Brighton Rose
@heybrightonrose.bsky.social
ethnically ambiguous author illustrator with too many hobbies
https://brightonrose.com/
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I had such a great time doing #DVPit this year! It was so fun to see everyone’s concepts and meet other writers! Thank you to everyone who boosted my posts and thank you @heybrightonrose.bsky.social for being my DV Pit guide ❤️
October 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I had such a great time doing #DVPit this year! It was so fun to see everyone’s concepts and meet other writers! Thank you to everyone who boosted my posts and thank you @heybrightonrose.bsky.social for being my DV Pit guide ❤️
MONTE CRISTO x SIX OF CROWS
In a world of magical warring gangs, 19yo Anya has 3 days to track down the man who killed her father before she hangs for his crimes. But when a boy from her past returns for revenge, Anya must stay a step ahead and choose between her heart and her life.
#DVpit #NA #F
In a world of magical warring gangs, 19yo Anya has 3 days to track down the man who killed her father before she hangs for his crimes. But when a boy from her past returns for revenge, Anya must stay a step ahead and choose between her heart and her life.
#DVpit #NA #F
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Eight years after his parents were murdered, Kasper returns to the Shrouded City to take down the people responsible—including the girl he once loved.
⛲ Venice-inspired setting
🗡️ Warring magical gangs
💔 Childhood friends to lovers to enemies
🏰 MONTE CRISTO x SIX OF CROWS
#DVpit #YA #NA #F #WOC
⛲ Venice-inspired setting
🗡️ Warring magical gangs
💔 Childhood friends to lovers to enemies
🏰 MONTE CRISTO x SIX OF CROWS
#DVpit #YA #NA #F #WOC
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
HUNGER GAMES x ACOMAF but funny
17yo Aline enters the fae tournament to save her sister, only for her ex-BF to show up and pull a Peeta. Now they’ve got until sunrise to win the tournament before the fae find out they’re not really in love—and Aline loses her sister forever.
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC
17yo Aline enters the fae tournament to save her sister, only for her ex-BF to show up and pull a Peeta. Now they’ve got until sunrise to win the tournament before the fae find out they’re not really in love—and Aline loses her sister forever.
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC
October 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
17yo Aline enters the fae tournament to save her sister, but must compete against her ex-BF, who tricks her into a fake dating plot to scam the fae and win it all.
🧚♂️ Faeries behaving badly
🌚 Appalachia at night
🏳️🌈 Bi4Bi chaos
🗡️ CRUEL PRINCE x HUNGER GAMES but funny
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #POC
🧚♂️ Faeries behaving badly
🌚 Appalachia at night
🏳️🌈 Bi4Bi chaos
🗡️ CRUEL PRINCE x HUNGER GAMES but funny
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #POC
October 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
NINTH HOUSE x BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH
16yo Beatrice infiltrates rival secret societies at Blairwood Academy to uncover which fellow student killed her ex-girlfriend.
📚 Magical dark academia
🖤 Bi4Bi rivals-to-lovers
🇵🇭 Biracial FMC
👩🎨 Gorgeous Atlas Six-style illustrations
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #LGBT #WOC
16yo Beatrice infiltrates rival secret societies at Blairwood Academy to uncover which fellow student killed her ex-girlfriend.
📚 Magical dark academia
🖤 Bi4Bi rivals-to-lovers
🇵🇭 Biracial FMC
👩🎨 Gorgeous Atlas Six-style illustrations
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #LGBT #WOC
October 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
CRUEL PRINCE x HUNGER GAMES but funny
I [17F] entered a fae tournament to save my sister [19F] but my theater kid ex-bf [17M] is competing too and wants to pretend we’re in love so the fae vote for us to win. AITA if I do it? I don’t still like him. I swear.
Edit: Oh no
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC
I [17F] entered a fae tournament to save my sister [19F] but my theater kid ex-bf [17M] is competing too and wants to pretend we’re in love so the fae vote for us to win. AITA if I do it? I don’t still like him. I swear.
Edit: Oh no
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC
October 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Mentally, I am in soup season. Physically, I am in the fifth circle of Hell.
October 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Mentally, I am in soup season. Physically, I am in the fifth circle of Hell.
NINTH HOUSE x BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH
16yo Beatrice attends cutthroat Blairwood Academy in disguise to uncover which student there killed her ex-girlfriend.
📚 Magical dark academia
🇵🇭 Biracial FMC
🖤 Rivals-to-lovers
🗡️ Dueling secret societies
📖 Sentient evil library
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC #LGBT
16yo Beatrice attends cutthroat Blairwood Academy in disguise to uncover which student there killed her ex-girlfriend.
📚 Magical dark academia
🇵🇭 Biracial FMC
🖤 Rivals-to-lovers
🗡️ Dueling secret societies
📖 Sentient evil library
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
CRUEL PRINCE x HUNGER GAMES but funny
I [17F] entered a fae tournament to save my sister [19F] but my theater kid ex-bf [17M] is competing too and wants to pretend we’re in love so the fae vote for us to win. AITA if I do it? I don’t still like him. I swear.
Edit: Oh no
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC
I [17F] entered a fae tournament to save my sister [19F] but my theater kid ex-bf [17M] is competing too and wants to pretend we’re in love so the fae vote for us to win. AITA if I do it? I don’t still like him. I swear.
Edit: Oh no
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC
October 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
NINTH HOUSE x BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH
16yo Beatrice attends cutthroat Blairwood Academy in disguise to uncover which student there killed her ex-girlfriend.
📚 Magical dark academia
🗡️ Dueling secret societies
🖤 Rivals-to-lovers
🇵🇭 Biracial FMC
📖 Sentient evil library
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC #LGBT
16yo Beatrice attends cutthroat Blairwood Academy in disguise to uncover which student there killed her ex-girlfriend.
📚 Magical dark academia
🗡️ Dueling secret societies
🖤 Rivals-to-lovers
🇵🇭 Biracial FMC
📖 Sentient evil library
#DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀
October 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀
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Absolutely wild to say this but... your eyes do not deceive you. That IS me being quoted in USA Today talking about the inherent queerness of vampires! 😱🦇🌈
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
Did 'Twilight' ruin the vampire genre? How the series broke the rules – for the better
People still tell "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson that the movies and Stephenie Meyer books ruined the vampire genre. But did it? We asked readers.
www.usatoday.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Absolutely wild to say this but... your eyes do not deceive you. That IS me being quoted in USA Today talking about the inherent queerness of vampires! 😱🦇🌈
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
#DVparty day 6, part 2
i am drafting a completely self-indulgent vampire why choose where a hapless grad student gets locked in a magical house for a year with 3 very handsome, very thirsty vampires 😈
i am drafting a completely self-indulgent vampire why choose where a hapless grad student gets locked in a magical house for a year with 3 very handsome, very thirsty vampires 😈
October 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#DVparty day 6, part 2
i am drafting a completely self-indulgent vampire why choose where a hapless grad student gets locked in a magical house for a year with 3 very handsome, very thirsty vampires 😈
i am drafting a completely self-indulgent vampire why choose where a hapless grad student gets locked in a magical house for a year with 3 very handsome, very thirsty vampires 😈
#DVparty day 6
my next project is an adult dark academia romantasy starring a very hot terrible man with the power to command people using his voice and his very hot terrible girlfriend who has the power to instantly become fluent in any language once she hears 7 words in that language
my next project is an adult dark academia romantasy starring a very hot terrible man with the power to command people using his voice and his very hot terrible girlfriend who has the power to instantly become fluent in any language once she hears 7 words in that language
October 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
#DVparty day 6
my next project is an adult dark academia romantasy starring a very hot terrible man with the power to command people using his voice and his very hot terrible girlfriend who has the power to instantly become fluent in any language once she hears 7 words in that language
my next project is an adult dark academia romantasy starring a very hot terrible man with the power to command people using his voice and his very hot terrible girlfriend who has the power to instantly become fluent in any language once she hears 7 words in that language
#DVparty day 3, opening lines
y'all pray for aline. she's not dead, just entering a fae tournament to save her sister and one of her competitors is her insufferably handsome ex she def does NOT still have feelings for
y'all pray for aline. she's not dead, just entering a fae tournament to save her sister and one of her competitors is her insufferably handsome ex she def does NOT still have feelings for
October 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
#DVparty day 3, opening lines
y'all pray for aline. she's not dead, just entering a fae tournament to save her sister and one of her competitors is her insufferably handsome ex she def does NOT still have feelings for
y'all pray for aline. she's not dead, just entering a fae tournament to save her sister and one of her competitors is her insufferably handsome ex she def does NOT still have feelings for
#DVparty day 2 part 2
meet aline who’s gonna rescue her fool sister from the fool fae prince. her shirt is shoplifted and her acne spells BITCH in braille. she’s in over her head 🥰
(drawing her is my chosen form of procrastination)
meet aline who’s gonna rescue her fool sister from the fool fae prince. her shirt is shoplifted and her acne spells BITCH in braille. she’s in over her head 🥰
(drawing her is my chosen form of procrastination)
October 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
#DVparty day 2 part 2
meet aline who’s gonna rescue her fool sister from the fool fae prince. her shirt is shoplifted and her acne spells BITCH in braille. she’s in over her head 🥰
(drawing her is my chosen form of procrastination)
meet aline who’s gonna rescue her fool sister from the fool fae prince. her shirt is shoplifted and her acne spells BITCH in braille. she’s in over her head 🥰
(drawing her is my chosen form of procrastination)
#DVparty Day 2: Main Character
If anyone at Blairwood Academy discovers Eve Sacramore is really Beatrice Tamayo, like 3 people are going to prison for felony magic fraud and a murderer is going to get away with Beatrice’s ex girlfriend’s death 👀👀
If anyone at Blairwood Academy discovers Eve Sacramore is really Beatrice Tamayo, like 3 people are going to prison for felony magic fraud and a murderer is going to get away with Beatrice’s ex girlfriend’s death 👀👀
October 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
#DVparty Day 2: Main Character
If anyone at Blairwood Academy discovers Eve Sacramore is really Beatrice Tamayo, like 3 people are going to prison for felony magic fraud and a murderer is going to get away with Beatrice’s ex girlfriend’s death 👀👀
If anyone at Blairwood Academy discovers Eve Sacramore is really Beatrice Tamayo, like 3 people are going to prison for felony magic fraud and a murderer is going to get away with Beatrice’s ex girlfriend’s death 👀👀
hi #DVparty i am an author illustrator who’s putting atlas six-style section art in her YA fantasy dark academia
i love writing about terrible people doing magic ✨✨
i love writing about terrible people doing magic ✨✨
October 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
hi #DVparty i am an author illustrator who’s putting atlas six-style section art in her YA fantasy dark academia
i love writing about terrible people doing magic ✨✨
i love writing about terrible people doing magic ✨✨
everyone pray for me, i’m not dying just trying to speedrun a 60k revision between now and DVpit okay maybe i am a little dying
September 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
everyone pray for me, i’m not dying just trying to speedrun a 60k revision between now and DVpit okay maybe i am a little dying
HUNGER GAMES x ROSE BARGAIN
After the fae took her sister during the harvest moon tournament, 17yo Aline enters the Wood to kick fae ass and get her back. But the tournament pits her against her ex-bf, who reels her into a fake dating ploy to scam the fae and win it all.
#preDV #YA #CF #POC
After the fae took her sister during the harvest moon tournament, 17yo Aline enters the Wood to kick fae ass and get her back. But the tournament pits her against her ex-bf, who reels her into a fake dating ploy to scam the fae and win it all.
#preDV #YA #CF #POC
September 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
NINTH HOUSE x BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH
16yo Beatrice attends cutthroat, magical Blairwood Academy in disguise to uncover which student there killed her ex-girlfriend.
📚 Magical dark academia
🗡️ Dueling secret societies
🖤 Rivals-to-lovers
🎨 Section illustrations—with clues 👀
#preDV #YA #F #WOC #LGBT
16yo Beatrice attends cutthroat, magical Blairwood Academy in disguise to uncover which student there killed her ex-girlfriend.
📚 Magical dark academia
🗡️ Dueling secret societies
🖤 Rivals-to-lovers
🎨 Section illustrations—with clues 👀
#preDV #YA #F #WOC #LGBT
September 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM