Sofía Rodríguez [querying!]

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Dear friends, writers, #agents, interstellar travelers, interdimensional aliens, and otherwise paradoxical time hoppers!

We would like to invite you to set your favorite time-traveling device to October 21st, 2025, for the pitch event dedicated to Science Fiction, #SFPit! 🧵

sombr might be an industry plant but he's MY industry plant

Naveena Kulkarni stands outside before a white brick wall. She has long black wavy hair, brown skin, and a nose ring. Half of her face is in purple, black, and pink skull makeup. She is wearing a thick black choker, a hot pink motorcycle jacket, and a purple shirt. The text says: LONG WAY DOWN Written by Phi and Moma Writing Partners 10+ years 50+ Patrons 2 books and counting

Tylor & Naveena are keeping secrets: he can talk to the dead & she is Death herself. No mortal can do what they do.

The day they meet, they discover they've been looking for each other. Can they work together to save a missing girl, & themselves, before it's too late?

#PosterPit #A #SP #W #UF

I simply don't know how to do ✨aesthetic✨ things

I'd participate in PosterPit but graphic design is NOT my passion

I can sooo see it hahaha

congrats!!! (minus the typo, sneaky bastards)

hahah that's true ❤️

i've heard that before actually! but I fear that's going to do the reverse on me and make me associate treats with something bad 🤣

A collage of nine eerie, surreal images. Includes a figure on stairs, a fiery sky, cloaked figures, silhouetted people, and a woman in red light. The tone is haunting.

THE BRIDE OF THE KING IN YELLOW
☠︎︎ ⋆₊ ♱

two lovers struggle against class and religion to be together- but can a play that turns all readers mad be their freedom?

-novelette (17k)
-class/religious pressure
-eldritch horrors or insanity
-existential purpose/fate

#questpit #Q #A #H #S #R #DR

i'm honestly so obsessed with this

A collage of vintage noir images featuring a man in a suit, shattered mirror reflection, puppet strings, surreal eyes, and intense facial expressions. The tone is mysterious and dramatic.

A MASTERY OF SELF
݁₊ ⊹ . 📽.ᐟ
an actor is trapped in a nightmare of an identity crises after playing too many roles🖤

-speculative hollywood
-friends to lovers
- eldritch horror or real doppleganger?

#questpit #W #A #H #S #R

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jk jk I have a hard deadline to start sending out stuff in the autumn, I just need to get into the ascetic-about-rejections mindset again

I say "I'm querying" when what I really mean is "I should be querying but I'm a coward"

Moodboard with five cells. The two cells at the top are close-ups of a silver-haired woman wearing a brazen, speared crown and a bejeweled skeleton hand The cell in the middle is a landscape view of a black-and-white picture of a mountain ring The two cells at the bottom are close-ups of a man's uniform and a metal hand with claws instead of fingers.

Character renders of Aliza and Viktor. Aliza has bleached blonde hair, tied in a high bun surrounded by a five-speared crown. Her gown is white and with golden hemlines. She has a blue-jeweled bracelet on her wrist. Her face is painted white, she wears ashes as lipstick and eyeshadow, and a golden eyeliner. Viktor is a tall man of combed-back brown hair, dark eyes, and angled features. He wears a dark vest over a puffy white shirt with golden finishing. He has a dark, sleeveless cape of similar style. A tweet at the bottom reads "apathetic dark-haired boy and insane blonde girl that's the dynamic"

PAST LIVES x BRIGHTER THAN SCALE, SWIFTER THAN FLAME

Two teenage lovers reunite as adults in the secluded, magical kingdom that forced them to destroy who they once were

⛰ Second-Chance Romance
⛰ Culture and identity
⛰ Science vs. magic
⛰ 50 Shades of Morally Grey

#questpit #Q #A #SFF

that time I was writing something and I re-read it and thought "this sounds way too smart. I can't have possibly written this" and indeed I was quoting the Bhagavad Gita out of pure muscle memory

the 2025 Vocaloid Renaissance is one for the books

eeee thank you!!! We'll see how it goes 😆

submitting short stories again because i am ready to get hurt again

I just had a look at their insta and all their clothes are beautiful!!

(you look fab in the shirt btw ❤️)

I'm obsessed with the shirt!! It's so cool

Moodboard with five cells. The two cells at the top are close-ups of a silver-haired woman wearing a brazen, speared crown and a bejeweled skeleton hand The cell in the middle is a landscape view of a black-and-white picture of a mountain ring The two cells at the bottom are close-ups of a man's uniform and a metal hand with claws instead of fingers.

Picture of black-and-white mountains. The title reads "Across Ashen Mountains. Science-Fantasy + Romance. 120k" At the bottom, the pitch reads: Will knows no one can enter Aska, the land of Gods and magic, secluded behind impenetrable mountains and whose guards kill whoever comes close. But then he meets Elise, a girl who’s mysteriously obtained a mechanical suit that would allow her to sneak into Aska. The suit is broken, and Will, lured by Elise's resolve to fix it, helps her. Slowly and intensely, they fall in love. However, as Elise is about to complete the suit, she vanishes with it, leaving Will stranded. Ten years pass. By a stroke of rigged luck, Will is offered to sell out his homeland for a chance to live in Aska, where he must strip himself of his language, culture, and identity to belong. But he can’t get rid of his past, which comes back knocking as one of Aska’s Goddesses—whose eyes shine just like Elise’s. As Will unravels Aska’s mysteries, he must choose between who he is and who he once was.

Excerpt laid over a black-and-white picture of a snowy mountain pass. The text reads: This wasn’t like it used to be. It wasn’t Oddie with his flute at the corner. Instead, the music came from a golden flower on the table, humming strange melodies. Foreign. “Why am I here, Aliza?” he said, her new name tasting stale. “Why am I in your secret cottage, helping you with your secret magic while your husband is away?” She sipped the wine—old wine from this new land. “Perhaps I’ve been missing a familiar face.”

Character renders of Aliza and Viktor. Aliza has bleached blonde hair, tied in a high bun surrounded by a five-speared crown. Her gown is white and with golden hemlines. She has a blue-jeweled bracelet on her wrist. Her face is painted white, she wears ashes as lipstick and eyeshadow, and a golden eyeliner. Viktor is a tall man of combed-back brown hair, dark eyes, and angled features. He wears a dark vest over a puffy white shirt with golden finishing. He has a dark, sleeveless cape of similar style. A tweet at the bottom reads "apathetic dark-haired boy and insane blonde girl that's the dynamic"

PAST LIVES x BRIGHTER THAN SCALE, SWIFTER THAN FLAME

Two teenage lovers reunite as adults in the secluded, magical kingdom that forced them to destroy who they once were...

⛰ Second-Chance Romance
⛰ Culture and identity
⛰ The mechanical vs. the magical
⛰ Rebellion Arc

#BluePit 📖 #A #F #R #Q

HOZIER x COCO x GOBLIN x TRESE x CONSTANTINE(2005)

👻Catch that killer!
🐈‍⬛International cast
❤️‍🔥Slow burn poly rep
✨Grumpy x Sunshine
🖤 Love across lifetimes
💀 Reincarnated Death Gods
💜Grief, trauma, & healing through found family
🕯️Samhain, Día de Muertos, Fèt Gede, Undas

#BluePit #W #A #SP #UF #LWDB

eee thank you!!! ❤️

yes yes YES

There is a photo of a small red grave with a skull and crossbones on it in the center of the poster. It sits in front of a red-grey stone fence edge covered in vines; towering above it are iron railings. A pile of dead, red leaves sit to the side. The grass is a dark, grey-green; the trees are spindly and bare, reaching towards the sky like fingers. The text across the top reads: Reincarnated Death Gods. Urban Fantasy. Love Across Lifetimes. The tagline beside the grave reads: Death Becomes Them. The text at the bottom reads: Long Way Down. A Book Series WIP by Phi and Moma. Patreon.com/longwaydownbook

There is a grid of 9 photos. Top left: black birds fly across a white sky. Top center: Dark wooden pews sit empty in the shadows with a ray of white light illuminating one. Top right: a black and white photo of rows of books filling tight-fitting shelves to the brim. Center left: An overhead view of a cup of black coffee in a black mug on a dark table. Center: Tylor Goadby, a Northern Irishman with pale skin, a trim dark beard, and long dark curly hair, stands in front of a mausoleum. His hands are in the pockets of his black coat. He is looking up to the side; half of his face appears as a skull. Center right: Two padlocks hanging from a heavy chain keep a black door closed. The padlock in front has a golden T on it. Bottom left: Black silhouettes of a graveyard reach into the sky. Two Celtic cross tombstones rise above the rest. Bottom center: Light streams through a cathedral of pale gold and black stone. Bottom right: A white skull sits on a white table with a black, angular crown set upon it.

There is a grid of 9 photos. Top left: Black Oaxacan pottery of a skull with a rose crown sits on a white table. Top center: Hands in pink examination gloves carefully insert a needle into a dog's leg. Top right: A Kathak dancer turns on a white stone floor, wearing a bright pink skirt and ghungroos. Center left: A man with a watch is holding a woman's hand. She is wearing a black saree and floral mehndi. Center: Naveena, a British Indian woman, is standing in front of rings of white, gold, and black text, framed by the rings like a halo. She has warm brown skin and dark wavy hair blowing in the wind behind her. Her hands are in her hot pink jacket, and half of her face is painted in a black, pink, and purple skull. Center right: Pink and purple flowers sit on a stone grave, surrounded by green grass and an iron fence. Bottom left: A hot pink motorcycle helmet sits on a white table in front of a white wall. Bottom renter: A woman in sea foam green is pouring cups of chai into pink cups. Bottom right: A lit diya sits on a pooja thali, surrounded by bright pink flowers and marigolds. A bowl of vermilion and incense sit beside the diya.

There is a grid of 9 photos. Top left: A man in a pale suit and grey socks is curled up in a leather chair, looking at a camera. Top center: A stove is covered in bright blue and silver cookware. Top right: A stack of faded sepia photographs. Center left: A bat flying through a dark purple gradient sky. Center: A black cat looks to the side; a pale white patch shaped like a star sits on his chest. Center right: A street of dark, traditional Japenese homes. Bottom left: A white pot pours steaming tea into a navy blue mug. Bottom center: Floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall bookshelves stand full of book. In front of them is a warm brown leather couch with a grey-brown blanket on it. Bottom right: A long, dark stone hallway; rings of light from unseen sources dot the path. The end of the hallway has a single illuminated window.

Tylor & Naveena are keeping secrets: he can talk to the dead & she is Death herself. No mortal can do what they do.

The day they meet, they discover they've been looking for each other. Can they work together to save a missing girl, & themselves, before it's too late?

#BluePit📖 #A #SP #W #BluePit

A gothic-style promotional graphic featuring a veiled, marble-like female statue entwined with thorny rose vines. Red roses bloom from her mouth and hands, surrounded by dark foliage. The text reads: “An Agent’s Guide to A Poison So Divine” in ornate white lettering, followed by the tagline “Crimson Peak meets Rappaccini’s Daughter in this gothic horror romance novel.”

A pitch slide over a dark rose background with white gothic text titled "Pitch." The text describes the novel's premise: Ishaan, arriving at a remote Italian estate with horses, is drawn to the mysterious Davina-Grace, a spectral girl confined by day and wandering haunted gardens by night. As his obsession deepens, he learns she’s as poisonous as the flowers she tends. Decorative white scrollwork borders the top and bottom.

A reader comp slide titled “For Fans Of…” with a list of tropes and themes: forbidden romance, ghostly horror, eerie setting, psychological tension, dark family secrets, dreamlike atmosphere, and obsession and yearning. Along the right side are book/movie covers: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride, Nosferatu, Mexican Gothic, The Haunting of Hill House, One Dark Window, Crimson Peak, Pan’s Labyrinth, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. The background is filled with red roses.

A lyrical excerpt overlaid on a background of dark roses. The passage describes a woman kneeling beside a rosebush, caressing its petals and whispering to it as if it were alive. She refers to the plants as her “darlings” and tells them it is “time to feed.” The text is in white with a gothic font, framed by elegant white scrollwork above and below.

My agent’s guide for my gothic horror romance about a man sent to work at an Italian estate—who falls for a girl cursed with a poisonous touch, trapped in a house that feeds on her blood.
He wants to save her. But what if he’s the one being undone?

#bluepit📖 #Q #NA #H #R