Cyberpunk pastiche, but make it trauma. Featuring: 💅 Insufferably perfect pop star clone 👩🏻‍🎤 🤦🏾 Too-old-for-this-shit gay heavy 🤜🏾 🫡 Ex-military wiseass in a mecha body 🤖 😻 Cat-girl hacker who’s not obnoxious, she swears 👾 #BluePit #📖 #W #SF #LGBT #hopepunk #BluePit📖

FROM THE SEA FRET ⚓Dredge + From the Belly⚓ A queer transman moves to a dead-end fishing town only to find it full of semi-mad townsfolk, monstrous fish, and an ever-present fog that whispers to him. #BluePit #📖#A #H #Q #TR #OV #LGBT

👽WE EXPECTED MORE👽 Forty years after the fall of the internet, four women (and one genderless alien) embark on a journey that's one part saving the world, ninety-nine parts trauma recovery. #bluepit #📖 #OS #A #OV #ND #TV #SF

“If we were to have a hope of speaking frankly, we needed to question you. Interrogate you, even. You understand.” I had #almost forgotten Barnum’s infuriating tendency to insist upon what his interlocutor must of course understand. #WIPsnips #writingcommunity www.patreon.com/kamela/posts...

TERMINAL CAFE x THE WIZARD OF OZ Four misfits flee a half-dead future Boston, following the call of a long-lost voice to a desert city no one can seem to remember. In its heart they will find out what "alive" really means. But first they have to save humanity. #BluePit #📖 #W #SF #LGBT #hopepunk

The First Lesbian Book Club asks "What happens if Ann Bannon got fed up with industry publishing standards of the time, got her friends together, and started vandalizing books to give them happy endings?" #BluePit #W #OV #LBGT #WF #R #FLBC #SapphicWriters #Writingcommunity

Calling all fans of gothic horror, queer retellings, Victorian pastiche lit, and messed up little guys. 🖤 Ought to Be Thy Adam is a gay/trans Frankenstein retelling querying this fall. Follow along for the journey or connect if you write similar stuff. #BluePit #H #Q #A #LGBT #OV #TR #HS #SP

Runaway to a solarpunk Pacific Northwest in ARTIFICIAL SUNFLOWERS, where you find: 🧪 Women in STEM 🔫 Handsome Super Soldier Clones 🪶 An Indigenous FMC 💪 Rebellion against a Post WWIII cyberpunk monolith 🌻 Hope against all odds #BluePit #📖 #A #SF #R #WIP

Welcome my gallant knights. I am the bard babbling and rambling for your entertainment, Bramble. I write, perform and produce short stories of post-apocalyptic chivalry which I'd be honoured for you all to enjoy. The best part is they're free. Links Below. #BluePit #Raven+Bear #W #P #WA #A #SF

Coming soon! 👇

FIRST LIGHT: Tag yourself! Team SIX: You're a Robot! Reliable, artsy, and ALWAYS the designated driver. A little nosy too, but who isn't? Great fashion sense. Team XYD: You're an Alien! Curious & passionate, but sometimes you struggle to keep up socially. Nothing a nice nap won't fix! #BluePit

Proudly presenting for #BluePit my trailer for ⚔️ THE DUEL IN 1660 ⚔️ A storybook romp through a colorful, heightened 17th century. It's the silliest historical you'll cry over this decade! #YA / #A #LGBT #TR #OV #HS #HU #Q #📖

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful Eldritch being known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control and becomes a demon himself. #BluePit #H #Q #📖

But of course, nearly anyone could be tempted. It was just a matter of finding the right bait. #cyberpunk #wip #patreon #writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting

A smartass cyborg, a deeply tired gangster, and a literal manufactured pop star walk into a wall of sand, following a signal from the revolutionary musician they all believed dead. But in the pulsing, ruined city behind it is a power far greater. #BluePit #📖 #W #SF

NK Jemisin Clive Barker Stephen King Cat Valente Susan Collins

Morning, #BluePitHype! I'm Jax, writer of fantasy of various flavors (all of which involve bees somehow—which also answers the inspo question!). I've been writing since I was a kid, but I'd spent most of my life writing fanfic. Buuuut I decided to make the jump to original works in 2020.

Hello #BluePitHype! I'm Kamela, I've been working on a cyberpunk/hopepunk novel since...2018? Jeez. Anyway, I'm releasing bits weekly on Patreon. Inspirations: Jersey Shore childhood. Growing up queer and weird. An MFA, mostly-useless, but makes me feel like a Real Writer(tm) when I get sad. You?

"Did I miss anything?” “Quite a lot, actually. Biggest part is probably where I forgot you existed for a while. That was nice.” #writingcommunity #writesky #writers #patreon This week's chapter-closer is free to all. Please share, and if you'd like to read the whole thing, become a member.

Asbury Park had been the jewel of the Jersey Shore, but had fallen into ruin in the last #quarter of the 20th C. They’d almost restored all the old rides and brought in new business when the sea rise became inescapable, and the poor place sank into the sea just as it had been revived. #wipsnips

Voulez-vous THE BUS #nocontext #earworms #youmightbeoldif #yourproblemnow

#WIPsnips Eden lived in one of those stiltscrapers, the jacked-up apartment hi-rises they built after the #water rose. I always thought it was a cool concept, though I didn’t quite understand the physics of it. www.patreon.com/kamela/posts... #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writing #cyberpunk

Reams of code flew past in my vision, pausing minutely each time some line had been infiltrated. In place of the normal lines were characters of some script I’d never seen, their shapes like twisting vines, leaves, #roots and flowers, bones. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WIPsnips #cyberpunk

@unchi.org you got reblogged by tarawinequeen on a thread about disturbing short stories!

This hits very hard.

The full conversion process was in its infancy when Cid underwent it. It’s unsurprising, these days, to see the occasional talking fox or horse or tiger, enjoying a new life for their consciousness within a beautifully designed construct.  #wipsnips #writing #cyberpunk www.patreon.com/kamela

🚩Eden: Designer human. Sex pest, but you like it 🚩Terrah: So tired. *Will* insult you 🚩Cid: Unlimited dad jokes. Suspended drivers license 🚩Krysis: “Just throw a fuckin grenade in there and see what it does!!” #wip here: www.patreon.com/collection/2... #unhingedpit #w #scifi #writingcommunity

“Krysis,” said Eden, “my fans were planning on coming in over the top. Are they...I mean what are our plans for this firewall exactly?” “Oh, they’re not decoys designed to draw off the enemy and sacrifice themselves in a scorchmark of glory?” #unhingedpit #w #scifi #writingcommunity

“She was a vat-grown.” Cid was quiet for a minute. Like a full minute. I took a mental note in case I ever needed it to happen again. -- Chapter 3 continues, as the group circles closer to each other. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writing #novel #cyberpunk #hopepunk #patreon

Hey girl, are you the reflecting pool? Because you're not broken but I'm going to try to fix you anyway and then get mad when I can no longer see what I used to see in you.

We flew out the side of the building, not the bottom, which was lucky because we didn’t get trapped under the #platform. Cid wasn’t exactly built for water, which was unlucky because as soon as we hit the ocean he started to sink. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I know this is a sort of juvenile and facile joke, but it amused me the other night when I went into a gender-neutral restroom and found the toilet seat literally half-up and half-down

By that time it was awkward to mention it. We were nearly friends, now. I figured maybe this was how rich people made friends: keep paying people to hang out until hanging out feels natural enough that being paid for it seems weird? #writingcommunity #writing #novel #cyberpunk #hopepunk #patreon

"Job itself sounds easy enough. Why not do it with some style?” “What style? #Blade Runner Reject and Trenchcoat Trashcan?” “You wound me,” I said, clanking the back of my hand into what passes for my forehead. “Imma bout to wound you,” Terrah said, but there was laughter in her eyes. #WIPsnips

Meant to tag this #wipsnips

“Who is the girl, anyway?” “I don’t even know,” I admitted. “Some minor star. Music, I think. Looks like a Real Doll. Has some kind of pheromone mods.” “Whoa. Wish I’d thought of that. All’s I can do is #smell like a new car.” #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

"That face. I knew that face, I was sure of it. Somebody famous? Or sort-of famous? Maybe she’d just been modded that way. White women always doing that shit." Terrah meets Eden in this week's novel excerpt. #writingcommunity #writing #novel #cyberpunk #hopepunk #patreon

My new estrogen cream is infinitely superior to the old one for a very simple reason. I mean yes, it dispenses much more easily, but more importantly, the lid looks like a seashell

I tried for a cheery tone. ”Or you could just not go in there.” Her eyes shot to me then, narrowed, deep brown, the fear gone or buried. “Mind your business, ‘borg.” “Yes’m,” I said, turning forward and gripping the wheel. #writingcommunity #writing #novel #cyberpunk #hopepunk #patreon

TFW you're singing in a roving outdoor choir event full of families and kids and the Halifax Gay Men's Chorus just busts out with "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood

"Music magazines always talked about megastars 'bursting onto the scene.' This just sped up the process. As if Madonna, say, had emerged fully formed from the forehead of Sire Records, wearing an oversized lace bandanna and singing Lucky Star." #writingcommunity #writing #novel #cyberpunk #hopepunk

Remember, folks, alt-text isn't just great for accessibility. It's also another avenue for storytelling. (Not included in alt text: the title, "Cid: The Signal and the Noise," and along the bottom, the link patreon.com/kamela) #writingcommunity #alttext #storytelling #patreon #oldmedia

"Was my behavior typical of the pattern? Could you predict the various failure-states of your living dolls? How many had a meteoric rise, only to have an equally meteoric fall? How long did they last, once they knew what they were?" #writingcommunity #writing #novel #cyberpunk #hopepunk #patreon

don't tell *me* how to feel, Vancouver taxicab

"Even though I was mostly metal by this point, I could still get a migraine like a frigging knitting needle through the skull. Guess I didn’t ask for that particular sensation to be eliminated from my squishy brain." #writingcommunity #writing #novel #cyberpunk #hopepunk #patreon

"I don’t even know what I felt like. Like the world was ending or something. But also like...well, I guess sort of like everything was maybe gonna be okay." Terrah starts her tale. If you like it, please consider supporting my writing. #writingcommunity #writing #novel #cyberpunk #hopepunk #patreon

"I signed autographs for a little while, a big loopy ‘E’ with a heart. Trademarked and illegible. My eyes felt like they were melting." More from Eden at the start of Chapter 2. If you like it, please consider supporting my writing. #writingcommunity #writing #novel #cyberpunk #hopepunk #patreon

“You’re just gonna go in there and fuck it up. The way people fuck everything up. The way people have been fucking everything up from here to Tuesday since the beginning of goddamn human-fucking time.” Introducing Cid, on my Patreon #writingcommunity #patreon #amwriting #writesky

Introducing Terrah, the bodyguard in burnout “'I’ll tell you what I saw, what we did. What...happened. I don’t know if it’ll help you understand it any better, but I’ll try.' *Just please stop fuckin’ crying*, I don’t say. It’s what I would of said, back in the day." #novel #writing

“Charlie, please,” she says to my manager, who hasn’t budged. “Could you endeavor to look slightly less as though a pit of alligators were about to open beneath your feet?” The next novel section is up at my Patreon. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky