.bsky.social · Feb 12

SOC X ALL OF US VILLIANS

The Regime's most ruthless criminals are forced into a deadly competition where the winner will become a rare magic user and the next leading Saint.

🃏Multiple POVs
⛓️Found family
💣Let's burn this place to the ground

#questpit #AG #OS #YA #F|

3x3 rows of photos. Row starting left to right, top row to bottom row.
Row 1: Picture 1: Bruised mouth and full red lips.
Picture 2: Oppulant Victorian sitting room. Picture
3: Old cityscape.
Row 2: Picture 1: Barrels lined up. Picture 2: Text that says "What survived may not be kind, but it's me." with a drawing of a dagger. Picture 3: Outline of a man getting struck by lightning.
Row 3: Picture 1: Silhouette of a man bracing against a wall. Picture 2: Roulette table and wheel. Picture 3: Old street light framed by domed building.

Painting of an Angel with the text: "May the Saints watch you and the Devil fear to tread after you.
Let the winner of the Nazhda be worthy of the Angels."
• A GAME OF SINNERS AND SAINTS•
@ REALGMORROW

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leila 🪲 @leilacs.lesbian.cat · Feb 12

NINTH HOUSE x LISA FRANKENSTEIN

Med student by day, necromancer by night, Poppy Ferreira must team up with longtime rival Roman Xu to find out who (or what) is using forbidden knowledge to kill people on campus, or risk being next—and having her past come out.

#QuestPit #W #A #DF

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Allie Nguyen (updates only) @alliewritesalot.bsky.social · Feb 12

A princess traps a shaman in marriage to exploit his spirit sight while he tries to sabotage her. But when the spirit world turns hostile, they must work together to save those they love.

🇻🇳 Viet myth x Ghibli
🪭 Evil genius FMC
🎭 Trickster MMC

#questpit #W #F #YA (crossover)

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Sabrina is editing a portal romantasy ✨ @sabrinamars.bsky.social · Feb 12

When Kassidy is ripped from her world and thrown into a realm of magic and monsters, there's really only one rule, and that is under absolutely no circumstances can she fall in love with the daemon prince.

#questpit #ya #rf #w

Screenshot of text over a snowy castle landscape. The text is a snippet of a manuscript. It says: He scoffed. “You’ve been out here long enough.” He pivoted toward the castle and waved his hand for her to follow. “Come on inside.”
“Make me.”
Rio stopped mid-step away and looked back over his shoulder at her. “Excuse me?”
Kassidy lifted her chin, her breath clouding in front of her as her nostrils flared. He could tell part of her regretted uttering it, but he also knew that stubborn-ass attitude made her commit to it and double down. “Make. Me.”

Drawing of two people arguing while one is very casual and the other is visibly enraged

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Feb 12

Choose your character!

🌿Olena Thunderchild✨

background: bastard to a greedy king
abilities: (meant to be extinct) bone breaker*
charisma: talks too much, stubborn, snarky
task: obtain a ‘cure’ from dragon

*the ability to bargain with the dead by snapping their bones
#questpit #Q #YA #F

olena: a very pale 15 year old girl who looks incredibly tired. she has dark hair under a silk scarf that’s covered in art of lions and dragonflies. she’s wearing a dark blue cloak and dark dress and is fiddling with a bone.

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ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Feb 12

A grief-torn healer, bent on vengeance against the god who claimed all she loved in death and decay, uses her craft to infiltrate the god’s court—entangling with a haunted heir, plagued by fated dreams of her arrival, who will stop at nothing to unearth her purpose.

#questpit #w #f #r #a

The House of Hemlock

A WORK IN PROGRESS

ONE DARK WINDOW meets STARLING HOUSE in this gothic dual POV adult romantic fantasy steeped in grief-torn promises, fate-bound strangers, and simmering tensions-where a house watches, gods scheme, and rot runs deep.

The Opening

There was truth in blood—meant to spill, drain life, stain the earth, and leave death grinning in its wake.
The first gods knew it. They shaped the earth with rivers of it, winding red veins through stone and moss, tangling it into the roots of trees that cracked the sky open with their branches.
Blood was the first language, the thread stitching life to decay, shadow to light. It was the beginning and the end, the thread through all things. It sang louder than prayers and bound tighter than oaths.
It was promise and debt, offering and curse.
The gods demanded it-again and again—until the earth grew slick, not with dew, but with what they were owed.
But even gods forget. They never asked what would become of blood left too long untended.
It rots. It rises. It remembers.

The Vibes

•Cursed magic and creeping rot (One Dark Window)
•Haunted by prophetic visions (A Study in Drowning)
•Nature’s eerie obedience (For the Wolf)
•Gothic atmosphere and simmering tension (Down Comes the Night)
•Sentient manor hiding secrets (Starling House)
•Healing that defies the natural order (The Thirteenth Child)
•Connection to death (Belladonna)

A dark, spooky, nature-inspired gothic mood board

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