I've been thinking about this recently after reading a BBC article on the same subject. I found this a really good summary of the importance of respectful representation, with some great tips for things to consider in order to achieve this.
Still room for a few more!
Moodboard. Upper-left: close-up of two men kissing. Upper-middle: pot over a fire. Upper-right: a map, magnifying glass, compass and coins. Lower-left: purple flowers. Lower middle: Ancient scrolls. Right: Sunlit trees and grass. Lower right: cat on a tree branch against a full moon.
THE LIBRARY AT EVENTIDE: An idealistic botanist and a restless scribe in love work together to bring magic back to the world. As Garris blazes a trail of enchanted flowers across the land, Eran works to restore the greatest library ever known. #F #A #P2Ppit #LGBT #DIS #OWN #Q
Akaira has struggled to contain her forbidden and deadly power all her life. To protect those around her, she must leave. But when she is faced with the return of the Gods and their destructive ancient magic, she must find a way to stop it before her world is destroyed.
#P2Ppit #W #A #F
INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE X PERCY JACKSON
12 y.o. Félix gets body slammed to a parallel dimension where magic is real and his recently deceased mom is alive. But when a dark force threatens his new life, Félix must fight to stop it, before it destroys both dimensions
#P2Ppit #MG
Elodie, born with rare memory magic, shows historian Vivian around a botanical garden in hopes of solving a century-old disappearance—only to uncover a twisted, monstrous memory instead.
It’s hungry. It’s angry. It wants Elodie.
feat. sapphic & ace rep
#P2Ppit #Q #A #F #LGBT
Our heroine may not have any childhood memories or healthy coping mechanisms, but what she does have is a growing fascination with the fangs of the vampire lord she's spying on and no sense of self-preservation.
#P2Ppit #Q #A #F #R #RF
A mood board with a grungy aesthetic and details: HELLBOUND an adult urban fantasy by Stephanie Binx, represented by Alex Brown
Art by Polina Gipp
NINTH HOUSE x Lucifer
Cheating death is a dangerous business, but it's the only work Marian thinks she deserves. All she wants is to pay off her debt and be left alone, but Hell and its demons have other plans for the girl who got away.
#P2Ppit #A #C #F #WIP
A dark woodsy moodboard of nine images: feet dangling over a ledge, hands linking fingers, a crow, a boy being beckoned into a forest, a stag skull, and a note that says “this is gay”
DONT LET THE FOREST IN x Over the Garden Wall
🏳️⚧️ boy Owen was obsessed with the monster of the woods before he killed him to come home again. When Owen finds out whoever kills the monster must replace it, he needs to fight for his humanity to remain himself. But does he want to? #UW #YA #H #P2Ppit
An aesthetic described from top left to bottom right My name - Amelia Thorn A man crouching in shadows before a fallen body. Two hands holding a gun pointed to one set's chest. A hand dipping into grey waters. An army with a path dividing them down the middle. A silhouette falling through the clouds. Two men in long-coats walking away from the point of view of the camera. A hand bound with rope and underwater. A man with shadows pooling from his person. The title of the Novel, "The Dying Religion." A hand with blue electricity running through the veins. Horses struggling to keep their heads above the tide. A man holding a gun. A man hunched on the ground, covering his ears while a cannon goes off in the background. The book's comps, "The Witcher x The Sandman" A set of hands manipulating water. Image description
Pitching my book by its hero
⛈️ raised to be a weapon for the gods
⛈️ out to destroy those who forged him
⛈️ guilt-ridden veteran
⛈️ in love with the villain
⛈️ the feeling is mutual
⛈️ electricity bender
“all this time you’ve played me as a puppet, all the while unaware of your own strings.”
#P2Ppit
(Tropes surrounding character art of two female MCs) - Chronic illness rep - Ghost ship - Sleuthing lesbians - Corrupt church - Coastal town with sinister secrets - Stabby x sunshine - Witches - A curse
THE WICKED DEEP x MIDNIGHT MASS
A suspected witch makes a pact with the captain of the ghost ship terrorizing her pious coastal town to break the ship’s curse & clear her name—only the town’s cryptic pastor will stop at nothing to keep the curse unbroken.
#P2Ppit #YA #F #Q 🏳️🌈
8 images total, clockwise from top left: male with only bottom half of face and torso visible in dark clothes lit by pink neon light; hands reaching for each other with desert rocky outcrop in background; orange and red nebula with light/explosion in centre; finger pushing "help me" button; woman with only bottom half of face and shoulders visible in dark clothes lit by pink neon light; dimly lit and crowded alleyway; neon lights spelling out words "love is action"; Io, moon of Jupiter, against backdrop of Jupiter.
THE FIFTH ELEMENT x HOT FUZZ w Eleanor Shellstrop
After a job gone wrong, data thief Enmity and space cop Mirek end up handcuffed together, at the center of a political coup, and on the run from space thugs, disco-dancing assassins...and catching feelings for one another. #Q #A #SF #R #P2Ppit
Thank you!
This is a moodboard / collage of orange and green images with a spooky, earthy vibe. There is a white woman's eye reflecting a fire, a vine-tangled arm reaching for a moth, a photo of top surgery scars with barbed wire tattoos, a black woman hidden in kudzu, and a poster of Mothman
Sierra loves her family and fears becoming them. Their healing hurts and their pills make you sick. But as infectious iron creeps through veins like kudzu, she is forced to take on her dark inheritance.
If she must deal with monsters, she might as well become one.
#P2Ppit #Q #YA
An #amquerying moodboard in dark tones, featuring a painting of a blond man with chin length hair in a green shirt at the center, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull can be seen. The images around him are of a university campus with gothic architecture, dark flowers and ferns, chemistry glassware, a ring of sparks, a river delta, machinery, anatomical images, and a smithy. Text on it reads "THE BODY ABHORS A STRAIGHT LINE. FATE DOES NOT STRIKE IN A STRAIGHT LINE."
BABEL x RIPE
Desperate to study at the Institute, graduate student Jim pitches rising star Professor Tanner a device that could revolutionize—or weaponize—medicine. Tanner wants to put it in everyone's pocket...and she doesn't care who it might hurt.
#P2Ppit #Q #UW #A #SF #F
A grid of 9 images in a collage. 1: starry black hands 2: two women in regal fantasy clothes facing away from the viewer 3: a darkly lit apothecary and magic workshop 4: a blue and white cityscape 5: a figure inside a blue fire bubble 6: hands placing a crown on a silhouetted woman's head 7: a woman in black gothic clothes reading a book in a library 8: a snowy village with lights under the house eaves 9: stylised symbology of the sun and moon
SONG OF THE LIONESS X BRIDGERTON X REIGN
Achieving Mastery of magic at seventeen isn't easy. Why can't Kyan's family understand that? How far does she have to go to prove herself? When an assassin strikes at the king, and a conspiracy unfolds, she'll get her chance.
#P2Ppit #Q #YA #F
A moodboard featuring from left to right, top to bottom: scales, a girl sitting on a bench, 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.
LAST AIRBENDER x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
Ursa inherited the power of stars. The Royals hunt the starsent, but Ursa's teacher is unusual: barely a teenager, no magic, and dual wields axes. All of Ursa's kind have been killed & if she can't grow into her power, she's dead too. #P2Ppit #F #YA #W
A town with missing memories.
A graveyard with disembodied crying.
A snowstorm that never happened.
And a dead girl walking with the answers. The only problem? She doesn't remember them, and she has 30 days to figure it all out before she dies again.
#P2Ppit #YA #Q #U #SPEC
LGBT STEPFORD WIVES X BLADERUNNER
Waking without memories, all second-hand robot Jasper wants is a simple domestic existence as a new version of himself. However, this is threatened by trauma from his forgotten past and the rising conflict between humans and machines.
#P2Ppit #UA #W #A #SF
A fresh 2025 reminder about the FIVE THINGS I LEARNED WRITING [your book] at #terribleminds -- how it works, how to submit, all that. If you're a writer with a book coming out, it's a thing you can do if you want! Or don't! YOUR CHOICES ARE YOUR OWN, FRAIL MORTAL
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a tote bag with the words life is better with cats and books over an image of a cute black cat laying on an open book. There are diamond shapes around the cat and the book like sparkles, although the tote bag is not actually sparkly.
A gift from my aunt. It is one of my new favourite things. Going to hang it on a hook on the back of a door so it can cheer me up when I’m in frustrated writing. #amwriting
The BFS celebrates all things SFFH. And we want to celebrate with live events in your local area. We're currently looking for authors in Greater Manchester who're interested in panels, readings & talks. Fill out the form & we'll be in touch.
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That was awful of your ex-friend. I’m glad that it’s not stopped you writing and creating new and wonderful things.
It's scary watching the basis of a book I first drafted a decade ago coming true. Souls consumed by Virtual and creativity killed.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Six young witches were lured into the dark wood of their boarding school. Five witches returned.
18 years later, their professor's will forces them back together. The only way free is to face the dark wood again, and what they buried in its roots.
ATLAS SIX x MAGIC FOR LIARS #bluepit📖 #q #f #h #nd
GIDEON THE NINTH x GODKILLER
DOWNDRAFT
Valandra is a legend - the only delver to reach the bottom of the Abyss and return. But few know the costs that came with it. Decades later, as new threats form in the shadows, she must retell her story or finally face the consequences.
#BluePit #W #A #F 📖
8 images total, clockwise from top left: male with only bottom half of face and torso visible in dark clothes lit by pink neon light; hands reaching for each other with desert rocky outcrop in background; orange and red nebula with light/explosion in centre; finger pushing "help me" button; woman with only bottom half of face and shoulders visible in dark clothes lit by pink neon light; dimly lit and crowded alleyway; neon lights spelling out words "love is action"; Io, moon of Jupiter, against backdrop of Jupiter.
THE FIFTH ELEMENT x HOT FUZZ w Eleanor Shellstrop
After a job gone wrong, data thief Enmity and space cop Mirek end up handcuffed together, at the center of a political coup, and on the run from space thugs, disco-dancing assassins...and catching feelings for one another. #Q #A #SF #R #BluePit 📖
From left to right on the first row of the mood board: an overhead image of a suburban housing estate with neon pink dripping skull over over corner, there are opaque chains and wires. A photograph from behind of a topless man with dark hair, a wire going into his neck, overlaid with a neon green angel with a halo reminiscent of a circuit board. Opaque wires with a black humanoid skull, neon pink dripping from it's eyes. On the next row: a side view of a woman's blue hair and cat ears with neon pink platter to one side. The title Scrap Mental is written in the central square over a white electrical spark from two wires touching. A neon green god Mercury with a feathered hat moves away from a large white hand and swirling metallic liquid, towards the outline of a pink rose, a pink neon light above him. On the bottom row: a faded image of a hand holding yellow wire cutters, about to cut a blue wire, a bust of opaque pink in front of it, as well as neon cog wells and three strawberries. A white hand reaches over a neon pink woodcut of mansion with manicured gardens towards a dripping neon green heart, hello little god written beneath, a in a futuristic type face. A phot of a person using wheelchair in a kitchen. A blue wire with three smaller yellow, red, and green wires coming out of it and going into a reflective dark metallic heart is over the top. The heart seems mostly purple, and to reflect the black lines between the moldboard images, as well as vague shapes, neon pink and neon green.
STEPFORD WIVES X BLADERUNNER
Waking without memories, all second-hand robot Jasper wants is a simple domestic existence as a new version of himself. However, this is threatened by trauma from his forgotten past and the rising conflict between humans and machines.
#Bluepit 📖 #W #A #SF #LGBT #Dis
An photograph of the cover of the book Japanese Kanji for Beginners by Dr Asuka Tsuchiya, which shows a manga style characters holding writing implements. This mostly covers a New Scientist magazine so little besides the magazine title is visible.
This is today’s reading: I buy a New Scientist magazine almost every week even if I don’t read it right away (this is older). It's usually a source of good news, new ideas, and science fiction reviews (books, TV and film). The Kanji book is because I’m going to Japan in a few months. #amreading
