Christina Loi

I was today year’s old when I discovered that there is, in fact, a delightful subgenre on spotify called “castlecore” and now you do, too.

I dunno, it just feels appropriate that LOTR soundtrack started playing on Spotify while I prepped these…

#taters

💕 thank you for that reminder. sometimes, I get so deep into the editing mindset that the mistakes loom larger than they might actually be.

excuse me while I go scream into a pillow.

nothing like submitting to a competition to get you to see a *glaringly obvious* missing word in the opening…

#writingcommunity #why

the good news: all 3 children have mastered the art of tuneless whistling.

the bad news: all 3 children have mastered the art of tuneless whistling.

#mumlife #sendhelp

am finally typing up a scene I wrote out a couple of weeks ago and rediscovered this note (which I’ve no memory of):“THIS IS HUGE -KEY TO WHOLE BOOK”…so yeah, no pressure as I type and edit the next couple pages. 🤦🏻‍♀️

#amwriting #amediting #amconfused

I mean, there is a single light bulb for illumination but still… 😅

Dearest, darlingest WIP, you know I love you, but is there a reason why you refuse to be written except with pencil and paper… and only in the morning’s pitch-black darkness? I am literally losing sleep over you. (and pencils. so many pencils.)

#writingwoes #wip #coffeetotherescue

I know there are many situations much more awkward than making eye contact with a stranger while both of you are mid-cavernous-bite, but right now I can’t think of a single one.

Moodboard for Rooted in Stone, YA Sapphic Gargoyle Urban Fantasy “What will you do with your shadow?l A colorful painted sky, interior of church with stained-glass windows, sillouette of a woman in a dark hallway, a stone angel like found on a grave, drawings and sketches with pencils laying on them, gargoyles, a goth-girl looking feirce.

When a troubled girl falls in love with a gargoyle, and a technicolor hellscape spills into the school, a dark power must be unlocked to stop warring monsters from destroying both worlds.

"Wednesday Addams goes to Oz"

Don't Let the Forest In x Daughter of Smoke and Bone

#2025Pit
#Q #YA #F

thank you 💐

thank you. 💐 I had a little too much fun coming up with “toadifies” 😆

When struggling artist Charlotte discovers she can control minds, she turns her ability on the woman whose tough love tactics are holding her back: her grandmother. But Grandma Philly has her own gifts and a dark secret she's kept for more than forty years.

#2025pit #A #SPEC #H

A collage mood board themed in black and gold pictures. The text Eleutheria is displayed across the collage. From clockwise the pictures are a man and woman being ripped apart, a woman with a finger to her lips, a sun and moon motif smeared in gold, a golden key on an open book, a hand holding a golden crown, a blurred woman holding a skull, a pale woman with a crown atop her head and gold smeared makeup, a gold dusted man's chest clutching a clawed hand, gold snakes among gold vines, a closeup of black leather dusted in gold

⚔️Fate chose wrong, and Alys won't free her enemies from the queen's compulsion magic⚔️

🌙Night witches vs Day witches
⛓️Captured FMC
❤️Enemies to forbidden lovers
🫱🏼‍🫲🏼The weak many vs the powerful few
🌿Nature based symbolism
📚Effects of book bans and history erasure

#2025pit #F #A #RF #ownvoice #bipocFMC

Oh, this is great.

Three by three grid of pictures: a white feather, a silhouette of a woman; a silhouette of a couple, a silhouette of a person with wings before a sunset; a silhouette of a woman wrapped in lights; a silhouette of a woman at sunset; a silhouette of a woman at sunrise; a couple kissing in the sun; a hand reaching out towards a window with sunlight.

SHADOW AND BONE x ACOTAR

When Keira's sister is captured by a shape-shifting immortal, her fate intertwines with the God of Light to rescue her; but an ancient darkness grows within Keira, and she must choose between stopping those who seek to harness it or saving those she loves #2025Pit #RM #A #F

#2025pit #A #F
*Loose Alice in Wonderland Retelling*
When Brooklyn native Katya's pursuit of her missing twin leads to a dangerous and fantastical city- she enlists a guarded Detective for help, as they both struggle with the only truth they can agree on: loving people is a losing game.

When Larkin discovers she’s pregnant after a very out-of-character one-night stand with a man who turns out to be the Greek god Apollo, she must face monsters, vengeful gods, & most terrifyingly, her feelings for Apollo to protect herself & her unborn child.

#2025pit #A #R #RM #F #LGBTQIA #ace

thank you! I had so much fun finding the pictures…and I definitely spent way too much time on it 😆

cranky immortal and smug pirate? Yes, please!!!

From top left clockwise: The Magic Circle on Campo Seco Ridge; the Shasta Dam in northern California; Ishi, the last of the Yahi; locked spigot; two-track on Campo Seco Ridge; image of California Fish & Wildlife K-9 Warden Kat Grant & K-9 Cinder.

California Fish & Wildlife K-9 Warden Kat Grant is run off the road at night, stalked at her home, and threatened at gunpoint before she faces the ultimate danger—an assassin hired by businessmen who want to capitalize on California’s new oil … water. #2025Pit #A #S #T

thank you!

I had a little too much fun coming up that 😆

such a great pitch - and that last phrase is fantastic!

Girl in blue background; yellow sun; girl in purple background; red clouds; hot sun over city; woman in red background.

Candy has hidden her unique ability to shift between male and female her whole life, now she has the government hunting her for the one thing she can’t hide, her skin color. As she dodges the labs, she’s starting to wonder if humanity’s future is more important than her own.
#2025pit #YA #Q #SF #D

thank you!!

oh, the vibes of this!!

THE POPPY WAR X EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES

Can a young woman -aided by her house goblin friend and Chinese guardian amulet- rescue her seven brothers trapped under a spell before her arranged marriage to a complete stranger?

#2025pit #A #NA #F #retelling #groundedfantasy #cosyfantasy