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Elisa Winther
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Speculative fiction and romance writer from The Netherlands, #amwriting poetic flash fiction, lore-rich short stories, and evocative, character-driven novels in a shared universe | mid-30s | she/they 🏳‍🌈 | AuDHD |
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Elisa Winther @elisawinther.bsky.social · 13d
ShifterWIP | THE SUMMONING x UPROOTED

💘Yearning, banter, and emotional safety
🏛️Ruins, magical forest, gradual discovery of layered lore
🌈Autistic, ADHD, and cPTSD rep (own)
👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽Found family & cozy friend dynamics
😏Alphahole antag you’ll love to hate
❤️‍🩹Grief, comfort & Healing

#QuestPit #W #A #RF #PR
Moodboard for the work in progress by Elisa Winther about shifters, hunters, and witches. The images include a wolf in a forest, apples, someone gathering herbs, a smoking gun, a woman with a wolf sleeping, a lit candle in a lantern and a moon between the clouds.
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Drafting to Two Steps From Hell
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November 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Was getting a bit fatigued with my romantasy but instead of taking a break the 🐰🐰 hit again (because of course) and now I have a partially outlined sci-fantasy & horror novelette, including pitches, comps and moodboards 😅

Now if I could continue drafting my romantasy again, that'd be nice 😂
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Gonna do a little progress reporting on this 😁 I'm hoping to finish it before the end of the year, though that feels a bit ambitious for me.

I'm working on the flower festival chapters and hoping to weave in some more lore as well as having some fun moments. Lots of bonding for multiple chars-
elisawinther.bsky.social Elisa Winther @elisawinther.bsky.social · 13d
ShifterWIP | THE SUMMONING x UPROOTED

💘Yearning, banter, and emotional safety
🏛️Ruins, magical forest, gradual discovery of layered lore
🌈Autistic, ADHD, and cPTSD rep (own)
👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽Found family & cozy friend dynamics
😏Alphahole antag you’ll love to hate
❤️‍🩹Grief, comfort & Healing

#QuestPit #W #A #RF #PR
Moodboard for the work in progress by Elisa Winther about shifters, hunters, and witches. The images include a wolf in a forest, apples, someone gathering herbs, a smoking gun, a woman with a wolf sleeping, a lit candle in a lantern and a moon between the clouds.
November 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social
FFXIV but steampunk
OR: Rolling nat 20s on persuasion for fun, profit, and avoiding divine wars.
⭐Ace/bi friends-to-lovers
⭐Answering destiny with YOU'RE NOT MY DAD
⭐Art/music as defiance
⭐Hopepunk + art nouveau vibes
🐉Dragons!
🐝Bee people!
#Hopepit #hopepunk #WIP #F #NA
Moodboard of eight images. Top left: A figure plays a violin in a dark room. The image is shot in such a way that only the violin and one of the player's hands is visible. Center left: A man stands in darkness; his head is on fire. Bottom left: A wireframe of a dragon against a bright orange background Top/mid center: Alphonse Mucha's Emerald, featuring a woman staring intensely at the viewer as she leans against the head of a snarling serpent. A white line is drawn straight through the image to neatly divide the woman's head from the serpent's. Bottom center: The Lovers, from the Art Nouveau Tarot deck, featuring a couple just about to kiss. The card is lying on a white space, surrounded by red/white roses. Top right: A figure in white robes wanders through a very green forest. Center right: A bolt of lightning arcs above a mountain range in a very violet sky. Bottom right: A black hole swirls in a sea of violet stars and nebulae.
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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All Mick wanted was to keep his best friend Eleanor safe on their first adventure. But when fate binds him to a dead god and transforms him into a dragon, Mick's forced to rise from sidekick to king before a divine war wipes out the people he's been chosen to protect.
#Hopepit #hopepunk #WIP #NA #F
Three-panel moodboard consisting of three pieces by Alphonse Mucha. Left: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies. Center: The Moon. A woman wearing nothing but a navy blanket covered in stars stands against a backdrop consisting of the night sky and a crescent moon. She covers her smile with one hand. This image is noticeably lower in quality than its neighboring panels. Right: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer. A golden filigree lines the bottom and frames the sides, partially covering the left and right panels.
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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WHEN TIME RUNS OUT OF DEATH

⚔️ Adult Gothic Romantasy
⚔️ Pain Magic
⚔️ Stone Butch & High Femme Lesbians
⚔️ Fibromyalgia & CFS Rep
⚔️ Gloomy quest
⚔️ Disability grief

#A #RF #Q #LGBT #OwnVoices #questpit
A collage with blue-grey background. Pictures of black curly hair, pomegranate, a woman floating in the water with white roses on her chest, an ouroboros with a sword through it, wet thorns, a woman kneeling beside a lake, hazel eyes (a mixture of blue, green and brown hues.) On a red rectangle in the right portion of the collage, the name of my main character, Cordelia Ivy Ashwood, and her craft—the healer. Below it, five columns with red shades, from bright to burgundy. A collage with blue-grey background. Pictures of a crown against the moon, a knight’s armour, a hand gripping a sword, a knight offering an arm to a maiden, dark brown eyes partly covered by a frown, playing cards, books. On a dark orange rectangle in the right portion of the collage, the name of the love interest of my main character, Caspian James Lestrange and their craft—the knight. Below it, five columns with orange shades, from bright to almost red. A snippet of When Time Runs Out of Death: “You hurt. I know the pain is always present, and I cannot begin to imagine how much. When it gets to a point, you wield yourself like a sword. You turn yourself into a weapon because blades do not falter. You hurt others in retribution for what you need to withstand. I’ve seen it— I see you, Cora. And I am not going to let you throw me aside like you do with Moira.” Jamie crossed their arms in front of their chest. Bit the insides of their cheeks. “You cannot get past my armor. I will not let it.”
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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SHE WHO BCAME☀️ x PRIORY🍊TREE

🏹Manchu+Mongol+Han inspired
🪭God blood as ink for tatoo magic
🏹An eldritch craving familial love
🪭A failing chosen one
🏹A saboteur of her own rebellion
🪭An heir w/ perfect life until the facade rips
🏹Editor interest+14 agent requests

#QuestPit #Q #A #F
a woman with an owl and a horse. an asian girl. imperial palace court with nobles.
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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WAKE embodies "Free" from KPOP DEMON HUNTERS w/:

~A FMC tormented by her past that's ruining her mental health
~A LI working for the villain w/ his own troubled past
~a supportive slow burn romance built on understanding inner pain

Coming Spring 2027

#QuestPit #P #YA #F #MY #R
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #SF #A #Q #R #LGBT
Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 113,000 words "Did you hear? There's a human on board." A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human) PITCH: Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist. Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway? That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no. PRIORITIES: make dinner remain cozy haul cargo go for drinks pull off one last score try not to fall in love FIRST PAGE: “Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.” I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity. “Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.” “Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table. It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best. The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.” The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?” COMPS: Murderbot by Martha Wells Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wisewell The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers TROPES: Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm lying to themselves non-human perspective (afraid of humans) neurodivergent main characters metaphorically disabled protagonist slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship disabilitynorm and queernorm setting found family loveable pet/terrifying monster
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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POTIONS UNINCORPORATED

Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x THE SPELLSHOP

💜 Chronic Illness Rep
🌱 Plant Magic
💚 Bisexual Witches
🐈‍⬛ A Snarky Familiar
😈 Evil Pharmaceutical Potion Company
☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine Romance
☕ Cozy Vibes

#QuestPit #Q #A #R #F #chronicillnessrep #ownvoices #LGBTQ #cozyfantasy
Potions Unincorporated is written on a black journal with ivy stems and a mushroom on the cover. The tropes are listed with arrows on the right side: Grumpy x Sunshine, Found Family, Evil Pharma Potion Company, Plant Magic, Chronic Illness Rep, Cozy Vibes The Pitch is written on a lavender field background: A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company A garden of comps is written on a leaf. The background is brown soil with plants next to comp titles: Legends and Lattes, The Spellshop, Howl's Moving Castle, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, and Under The Whispering Door. A snippet highlights the main character's relationship with her familiar, Toad. In the snippet they discuss Linatta's ex girlfriend and Toad's hatred of hats. A book is open below the image and has wildflowers growing out of the inside spine.
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
elisawinther.bsky.social
ShifterWIP | THE SUMMONING x UPROOTED

💘Yearning, banter, and emotional safety
🏛️Ruins, magical forest, gradual discovery of layered lore
🌈Autistic, ADHD, and cPTSD rep (own)
👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽Found family & cozy friend dynamics
😏Alphahole antag you’ll love to hate
❤️‍🩹Grief, comfort & Healing

#QuestPit #W #A #RF #PR
Moodboard for the work in progress by Elisa Winther about shifters, hunters, and witches. The images include a wolf in a forest, apples, someone gathering herbs, a smoking gun, a woman with a wolf sleeping, a lit candle in a lantern and a moon between the clouds.
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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RIDLEY SCOTT'S ALIEN MEETS NESS BROWN'S THE SCOURGE BETWEEN STARS #Q #A #SF #H #QuestPit
👾What if Ripley had been the captain and ignored the distress signal? Featuring
👽Complex sisterly and familial relationships
🏳️‍🌈F/F Romance with Ace love interest
👾Mysterious and possibly murderous aliens
a close up of a rock with a spider web coming out of it
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November 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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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
💜 Healing grief & trauma through found family
🕯️Samhain, Día de Muertos, Fèt Gede, Undas

#QuestPit #W #A #S #F #PR
There is a grid of nine square photos with a dark blue background around them. All the photos are darkened and desaturated. In the top left photo, Tylor, a pale Northern Irish man with long, dark curly hair and wearing a black suit, is squatting close to the ground beside a tree trunk with his hands clasped one over the other. The top middle photo is a series of silhouettes of gravestones, the faint outline of a mountain in the background. The top right is a paved bridge that extends into fog, with metal railings on either side and branches along the top edge of the image. The centre left photo is a blurred, dark image of lines on a road and a streak of a headlamp above. The centre middle is a starry night sky surrounded by black silhouettes of tree tops. Centre right is a lighter photo of a roadway and field beyond, with a white Mini driving on it. The bottom left photo is of several leafless young trees beside a lake. The bottom middle photo is a low-angle shot of a cobblestone wall and memorial obelisk atop it. In the bottom right image, Naveena, a British-Indian woman with brown skin and long dark hair, moves along a hedge in a black leather jacket with a wary expression on her face. There is text overlayed all the photos. It says: "The Pitch. 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?"
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Witcher meets Whitten: The God of the Mists

A village witch teams up with the vampire she vowed to protect her village from in order to take down the child of a god who has been terrorizing them both.

🥀 Why-choose FFM
🦄 New England cryptids
🍷 Vampires!!
⚔️ Gothic romantasy

#WIP #A #F #RF #QuestPit
A mood board consisting of: a misty forest on a mountainside, a stained glass window with apothecary bottles in front of it, a tree bench reflected red against a dark sky, a hallway lined with gothic architecture windows, a red moon, a white rose stained with red, and a series of white candles half-melted.
November 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
elisawinther.bsky.social
It's going to be a busy day, but I look forward to seeing and interacting with all your beautiful pitches and learning about your projects!

I'll also be posting one, maybe two more pitches later today for my romantasy.

Have fun with #QuestPit today, everyone!! 🥰
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS

Alyss attends Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. With the (reluctant) help of her ex, her ex bff, & a devious half-vampire, she'll use memory magic to uncover the truth behind the murder that destroyed her life.🌙🦇⚔️

#QuestPit #OS #AG #F #R
A MEMORY OF MOONKISSED MALICE Fantasy Dark Academia Feminine Rage Vampires Corrupted Moon Magic Villain Era Protag Queendoms Enemies to Lovers Found Family THE PITCH 18-year-old Alyss Veylas wishes to attend Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. Five long years after her sister was murdered by the school's guardian, she finally gets that chance. Armed with a Moon Fragment granting memory magic and the aid of her ex and his new girlfriend, Alyss must confront the woman who took away the person she loved most. CHAPTER ONE The rain made it easier to rob his grave. My shovel carved through the sodden earth, the water contorting into murky veins around its edge. Desperation drove each labored thrust, the burning ache in my muscles but an afterthought to the prize that lied in wait. Even the Valera Forest held its breath; the fog thick enough to smother the night's whispers. All was silent save for the spilling of soil under the deluge that drenched us. Us. As I lifted my gaze to the boy standing across from me, I found that word had lost all semblance of warmth. FOR FANS OF... The lush, gothic prose of... A fantasy academia setting similar to... A supernatural mystery like...
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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AKIRA X PARADISE LOST
Blessed be the Rich, for Heaven has been privatized.
Sixteen-year-old Ollie has led an unlucky life. Now, dead and stuck in Hell with his little sister, he’ll do anything to protect her. Even be the catalyst for a revolution against Heaven.

#QuestPit #YA
A cyberpunk moodboard
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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longwaydownbook.bsky.social
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?

#QuestPit #W #A #S #F #PR
There is a grid of nine square photos. Top row, L to R: 1) A dark mosaic floor is covered in tall lit candles. 2) A woman kneels in front of a colorful ofrenda, arranging flower pedals and beans into a skull on the floor in front of it. 3) Naveena, a British-Indian woman with brown skin and long dark hair, stands in front of a wall covered in foliage, dressed in black. A colorful rose and marigold crown sits on her head, holding a black lace hair covering in place. Her face has white lace patterns painted on it that mimic both mehndi and a skull and she is wearing bright gold earrings, a lace choker, and wine and white bangles. She is looking to the side warily. Middle row, L to R: 1) A small doll is positioned in front of a mural. The doll is dressed in a black suit, has a skull face, and has a pair of antlers. 2) A skeleton with a top hat sits on a table covered in brown fabric. He is bent over as if tipping his hat. Behind him is a bright green wall with a toothy, colorful skull painted on it, surrounded by king snakes. On the table are other items like a pineapple, candy, and a cross. 2) The top of a spired tomb spikes out into the pale sky, surrounded by empty tree branches. 3) A woman is holding a boy's hand as they look outside at a tall skeletal papier-mâché woman on stilts smiling back at them. Bottom row, L to R: 1) Tylor, a pale Northern Irish man with long, dark curly hair and wearing a black suit, is standing in front of the dark blue door of a mausoleum. Half of his face is a skull, and his brow is furrowed. 3) There is a little chair with a fuzzy white blanket on it sitting on a concrete floor. On the blanket is a red candle, a cross, a white statue of a veiled woman, and a framed sepia photo of a group of people. Other framed photos sit beside it.
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot
Boys start to disappear in Lyric’s backwards backwoods town and her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate if something is monstrously wrong with her friend.
#Questpit #YA #AG #H #R #Ownvoice
old church, girl running in cowboy boots, old bible, girl with lighter under tongue, old cassette, girl licking red off hands, fair at night, old field, old church and pews
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
elisawinther.bsky.social
THE SUMMONING x FRUITCAKE AND FAMILIARS

Convinced he’s too monstrous for love, Scott falls hard for the new witch in town. But his isn’t the only attention she’s gained. Stalked by her neighbour, Scott vows to keep Hailey safe.

But what if she’s just the bait?

#QuestPit #W #A #RF ShifterWIP
Moodboard for the work in progress by Elisa Winther about shifters, hunters, and witches. The images include a wolf among brush, a girl in a tree, notebooks and bottled herbs, overgrown ruins, a hunter holding a gun and knife, a basket with a skull and herbs, and a cozy sitting nook with pillows and blankets under a tree. Text reads: Cozy mystery & romantasy. Shifter WIP.
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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bluepit.bsky.social
#WIPPIT is coming up on November 23rd!

Follow @wippit.bsky.social for more information!

#WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #WriteSky
wippit.bsky.social WIPPIT @wippit.bsky.social · 19d
Spread the word!
#WIPPIT STICKY NOTE NOTICE We are moving to November 23! We want to give precedence to the large protest happing at the US Capital that's Happening November 22, so we are moving by a day to allow them the Platforms to make change.
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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bluepit.bsky.social
#HopePit is coming up fast on Nov 9th!

See their schedule below and follow @hopepit.bsky.social for more information!

Open to ALL types of media, not just writing, and focusing on #solarpunk, #hopepunk, and #clifi!

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #MusicSky #ArtSky #IndieDev #GameDev #Writers
hopepit.bsky.social #HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 18d
#Hopepit is next week!

Here is our daily connect schedule.

Please JOIN US in building community & uplifting all types of media
with #solarpunk, #hopepunk, & #clifi elements.
Here on 🦋.

#hopecore #writesky #WritingCommunity #musicsky #artsky

🌞🌱
flier: #Hopepit community connect Nov 5 - 9 🌞 Use #Hopepit hashtag & engage with others to uplift hopepunk & build community 🌞 all styles, formats, and media welcome!! (no AI) schedule: Wed Nov 5 meet & greet introduce yourself & your work 🌞 What brings you hope? Thur Nov 6 share music & books with solarpunk & hopepunk vibes Fri Nov 7 art share: your own or related to your work Sat Nov 8 share a snippet of your creations Sun Nov 9 pitch/ promote climate fiction hopecore hopepunk clifi #Climatefiction nomadpunk solarpunk #solarpunk #hopecore indigenous futurism pitch hype permaculture
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Seasons greetings! We’re so happy to announce our 2025 #questpit event list! We hope you all are having a lovely start to your December and we hope to see you here starting in February next year.
a pink background banner litter with candy canes and simple wreaths with red bows. A green box is in the center and white lettering reads “Our 2025 Event List: February 12th, May 7th, August 6th, and November 5th”
December 3, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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Look, receiving negative feedback sucks but maybe don't ask for feedback when you can't handle someone not liking your work 🤷🏽‍♀️
November 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
elisawinther.bsky.social
writing bucket list

📍Enemies to lovers with exploring shifting perspectives, unlearning 💩, lots of (romantic) tension

📍space opera with lots of political scheming, gorgeous backdrops, exploration, complex romantic subplot, thrilling action

📍novelette that stays short 😅 my arch nemesis
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM