POOR THINGS meets HIS DARK MATERIALS After the crowning of a new king leaves them destitute, two students hatch an elaborate hoax based on their shared alchemist ancestor to win back favour (and money) from the occult-obsessed crown. #W #A #LF #S #questpit

Medical report for the most normal, well looked after, heterosexual young man with a completely normal relationship to alcohol, I promise. And the protagonist of APERITIVO, aka what if Holden Caulfield was left alone in Saltburn for a summer. #unhingedpit #ya + #a crossover #lgbt #w

💙MARTYR! x THE SHAPE OF WATER 💙 A young artist must figure out what draws—and keeps— her mother in the local pond to save her from the town's ostracization. But the water calls out to her, too... #questpit #q #a #u #f

Our lonely, lovesick narrator, invisible to his eccentric family, invites his best friend and her older brother to his huge English country house one summer,and finds the more freedom he’s given, the less he knows who he is - and that happiness is swiftly followed by grief. #A #LF #W #Questpit

If you didn’t know, I have a discord server specifically for writers of literary fiction - please just say the word if you’re interested in joining!

SALTBURN X CATCHER IN THE RYE After being left without any adult supervision, a closeted teenage boy invites his best friend and her brother to his abandoned family estate for the summer. #QuestPit #YA #LF #HFic #WIP

PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN A murdered cat becomes a human and tries to ascend to godhood for revenge. But in limbo, rage isn't enough to survive. 🔪 Revenge plot 🏚️Liminal Spaces 🐈‍⬛Cat POV 🎭 Unreliable narrator ☠️ Body horror #Questpit #A #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC

#QuestPit #S #H #Q #F PIRANESI x Severance x THE GARDEN When memory-erasing fruits begin to disappear, a woman in an endless Greenhouse will go to harrowing lengths to keep her past from resurfacing. ⚜️epistolary ⚜️territorial women ⚜️slow burn horror ✨with editor interest✨

Typo on my questpit post…and it’s too late…

Tragicomic SALTBURN but it’s 1989 Left with a cellar full of experience wine without adult supervision, one 17yo boy invites his best friend - and her beautiful elder brother - to his grandfather’s otherwise empty estate for an unwieldy, decadent summer. #YA #U #LF #HFic #questpit

THE GREAT BEYOND Ruby, the daughter of a celebrated 1930s spirit medium, falls in love with the man trying to debunk her mother and must make a life-changing decision about who – and what – to believe. 🕯️Upmarket #HF 🕯️Faith vs illusion vs fraud 🕯️Knotty mother–daughter relationship #QuestPit #Q

🇲🇹 WIND WAKER x THE TIGER'S DAUGHTER A mortal woman returns from a dangerous quest—alone. To tell her island community what happened, she must eulogize her starborn wife, whose sacrifice saved their world, and navigate the churning waters of grief. Out this summer! #BluePit📖 #A #F #LGBT #TR #W

#BluePit 📖 #M #A #OV #LGBT #WF A lonely middle-aged academic falls under suspicion after her best student vanishes - but proving her innocence is complicated with her growing connection to her rival’s unconventional daughter. An age gap lesbian love story within a dark academia mystery.

#BluePit 📖 #DIS #LGBT #NA #WIP LESS THAN ZERO meets ADRIAN MOLE. Somehow. our closeted, depressed and religiously troubled narrator invites his volatile best friend and her beautiful Oxford-bound brother to one last summer in his grandfather’s lavish estate - what could go wrong?

#BluePit 📖 #Hs #DIS #WF #OV #A Hamlet, if narrated by a Richard Papen-esque Ophelia and set in bleak late 1970s England. 🕯️Majority neurodivergent cast 🕯️A crumbling gothic manor 🕯️ Platonic bonds that aren’t quite friendship 🕯️A narrator who is just SO reliable, she promises 🕯️many, many cats

Hate to take the student bit out my bio but I’ve not dropped out it’s just on hold because of work 😭

Not officially doing #castpit because I don’t know my actors that well but fwiw, I did get told this

Hamlet, if narrated by a Richard Papen-esque Ophelia and set in bleak late 1970s England. 🕯️ aromantic, autistic, TOTALLY reliable narrator 🕯️ a crumbling gothic manor 🕯️ majority neurodivergent and often queer cast 🕯️ cats, everywhere #questpit #A #LF #W

#DVPit #H #ND #DIS #MH #LGBT My English small town gothic horror is perfect for fans of: 🥀Shirley Jackson 🥀David Lynch 🥀Yellowjackets 🥀Wuthering Heights 🥀Post-punk music 🥀The 1980s depicted as un-nostalgically as possible

#DVPit #H #ND #DIS #MH #LGBT Tropes in my British TWIN PEAKS x SHARP OBJECTS horror: ❤️ Childhood friends to lovers (but not quite) ☠️ Toxic female friendships 😡 Female rage 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨Pathetic man, unhinged woman 🥀Dark cottagecore 🏳️‍🌈Messy queer representation

#DVPit #A #H #LGBT #Dis #MH #NDA TWIN PEAKS x SHARP OBJECTS 🪰 bisexual FMC + autistic MMC 🪰 girls who haunt the narrative 🪰 small mining town gothic 🪰 homage to the goth subculture 🪰 messy relationships all around 🪰 motifs of rot and decay 🪰 upmarket psychological horror at 90k words!

I just finished beta reading this today, and I’m rooting for it so so so much

elif ⚡@rydeen1997.bsky.social · 11mo ago

BOOK OF LOVE x JUNE FARROW Want to draw your mother for your portfolio? Get her out the pond first... if you're good enough. 🧜 complex mother-daughter relationships 🧜 small-town dread 🧜 majority female cast 🧜 battles w/ self-esteem 🧜 an artist's coming of age #DVPit #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

Violet returns to her quaint Cotswolds hometown after the inexplicable disappearance of her childhood best friend turned bitter enemy - to find that things aren’t quite how she remembered, and that she’s left a far, far deeper wound on the town than she ever imagined. #A #H #DIS #MH #LGBT #DVPit

Litfic writers of bluesky. Are you out there. Please. #writersky #writersofbluesky

WIND WAKER x THE TIGER'S DAUGHTER A woman stuck in her wife's shadow seeks her own identity and purpose while sailing across her drowned world to help fight a cosmic force intent on devouring all life. #F #A #LGBT #preDV

A viral Substack essayist interviews a media-darling YouTuber—and publicly dismantles him. It should end there. But now he's texting. And she can’t stop watching the footage. A chronically online, sexually frustrated enmity with teeth. #A #LF #BVM #PreDV

Yes - I would hate to see someone write my job inaccurately and have put down books for that reason and I would hate to the That Person

Susan Savage Lee@susansavagelee.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Do you think it’s important to get your MC’s occupation right? To me, their occupation is a part of who they are, so yes, it’s important to figure out #writingq #WritingCommunity

HAMLET X THE SECRET HISTORY X PALE FIRE 🕯️Majority neurodivergent cast 🕯️A crumbling gothic manor 🕯️ Platonic bonds that aren’t quite friendship 🕯️A narrator who is just SO reliable, she promises 🕯️many, many cats #A #LF #ND #DIS #MH #LGBT #PreDV

When a beloved children’s book author dies, her son and executor unearths a horrific secret that sends his world crashing down - as narrated by his unassuming childhood friend with dark secrets of her own. #preDV #A #MH #DIS #LGBT #ND

When a nymph disappears to the local pond with no intention to leave, her daughter must put everything on the line to save her—from both the owner who wants to dry the pond and the town that wants them gone for good. #preDV #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT