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Mad scientist, testing H2O to keep it safe from supervillains & polluters. Prolly posting about writing, workouts, games/tv, or cats. Maybe about mud. She/her. No LLMs/AI allowed
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Sage 💙👻🌞❄️🦸🏼‍♀️🦹🏼🦴✨🤖👽 @sagecollins.bsky.social · Dec 25
Merry Christmas 🎄

My Halloween 🎃 story, “Come as You Aren’t” about a trans girl stressing over telling her BFF she’d rather dress as Elphaba than Jack Skellington was published! ❗️CW: misgendering❗️

In the “Centering Joy” issue of My Galvanized Friend

www.mygalvanizedfriend.org/contribution...
Come As You Aren’t | My Galvanized Friend
https://www.mygalvanizedfriend.org/contributions4/come-as-you-aren’t
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motthepaladin.bsky.social
Rules For Ghosting x Here We Go Again

This book features:
💚 An aro/ace MC
👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 A badass lesbian girlfriend
🏳️‍🌈 Actually, everybody is queer
🪶A guardian angel willing to commit crimes
👀 The ability to see souls, ghosts, and more
🚗 An epic road trip

#questpit #Q #A #S
A mood board that is a collection of 12 images: breakfast at a diner, women in the front seat of a car, a gas station at night, a cabin in a snowy forest at night, women holding hands, a road at sunset, an angel statue, a car in the dark with its headlights on, a car mirror with a sunset, a snowy forest at sunset, a paper map, a blonde woman holding a paper map, a purple orb, an eye with a purple iris, hands holding a rainbow flag, and a sheet of music. There is pink text in the center that reads My Sister's Stolen Soul.
January 31, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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beemorris.bsky.social
Introducing ✨ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE✨
#QuestPit #AgentsGuide #Q

Reluctant medium Alice accidentally lands a job cleaning haunted houses & chasing down a serial killer...

🌊 ghosts by the coast
🏡 dead roommate
👻 possessions & poltergeists
🐈 psychic cat lady
🧠 autistic FMC
🏳️‍🌈 queer & trans rep
Book Title: Alice & The Afterlife. 75,000 words, paranormal mystery, new adult. A background of a graveyard with a cute image of a cartoon ghost. Background of the seaside. Pitch reads: Alice can see ghosts. She’d really rather not. After a public breakdown (and two-year stint in a “wellness” facility) Alice Windsor moves to the coast for some peace and quiet. Spoiler alert: she doesn’t get it. Enter Rani – a stubborn cleaner who offers Alice a job cleaning houses, exercising ghosts and solving her twin brother’s murder. But when rumours of a serial killer start swirling, and a vicious ghost from the past resurfaces, Alice must embrace her abilities or risk becoming a ghost herself... Comp titles. Images include covers of popular media including: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, The Cemetery Boys, The Sixth Sense, Ghostbusters, Sunshine Cleaning and Maid Themes page. Themes include: serial killer myster, haunted house hijinks, queer & trans rep, autistic heroine, found family, "i see dead people" (but make it funny), and "my dead roommate doesn't pay rent." There is also a quote from the first line of the book that reads: "There is a dead man sitting at my kitchen table."
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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sagecollins.bsky.social
I have lots of “school”s but only one “academy.”

San’s the welcome wagon at the Qing Ting Ski Resort, if you can believe it

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
From Stars, Sparkling Like Snow ✨🎿
Black text, green background, “academy” highlighted pink "No. Maybe he's found something in town to entertain him. I don't know what. It's pretty boring." She catches herself and says, "Not here at the ski resort, of course. Just out there." I chuckle. "How'd they get you as the first face anyone sees at the resort?" Her answer begins with a groan. "I've been working here every festival season since I was fourteen. It corresponds with my ACADEMY’s holiday week, so Mom and Dad send me here. I tried to convince them to let me off this year so I could take an interplanetary trip with my friends, instead. But, nope, they want me to spend time with Bibi Xinyi, and they think the job is good for me. So, here I am. Even this year, when the resort hardly needs another staff member. Bibi Xinyi thinks it's some sort of honor that I'm in charge of the front desk, instead of helping the housekeeping staff this year." She rolls her eyes. "At least I didn't have to talk to guests when I cleaned their rooms."
January 31, 2026 at 9:28 AM
sagecollins.bsky.social
WREN MARTIN RUINS IT ALL x THE SOUND OF STARS

🏳️‍🌈 pan MC, trans LI, ace BFF
🎭 teens stream their own show
🎶 music connects us all
✨ space opera, but MC's terrified of stars
🧑🏾‍🔧 competent MC (usually)
😍 Romeo's got no game
🕵🏾 search for saboteur
👨🏿‍🤝‍👨🏻 crush-to-friends/found family

#QuestPit #YA #SF #LGBT #Q
January 31, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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elizabethtitus.bsky.social
When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated.

Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built

🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot
🌪️ #CliFi
🌷 #Hopepunk
#S #Q
#Questpit #booksky
January 31, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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arachnereid.bsky.social
When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads a tarot-themed odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.

#Q #A #SP #hopepunk #CliFi #witchsky #questpit
a spread of hand drawn tarot cards (chapter art by me) - The Fool, The Magician, The Lovers, Death, The Moon, & The Sun, with elemental frames in the background, a fantasy map of the US with swollen coastine, colorful version of tarot cards, and colorful flames elemental magic visions survival skills climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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dianebillas.bsky.social
QUEER NANCY DREW
Being accused of murder was not on Emmie’s bingo card but when her archenemy dies at the indie bookstore she works at, all eyes are turned toward Emmie. She and her teen friends need to solve the crime & not get killed in the process. #Questpit #Q #YA #MY #LGBT
Mood board: Mood board for the book The Final Chapter: Halloween candy, white and black cat, blonde girl in flannel with a pumpkin, crime scene tape, murder board, Harley Quinn, police car, books with a single light bulb hanging down.
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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motthepaladin.bsky.social
‪What's Left of Me x When the Angels Left the Old Country

When Lyra is abducted from their shared body, Melody will do anything to get her back; including setting out on a 3,000 mile road trip with Lyra's girlfriend she's never met and an angel inhabiting a corpse.

#questpit #Q #A #S
Playlist for My Sister’s Stolen Soul Unity - Alan Walker Take My Soul - ZHU Girlfriend - Icona Pop Anything for You - Ludo Memento Mori - Will Wood Even In Death - Evanescence Lonely Day - System of a Down Back From The Dead - Halestorm You’re Somebody Else - Flora Cash Let Me Be Your Armor - Assemblage 23 I Don’t Wanna Die - Hollywood Undead Anthem of the Angels - Breaking Benjamin
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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jamoy.bsky.social
SAILOR MOON x HANNAH MONTANA x TRON

By day, Mia & her friends are a hot pop group. By night they're vigilantes who fight virus monsters in a metaverse.

⚡️Mixed race & Chinese rep
🐶TALKING CORGI
🔥Magical Cyber Girls
🗺️Diaspora themes
💞Rivals to lovers

#questpit #ya #f #sf #poc #q
6 photo collage. Top left is an image of a city with lights beaming from the sky. Top center is a close up of a girl with pink hair singing into a microphone. Top right is a close up of a screen with a warning sign and the word malware underneath in pink font. Bottom left is a hand grabbing a phone with a pink tint and a blue cube bouncing off the screen. Center is a 5 girl silhouette with a purple backdrop. Bottom right is a crowd in front of a music stage with a blue hue over the stage.
January 31, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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catherinewinters.com
F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT

Ship's cook Tai is horrified to discover their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #Q #SF #A #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 Wiswell 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
January 31, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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zprospero.bsky.social
THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS

A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for.

#QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT
January 31, 2026 at 5:12 AM
sagecollins.bsky.social
SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS

Mother Nature's dying. Cheerful summer prince Ray (16yo) battles brooding Jack Frost (17yo) to inherit her powers. W/ Jack's frozen 🩵 melting in a world of climate change, Ray may have to lose the contest to save the boy he loves

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #LGBT #CliFi
January 31, 2026 at 6:25 AM
sagecollins.bsky.social
When I am imaging the scene, before or after I write it, I am the character, feeling their emotions. But when I am writing it, I’m the director

For shorts, I’m almost always the director. Only a couple have been “lived” before I wrote it & I rarely revisit them in my imagination

#AwesomeCharacters
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social ❄️Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta ☃️ @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 10h
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

When you write a scene with your character, are you the director overseeing their actions, or are you playing the part of one or more characters? Something else?

Does that change depending on the circumstances?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
January 31, 2026 at 12:23 AM
sagecollins.bsky.social
Finished w/ 4th season She-Ra so now I get to watch my beloved 5th season!

I appreciated 4th season more, maybe b/c I was prepared for the lack of Catradora. I also clocked the in-universe reason for that better this time (though we all know the real reason)

3 weeks until it leaves Netflix😭

#SPOP
January 31, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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today-maybe.bsky.social
A digital illustration. Seen mostly in silhouette (with some hints of detail if you zoom in) we see Sisyphus in his classical Greek togs against a reddish orange background. He is working very hard to shove an extremely large, roughly spherical boulder up a very steep grade. Large letters carved into the side of the boulder facing us read ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
January 30, 2026 at 2:32 PM
sagecollins.bsky.social
Let’s make sure everything is as inconvenient as possible today!

👇 liar!
a man holding a piece of paper that says actually it 's going to be super easy
Alt: In an office with big windows, a man with glasses & facial hair holds up papers & says “Actually it’s going to be super easy, barely an inconvenience.”
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:10 PM
sagecollins.bsky.social
Hale would love to be good at flirting. He'll fall for any pretty face, but the second he tries to flirt--or someone flirts with him!--he gets all flustered and bashful. He talks about wanting romance, but doesn't know how to initiate it

#WritingPrompt
cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 18h
What’s something your MC tries to be good at but just doesn’t manage to ever pull off? #WritingPrompt
January 30, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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sagecollins.bsky.social
Evie’s having an existential crisis, so who better to contact her than her imaginary love interest w/ an imaginary phone call using the perfect imaginary ringtone?

Pep talk by BFF/LI, Danny

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
From Master/Puppet🦸🏼‍♀️📱

(Paper Moon lyrics by Yip Harburg & Billy Rose)
Black text, green background, “suggest” highlighted pink "Shut up, I'm trying to tell you something. What if the girl you fell in love with at camp wasn't me? What if she was the real Evangeline, and I'm shadow number two? What if [BigBad] suppressed the real Evangeline and left his puppet, Evie, in her place, and she's waiting for me to fade away so she can take her place and kick ass?" "Never happened." "How do you know?" I don't feel awesome enough to be the real Evangeline. I barely remember what it was like to be her. "Because that girl facing down that mob with righteous anger is exactly the same girl I fell in love with in that canoe. You'll kick his ass. I have faith in you. And you know what? I'm not even the only one who does." As if on cue, my phone starts playing some jazzy standard I don't immediately recognize, muffled by my pocket. "It's a Barnum-and-Bailey world..." "What the hell?" I say. I pull out the phone, expecting to see a contact name I don't remember putting into my phone, which at least would SUGGEST I'm gaining some ground over [BigBad]'s mind control. "...just as phony as it can be." And I do see exactly that, but the name and the song sends my heart into my throat. "But it wouldn't be make-believe...." There on the screen are three letters, and just as many exclamation marks. ACE!!! "..if you believed in me."
January 30, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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mollytempleton.com
please consider this your one (1) small reminder that the deadline for registration is saturday!!!!!!!
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 22d
Did you know that you, yes YOU, can vote in the Hugo Awards??

@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
Anyone Can Vote in the Hugo Awards — And Here's How - Reactor
You — yes, you! — can nominate work and vote for the winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards!
reactormag.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
While analyzing our 2025 submission data, I noticed that the US is now the primary producer of slop submissions (which includes fully and partially-generated/assisted/whatever). Congrats. You're #1. Happy? You should be embarrassed. Please stop.

(In 2023 and 2024, the US wasn't in the top three.)
January 29, 2026 at 5:28 PM
sagecollins.bsky.social
The creepy shadowy figure behind the She-ra blanket I’m using as a curtain 😈
A She-Ra blanket showing little Adora & Catra holding hands under their teen selves hangs in a window. A patch of sunlight illuminates a figure with a curly hat behind it
January 29, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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zprospero.bsky.social
#WIPSnips

A bit loose here, but anything that sort of fit else was too spoilery.

Virgil is angry here because of his love but he does sound a bit… different, don’t you think?

Interesting. 🤔

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Writers
January 29, 2026 at 4:47 PM
sagecollins.bsky.social
Hale has hero worship of Max before they meet. Max's the hero on his favorite show

Max drops his charming persona when w/ Hale to help get him over the crush. So Hale sees the side of Max that can be a selfish asshole & who panics w/ a change of plans

But Max has his hero moments

#WritingPrompt
cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 1d
Does your MC have a hero or somebody they admire? Do they get to meet? If so, how did that go? #WritingPrompt
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 PM
sagecollins.bsky.social
Such a cool POV and lovely writing in this one

@ratbaglit.bsky.social @mlstrijdom.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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nicolelsopergorden.bsky.social
Well Kip, if you hadn't been stupid in the last dimension, maybe you've be able to climb in this one 😂

From Tennyson's arc of The Atlas Brothers Break the Multiverse

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #AmWriting
“This rock formation looked fairly tall, and the left side had a gradual incline,” Poe said, looking thoughtful. “I should be able to safely climb up there and look for signs of civilization.” “No fair!” Kip complained, even as Cora pulled the first bit of glass from his skin. “I want to climb, too!” “Not me,” Tennyson said, making a face at his sodden socks. “It’s gross out there.” As if to underline his point, a distant rumble of thunder vibrated the rock around them.
January 29, 2026 at 1:57 PM