joan is juggling projects

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A movie poster mock-up for aperitif, featuring the shadow of a hand holding a cocktail glass, and the description of first person narrator, young adult to adult crossover, and literary tragicomedy Of

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

A moodboard for GODCAT, an adult dark fantasy, featuring six black cats and one magpie eye in the center.

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

fruitist moodboard by tyler stasi now querying!

#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✨

To preserve my dignity, pretend “experience wine” is a real thing and i DEFINITELY didn’t just not notice that expensive wine got autocorrected

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

a moodboard of a meadow in sunlight, a boy drawing under a tree, a vintage car outside a stately home, a class room with one student looking up, a table of half empty cocktails with one knocked over, champagne floating in an swimming pool, a girl on a stairwell in front of a stained glass window, teenagers in school uniform, a young man in the woods in sunny weather

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

Oh my goodness I adore this

I need this IMMEDIATELY

A trope map graphic featuring the THE DISTANCE BETWEEN STARS AND SALT cover with arrows around it. From top left and moving clockwise, the arrows read: * Non-MC chosen one * Sapphic love and tragedy * Finding your purpose * Sailing across a drowned world * People descended from the stars * Malta-inspired setting

An advertisement flier featuring various sea-based images. "The Distance Between Stars and Salt | A Sapphic Maltese-Inspired Seafaring Fantasy Novel" is listed at the top, followed by two circular images. The first depicts an aurora borealis in the night sky, while the second depicts an overhead view of ocean waves. Beside this is an image of luzzu boats in a harbor. Below this is an image of rocky outcrops within an ocean. Beside this is "There was and there was not, in the oldness of time, a star-born woman and her hapless wife who ventured on an arduous quest...". Below this is an overhead view of a rocky shore. Beside this is a four-panel color palette.

🇲🇹 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

Thank you!

I need to finish it first 🫣

Thank you!!

A low saturation moodboard of: a English village scene in the fog, a woman seated and covering her face with her hands, a dimly lit lecture theatre, an out of focus woman in the forest, a collection of lit candles, a person in a hoodie in a field at night giving the finger, a screen cap of Carnival of Souls, two people facing one another either side of a door, a crow perched on a tree in autumn.

#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 😭

Also she’s my icon for a reason - younger Isabelle Huppert is Julia to a T

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

SHES GORGEOUS

They can be absolutely
AWFUL as long as they’re entertaining.

This is an EXCEPTIONALLY high honour

#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!

a close up of a cat 's face with a bow tie on . ALT: a close up of a cat 's face with a bow tie on .

Perhaps

Severance comp let’s go!!!!

This is going to change the world btw