A softly lit watercolor painting of three panels, bordered by intricately painted branches of pomegranate and orange trees. The first panel, in the top left corner, shows both men kissing with one pressed against an intricately tiled wall in the Alhambra palace. One man has rich, warm brown skin and a turquoise headwrap that falls down over his shoulders and coat, which is decorated in intricate golden swirl patterns. The man kissing him has richer cooler-toned dark brown skin, with a white headwrap clipped together with a golden pin, wearing a white robe with intricate gold and red-gem inset details. Both have facial hair. The central painting, the largest panel, shows both men sitting in a public bath, although they are alone, gazing closely at each other, looking like they're about to kiss, arms resting on their legs as they gaze softly. They both have small, damp fabric around their waists, the colors matching their respective outfits. The man in the white cloth has braided cornrows, in a traditional Amazigh style. The man in the blue cloth gazes slightly down into his eyes, with his leg extended over the ledge of the bath, showing intricately painted and extensive burn scars including contractions. A cane rests on the shadowed wall beside him. The bath room itself is a pale yellow stone, shadowed in purple washes, with a central inset section bordered by a pattern of turquoise, dark blue, green, and red diamond tiles, interspersed with white tiles. The central inset part has the same pattern, but far smaller and more detailed. The final panel, in the bottom left, shows the turquoise and indigo robe of one of the men as he walks, using his cane, with his lover's hand holding his back for support. The blue robe has even more intricate swirling gold patterns, with a red sash and gold metal piece tying it together at the waist. A washy watercolor part hints at a garden in the background.

I can finally share my full illustration for @taplingzines.bsky.social 'We've Always Been Here' art book!

It's of two Muslim men bathing in Medieval Al-Andalus, a very accepting time for queer people~ ✨

More details about the illustration and story below~

#SaplingArt #Watercolor #QueerArt

Posting this again - please come join my spy fiction (readers & writers) Discord! LGBTQ+ friendly, open to all subgenres and writing levels #SpyFiction #SpyThriller

KPDH x THE HONEYS

INFESTATION, my WIP about a girl group forming a hivemind through the power of codependency and creepy crawlies, but pitched through funny posts and with no further context 🦟

Tag yourself!! Which one are you?

#MENApit #AG #WIP #H #YA

GODCAT GODCAT GODCAT

A moodboard for the dark fantasy, GODCAT, featuring liminal spaces, black cats, and a magpie's eye.

A cat is drowned by her owner. Reborn as a human-shaped godling, she competes to ascend to godhood for revenge—until she meets a godling who reveals personal things only her owner could've known.
#MENApit #A #YA #F #H #DF #WIP #DIS #POC

A little late to the party. But here’s my #agentsguide for my sapphic vampire novel!

❤️ Vampire marriage bonds
🖤Dark secrets Femmine rage
🖕🏾Black/African rage Ancestral Magic
❤️Narrative that spans 200 years
💔Forgotten memories
🖤Ride or die love

#WSPit #Q #A #F #H

Frankenstein's creature bent over and choking Viktor.

A zoomed up version of the image with black over it and the text: Ought to Be Thy Adam In 1897, after studying corpses and toying with electricity, medical student Viktor has created the man from his darkest, shameful desires. Except guilt forces him to make one final adjustment: female parts. As his new creation gains sentience while vivisected during Viktor's university tour and begins to chafe under Viktor's thumb, a violent death and disobedience leads the monster to make himself into the man he was always meant to be.

QUEER FRANKENSTEIN RETELLING

✔️ Viktor Frankenstein + copious queer shame
✔️ The creation driven by trans rage
✔️ Dark medical academia/1890s vibes
✔️ Lush, gothic horror prose
✔️ ✨Choking✨

#WSPit #W #LGBT #A #H #Hi #Own
(Art by the incredible ‪@ukstls.bsky.social‬)

"L'entrée du prince de Ligne à Londres 1660", painted by François Duchatel in 1660, depicting the arrival of a great procession of ambassadors walking in fine clothes and riding in coaches, watched by a huge crowd of Londoners. Text over it reads: THE DUEL IN 1660: a queer swashbuckling farce.

"The arrival of King Charles II of England in Rotterdam, may 24 1660" by Lieve Verschuier, showing many ships with the Flag of Holland/States Flag. The grand ship bearing Charles II has his royal arms carven on the stern. Text over it reads: England, 1660: the restoration of the monarchy. In Charles II's triumphant wake, a Royalist family quietly returns, but not with their single daughter—instead, with their single son. 15-year-old Alexander—vain, hot-tempered, and warm of heart—expects to strut in as an aristocratic peacock. But when his ambitions are frustrated, he's sucked instead into intrigues of questionable honour and forced to reckon with what it really means to be a man.

"Man Writing a Letter" by Gabriël Metsu, painted around 1665. A Dutch young man, beautiful and androgynous with long blond hair, wears black doublet, breeches, and stockings and a luxurious white shirt and falling band. His expression is tranquil and far-off as he writes a letter on a table draped with an imported carpet. Text over it reads: Pray enjoy this tempest in a teapot, crafted of the purest tropes and set in the Age of the Rakehells, featuring: glamour and grime of 17th century Westminster. goofy action punctuated by primal screams of rage. problematic characters for miles. petticoat breeches parkour. queer mentorship. romantic friendship (or maybe 'tis just gay, oops). boys who cry. a lot. and somehow, everything turning out all right in the end.

Detail of "View from the Mussel Pier in Amsterdam", painted by Ludolf Bakhuizen in 1673, showing a peaceful sky over a ship with two gulls. Text over it reads: Alexander stood at the edge of the deck, one hand clutching the railing, the other fastened tight on the brim of his hat as he leaned out over the waves. He was not much afraid of falling in, though he had never swum anything choppier than a pond. Rather, he was afraid that his Acadian fur hat, the most expensive for sale in the shop on the Kalverstraat, might fly off his small crown and flap with its feathers all the way to water—which, like the sky, could not quite decide between blue and grey. There was no one to see him aside from the sailors and now Klein, climbing up from below. Still, he had meticulously dressed that morning, down to every last ribbon. He’d had a very specific vision of himself when the suit was being ordered: the azure he’d picked was not just brighter than everything around him on the fluyt but even the true sky itself, and he sparkled with silver, when the wind tugged his doublet and loose breeches, and gold, when the little light managed to catch on his sword’s hilt. It was imperative, one must understand, that he look extremely stylish doing battle, should pirates suddenly appear to satisfy his fantasies. And indeed, at fifteen, he thought himself quite the dashing young man—not the boy he was.

Gay crimes!
Trans wrongs!
Enemies to enemies!

Here's my #Own #LGBT #Hu #YA(?) again for #WSPit! A romp through a colorful, heightened #Hi storical playground.

Can one defeat the patriarchs with the very weapons of masculinity? Well, one angry trans boy can sure try stabbing them a lot. #WSPitW

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

To all my Jewish friends: Please know that you are very much in my thoughts.❤️

I dunno if I agree, I think "said some racist shit off the top of his head" rates well below "actually attempted to commit hate crimes"

discord.gg/7tGwE9jj I made a spy fic readers & writers discord. Still small & quiet, but growing! Please join if you're interested

This link is set to self-destruct in seven days because I want to control access to my server posted in public spaces, but if you come across this later, please feel free to reply and I'll DM you a new link

discord.gg/7tGwE9jj I made a spy fic readers & writers discord. Still small & quiet, but growing! Please join if you're interested

Exciting! Maybe I'll get mine in time for Christmas.

Omg, you're lucky! I ordered it as soon as it came out but it hasn't arrived yet - the press said it's on back order? I hope that means Filip sold a lot of copies!

"Burnt Messages"! Hopefully that'll be the one it's published under. I went through a couple of options before I settled on this one.

@pauldavidgould.bsky.social So I've wanted to read your book for so long, but my local library didn't have it and I'm broke. BUT I FINALLY PERSUADED THEM TO BUY IT 🎊🎉

Obsessed with this premise

That art is so cool!

Love the 1930s cosmic horror vibes!

Cassette futurism vibessss

I love that this deals with such heavy and realistic material - I feel like non-escapist material is underrepresented in online writing spaces. Rooting for you!

Japanese-American teen Misa navigates abuse at the hands of a deceased family friend, risking her family's clean image in their culturally insular community—where silence is conformity—if she speaks up

🎌Immigrant story
🌸Coming of age
🫂Family tension
❤️First love

#QuestPit #YA #OWN #Q #agentguide

A nerdy agender experimental art gremlin and an ex-wunderkind roboticist in exile team up to find out why the local tech co is bricking robots and stealing memories, and who's sending weird dispatches from the wasteland that's supposedly empty. Then mutually pine a little.

#QuestPit #W #A #SF #S

Princess Mononoke x Dunkirk

Estonia. 1916. War.
For her being a werewolf means living outside of oppression. His entire crew vanished while he was in prison. Haunted by an army of memories, what is submerged must be risen. Between holy Russia and the sea.

This is a WIP

#W #questpit #L #HR #A

Alt: AFFINITY BY HADIYAH SAMA Pitch: Octavia Butler's Kindred meets BBC's Life on Mars in this YA historical novel with a speculative twist, about a Muslim young man who must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back into the 1970s from 2024. Blurb: Second generation desi Imran just can't understand his traditional parents. They have a chip on their shoulder he can’t quite get with. It’s 2024 and this is England; things are different now, aren’t they? When he's gifted with a pendant that throws him back into 1970s Britain, realises his parents' fears are not so far away. Stranded in the past with a dead body at his feet, Imran must fight to survive the way his parents did... or not at all. Comps: Kindred – generational trauma narratives, life on mars – time travel murder mystery, all my rage - muslim MCs & community commentary, I’ll stop the world – time travel, throwback – time travel / coming of age, blinded by the light – muslim mc, coming of age.

Kindred x Life on Mars
A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024.

🌙muslim mcs
🗡️murder mystery
🗣️1970s british racism deepdive

#questpit #Q #YA #S #HF

A picture of a writing pitch in the form of Netflix UI with the title, the genres Horror and Psychological Thriller, a description, and similar recommendations in the form of comparables: The Twilight Zone, Alan Wake II, Siren Queen, and Uzumaki. The background of the UI is a red velvet movie curtain with a man's hand coming through the curtain.

A MASTERY OF SELF
. ݁₊ ⊹ . 📽.ᐟ
the year is 1938
and something isn't right
. ݁₊ ⊹ . 📽.ᐟ
an actor has lost his true identity in the many roles he's played on screen

- speculative hollywood
- friends to lovers
- eldritch horror that seeks to replace him

#questpit #W #WIP #A #H #S #RF #T

Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible. Text: A Novel By Kelton Davis Blood Red Sand 109000 Words Adult Gothic Western Fantasy Querying Soon Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark

Title: Comparable Titles Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. Text drawn with an arrow from each image: Found family (from the Devils) Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller) Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit) Unlikely travel companions (from all). Background image: same as first slide.

Title: Pitch Text: Corado is just trying to survive the night—every night. Being a nightrunner, one of the few brave or foolish enough to defy humanity's vampire masters to traffic himself and others across barony lines, doesn't make it any easier though. With vampire posses stalking the desert during the day and their ravenous Horde filling the sky each night, it's a miracle he's survived as long as he has. Some of it he chalks up to skill, some to instinct, but he knows that when the dawn comes, the main thing seeing him through the night is good old-fashioned luck. Nothing lasts forever though, and Corado's lucky streak soon comes to a quick and bloody end. After nighttime attack from the Horde leaves him stranded in the desert with a newly-orphaned boy named Hectar, he finds keeping the rest of the world at bay may not be as easy as he thought. Newfound companion in tow, he sets out to find what remains of the boy's family and finally put the whole thing behind him. But as he knows by now, no job is ever so simple. As he tries to escort Hectar to safety, whispers of rebellion start drifting on the wind. With a world free of the Horde beginning to look like a real possibility, Corado must face vampires, twisted monstrosities, and the darkness lurking in men's hearts before he decides whether the world he's cut himself out of is one worth fighting for after all. Background image: same as other slides

SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA

There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky.

Corado's about to break all three.

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying soon!
#A #F #W #QuestPit

Left to right: (Left) A 13-year-old Native American/Māori boy with long curly hair tied in a ponytail. He wears tiny gold hoops in his ears. His uniform is lilac and gold. A lilac jacket with the initials MA stitched into it, a gold vest with purple lining, a gold tie, and plaid, purple pants. The tallest of the group. (Middle) A 13-year-old Black girl with light blue hair styled into cornrows. She has multiple piercings on each ear, including two dangling crescent moons. She has a mole under her eye. She wears the same uniform as the previous boy, but her jacket is buttoned up and she wears a skirt. She has a slight gap between her two front teeth. Much shorter than the boy on the left, slightly taller than the boy on the right. (Right) A 13-year-old Black/Filipino boy who's wearing the same uniform as the previous two. He's added a dark purple hoodie to his uniform. His dark hair is sectioned into twists. He's wearing circular, golden-rimmed sunglasses. A small, red fox is perched on his shoulders.

AMARI X JUJUTSU KAISEN
After stealing her first mission, 13yo Maeve opens a portal to the realm of the 7 Deadly Sins—where she must strengthen the barrier keeping them imprisoned. If only ex-friends, talking urns, and magical mazes weren’t a part of the deal too… #Questpit #MG #F #Q