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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 1h

I have tres leches cakes, #DvPit was a blast, and it’s payday so shelves are stocked.

It’s been a lovely Wednesday. 💜💜

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 1h

Love these comps

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 3h

I love your art!

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 3h

Love!

Crystal Cervantes @crystalcervantes.bsky.social · 3h

Dia De Los Muertos x Pirates of the Caribbean
A terrible thief & a dying prince turn to an apocryphal map, promising a treasure that grants a wish. Now they’re being hunted by a Malvado beast that demands retribution. #DVPit #A #F #POC

🏴‍☠️Colonization
🇲🇽 Mesoamerica
💀Santa Muerte
💤 Dreamwalking

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 3h

Awesome!

A.H. Noelle @ashylespeltweird.bsky.social · 14h

AMARI X THE ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE

Monster hunter in training, Rainey is ready to secure her place at the world’s elite hunter school. But after discovering she’s part monster, Rainey must travel to the beasts’ realm to locate a cure & reclaim her spot b4 the hunters find her first!
#DVpit #F #MG

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 3h

Awesome!

🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 3h

Jumanji + Hijabis + Dragons

There’s nothing 15yo Rameela loves more than riding dragons in her fave VR game

But when a stranger gives her a new controller, she finds herself IN the game

The longer she’s inside the harder it is to escape

Will her obsession trap her forever?

#DVPIT #YA #LGBT #MV

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 4h

Jumanji + Hijabis + Dragons

Riding dragons and defeating foes becomes all too real when an enchanted VR controller drags 15yo Rameela into her favorite video game

Now, her growing obsession w/ the game threatens to ruin her friendship and trap her inside the game forever

#DVPIT #YA #F #LGBT #MV

🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 4h

🎵🎵

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you 🥹

🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 5h

This sounds so good. Best of luck!

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 5h

Jumanji + Hijabis + Dragons

There’s nothing 15yo Rameela loves more than riding dragons in her fave VR game

But when a stranger gives her a new controller, she finds herself IN the game

The longer she’s in, the harder it is to escape

Will her obsession trap her forever?

#DVPIT #YA #LGBT #MV

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 7h

Jumanji + Hijabis + Dragons

Riding dragons and defeating foes becomes all too real when an enchanted VR controller drags 15yo Rameela into her favorite video game

Now, her growing obsession w/ the game threatens to ruin her friendship and trap her inside the game forever

#DVPIT #YA #F #LGBT #MV

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 12h

This is so interesting

And I’m loving the 15yo fmc love. 15 is such a formative age and this story sounds fantastic

Layemi | Writer @layemi.bsky.social · 12h

What if your insecurities could kill you?
Like every girl, 15 year old Winifred in Nigeria must confront a spirit that preys on self-doubt and kills the unworthy.
Guided by the wisdom of survivors & lessons from the perished, she must discover her true strength before it claims her life.
#DVPit

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 13h

I love these comps. 👏👏👏

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 13h

👏👏👏

🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 13h

This sounds very interesting!

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 13h

👏👏👏

Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · 13h

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

🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 13h

Me too!

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you 🥹

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 13h

The feed is working

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 13h

Oh good it’s working 😭😭😭

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 13h

I’m team kiII it!

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 13h

Magical books
Alternate realms
Strong fmc

I love everything about this

Rawiya Beirut | راوية بيروت @rawiyabeirut.bsky.social · 14h

Death is never the end.
Guided by a magical tome, Almas reawakens in new realms upon completion of her missions. But when Almas wakes in a war-torn country, the book goes silent, leaving her to face an ancient evil alone. This time, if she fails, her death—& the realm’s—is certain. #DVpit #F #A

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🦙Vianna Arenas (she/they)🦙 @viannawrites.bsky.social · 13h

Muslim Gothic Horror?

Yes
Yes
And yes

Kristen M. Kareem @kristenmkareem.bsky.social · 13h

☠️👻THE LOST GIRLS OF ROANOKE👻☠️is a speculative take on Andrew Lawler’s research of early Muslims left on Roanoke. What if instead of building up a quaint settlement like they were ordered, they built something horribly clever?

#MV #A #YA #HF #H #DVPit #Horror #upmarket #speculative #gothic

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