Maddie Block

BREAKING: James Talarico wins the Democratic Senate primary in Texas, per Decision Desk

Knocked out almost 2,000 words in my #WIP this afternoon 🙌 #writingcommunity

I guess it really is too much to ask that our tax dollars go towards things like health-care, education, and infrastructure instead of endless wars 🤷‍♀️

Nothing worse than waking up with a giant zit on your face on your in-office day 🫠

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

"No worries at all!" I respond to an email that has, in reality, filled me with dread

They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom. An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

NEW: The Victims Who Fought Back

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers.

Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

By @pamelacolloff.bsky.social

Completely fell off the bench and bonked my head doing dumbbell pullovers 🤦‍♀️ Miraculously, I didn't seriously injure myself, but uhh I might have seen my whole life flash before my eyes 0/10

Accidentally left one of my bags at security at the airport in CDMX and then when I realized I didn't have it, I had to explain to the Mexican TSA that I wasn't trying to do anything suspicious, I'm actually just stupid

A woman in a pink dress outside a castle

A statue in the middle of a garden

The gardens and exterior of a palace

A man and a woman in sunglasses taking a selfie

Valentine's Day in CDMX 💗

In love with Mexico City already 🇲🇽

Whoever is in charge of the music playing at JFK at 5am this morning should get a raise bc these bangers are making me forget that I had to wake up at 3am to be here

In the office today, one of my coworkers was trying to announce that the sexual harassment training is coming up soon, but said, "Get ready, it's time for sexual harassment!"

These Olympic skiers are so impressive to me because how are they doing back flips down a steep mountain??? I almost killed myself on the bunny hill learning to ski last year just trying to get back to the ski lodge

Art museum afternoon 💙💡

When I was 9, some D.A.R.E. lady came to my school and made me sign a "contract" that said I would never do drugs. Anyway, I'm high rn 🍃

Billionaires are idiots, dude. Not that I've ever committed serious crimes, but if I *did* do crimes, I'm pretty sure rule #1 is don't tell all your friends via Yahoo email about the jolly good time you had on the sex trafficking island full of sick freaks

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

Accidentally had some paper towels too close to the stove while I was cooking and uhh that is how a small fire started in my kitchen, but luckily it didn't take too long to put it out 😬

Yay more memoir writer friends!

This mood board is incredible 🙌

Newspaper headlines read: Sederwall pleads guilty to concealing death

In 1998, I was arrested for murder after a miscarriage.
A plea bargain was my only way out.
A world where women can be punished for what goes on with their bodies is a very scary place. It only gets worse.
#Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN

a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you . ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you .

Omg thank you ❤️

The book title "Matcha Do About Nothing" in bold letters above a collage that consists of two Asian American high-schoolers, a shot of San Francisco Chinatown, and a close-up photo of vibrant green matcha.

MATCHA DO ABOUT NOTHING

💘Loose Shakespeare inspiration
🍵Family-owned matcha shop
🇸🇬Mixed Asian American rep
📚Academic rivals to…?
🌉Bay Area setting
🫂Family drama

Coming soon to the query trenches!

#QUESTPIT #YA #W #R

Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words.

Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved.

A dark forest. Snippet. She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!” The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death. “Magic should never return.” After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended. Sent him back to his body.

A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/Sunshine. LGBTQIA+. Multi POV.

NAUSICAÄ X FF7

Hana is sure she’s the chosen one, meant to save the world, even if her magic is resisting her and the previous chosen one insists she isn’t. Pursued by enemies, she must learn if this is her destiny or if it was a mystical mistake. #questpit #F #A #Q #agentguide

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated.

Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built

🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot
🌪️ #CliFi
🌷 #Hopepunk
#S #Q
#Questpit #booksky

An Agent Guide to GUMIHO 86,000 word adult folklore fantasy blended with horror and romance By Jennifer Luce

The pitch: Cursed with a vengeful gumiho, Mina has spent centuries feeding it souls to become a god—and now she needs just one more, but when she falls for her final target, she must choose: face her demons and sever the curse before the gumiho consumes her from the inside out, or achieve godhood and lose herself to become something truly monstrous.

For fans of... SUCH SHARP TEETH by Rachel Harrison - physical transformation & emotional vulnerability THE FOX WIFE by Yangsze Choo - East Asian Folklore MY DEMON - Redemption through connection THE GLORY - Morally gray anti-hero

First Lines Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white snow. A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would lead to his demise.

Hi #Questpit! Nearly done w/ SmoochPit revisions, here's GUMIHO, my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended w/ horror & romance!

✨️ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentorship Program
✨️ Big 5 Editor Interest
✨️ Won 3rd in the horror category of the 2025 PNWA Writing Contest

#A #F #H #R

A mood board featuring hanboks, kalguksu, gukbap, and the skyline of Incheon, South Korea

CRYING IN H MART x I'M LAUGHING BECAUSE I'M CRYING

👩‍👧‍👧 Mother-daughter dynamics
🇰🇷 Korean adoptees
🍜 Food & travel writing
📖 History of US/Korea relations
🇺🇸 Mixed Korean/American identity
🧪 DNA test surprises

WHERE THE TIGERS DIED: coming soon to agent inboxes!

#W #NF #M #QuestPit

RIP to the vocab queen 💔

Do I have anxiety or is this just a normal response to the possibility that my immigrant family members and friends will get kidnapped off the street without warning and also the possibility that I might lose my job during these mass layoffs (& lose my health insurance as a result)? Very fun times!

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.