joan is REVISING #seventiesgothic 🐦‍⬛

Litfic writers of bluesky. Are you out there. Please. #writersky #writersofbluesky

Cutesy coffee shop fiction my beloathed

WIND WAKER x THE TIGER'S DAUGHTER

A woman stuck in her wife's shadow seeks her own identity and purpose while sailing across her drowned world to help fight a cosmic force intent on devouring all life.

#F #A #LGBT #preDV

A viral Substack essayist interviews a media-darling YouTuber—and publicly dismantles him. It should end there. But now he's texting. And she can’t stop watching the footage.

A chronically online, sexually frustrated enmity with teeth.

#A #LF #BVM #PreDV

I might be able to start tomorrow…

Yes - I would hate to see someone write my job inaccurately and have put down books for that reason and I would hate to the That Person

I’m SO excited to read btw

HAMLET X THE SECRET HISTORY X PALE FIRE

🕯️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

#A #LF #ND #DIS #MH #LGBT #PreDV

When a beloved children’s book author dies, her son and executor unearths a horrific secret that sends his world crashing down - as narrated by his unassuming childhood friend with dark secrets of her own.

#preDV #A #MH #DIS #LGBT #ND

When a nymph disappears to the local pond with no intention to leave, her daughter must put everything on the line to save her—from both the owner who wants to dry the pond and the town that wants them gone for good.

#preDV #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

Some people like to weaponise the language of "accountability" and "constructive criticism" when what they really mean is "submit to me and my authority" and when you naturally assert your autonomous viewpoint you will be pathologised and sometimes excommunicated.

Thank you!!!

YELLOWFACE X THE SECRET HISTORY

What if your favourite YouTuber and Substack essayist got into a messy parasocial situationship and you had access to the FULL archives of their chat logs in an extended callout post?

ECHO CHAMBER could be your next must-read.

#UnhingedPit #A #W #T

a cartoon of a boat splashing water and the words we would be so hydrated ALT: a cartoon of a boat splashing water and the words we would be so hydrated

EVERY FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE SONG x LOOK BACK

tfw you want to draw your mom but she decides she's fusing with the pond which btw is going to be dried out soon bc the owner doesn't want her in there

#UnhingedPit #A #F #LGBT #W

A tweet reading “can I get a kids menu and a margarita please”

Jessie Pinkman from Breaking Bad in a messy room looking distressed, with the caption “me realising the way I grew up actually did affect me.”

The “if nobody got me I know X got me - can I get an amen?” Meme where X in this instance is the smiths

A baby bunny with the caption “I don’t feel real”

#UnhingedPit

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?

#NA #L #LGBT #W

Oh there it is

I did

As far as I’m concerned every piece of media about Bob Dylan is just a plot to convince me to buy those gay little boots

New icon that’s Joan Baez and kitty

I don’t want to live in a world without David

Hello I need to read this NOW

CRIMSON PEAK x CARMILLA
In 1872 England, spirit medium Agnes accepts a commission to exorcise a murderous ghost in a remote manor. When she ends up falling in love with the very spirit she is meant to banish, Agnes is forced to choose between love and her moral principles.
#BluePit #Querying #LGBT 📖

The bad sisters soundtrack is so good to write to. Everyone say thank you pj Harvey

Yes!

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AS A COMP HELLO

Aaa thank you!!!

And now, in marketing talk, The Funeral Procession is THE SECRET HISTORY x HAMLET and featuring:
🦇 a Gothic take on the 1970s
♾️ an autistic narrator
💔 no romantic subplot
♟️ a dark academia atmosphere
🐱 cats. So many cats.

#BluePit #W #A #Hs #D #Ov

A text box reading: “The formation of the Funeral Procession begins with the dead cat, but I cannot explain the dead cat without explaining the dead man.” Against a photograph of a country house on a cloudy day.

Set in 1978’s Winter of Discontent, The Funeral Procession follows three childhood friends reuniting to gather the unpublished writings one of their mothers, a one-time literary legend, only for a posthumous confession and ethical dilemma that tears them apart.

#BluePit #W #A #Hs #D #OV

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

After waiting a year for her wife's conscription to end, Edera's life is shattered when Seren returns bearing an impossible—and likely deadly—quest. How can Edera allow her to save the world by herself?

#BluePit #W #LGBT #A #F