Kathy Woods

@kathyvwoods.bsky.social

Hello, I'm a Dark Fantasy/Sci-Fi writer with a love for video games! Open for beta reading exchanges!

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 A young woman is blessed with magic that could restore life to a dying world. Allied with a mentor who thinks the world should burn, a ruthless noble with her own agenda, and an enigmatic prince, she must evade enemies and learn if she is meant to save the world. #SciFiPit #F #Q #A

Misty street. Legs on a rocky ground. Woman face. A brown-haired woman. A man. A gas mask. A raven. A fence. Flowers.

SUPERNATURAL x GODS OF JADE AND SHADOW 👹(platonic) immortal lesbian nun x bird-woman classics professor 👹road trip across Spain slaying monsters to get nun’s lover back 👹 distilled water and VHS tapes of John Hughes films required 👹Heavy Catalan mythology feature #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

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FIREFLY X UNDER UNFORTUNATE STARS Nyra, a mercenary, lives by only one adage; she will always finish a fight. Her adage is tested when her captain’s and the rebel leader’s mysterious relationship threatens to drag their crew into a revolution. #questpit #Q #SFF #A

FINAL FANTASY X DRAGON AGE In a world full of magick-eating monsters, a young woman with no memory of her childhood finds herself thrown into the apocalyptic conflict which had been brewing under the surface; carrying a millennia of power all others fear. #BluePit📖 #F #A #W

Nyra, a mercenary, will always finish a fight. It's tested when her captain and the rebel leader’s mysterious relationship threatens to drag the disconnected crew into a revolution against the government that hired them to research a cure to a spreading virus. #BluePIt📖 #SF #A #Q

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 A young woman is blessed with magic that could restore life to a dying world. Allied with a mentor who thinks the world should burn, a ruthless noble with her own agenda, and an enigmatic prince, she must evade enemies and learn if she is meant to save the world. #WIPPIT #F #A

A foggy street. A vintage dress. A gas mask. Legs on a rocky ground. A silhouette of a man and woman. Flowers in sunlight.

~ Grathasmere ~ A slow burn romantic fantasy that will keep you up at night! 🌙 Let’s talk tropes + themes! 🌹Forbidden love 🌹”The Marked One” 🌹Challenging good vs. evil ideology 🌹Navigating self-trust & new magic 🌹Reclaiming autonomy of choice #QuestPit #W #RF

THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for. #QuestPit #A #F #W #LGBT

Moodboard 3 by 3 grid of images:
A hand proffering a red apple with a snake coiling around both
A couple in the dark lit only by a match lighting a cigarette between them
A man in a business suit offering his hand
A long chain pulled taught seeming chained to the viewer
A crude pentagram drawn on asphalt with pink Disney Princess chalk and one dollar tea lights lit at each point
A businessman staring at his shadow which has horns and a tail
A man crouched in a cave weeping hiding from the light outside
A man in a white suit and a man in a black suit stand back to back and clasp hands
An hourglass rapidly running out of sand with a skull resting atop it

Firefly MEETS Cyberpunk When a group of ragtag mercenaries are hired to help research a cure to the virus, they're caught in the middle of a conflict between their captain, and the leader of the rebels, fighting against the institution who hired them. #Q #SF #Questpit #A

A young woman with no memory of her childhood finds herself thrown into an apocalyptic conflict. After defending herself from a strange beast bathed in shadows, an innocent man takes the fall for her defiant action, and the world is set aflame. #Q #A #F #DF

MONSTERS INC X NOSFERATU YA Horror Romance When a horror fan’s exorcism fails, she finds that the monsters aren’t just on the page—they’re real, and she must blend in their world while finding a way back to the world of the living before the monsters discover she isn’t one of them #questpit #YA

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Two women make a secret pact to catch a killer. Only one knows she’s always been his target. A detective 🕵️‍♀️. A CSI. A serial killer no one else believes is real. When the CSI goes missing all the lies unravel. Hunting Shadows is a psych crime thriller with dual POV. #questpit #Q #A #T

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ARCANE x BLD OVR BRIGHT HVN x DISCO ELYSIUM 🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad STEM academia w/ 🩺corrupted magic tech/ethics 🩻body horror 🤌obsessive ace yearning 🧠neurodivergence as power 🚨unreliable narrator 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🏆dangerous duels 🌿strange plants 👤& the strange man growing them #questpit #A #F #Q

Image from a medical textbook of a man with his arm extended, skeletal structure shown in part, with the text "an agent's guide to SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines," an #agentguide #agentsguide for an #amquerying manuscript.PITCH: (dark STEM academic science fantasy, 107,000 words) 
When Institute grad student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to prove his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?

For fans of:  the grounded and ugly magical academia of BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, BABEL, and THE TWO DOCTORS GORSKI; the criticism of tech venture capitalism of RIPE; the obsessive acespec yearning, body horror, and unreliable narrator of DON'T LET THE FOREST IN, and the corruption of tech and its makers of ARCANE.A painting in the background of a blond man viewed in profile, head bowed, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull and spine is visible. The text reads

THEMES:
ivory tower classism & egos
manipulative relationships
neurodivergence as power
grey ethics in technology
academic power abuse
consent in medicine
code-switching

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(there was only one bed)Image: a silhouette walking up the stairs, head haloed by a lit chandelier.

EXCERPT from SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines/@gwenvines

This time, though, it was not Six whose face was bathed and baptized by light. It was Bash’s, his lone gold hoop gleaming amidst his curls, the spindly shadows of his lashes stretching over his dark eyes, and the sleeve of his linen robe where it draped from his arm rendered translucent by the sun’s rays. It was Bash who sat atop his regal, woody throne and passed judgment upon Jim.

Jim, his blond hair set aflame not by Kontrolle or diffuser but by the sun’s fleeting gift, stared back, waiting. Unlike Etienne, the King Reluctant, Jim had never been told he was the best. Unlike Six, the King Desirous, Jim had never needed to be the best. Unlike Bash, the King Apparent, Jim had never been the best.

Jim’s calling, his compulsion, was to be of use. That is all he had ever needed, wanted, or been. And it was Bash, now, to whom he wished to be useful.

ARCANE X THE BLADE ITSELF Three people ripped apart by fate. Each step they take drives them further apart and plunges the world into chaos. Can they find each other before they perish or will evil forces use them to break the world forever? 🗡️🩸🌲 SHADOW OF THE ELDERS #QuestPit #P #A #F #DF

Community Troy pizza meme. Tory holding pizza reads "Savique trying to find his family" Bottom fires read "blood feud", "endless drought", "ancient puzzles", and "cultists"Invincible that's the neat part you don't meme. Mark Grayson as Vaten asks When do I get to go home again. Nolan Grayson as Zejela says, that's the neat part, you don't.

NAUSICAA X FF7 A young woman is blessed with magic that could restore life to a dying world. Allied with a mentor who thinks the world should burn, a ruthless noble with her own agenda, and an enigmatic prince, she must evade enemies and learn if she is meant to save the world. #A #F #W #QuestPit

A foggy street. A vintage dress. A gas mask. Legs on rocky ground. A silhouette of a man and woman. Flowers in sunlight.