val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈

omg I appreciate you AND for making that a very lovely round number and ONE AWAY FROM NIIIICE

two important notes:

1. when I draft these things, the actual dollar amount stays [math] until the absolute last second because a) y'all are wonderful and keep smashing goals and b) math is pain

2. we are 2 backers away from 269 backers, please let me be a mature adult and make a nice joke soon ty

A romance focused moodboard for my novel! In the middle of the moodboard are two longer images. The top one is of two people dancing, their faces not shown. The bottom image is a woman dramatically lit looking down, a slice of light showing only part of her face and arm. On the diagonal top right and bottom left are black and gold then white and purple/blue texture photos to symbolize the characters as those are their dragon's color schemes. Then there is a black hole and two hands reaching out. The text on the top left and bottom right reads: "You lead, I follow," she said, the traditional call and response." "You lead, I follow," he echoed, and prepared for the dragonrider dance.

Moodboard of the solar system in my book! Text says Tour the Queztira System Today! Our New Home! Myriad Free For Over 150 Years! There are then five images from stock photos (mostly from Unsplashed). The first is for the closest planet to the suns, Ssyr, and has lava for the image. Next is Azon, with tall karst pillars, followed by Ondesar, a beach with deep blue water. The next line is The Abyssal Planet, with purple quartz to represent Abyssal crystals. Then Diratus, which has a jungle canopy from the floor up so the trees look like river systems. And lastly Medus, which is a beautiful blue glacier since it's an ice planet.

thank you again for the support and hype during #DVpit 💜

I wound up not using two moodboards, mostly because I couldn't quite figure out how to tie them to my pitch. But if you like flirty moodboards and/or atmospheric ones!! Please enjoy my DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM extra moodboards 👀

aaaa thank you, honestly this means so much! I haven't made a moodboard in sooooo long and I was nervous it was awful haha. and I'm so glad the story is interesting too!!

very here for these comps and everything about this!!

aw yay congrats! best of luck with your querying 💜

aaa thank you so much!!

sadly probably not for a good long while! this is for a pitch event, so I'm still looking for a literary agent! maybe someday thouugh, I truly hope for it to get published someday 💜

thank you so much, I'm really glad it's been an interesting pitch for folks 😭💜

aaah thank you! 💜

im glad! I haven't made moodboards in aaages so this was fun!

I do love giant robot dragons! they are the coolest ✨

what's not to love about giant robot dragons!! 💜

sorry for all the moodboards today, kinda. I made them for DVpit and I am very happy with them and it has been fun to show them off but also 😅

Moodboard of the evil hivemind of corrupted dragons. Everything is in red, there are three rows of three images, with a middle row having a text box in the middle. First row: a broken red crystal, red filter spacescape, and a close-up of red crowing crystals. Second row: red filtered snakescales (to stand in for robot dragons), text box that says: beware the Myriad, beware their crystals bright and red. Survive, survive, but don't let the Myriad take you alive. Third is a canyon crevasse in the shape of a menacing looking eye. Third row: more angry red space scape and then a red filtered texture effect.

DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM

✨mecha dragons
🪐disabled protagonist
💜Mexican American diaspora worldbuilding
🌈bi love interest + an ex-BFF
🌌epic space opera
🐉a hivemind of corrupted dragons somehow back after centuries in an entirely new solar system—it's fine!

#DVpit #A #SF #Latine #DIS #LGBT

omg you're totally fine! it's hard to know the rules for these kinda events unless you're participating in them so it's all good 💜

ohhh this sounds amaziiing!

thank youuu I have been working very hard on it 🥺💜

ah yay thank you so much! 💜

A moodboard for my DVpit pitch! Made from stock photos from Canva and Unsplashed and one NASA art render. Three rows of images. The first row is a zoom in of a snake's eye, edited a bit purple. The middle is a hyperspace-y purple light, the third is a NASA artist render of a water planet with two suns. The middle row is a purple crystal followed by a center box of text that reads: "I am Crescent Scar. And I am no one's dragon, I am not yours to command. We work together, or we don't work at all." After that is white outlines of butterflies. The third row is a closeup of a stone statue's scales meant to represent dragon scales, followed by space photo with a purple filter and the outline of a woman looking up.

DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM

A disabled mecha dragonrider steals a prototype egg—and runs into a hivemind of corrupted dragons, an ancient enemy unseen for centuries. She must work with this irascible dragon and move past old grudges to save the solar system.

#DVpit #A #SF #DIS #Latine #LGBT

seafoam is the best and I love him and also thank youuuu 😭😭

ajskgk thank you for beta reading it and giving me like real time updates at times, I thrived on that haha I APPRECIATE YOUUU 💜

thank you so much!!

aaaa that means a lot—fingers crossed!! thank you 🥺💜

I’m always glad to find fellow giant robot dragon enjoyers LOL 💜💜💜

thank youuu that really means a lot
I’ve been working on this for abouuuut three years now!

aaa thank you so much 🥺💜

aaa thank youuu! I am extremely glad we have met, always nice to meet a fellow mecha and dragon enthusiast 🤝 and I'm excited for both of us using pacific rim as a comp haha (and seriously your pitch is so good!!)

aaaaaaaaa forever appreciative you read it so early in because I deleted like 3 dragonriders and 2 other characters based on VERY GOOD feedback - so you got the ultra complex edition kajshd 😭💜

as a fellow pacific rim comp person I am 🤝 and excited for this, it sounds amazing! also in AWE of your moodboard as well omg 👀