Wait until you get to write "major deal." π₯°
01.12.2025 17:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@fantasyscience.bsky.social
Chemist by day, fantasy writer by night. My past includes stints as a legal secretary, martial arts instructor, and rock'n'roll clarinettist. Over 50 publications to date, but they're all in science journals. She/her
Wait until you get to write "major deal." π₯°
01.12.2025 17:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"I have replaced all imperial terms with the appropriate SI units," the sorceress said with a skilometer.
23.11.2025 15:41 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks! Now I just need to turn it into a book!
05.11.2025 20:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Tai is so adorable. Love this!
05.11.2025 20:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is it possible to base an entire book on a pun? We'll find out...
05.11.2025 20:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What We Do in the Shadows X Fido = THE RUNNING DEAD
When a small town's high school track team turns into zombies,
apathetic vampire Fred reluctantly teams up with an inexperienced vampire slayer and a high school teacher to protect his food source - er, his fellow citizens.
#QuestPit #W #A #F
Mood board depicting dark, campy vampire aesthetic with a silhouette of Dracula. Headline reads "Who Wants to Be Dracula's Bride" with tagline "This season's to die for". β
A DOWRY OF BLOOD x THE BACHELOR
Holland only agrees to date Dracula on TV to boost her influencer career. When producer manipulation goes too far, she tries to leave, but finds the eliminated girls havenβt been sent homeβtheyβve been fed on.
#questpit #W #A #H #comedy
Dark blue poster background with a cartoon of a pink and silver pressure cooker. Text: ChemPortal A romantic sci-fi Two awkward scientists just want to be left alone to build a lawnmower. Instead, thy find themselves battling time, powerful corporations, and doomsday cults to save the world from starvation. Fay Irwin
If Andy Weir and Ali Hazelwood co-wrote a book, it would be CHEMPORTAL. This scifi romcom with real chemistry features:
π₯Explosions (real and figurative)
π»Science (mis)communication
π₯°Enemies to lovers
π¨βπ©βπ§βπ§Complex family dynamics
βοΈ #Steminist history
πͺND and LGBTQ rep
#QuestPit #A #Q #SF #R
Ali Hazelwood meets Andy Weir in CHEMPORTAL, a sci-fi romcom with real chemistry.
Enemies to lovers, mistaken identities, science (mis)communication, and multiple explosions feature in this tale of two scientists faced with preventing global famine.
#QuestPit #A #SF #R #LGBTQ #ND
Thanks! I feel like I'm finally putting my PhD in chemistry to good use.
(Kidding.)
The title says WITHOUT committing murder. Is it false advertising???!
05.11.2025 18:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Go, Sylvester!
05.11.2025 18:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's all a metaphor for OCD. π₯
05.11.2025 18:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Haven't gotten there yet, but can I guess: laid?
05.11.2025 18:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I repeat: I love this for you.
I also repeat: Squee!!
So adorable. Yet frightening. Love it.
05.11.2025 18:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Woohoo! I love checking science facts. Except when don't know the answer, which is common. Then I hate checking science facts.
But I want to read HAT regardless.
Entertaining myself is my primary reason for doing most things. I hope you get super famous and sell morel merch. 100% would buy.
05.11.2025 18:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A dark-haired, pale-skinned girl looks up uncertainly at the viewer. She is dressed in a dark gray dress with a white collar and apron. βStolen Magicβ is written in white text across the image.
To free a girl whoβs lost her memories to a ruthless duchess, Vreta must reveal her deepest secret: her mind magic. But she risks losing the trust of the man sheβs come to loveβand losing her identity to the duchessβs power.
#QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF
This sounds so sweet. And that character art... holy multi-talented, batman.
05.11.2025 17:11 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The moodboard is gorgeous, and the pitch isπ₯
Want to read.
Sylvester Biskup: Hero, Mage, Greatest Wizard of His Age & Chronically Single
But who needs dates when you are on the edge of becoming the next Chancellor of Corvidβs Inlet University.
If he can secure a huge donation from the wealthiest man in town... who's also his ex...
#Q #A #F #RF
Poor, deluded Sylvester. He needs a reality check and all the hugs.
05.11.2025 17:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"I'm agented. It's no big deal."
(Seriously, I love this for you so much. Squee!)
How long until Smoochpit revisions are done? (I know, I know, they've barely started. But this book needs to be OUT THERE.)
05.11.2025 16:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Dark blue poster background with a cartoon of a pink and silver pressure cooker. Text: ChemPortal A romantic sci-fi Two awkward scientists just want to be left alone to build a lawnmower. Instead, thy find themselves battling time, powerful corporations, and doomsday cults to save the world from starvation. Fay Irwin
If Andy Weir and Ali Hazelwood co-wrote a book, it would be CHEMPORTAL. This scifi romcom with real chemistry features:
π₯Explosions (real and figurative)
π»Science (mis)communication
π₯°Enemies to lovers
π¨βπ©βπ§βπ§Complex family dynamics
βοΈ #Steminist history
πͺND and LGBTQ rep
#QuestPit #A #Q #SF #R
This is amazing.
05.11.2025 16:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks! Gotta sneak puns in wherever I can. And sometimes they even work!
05.11.2025 15:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you! Better than "Still Untitled Story" for sure.
05.11.2025 15:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You're queer-ying! Yaaaaay!!
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