Michelle Patterson

If anyone walks away from the #ANTM documentary thinking anything positive about Tyra, I would be shocked. I'm profoundly disappointed in everyone involved with that show for not protecting those girls, but Tyra owned that shit. Women who step on other women to get ahead are the worst.

It's sick. And she's not even a little sorry about it. She's a sociopath.

The majority of women have no one looking out for them to help prevent assault. It was even worse back then. It was really hard to hear the full story, because they painted it so differently when it aired. My heart breaks for Shandi.

I'm really upset about learning what really happened to Shandi. Maybe I should have known then? I had such a limited understanding of the breadth of assault back then. It seems so obvious now. The fact that no one will even apologize to her is appalling.

I wish I could say I was outraged then, but I wasn't. Every woman I know experienced the same terrible things, and no one spoke up. No one protected us. I'm so sorry Shandi and Keenyah for what you went through publicly and that no one has taken accountability. I'm sad I ever liked this show. #ANTM

Watching the America's Next Top Model doc, and those were different times. I was 26 when it aired, and it didn't occur to me how wrong they were. It's so obvious now how horrible it was, but we were conditioned to accept that as the norm. People should have known better. Women deserve better. #ANTM

I love my governor!

This brought me more joy than it probably should have 😂

I'm really sad about James Van Der Beek. He was the same age as me. Fuck cancer. #JamesVanDerBeek

I was born in the 70s in a closed adoption, and I have mixed feelings. My birth mom found me when I was 23, and I wasn't looking for her. I see both sides of it. There is a benefit to children knowing where they came from and also in them not dealing with their birth parents' guilt. It's tough.

a couple of men standing next to each other with the words `` you got this '' written on their faces . Alt: a couple of men standing next to each other with the words `` you got this '' written on their faces .

You can do it!

If you love the person, your values align and there are no red flags for you, then there is no appropriate length of time. I think going through a crisis together is a good thing to do to see how you support each other (family death, move, illness, etc), but it's up to you. Trust your gut.

So accurate

a woman standing in front of a phone with the words you have years ahead of you still on the bottom Alt: Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose in Schitt's Creek wearing a red, curly wig and a shiny black dress with the words "you have years ahead of you to collect a cortège od adoring mourners" on the bottom

Watching #SchittsCreek in honor of the great #CatherineOHara. The world is a little dimmer today without her. I'm so grateful for all the joy she brought to the world. She certainly collected a cortège of adoring mourners.

Buffy. I'm sticking with that forever.

Do you ship to the US? My friend's son is obsessed with Godzilla, and I think she'd love some of your pieces. Your art is really cool.

This story is for everyone, but especially existentialists, lovers of speculative fiction, and (middle-aged) women whose souls are screaming with primal rage refusing to be invisible any longer, who want to reclaim their lives. #bluepit #bluepit📖 #A #W #SP #thriller #GenX #existentialism #feminism

Same, except I'm firmly rooted in exploring existentialism and deep mental and emotional pain through speculative fiction and sci fi. I love gothic horror though.

Hey #bluepit, today happens to be book release day for my cyberpunk/tech noir/low fantasy novel, Neon Citadel.

A vampire PI teams up with a wechuge on the run and an ifrit hacker, on a missing persons case that turns into a bloodbath.

www.amazon.com/Neon-Citadel...

#bluepit📖 #A #P

This is a fantastic opening line for your pitch. It both caught my attention and made me laugh. Good luck!

Project title "Ought to Be Thy Adam" with the follow description: "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." Below are three square images in a line that function as a mood board. One is of art of a long-haired person tearing out breast tissue, the middle image is of surgical tools, and the final image has a drawn skull with text.

Ever look at Frankenstein and think "Man, I wish this was queer"? Well, you're in luck! In "Ought to Be Thy Adam":

Frankenstein's creation? 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
Viktor Frankenstein?🏳️‍🌈
Henry Clerval? 💗💜💙
Margaret Walton? 🏳️‍🌈
Robert Walton? 🏳️‍🌈
Saf (Safie)? 🏳️‍🌈
Felix? 🏳️‍🌈

#bluepit 📖 #W #LGBT #OV #TR #H #SP #HS #D #A

Love your mood board!

An open journal, there are sketches of a snake and a girl with a braid on the pages, as well as marker test swatches of blue, green and purple. Photographs are taped into it: a dark haired girl wearing blue lipstick, a brunette girl in a tie-dye sticking her sandalled feet into water, a silo with a tree growing out of it, a snowy yard, a pink rose with snow on it, and a mug of cocoa with a small gingerbread man resting against it. On top of the left hand journal page lies a colorful polymer clay oval with a 4 point star symbol adorning it, and a piece of snake shed.

AMERICAN ELSEWHERE x SUMMER OF JORDI PEREZ

2012, Avira's Jr Year and the supposed apocalypse. Avira's just trying to hold onto her crush & place in an art competition for a full ride scholarship. The catch? Her bff, competing for both her attention, and the scholarship.

#BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #LGBT #PN

A mood board for a YA SFF novel by Emily Greenhalgh. THE ENDLESS HALLWAY. a grid of nine images including a silhouette of a teen boy, a sleek black cat, a girl with red curls, and a golden key.

It's a race across dimensions and THE ENDLESS HALLWAY that connects them all.

When mystery soldiers kidnap his sister, Matt Collins partners with an immortal shapeshifter and a girl with no world to rescue her and maybe even save the world(s) in the process.

#BluePit📖 #BluePit #YA #Q #SP #SF #F

trope map of Demon King Daughter Book 1: Raising the Demon King by P.J.C. Cahill - art by Luigiix! - Comments around cover art are: LEFT SIDE: -"Sincere paladin struggles against corruption!" -"Spunky best friend!" -"YES, we have the adorable found-family sapphic aunts! And one of them's a snake lady!" -"All the romance! Teens' first love, adults rekindling, married couples sticking together! Sapphic teens and adults inclusive!" -"Single mom and magical duaghter!" RIGHT SIDE: -"Evil old man patriarch and demon general frenemies!" -"Positive rep for single parents!" -"Overpowered MC, but power's not the point!" -"Beating bullies with the power of friendship!" -"...and crazy magical powers" -"Kyoka's doing her best! It's not her fault she can kick everyone's butt!" -"Teen Best Friend Trio saves the day!" -"Yay moms!"

Demon King Daughter!
-single mom and her gay kid just wanna live!
-fight the paladin hegemony!
-witches as underdog heroes!
-our world + demons = wow!
-F/F, F/M romances
Print, ebook, KU: a.co/d/c4RtAOj
#bluepit📖 #YA #F #P

A mood board for Ivigh, the narrator for THE PASSING OF EIR LAHREN showing a grid of four pictures. clockwise from top: dark clouds with pink light coming through; an old, foggy cemetery; brooding man with longer dark hair smoking a hand-rolled cigarette; and a dark, stone chamber with rough hewn columns. In the center is a sigil with the name "IVIGH"

A promo image of a ceremonial circle of skulls and long bones with an excerpt from THE PASSING OF EIR LAHREN, which reads: The small square at the mouth of the rear gate is alight. The stone wall is stoved in, mining tunnels collapsed, the scaffolding toppled. The willow is cracked and bent under the weight of the fallen stones. I hear the wind. It gnaws at the broken masonry, coagulating it until chucks drop like searing jellied stock. The runes carved at the top of the wall are broken, what little protection they provided gone. Jutting from the stained earth are bones. Femurs, tarsals, ribs, phalanges reaching, reaching, some still fleshed and naked and accusing. My no-longer-secret cemetery. I stare numbly at the faces of the dead, condemned to unrest so I might have a meal. A fix. For what it’s worth, I’m sorry.

Addict and con artist Ivigh is given an offer he can’t refuse: find the witch damning the dead or be punished for false necromancy. But he shares a dark history with the witch, one rooted in the wound rotting Ivigh's heart and his inability—despite his best efforts—to die.
#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #TR #F

FROM THE ASHES PLAYLIST - YouTube

PERCY JACKSON X GIRL, INTERRUPTED X THE NOTEBOOK
🐉Retelling myths & monsters
💋Slow-burn
🤬Gritty dialogue
👿Angry women
🥰Found family
💪Strong female characters
☮️Self-Acceptance
#bluepit📖 #OV #DIS #bluepit
Vibes👉 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#Q #Genreblending #A #NA #F w/ elements of #R & #H

Book title: The Stars & the Ghost They Created Upmarket Contemporary Adult/New Adult Drawing of a boy with a ponytail from behind in the water looking up at the constellations above

Premise: When a college student with secrets to hide collides with a girl who is used to running away, neither knows just how deep the cracks in their foundations might go—but sometimes the walls must fall for the beauty beneath to be revealed. Comps: Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, My Friends, The Wedding People

Snippet: CHAPTER 1 The monster never gets forgiven in fairy tales. I’ve read enough to know. The grating rasp of my fingernails scraping against the already-torn skin of my fingers echoes through my bones. Rattling. Never settling. The air hums with overlapping sounds—a symphony of incessant buzzing that crescendos into an eerie ringing. I don’t know whether it’s coming from the electric lights that cast a ghostly halo onto the sidewalk beneath me or from somewhere deep inside my body where I can’t see. It’s suffocating. I imagine it’s what being buried alive feels like. Having your lungs fractured into pieces too small to put back together. Or like drowning. But I know what that feels like.

MY FRIENDS x EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD

A boy with secrets to hide collides with a girl who is used to running away, leaving both with broken walls and fractured, but healing, hearts.

✨ upmarket contemporary
🧠 mental health rep
🖋️ college campus setting

#BluePit📖 #Q #A #NA

Crime?
made my BFF a practice boyfriend so I’d become the perfect girl friend to my actual bf

Defence?
twas my only shot at love & relationships; it had to be perfect

Sentence:
threat of losing everything—even hopes of studying Medicine at Edinburgh Uni—if the truth comes out
#BluePit 📖 #YA #R #Q

As a woman with less than half her life ahead of her, Evelyn doesn't want to live with regrets. On her 46th birthday, the "What ifs?" of the past start to consume her. When the opportunity comes along to see what might've been, will she discover her heart's true desire? #bluepit📖 #A #SP #W #thriller