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Morgan Wodring 🦑 NEW WEIRD NATION
@morkalmarrh.bsky.social
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Writer, artist & scientist. On the @smallpitch.org team. He/they/it. ND & aroace. Rep: A.J. Van Belle
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Another commission, this one for @lness.bsky.social for her website! I'm a bug enthusiast so it was great fun to draw all the colourful bugs and portray them in a positive light.
A woman with dark, curly hair and a man with a blonde viking-cut stand under a bright sky. Flowers and many bugs surround them. They're both wearing bug net hats.
October 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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inished this commission for @millieabecassis.com! This will be a freebie with copies of Bright City, Shattered, available soon from Polymath Press. Millie gave me a copy so I could come up with this concept and it's a fabulous novella. So I was very happy to bring this to life!
An androgynous woman surrounded by fragments of a bright blue crystal. Reflections of a red-haired woman, an orca-like creature, a casette and a notebook fill the crystal shards.
June 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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I am bouncing off the walls to announce that I'm now represented by @ajvanbelle.bsky.social of @bookeralbertagency.bsky.social! From the get-go, they understood this strange world and its characters and helped them to shine bright. I'm excited to begin this mycorrhizal symbiosis!
A graphic with CYANOSIS at the top, saying MORGAN WODRING is now represented by A.J. Van Belle of the Booker Albert Agency. The background is an illustration of a man and a woman back to back with a purple wyvern between them.
May 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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🌊 THEY TOOK SOMETHING FROM YOU // THEY PUT SOMETHING IN YOU 🌊

CYANOSIS, where pagan gods move through human souls in the shadow of a city that grasps the sky.

You probably need it like a hole in the head.

#QuestPit #SF #H #A #Q #AgentsGuide
Verinn, a monstrous conurbation home to bird folk, shapeshifters and immortals. Five years ago, all data was wiped from cyberspace by devastating blackouts. Kioki thinks she knows the truth about what happened that day. That’s why she shut down the laboratory in the sea beneath the city’s superstructure. Trigger, though, doesn’t think he knows anything. Not his past, not what he wants, and not about the infection changing him into a species unknown to the scientists in that same laboratory. Like a lot of things in Verinn, that lab won’t stay dead. Not when there’s work to do. Agent's guide to cyanosis, 98k sci-fi, standalone with series potential. THE SEA IS RISING For fans of Midnight water city, perdido street station, annihilation or our wives under the sea.
February 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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PERDIDO STREET STATION x ANNIHILATION

Kioki fights to stop a second disaster. Trigger's altered body might just cause one.

🦑 scientists studying an eldritch entity
🏳️‍🌈 #OWN queernormative setting and ND lead
🌊 oceanic dread
🌎 climate themes
👁 sci-fi by a molecular biologist

#QuestPit #SF #A #Q
A man in pink and cyan lighting smokes a cigarette in a cyberpunk city A man with eerie blue eyes with a sea serpent and a monstrous octopus
February 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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ANNIHILATION x PERDIDO STREET STATION

Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is.

#QuestPit #SF #A #Q
A man and a woman stand with a putple wyvern with a backsrop of a city, the plaentary rings anf a putple moon
February 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Here is a summary of the age categories of the #SmallPitch pitches.
A graph showing the entered age for the pitches. Half are adult, with the next highest being young adult. Crossover was the smallest.
January 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Today's infographic is by genre. I combined some genres to avoid total chaos. Also bear in mind this counts all times a genre is mentioned (i.e. a sci-fi mystery will count to both sci-fi and mystery pools). But still a fun visual. Check out how big fantasy & retellings are.
A chart of the genres from SmallPitch. The three largest squares are Fantasy & Retellings, Erotica & Romance, and LGBT+.
January 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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What's up, #SmallPitch? I've been busy gobbling numbers while you were busy sending over 500 pitches to Florence's shiny database! Here's the first graph. Day one is in blue, day two is in pale green. Note the peak right before the close...
A graph showing itches over time to the SmallPitch event. Day 2 has a lower turnout, with a peak right before the end of the event. Most pitches were on hour 12 of their respective days.
January 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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This may be spoilers but he is turning into a worm on a string for realsies
January 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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CYANOSIS is a genre-defiant sci-fi featuring:

🦑 scientists studying an eldritch entity
🏳️‍🌈 #OWN queernormative setting and ND lead
🌊 oceanic dread
🌎 climate themes
🌃 cyberpunk city, fantasy world
👁 sci-fi by an IRL molecular biologist

#YouDeservePit #A #Q #SF
January 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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PERDIDO STREET STATION x ANNIHILATION

Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is.

#YouDeservePit #SF #A #Q #LGBT #ND
January 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Had a poll for what word the next #snippet should include, and this one was 'stone'! As I said elsewhere... I really am pretty shy about these so if you do dig it, lemme know, and I'll be more comfortable sharing more.
Moving on from the last lift, the walkway curves into tiles which might have been white once but now have the queasy grey of preserved brain matter. Though the halls have a dirty, disused character they smell clinical: saline and ether. Empty labs gape at Trigger, toothless mouths. A sign saying ‘Interdisciplinary Division Kryptos’ marks his way. Beside him the wall gives way to perspex. A concrete vista rears up on the other side below him, a self-contained titan of metal and ground-up stone. This was once some manner of reactor but the seats by the console lie empty. Above, the ceiling stretches up to a cold, grey climax.
January 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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PERDIDO STREET STATION x ANNIHILATION

Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is.

#P2PPit #Q #SF #A
January 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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PERDIDO STREET STATION x ANNIHILATION

Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is.

#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #SF #LGBT #ND #OV
January 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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PERDIDO STREET STATION x ANNIHILATION

The drowning gulls cry, “Who are these new dear ones, if not me?”
The whales indict him as one, “What are you here for, if not for me?“
The crashing waves accuse, “Who are you without me?”

#BluePit📖 #Q #A #SF #LGBT #ND #OV
January 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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When I dredged the bottom of the ocean, this book came up. I transcribed those salt-stained pages into a word document, hoping to put it in an agent's inbox in the near future. #agentsguide #amquerying #litagents
Premise: Verinn, a monstrous conurbation home to bird folk, shapeshifters and immortals. Five years ago, all data was wiped from cyberspace by devastating blackouts. Kioki thinks she knows the truth about what happened that day. That’s why she shut down the laboratory in the sea beneath the city’s superstructure. Trigger, though, doesn’t think he knows anything. Not his past, not what he wants, and not about the infection changing him into a species unknown to the scientists in that same laboratory. Like a lot of things in Verinn, that lab won’t stay dead. Not when there’s work to do. highlights: city as a character detailed and vibrant world sci-fi by a scientist #own queer, nd lead many unique species genre-bending epistolary elements. Art is of a man with black hair lit in yellow from the left. Agen't sGuide CYANOSIS. 98k sci-fi, the sea is rising, standalone with serieds potential. A woman with pink hair and scars on her cheek is the artwork. Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is. For fans of Midnight, Water City, Perdido Street Station, Annihilation and Our Wives Under the Sea.
January 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Had a vote, and everyone decided that since it's that time of year... better have some angst.

🌈📚 🪐📚 💙📚
Most people talk about being at a remote from oneself under stress, like an outside observer, perhaps floating. For Trigger, it’s inside. Within his hollow body he sits and watches through distant eyes, and the muscle and fat and sinew around him are miles away. He directs the motion of that body but he doesn’t feel it move. Every impulse he dampens makes him smaller, the distance wider. He hadn’t realised how minuscule he was getting recently, until now. The real Trigger curls up in a cavern of meat, no bigger than a fly.
December 20, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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PERDIDO STREET STATION x MIDNIGHT, WATER CITY

On the line between miracle and monstrosity.

🌊 oceanic terror
🧠queer, ND lead #OWN
2️⃣dual-POV
✉️epistolary elements
🪶 velociraptor people, birdfolk & dragons
🌆cyberpunk city, secondary world
🧪science of eldritch gods

#HoliPit #A #SF #WIP #ND
A man with cyan and magenta light in a neon city. He smokes a cigarette, walking with his face and body in shadow. A child in a cloak back to back with a man with crow wings and a knife. A mysterious blue energy connects them. The surface of the ocean glimmers above them.
December 15, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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Five years ago, cyberspace was wiped clean. A laboratory beneath the ocean holds the key. An amnesiac changing into an unknown species and a detective investigating a wyvern search for the truth before the laboratory's experiments cause another flood.

#WIPPIT #A #SF #LGBT #ND
CYANOSIS. In a drowning world, who gets to decide the price of saving it? Dual POV, Epistolary elements, M/M romance subplot, worldbuilding, and building, and building, strong emotive core, tragic characters you root for, maby unique species, scientific ethics, transformation with trans in brakcets, memory, identity, love is fury, alienation, PTSD as body horror, nature as beauty, nature as terror, cosmic malignance, "I'm an optical illusion of a person. You're seeing shapes and your brain is telling you there's someone there. But there's not. I'm just surviving."
December 14, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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PERDIDO STREET STATION x MIDNIGHT, WATER CITY

Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is.

#SF #A #LGBT #ND #FBW #WIPPIT
A man in cyan and pink lighting in a vertical city walks, smoking a cigarette, A man with piercing blue eyes, with a sea serpent and an octopus.
December 14, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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Aw, thanks for thinking of me, Clover!!

Everyone's welcome to join but I'll tag...

@rabbittraps.bsky.social
@thematchalight.bsky.social
@miheh.bsky.social

No pressure to participate if you don't want to!
A tarot card, THE KNIGHT. A hand in red light reaches for a crown, surrounded by stylised swords. A man with pale skin, black hair and crow wings is back to back with his child self. He holds a knife and a mysterious energy peirces their hearts. They're beneath the water. Several figures surrounded by clock numbers. A lotu-slike machine glows in the background and the bottom right of the frame is filled with bloody, gore-like fungus. A person with a black tail and an orange sash leans out from atop an orrery planet. A tall person in black looks up at them. Golden light floods the scene.
November 23, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Really went off with my icon image. Still chasing that high it didn't even take me long. #art #digitalart
A man in a dark coat with unnaturally blue eyes and a blue marking on his chin and neck. He is surrounded by tentacles and two weeping sea monsters loom over him; one looks like a cross between a viper and a gulper eel, the other has three cephalopod-like eyes.
November 19, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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Everything is fine down here beneath the sea in my sci-fi ~ #booksky #sundaysnippet
Concrete floors and walls with a faint moisture crowd Trigger in. With his arm extended upwards he can place his palm flat on the ceiling, feeling the weight of a planet pressing down on that one spot. Moving on from the last lift, the walkway curves into tiles which might have been white once but now have the queasy grey of preserved brain matter. Though the place has a dirty, disused character it smells clinical: saline and ether. Empty labs gape at Trigger, toothless mouths. A sign saying ‘Interdisciplinary Division Kryptos’ marks his way. Beside Trigger the wall gives way to perspex. A concrete vista rears up on the other side below him, a self-contained titan of metal and ground-up stone. This was once some manner of reactor but the seats by the console lie empty. Above, the ceiling stretches up to a cold, grey climax. After the pressure of the corridors before, the expanse is wide as a cathedral.
November 17, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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If anyone was curious what these velociraptor people actually look like, I doodled one just now. I sort of default to them honestly. They're called Iorryn. They're all leg.
November 17, 2024 at 4:39 PM