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Caroline is always writing
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Sapphic vampire novel with horror elements- querying soon!
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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · 13d
Not querying yet (finishing final revisions) but testing out my agents guide!

SINNERS x IWAV

Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and 200 years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past, she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway.

#QuestPit #W #A #F
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Starting a bit sooner than planned 🤭 #amquerying #agentsguide
carolinekwriting.bsky.social Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · 13d
Not querying yet (finishing final revisions) but testing out my agents guide!

SINNERS x IWAV

Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and 200 years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past, she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway.

#QuestPit #W #A #F
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Exsanguine Cryptids
She must face danger, folkloric monsters, and the government agents responsible for releasing them in order to reunite with her younger brother before the country collapses- or one of them dies.

🥰sapphic romance
Stranger>Friends>❤️‍🔥
💕slow burn
🚗 road trip
#questpit #W #YA #PR #SF
Exsanguine Cryptids Dahlya Byrne a YA supernatural sci-fi apocalypse PitchA vengeful government set on reasserting its authority through violence and misinformation disrupts the life of 19 year old Xiomara. Armed with nothing but the determination of an eldest daughter, she travels across the US facing folkloric monsters and government agents alike, to reunite with her estranged younger sibling. Along the way, she becomes the unwilling leader to Jada, an old classmate she can’t quite seem to get a grasp on (or out of her head) and Rally, an older, yet surprisingly well equipped, woman with an affinity for conspiracies and substances of all kind. Eight O'Clock in the Morning Ray Faraday Nelson *Subliminal Messages, Propaganda, Lizard People Veil Haven by Anne M. Kelley * Cryptids, Lies & Secrets, LGBTQ+, Diverse The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro *Mexican Folklore, Family Secrets, Generational Trauma I walk with my hands stretched out before me. One step. Two steps. Three steps. No wall. Four steps. No wall. Five steps. Nothing. The air feels different. Warmer. Yet, a chill runs through me, prickling from inside my skin. My neighbor had a dog I often walked, Pancho. She didn’t pay much for how bad the dog was. It pulled and pulled on its leash, if not for being the size of a shoebox, it likely would have dragged me along with it, taken off on the hot streets of New Mexico. Dragged me past the dirt roads and onto the concrete sidewalk on the way to the park. My neighbor was old, she didn’t often get to grooming the dog. It was scraggly, fat, with long long nails. Often I would close my eyes as we walked, listening to the birds, wind, and scratching of Pancho’s nails against the floor. The sound emanating from the murk of this alley was strikingly similar. A sixth step forward is not an option. But would the wall behind me still exist? The warmth ahead of me grew to a heat that roasted my skin and made each breathe an effort. Sweat dripped down my face and pooled on my upper lip. How long have I stood here?I’m reminded of the summer heat wave I spent locked outside. I often laid in the yard, too tired, too hot, too thirsty, to move even to the shade of a nearby bush. It grew flowers of a pale pink and muted red. Before that week, me and my mother often picked these flowers to make into tea. I didn’t mind that she would throw my picks to the side, as I could collect them to decorate my dresser top, enjoying the scents every morning until she scolded me for bringing garbage inside and hoisted them out. Maybe the flowers were purple, actually. Yes I remember, the flowers were a deep purple, just like the vase I threw at her head. Just like the blood that spilled out of it. The air was hot like the blood that spilled out of it. It was so hot. Like the air during the heatwave, like the blood of the vase, like the purple of my mother’s head. Like the- I hear a scream I…
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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For the #questpit night 🦉s!

A disabled media archivist discovers a big tech company is stealing memories from the poor, & has to unravel what they took from him as well. In another timeline, his hồ ly tinh-shaped robot assistant grows more sentient and investigates a murder.

#QuestPit #W #A #SF #S
Mood board for Snaggleteeth framed with retro rainbow: top row - Hoi An lanterns (via unsplash) / person going to abandoned radio tower (via unsplash) / colourful rainbow wires (via unsplash) / middle row - tv displaying static in a red room (via unsplash) / ho ly tinh fox spirit statue in a vietnamese temple (via unsplash) / pink retro computer control room (from the show Maniac on netflix) / a rainbow retro diagram showing a music chart (vintage book cover by unknown artist) / pink retro archival boxes (via unsplash) / small asian child in a pink hoodie holding hands with a robot (via unsplash)
November 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #M
The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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TGUWG x Poppy War

In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let something like morals get in her way.

#questpit #W #A #DF
Alt: art by Roscheriart Instagram. Pitch: In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let something like morals get in her way. Excerpt: They would be, Sera thought, the blood thrumming in her ears. The dead here had been raised. En-masse, probably. She could only imagine the power that had taken. A whole village’s dead, raised in one night. She could see the figure now in her mind’s eye, a Harbinger cloaked in black under the light of a silvery full moon, the crimson wash of his Necromantic power seeping into the soil like blood and unleashing horrors, an army of the dead clawing their way out of their final resting places. She shivered. Adult Dark Fantasy Comps: Gideon the ninth – necromancy, I feed her to the beast and the beast is me – fall arc, to gaze upon wicked gods – death magic, the poppy war – fall arc, sabriel – necromancy Unlikeable female MCs & women’s wrongs A CORRUPTION OF DEATH BY HADIYAH SAMA
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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SIX OF CROWS X WHAT WAKES THE BELLS

After his sister is cursed by a vengeful goddess, a former pickpocket must steal a relic from the most powerful man in the city to save her. But he can’t pull it off alone, and not everyone in his ragtag crew can be trusted.

#QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC #Q #Heist
Left to right. Top row: A foggy city with a spire in the background. The hands of a clock approaching 12. Smoke from an explosive in a building. Middle row: A man in a waistcoat pointing at something. “Tick… Tock…” A man in a waistcoat sitting down. Bottom row: Silver coins covered in blood. A group of people standing inside a clock tower. Rain on a cobblestone street.
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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A DOWRY OF BLOOD x THE BACHELOR

Holland only agrees to date Dracula on TV to boost her influencer career. When producer manipulation goes too far, she tries to leave, but finds the eliminated girls haven’t been sent home—they’ve been fed on.

#questpit #W #A #H #comedy
Mood board depicting dark, campy vampire aesthetic with a silhouette of Dracula. Headline reads "Who Wants to Be Dracula's Bride" with tagline "This season's to die for".  
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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THE NEAR BIBLICAL ADVENTURES OF DIAMOND DAHLIA
#agentsguide #questpit #NA #F #Q

A Southern liberal arts campus hides a holy war.
A girl discovers her bloodline is both miracle and curse.
The Garden of Eden is real—
and someone plans to weaponize it.
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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ADDIE LARUE x YOU'VE REACHED SAM

On the verge of death, Safa makes a desperate bargain with a mysterious jinn. Now she has 3 obscure clues, 0 memories and 1 month to win back her life.

🇵🇰-rep & folklore
💘allies to lovers
🔍amnesia with a twist
⏳ticking clock

#questpit #ya #f
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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ak-writes.bsky.social
The Jasmine Throne x The Phoenix King
An #agentsguide to EMBROIDERED, a South Asian Adult Fantasy [97k], now arriving at inboxes near you 😊

#QuestPit #Q #F #A

✨title page character sketched by Jazz and colored by me✨
A woman (sketched by Jazz, colored by me) holds a veena in front of a palace (public domain Canva image). The title says "Embroidered" The pitch: In an 1800's India-inspired world, a court musician plays pretty melodies at night, and by day, plots deadly revenge on the governor to reclaim her inheritance. But when a runaway princess with a devastating smile arrives in her city, the civil unrest that ensues might kill them both first Four different comp titles: The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri, An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir, The Phoenix King by Aparna Verma, and The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh. The descriptors include: themes of colonialism and cultural erasure, heroines that grow into themselves and lean into rebellion, South Asian mythology and folklore + female rage, and revenge plots derailed by unexpected love. One section holds the opening lines: “There were traditions that existed for the sake of continuity— careful connections to our roots and ancestors— and then there were those we could do without. Amma’s daily performance, I thought, fell into the latter.” One section has an excerpt: “I just nodded, shifting my gaze back to the idol. Her golden cheeks glistened and I was desperate to change the subject. “They say when your plea to the goddess truly moves her, she cries sea-water tears.” “I’ve heard of that,” Roshni said, brightening. “If you catch them, I think they grant wishes?” “Do they?” “Myths.” The kumari shrugged. “Things for me to believe in and for you to analyze skeptically.” I had to grin at that, leaning towards her. “Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m the more faithful out of the pair of us.” She rolled her eyes, tilting up her chin even as her lips stretched wide. “I do love your nath,” she admitted. Her fingers came up to press against the gold hoop at my nose. And suddenly it was too much contact. Too little contact. Every sensible thought I’d ever had left my head.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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TO THE BURRITO GODS: a horror story about working in food service.

⛪️ workplace cult
🌯 foodie satire
💋 sapphic w/ trans LI

Querying soon. #questpit #A #H #LF #WIP
First panel is a mood board in pink, gold, and blue. "To the Burrito Gods" printed in the middle. Images in the board: two hands clasping, a burrito, a rainbow, something on fire, someone praying, an eye up close, a smashed up car, a computer and sketchbook, a series of knives. On the right panel against a grungy green background, info: Desperate Amanda doesn't have a lot of options in rural Oregon, but she thinks her dreams have come true when she's hired at Burrito Gods, a hip fast-casual joint, making a thriving wage, only to find that to climb the ranks she'll have to lose her soul. Movie poster for Sorry to Bother You X book cover for Pizza Girl. TO THE BURRITO GODS is a horror story about working in food service featuring a late queer coming-of-age for fans of Rachel Harrison and Grady Hendrix.
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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#questpit #SFF #W #A
When reality is stitched together by a secret org called the Seam using a mind-controlling machine, it’s up to Keisha to join forces with the Seam and destroy it from within. Who cares if theyre protecting alien/magical lives, the public deserves the truth!
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
carolinekwriting.bsky.social
Loved beta reading this story!
mynameisjoyous.bsky.social Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 13d
When a Black atheist discovers she’s half of two warring magical bloodlines, she must stop a secret society from finding the Garden of Eden—and turning the mind-controlling men into gods.
THE NEAR BIBLICAL ADVENTURES OF DIAMOND DAHLIA
#QuestPit #NA #F #Q
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Japanese-American teen Misa navigates abuse at the hands of a deceased family friend, risking her family's clean image in their culturally insular community—where silence is conformity—if she speaks up

🎌Immigrant story
🌸Coming of age
🫂Family tension
❤️First love

#QuestPit #YA #OWN #Q #agentguide
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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nikkipwrites.bsky.social
THE DARK CURSE
Middle Grade Fantasy 84k words

If you could wake up in your favourite video game, would you want to?

More to the point, would you ever want to leave?

#questpit #MG #F #LGBT #Q
A collage of pictures, with a young male hand reaching out to grab them: a sword and knights helmet, someone casting a fire spell, an inviting path into the woods, a knight holding a sword, a mountain behind an old-fashioned house, a cloaked magic user, a white horse galloping, and a mountain range.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
carolinekwriting.bsky.social
SINNERS x INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE

🩸Vampire marriage bonds
🖤Dark secrets
❤️Femmine rage
🖕🏾Black/African rage
❤️ Ancestral Magic
🩸Narrative that spans 200 years
🖤Forgotten memories
❤️Ride or die love

#QuestPit #W #A #F #R
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Some quotes that'll break your heart. 💔

DON'T FORGET ME inspired by THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, HAPPY PLACE, and HOW TO END A LOVE STORY.

- second chance
- forced proximity
- dark academia
- hispanic rep
- themes of trauma (DV)

#questpit #Q #R #NA #Swifties
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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smossman.bsky.social
HOUSE OF THE BEAST x WILL OF THE MANY
Big 5 Editor Interest 🙊

To defeat monarchs and her estranged childhood friend-turned-enemy, a star in human skin must learn about her power from a reluctant princess—before failure turns her body to ash. #Questpit #YA #F #Q #ND #POC
a moodboard for #questpit consisting of scales, a girl sitting on a bench, beaded bracelets, factories emitting smoke, a statue, fingers with gold rings, a mountain range, a princess, two knights, bleeding knuckles, and an old mud brick tower.
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Not querying yet (finishing final revisions) but testing out my agents guide!

SINNERS x IWAV

Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and 200 years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past, she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway.

#QuestPit #W #A #F
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#QuestPit #A #S #SF #W
Made from non-AI free stock images. This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections: 1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads: "How much would you pay to die with a smile?" The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background. 2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word. 3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom: A novel by B. van Bodegom
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Lore Talis, an exiled bard on a path of vengeance, strikes a bloody deal with the enemy elf to travel together across an Icelandic-inspired continent, where a deadly mist poisons the minds of whoever enters through it, so she can kill the mage who placed a violent curse on her

#Questpit #A #F
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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tiffbartel.com
A nerdy agender experimental art gremlin and an ex-wunderkind roboticist in exile team up to find out why the local tech co is bricking robots and stealing memories, and who's sending weird dispatches from the wasteland that's supposedly empty. Then mutually pine a little.

#QuestPit #W #A #SF #S
tiffbartel.com Tiff Bartel @tiffbartel.com · 14d
Finally put together an #agentsguide for Snaggleteeth, the adult speculative novel I'm currently polishing in hopes of querying in the new year! 🦷
(all slides are in the style of a vintage 80s/90s VHS box cover) / 1st slide: An Agent's Guide to Snaggleteeth / adult science fiction / near-future cyberpunk / retro tech & robots / 80k words (all slides are in the style of a vintage 80s/90s VHS box cover) / 2nd slide: Premise / When a lonely audiovisual archivist's assistive robot BFF gets bricked, he enlists the help of an illegal repair shop owner to resurrect her, while also using his anachronistic media know-how to investigate a tech conspiracy involving stolen memories. / (there is a little graphic of a lotus flower created by Dutchken @ Noun Project) (all slides are in the style of a vintage 80s/90s VHS box cover) / 3rd slide: It's Got Everything / 🏳️‍🌈 Scrappy queer/neurodivergent MC ❣️ Dorks aged 35+ in love / 🌲 Mutual pining 🗓️ Multiple timelines / 👽 Art gremlins / 🔥 Anti-capitalism 🤖 Prickly robot familiar / 🇻🇳 Southeast Asian folklore 📼 Cassette futurism vibes / (there is a little graphic of a nine-tailed fox created by Mariana Vinagre @ Noun Project) (all slides are in the style of a vintage 80s/90s VHS box cover) / 4th slide: Comps / Klara and the Sun: robot POV, subtle dystopia / Luminous: sibling drama, murder mystery / Both Klara and Luminous: companion robots as family, intergenerational conflict, explorations of grief, childhood illness / Light From Uncommon Stars: queer joy!, romance w/ older characters, so much food, music bringing people together / Severance: speculative workplace intrigue, weird memory stuff
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
carolinekwriting.bsky.social
My current November writing challenge WIP, no pitch, just vibes:

👸Royal fake dating
👑Princess x King
✨Humor (I think?)
💔Hopeless romantic who has given up on love
💚’Party 4 u’ vibes
❤️‍🩹Healing each other
🧚Fairytale vibes

#QuestPit #F #R #A #W
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Finally put together an #agentsguide for Snaggleteeth, the adult speculative novel I'm currently polishing in hopes of querying in the new year! 🦷
(all slides are in the style of a vintage 80s/90s VHS box cover) / 1st slide: An Agent's Guide to Snaggleteeth / adult science fiction / near-future cyberpunk / retro tech & robots / 80k words (all slides are in the style of a vintage 80s/90s VHS box cover) / 2nd slide: Premise / When a lonely audiovisual archivist's assistive robot BFF gets bricked, he enlists the help of an illegal repair shop owner to resurrect her, while also using his anachronistic media know-how to investigate a tech conspiracy involving stolen memories. / (there is a little graphic of a lotus flower created by Dutchken @ Noun Project) (all slides are in the style of a vintage 80s/90s VHS box cover) / 3rd slide: It's Got Everything / 🏳️‍🌈 Scrappy queer/neurodivergent MC ❣️ Dorks aged 35+ in love / 🌲 Mutual pining 🗓️ Multiple timelines / 👽 Art gremlins / 🔥 Anti-capitalism 🤖 Prickly robot familiar / 🇻🇳 Southeast Asian folklore 📼 Cassette futurism vibes / (there is a little graphic of a nine-tailed fox created by Mariana Vinagre @ Noun Project) (all slides are in the style of a vintage 80s/90s VHS box cover) / 4th slide: Comps / Klara and the Sun: robot POV, subtle dystopia / Luminous: sibling drama, murder mystery / Both Klara and Luminous: companion robots as family, intergenerational conflict, explorations of grief, childhood illness / Light From Uncommon Stars: queer joy!, romance w/ older characters, so much food, music bringing people together / Severance: speculative workplace intrigue, weird memory stuff
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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celebrating #questpit with a new #agentguide !!
Summer 1920. 8 children. 1 house. 1 games master. He’s a kid too, but this is his house, and it answers to him alone. Trapped in his games, they’ll have to get creative if they want to survive.
🐊 RevPit 25 winner
🐊 big 5 editor interest
#Q #MG #H
green tree grove in the background. At the top, Green on black, it says KNOWING THE TWINS with an agent’s guide right underneath. lower left black paint swipe with green writing says: Upper MG Horror, multiple POVs, 1920s setting. lower right black paint swipe with green writing says: #RevPit 2025 winner, big 5 editor interest. dark green background, title says THE PITCH. on the left are two green moodboards. the top one has weeping willows reaching water, a hand reaching from a tree trunk, a lake surrounded by trees, hands reaching for each other, a house surrounded by trees and a lake, someone running out of sight in a maze, a lake surrounded by trees, candlesticks on tree branches, and a pier jutting out into water. The bottom one has a hand reaching through tree bark; painting of Icarus as he falls by Gowy; a hand reaching to grasp berries; a lightbulb attracting butterflies; a tree grove; a piano in a greenhouse; Houasse painting of Daphne’s hand growing foliage; painting of crows on a branch; hands reaching through lily pads. on the left, over a white drawing of a crocodile: Summer, 1920. Eight children must play 14-year-old Alistair’s dangerous games, where understanding him may be the only way to outpace him—and escape the summer alive. How do you survive a puppet master when you’re his marionette? light green background, title at the bottom centre says THE COMPS with tree drawings on either side. at the top centre are three pictures of three book covers. THE WRONG WAY HOME by Kate O’Shaughnessy has an arrow saying “internally-driven conflict & revelatory abuse”. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding has an arrow saying “adult-free environment & emergency hierarchy”. NOT QUITE A GHOST by Anne Ursu has an arrow saying “psychological stakes”. dark green background. title in the top centre is THE THEMES. underneath is a list: abandonment, sibling opposites, parentification, reclaiming girlhood, dangers of a saviour complex, wanting to be closer to the monster, how to survive abuse, the ways fear transforms you, puberty a loss of freedom. behind the list is a drawing of a weeping willow. on the right is a drawing of a Manor House. on the left are drawings of an old 1920s phone, some berries and fire.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM