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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · Oct 10
i am officially back #amquerying my novel NYMPH'S POND - here is my agent's guide!

ft.
🧜 an artist's coming of age
🧜 complex mother-daughter r/s
🧜 a hostile small town
🧜 a queer & female cast
🧜 battles w/ self-esteem
🧜 water powers reflecting emotions & past trauma
NYMPH‘S POND AN 80K UPMARKET FANTASY NOVEL THE PITCH: Damla needs the perfect portrait for art school. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who refuses to leave the local pond. When its owner wants to dry it and the town grows violent, Damla must risk her dream to save her mom. COMPS: * Julia Armfield - Our Wives Under The Sea * Adrienne Young - The Unmaking of June Farrow * Kelly Link - The Book of Love Snippet: Damla stretched out her hand. She put her palm up, and a drop fell in a dull thud. Thud, thud, thud, thick drops of water crashed against her palm. It was soft to the touch, not as cold as she thought it would be. Just like her mother, who had let the drops speak for her. Whose silence was her sharpest weapon. Whose anger was ice. Was this her mother?
rydeen1997.bsky.social
BOOK OF LOVE x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA
🧜 an artist's coming of age
🧜 complex mom-daughter r/s
🧜 hostile small town
🧜 majority queer female cast
🧜 battles w/ self-esteem
🧜 water powers as a gate to past trauma
#questpit #W #A #F #L
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x MARTYR!

Want to draw your mother? Get her out the pond first. Keep her in the pond. Make use of your superpowers. Figure out your artistry - all of this in more or less this order, and before the crazy town you live in can harm her.

#questpit #W #A #F #S
Nymph‘s Pond, an upmarket fantasy at 80k The pitch Damla needs a personal element for her art project. Her lifeline is her mother who not only refuses, but disappears to a local pond. It turns out she‘s a nymph and claims that pond is hers. The pond owner disagrees with her. The town disagrees with her general existence. Caught between her mother’s mercurial moods, townspeople that egg her house, and the desire to figure out her own burgeoning sexuality and artistry, Damla’s own powers become and more unpredictable, threatening to erase her identity altogether... Vibes and comps: 🧜 an artist's coming of age 🧜 complex mother-daughter r/s 🧜 a hostile small town 🧜 a queer & female cast 🧜 battles w/ self-esteem 🧜 water powers reflecting emotions & past trauma Snippet: There she was. Out of the surface of the water her mother rose. A totally naked, stick-thin Derya Degirmenci stood in front of them all. Her skin looked as if she was made of algae and moving bruises, her hair was an ochre color, her green eyes darker than Damla had ever seen it, round and big to boot. She had no nose, and her skin shimmered in a way that it would on a fish’s scale. She did not at all look like the nymph paintings by John William Waterhouse. Her mother didn’t look like a human at all. She looked, instead, like she belonged to the sea, was a deep-sea creature best left untouched that had now been brought back on land to everybody’s chagrin. Here on land to haunt everybody it came across. But that was Hollywood, and this was real, and she was pissing Damla off.
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
i'm supremely excited to share one of my favorite short stories, now online on the new absurdist! a period piece on a punk rocker with shifting identities and a permanent nightmare... CW for blood and general unsavoriness newabsurdist.com/editors-pick...
Mudman • The New Absurdist
Mudman follows a young man temporarily called Mickey attempting to escape his past and identity. But the past has a way of catching up, and in Mickey's case, it may be particularly muddy…
newabsurdist.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
When a nymph disappears into the local pond with no intention to leave, her daughter must risk her art school dreams to save her—from both the owner who wants to dry the pond and the town that wants them gone for good.

Meet NYMPH'S POND💙

#roundtablementor #A #F #L
October 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
Damla needs the perfect portrait for art school. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who refuses to leave the local pond. When its owner wants to dry it and the town grows violent, Damla must risk her dream to save her mom.

Meet NYMPH'S POND💙

#roundtablementor #A #F #L
October 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
Meet NYMPH'S POND, mentored by @cjsubko.bsky.social! ♥

BOOK OF LOVE x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA
🧜 an artist's coming of age
🧜 complex mom-daughter r/s
🧜 hostile small town
🧜 majority queer female cast
🧜 battles w/ self-esteem
🧜 water powers as a gate to past trauma
#roundtablementor #A #F #L
October 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
unbelievably happy and excited to be published in blue moon review💙 this is one of my most beloved short stories, about artistry, connection, and solace. finally many of you can read my girl damla for the first time! www.bluemoonreview.org/portrait-osc...
Portrait of a Man as an Oscar-Nominated Actor — Blue Moon Review
www.bluemoonreview.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
the tatami galaxy is everything... both the anime and its novel are incredible
alexincommunity.bsky.social Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · Jul 23
I was an English major. I read regularly. Only two authors have ever made me laugh out loud: Kurt Vonnegut and Tomihiko Morimi.

If you have never read Morimi and want to laugh your butt off, I cannot recommend his work highly enough.
The cover for Tomihiko Morimi's The Tatami Galaxy, which features a collage of characters and elements from the story. The cover for Tomihiko Morimi's The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, which features a collage of characters and elements from the story.
October 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
i am officially back #amquerying my novel NYMPH'S POND - here is my agent's guide!

ft.
🧜 an artist's coming of age
🧜 complex mother-daughter r/s
🧜 a hostile small town
🧜 a queer & female cast
🧜 battles w/ self-esteem
🧜 water powers reflecting emotions & past trauma
NYMPH‘S POND AN 80K UPMARKET FANTASY NOVEL THE PITCH: Damla needs the perfect portrait for art school. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who refuses to leave the local pond. When its owner wants to dry it and the town grows violent, Damla must risk her dream to save her mom. COMPS: * Julia Armfield - Our Wives Under The Sea * Adrienne Young - The Unmaking of June Farrow * Kelly Link - The Book of Love Snippet: Damla stretched out her hand. She put her palm up, and a drop fell in a dull thud. Thud, thud, thud, thick drops of water crashed against her palm. It was soft to the touch, not as cold as she thought it would be. Just like her mother, who had let the drops speak for her. Whose silence was her sharpest weapon. Whose anger was ice. Was this her mother?
October 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
BOOK OF LOVE x JUNE FARROW x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

🧜 an artist's coming of age
🧜 complex mother-daughter relationships
🧜 a hostile small town
🧜 majority queer female cast
🧜 battles w/ self-esteem
🧜 water powers reflecting emotional states & past trauma

#DVPit #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
Damla needs the perfect portrait for art college. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who refuses to leave the local pond. When the owner wants to dry out the pond and the town wants her gone, Damla must risk her dream to save her mother.

#DVPit #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x BOOK OF LOVE x JUNE FARROW

Damla needs the perfect portrait for art school. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who refuses to leave the local pond. When its owner wants to dry it and the town grows violent, Damla must risk her dream to save her mom.

#DVPit #A #WOC #SPF #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
BOOK OF LOVE x JUNE FARROW x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

What if you wanted to get to art school but your muse was a water spirit and refused to be drawn?

🧜 water magic galore
🧜 late winter norcal vibes
🧜 outcast women must stick together
🧜 closeted lesbians

#DVPit #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
When a nymph disappears into the local pond with no intention to leave, her daughter must put everything on the line to save her—from both the owner who wants to dry the pond and the town that wants them gone for good.

#DVPit #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
Want to draw your mother for your portfolio? Get her out the pond first—if you're strong enough to use the water as well as she, a nymph, can. Should you fail, the pond owner will dry it and the town will force her out of here.

#DVPit #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
BOOK OF LOVE x JUNE FARROW

Want to draw your mother for your portfolio? Get her out the pond first... if you're good enough.

🧜 complex mother-daughter relationships
🧜 small-town dread
🧜 majority female cast
🧜 battles w/ self-esteem
🧜 an artist's coming of age

#DVPit #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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authoralexharvey.bsky.social
FINAL FANTASY 10 x THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

🌊 A world of islands
🌊 A dragon-ferret companion
🌊 A Maltese-inspired setting
🌊 A mortal trans woman choked by grief
🌊 A starborn woman with an impossible choice
🌊 A fight against a cosmic threat
🌊 A community rebuilding after tragedy

#preDV #A #F #LGBT
September 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
A young artist needs the perfect portrait for art college. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who refuses to leave the local pond. When the owner wants to dry out the pond and the town wants her gone altogether, the artist must risk her dream to save her mother.

#preDV #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT
September 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
A young artist needs the perfect portrait for art college. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who disappears into the local pond and stays there. When the owner threatens to dry out the pond and the town wants them gone, the artist must risk her dream to save her mom.

#preDV #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT
September 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x THE BOOK OF LOVE x THE UNMAKING OF JUNE FARROW

A young artist needs the perfect portrait for art college. Her muse? Her mother, a nymph who disappears to the local pond and has no intention to leave it.

#preDV #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT
September 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
THE BOOK OF LOVE X THE SHAPE OF WATER

Want to draw your mother for your portfolio? Get her out the pond first... if you're good enough, that is.

🧜‍♀️ complicated mother-daughter relationships
🧜‍♀️ creepy small-town
🧜‍♀️ majority female cast
🧜‍♀️ an artist coming of age

#preDV #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT
September 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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aninkwellofnectar.bsky.social
YELLOWFACE X THE SECRET HISTORY

She’s the Substack queen of feminist rage.
He’s the YouTube darling who profits from quoting her.
She finally confronts him live. She wins.
And now he won’t leave her alone.

#A #LF #BVM #PreDV
September 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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authoralexharvey.bsky.social
WIND WAKER x THE TIGER'S DAUGHTER

A woman stuck in her wife's shadow seeks her own identity and purpose while sailing across her drowned world to help fight a cosmic force intent on devouring all life.

#F #A #LGBT #preDV
September 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
When a nymph disappears to the local pond with no intention to leave, her daughter must put everything on the line to save her—from both the owner who wants to dry the pond and the town that wants them gone for good.

#preDV #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT
September 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
rydeen1997.bsky.social
EVERY FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE SONG x LOOK BACK

tfw you want to draw your mom but she decides she's fusing with the pond which btw is going to be dried out soon bc the owner doesn't want her in there

#UnhingedPit #A #F #LGBT #W
a cartoon of a boat splashing water and the words we would be so hydrated
ALT: a cartoon of a boat splashing water and the words we would be so hydrated
media.tenor.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM