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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice

@sagecollins.bsky.social

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Mad scientist, testing H2O to keep it safe from supervillains & polluters. Prolly posting about writing, workouts, games/tv, or cats. Maybe about mud. She/her. No LLMs/AI allowed

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 16d

Ice cream orders:

Sunny Ray: birthday cake w/ hot fudge, whipped cream, & rainbow sprinkles. Add more scoops w/ other flavors, please!
Jack Frost: plain vanilla…until Ray adds some toppings
Daisy: coffee
Ski: lemon sorbet
Mother Nature: strawberry
Father Time: green tea
#UnhingedPit #YA #LGBT #F #Q

a glass bowl filled with ice cream scoops and chocolate covered strawberries .

Alt: A collection of ice creams: a sundae with lots of flavors, cones with rainbows of scoops, an ice cream bar on a stick, a cone with fresh strawberries on the soft serve…

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 3h

From A Paranormal Bromance *3*

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 13h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 4h

Blake & Ren continue facing fears on their quest to make Ren alive again. I’m sure Blake’s right, & it’ll be fine…

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
From A Paranormal Bromance 👻🔋

Black text, green background, “battery” highlighted blue

"Stay with me," I say, moving forward now that I can see.

"Wouldn't be anywhere else," he whispers. "Where are we?"

"The funeral home." I imagine we weren't anywhere until there was light enough to see, but now we're at the top of the stairs.

"No. No no no. We're not going there." He wraps his arms around one of mine, as if he can stop me from going down. "Call off the quest."

"Look, I know better than last time and you're already touching me, so we can't be facing the same thing. It's just scenery. Just a setting meant to scare us." I'm not talking about how my legs are shaking. It might be the setting that's creepy as hell. But it might be that there's one of the Lost down there, ready to take my emotions away and use my powers as a battery. Or it might just be Gram's dead body down on a slab, calling to me to mess with it.

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 4h

Blake & Ren continue facing fears on their quest to make Ren alive again. I’m sure Blake’s right, & it’ll be fine…

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
From A Paranormal Bromance 👻🔋

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 6h

Excellent! Your practice pitches really paid off!

Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 8h

#AwesomeCharacters

To me, Sunny’s most endearing trait is how hard he works with unmatched cheerfulness. He also genuinely tries to do the right thing, even when he’s not sure what that is. He fights furiously for those he loves, even when he’s outmatched, which he often is

Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 14h

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

What is your character's most endearing/compelling trait?

What is something about them that you think will make a reader invested in them and their story?

Is it also the thing you like best about them?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 8h

Wow, congratulations!

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 10h

I’m working on the nuances of it, but right now I believe she can sense the person’s (current) match by touch. There may be an aura thing involved, too

Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 14h

Ooh, I like the pitch with themes

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 14h

In this #YA #SF reimagining of WHITE CHRISTMAS, Hale & his celebrity BFF have 1 week to plan a blockbuster episode & save their futuristic-TikTok show, but planetary power outages & weather-system glitches thwart their ability to film. No snow, no show.

🌈 pan MC, trans LI, ace BFF

#DVPit #Q

Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 17h

So excited that it got interest!

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 17h

🤩

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, the editor was totally nice about it. It’s just embarrassing 😅

Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 17h

DR HORRIBLE x STARS & SMOKE x RENEGADES

🦸🏼‍♀️ Kickass shapeshifting heroine
🧑🏻‍🎤 Celebrity villain
🗣️ Unreliable narrators
💥 Superhero action
🖤 Obsessive love
✅ Jumping through League’s hoops
👫 Supportive BFF (maybe LI?)
🎤 Voicey POVs
🚪 Scooby Doo doors
😜 Hero & villain share a body?

#DVPit #Q #YA #SF

Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 18h

When you forget to attach your stories to a submission email 🤦‍♀️

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 19h

HALF LIFE x MINDWALKER

For sale:

🤖 One BOIS-friend, refurbished
😘 Good kisser
🧁 Sweet as sugar, but substance, too
🍿 Will gladly watch ‘90s movies with you
🤷‍♂️ Doesn't know he's an android
🪖 Has never been taken over by his soldier counterpart
😤 May rebel against his programming

#DVPit #Q #YA #SF

Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 19h

The good news is that even if folks forget or don’t know, I think participants understand & won’t hold it against you (maybe even appreciate it). Not like you’ll be punished for liking a pitch 😉

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks! They were some of my favorite reads last year 😁

Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 20h

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS

🏟️ Summer & Winter princes compete to become the next Mother Nature
👨🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏼 Grumpy x sunshine
👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼 Friends ➡️ rivals ➡️ lovers
🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 A touch might kill them
🫣 Love & betrayal
🪩 Winter ball shenanigans
🥵 Climate change (& 💘) melts Jack Frost’s heart

#DVPit #Q #YA #F #R #LGBT #CLI

Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 20h

Why you so obsessed with the human, Tai? 😂

Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 20h

Cat-shaped familiar!

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 21h

We believe hashtag searches are back up for most (if not all) users!

Please search the hashtags #DVpit and #DVart for the most updated feeds. But if you still have issues, use the feeds linked in the quoted thread! Have fun and good luck!

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 1d

We're aware the hashtag searching is down right now. We have reports it does work if you redownload the app, but is still buggy on desktop. We've contacted bluesky and will update soon #dvpit

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 1d

#DVpit 2025 has officially begun!
Today, Oct 8, 2025 from 8AM-8PM ET marginalized creators seeking out representation can pitch their completed manuscripts & portfolios to participating Agents & Editors!
Don't forget to use #DVpit in your posts!
Pls read rules before participating: dvpit.carrd.co

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 20h

Great pitch!

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 20h

WREN MARTIN RUINS IT ALL x SNOWGLOBE

18yo Hale & his celebrity BFF have 1 week to film a blockbuster episode and attract investors for their streaming-to-your-brain musical series. But planetary power outages and weather-system glitches thwart their ability to deliver

#DVPit #YA #SF #LGBT #Q

Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 21h

HALF LIFE x MINDWALKER

Taylor’s not threatened by BOIS, androids made to be perfect BFs. The girl he 💘s, head of the school's BOIS' rights club, would never buy one.

When Taylor learns he's a BOIS-friend, he's 😡 at her hypocrisy & starts a revolution to prove he's > his programming

#DVpit #YA #SF