B. Hart 🔪 (Editing a 🏳️‍🌈 Frankenstein Retelling)

God that cover!!! You picked well 😍

🤔 You sure about that, Viktor? 🏳️‍⚧️

I have learned the hard way that bots are also a thing in Bluesky 🫣🦋. I've also learned about interaction settings.

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Not rude at all! I was just overwhelmed 😅. I have a novel manuscript with established characters. I'm more selective on style though so I usually get recommendations and then do the digging myself before reaching out. :)

If I'm interested in working with an artist, I would definitely message them (and I always pay & tip). I was actually looking from recs from fellow writers before this tidal wave arrived 😅

Not "Round 1", implying there is more than one divorce arc. 😂

Oh wow, thanks for the response!

It's a queer Frankenstein retelling and Viktor's first love (Henry) is the catalyst of everything that follows 🫥. The way it pans out is, uhm... a plot point for sure.

Oh no, it's the entire conflict of Viktor's part of the novel 🫣.

Viktor Frankenstein being choked by his creation that looms over him with scars and black hair.

"You may deny what you feel, Viktor. Fine. But will you deny the truth of what 𝘐 feel?”

My hand ensnares your throat, trapping your racing pulse under my thumb. It would be so easy to end this, but an end is not an answer. Only absence.

(From my 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Frankenstein retelling "Ought to Be Thy Adam".)

👀 Who is Viktor "losing" I wonder?

(And will this sickly twink ever stop fainting?)

I remember finishing my first novel where the MC had intense ADHD. I thought "I should get this read by a sensitivity reader"

Turns out the sensitivity reader was me. I'm medicated now but I remember being surprised by how much I ✨poured my experiences✨ into the MC. Should have clocked that one. 🫣

This is commissioned from my queer retelling so... definitely conflicted blushing. 😏 (When I looked at my full manuscript I couldn't deny their shared choking kink lol)

@ukstls.bsky.social took the request of Viktor being held down in "a little rough, a little erotic" way and made ✨magic✨ with it.

Unfortunately until my Frankenstein retelling is edited & picked up by an agent you all have to suffer through my unedited snippets. 😂

a man with a serious look on his face says ah i see you 're a person of culture as well ALT: a man with a serious look on his face says ah i see you 're a person of culture as well

I truly believe Mary Shelley would have loved "baby's first toxic yaoi" being applied to her story if she understood any of those words in 1818 😂🏳️‍🌈

a white cat is looking at a computer screen . ALT: a white cat is looking at a computer screen .

This is literally my office situation. The moment it hits 3pm my retinas are being hit with solar flares.

Ukstls is so talented, I love working with her! 😍🧑‍🎨

The excerpt is part of a big confrontation scene between Viktor and his now /very/ cognizant creation (that clocks him as 💅 from a mile away).

Can't wait to someday get this fully in your hands 😭 🖤

Thank you so much!! 😭 Can't wait to get back into betas with y'all now that the draft is in with the editor. (Also 100% ukstls is so talented!)

Art commissioned from the incredible @ukstls.bsky.social 🖤

Viktor Frankenstein being choked by his creation that looms over him with scars and black hair.

"You may deny what you feel, Viktor. Fine. But will you deny the truth of what 𝘐 feel?”

My hand ensnares your throat, trapping your racing pulse under my thumb. It would be so easy to end this, but an end is not an answer. Only absence.

(From my 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Frankenstein retelling "Ought to Be Thy Adam".)

Two fishing boats sail on a grey ocean, with seagulls in the overcast sky. White text overlaps the grey sky. It reads: A guide to 'From the Sea Fret' a 74k adult queer horror

Grey ocean, with a white-capped wave, serves as the background. The title reads: Excerpt Text is outlined: I scanned the horizon. It was just me on the water. There wasn’t anyone out sailing, or anyone swimming. I was completely alone. But… was I? Beneath me were leagues of ocean. Unlike in the forest, where you can hear the wildlife around you, there were creatures that could pass by in the sea and I would never know. The water concealed their movement, cloaking them from my view. It was getting harder to breathe. The vastness of the ocean was too open, and my skin felt too tight around my chest. I knew, deep in my bones, that something was beneath me and it was watching. On the port side, the water rippled. Though it was only a few steps, the length of the deck felt miles long. I was compelled to look below, and my body moved on its own accord. Though I was terrified of what I would see, I peered over.

Grey ocean, with a white-capped wave, serves as the background. The title reads: Pitch and Comps Text is outlined: Callum Point moves to the dead-end town of Perne to scrape together a new life. He's hoping that the small fishing town will give him what he always wanted; peace. Unfortunately, what greets him is a place rife with secrecy, conspiracy and creatures beyond comprehension. 5 posters for books and shows have arrows and notes coming out of them. Dredge by Black Salt Games has the notes: Capitalism despite the horrors. Something's wrong with the fish. Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner has the notes: Queer and trans identity. People are monsters too. The Fisherman by John Langan has the notes: Lovecraftian. Ocean madness. The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers has the notes: Ocean madness. Obsession with answers. Blood in the Bayou by Just Roll With It has the notes: Who can you trust? Small town cosmic terror.

Grey ocean, with a white-capped wave, serves as the background. The title reads: Themes A moodboard of 9 images sits in the middle. A hand reaching out into dark water. Thick seaweed-covered chains being pulled from the ocean. A foggy wharf at night. A group of sharks in dark water. A pencil drawing of a compass on white paper. Close-up of a hazel eye with the pupil completely white. A pile of fish. A porthole looking out onto a grey ocean. The inside of a fishing shack. Text surrounds the images. It reads: Paranoia turns revenge. Struggles with identity. Trans and queer rep. Grief over what could have been. Desperation to fit in. Cosmic/psychological/body horror. Content warnings: emotional abuse, attempted sexual assault, manipulation, transphobia, internalised transphobia, misogyny, cosmic horror, psychological horror, religious trauma, drug/alcohol use, gore, death, blood, paranoia, body horror

⚓FROM THE SEA FRET⚓ - A cosmic horror from a queer perspective

Callum Point moves to Perne in search of peace. What he finds instead are religious zealots, monstrous fish, and a constant fog that whispers to him.

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #LGBT

A moodboard featuring nine photos in a 3x3 grid shape. From left to right, top to bottom: 1. A blue book with what appears to be the moon with lots of little starts on the cover. The title reads, “The Observer’s Book of Astronomy.” 2. A shot from above of folded up legs sitting down, with two feet wearing converse shoes nearby. Books lay between the two feet, and there’s a bookshelf covered in books nearby. 3. An opened book with a note in it that has a scribbled on heart. 4. Two boys, one putting his arm around the other, stare off into the starry night sky. 5. Two hands reaching for each other in between a bookshelf. 6. Blue background with lots of little white specks and text that reads, “YOU + ME FOREVER.” 7. A vast room of bookshelves covered in books. A person crouches over to pick out a book. 8. Two hands pointing at a little white dot in the blue sky. (Pictures from Pinterest)

Short Pitch: One fateful night at the library Oliver finds a small, worn blue book about the stars and soulmates — with a little note sticking out of it, wishing the reader a good day. Hesitantly, he decides to leave a second note. What follows is a chain of notes between two boys talking about everything from the stars, the vastness of the universe, and fate. Over the course of several months, Oliver finds himself wondering if soulmates are real and if his happens to be hiding in the notes between pages.

🌌📖 Meet Project.Booknotes, a slow-burn romance!

~ Explores fate, the universe, and soulmates
~ Stand-alone, short but sweet (40k words planned)
~ Status? Brainstorming!
~ Cozy, sweet, focus on emotional connection

#QuestPit #W #R #LGBT #Writing #AmWriting #Writesky #WritingCommunity

Editor’s Guide To: The Things We Run For YA Drama Mystery with Romance 94k Words Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996 Run. What a powerful instinct. Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after. The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know: -Runaway in Hiding -Fake Identity (turned real identity) -Mental Health Rep -Genderfluid and Pan Rep -Found Family -90s Small-Town Nostalgia At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996 “The Hills have Eyes” There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook. In the bottom right, it says Going on submission in 2026

#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSubmission 2026!)

Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe?

#QuestPit #YA #MY #R
#AG #OS #OWN #LGBT

Vultures wip neon green theme moodboard/cover

Apocalypse cultist S awaits the end in an agony of stunted transfiguration. Fellow cultists observe her for any slip of duty while the demands of House Y's final rites occupy her days. The history of the manor & its former keepers will come for all of them.

#questpit #W #F #H #A #LGBT

An image of a skull with a black box overtop that says: Ought to Be Thy Adam “I’d studied and lectured on your ligaments, muscles, and arteries. Cells swabbed from your cheek pushed under a microscope. Papers built off your anatomy. But I had never asked you how it felt. For all I studied your body, I was still terrified to study your soul.” In 1897, after studying corpses and toying with electricity, medical student Viktor has created the man from his darkest, shameful desires. Except guilt forces him to make one final adjustment: female parts. As his new creation gains sentience while vivisected during Viktor's university tour and begins to chafe under Viktor's thumb, a violent death and disobedience leads the monster to make himself into the man he was always meant to be. Trans/Gay Frankenstein Retelling

"Ought To Be Thy Adam" is a queer Frankenstein retelling fuelled by internalized gay guilt and trans rage.

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I'll be seeking representation this summer. In the meantime, I hope it finds the gothic horror monsters that will enjoy devouring it someday.

#questpit #LGBT #OW #W #A #DF #H #HFic #S

I can't stand this twink, G. 😂

😭 That's an intense but really powerful passage!

Since I'm done edits (for now) I'll share a stray fave for #FaveLineFriday.

I love Viktor's over-the-top ways of describing intimacy in any form. 🪱

His crush? Maggot. 🏳️‍🌈

(From my trans & gay #Frankenstein retelling.)