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Azi is querying a toxic friendship YA Fantasy
@smossman.bsky.social
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She/her, AuDHD, Aro/Ace, Syrian American
I read almost everything
i write YA fantasy and i like feminine rage, masc women, and boba
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My alpha/beta readers also gave glowing reviews 🥹
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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An #agentsguide to STARSENT, my MISTBORN x HOUSE OF THE BEAST friends-to-enemies YA secondary world Fantasy, or “Friendtasy”, complete at 106k words, already with Big 5 Editor interest!

I’m now officially #amquerying so if you’d like to see this, lemme know! 💫
An agent's guide to STARSENT, by azi ossman
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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HOUSE OF THE BEAST x WILL OF THE MANY
Big 5 editor interest 👀
A star in human skin is willing to destroy her body to find her lost friend.
Except her friend wants her in cinders.

💥Friends➡️Enemies
💫Gold Age Islamic Astronomy setting
🌊Elemental high-consequence hard magic
#Questpit #Q #YA #F #ND #POC
a #questpit moodboard featuring a bracelet, a statue, fingers with gold rings, two people hugging, a streaking comet, and korra lifting a boulder.
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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HOUSE OF THE BEAST x WILL OF THE MANY
Big 5 Editor Interest 🙊

To defeat monarchs and her estranged childhood friend-turned-enemy, a star in human skin must learn about her power from a reluctant princess—before failure turns her body to ash. #Questpit #YA #F #Q #ND #POC
a moodboard for #questpit consisting of scales, a girl sitting on a bench, beaded bracelets, factories emitting smoke, a statue, fingers with gold rings, a mountain range, a princess, two knights, bleeding knuckles, and an old mud brick tower.
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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I need to seriously thank the #DVPit for making my first bluesky pitch event since moving to Tokyo so memorable.

I almost didn’t participate this year bc i was so busy with moving into my new apt and starting my new job. I had nothing planned. And now i have so many queries im excited to send 🥺❤️
Picture in an Asakusa street of a woman in white, navy, and red kimono
October 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

Big 5 Editor Interest 🙊

To defeat monarchs and her estranged childhood friend-turned-enemy, a star in human skin must learn about her power from a reluctant princess—before failure turns her body to ash.
#YA #F #DVPit #ND #POC
October 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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LAST AIRBENDER x MISTBORN
Big 5 Editor Interest ✨

How far will you pull your ribs to expose your heart to your ex-friend? For every inch, a blade.

After a star in human skin is abandoned by her best friend, she only has until the monarchs threatened by her power find her to decide.
#DVPIT #YA #F
a moodboard featuring bracelets, a girl sitting on a bench, scales, a statue, bleeding knuckles, a mountain range, a smokestack, and a tower.
October 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Big 5 Editor Interest 👀✨
A star in human skin fights power-hungry monarchs.

And her childhood friend, who disappears when she needs her the most.

👭 friends-to-enemies (toph + azula vibes)
🪨 elemental hard magic system
💫 Golden Age Islamic Astronomy
💃 femininity and female bonds
#DVPit #YA #F #Q
a six image moodbard consisting of bracelet, statue, fingers with gold rings, two people hugging, a comet, and korra lifting a boulder.
October 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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LAST AIRBENDER x FULLMETAL ALCH

Big 5 editor interest ✨

Stars burn all they touch. Inspired by Islamic astronomy, a star in human skin fights both monarchs who see her powers as a threat and her childhood friend.

But she may turn to ash before feeling her toxic friend's flames. #DVpit #YA #F #Q
a moodboard for STARSENT, featuring from left to right, top to bottom: golden balanced scales, a girl sitting on a bench, beaded bracelets and necklaces, smoke plumes rising from factories, a statue, a star reading: "friend, beware the stars", rings, mountains, a girl in a dress, two people with one on a horse, bleeding knuckles, and a tower.
October 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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How to make real stardust! 💫 💖
1: find someone descended from crashed stars
2: be someone with the power to manipulate stardust
3: shred it from their veins
4: bury the body
5: enjoy! Bright enough to light a crater! Swallow to gain infinite power :)
#UnhingedPit #YA #F #WIP
a meme board of "is a good boy" on the y axis and "looks like a good boy" on the y axis.
July 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Who's gonna tell em...this dysfunctional, neurodivergent, disabled ensemble cast is convinced that the earth is in the center of the solar system bc they live in a setting inspired by Golden Age Islamic Astronomy... #UnhingedPit #YA #Fantasy #WIP
July 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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WANTED: peasant girl who eats rocks instead of metal for magic powers like that one mistborn girl and likes to go barefoot like toph. If spotted, say you know where her friend is and she’ll follow you even though the friend is a toxic parasite. #Unhingedpit #YA #F
July 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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If writing a story about a toxic friendship has taught me one thing… #WritingCommunity
June 3, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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AAAAAHHHH?
#amquerying #writingcommunity
Full manuscript, please!
May 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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LAST AIRBENDER x MISTBORN x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

If Ursa wants to chuck fireballs without freezing or conjure gales without suffocating, she'll have to put up with her snobby magicless princess teacher. And the royal family hunting her for her elemental powers. #QuestPit #YA #F #W
May 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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LAST AIRBENDER x MISTBORN x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

🕌 Golden Age Islamic astronomy setting
💔 Friends to Enemies
🪓 Teen magicless mentor
🌊 Elemental hard magic system
🔇 Disability, ND, illiteracy rep
🍵 Uncle Iroh-like figure (he's an 8 ft. tall statue)
#QuestPit #YA #F #W
A moodboard containing six images for #Questpit. From top to bottom, left to right: a thick beaded bracelet, a statue of a knight with wavy hair, a close-up shot of a hand with gold rings, two friends hugging each other, a streaking comet, and korra from avatar legend of korra lifting a large boulder. This moodboard is for the YA Fantasy, Starsent. A moodboard containing six images for #Questpit. From top to bottom, left to right: a thick beaded bracelet, a statue of a knight with wavy hair, a close-up shot of a hand with gold rings, two friends hugging each other, a streaking comet, and korra from avatar legend of korra lifting a large boulder. This moodboard is for the YA Fantasy, Starsent.
May 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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LAST AIRBENDER x MISTBORN x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

Set in a world inspired by Golden Age Islamic astronomy, a delinquent village girl fights alongside a snobby magicless princess to escape a royal family who see her elemental powers as a threat to their rule. #questpit #YA #F #W
A moodboard for #QuestPit featuring from left to right, top to bottom: gold scales, a girl sitting on a bench in black and white, friendship bracelets, factories emitting plumes of smoke, a statue of a prince, "friend" scrabble letters, gold rings, mountains, a comet, a star in the center with "beware the stars" written on it, a broken heart, a princess in a dress and crown, knights with a horse, knuckles covered in blood, and a watchtower. The moodboard is assembled to represent the aesthetics of the YA Fantasy, Starsent.
May 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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I started my ms less than a year ago, but looking at my early chapters…man, I wrote like this???? #writingcommunity
A kid in a red shirt cringeing
April 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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it's me #writingcommunity
No to: packing and sleeping early bc u have a flight tomorrow Yes to: staying up till 3am writing and giggling and kicking ur feet bc 2 industry ppl liked ur prose words
April 14, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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LAST AIRBENDER x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
💫 chosen one talks shit and gets hit
👑 axe wielding magicless princess
🔥 mute squire w/ fire as hot as the sun
🌊 asthmatic explorer obsessed w/ boba
🗽 8ft. polite sentient statue
🫥 MC’s bff disappears on MC
Art: @magpiesandmayhem.bsky.social
#W #YA #F #Questpit
Black and white digital sketch of a girl in overalls sitting on hay bales and chewing on a twig, resting her cheek on her hand and her elbow on her leg. Protagonist of the YA Fantasy Starsent, shared in the #Questpit event.
February 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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LAST AIRBENDER x MISTBORN
Ursa’s the last daughter of humanity-loving fallen stars, adopting mortal skin but burning with power—& the royals want her dead. Except she didn't know that til their soldiers came, and her best friend disappeared the same day.
#YA #F #SFF #DF #W #questpit
A moodboard containing six images for #Questpit. From top to bottom, left to right: a thick beaded bracelet, a statue of a knight with wavy hair, a close-up shot of a hand with gold rings, two friends hugging each other, a streaking comet, and korra from avatar legend of korra lifting a large boulder. This moodboard is for the YA Fantasy, Starsent.
February 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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LAST AIRBENDER x MISTBORN
Stars adored humans so much, they crashed to join them. Ursa hates being a descendant, hunted by the monarchs—the “rightful” heirs. Their princess, born magicless, goes turncoat to teach Ursa how to blaze as a star in mortal skin.#YA #W #F #QuestPit
A moodboard for #Questpit featuring from left to right, top to bottom: gold scales, a girl sitting on a bench in black and white, friendship bracelets, factories emitting plumes of smoke, a statue of a prince, "friend" scrabble letters, gold rings, mountains, a comet, a star in the center with "beware the stars" written on it, a broken heart, a princess in a dress and crown, knights with a horse, knuckles covered in blood, and a watchtower. The moodboard is assembled to represent the aesthetics of the YA Fantasy, Starsent.
February 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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And that’s a wrap for last week, jan 20-26, in #hobonichi. Thanks for a fun #2025Pit! 💫
Weekly planner page, showing stickers including gudetama, kanao from demon slayer, sunflowers, a bento box, the aquarius sign, constellation, and a green heart
January 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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LAST AIRBENDER x FULLMETAL ALCH
Stars adored humans so much, they crashed themselves to live among them.
Humans don't want them anymore.

🤕Incompetent Chosen One
☝️Magic-less mentor
🧨Elemental hard magic
🔥Feminine Rage
👨‍👧‍👦Messy sibling dynamic
🫥Villain's lowkey right
#YA #F #2025Pit
A moodboard containing six images for #2025Pit. From top to bottom, left to right: a thick beadh othered bracelet, a statue of a knight with wavy hair, a close-up shot of a hand with gold rings, two friends hugging each other, a streaking comet, and korra from avatar legend of korra lifting a large boulder. This moodboard is for the YA Fantasy, Starsent.
January 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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💫 chosen one talks shit and gets hit
👑 axe wielding magic-less princess
🔥 mute squire w/ fire hot enough to melt bones
🌊 asthmatic explorer obsessed w/ boba
🗽 8ft. polite sentient statue
🫥 MC’s bff disappears suspiciously when MC’s kidnapped
Art: @magpiesandmayhem.bsky.social #YA #F #2025Pit
Black and white digital sketch of a girl in overalls sitting on hay bales and chewing on a twig, resting her cheek on her hand and her elbow on her leg. Protagonist of the YA Fantasy Starsent, shared in the #2025Pit event.
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM