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viola @violawrites.bsky.social · 16d
An agent's guide to

🌊BENEATH THESE TREACHEROUS WAVES🌊

a queer, adult reimagining of Andersen's The Little Mermaid in an Iceland-inspired setting.

#amquerying #agentguide #agentsguide #ownvoices #writingcommunity #writesky #writersky #booksky
Underwater image showing a mermaid’s tail. Overlaid text reads: Beneath These Treacherous Waves - Sapphic reimagining of The Little Mermaid set in the dark, icy north. 105k adult romantic fantasy. PITCH: Míra, a siren warrior princess, loses all memories of her beloved Skadi when she agrees to marry a human king in exchange for military aid. Skadi the mer Spellweaver strikes a bargain with her deity: if Míra falls in love with her again, her memories will return. But if she gives her heart to another first, Skadi will become the god’s thrall forever. COMPS, showing two book covers. On the left is is Malice by Heather Walter with arrows labeled: touch her and you die, fairytale retelling, magic comes at a price, feminine rage and YEARNING. On the right is A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland with arrows labeled: YEARING, queernorm world, love vs duty, and found family. EXCERPT: "The servant led her to a gold-embossed mirror Míra had avoided until now, dreading to face what she had become. A stranger stared back at her. Her skin had lost its opalescent shine, scales replaced by freckles spilling across her cheeks, shoulders, and chest. She opened her hand, and the reflection did too. The webbing was gone between her fingers, her claws receded into round pink nails. The only thing familiar was her hair, red as sunrise, molten lava, a battlefield. She wore a deep blue dress that was too tight, stretching on her shoulders and back, made for someone shorter and daintier. She’d scavenged tattered human clothes from among the ruins of sunken ships to play pretend as a child, but it had never occurred to her that she would one day be forced to wear one."
violawrites.bsky.social
An agent's guide to

🌊BENEATH THESE TREACHEROUS WAVES🌊

a queer, adult reimagining of Andersen's The Little Mermaid in an Iceland-inspired setting.

#amquerying #agentguide #agentsguide #ownvoices #writingcommunity #writesky #writersky #booksky
Underwater image showing a mermaid’s tail. Overlaid text reads: Beneath These Treacherous Waves - Sapphic reimagining of The Little Mermaid set in the dark, icy north. 105k adult romantic fantasy. PITCH: Míra, a siren warrior princess, loses all memories of her beloved Skadi when she agrees to marry a human king in exchange for military aid. Skadi the mer Spellweaver strikes a bargain with her deity: if Míra falls in love with her again, her memories will return. But if she gives her heart to another first, Skadi will become the god’s thrall forever. COMPS, showing two book covers. On the left is is Malice by Heather Walter with arrows labeled: touch her and you die, fairytale retelling, magic comes at a price, feminine rage and YEARNING. On the right is A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland with arrows labeled: YEARING, queernorm world, love vs duty, and found family. EXCERPT: "The servant led her to a gold-embossed mirror Míra had avoided until now, dreading to face what she had become. A stranger stared back at her. Her skin had lost its opalescent shine, scales replaced by freckles spilling across her cheeks, shoulders, and chest. She opened her hand, and the reflection did too. The webbing was gone between her fingers, her claws receded into round pink nails. The only thing familiar was her hair, red as sunrise, molten lava, a battlefield. She wore a deep blue dress that was too tight, stretching on her shoulders and back, made for someone shorter and daintier. She’d scavenged tattered human clothes from among the ruins of sunken ships to play pretend as a child, but it had never occurred to her that she would one day be forced to wear one."
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
ADULT 🏳️‍🌈 LITTLE MERMAID

Míra, a mer princess, loses all memories of her lover Skadi when she agrees to marry a human king for military aid. Skadi makes a deal w/ her god: if Míra falls in ❤️ with her again, her memories will return. Should Skadi fail, she'll become the god’s thrall
#DVpit #A #F #LGBT
A moodboard of seven images with dark ocean vibes. They show a mermaid’s tail, a snowy fairytale castle, a black-clad crowned figure by crashing waves, a mermaid holding a human woman’s face who is leaning out of a boat, a sailing ship in fog, a woman in armor, and a rocky beach with birds flying overhead.
October 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
MALICExTASTE OF GOLD AND IRON

A sapphic Little Mermaid retelling about a mer princess sacrificing her memories to wed a human king for military aid, and her sea witch lover striking a desperate bargain with an ancient god to undo it all—or be bound as the god’s thrall forever

#DVpit #A #F #LGBT #R
October 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
Today is International Lesbian Day, and coincidentally also World Octopus Day, so please give it up for my girl Skadi the sea witch 🐙🏳️‍🌈
Line art of two feminine figures embracing and looking into each other’s eyes. One figure has long hair and a fish tail, while the other has octopus tentacles instead of legs and two curved horns.
October 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
OEAN'S ECHOxFRONTIERxME: OMEGA
To secure meds for her BFF, Jay must return to the crime-ridden space colony she once called home to capture Zaain, a scientist who holds the key to feeding billions. As they fall in ❤️ Jay faces an impossible choice: betray Zaain, or doom an entire planet
#DVparty #wip
A mood board of nine images in muted colors, featuring a crumbling concrete building, space travel, a mercenary outfit, two women kissing, and cityscapes of a dystopian cyberpunk city with skyscrapers and thick air pollution
October 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
I stand behind a wall of people and thoughts
Mind controlling
And I hold a sword to guide me
I'm fighting my way
Underneath darkened skies
There's a light kept alive
Let love conquer your mind
Just reach out for the light
Warrior, warrior

#DVparty day 5: theme song
Warrior
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October 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
#DVparty meme day

Skadi after making a deal with her god, becoming human, and infiltrating the castle as a guard to make Míra—the lover who’s forgotten her—fall in love with her again

Succeed, and Míra’s memories return but bloodshed may follow
Fail, and Skadi’s soul will belong to the god forever
Picture of a small octopus and the text "I am simply too small and silly to be a national security threat"
October 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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vcrarts.bsky.social
Rafael Nicolás - Angels before Man

Michael & Lucifer

#RafaelNicolás #AngelsbeforeMan
October 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
The opening paragraph of my Iceland-inspired sapphic Little Mermaid retelling 🌊
#DVparty #A #F #LGBT
A moody picture with the title “Beneath These Treacherous Waves” at the top. Below the title, a passage reads: “Alda’s face was as beautiful in death as it had been in life. Míra forced herself to take in every little detail—the carved planes of her cheekbones, the small pearl of a nose, the deep brown hair fanning out in the ocean current. In a cruel twist of fate, this was the first time since the war began that Míra had seen her friend truly at peace.” The faint silhouette of a swimming merfolk is in the background.
October 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
All Míra the mer princess wants is to end the war that's been ravaging her country for years. Even if it means surrendering her magic, trading her fins for legs that bring only pain, and giving up the memories of her❤️Skadi, the mer’s Spellweaver

But Skadi refuses to let her go.
#DVparty #A #F #LGBT
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
Stunning pieces of art created by the incredible @gildedruin.bsky.social and @kaidenchi.bsky.social for my sapphic Little Mermaid retelling.
#DVparty #A #F #LGBT
Line art of two feminine figures embracing and looking into each other’s eyes. One figure has long hair and a fish tail, while the other has octopus tentacles instead of legs and two curved horns. Four people lying on a blanket. A red-haired woman with fish scales around her face, hugs a woman with long, flowy hair, and horns, dressed in a black dress. Nearby, a blonde-haired man with glasses and a flower crown, wearing an embroidered shirt, reads a book, while a dark-haired man holding a pipe playfully touches his hair.
October 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
happy #dvparty day 1!

Beneath These Treacherous Waves is a sapphic retelling of The Little Mermaid🧜‍♀️🏴‍☠️👑🌊⚔️
#A #F #LGBT
October 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
I'M OBSESSED ❤️😭 thank you @kaidenchi.bsky.social for this beautiful illustration of my mermaid book characters
A group of friends and lovers relax together on a blanket. A woman with long red hair, fish scales, and freckles on her face has her arm around another woman resting on her lap. The red-haired woman is wearing a white linen shirt. The woman on her lap has long black hair and horns adorned with silver chains, and she is dressed in a long black gown. Beside them are two men: one is blonde, wearing a white flower crown, a green-blue embroidered shirt, and round glasses. He's reading a book. The other man has long black hair, olive skin, and is wearing a dark burgundy shirt. He has a pipe in one hand and he's gently playing with the blonde man's hair with the other.
May 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
dutifully paying the cat tax 🐈‍⬛ @grumblygoose.bsky.social
a cute cat curled up on a green-gray blanket
May 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
#CRPFireflies #OneLineMC

"Míra attempted a curtsy, which the handmaidens had tried to teach her the previous day. It was neither fluid nor graceful, but bowing her head hid the scowl on her face."
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · Apr 23
DAY 3: #𝗢𝗻𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗠𝗖
Good morning, Campers! Today, we focus on your MC. Share a line from your manuscript that tells us all we need to know about your MC's personality.
On the same grassy green hill beneath a starry night sky, the firefly clings to a branch and dangles a tied stack of story notes from a stick with the label “Darlings” written on the top page. The caterpillar reaches for the tied bundle of notes with mouth wide open, ready to chow down. Behind the tree, which still has bite marks from the caterpillar’s previous meal, the mantis holds her claws to her face in dismay. Dawn is beginning to tint the horizon red.
April 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
The Little Mermaid X Malice X A Taste of Gold and Iron

"Malik was late, and for the first time in his life, Ren found himself hoping the mission would fail. Suffering King Henning’s wrath—and ending up on the gallows—would’ve been a better fate than having a mer as his queen."
#1stLinePit #A #F #Q
Beneath These Treacherous Waves: Míra, a siren princess, has her memories of her beloved Skadi forcibly erased when she is offered in marriage to a human king in exchange for military aid in a relentless war. Unwilling to accept their fate, Skadi strikes a desperate bargain with an ancient deity: if Míra falls in love with her again, her memories will return. But if she confesses her love to another first, Skadi will become the god’s thrall forever. A moodboard: picture of a mermaid underwater, a snowy castle, a prince, an ice lagoon, a black-haired and a ginger woman kissing, a ship, a ship's captain, coastline with basalt columns and the stormy sea, octopus tentacles
April 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
There are two wolves inside me. One finally got a chance to talk about her special interest to a bunch of people and even gets paid for it. The other hates public speaking more than anything. I just can't win.
March 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
aah, the feeling of opening a crisp new document for a #zerodraft
March 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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poopraven.bsky.social
Welcome to AK's Unsolicited Advice.

Today's advice:

Love stuff. Love doing stuff, enjoying stuff others have done, and love them unreservedly.

And if anyone barges in with some BS about how it's so cringe and bad to love stuff, BLOCK THEM and go back to the COOL STUFF YOU LOVE.
February 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
there's a brutal storm that sounds like plane turbines right next to my ears, lightning and thunder (very rare this far north, my 3rd time experiencing them in 10+years) but the cat doesn’t care. In fact, I suspect she’s the one who conjured the bad weather just so we'd stay home with her
a cute cat curled up in a small box, taking a nap
February 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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kjcharleswriter.com
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA gaaaaasp AHAHAHAHAHAHA

oh my God say it ain't so, imagine an AI company stealing intellectual property.
January 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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rosieethor.bsky.social
I am glad everyone is having a good time with the explain your book plot badly game but I for one spend too much time figuring out how to explain my book plot well to let myself backslide like this on purpose
January 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
violawrites.bsky.social
Can't believe that this draft is done!✨ I'd like to thank my espresso machine, a steady supply of pistachio ice cream, and Talisker for getting me through it. Extra special mention to @vcrarts.bsky.social without whom I'd have given up at least 285 times. ❤️
the end written in a word document
January 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
violawrites.bsky.social
Me: I will write regularly in 2025, nothing can stop me.
Heating pipe: Cute. *explodes*
January 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM