#MSPW: disability rep

[sarah-sandwich-writes]

Moon+Seraph Pitch Week

Comp Titles: Bridge to Terabithia (minus the child death) x Spider-Man (616 comics) x Endgame (mcu)

Blue like don't forget about me

A coming of age queer romance about two boys who lose touch as kids only to reunite on opposite sides of a super-powered battle for the city.

Themes:

Self-reliance vs. accepting help

Anger

Empowering the powerless

Good intentions gone wrong

Stage in the writing process: Drafting - 50%

WIP Landing Page

Nash Moodboard

Teddy Moodboard

Content Warnings:

child abuse

character death

graphic depictions of violence

Tag List: @wildswrites @themugglemudperson @the-gayest-tree-you-ever-did-see @theirtheretheyre @ploncc @thedumbestavenger

[sunset-a-story]

Moon + Seraph Pitch Week

Witch Hunter Robin X Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. X Blood+

A serial in three arcs (Sunrise, High Noon, & Sunset)

SolCorp was founded to hide the existence of knacked people and their myriad of superhuman powers from the world, keeping humans safe from out-of-control knacks and keeping knacked people safe from human intolerance. So when they discover that one rogue Sol scientist had generated 25 babies with a defective Probability Manipulation knack and abandoned them out in the world fourteen years ago, it's up to SolCorp to find them and bring them back. But maybe their knacks weren't so defective after all because as three of the Venus 25 grow into adulthood, improbable things start happening. Things that will change SolCorp and the world forever. Sunset is a slow-burn of mounting tension and stakes that only get higher with expansive worldbuilding and a majority LGBTQIA+ ensemble cast that has something for everyone from espionage to adventure to romance and even a dash of monster hunting.

Themes

found family

revolution vs mega-corp

coming of age (older teen)

growth and healing

love

loss

power corrupts

Current Stage of Writing Process:

Sunrise (115k words/245 pages): in beta; plan to release in 2023

High Noon (307k words/683 pages): ready for beta

Sunset: in progress

Artwork by my co-writer and partner.

Check the Sunset hashtag for more character profiles.

Content warnings (entire series)

mind control (telepathy)

violence

explicit sexual content

weapons (guns, knives, munitions)

drinking/drug use (prescription, recreational, on-screen)

abduction/captivity

death

gore/bodies

age gap (slight)

prejudice

profanity

torture

reference to child abuse (not on screen)

threat of sexual assault

mental illness

suicide (not on screen)/suicidal thoughts

religion (many but heavily Catholic)

intense monster violence

car accident

tag list @words-after-midnight @thathaunteddoll 

[andromedaexists]

Moon & Seraph Pitch Week!

It's time! I'm gonna talk about Call Me Icarus today

Lore (Alexandra Braken) x American Gods x Metamorphoses (Ovid)

Call Me Icarus

These monsters are in every corner of our society. They are heralded as Gods among men, but not for long. I am doing everything in my power to show who they really are behind their masks. Soon, everyone will see these nasty creatures for what they are…

A Tragedy following Icarus as he takes a look behind the curtain of the Elysian Program and sees the disgusting framework that he was disillusioned to. Now the only thing on his mind is bringing down the program and the entire ATLAS corporation. Will he be able to when the world and his body seems set against him?

Themes

Greek Mythology

Overthrowing A Corrupt Government

Social Outcasts/Found Family

Queer!

Mental Health (not recovery, but learning to live with it)

Physical Disability (and learning to live with it)

Current Stage In Writing Process

Writing! I am over halfway done with this draft, then just one final look over/edit before starting the query process

Art Related To WIP

A Moodboard for Icarus, the main character:

WIP Relevant Links

WIP Masterlist Icarus Docs CMI Info Page Taglist Signup Picrews!

Content Warnings

Listen, CMI is a dark tale. It is heavy and I want to make sure I get everything here, so please be mindful of the content warnings. I do not put them here for shits and giggles

Depression/Anxiety/Hallucinations

Blood/Gore

Child Abuse/Physical Abuse

Death

Fire/Immolation

Police Brutality/Violence

Sexually explicit scenes/Slut Shaming

[basalamander-corner]

Moon and Seraph Pitch Week

Brought to you by @sabels-small-sphere

The Tiger at Midnight x We Hunt the Flame x Beasts of Prey

The Shifting Tides

The blood of the innocent is always spilled by tyrants. Those who wish to fight have no choice but to continue the cycle of violence and death to survive. But there stands those who want to put an end to it all, regardless of how much of their soul they must sacrifice. And if losing their souls means they gain peace for their loved ones, so be it. Sometimes, we must fight for a future we ourselves cannot see.

Project Themes

Found family

Fighting against oppression

Friends to enemies to lovers

Self discovery

Rebellions and war

Trauma recovery

Current status

Draft number three in progress

Rough draft, first draft, and second draft finished.

Content warnings

Childhood abuse & trauma

Physical & mental abuse

Violence, torture, blood, gore, and death

Queerphobia

Sexism (against women)

Xenophobia

Racism

Project links

Side blog is @the-shifting-tides-wip

Pinterest

Spotify

Want to be added to the taglist? Like, or reply to this post!

[yors-truly]

Around the World in 80 Days x Amphibia x Life of Pi

Beyond Time and Space

IT'S A JOURNEY - A RACE - BEYOND TIME AND SPACE.

When an often-flighty young girl is conflicted by her desire to express her capabilities and her fear of doing more than what she can handle, the moment arises when a team of brave individuals are needed to carry out a quest to explore and gather information on alternate universes. However, the drive of another blocks their path in reigning successful; so much so, the team is left to go on a journey that’s much longer than they wished. 

Themes

courage and bravery (as a catch-all term for several possible themes, as well as being the main theme)

coming of age

hope

friends and family

love (and letting it go)

power (and the lack thereof)

loyalty and commitment

Current Stage in Writing Process: LOTS of world-building, episodes 1 and 2 outlined (and still drafting ep.2), first season plotted

Art related to wip

^ A relevant poster for Beyond Time and Space season 1, created March 16, 2023

^ An outdated but still relevant poster for Beyond Time and Space season 1A, created October 10th, 2022.

Wip-relevant links

A PDF preview script of the first episode of BTaS; the first draft of a complete rewrite

A wikidot blog I (ideally) update every two-to-three weeks covering my progress on BTaS; currently considering on moving it either to tumblr or dreamwidth for the sake of faster and easier access, so it hasn't been touched in a while

A toyhou.se profile for all BTaS-related art, simply for the purpose of (1) storing it somewhere without having to worry about storage and (2) having shareable links

The Beyond Time and Space side blog, where you can learn more about the series and join the taglist

Content warnings

fantasy violence

metaphorical and literal displays of mental health topics (ex: depression, anxiety, PTSD, etc.)

mentions of war

character death/harm

discrimination

fictitious religions/practices that highly resemble real life religions

[cee-grice]

Moon + Seraph Pitch Week

Comp titles: D&D x Minecraft

When White Crows Cry

Waking up from death in the city one had been exiled from would be a concerning situation in and of itself. Quilin, a gifted yet disgraced mage, soon discovers those are the least of his issues, as Endra, his lover, who, two years ago, had seeked him out in desperation to find a cure for his magical affliction, was now missing and had Quil’s former magician community after him. As Quil tries to find common ground with the people from his past and piece together what had happened in the year he’d been dead, he is forced to face everything that had culminated in said death.

Themes

morality of science

the darker aspects of academia

bodily autonomy

mental deterioration

love, obsession, and the line between them

death and grief

“what goes around comes around”

Current stage in writing process

Deep into the first draft

Art related to WIP

WIP-related links:

WIP intro

Content warnings:

suicide ideation

PTSD, depression

anxiety, panic attacks

death

(light) body horror

[writeintrees]

Moon + Seraph Pitch Week

rules: likes are to be added to a tag list. feel free to reach out about being a beta reader/critique partner!

The Kaiju Preservation Society X How to Train Your Dragon

CLAWS IN THE CANOPY

Bennett’s expedition is stationed in the dangerous forests of the planet Zora. Something is destroying their equipment high up in the mammoth atlas trees, and he knows that if he solves the problem, the council will finally be proud. What he doesn’t expect is to save the life of the mystery creature, breaking the tenets of their society, and being thrown into a mission to keep the untrained Ionan Guard alive as they cross the jungle. All the while, things are getting bad with import/export holds between two of the cities, and political tensions are rising.

found family, dumbest smart people you’ll ever meet, animal companion, queer love, and a diverse cast

finishing up revisions and looking for beta readers

CWs: animal injury, animal death (not Celeste), guns, war, human injury, blood, bones

[new-royston-cursebreakers]

Moon + Seraph Pitch Week:

Comp titles: Gulliver’s Travels and Hadestown

The Curse of New Royston

The small town of New Royston is cursed: wealth correlates with physical size. 20-foot-tall Gio Violett, a sophomore recovering from a near-death experience, encounters 1-foot-tall Cricket Collins, a freshman who’s been left to fend for himself as his parents try to save up enough money to bring him out of town. Fed up with the town’s unofficial segregation, the two of them agree to try to break the curse.

But the closer they get to their goal, the more they uncover the town’s gruesome history. Danger stems from the least likely places, from political conspiracies to supernatural forces, from the shady figure that seems to always be on Gio’s heels to the reason why Cricket’s parents left in the first place; soon, it becomes clear that their, and their friends’, lives and livelihoods depend on breaking the curse.

Themes

Trust

Family, both blood and found

Identity/self-perception

History, discovery, and retellings

Community

Current Stage in Writing Process

Currently on third draft, ironing out scenes and fixing grammar, spelling, and tone.

WIP-Relevant Links

Sideblog is @new-royston-cursebreakers

Content Warnings

Violence (asphyxiation, blood, gore, amputation, burn wounds, assault, child abuse, police violence)

Discrimination (classism, ableism, queerphobia, ageism)

Religion

Strong Language

Mentally-disturbing content (dissociation, unreality, paranoia, claustrophobia, anxiety, trauma, brain injury)

Bugs

[moon-and-seraph]

M+S Pitch Week: Monday, March 27th

Moon+Seraph Pitch Week is a week-long event from March 26th to March 31st of 2023, where writers will pitch their in-progress original sci-fi and fantasy stories on themed days and find other stories to support.

Day 2: Stories about Characters with Disabilities

Today's theme is for stories with main characters with disabilities. If this applies to your sci-fi/fantasy story, you can post your pitch today and use the applicable tags below.

Please note, if your pitch falls under multiple days' themes, you'll apply all applicable theme hashtags when you first post your pitch. If you reblog and add the hashtag then, your pitch will not show up when people search our Pitch Week tags.

Theme-Related Tags

MSPW: disability rep MSPW: ownvoices disability rep

Please note, the "MSPW: ownvoices disability rep" tag is for disabled writers only. However, if you're using the ownvoices tag, you should also use the "MSPW: disability rep" tag! We've set aside ownvoices tags for people of each theme's identity as a way to help build community.

Likes = Tag List

Please be aware that a like on a pitch = a request to be added to a story's tag list (if a tag list exists). Too often, likes on Tumblr can be a hollow form of support, so we really wanted reblogs and likes to be placed on even levels!

In addition, we strongly encourage you to reblog at least one pitch for every pitch you post. Ideally, though, you'll reblog many pitches and share words of support for those stories. This is a writing event centered around building community, not advertising.

Resources

Pitch Week Schedule Rules and Guidelines

Pitch Layout Template List of Pitch Hashtags List of Content Warnings

Pitch Example: The Hunger Games

Answered Questions

Find Pitches

Look through our directory of pitches!

[moondust-bard]

Demon Countess of Anjou X Margaret Rogerson’s Vespertine X European witch hunts

Unholy Covenant #1: The Bloody Divine

Mordelia, the sole heir of an infamously bloodthirsty Count, strives to undermine her father’s crusade against witches and unearth the truth of her missing mother’s identity, pitting her against the Count’s newest young bride, a daughter of nobility snatched from a dying, war-torn land. As the new Countess, Evanor is determined to provide her power-hungry husband with the male heir for which he has yearned since he learned of the curse placed upon him: to never bear a living son. Unfortunately for Evanor, none of the Count’s previous ten wives survived beyond a year of matrimony—and the life and freedom of Evanor’s favorite brother depends on her safe delivery of a healthy son. Meanwhile, in a crumbling temple hidden in the mountains, acolyte Vivaine must take up the mantle thrust upon her by her goddess and uncover a wicked god’s scheme to paint the known world in his image before the birth of his coveted prophesied child.

Themes

• nature vs. nurture

• women’s roles & oppression

• immortality

• desire vs duty

• love & sacrifice

• role of religion in society

Current Stage in Writing Process: fleshing out the draft

Content warnings

• Body horror

• Mild gore

• Death

• Implied sexual assault

• Religious trauma

Want to know more? Find the wip intro here!

[surroundedbypearls]

Breath of the Wild x Logan

Golden Hands and Golden Fingers

Set hundreds of years before ‘The Wildfire King’. A banished god is determined to track down the key to immortality. He sets his sights on capturing Princess Annchi, the key to revealing the treasure. Her new knight, Theo, is set to accompany her across the wilds, and must protect her with the help of some unlikely allies.

Themes

Found family

Parenthood

Mortality

Appearances vs reality

Current Stage in Writing Process: Drafting/Rewriting

Art related to wip

Wip-relevant links

WIP intro

Comic sans presentation

Characters: Annchi & Theo / Priam & Jiri / Emogen & Velda / Karrae & Nalini

WIP tag (see for excerpts!)

Content warnings

Death

Suicide

Mentions of forced birth

Violence

Ableism

Like or reply to be added to the taglist!

[moonyswritinq]

Atlas' Story — Moon+Seraph Pitch Week

Pitch by me, @moonyswritinq, event week brought to you by @moondust-bard and @saintedseraph

SIX OF CROWS X THE LORD OF THE RINGS

Seven to Die

Tension between non-magical and magical people, magicks, have been rising for decades, now a greater divide between the two than ever. The New Rebellion have been rising in strength and numbers, fighting back against the oppression of magical people, and is rumoured to have an intricate device to enhance a magick's abilities. Kaede Kutsuki, under the orders of the Small Council of Albion, is sent to hinder the Rebellion's advances by stealing the device. With the help of a group of as immoral criminals as herself, she has to manage the journey to pull off the job and to not lose the fight within herself — especially as old wounds open and her past has come back to claim the final victim that escaped.

Themes

found family

revenge

morally grey conflicts

power and corruption

survival

Current Stage in Writing Process:

rough draft in process

Art related to wip: N/A

Wip-relevant links: N/A

Content warnings

violence

death

gore

murder

insomnia

PTSD

mental / psychological abuse

physical abuse

childhood trauma

[leebrontide]

Moon+Seraph Pitch Week pitch

Comp titles BNHA X Midsomer Murders by way of Asimov.

Title of book Names In Their Blood, Book 2 of the Second Sentinels series, after Secondhand Origin Stories

Blurb Four queer teens on the fringes of the superheroing world head to a small town in Minnesota for what’s supposed to be a month off. Officially, they’re there for some stressful family reunions and to use the only full hospital for genetically altered people in the US. But, when they realize that the government beuro that gives the Sentinels their missions has been hiding the disappearances of missing alterds for years, it sets them in the path of a mission that has them questioning who they can trust.

Themes Disability, bodily autonomy, identity, queerness, ethics, corruption, eugenics

Current Stage in Writing Process Editing round 4, soon to go to my beta readers!

Art related to WIP

Wip-relevant links

Book 1 in the series (currently free!)

Tag list WIP post/longer intro

Playlist

Series tag on my Tumblr

Content warnings

ableism, gore, death, misgendering, microaggressions, medical trauma and abuse, child abuse, family conflict, incarcerated family members, fire, racism, microaggressions, estrangement, claustrophobia, violence, intergenerational trauma, complicated adoption history, cults, eugenics

[corniebooks]

Docket 936591

Genre: Adult sci-fi

Lefthand of Darkness x Winter’s Orbit

Miere was raised to become the Monarch of Agate and Co her second in command, but a secret plot sends them both into hiding, Miere among the lower classes and Co among their hated ally Fetid. Will these experiences change them to be better when they are able to return to their power and responsibilities or will they continue the life of pleasure and oppression that they were raised to fill?

Themes:

-oppression in a post-scarcity socialist-capitalist society

-learning and growing is what makes you a good person

Stage: “First” draft. I have written over 115,000 words on this project but have yet to finish the first draft. The book isn’t going to be that long, I just keep restarting. Goal length is 80,000-100,000 words.

Content Warnings:

-sexual content

-transphobic body horror

-queerphobia

-intersexphobia

-childbirth

[elizaellwrites]

Legacy of the Fallen

Moon + Seraph Pitch Week

Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus x Harry Potter

Low Fantasy x High Fantasy

Summary

The great civilization of Hecathians has fallen, leaving millions dead and thousands to flee. Thirteen years later, many have left their origins behind to blend into the human world; however, some retain their culture. Anna has always left the past alone, but now at fifteen, she is faced with the world they have been running from. Brought to a cultural sanctuary where their people have begun to rebuild, her reality begins to unravel, and the truth can no longer be hidden.

Themes

Rebuilding after disaster

Overcoming differences

Things aren't always as they appear

Morality

Courage isn't the absence of fear

Friendship

Finding oneself

Current Stage in Writing

In progress: 71k words (Prologue + 14 chapters)

Link to Read Work

Content Warnings

All chapters containing triggering content are marked

Common

Death

Violence

Mild Gore

Grief

Occurrences of

Emotional and Physical Abuse

Child Death

Murder

Anxiety

Depression

Mild Bullying

Mild Homophobia

[writeintrees]

Moon + Seraph Pitch Week

multiPOV SpellHacker X House of the Scorpion X Uglies

AN ECHO OF SAPPHIRE

Ari enters the city owned by Tuin Corp to enroll in a certificate program. She quickly learns that the company doesn’t like people asking questions, and keeping her head down isn’t in her nature. She befriends a fellow classmate, the non-binary Moth, who introduces her to an underground resistance movement. Through a series of broken laws, they learn what Tuin Corp is really up to, and a secret that turns Ari’s life upside down.

rebelling against oppression, finding family where you are, friends to QPR, activism, hurt/comfort

currently in the beginning of revisions. will be looking for beta readers at the end of April.

CWs: non-consentual drug use, flashbacks, police brutality, adult kidnapping, terminal illness, death, implied death of babies