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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · 18h

Wow wow wow!!!!! This looks so good!!!

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · 18h

the legally blonde reference??? PLEASE I need this

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · 18h

PALESTINIAN X CITY OF BRASS X TPW

Cursed by the blood-soaked decisions of their ancestors, a banished prince, a brooding commander, & warrior woman must save their empire from a genocidal king.
🕊️ jinn & blood parchment magic vs elemental magic
🕊️ sentient sword
🕊️ secret cults

#DVpit #F #R #MENA

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · 18h

two of my favorite books as comps + historical fantasy dark academia + jinn magic!? say less

R.H Aziz @reyinkbooks.bsky.social · 19h

BABEL x CITY OF BRASS
When a peasant tests into the elitist university of Baghdad, the Mongol invasion leaves her with an impossible choice—safeguard sacred jinn knowledge at the cost of the Caliphate or seize power to save her home but embrace darkness

#DVpit #F #A #standalone #darkacademia #HF

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · 18h

EMBRACE THE DARKNESS!!!!!!!

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

TOMORROW (Oct 8th) is #DVpit! Any unagented Marginalized writer or artist seeking out representation is invited to participate from 8AM - 8PM ET!
Please make sure you review our rules & guidelines before the event: dvpit.carrd.co#faq

#writersky #booksky #artistsky #weneeddiversebooks

#DVPit Rules
-#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors
-Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025
between 8AM ET - 8PM ET
-Only post once per hour (6 max pitches per project)
-Must have a polished, query ready manuscript or art portfolio.
-Pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use the #DVArt hashtag)
-A like from an agent = a query request
-A repost from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent
-A like from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions
-Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or
quote-reposting their pitches
-Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines.

#DVpit 2025 has 70+ Agents & Editors committed to participate & boost marginalized creators from the following literary agencies and publishers:
Andrea Brown Lit
Ash Literary
Azantian Literary Agency
Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
Folio Literary Management
Gallt & Zacker Literary
Gelfman Schneider Literary
Hachette
Grand Central Publishing
Little Brown Books for Young Readers
Harper Collins
Harlequin
Hanover Square
HG Literary
Inked in Gray Press
Jill Grinberg Literary
Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency
Macmillan
Feiwel & Friends
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Roaring Brook Press
Saturday books
Wednesday books
Mad Woman Literary
Neighborhood Literary
New Leaf Literary & Media
Open Book Literary
Page Street Publishing
Park, Fine & Brower
Penguin Random House
Ballantine
Berkley
Delacorte
Labyrinth Road
Penguin Workshop
Viking
Root Literary
Simon & Schuster
Aladdin
Atheneum
Atria
McElderry
Sheldon Fogelman Agency
Sourcebooks
Stonefruit Studio
Triada US
Writers House
Zando

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The Locked Tomb Bot @thelockedtomb.bsky.social · Aug 15

Then everything changed, abruptly, forever. Harrowhark fell in love.

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Aug 8

the two facets of my personality #booksky

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Aug 7

Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch – famed soldier of fortune Nicomo Cosca #JoeAbercrombie

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Aug 7

PALESTINIAN X CITY OF BRASS

Cursed by the blood-soaked decisions of their ancestors, a banished prince, brooding commander, and warrior woman must save their empire from a genocidal king.

🕊️ elemental magic vs spirit/blood magic
🕊️ secret cult
🕊️ simmering romance

#questpit #Q #A #F #DF #RF

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Jul 22

DAVID CORENSWET SHOULD BE CAST AS HAYDEN IN GREAT BBL NOT CHARLIE IN BOOK LOVERS BY #EMILYHENRY

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Jul 21

I don’t even ask people how they voted anymore, I ask how they liked the new #Superman movie

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · Jan 13

🎨THE NIGHT CIRCUS but magic painting academia🖤

Homesick immigrant girl teams up w/ hot posh boy rival to win magic painting contest when her scholarship is cancelled…while they anonymously collab on a new magic canvas that could change the world

…and try not to kiss
📖 #BluePit #A #Q #F

3x3 collage of a painting of a girl, two hands touching, a close up for a veiny hand, a painting of someone holding a book, painting of two people holding each other, paint brushes, a motif of a stained glass window, a gloomy tree, a boy silhouetted

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Mar 1

me on severance release day

TikTok video by احمد الدبابة

www.tiktok.com

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Feb 22

I am CONVINCED that whoever created #barre hates all women

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Feb 16

things I’ve learned from #loveisblind season 8: the men in Minneapolis are TRASH & these girls deserve so much better

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Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · Feb 3

Don't threaten me with a good time

Picture of Luigi perp walk with text over layed "Experts warn Luigi Mangione could walk free" Mayor Adams has been made up like a clown.

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Feb 3

THIS IS NOT A DRILL - the everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social preorders just dropped!!! If you, like me, LOVED the 6 deaths of the saint, THIS IS FOR US!!!!!!!!! @torbooks.bsky.social OUT 10/28/25!!!!!!!!!!! *screeeeech*

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Jan 6

AGREED!!!!

Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Jan 3

@joeabercrombie.com out here using his psychology background to manipulate us into loving the absolute worst of humans and I’m eating it up. Glokta?? Can’t get enough. Jezal?? Delicious. Logen??? Who needs 10 fingers.

I’m 85% thru Last Argument of Kings & every damn book in this series has been 5🌟

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CNN @cnn.com · Dec 10

Dozens of Nobel Prize winners are urging the US Senate to oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, according to a letter dated Monday and published by the New York Times.

New York Times: Kennedy tenure at HHS would jeopardize public health, Nobel laureates say in letter to Senate | CNN

Dozens of Nobel Prize winners are urging the US Senate to oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, according to a letter dated Monday and publi...

www.cnn.com

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Nov 24

WOAHHHHH ISABEL you didn’t need to go that hard sis

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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Nov 24

GIDEEEOOONNN

Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · Nov 24

tamsyn muir can teach a masterclass in writing, she’s a phenomenal writer & even though you’re confused 98% of the time, you’re just happy to be along for the ride lol

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rocio📚 @rocioreads.bsky.social · Nov 22

The very first Palestinian family I started to advocate for completely lost their campaign and now have to start from scratch. This is an extremely devastating blow to what little hope they’ve been holding onto.

This is Boshra & Mohammad- a disabled couple in N. Gaza. 🧵

Boshra on the left sitting next to Mohammad, who is in a wheelchair. Both are smiling

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