we dont have the money for universal health care but we have tons of money for concentration camps and a surveillance society
we dont have the money for universal health care but we have tons of money for concentration camps and a surveillance society
buy a trans author’s book today
Late to the trend but not to the M’s bandwagon
#indieauthor #indiebooks
wow, I really punched y’all in the nose on page 1
I’m at the phase of “writing block” where I think I actually need to go back and read The Boy The Monsters Made
hi, i’m ronan graves and these are the four imaginary situations I made in my head
The background of a cypress swamp is covered by a gold disc, and the silhouette of a man standing before it on the upper half of the promo, with the author's name centered and at the very top, stating: revon m. castillo. On the lower half of the image, the lines of weeping willow trees on either side sweep inwards towards the title: Alligator Boy, as well as summary of the genres/themes, listed as: southern gothic, adult romance, bloody horror, queer revenge.
The background of a cypress swamp is covered by a gold disc in the upper half of the promo, with the author's name centered and at the very top, stating: revon m. castillo, as well as the title of the book, Alligator Boy. Below it, reads: tw: transphobia. On the lower half of the image, the lines of weeping willow trees on either side sweep inwards. It is covered then by black grunge paper on low opacity to allow the white text to come through that reads an excerpt from the book itself: "There's never anything to watch on the television anymore. Since the electrical fire at the electronic store burnt the place down to a fine crisp, Kross and his mother haven't bothered to get another TV satellite. They once had plans to. But after they found their original satellite dish broken and vandalized on their front porch, they both came to a quiet agreement that it wasn't worth the hassle. While they never exchanged words, Kross could still remember the way his mother pointedly ignored the spray painted word tr*nny smeared across the remaining, intact pieces of it. It wasn't worth the trouble to get a new one then, or now."
The background of a cypress swamp is covered by a gold disc in the upper half of the promo, with the author's name centered and at the very top, stating: revon m. castillo, as well as the title of the book, Alligator Boy. Below it, reads: tropes & themes. On the lower half of the image, the lines of weeping willow trees on either side sweep inwards. It is covered then by black grunge paper on low opacity to allow the white text to come through that reads: m/m romance / trans man mc x cis(?) gay LI (love interest), mental health rep & overcoming agoraphobia, revenge against abusers, POC leads & plus size MC, transition through monstrous means, queer rage & queer gore, bloody happily ever after, swamp is alive, hot kinky sex.
ALLIGATOR BOY
To avoid the past, Kross tries not to leave his house unless beckoned by the charming & mysterious Malik, his "lover". When one call leaves him stumbling into every face he's avoided, Kross finds himself unearthing secrets the swamp itself can't bury.
#sludgepit #wip #rf #e #h #a #dr
He leaned closer, angling his face upward toward Osprey, their lips a mere finger’s breadth away. Though he’d grown taller since they’d first met, he’d never be quite as tall as Osprey. Lilian smiled a little at this, moving his thumb gently over Osprey’s hand, finding his skin as clammy as it had been the day they’d met. Lilian knew inherently the questions Osprey was pondering, imagining the oaths his knight had taken playing like a litany of warnings in his mind. No matter how he tempted him, when it came to matters of intimacy, Osprey was forbidden to act on his own accord. Lilian could give him his permission, but that would ruin the fun. Wouldn’t it? The sharp symphony of insect song seemed to grow louder as Lilian pondered his own motivations. Was he taunting his knight, or was he testing him– and would he rather Osprey pass, or fail?
Osprey and Lilian, the main protags of the book. who are both special and terrible in their own way :)
THE HEIR OF ELDIS
Osprey once vowed never to return to his icy home world. It should have been an easy fate to avoid; as a knight, he is all but assured an untimely death. But Lilian, the frail lord Osprey is sworn to protect, has plans of his own.
book 1 coming later this year ;)
#SLUDGEPIT #WIP
A blue and purple tinged image of a woman with an artificial left arm. It reads, Glitched Cassidy Vin Brandt
Nero, a mechanic, takes advantage of a desperate cyborg with a strangely glitching arm.
🦾 sapphic erotica
⛓️ cyberpunk setting
🦾 futuristic strap-on
⛓️ bondage & d/s
🦾 dubious-to-enthusiastic consent
a short story, coming soon #sludgepit
A trope image for the book Bound by Blood (Bound Duet Book One) by A.M. Boone. The cover has a half-Native-American man with long black hair holding an African-American nonbinary person with short curly hair by the waist. There's roses in front of them, and a gate, moon, and cityscape in the back. The tropes are: - enemies to lovers - trans rep - vampire politics - magical bonding - unhinged4unhinged - morally gray MC x morally black LI - touch them and die - poc rep - high spice
Heard there was a #sludgepit happening, so I'm throwing my hat in the ring.
A vampire noble finds themselves swept into a conspiracy after being gifted a low-blood criminal as a so-called bodyguard.
#A #P #OV #POC #TR #LGBT #PNR #D
Can be read on KU here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2SJZ1B4
A summary and then excerpt in white text on a black background with a reflective red sheen. DEAD ENDS A town without a name, populated by monsters trying to stay forgotten. A vampire without a name trying to lose its past. A young man with a talent for going unseen, looking for his missing ex-lover. A murdered nightclub singer. A missing werewolf. When a vampire without a name and an witch without a coven meet, it’s hate at first sight. But to find what they each need, they’ll have to put that aside and work together. Trouble is, they both have their respective pursuers, and in a town like this, everybody knows your scent. Excerpt: The vampire did not bother with niceties. It did not prepare the woman’s flesh with the healing secretions of its tongue, or draw a neat slit with a sharp claw from which to gently lap her blood. It bit, and it bit deep, and blood flowed into and over its lips and its tongue and slid hot down its cold, cold throat. The vampire’s blood surged. It devoured the heat of the living blood, merging with it like a desperate lover. Soon, too soon, it would all grow cold and begin to rot once again. But for now, the vampire felt warm. It would never feel alive.
My second and last #sludgepit offering is my vampire noir DEAD ENDS #WIP #H #D I'm working hard on it, but currently my most realistic estimate is it will be out sometime in 2027. I'm very excited about this one.
A moodboard consisting of 5 images. 4 are centered, and boarded in a white frame. The background image is the inside of a greenhouse, looking up at the glass ceiling. A silhouette of someone sitting in a wheelchair, and looking out onto a sunny day. Three shelves containing corked bottles of various witchy herds. Aged paper, strewn about, all containing handwritten letters and sketches of human anatomy. A hand is holds a plume of black smoke.
THE STRINGS OF WILLIS MANOR is a sapphic gothic suspense with speculative elements.
Thistle Willis - a young woman with a chronic illness - tries to learn the secrets of her family before Mama's control over the manor gets her killed.
#SludgePit #G #WIP
A lime and moss green graphic with green halftone images of trash decorating it. The graphic reads “SLUDGEPIT” lgbtqia2s+ pitch event for dark, taboo, morally gray, and stigmatized works, February 17th #sludgepit
Happy #sludgepit
🗑️🤮 This is an event for fun to “ pitch” your work to your audience, and make connections with other authors. Pitching just means showing your work off!
a navy blue 70s car parked on a grassy hill. in white text: whitefish, three cheers for America's sweethearts.
as if written on a flash card: sludgepit. "local celebrity (45M) jealous of son's (18M) prom date (17F). is massive fucking loser about it."; He's 18 but like. c'mon man.; There's "toxic" and then there's THIS.; A 1980s American Gothic; WHITEFISH; Smut with plot; cis!M/trans!M; D/S dynamics; "do you WANT him or do you just want to BE him?"-type gender BS; daddy-o/sonny boy; a psychological horror masquerading as a "romance". The resurrection of Bt. Hearst.
Vincent Wright, charming, beguiling, and All-American family man—beloved television personality & Whitefish, Montana's Golden Boy—has a secret he will never tell. Milo Wright, high school senior, bully, and rebel without a cause—the son who'd been born a daughter—is determined to exploit it. Milo is off to college in four months. Vincent knows he's never returning home. They might as well play this depraved little game. A contemporary gothic.
a three by three moodboard: a diner booth, an open door, someone standing on an old TV, a small mountain town, a beam of light over bed sheets, an 'on air' sign, a 70s TV set up, a person's shadow, a young person laying back on snow with their face hidden by red and black squiggles. on top of the images is a piece of flash card that says "Whitefish, Montana, class of '86"
Behold‼️
WHITEFISH. An M/M Contemporary Gothic/erotic novella set in the 1980s.
A high school senior must decide whether to continue his beguiling father's legacy, or break away from the horrific cycle baked into the DNA of "American Family Values". It's not as easy as he hopes.
#sludgepit #wip #E
Cover of Doce Drosera showing a dark skinned woman with red and yellow tentacles entangled around her breasts and stomach, her mouth open and sweat drops on her body. We can see strands of brown hair and her open mouth, but her eyes are covered by a black line in the top of the illustration. In the black line there is the quote Forests are no place for lover's quarrels in white. The title Doce Drosera is in the lower half of the illustration, over her stomach and separated from the art by a pink background with very low transparence. Below the title we have the credits: story by anita and cover art by clara (mayalla on bsky)
"Such a gentle flower to the very end."
Drosera magnifica - sundew with long green and pink stems covered in glue drops to attract food
“So? Are you coming? Last chance, darling.” “I’ll pass. I have a paper to finish. Bring me a souvenir.” The brunette leaned on the couch, focusing on running fingers through her loose ponytail to avoid the ginger’s unforgiving green eyes. “Ah, so now you’re a nerd. Fine, Van. I’ll bring you the ugliest mug I can find.” “Thanks, babe.” She winked, stealing the joint for herself. “I can always trust your bad taste.”
bringing my short botanical horror to #sludgepit
A grieving biologist loses herself in the woods looking for her missing ex. A peculiar comfort awaits in the heart of the forest.
🌱 vore
🌱 gore
🌱 unlabeled aphrodisiacs
🌱 plantfuckery
🌱 9K words
link: anakidd.itch.io/drosera
#P #HR
a trope map showing the cover of Awaken, My Love by Marat Earendel. The tropes are: erotic horror romance, gay wrongs, angst &yearning, so so much blood, morally gray everything, aesthetic gore, breathing walls, sex first emotions later, healing trauma through sex, lust and kind and base urges. The illustrated cover shows a brown vampire with red eyes and shoulder-length wavy black hair wearing antique black and white clothing while looking toward the viewer. He is holding a man in his hands. The man is pale with long beige hair, wearing white and cream colored clothing. He is in profile, looking up and gripping the vampire's shirt. There are split open pomegranates threaded through the burgundy title of the novel. In the background is a broken gothic window, and at the bottom are chains. The cover is in shades of reds, browns, mauves, and blacks.
On a red and black background, it says: Astaire Bloom, an unfeeling man devoid of hope, takes a job in a remote castle under a mysterious employer. As sinister events unfold around him, he starts to feel things he thought himself incapable of. And the castle is hungry for it. To uncover the secrets buried within, he must endure more than he ever imagined.
🩸 Hurt, and bleed, and fuck, and fear. Fear it all. Feel it all.🩸
Frankenstein x Interview with the Vampire
March 2026.
Pre-orders open.
#sludgepit #p #h #dr #r
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6V8S6YQ
A dimmed photo of juicy-looking pomegranate seeds and the following text: The lich had the same warm aura, but instead of the welcoming heat of a radiant springtime sun after the cold winter, it was the aura of a fading twilight sun. Still trying to warm the world, but it left a bitter sensation upon the skin. “Come.” The lich’s voice was soft as his crimson-stained fingers curled around the curved handle of his cane, which Dobroslav numbly held onto. “You said you’d follow me into the depths of hell?” The lich’s smile was a warm contrast to his corpse-cold grasp on Dobroslav’s hand. “Let’s go deeper in, then.” Cannibal Candy by Ezra Arndt.
My contribution to #sludgepit is my Gothic horrormance with people-eating necromancers, dubiously consented to servitude, and a feral black cat main character who would fight anything and anyone. #HR #DR #WIP
ICEBOUND is a short gay historical / horror erotica about two desperate survivors of an arctic shipwreck. #SLUDGEPIT #P #H
beastcutter.itch.io/icebound
A four-square aesthetic for OUR CRIMSON CAGE with #sludgepit at the bottom Clockwise from the upper left: pink roses, a woman with smeared blood-colored lipstick, a Polish road, and a blonde and a black-haired woman looking quite hot but haggard
OUR CRIMSON CAGE From the Indie Ink Award nominated author of The Fealty of Monsters and The Cradle of Eternal Night comes a new, blood-soaked tale of vampires and selfish desire, in this erotic horror retelling of Carmilla, taking place in 19th Century Poland. Laura Toperz’s husband will be only gone for a week. Despite hiring a new maid to pick up her duties, she expects the days to go by as they do when her husband is present: mundanely and without incident. She is not prepared to solve a murder. Elżbieta dreams of riches. Being hired as a maid for the wealthy Toperz household might just be her ticket to security. After one of her shifts, she sneaks into the manor’s forbidden basement in search of treasure, hoping for valuables or jewels. Instead, she discovers something starving and solitary, begging to be unleashed. Elżbieta can only give in. Soon, sanguinary terrors descend upon the town. Unaware of her maid’s transgression, Laura remembers the bloodthirsty woman trapped below: Karmila, who comforted her in her youth. Karmila, whom her late father swore was just a bad dream. Karmila, who now paints the town and its maidens red. Having escaped under her watch, Laura must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to bring back peace and quell the lustful frenzy entrancing everyone around her. Even if it means herself. #SLUDGEPIT Background is a blue flower
IF YOU LIKE Cage of Roses Bloodborne Poland My Carmilla by Anita Zara Unholy with Eyes Like Wolves by Morgan Dante Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Alucarda (1977) The first 3 books in WIVES OF THE VAMPIRE QUEEN by Sophia-Rose Johnson You'll be a fan
Tumblr meme from molabuddy: Imaginr if there 3 women with something Gay & Weird going on The fervor that tore through me could only be described as ecstasy. St. Teresa of Avila probably roared similarly when Christ’s lance pierced her. Now, Laura joins that sacred chorus. I shan’t interrupt. Having forsaken my sisterly vows, I allow myself to feel the way my own body contracts as she sings her ecstatic screams. The swell of my clitoris makes me weak in my knees. I crouch, and not a drop of coffee spills over the lip and not a crumb of bread tumbles out of place as the metal touches the cold floor. Snippet #Sludgepit
Presenting my F/F/F erotic horror/dark romance novella: OUR CRIMSON CAGE
It's great if you love bloody stories about mean, selfish women who love other mean selfish women
To celebrate completing the revision, I'm sharing the summary and a snippet 🦇🩸👩❤️💋👩
#sludgepit #toxicyuri #H #E #WIP
AEGIS: The Shintori Chronicles Book I
AFTG x ERGO PROXY x THE LOCKED TOMB
🐈⬛ looks like you brought a cat to a sword fight
✨ anime-inspired action
🗡️ wayward gods and demons
🩸 monsters you only find in a fever dream
🖤 unfortunately the idiots to lovers has to have an “idiots” phase
#sludgepit #p #df
THE BOY THE MONSTERS MADE ⛓️💀
For Fans Of: HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE x CRACOW MONSTERS x CONSTANTINE
🖤 dark fantasy + thriller genre bender
💀 son + father main characters
🩸 grisly string of murders
✨ dilfs
Available now wherever you buy books
#sludgepit #p #df #t
THE FAMILY BORN IN BLOOD ⛓️🩸
For fans of: CHAINSAW MAN x DARK x JUJUTSU KAISEN
🖤 dark fantasy + thriller genre-bender
✨ second in a series (THE BOY THE MONSTERS MADE)
🩸 reapers, demons, & monsters… oh,sh*t
⛓️ morally muddy milfs
#sludgepit #wip #df #t
woah i’m in Powell’s
(✨pnw author level unlocked✨)
✨ happy 2nd soberversary to me ✨
sorry, i was taking a nap
I’ve seen several authors across platforms offer free copies of their books in exchange for donations to food banks — acts like this are what inspire me and make me so proud of the indie book community.
Reading is political, but keeping our communities fed should not be.
If you forward me a copy of your donation receipt for $3 or more to Nourish Pierce County — food banks serving Pierce County, Washington — I’ll give you a book from my catalog of your choosing.
Thanks and be well ❤️
ICYMI
Graphics and text in various tones of pink around a book cover on a black background. The title in thick graffiti-like font reads: "Sludgepit." In each of the corners, different graphics in different tones of pink including stars, flowers, a mouth, and various trash. The story cover features white sheets with a grainy filter. The title reads: "In Their Hands. A t4t erotic somno short" in white font. At the bottom, in black font, "Rey Rider." A semi-transparent pink border around the cover sets it apart from the background. The tropes and tags, pointing to the cover with pink arrows, read: first-to-second-person PoV, strap-on fu*king, making your own movie, aftercare, eating p*ssy like the MC's life depends on it, established couple, squ*rting, T4T (enby x enby), processing trauma through k*nk.
On the same background and with the same title, a rectangular semi-transparent bright overlay with a text body snippet from the story. The text reads: "I know precisely how you would react if you were awake, how you'd curl your back to me, arch your chest forward while crying for me to suck on your tits, how your hands would tangle in my hair, pull slightly until I chastise you. Then you would growl at me, but all of your attempts at projecting any sort of control would go out the window the moment I add two fingers. Not on your clit—not that you wouldn't enjoy it, but what I want right now is to fill you up, so they slide inside you. Between my cock and your cunt's wall, two fingers are hooked, spreading you open for the strap to pound, harder now but at a measured speed, shoving deeper with every moment you don't react."
It's time for #sludgepit hosted by @wolfehorror.itch.io 🚮🔞📚
In Their Hands is a 4.5k T4T erotic somno short story out now on Smashwords 🌶
Thank you Wolfe for the slide templates!!
#sludgepit #erotica #published
First up for #sludgepit is my halloween release SKIAMAKHIA
🩸90s era corporate vampire thriller
🩸transmasc ceo protag
🩸500 year old vamp LI
🩸familial toxicity, political subterfuge, vampire bullshit
🩸stand alone in a series of 8
🩸 #H #T #R
Pre-order now: www.tdcloudofficial.com/books