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SALTBURN X CATCHER IN THE RYE After being left without any adult supervision, a closeted teenage boy invites his best friend and her brother to his abandoned family estate for the summer. #QuestPit #YA #LF #HFic #WIP

PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN A murdered cat becomes a human and tries to ascend to godhood for revenge. But in limbo, rage isn't enough to survive. 🔪 Revenge plot 🏚️Liminal Spaces 🐈‍⬛Cat POV 🎭 Unreliable narrator ☠️ Body horror #Questpit #A #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC

#QuestPit #S #H #Q #F PIRANESI x Severance x THE GARDEN When memory-erasing fruits begin to disappear, a woman in an endless Greenhouse will go to harrowing lengths to keep her past from resurfacing. ⚜️epistolary ⚜️territorial women ⚜️slow burn horror ✨with editor interest✨

Typo on my questpit post…and it’s too late…

Tragicomic SALTBURN but it’s 1989 Left with a cellar full of experience wine without adult supervision, one 17yo boy invites his best friend - and her beautiful elder brother - to his grandfather’s otherwise empty estate for an unwieldy, decadent summer. #YA #U #LF #HFic #questpit

THE GREAT BEYOND Ruby, the daughter of a celebrated 1930s spirit medium, falls in love with the man trying to debunk her mother and must make a life-changing decision about who – and what – to believe. 🕯️Upmarket #HF 🕯️Faith vs illusion vs fraud 🕯️Knotty mother–daughter relationship #QuestPit #Q

🇲🇹 WIND WAKER x THE TIGER'S DAUGHTER A mortal woman returns from a dangerous quest—alone. To tell her island community what happened, she must eulogize her starborn wife, whose sacrifice saved their world, and navigate the churning waters of grief. Out this summer! #BluePit📖 #A #F #LGBT #TR #W

#BluePit 📖 #M #A #OV #LGBT #WF A lonely middle-aged academic falls under suspicion after her best student vanishes - but proving her innocence is complicated with her growing connection to her rival’s unconventional daughter. An age gap lesbian love story within a dark academia mystery.

#BluePit 📖 #DIS #LGBT #NA #WIP LESS THAN ZERO meets ADRIAN MOLE. Somehow. our closeted, depressed and religiously troubled narrator invites his volatile best friend and her beautiful Oxford-bound brother to one last summer in his grandfather’s lavish estate - what could go wrong?

#BluePit 📖 #Hs #DIS #WF #OV #A Hamlet, if narrated by a Richard Papen-esque Ophelia and set in bleak late 1970s England. 🕯️Majority neurodivergent cast 🕯️A crumbling gothic manor 🕯️ Platonic bonds that aren’t quite friendship 🕯️A narrator who is just SO reliable, she promises 🕯️many, many cats

Hate to take the student bit out my bio but I’ve not dropped out it’s just on hold because of work 😭

Not officially doing #castpit because I don’t know my actors that well but fwiw, I did get told this

Hamlet, if narrated by a Richard Papen-esque Ophelia and set in bleak late 1970s England. 🕯️ aromantic, autistic, TOTALLY reliable narrator 🕯️ a crumbling gothic manor 🕯️ majority neurodivergent and often queer cast 🕯️ cats, everywhere #questpit #A #LF #W

#DVPit #H #ND #DIS #MH #LGBT My English small town gothic horror is perfect for fans of: 🥀Shirley Jackson 🥀David Lynch 🥀Yellowjackets 🥀Wuthering Heights 🥀Post-punk music 🥀The 1980s depicted as un-nostalgically as possible

#DVPit #H #ND #DIS #MH #LGBT Tropes in my British TWIN PEAKS x SHARP OBJECTS horror: ❤️ Childhood friends to lovers (but not quite) ☠️ Toxic female friendships 😡 Female rage 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨Pathetic man, unhinged woman 🥀Dark cottagecore 🏳️‍🌈Messy queer representation

#DVPit #A #H #LGBT #Dis #MH #NDA TWIN PEAKS x SHARP OBJECTS 🪰 bisexual FMC + autistic MMC 🪰 girls who haunt the narrative 🪰 small mining town gothic 🪰 homage to the goth subculture 🪰 messy relationships all around 🪰 motifs of rot and decay 🪰 upmarket psychological horror at 90k words!

I just finished beta reading this today, and I’m rooting for it so so so much

Violet returns to her quaint Cotswolds hometown after the inexplicable disappearance of her childhood best friend turned bitter enemy - to find that things aren’t quite how she remembered, and that she’s left a far, far deeper wound on the town than she ever imagined. #A #H #DIS #MH #LGBT #DVPit

Litfic writers of bluesky. Are you out there. Please. #writersky #writersofbluesky

WIND WAKER x THE TIGER'S DAUGHTER A woman stuck in her wife's shadow seeks her own identity and purpose while sailing across her drowned world to help fight a cosmic force intent on devouring all life. #F #A #LGBT #preDV

A viral Substack essayist interviews a media-darling YouTuber—and publicly dismantles him. It should end there. But now he's texting. And she can’t stop watching the footage. A chronically online, sexually frustrated enmity with teeth. #A #LF #BVM #PreDV

Yes - I would hate to see someone write my job inaccurately and have put down books for that reason and I would hate to the That Person

HAMLET X THE SECRET HISTORY X PALE FIRE 🕯️Majority neurodivergent cast 🕯️A crumbling gothic manor 🕯️ Platonic bonds that aren’t quite friendship 🕯️A narrator who is just SO reliable, she promises 🕯️many, many cats #A #LF #ND #DIS #MH #LGBT #PreDV

When a beloved children’s book author dies, her son and executor unearths a horrific secret that sends his world crashing down - as narrated by his unassuming childhood friend with dark secrets of her own. #preDV #A #MH #DIS #LGBT #ND

When a nymph disappears to the local pond with no intention to leave, her daughter must put everything on the line to save her—from both the owner who wants to dry the pond and the town that wants them gone for good. #preDV #A #CF #MENA #WOC #SPF #LGBT

Some people like to weaponise the language of "accountability" and "constructive criticism" when what they really mean is "submit to me and my authority" and when you naturally assert your autonomous viewpoint you will be pathologised and sometimes excommunicated.

YELLOWFACE X THE SECRET HISTORY What if your favourite YouTuber and Substack essayist got into a messy parasocial situationship and you had access to the FULL archives of their chat logs in an extended callout post? ECHO CHAMBER could be your next must-read. #UnhingedPit #A #W #T

EVERY FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE SONG x LOOK BACK tfw you want to draw your mom but she decides she's fusing with the pond which btw is going to be dried out soon bc the owner doesn't want her in there #UnhingedPit #A #F #LGBT #W

#UnhingedPit LESS THAN ZERO meets ADRIAN MOLE. Somehow. our closeted, depressed and religiously troubled narrator invites his volatile best friend and her beautiful Oxford-bound brother to one last summer in his grandfather’s lavish estate - what could go wrong? #NA #L #LGBT #W

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As far as I’m concerned every piece of media about Bob Dylan is just a plot to convince me to buy those gay little boots

New icon that’s Joan Baez and kitty

I don’t want to live in a world without David

CRIMSON PEAK x CARMILLA In 1872 England, spirit medium Agnes accepts a commission to exorcise a murderous ghost in a remote manor. When she ends up falling in love with the very spirit she is meant to banish, Agnes is forced to choose between love and her moral principles. #BluePit #Querying #LGBT 📖

The bad sisters soundtrack is so good to write to. Everyone say thank you pj Harvey

And now, in marketing talk, The Funeral Procession is THE SECRET HISTORY x HAMLET and featuring: 🦇 a Gothic take on the 1970s ♾️ an autistic narrator 💔 no romantic subplot ♟️ a dark academia atmosphere 🐱 cats. So many cats. #BluePit #W #A #Hs #D #Ov

Set in 1978’s Winter of Discontent, The Funeral Procession follows three childhood friends reuniting to gather the unpublished writings one of their mothers, a one-time literary legend, only for a posthumous confession and ethical dilemma that tears them apart. #BluePit #W #A #Hs #D #OV

WIND WAKER x THE TIGER'S DAUGHTER After waiting a year for her wife's conscription to end, Edera's life is shattered when Seren returns bearing an impossible—and likely deadly—quest. How can Edera allow her to save the world by herself? #BluePit #W #LGBT #A #F

There's no need to use AI when there's so much cool stuff in the public domain. Anything on this site is available for you to do whatever you want with it! Slap some text on it and boom, you got a cool book cover in five seconds. public.work

Took me a while but a new moodboard for #seventiesgothic ! #BluePitHype (two days late)

Hi #BluePitHype! I’m Lottie, I write literary fiction in the historical, gothic and varsity veins as well as some horror. I’m inspired by real life history, the natural world and what terrifies me most. I started writing so long ago I can no longer remember how I started.

When listening to Ethel Cain and the recommendations are like: Charli xcx boygenius mitski chappel roan etc respectfully, what does she have in common with them

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One of those days where I remembered I was autistic actually

Having to get into writing again after Christmas off 🙂 why is it hard now

I love hearing merry Christmas (war is over) and simply having a wonderful Christmas time being played consecutively when I’m out somewhere. Happy McLennon Christmas

Violet returns to her hometown for the late autumn to reconnect with old friends and her childhood sweetheart, and, shall we say, leaves with her own little Christmas miracle :) #HorrorWritersChat

I’m Lottie, I write gothic fiction and my favourite festive tradition is drinking mulled wine 🍷!! #HorrorWritersChat

HAMLET x THE SECRET HISTORY (but 1970s England) After the death of one of the country’s most reputable authors, her son recruits his two oldest friends to sift through her unfinished work - and uncovers life changing discoveries about all three families. #His #LF #A #OWN #WIPPit