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Louis Vernico (they/he)
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Queer Fantasy and Action Writer and Artist || 23 || Dutch ||aroace || infp || they/he || wip: Truthseeker, Truthfinder
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Louis Vernico (they/he) @louisvernico.bsky.social · Jun 5
WE WILL MEET IN HELL

A normal day in Hell for Shelomith simply starts and ends with taking care of the four horses of the apocalypse. It shouldn't start with an arrogant cowboy returning one of those horses or end with stopping the apocalypse.

#HotWetQueerSummerJam #HotWetPitch #WIP #F #ADV
WE WILL MEET IN HELL LOUIS VERNICO cowboys in Hell lots of banter gave me multiple crises already horses of the apocalypse do not askwhy the Greek gods are here too local man does not know howto ride things they share one braincell (and a bed) #hotwetqueersummerjam Pictures: Nine pictures in various shades of red and orange depicting cowboys, horses, the desert, riding equipment, a glass skull, boots and a silhouette of a person with a halo
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ormakal.bsky.social
So many genres, so many books at only $1 per book.

This offer is there only till the 21st, so grab your copies before it's too late!

💙📚 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚

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A graphic with 36 covers with text "Get 36 books for $36. Itch-io Bundle for Short Story/Novellas. Small is Magical. August 17 to 21. Pilot Neto and his Holographic Elves Visual Snow The God Sun Only My Eyes Move: The First Nightmare The Man Who Was Born a Wolf Rotten Roots Dark Heart of Ilmoure Dust & Lightning Always an After The Amber Isle Gift of Light Moral Laundry Hunt Monsters, Do Magic, & Fall in Love There Be Monsters: Hunter and Bait Slutty Sorcerers The Reckoning Society's Foundlings The Mouse & the Dragon I Know You're Still In There Rom and Yuli The Selkie and the Minstrel The Casebook of Harriet George, volume 1: The Dinosaur Hunters Reset Where Dreams Are Lost: The Second Nightmare Someone Else's Horror Story Emergence A Magical Love Story 1 Love at First Bite Water's Edge Other Future Stories The Casebook of Harriet George, volume 2: A Spy in the Deep
August 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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earlronove.bsky.social
👁️ COVER REVEAL 👁️

Announcing BE NOT AFRAID, my fast-paced survival horror novella for fans of disturbing angels, deadbeat guitarists, and lead pipes as a weapon. Join Trent as he has the worst night of his life.

Coming DEC 9th! 👁️
Pre-Order & details:
sjean.carrd.co#benotafraid
💙📚🩸📢📚
Illustrated cover for Be Not Afraid by S. Jean. It features a young man with white hair, bright eyes, and pink wings leaping across the page in profile. He is wearing a dark tank top, light short-shorts, and bright red high tops with white socks. He has a coy smile on his lips and is staring at the camera. There is a gold, spiky halo behind him. In the background are smears of pink against a deep, dark blue and eyeballs throughout staring at him. A description graphic detailing the plot of Be Not Afraid by S. Jean. It reads: "Deadbeat Trent Cain can't catch a break. Life's been one disaster after another, rent's always due, and he's always late. Even his band doesn't want anything to do with him anymore and playing the guitar was the one joy he had left in life. When he takes a shortcut home through the park at 3AM, he walks right into another disaster: five angels waiting to greet him. Unfortunately, despite their proclamations of be not afraid, they mean him harm. His only hope is another angel wielding a lead pipe, but there’s something familiar about this one..." At the bottom is where to find it to pre-order it, which is: books.earlronove.com/benotafraid
August 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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voicesofvalhoon.bsky.social
ARC and street team sign ups for Songs of Broken Bells are now live!

When a hungry flame reawakens and threatens everything Líadan holds dear, she must choose whether she’ll give in or fight back. But she doesn’t have to do it alone.

Sign up bellow! ⬇️
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The cover for Songs of Broken Bells by Lilly Lockwood. It features the four main characters arranged in a diamond formation, a stained glass design at the top with a sun on one side and shadows on the other, and a string of cracked bells on the sides. Liadan is at the bottom, holding up a candle. She has orange skin, silver hair, black rams horns, and black markings on her arms. She's wearing a green cloak and a yellow dress. Vasil is to her left. He is also holding a candle. Vasil has brown skin with a bark-like texture with patches of paler skin and moss. His hair is brown and curly. He is wearing a green caftan with yellow filigree. Minno is on the right, also holding a candle. They have pale skin, blonde hair with braided sideburns, and round framed glasses. They are wearing a white shirt with part of their kilt (in a brown and blue tartan) draped over one shoulder. Aila is behind the other three characters with her wings wrapped around them. She has pink skin, magenta hair styled in pigtail braids, and small pointed horns. She has a red scarf.
August 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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catvoleur.bsky.social
RELEASE DAY!!!

My new collection, NORMAL THINGS, is now available for purchase 💮 💀 🖤
July 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
louisvernico.bsky.social
#hotwetpitstop time!!

I havent been writing as much as I would hope for life got in the way ofc, but I am glad to be writing regardless. This story already gave me multiple breakdowns (sorry yall) and I am not even halfway. But we move, unlike the world in there.

#hotwetqueersummer
We Will Meet In Hell Hot wet queer summer jam The end of the world will be brought to you by many things and many people. Horses. Gods. The everlasting fires of hell. Three angels. The Lamb. A lone ranch. An even lonelier cowboy. Too many eyes. No witnesses left. Another cowboy. This one is dying currently. How, you might ask. Well, I'll show you then. Louis Vernico background image of a desert, it is very red
July 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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piamo.bsky.social
👉 ppiamo.itch.io/negative-res... #hotwetpitstop

"you're fucking out of control lmao (in a good way, I'm dyin)" -- @lorian.bsky.social
"LMFAOOOOO wow I’m so charmed by both of them they’re so terrible" -- @floofylove.bsky.social
"I would read a whole angst-ridden novel about these two" --AshSilver
Negative Resist by piamo
engineering filth
ppiamo.itch.io
July 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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vidtuesday.bsky.social
Remarkable that we've hit the halfway mark of the jam! Draft 1.5 of Lifting Waits is almost done (my alpha readers are seeing this, hi I'm overdue). The HEA eludes me because denouement is hard to write!!
Next steps: illustrations, cover, and learning the formatting software!
#hotwetpitstop
"Earth is Earth and Lune is Lune." Angler sighed, forearm across her eyes. The room fell into the quiet hum of the AC and the steady melody of drums and strings, and Melody felt a shiver run through her beneath her frigid clothes. She thought back to the bulky beast shape that Rowen would shift into. The weight of them, the heat of their breath... "What kind of creature are you, then?" She allowed a grin to split her tusks as she looked over to the retreated elf. Slowly, Angler lifted her forearm, one vibrant eye peering out at Melody. Her eye rolled away, but her gap toothed grin spread from ear to pointed ear. "Y'wanna take a shower? I hate making a mess with it." Without waiting for an answer, Angler hopped up from the couch and stripped off her wet shirt, revealing absolutely nothing underneath. Her tits were cute and perky, her nipples a strong blue, which surprised Melody, as Rowen's had been more of a purple tone. A meme board for the book, Lifting Waits. Do you want: Middle-aged protagonists, Poly sapphism, Billionaires went extinct, All my homies are gay D&D OCs, Romantasy meets martial arts movie, Illustrated novella, Monster dongs and slimy transformations, Defeating money with the power of friendship?
July 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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emrynbird.bsky.social
It's #hotwetpitstop time for the #hotwetqueersummer jam!!! Because I've been consumed by other projects, I haven't made much progress with my short story HER PEARLS. But I am slowly chipping away at it. Recent victory was finding a poetic way to say "she nutted so hard, she got an orchiectomy" 🦪💦✨
Strings of pearls came cascading onto her tongue, bathing the muscle with sweet salt. She drank them all down, sucking deep, until one of the fruits balanced daintily on her fingertips was no more. Caught in her ecstatic high, it took Dottie a moment to register what she had been alleviated of. When the warm haze clouding her senses dissipated, a great shock colored her expression. Before Dottie could vocalize her bafflement, the god tenderly squeezed the length balanced on her tongue with her lips and intoned— “Now the other.”
July 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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angelicspikes.bsky.social
Super late but here's my #HotWetPitch! Just a little moodboard to show off the general vibes of the story as well as a title reveal; Twice Drowned. Western meets Fairytale, Historical meets Fantasy, CowboyxMermaid, a 1950s set adventure with a pinch of horror/romance #wip #r #h #HotWetQueerSummer
A moodboard of images that represent my wip, Twice Drowned, for the #HotWetQueerSummerJam. The first image is a crop of a painting of a blonde woman with a piercing gaze with flowers and leaves in her hair (Ophelia by Ernest Hebert). The second image is a neon sign of a cowboy riding a horse. The third image is a crop of a blonde woman in sunglasses and a hat, evoking the vintage femme fatale. The fourth image is a crop of a male presenting hairy chest with a blue shirt open, exposing a gold cross necklace. The fifth image is a crop of a woman in a flowing silk gown stepping out of the sea. The sixth image is of a vintage motel sign in the middle of the desert. The seventh image is of a mermaid rescuing a man, an illustration from Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid. The eighth image is of a pair of cacti in the desert landscape of Arizona. The ninth image is of a woman, dressed in a long white dress with her hair down, and a man, dressed in black, staring out at a desolare landscape or seascape (Two human beings. The lonely ones by Edvard Munch). The background features a lone figure in blue perched upon a rock formation, staring out to the sea (a crop of Odysseus and Calypson by Arnold Bocklin).
June 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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bydhiyanah.bsky.social
I joined @monstermanorbooks.bsky.social's #HotWetQueerSummer jam! 🐉🌊🔥🌴

This story takes place in a corner of a universe I've been building/dreaming up for years. I'll find out more as I keep unfolding it!
#HotWetPitch #HotWetPit #WIP #A #F #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #novella
A poster-like graphic with Dhiyanah's painting of sunlight streaming through palm leaves and text overlaid on it, which reads: # Hot Wet Queer Summer Meet my work in progress Halaat the water dragon meets djinn-human Lama when they find themselves in a tropical realm at the edge of Creation. Though full of uncertainties, the pair learn to embrace their new lives and all they've lived through, opening up to new possibilities together. Quiet fantasy - 10k words "Water Me" WIP @byDhiyanah @byDhiyanah.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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magpiecrime.bsky.social
Limited - What's a fledgeling vampire to do when their sire is murdered, they're the one to discover it, and all signs point to them being the next target for the murderer?
#DR #T #WIP #hotwetpitch #hotwetqueersummer
Working title: Limited, a Vampire Crime Thriller by @magpiecrimes Images show a bloody knife, a club masked in red light, tied hands, and an exposed sexy throat ready to bite.
June 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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sylviehelstaff.bsky.social
Excited to share my #hotwetpitch for #hotwetqueersummer !!

Swim with Me, Darling is a sapphic horror romance with teeth.

❤️‍🔥 yearning
❤️‍🔥 body horror
❤️‍🔥 supporting women's wrongs
❤️‍🔥 someone's getting eaten (yes like that... and also like that)
❤️‍🔥 sapphic monster polycule

#h #r #monsterromance
Moodboard images: murky underwater grotto, spooky moonlit lake, closeup of scales, closeup of piranha like teeth, a man sinking underwater, a silhouette of a woman's shoulders and head above water, two women embracing underwater, several hands reaching upwards, female bodies underwater Text: "Swim with Me, Darling, a sapphic horror romance by Sylvie Helstaff"
June 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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deadmanspoems.bsky.social
Happy #hotwetpitch day! Coming with something small today

#hotwetqueersummer #wip #f
A trope map graphic. The background is a photo of water, in the middle is a close-up of a candle with the text 'title & cover to be revealed'. On top is the hashtag #hotwetqueersummer and at the bottom #hotwetpitch. Around the candle is text that says "hurt/occasional comfort", "bpd & npd sapphics", "majorly trans cast", "aroace incubus", "cannibalism", "mc needs a hug".
June 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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themythiclibrary.bsky.social
#hotwetpitch #hotwetqueersummer #a #r #e #wip

🌊 DE LA MAR, CON AMOR 🌊

Presenting my project for the #HWQS Jam! This is very close to my heart: a mix of Nicaraguan culture with low fantasy and magic, with mermaids and more! An adult romance erotica low fantasy novel(?) coming soon!
A promotional piece for #HotWetPitch displaying a painted beach and ocean, overlaid with a pixelated book cover. De La Mar, Con Amor sits beside it, and a box overlaid on the beach portion states the following: Xionel's grandmother is dead. In her will she leaves him everything from her home, her wealth, and makes a final plea to him: return to Nicaragua. The one place, in all his travels as a nature photographer, he never had the heart to return to. Xionel makes the decision to go, called by the ache of missing a home and culture he's never known but always loved, and finds the roots his grandmother buried go deeper than he could ever have imagined." The same beach and sea painting overlaid with the same book with its pixelated cover saying Work In Progress, now centered, with tropes surrounding it. It includes, from left top and counter clockwise to the right, BIPOC trans MC x Cis(?) mermain LI, latin inspired witchcraft & mythos, mermaids & shapeshifters, hot ritual sex, finding your place & identity, family magic, queer rep, and finally: m/m romance.
June 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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rottenborb.bsky.social
FOX HUNT

Rome, 2007. Humidity and smog choke the city, angels patrol the streets looking for demonic activity, and the two most toxic people you know are hooking up in a dirty club bathroom. Good thing there's no strings attached - right?

#hotwetpitch #HotWetQueerSummer
A trope map page for Fox Hunt. At the top it says #HotWetQueerSummer and the tropes listed are: Urban Fantasy, Werewolf x Demon, Bullying as Flirting, "You want to fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid", Enemies to ???, "But it's my best friend's brother", Y2k Era Rome, and T!M/M. In the center is a digital illustration of two men in a graffitied club bathroom. One, Marcus, wears very nu metal era clothes and sits on the counter with a bloody nose and skinned knees, pulling the taller one - Glasya - closer by the shirt. Glasya is grinning, smug, and Marcus is pissed off. It has very bisexual lighting. The art also belongs to me :3 I drew that
June 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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shtetlslut.bsky.social
It’s #wethotpitch !
Doggy Paddle has
🪩poolside pregnancy sex
🪩 (consensual) baby trapping
🪩 omegaverse mafia
June 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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astramachina.bsky.social
MONITORED ACTIVITY

rolling in with some—

📼 serial killer POV
📼 trans guy MC is fucked up but gets to have fun with it (until he doesn't)
📼 a single graveyard shift at what seems to be a sentient mall
📼 the true cosmic horror is working minimum wage

#HotWetQueerSummerJam #HotWetPitch #WIP #H
in red text: #HotWetQueerSummer, Monitored Activity. in white text: It's the best time to work. High-schoolers have gone to bed, mothers haunt their homes, and the upstanding and respectable have long turned in. All that's left are the people with a story to tell—for the exception of Eddie Conners. Church-going, amicable, straight-laced father of two and husband to a former prom queen; Janice wonders why the hell he's working the graveyard among the unemployable queers and ex-convicts. She has her suspicions but likes to think that Shaw, the young transexual man she and her wife have begrudgingly taken under their wing, is much smarter than that. Horror - 25,000 wc. @astramachina The background is a closeup image of cassette tapes. in red text: #HotWetQueerSummer, Monitored Activity. in white text: A horror novella about horrible people trapped in a horrible system. And a fucked up mall that may or may not be a cosmic entity wrapped in 2000s nostalgia. Featuring: An elder trans lesbian in constant ownership of all nearby brain cells. A serial killer who is totally absolutely 100% straight. A young trans guy who is desperate to get into said serial killer’s pants. Try it if you like: The Backrooms, The Ring (2002), Bag of Bones by Stephen King, Pulse (2006), V/H/S, The Walten Files, analog/digital horror, & creepypastas. @astramachina On the left side is the current cover of Monitored Activity by Mitch Miller. The background image is an angled photo of a 90s Macintosh desktop.
June 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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tdcloud.bsky.social
🍁 fox god x lantern spirit
🍁 melancholic folkloric fantasy
🍁 m x transmasc
🍁 lots of thoughts about death
🍁 #R #F #WIP #hotwetpitch #hotwetqueersummer

LAMBENT is a melancholic folkloric “romance” where everyone is sad, dead, and trying their hardest to make the best of what Fate has dealt them.
Pocket Pitch graphic for my book LAMBENT. Shows a cover in neutral browns and gold tones with a golden lantern at the center. Text reads: "-a depressed fox god is too lonely to function, -a wandering lantern spirit struggles to adjust to being dead and aimless, -why is Fate’s representative so hellbent on pushing them together? A fox god x lantern spirit “romance” where everyone is sad, dead, and just trying their hardest to make the best of what Fate has dealt them." A moodboard in earthen tones with a misty forest, fox fur, botanticals, water, a hand holding a lantern, a central golden lantern, a shrine, a skull, and two hands reaching for one another. Gold filigree surround the graphics and between is the hashtag #hotwetqueersummer and @tdcloud.bsky.social.
June 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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bookcryptidjude.bsky.social
It’s #hotwetpitch day! I’m so excited to share more about my project for #hotwetqueersummer

Ezra and August have taken up so much real estate in my brain, I hope y’all will love them as much as I do.

Thank you so much @monstermanorbooks for hosting this and for all your support!
Image of a red moon above the dark sea. Title reads “Drag Me Under #hotwetpitch”. Under that the text reads, “Ezra’s whole world changes when his cheating boyfriend washes up dead on the beach. Not that he cares. Everyone thinks a shark did it, but Ezra isn’t so sure. He begins spending more time with August, a boy he used to love who he thought wanted nothing to do with him anymore. Something has changed in August, and Ezra can feel himself being dragged into his orbit. Drag Me Under is queer horror romance with a hefty dose of erotica”. Background of a red moon above a dark sea. Title reads “Drag Me Under as Tropes”. In the center of the image is a painting of a person jumping out of the waves to try to catch a flying fish. The trope map around it reads “trans masc mc x cis male LI, sirens, seaside horror, omg they were roommates, ambiguous ending, cannibalism as a metaphor for devotion, this is a terrible idea (they’re going to do it anyway), angst and yearning”. Background of a red moon above a dark sea. Title reads “Drag Me Under as Unhinged AO3 tags”. Underneath are various AO3 tags from the account @ao3struggles.bsky.social reading, “I’ll have you know my characters plot armor works in reverse and actively ruins their lives”, “fellas is it gay to transform and then fuck your roommate”, “‘cannibalism as a metaphor for love’ what if im just really hungry. then what”, “they’re not exes they’re something worse”, “You have no idea how much I love these motherfuckers and want to traumatize them even further”, “Consensual But It Shouldn’t Be”, and “a lot going on and none of it is healthy”. Background of a red moon above a dark sea. Title reads “Drag Me Under as songs from my writing playlist”. Underneath the song titles read “Crush by Ethel Cain, The Offering by Sleep Token, It Will Come Back by Hozier, Pearl Diver by Mitski, DNA Guarantee by Kodi Rhianne, Will You Love Me When I’m Dead by Amira Elfeky, In My Room by Julia Wolf, and Outside by breakk.away”.
June 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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maximejaz.bsky.social
#R #WIP #hotwetpitch #hotwetqueersummer

Bullied to the brink of death by his rich asshole family, unloved and weary of life, Samuel plans to end it under the Greek summer sun. That is until one morning he meets a fisherman, with eyes like the sea.
Pic collage moodboard for Eros by Maxime Jaz, white font, title on top, author name at the bottom. On blue sea background, top left a man's blue eye, under it fishing boats, under it a hand under water reaching for a tangled net. Middle left a man in the waves. Caption Nikos. Top right a man's brown eye, under it a mega yacht's hull, under it a man's feet in the sand waves lapping on it, next to it a man sitting with a laptop in his lap on a pier. Caption Samuel. Quote in the middle in handwritten font: I wanted to die undee that summer sun. Various graphic elements of fish and an octopus on the moddboard.
June 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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linnfoster.com
🌙 BETWEEN YOU, ME, & THE MOONLIT SEA 🌊

Bell is a fox spirit who only wants one thing: true love. Sadly, it doesn't seem to be possible-- until they meet Tae. The only problem? They also want to kill him and eat his soul.

#HotWetQueerSummer #HotWetPitch #R #PN #WIP
A "trope map" for Linn Silver's novel, Between You, Me, and the Moonlit Sea. It says: genderfluid main character, pansexual love interest, queer side cast, seaside city, family drama, shapeshifters, monstrous appetites, strangers to friends to lovers, nonhuman/human relationship, fox politics, music appreciation, (unwanted) arranged relationships, and more.
June 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
louisvernico.bsky.social
WE WILL MEET IN HELL

A normal day in Hell for Shelomith simply starts and ends with taking care of the four horses of the apocalypse. It shouldn't start with an arrogant cowboy returning one of those horses or end with stopping the apocalypse.

#HotWetQueerSummerJam #HotWetPitch #WIP #F #ADV
WE WILL MEET IN HELL LOUIS VERNICO cowboys in Hell lots of banter gave me multiple crises already horses of the apocalypse do not askwhy the Greek gods are here too local man does not know howto ride things they share one braincell (and a bed) #hotwetqueersummerjam Pictures: Nine pictures in various shades of red and orange depicting cowboys, horses, the desert, riding equipment, a glass skull, boots and a silhouette of a person with a halo
June 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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elizamaresauthor.bsky.social
#hotwetqueersummer #hotwetpitch #r #h #wip

THE HEART YET BLEEDS

A summer storm forces Anne inside the lovely Bellflower House, a country estate owned by the hauntingly beautiful Sabine. But as days pass, dark events unfold, & the rain keeps falling, Anne begins to wonder if she'll ever leave...
A trope map graphic for THE HEART YET BLEEDS. The background features a romantic style painting of a woman in a grassy field. The arrows pointing to the book's cover say: "week-long storm", "hot vampiress, "sexual tension", "blood! angst!", "spooky mansion on a hill", "all female cast", and "Victorian lesbians"
June 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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skilledartysan.bsky.social
Decided to turn it into a slightly bigger piece of a little pally admiring the moon ^^

#FantasyArt #EnvironmentalArt #NightTime #Relaxing #MedievalFantasy #MedievalArt #Armour
A chibi warrior stands in the glade at night, gazing at the moon shining above him, mesmerised. He is a mere speck in the astral field that has opened up before him, and yet he feels at home here. He's wearing a dark blue tunic, some light armour on his limbs and a helmet. His face is adorned with a fascinated smile.
May 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM