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B.D.R “Venom” (He/Him)
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Writer of character focused fantasy and sci fi novels alongside whatever else is rattling in my brain.
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B.D.R “Venom” (He/Him) @bdr-wordworks.bsky.social · Oct 21
Howdy, I’m Brayden! I…

Write Character focused fantasy and Sci fi stories.

Am a lover of all things sci fi, fantasy, and their sub genres.

Moderator on the Writer’s Block discord server.

Have an equal number of guilty pleasures as masterpieces on my favorites list.
bdr-wordworks.bsky.social
Wakes up.

Sees the support and general good vibes of #BluePit.

Looks at draft and gets excited about writing.
January 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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NEVERENDING STORY x ADAM STRANGE

Superhero-loving neurodivergent kid Terry O'Neal dreams of being a real superhero, the Slingshot Kid, and one day when he finds a strange magic ring, he's able to go to another world of odd aliens where he has superpowers.

#Bluepit #WIP #YA #SF
Collage of images left to right from the top: A blue sunrise over a planet's horizon, a man bathed in prismatic light reflrction, an colorful alien sky over a purple field, a dark wizard's tower with a large red glowing crystal, a simple wooden bridge in a forest path, a sleepy midwestern town main street during sunset, a shot of a forest in the fall, another picture of a small town's main street during rhe day
January 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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DUNGEONS & DRAGONS x CHEERS

Young man Eli Copperwind is put in charge of a failing inn and tavern in a high fantasy world. He and his coworkers have to come together to turn a profit, culminating in an adventure to find a mystical artifact

#Bluepit #WIP #YA #F #Hu #R
Collage of images, clockwise from the top: a warm and inviting tavern interior, a frothy mug of ale, the bar from Cheers, a high fantasy city with a large stone wall seen from a hillside, a stash of hidden gold in a lost city, the exterior of a rustic medieval european building
January 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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NO REQUIEM FOR THE LIGHT
~ dark fantasy tragedy ~

#BluePit #W #A #F #D #LGBT 📖
[text] No Requiem for the Light A DARK FANTASY TRAGEDY - lesbian protagonist - uncontrolled magic - a complete loss of identity - inner violence - revenge - multiple perspectives - societal expectations - young and older protagonists [images] The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang [desc] orange background white border [text] Kaida Kaelis was destined for greatness, to one day save her village. When they are attacked my mysterious men of metal, she is ready. So, why was she the one to destroy it? Queen Eleanora of Eris was destined to bear heirs for the King and to be obedient wife. She’s content with this life. So, why is she having visions of another life? In their parallel stories, they each must discover who they truly are and what destiny has in store for them. [image] Illustration by me: In an arch is Eleanora in a green gown, red jewelry and a crown. She holds her stomach with one hand and a rose in the other. She looks stern yet sad. In front is Kaida in armor and a cloak, holding a sword with a determined expression. Under Kaida's sword is a second illustration of her in the middle of a fight with an unseen attacker. In the background is lightning. [desc] orange background white border [text] CHAPTER ONE Although created differently from the common man, Vaelorians were still mortal and what mortals could not understand they hated and what they feared they shunned, and I was both. I didn’t even have the privilege of being born before I was branded a curse. A storm had come and wiped away twelve lives and any possibility of normalcy for me. Five families left Anon that first week and four more in the following month. They would rather risk the wilderness than remain in the same village as me. I know it wasn’t right to complain when so many had lost much more than me, so I didn’t. Not to just anyone at least. [desc] orange background white border
January 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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kreatured.bsky.social
SOMETHINGS WRONG IN DEVILS GATE
an epistolary horror-mystery

#BluePit #W #A #H #M #P

Waylon was a detective, before his sister went missing and he had a nervous breakdown. Now, he’s just pitied by all the residents of Devil's Gate. He knows he’s not crazy, though. Somethings wrong in Devil’s Gate.
[moodboard] painting of a red sky painted fire photo of red clouds textured red image a lone house in a foggy red field a squirrel an illustration by me of Waylon smoking a cigarette on a maroon background "don't ever think that everyone who leaves wants to" "Waylon Sayers" "MISSING"
January 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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🥘Dungeon Meshi x 🌌 Spiritfarer x 🐉 Spirited Away

In an interdimensional restaurant, talented but underappreciated Mishan serves spirits and gods cuisine with the power to restore their lost memories, but finds themself in a bind when a patron turns into a rampaging monster.

💥 #bluepit #YA #P #F #I
Protagonist of Memories: No Reservations showcasing Mishan in a fantasy restaurant uniform with spirit beasts accompanying them A sample page from Memories: No Reservations published by Saturday AM showing Mishan struggling to calm the spirit beast in the restaurant, resulting in chaos
January 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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A STUDY IN DROWNING x ELDEN RING

🪲 Dark Academia but it’s Celtic Druids
🐛 Anxious, autistic MC
🪲 A river god using him as her new cocoon
🐛 Foggy atmosphere
🪲 Best friend who definitely doesn’t love the MC
🐛 A tale of sacrifice

#BluePit 📖 #W #A #Hs #F #H
Moodboard showing various images: Celtic standing stones in the mist, butterfly cocoon, flooded grass creating a river, trees growing out of water, Celtic knotwork, the quote “ignore every instinct to flee. Remember you are a monster too”, ancient roundhouse, artwork of Druids, artwork of someone drowning, a centipede. A figure, leaping and reaching towards a ball of light. His face is in anguish and his skin and hair is dissolving into noise, stretching up to the star. Surrounding the ball of light is a circle of millipedes, centipedes and a few silverfish. The figure has iridescent skin, like an Opal stone. Behind him is a murky green background, with hues of red and blue. Closer to the figure and the star, the background turns yellow, blue and green, echoing the hues of the figures skin
January 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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LIFE IS STRANGE x sapphic CEMETERY BOYS

When Addie discovers the ghost of Erin, a murdered girl tethered to a local lighthouse, the two must solve a decades old mystery before time runs out and Erin disappears… forever.

#W #M #LGBT #agented #BluePit 📖
A nine-block moodboard with overall dark, gritty vibes. I wanted her to kiss me on a white background, a girl sitting and staring out an open window at night, a tape player with modern day headphones attached, a hand reaching out of a dark ocean, "this isn't fucking over" against a fiery background, a lighthouse in the middle of a dark ocean, waves at night, a ghost standing in the forest, "I thought we'd have more time" in red font against a white background
January 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Crew Dynamics of The Expanse X deep PoV of the Luminous Dead X Stargate Vibes

Theme: What are we when we have no where left to call home?

Motifs: Loss, grief, coping

🚀 Retro Sci-fi Vibes
🌌 Galactic Empire
👑 Runaway Noble deurantagoinist 🛸 Alien Secrets
❤️ Found Family

#BluePit📖 #A #W #LGBT #SF
Nightblossom Blurb. The Ascendance has conquered the galaxy and eradicated all alien life, leaving humanity alone for the first time since history began. Maya is a xeno-archeologist on the dying planet Arthura far from civilization. The orange sky and failing biosphere, along with a life marred by tragedy has made her wish to be among the stars, somewhere she could call home and maybe have children one day. However, she can’t leave until she finds a uncensored record of history that will buy her way off the planet and maybe convince enough people that the Royals deserved to be ones forgotten. Bethari, a Royal, is looking for a weapon. A weapon to take the ship that has been chasing her for five years. The hunt takes her all over the Vela Cluster and ends with her on Arthura, where she has no alternative but to ask for help. Once they meet, Maya’s stable life crumbles in days. Freshly branded a terrorist, she is thrust into the galaxy unsure of what she should do or where she should go. Only one thing is certain, going back isn’t an option. When the ancient people of Earth looked to the stars they saw gods. When Maya looked to the stars all she saw was death. New gods born from quixotic ideals and hatred have taken up residence in the black, filling it with fusion bombs, biological weapons and nightmares born of flesh. The Royal’s war had scorched all the wonder from that vault of jewels. Still they shimmered. Still they touched some primordial part of her mind that responded to beauty. Even upon the dying world Arthura, midst the ruins of that long ago conflict, she found comfort in their vast expanse. It was dangerous. Naïve. But she couldn’t stop herself from wishing to be among them. The once Orvanan city was inhabited by nothing more than a few xeno-archeologists now, or more aptly put: battlefield scavengers. Sure the Royals dressed it up in the finery of a scientific discipline filled with insights from a thousand years of tradition and process, but it was as hollow as the bombed-out shells of homes, buildings of learning and inter-species cooperation. In the desecrated and forgotten remains of their fabled civilization, the founders of a hundred star-system alliance, Maya watched her wife take a drink of water from her backpack. She wished there was more to do than think. Thinking made her poetic.
January 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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mevanswrites.bsky.social
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE x queer SCOOBY DOO

When five friends find themselves locked in a mysterious manor with the body of an eccentric puzzle master, they must play their way through the manor’s riddles and puzzles to escape with their lives.

#W #M #LGBT #agented #BluePit 📖
A nine block mood board showing, in order: blood stained converse shoes, bisexual pride pins, a woman wearing a “sounds gay I’m in” t shirt, a creepy Manor House, a newspaper clipping of the word murder, jigsaw pieces, a woman bending down to give a black cat a stroke, a blood stained key, and close up of several people shoes all standing in a circle
January 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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TRULY DEVIOUS X ONE OF US IS LYING

When the glue to their friend group is murdered, four teens at a remote summer camp for the arts must dig up dirt on each other's hookups, criminal records, and drug dealing to expose a killer who'll do anything to keep the truth buried.

📖 #BluePit #Q #YA #M
A mood board with a green background. At the top reads: "Hope you enjoyed your summer at Camp Butcher!" with kissy lips. From left, the first picture is of a couple kissing in a lake, captioned: not his girlfriend. Middle picture is of newspaper print of the word LIES over and over, torn away to reveal TRUTH, captioned: Who ISN'T lying in this book? Final picture on the right is of a row of summer camp cabins, captioned: murder & mayhem spots.
January 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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THE COUNSELORS X SILENT SISTER

18 y/o Paige plans to spend her summer attending writing workshops and paddle-boating on the sparkly lake at camp. But when her boyfriend turns up dead and his BFF is arrested, she smells something fishy—and it isn't coming from the lake.

📖 #BluePit #Q #YA #M
A camping mood board with an orange tent and the writing "let's go killing" beside an etching of mountain caps. Polaroid pictures line the bottom. From left: a pile of question mark cutouts that are in darkness, with one glowing question mark in the middle; a person whose face is obscured in darkness, wearing a yellow raincoat; a hand of a presumably dead body on the floor, sticking out from a sheet.
January 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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FIVE SURVIVE X A LESSON IN VENGEANCE
82k YA Mystery

A teen girl obsessed with true crime attends at her father’s circus academy when her new roommate is suspected of murder, and her strong morals— and her big mouth— have her coming forward in a corrupt murder investigation.

#Bluepit #YA #Q #📖 #M
A collage of various warm-toned images: yellow caution tape, brown work boots, a plaid skirt, olive branches, a book shelf, old-fashioned hallways, a circus tent, and a black cat.
January 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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SIX OF CROWS x DISHONORED

Al dreams of becoming a scholar, despite being born to a family of whalers. And in a city where you can get anywhere if you're good enough, what could possibly hold him back?

🐳 Victorian whalepunk
🐳 Fantasy heist
🐳 Class rage
🐳 Found family

#BluePit #YA #F #W 📖
January 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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eliushi.bsky.social
🏰 Castle in the Sky x 🪄 Witch Hat Atelier x 👹 Shinsekai Yori

🪶 Kids with wings for hair
👁️ Monsters lurking in the woods
🤖 Mystery robot in the underground lab
🧪 An evil scientist returns
(But you know, she’s doing everyone a favor, saving the world her way)

💥 #bluepit #YA #F #W #I
Cover of Keyspace: A Winged Tale, showing a girl holding a digital device, papers flying about and a mysterious winged folk behind her Sample page from Keyspace: A Winged Tale showing kids exploring an underground lab Sample coloured page from Keyspace: A Winged Tale showing Flo watching memories of them as children, running by Sample colour page from Keyspace: A Winged Tale showing Flo confronting Ash, in human form, without their wings
January 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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ILL-MADE GODS

Rivers are bursting their banks and washing away Morrow's hopes of becoming a druid. But underneath the surface, a parasitic god pulls his strings. To save his home, Morrow must decide what kind of monster he will become.

#BluePit 📖 #W #Hs #D #F #H #A #Dis #LGBT
Pitch slide, showing a piece of artwork on the right of a bit reaching towards a light, surrounded by a ring of centipedes and millipedes. Pitch slide showing a moodboard, with a standing stone circle, cocoon, trees growing out of a river, Celtic knotwork, a river, a Celtic roundhouse in the rain, a carved standing stone, artwork of druids, artwork of someone drowning, a centipede Pitch slide showing three comparison titles: A Study in Drowning (anxious MC, themed prose throughout, dark academia), The Bright Sword (LGBTQ+ rep, Ancient Celtic Britain, Found family) and The Poppy war (Found family, A god inside of the protagonist, losing a sense of who you are) A comp slide, showing a writing excerpt
January 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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SQUID GAMES X MONSTERS WE MAKE📖

🖥️Tech Meets Supernatural

🦾Mismatched Team

🔥Touch Them and You Die

🌪️Meme-Worthy Chaos

🎥The Found Footage Aesthetic

😵‍💫“I’m Fine” (But They’re Not)

💤Books That Will Ruin Your Sleep
#BluePitHype #BluePit #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #W #H #T #LGBT #A
Glitch! Moodboard; tech and monster images WIP art of Golden drawn by a friend
January 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Posted a #bluepit for Embers of a Lost Flame today, my poor eternal main project deserved a somewhat functional log line, so this was a nice little challenge haha.

The actual blurb is still my favorite blurb I've done though, so I'd love to share it too!

#BluePit #A #F #LGBT 📖
January 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Embers of a Lost Flame. 📖

“There are no new beginnings, just new directions.”

An exiled nobleman returns home from service only to fall into the machinations of his maternal figures, conspiracy, and a labor dispute that threatens to devour the city he grew up in.

#BluePit #wip #A #F
A collection of pictures describing the main cast of Embers of a Lost Flame. From top left to bottom right: Rowan, main character and POV. Teek, childhood friend of Rowan and member of their throuple. Reyna, comrade in the Inquistion turned member of their throuple. Valla, Rowan’s biological mother and future duchess of Karro. Veona, Rowan’s aunt who raised him and semi legitimate mob boss. Makida aka “Granny”, Duchess of Karro, Rowan’s grandma, basically a chill Tywin Lannister with a sense of humor.
January 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Minor miracle of the week, I spelled “deuteragonists” correctly on the first try.

#hashtagblessed #writingcommunity #writing
December 22, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Finished a short fic for quite possibly one of my favorite games of the year, Mouthwashing. Probably going to tighten it up a bit at some point, but over all very happy with my “happier” ending I got to with these characters. Now onto my actual OC!

archiveofourown.org/works/612319...
Our worst moments. - Gearman - Mouthwashing (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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December 11, 2024 at 7:37 AM
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Listening to the audio book version of “This is how you lose the time war”, and man, I forgot how quickly they start flirting with each other.

These nigh immortal time lesbians really move fast haha.
November 28, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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When you realize your checkov’s gun isn’t actually a gun but the rumble of the city’s reactor you set up in chapter one:

#writing #writingcommunity
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November 27, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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Writing a three way Throuple is fun, often adorable, and a lovely challenge when it comes to dynamics and what not. Could never cut them from the plot all things considered. But man, when I have to do math and geometry to make logistic sense it becomes a bit of a head ache. Haha

#writingcommunity
November 25, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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Me reading critique a draft ago: “Okay, I need to put in the work to make sure MC is realistically presenting how his traumatic past affects him.”

Me today looking at the utter wreck of a human being my MC is: “Oh my god, I’m so sorry.”

#writingcommunity #writing
a man in a white shirt is talking to a woman in a kitchen .
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November 24, 2024 at 2:30 PM