NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi

✒️I'm a #LightNovel author of #Yuri #Mythpunk & surreal #UrbanFantasy
Also #FanFiction #SliceOfLife #Romance & #Horror-adjacent #Fantasy

#NoAI

⛩️👻Work in progress: "For Love of a Konbini Idol"
#PIXIV: https://www.pixiv.net/novel/series/11417104
#AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52770025

✒️I post frequently to writer’s and music prompts and post plushie, crow & food pictures.

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⛩️👻My serialized novel: #KonbiniIdol
✒️Writer prompts: #WritersCoffeeClub #WordWeavers #PennedPossibilities #ScribesAndMakers #EroticMusings
✒️Fiction posting: #Wss366 #TimeTravelAuthors #MastoPrompt #MicroFiction #TootFic

Yuri Mythpunk & Surreal Urban Fantasy: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/61642773 | https://archiveofourown.org/users/NaraMoore
For Love of a Konbini Idol: https://www.pixiv.net/novel/series/11417104 | https://archiveofourown.org/works/52770025
My Girlfriend Almost Got Me Killed, so We had Wild Sex: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52770025
⛩️👻-👻⛩️:
Kami Oshi: Tsukishiro Himari: Oshi: Menma is the Cuttest
Pronouns: She, her/ They, Them / San, chan:
⛩️👻🏳️‍⚧️👻⛩️: The Crow Lady
Lady Nara of Marthmallow: Lady Pan-chan

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2026-06-29 02:18:34 UTC

#WordWeavers 29. Which piece of your own writing is the closest to your heart and why?
Whatever my current major WIP is.
#NMWW #NMPrompts

2026-06-10 03:06:24 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 9: Ask an author/artist (living or deceased) one question?
For Ken Wilber: What do you think of the current social/spiritual regression we are going through?
#NMSAM #NMPrompts #philosophy

2026-05-15 17:31:59 UTC

#LoveMakeShare 15. Shout out a maker in your life who had an impact on you.
My mother loved making period #doll clothes. The two pictured here are a turn-of-the-20th-century sporting outfit, and #VestaTilley (1864–1952) was the most prominent British female #crossdresser of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
#MothersDay #NMLMS #NMPrompts
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2026-05-09 04:04:59 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub – 9th May. C&R: Share the first line of your current WIP. Everyone: How enticed are you?
#TimeTravelingGhost: Vague shadows coalesced. Regrets of a half-lived life cut short—but by what? There were just swirling doubts.
#NMWCC #NMPrompts

2026-04-25 21:22:35 UTC

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These are my cliff notes.<li>Waka: (和歌), classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae 5-7-5-7-7</li><li>Kyōka: (狂歌), "wild" or "mad poetry") is a popular, parodic subgenre of the tanka form of Japanese poetry with a metre of 5-7-5-7-7.</li><li>Katauta: 5-7-7, sometimes chained.</li><li>Renga (連歌) Early renga was an informal poetic exchange between courtiers, where one person would compose the first three lines (5-7-5), and another would add the last two lines (7-7).</li>
(Any errors are mine due to incomplete understanding.)
I have adopted these because my fiction dips into the Heian and Edo eras.

2026-04-25 20:28:18 UTC

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I lean closer to waka, which is an older form of tanka. It has the same beat pattern. Waka was also used for courtly communication. As a culture, we have less shared sense of symbolism, so my verse tends to be more obvious.
I also write naturalist tanka, but that was not what the question was about.
Some of us also share writing-linked verses. Renga and Rengay and loosely formatted linked-verse lines.

2026-04-25 19:04:54 UTC

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#ScribesAndMakers 25: Do you do any activism through your creative work?@npub1kgl…sece
#PoliticalPoetry
Below are links to a sampling.<li><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/AO3" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AO3</a> - <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/83360976" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Midnight Machetes: Three Political Poems for Our Times: </a></li><li><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/PIXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PIXIV</a> - <a href="https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=27308710" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Protest Poetry: </a></li><li>Fedi - <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/@NaraMoore/116432808893330428" target="_blank">Blessed Are...: </a></li>
#NMSAM #NMPrompts

2026-04-25 11:21:01 UTC

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Tearmoon Empire: Short Story Collection #1

2026-04-25 02:02:24 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 25: Our featured creator does "a bit of educational activism on the side." Do you do any activism through your creative work?<li>Queers living "normal" lives.</li><li>Political poetry</li><li>Occationally a character will go on a rant about <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Polyamory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Polyamory</a> or queer discrimination. (But it has to fit the plot.)</li>
That is about it.
#NMSAM #NMPrompts

2026-04-06 22:35:04 UTC

> [> #> QueerPrompts](https://sakurajima.moe/tags/QueerPrompts )> April 6: > [> #> InternationalAsexualityDay](https://sakurajima.moe/tags/InternationalAsexualityDay )> : > [> #> Asexual](https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Asexual )> character(s) or > [> #> ace](https://sakurajima.moe/tags/ace )> reading recs
In "For Love of a #KonbiniIdol" <li>Kan-chan is ace, alloromantic, with limited touch rules.</li><li>Tomo is ace, alloromantic, no rules about touch. <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Transmasc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Transmasc</a></li>
They are the secondary #romance arc
[PIXIV Link: ](https://www.pixiv.net/novel/series/11417104 )
[AO3 Link: ](https://archiveofourown.org/works/52770025 )
#Asexuality #PIXIV #AO3
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2026-03-17 11:16:24 UTC

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Yack!!!
There did it for you.

2026-03-10 18:38:29 UTC

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So maybe that wasn't a bad idea, but chocolates and booze were thinking too small.
I headed for the CEO's office and stared at the #gaping vacancy on the wall where the Rembrandt had been.
Too late.
#Wss366 #MicroFiction #TootFic #NMFic

2026-03-04 16:08:07 UTC

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momoku has a few more restrictions:
No punctuation, 17 or fewer beats, usually nature oriented.

2026-03-03 23:07:36 UTC

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••⋅☾#ものく☽⋅••
geese in flight ragged monoku
••⋅☾#Monoku☽⋅••
Image by Frank Weston Benson
#PoetryOnTheFly #NMPoetry #Poetry #monostich
@npub1kgl…sece
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2026-03-03 22:55:01 UTC

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••⋅☾#ものく☽⋅••
hedge monostich monoku one line
••⋅☾#Monoku☽⋅••
#PoetryOnTheFly #NMPoetry #Poetry #monostich
@npub1kgl…sece

2026-03-02 20:04:14 UTC

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#ScribesAndMakers #TTMD
> did you choose your name after 奈良時代, Nara jidai
No, it was the name of a #Crow Shaman I ran in a Shadowrun game many decades ago. It's a pun on the ling "And the Raven said 'Never More,'" from Poe.
I have been fascinated by #Crows for a long time.
I have been tempted at times to say it is because I come from Nara Prefecture, but that is not true.
@npub1kgl…sece

2026-03-02 19:03:33 UTC

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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.03.02 —#TTMD featured creator Nara Moore @npub17cr…e970
> In terms of the language you write in, does it influence your text?
> Is there a big difference in structure and rules between those that you noticed?
There is a big difference between English and Japanese.
On a macro scale, I write using English rules and structures.
(Style and overall are different. I tend to use JP ones, and that's why I sometimes get pissy when questions assume the universality of our novel structure, etc.
On a micro scale, some Japaneseisms have crept in. I use Japanese words where no English ones are suitable, and then try to gloss them in text or via a glossary.
Since characters appear from the Heian and Edo periods, there is both poetry and metaphor used for communication at times. I try to use authentic Japanese forms appropriate to the era and count "beats", not syllables. That is also why much of my poetry is shorter than that of other Fedi poets who use JP forms. The West uses syllables while Japan uses "beats." It's more technical than that, but it's close enough.
@npub1kgl…sece

2026-02-20 02:24:54 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 20/02: The alpha male is a misconception perpetuated in popular media that our featured creator works against in her wolf books. What's a misconception that bothers you in popular media?
That jealousy is a sign of love. It is rife in JP lit, especially in things aimed at young people. I loathe it.
I actively counter this in my writing. The dominating characteristic of my antags is possessiveness and jealousy. Protags demonstrate non-possessive love, even when they are monogamous (and most aren't).
#NMSAM #NMPrompts

2026-02-04 00:23:55 UTC

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I had noticed you were gone.
You might also think about moving because some servers block mstdn.jp for poor moderation. Ours suppresses the images from there.
I see the prior post commented on this as well.

2026-01-02 00:03:41 UTC

#WordWeavers 2026.01.01 — What are your wildest (writing-related) dreams for this year?
A novel win in J-Novel Club's novel contest.

2025-12-26 22:18:16 UTC

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It is amazing (not) how fast that article switched from religious compared to "unchurched" to comparing Christian to "Unchurched."
Generally, I am quite happy that the Buddhists are overlooked. It is still disturbing to see religion equated with Christianity. (Though unsurprising).

2025-12-03 23:31:24 UTC

#WordWeavers Dec 4. What’s the worst thing about the world of your story?
Whatever the worst thing is in this world. Humans beat youkai hands down for awfulness.

2025-10-24 01:39:20 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 24/10: Do you have a favorite pen, pencil, or other writing implement? What's special about it?
I perfer fine tip pens.
But really, I use a computer and an external keyboard.

2025-08-03 00:25:10 UTC

New scam is surfacing on Bluesky, which means it will arrive here soon.
It works by telling you they have information about someone impersonating you, but for thin bogus reasons, you need to contact them on Discord. This is a scam.
#FediTips #FediAdim #mastoadmin #Scam

2025-07-16 15:43:25 UTC

Gentle haze
Smoke in the hills.
A prophecy
#ForestFire
#dailyhaikuprompt #Poetry詩 #Haiku #俳句 #Senryu #PoetryOnTheFly #Fire #俳句
@npub1xfw…mava

2025-07-06 01:52:54 UTC

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Thoughts on Fever (発熱への思い)
Monoku & Waka & Katauta
          •─────⋅☾#ものく☽⋅─────•
Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets You with Single Flower
讃岐天満宮が一輪の花でお出迎え
          •─────⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅─────•
Title: Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets a Flower
題 : 讃岐天満宮、花を迎える
Wild hill
Evening flowers
Too soon frost
Petal dropping
Morning dew forgot
          •─────⋅☾片歌☽⋅─────•
A cool hand
Your gentle touch
Bedtime fever
You can take what you want from my katauta; one reading is rather ecchi. But it was about how cool a hand feels when you have a fever. Lol
私のカタカタから好きなものを取ってくれて構わない。でも、熱があるときの手の冷たさについてだった(笑)
一読は割とエッチです。
© 2025 Nara Moore
#WakaPoetry #和歌 #poetry #詩 #poetrycommunity
#Flowers #花 #Mortality #死亡 #必滅 #KonbiniIdol #HaikuFeels #Senryu #川柳 #Tanka #短歌 #Monoku #katauta #Fever #熱 #熱病
@npub1xfw…mava

2025-07-06 01:18:38 UTC

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#
Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets a Flower##
讃岐天満天皇迎接一朵花Wild hill
Evening flowers
Too soon frost
Petal dropping
Morning dew forgot
© 2025 Nara Moore
#WakaPoetry #和歌 #poetry #詩 #poetrycommunity
#Flowers #花 #Mortality #死亡 #必滅 #KonbiniIdol #HaikuFeels #Senryu #川柳
@npub1xfw…mava

2025-07-06 01:17:53 UTC

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# Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets a Flower
## 讃岐天満天皇迎接一朵花
Wild hill
Evening flowers
Too soon frost
Petal dropping
Morning dew forgot
© 2025 Nara Moore
#WakaPoetry #和歌 #poetry #詩 #poetrycommunity
#Flowers #花 #Mortality #死亡 #必滅 #KonbiniIdol #HaikuFeels #Senryu #川柳
@npub1xfw…mava

2025-07-02 19:35:06 UTC

**#MastoPrompt 07/2** #Effuent
**#Katauta:**
•─────⋅☾#片歌☽⋅─────•
One percent
On a golden throne
Effluent wealthy
#NMMP #NMPrompts
#senryu #PoetryOnTheFly #poetry #poetrycommunity
#Political
@npub1xfw…mava

2025-07-02 19:05:28 UTC

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**#WSS366 07/2** #Blue 番 2
* **#Monoku:** *(< 17, no caps or punctuation)*
* **#Haiku:** *(5-7-5 metre)*
* **#Katauta:** *(5-7-7 metre)*
* **#Waka:** *(5-7-5-7-7 metre)* #WakaPoetry
I use morae not syllables
 •─────⋅☾#ものく☽⋅─────•
Clear blue fearless lemming
 •─────⋅☾#俳句☽⋅─────•
For clear blue
Fearless lemming
Promising
 •─────⋅☾#片歌☽⋅─────•
For clear blue
Fearless lemming
Promise return
 •─────⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅─────•
Wind in face
Clear blue around
Brave lemming
Gold haze approach
Promise return
---------------------------------------
© 2025 Nara Moore
#NMWCC #NMPrompts
#senryu #PoetryOnTheFly #poetry #poetrycommunity #HaikuFeels
@npub1xfw…mava

2025-07-01 20:50:15 UTC

#
#Wss366 7/1 #Cool##
#Katauta #片歌A cool hand
Your gentle touch
Bedtime fever
NMPrompts #NMV366
#senryu #和歌 #PoetryOnTheFly #poetry #poetrycommunity #Fever #熱 #熱病
@npub1xfw…mava

2025-07-01 19:52:49 UTC

#
#MastoPrompt 7/1 #CowardiceAppeasement
Peace at a price
Cowardes
#NMMP #NMPrompts
#senryu #PoetryOnTheFly #poetry #Haiku #Ukraine #politics #poetrycommunity @npub1xfw…mava

2025-06-29 18:32:27 UTC

**#WritersCoffeeClub 06/27**. Share an experience of writing in a restrictive format **Part 3**<li><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Monoku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Monoku</a>: (< 17, no caps or punctuation)</li><li><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Haiku</a>: (5-7-5 metre)</li><li><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Katauta" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Katauta</a>: (5-7-7 metre)</li><li>Waka: (5-7-5-7-7 metre) <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/WakaPoetryI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WakaPoetryI</a> use mora not syllables</li>
 •─────⋅☾ ☽⋅─────•
suddenly blue hilltop screaming down
 •─────⋅☾ ☽⋅─────•
A hilltop
Suddenly blue
Scre… down
 •─────⋅☾ ☽⋅─────•
A hilltop
Suddenly blue
Screaming down
 •─────⋅☾ ☽⋅─────•
A hilltop
Suddenly blue
Airy leap
Gold haze below
Screaming down
© 2025 Nara Moore
#NMWCC #NMPrompts
##senryu #和歌 #PoetryOnTheFly #poetry #poetrycommunity #Sky #上空 #上空 #Hill #丘 #HaikuFeels
@npub1xfw…mava

2025-06-26 18:14:41 UTC

#
#MastoPrompt 6/26 **#break**The cane breaks
Sun break through
Birds rising
Mist still heavy
upon the lowland
© 2025 Nara Moore
#NMPrompts #NMMP
#WakaPoetry #和歌 #PoetryOnTheFly #poetry #poetrycommunity
@npub1xfw…mava

2025-06-18 19:43:14 UTC

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Lovely.

2025-06-11 16:03:50 UTC

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#TimeTravelAuthors 06/11 #Harmony
#TimeTravelingGhost Part 12
Once inside, we were surrounded by partygoers in costumes that would have put modern cosplayers to shame: tigers in rich yellow and black outfits, a peacock woman with a full peacock’s tail, pirates flashing gold teeth, and costumes that would get you canceled today. The whole thing moved in a Folies Bergère harmony of silk and chaos.
“We are fashionably late,” my mystery date said. Her Hungarian accent made it hard to understand her. My French was already weak; add a dash of Eastern Europe and full comprehension was dicey.
The woman continued, “But we are in time for Sidney Bechet’s sweet harmonies. Shall we sit and have a cocktail or dance?”
“Sit. I don’t seem hip to any of that jive rug cutting,” I said, immediately unsure if I’d used that right.
Indeed, the dancers dansaient comme des diables, cutting loose with spins, flips, Charleston shakes, and Black Bottom hip grinds.
“Dancing is for the young, is it not? There was nothing like this when I grew up,” the Countess said. (For want of another name, I shall call her that.)
“Has Bechet shot that woman yet?” I asked.
“Oh, will he shoot someone? Divine. I must try to be there. No one tells you how dull life is if you live too long.”
A server in a risqué sequined dress arrived, and we promptly had Champagne cocktails, along with a tin of black Russian cigarettes for the Countess. She removed her mask, but I only got a hint of her appearance. The veil, appropriate for her costume, was fine black lace studded with red droplet stones; blood and shadow in perfect harmony. I could just make out her face, pale, almost as pale as the mask.
“Order what you like. I meet so few ghosts, and believe me, you are more intriguing than most. Dreadfully dull, always bent on revenge or hanging on to what they had in life. They should have worried about that when they were alive.”
She waved for two more cocktails and continued, “Mademoiselle Baker is best appreciated after a few cocktails.”
(To be continued)
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMTTA #SidneyBechet #JosephineBaker #CountessElizabethBáthory #Jazz #roaring20s

2025-06-09 20:43:37 UTC

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#TimeTravelAuthors 06/09 #Costumes
#MastoPrompt #sketch
#TimeTravelingGhost Part 11
The dingy London street faded from view. The last thing Ghost saw was David Copperfield waving a sad goodbye. “Not a bad fellow,” Ghost thought.
A brightly lit street replaced the scene of grime and despair. Before me stretched an avenue thronged with people in search of tonight’s delights. Neon signs blazed above doorways, proudly naming the city’s temples of amusement. Down the boulevard, the Moulin Rouge flaunted its red windmill, turning lazily in a bath of neon. Not far from it, a grand neoclassical façade flashed a marquee in red, white, and blue:
“Casino de Paris — Maurice Chevalier — To-Night!” On a lamppost was a sketch of a woman in a skirt of bananas.
And directly before me, under the glow of neon lights, the Folies Bergère shimmered. Its sign read:
“Josephine Baker — Masquerade (Private)”
A red carpet lay unfurled across the sidewalk, cordoned off with velvet ropes. Burly attendants held back curious onlookers as men and women in fantastical costumes stepped gracefully from chauffeur-driven touring cars. Somewhere close by, I heard a pair whisper:
“Is that Hemingway?”
“No costume. So gauche.”
I stood mesmerized. So many lights! So many people! How could such opulence exist along with the squalor I had just seen?
A red-gloved hand tugged at my sleeve, and a woman’s voice, heavy with a Hungarian accent, said, “Charming a ghost. I needed a companion tonight.”
She was wearing a 17th-century-style dress of deep crimson satin, but with décolletage that was totally 1920s. It was further accented by black lace and tiny rubies or, more likely, red glass that could have been mistaken for droplets of blood in this light. Her mask was delicate, enameled porcelain, shaped like a weeping face from a church tomb.
She linked arms with me. Unlike the hand that had tugged my sleeve, it had no glove, displaying long, talon-like scarlet nails. They were hands that never worked beyond claiming what she thought was hers by right.
Having secured me, she gently took me in tow and entered the theater. The crowds parted for her with a small murmur, “The Countess.” Just as she had claimed me without regard to my wishes, she entered the building, brooking no interference.
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMTTA #JosephineBaker #CountessElizabethBáthory

2025-06-07 16:07:03 UTC

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#TimeTravelAuthors 06/07 Saturday excerpt #Focus
#TimeTravelingGhost Part 10
The ghost and the boy walked through the waking streets of London, threading their way through the bustle of people getting ready for the day. Periodically, they heard shouts of Merry Christmas and other holiday salutations.
Ghost led the way through poor back-alley streets, past mean penny-a-day inns and crowded tenements. But she never hesitated. As long as she focused, he knew where the Cratchits lived. Arriving at a run-down house, the Ghost stopped.
“What’s your name, boy?” Ghost asked. It seemed silly to keep calling him “boy.”
“David, sir, if it pleases you, sir. David Copperfield.”
Ghost nodded, not being well-read. He didn’t recognize the name. She knew enough ghost lore to know the story “A Christmas Carol,” but there were no ghosts in “David Copperfield.”
“This is what you do, David. Knock on the door and say you have a message from Mr. Scrooge. Say he has had a change of heart, and a generous present will soon arrive. Lastly, say that Mr. Scrooge could not pay you to deliver the message, but he was sure the Cratchits would share a meal with you. You can add that line, ‘I’m so hungry,’ if you like. You do it very well. It would melt a heart of stone.”
“And you, sir. Surely you won’t run off now. I shall sorely miss you if you do.” David grabbed at Ghost’s hands, but it was like trying to catch the morning mist.
“I must; I have someone to find,” Ghost said and closed her eyes, imagining a new place and time. A woman’s name popped into her head. “I will visit her.”
Q: Who did Ghost think of, i.e., where shall we go next?
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMTTA #CharlesDickens #pastiche #AChristmasCarol #DavidCopperfield #Poll

2025-06-05 01:34:22 UTC

#WordWeavers 5. What would your first chapter smell like?
The heavy smell of river bottom fog mixed with the smell of corruption, stale cheap beer, and cigarettes.
#nmww #NMPrompts #KonbiniIdol

2025-06-03 20:52:20 UTC

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#TimeTravelAuthors 06/01 Dreams in your stories – Now I have.
#TimeTravelingGhost Part 9
The boy looked at Ghost. “I had a dream, sir. If it ain’t too silly to say so.”
“There was a man in black, like one of those mimes in Piccadilly, only black, not white. I even know his name, bless me. It was on his chest, proud as a toff with his misses. ‘Quasi Temporal,’ it said. I remember quite distinctly.”
“He handed me a box, square, warm… Oh, but the smell, like all the food vendors had piled their food in your lap, so fine it made my mouth hurt. When I opened it, there was a great round of bread inside, all covered with cheese. Cheese all melty and shining, like the sun on a morning like this.”
The boy stopped and pointed at the sun, which had just peeked through the buildings across the street.
“Sir, the taste. It was the best thing I’ve ever eaten. I was quite the pig. I ate the whole thing, every crumb, sir. A mouse couldn’t have found a bit to eat. I know I shouldn’t have, not all at once, but I couldn’t help myself.”
“And then, I said, very soft-like, not wanting to be rude, ‘Please, sir, may I have more?’”
The boy’s eyes got wide with wonder and excitement. “And he gave me more. A stack of them, like plates at a feast.”
“And just when I thought I ought to say a proper thank you, he vanished like chimney smoke.”
This time, the boy pointed to the coal smoke rising from the houses.
“And he says, ‘Anytime Time Traveling Pizza,’ just like that. I don’t know what it meant, but I wish he were real.”
“Then I wake up, so hungry and not anything to eat except my shoes and dust under the bed. You mentioned food, sir. Could we go? I’ll be like at church and make no more noise than a mouse. Please, sir.”
“Boo, hoo, creeek, hoo” Jeckle cried.
Ghost floated up and held out her hand. “Sure, let’s go, little sir.”
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMTTA #CharlesDickens #pastiche #DavidCopperfield #HeckleAndJeckle #Pizza
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2025-06-01 20:47:51 UTC

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#TimeTravelAuthors 06/01 Tell us about your story
#TimeTravelingGhost Part 8
Ghost drifted out of Scrooge’s house, where she hadn’t felt welcome, and sat on the steps in the grim pre-dawn light. As the light grew stronger, a ragged, dirty boy sat down beside her. Silence stretched between them until the boy tentatively began talking.
“Sir—if you please, sir—are you quite deceased?” the boy inquired, tugging his threadbare cap.
“Yeah, it sucks.”
“If it wouldn’t trouble you greatly, sir, I should like to hear your story. I expect I shall be dead soon myself, what with the hunger and all.”
“Sure. Then I’ll take you someplace where there’s food—Bob Cratchit’s house.”
There’s an author who writes silly things, and she wanted to write a story for a prompt (#WSS366). #HEAVEN knows why! So, she made a “Lass” who... (Let me cut that short.) Anyway, she killed the Lass most cruelly. Then she found another prompt for time travel stories (#TimeTravelAuthors) and had the Lass summon me. I think I’m a kind of ghost, but not really. (Frankly, it makes little sense.) The ghost can time travel and is named “Time Traveling Ghost.” (That’s me.) “Ghost,” for short. Only Author (that’s her name in the story) hasn’t told Ghost how to time travel. All Ghost wants is to get revenge on the people who killed Lass (Poe and Time Manager—TM for short). The—
The boy raised a hand. “You believe the strangest things, sir,” said the boy, wide-eyed. “But I dare say the world is full of such strangeness, if only one’s stomach weren’t growling too loud to hear it.”
Jeckle, who perched below them on Scrooge’s steps, added, “She sure does, don’t she, Boy? Let’s EAT!”
Heckle, sitting next to Jeckle, screeched, “Chow down. Chow down. Get yer feed bag!”
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMTTA #AChristmasCarol #CharlesDickens #pastiche #DavidCopperfield #HeckleAndJeckle #Crow #Corvid #Plushies @npub1u2y…25ww [@plush_bot](https://plush.city/@plush_bot )
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2025-05-31 18:47:02 UTC

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#TimeTravelAuthors May 31 Author choice
#TimeTravelingGhost Part 7 (Long)
The word “Goodbye” resounded like a pen’s ultimate declaration, and Ghost found herself in a dark room smelling of mildew. In front of her was a moth-eaten four-poster bed with a figure struggling to arise.
“Have you come to call upon me as well?” inquired the figure, an old gentleman whose nightgown hung on him like a shroud, his cap askew, and blankets heaped around him. “I assure you, good spirit, I am a reformed soul. Pray, tell me, who are you?”
“Time Traveling Ghost, and who might you be?” Ghost took the chance to look around. She found herself in a bedroom furnished only by the bed and a writing desk with a lone bowl, a spoon handle protruding from it. Underfoot was a threadbare carpet with an incongruous holly leaf and three red berries scattered on it.
“Ebenezer Scrooge!” came the astonished reply. “But I was given to understand — most solemnly — that there would be three spirits, and three alone. What business have you here?”
“I think it’s a joke by Author.” Ghost said, as perplexed as Scrooge at the turn of events. She cast her eyes about and spotted Heckle and Jeckle in the corner. “Damn, just my luck they would come along,” she muttered so low Scrooge couldn’t make out the words.
The elder blinked at him, befuddled. “I know not this Arthur of whom you speak, nor have I an appetite for riddles at this hour. The cock has not crowed, and come dawn I am beset by more tasks than I can bear. Go your way, sir, and take your visions with you.”
“I don’t suppose you’d spare me a farthing for a morning cup of coffee?” Ghost asked. “As you say, it’s rather early.”
“Not a farthing, nay, not a penny, ill-begotten beggar!” Scrooge cried, waving his arms as if to banish a vapour. “Begone, figment conjured by the tyrannies of undigested mustard!”
“Changed man,” Jeckle croaked, “Not.”
“Coffee? You’re a ghost,” Heckle screeched. “Hey buddy, can you spare me a dime?”
Scrooge pivoted to where the voices came from. “And what ill-begotten jesters are these? Vile emanations of prunes left too long to stew. Begone, thou late-born fragment of muddled sleep! Coffee indeed! Brazen haunt, seek you an almshouse, not my abode.” And with that, he dove under the covers.
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMTTA
#AChristmasCarol #CharlesDickens #pastiche
#HeckleAndJeckle

2025-05-29 17:08:48 UTC

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#TimeTravelAuthors May 29 How much violence in your story?
#TimeTravelingGhost Part 6
“I pity the GochiUsa girls,” Ghost said. “It’s like having bratty little brothers.”
“Who you pitying?” Jeckle said.
“Yeah, it’s like having snotty big sisters!” Heckle said.
“I love being a big sister. You can count on your onee-san,” Hoto Cocoa said.
“Crarrk, Cawwk, boo, hiss.” #HeckleAndJeckle screamed as they threw food at the girls and random bystanders.
“This is as violent as this story gets,” Author said.
“No, no, no. You need to hurt Poe and TM,” Ghost pleaded.
“We’ll see,” Author said.
“For a time-traveling ghost, you’ve been here a long time. – Charles Dickens, 1843.”
“What?”
“Goodbye.”
Puff
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMTTA #Drabble
#IsTheOrderARabbit #ご注文はうさぎですか? #GochiUsa #ごちうさ
#Plushies #SpyXFamily
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2025-05-28 17:14:02 UTC

#wss366 5/28 #Dog 5/27
Hungry maw
Three days straight
Precious prize
Mama finally found
Something that I love
© 2025 Nara Moore
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMV366
#Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #DogsOfBlueSky #DogsOfPixelFed
#WakaPoetry #和歌 #PoetryOnTheFly #poetry #poetrycommunity @npub1xfw…mava
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2025-05-27 16:54:10 UTC

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#TimeTravelAuthors May 27 Siblings in your story?
#TimeTravelingGhost Part 5
The crow twins peeked at the day’s TimeTravelAuthors prompt and asked, “Is a qubling, someone who quibbles?”
Jeckle said. “We never quibble!”
“No, we’re the image of polite crows. Nothing like ravens or rooks,” Heckle amended.
“Are they always like this?” Ghost asked.
“Pretty much, unless they’re throwing food at the GochiUsa girls.” Author answered.
“It means you’re brothers or sisters,” Author corrected them #plushies.
“We knew that! Just testing you,” Jeckle said.
“We thought we were first cousins, but Mom said we we're twins,” Heckle said.
“Not to quibble...” Heckle started.
“...we’re siblings,” Jeckle finished.
“Tada,” they said together.
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #Drabble #NMTTA #SliceOfLife
#HeckleAndJeckle #Crows #corvids
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2025-05-25 18:59:45 UTC

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#TimeTravelAuthors 25: Historical research?
#TimeTravelingGhost Part 4
“Okay, when will you hurt them?” Ghost asked.
“I did what you ASKED.” Author pulled up her post to #wss366 5/22. “See.”
“That’s not what I meant!”
“You asked me to visit them with ‘Gnarly Bad Things,’ and I did.”
“She’s a firecracker, that one,” Jeckle yelled.
“Word twister,” Heckle added.
“I didn’t mean someone named ‘Gnarly Bad Things,’ I meant hurt them,” Ghost said.
“This is a slice-of-life, sorry.”
“And where did you learn history? That’s not what the 12th century was like.”
“I don’t research. I make it up. ALL of it. My motto:”
“Garbage in, Nonsense Out!”
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Story referenced: https://sakurajima.moe/@NaraMoore/114553264860578663
Note: I research for my main-story, part of which takes place in a pseudo Heian era imperial court. But that’s no time-travel, that supernatural.
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #Drabble #NMTTA #NMV366
#HeckleAndJeckle

2025-05-21 16:52:27 UTC

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#TimeTravelAuthors 5/23 Pink
#TimeTravelingGhost Part 3
“So what’s are all those PINK ones? I like PINK,” Time Traveling Ghost asked.
“Anya, from #SpyXFamily,” Author said.
“Them all? You must love that anime.”
“No, on the left is Nabeshiko from #YuruCamp. And yes, I like SpyXFamily. I’ll read the manga next.”
“Hay, Miss white ghosty stuff, did you travel to the past to ask stupid questions about PINK #plushies?” Heckle called down.
“Right,” said Ghost. “I want you to write gnarly bad stuff happening to Poe and TM.”
“Okay,” Author replied.
“Idiot. She’s a writer, and it’s a story. Bad things happen!” Jeckle said.
“Duh,” Heckly said.
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #Drabble #NMTTA
#LaidBackCamp #ゆるキャン
#HeckleAndJeckle #Plushies #Crow
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2025-05-19 19:42:40 UTC

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#TimeTravelAuthors 5/19 Where did you get the idea for your story?
#TimeTravelingGhost Part 2
“The author! Def best place to screw with Poe and Time Manager,” #TimeTravelingGhost said.
“What a messy desk, but the plushies are cute,” Ghost noted.
“There’s a ghost,” Jeckle called from a shelf.
“So, what’s new?” Author shrugged. “Who’s it this time: Boo-gart, Greta Ghoulbo, Long Chain-ney?”
“Have Poe fall under the pendulum,” Ghost whispered in Author’s ear.
“Why? ‘Fall’ isn’t the prompt word.”
“Because I’ll haunt you otherwise! Stupid!”
“Stupid,” Heckle echoed.
“So? Get in line. It’s Betty Graveis’s turn, then Fred A. Scare.”
“How do you think up this stuff?”
Author tapped her head. “Garbage in, #nonsense out.”
Author’s note: blame @npub1rg8…m6l5
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #Drabble #NMTTA #Puns #SilentMovies #classicmovies #moviestars #HeckleAndJeckle #Plushies #Crow @npub1u2y…25ww [@plush_bot](https://plush.city/@plush_bot )
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2025-05-17 22:05:39 UTC

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#TimeTravelAuthors 6/15 Character who's least likely to time travel.
#TimeTravelAuthors 6/17 Excerpt: #Justice
#wss366 #Easy 6/17 (#TimeTravelingGhost Part 1)
That’d be me, the “Wee Lass,” from the beginning of #TimeManager.
(Call that pantsing, rambling, toot, drabble fiction, even a story? It’s EASILY the worst story on the Fedi.)
I got my wish to be in two places simultaneously, but not the way I expected. No time travel involved.
Now invested with the power of the TimeTravelAuthors prompt, I summon a time-traveling ghost. I’ll get JUSTICE (revenge) from Poe and the Time (Project) Manager.
Consider this a prologue to another terrible, pantsing, etc., fiction. If you’ve a low nonsense-tolerance, filter on #TimeTravelingGhost. Twofer filter #NMTTA
Muahahaha, Hehaw, cough, cough, cough.
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMV366 #Drabble #TimeTravel
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2025-05-17 20:56:15 UTC

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#wss366 #Lick 5/16 #Easy 6/17 (#TimeManager Part 10)
Poe awoke, clutching his head, thinking, “EASY on the cocktails next time.”
Around a bonfire pranced lizards, toads, stags, and creatures more grotesque.
“Where the hell!?”
TM answered, “A smal wicche bad us hoom, 1150.”
Poe’s bedraggled raven added, “Þis is BYFAR þe wierdeste þing þat ich evere seye.”
“You’re not making a LICK of sense,” Poe said. “Translate!”
Raven obliged. “A wee witch invited us home to 1150.” I said, “This is EASILY the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.”
“A witches’ Sabbath!!!” Poe exclaimed.
“Nay, a fest of disgisynges,” a goat-footed man explained.
Raven translated, “Nay, a costume party.”
#MiddleEnglish
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMV366 #Drabble #TimeTravel #TimeTravelAuthors #NMTTA @npub18d7…73lz

2025-05-17 14:26:51 UTC

#PennedPossibilities 673
Tell us about the kindest thing your antag has done.
“Okay, Ashiya is crow, and he warned her of... Oh, he’s making excuses!”
Another silken rasp—the blade fully drawn—a prelude to the Empress’s cutting verse:
          Foolish crow
          Flying near the sun
          Beware the scorching
“That sounds like a threat. She’s not buying his excuse.”
          White dove coo
          Katana sheathed
          Blind Crow croaks
#NMPP #NM"Prompts #WakaPoetry #Crow #Poetry #poetrycommunity
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2025-05-16 05:22:34 UTC

#WordWeavers 25.05.16 Antagonist POV: What do you like the most about yourself?
Lotus standing
Lily pad enthroned
Slumber resting
On regal lily pond
Sun's reflected glory
(Takiyasha-Tenno)
Note: Yes, she talks like that.
#NMWW #NMPrompts #Takiyasha
#WakaPoetry #和歌 #PoetryOnTheFly #poetry #poetrycommunity @npub1xfw…mava
#Lotus #Heian

2025-05-15 18:49:13 UTC

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#wss366 #Code 5/15 (Part 9)
Nara Moore (Raven, not author) lay belly-up next to half a blackbird.
Poe had switched to Moscow Mules, to the bartender’s disgust.
His cups and spills formed abstract poetry, symbolic of Poe’s mind.
“TM, when y-y-you st-st-art CODEing?”
“Someone saw a wee poem I penned.” He shrugged.
“When y-y-yo-you become project man-manager?”
“They said me work was a CODE.”
He drew a sample in a spill: “for(int L15= iv345;*PtrV51;L15++){*V111= V227+*PtrV45;V111++;}”
“NM, he wr-ote that dr-drunk!” Poe said to his comatose friend.
“Nother ‘Morning Glory Fizz’ and ‘Time Traveler’ fer me friend.” Me dr-un-un-k CODE still makes s-s-s-sense.
Poe exclaimed, “Not!”
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMV366 #Drabble #TimeManager #Cocktails @npub18d7…73lz

2025-05-13 15:48:04 UTC

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I am convinced people don't look at those. At least the ones you WANT to look at them. I look at everyone who follows me and half the time it is beyond me why they did it or it's obvious it was because of some one-shot post.
You may want to add #NOAI #NOBOT to your profile to stops those who are compliant with the unoffical tag rule. Sorry it doesn't help with obnoxious boosting bots.

2025-05-13 15:33:41 UTC

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#wss366 #Hand 5/13 (Part 8)
Poa looked at the chalked “Specials” list.
1690: Flip
1830: Sazerac
1890: Bijou
1900: Clover Club
1920: Bismarck
1927: Boulevardier
1930: Barraquito
1934: Monkey’s HAND
1944: Mai Tai
2008: Paper Plane
Wha?
TM HANDed Poe a cocktail. “Sidecar, 1918. Menu? To make time traveler comfortable.”
Poe’s raven squawked, “Blackbird, Want Blackbird.”
The bartender held out their HAND, “ID, 18+ only.”
“1845, 1845,” the Raven croaked.
“No ID, no drink.”
“I’ll vouch for him. I wrote him on a midnight dark and dreary.”
The Bartender reluctantly handed Poe a Blackbird, saying “Come again soon.”
The raven screamed, “Never More, Never More.”
#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMV366 #Drabble #TimeManager #Cocktails @npub18d7…73lz

2025-05-12 16:33:07 UTC

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#wss366 #Foot 5/12 (Part 7)
“Here it is,” TM said.
Sure enough, hidden in the shadows, a sign read, “The Midnight Hour,” and in smaller print, “Morning regrets are a thing of the future.”
A FOOT-faced woman took their cover. Poe, who saw stranger things in nightmares, thought nothing of it.
“Show me your FEET,” FOOT said.
“Lepie, stop it. Poe’s my friend.” Then to Poe, “Lepie is a wee FOOT fetishist. Put your FEET within a FOOT of her. She’ll lick them. Possibilities, aye?”
Ignoring, Poe pointed at a sign above the bar.
“Freak Out On Thursdays—½ price wells.”
“Cute, ‘F.O.O.T.,’” he said.
#Microfiction #NMPrompts #NMV366 #Drabble
#TimeManager

2025-05-10 16:11:17 UTC

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#wss366 #Face 5/10 (Part 6) "Mexican Radio"
Poe looked at the building’s north FACE. “You sure this is the place?”
“Sure, it’s famous. All Night Radio used to broadcast from here,” TM replied.
          I hear the talking of the DJ.
          Can’t understand him. What does he say?
Amusement showed on Poe’s FACE. “All Night Radio is a Japanese band. You’re thinking of ‘Mexican Radio’ by Wall of Voodoo, 1983.”
          “I’m on a Mexican radio.”
Poe sang a snatch.
“Wow, you know your music.”
“It was Evangeline’s favorite.”
“Sweet dreams are made of these,” TM quoted. “‘Eurythmics,’ also 1983—and you, my friend, should lay off the opium.”
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Mexican Radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw
Sweet Dreams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5_asj1BGFs
#Drabble #microfiction #1980s #1980smusic #NMV366

2025-05-10 05:32:05 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub 5/10. Recommend a poet or prosaist local to your city or region.
I live on the internet. I have no idea who might be local.
Electronic
Particles flow forth
A solitary
Hand at the keyboard
Faded ghostly presence
#WakaPoetry #Poetry #PoetryCommunity @npub1xfw…mava #PoetryOnTheFly #NMWCC #NMPrompts

2025-05-09 15:33:30 UTC

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#wss366 #Ask #scribesandmakers 5/9 (Part 5)
“Poe, what are you doing up so late?” Time Manager ASKed.
“Writing, banging on my keyboard.”
TM looked over Poe’s shoulder.
>> Seabubble: When can you visit? 💋
“What are you really doing?”
“Chatting up a mermaid. I said I was born at the sea. That interested her. Don’t blow my secret.”
“That’s a big ASK, but sure.”
“And what is the Time Manager doing up so late?”
“The night-hours were getting a wee wild, so I stayed up to lecture them.”
“Did they listen?”
“No, but they invited me out for a drink at a nightclub.”
To be continued
#Drabble #microfiction #Mermaid #NMV366
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2025-05-08 16:42:34 UTC

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#wss366 5/8 #Ask
“Poe, may I ASK you something?” the little man with clocks for eyes ASKed.
“ASK; the answer may be cryptic,” Poe said. The poppy flowers around his face muffled his answer. Today, for some reason, the raven was absent.
“What happened to that obstinate lass?”
“We went to the pendulum room, and she suddenly lost interest in being two places at once. Strange.”
“Very—you got enough sap yet? Me hay fever is killing me,” the Time Manager said.
“Where is she now?” he continued, then sneezed.
“Plenty—Forest Lawn and Boston Old Town Cemetery.”
“ASK and thou shalt receive”
#microfiction #NMPrompts #NMV366 #Drabble
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2025-05-06 09:53:18 UTC

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#wss366 5/6 #Taper
“One wee little line more. Fixed,” the Time Keeper reported.
“Things are still speeding,” I said as the sun skimmed the sky.
“It’s on a TAPER, lass. Stop too fast. Bam, whiplash.”
“Paradox me arse, I want to be in two places at once.”
“Mr. Poe, we have an obstinate one.”
A thin, sallow-featured man entered the room, a raven on his shoulder.
“She insists on being two places at once,” the Time Manager said.
“Young lady, answer this, and I’ll help: ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk?’”
“You wrote about both.”
“Right—this way, the Pendulum Room.”
#microfiction #NMPrompts #NMV366 #Drabble @npub1rjv…at8t @npub18d7…73lz

2025-05-05 19:40:56 UTC

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#wss366 5/5 #Personal
“Hey, that’s too PERSONAL! Keep yer hands off me! Pervert!”
“Drink,” I ordered the Time Manager.
“Gack!!! That’s awful; what is it?”
“Coffee, now drink!”
“Yer trying to poison me, lass. Terrible! Worst coffee in the universe!”
“Making it took two weeks. With time speeding. And it’s been two days since I brought it to you.”
“Time flies… I won’t drink that! You !@#$%!”
“Now who’s getting PERSONAL? Just drink the stuff before it grows hair. You have to fix time. Sober!”
“They say, ‘Code drunk, debug sober.’ It’s why they made me a program manager.”
“That I believe.”
“DRINK!!!”
#microfiction #NMPrompts #NMV366 #Drabble @npub1rjv…at8t @npub18d7…73lz

2025-05-05 19:34:52 UTC

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#wss366 5/4 #Speed
“Whee… Ack…” The Time Manager fell over, a bottle of Jack in his hand.
“Meee world isss spinning. Whee….” He giggled.
Mine too. Things SPED past. Served me right going toe-to-toe with a leprechaun/Gnome/Gremlin in a drinking contest.
The sun flashed through the sky: once, twice, thrice. The sun’s SPEED—insane. SPEEDing across the sky.
“SPEED?” I thought. “SPEED!”
“What’d you do?” I asked.
“What ye asked, lass. Gave ye more time.”
“Nitwit! I wanted to be in two places at once, not this!”
“No can do. Impossible. Against the rule. Paradox level bug. Just a wee adjust to diSPEEDvar.”
#microfiction #NMPrompts #NMV366 #Drabble @npub1rjv…at8t @npub18d7…73lz

2025-05-05 19:14:27 UTC

#wss366 5/3 #Right
Are you the project manager for time? I asked.
“You be RIGHT there, lass,” said the small, round fellow with clock-face eyes. He looked like a gnome-gremlin crossbreed. “How can I be helping?”
“I’d like to make a small change to the spec.”
“RIGHT… Don’t have time for yer nonsense, lad. Good day.”
“Have time for a drink with me, Jack Daniels?”
“Black label, the good stuff. — Don’t mind if I do. Just a wee sip.”
Definitely some leprechaun too, I thought.
— § —
“A weeee changy pooh here, and weeeee” — the dials in his eyes spun madly — “weeee change thereee.
#microfiction #NMPrompts #NMV366 #Drabble @npub1rjv…at8t @npub18d7…73lz

2025-05-05 18:04:09 UTC

#Review: Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me There Would Be Monsters! v.1
#LightNovel #Kaya
English Pub: #JNovelClub
Rating (1-9): 7 (Worth following)
#Isekai #Fantasy
A surprisingly good, though shallow book. Let’s start with the first thing that pops into my head. It’s an isekai, bad start. But that trope mainly serves for characterization and background. We will have to see where her powers take her, but so far, coming from Japan hasn’t helped her much. Next, I said it was shallow. True, but many entertaining books are shallow; the characters are charming, the world-building is interesting, and background information is doled out slowly and naturally. As an author, I noted how the author has avoided an info dump and slowly dished out information. You’re never left scratching your head, but like the MC, you say, “Hum, I wonder why that is.”
The MC, Sara, has strong powers and could become overpowered as the series continues. Currently, that isn’t a problem. Seven volumes are available in English, and another is in translation. It will be interesting to see if the author can keep superpowers from overwhelming the story’s charm. Given how they handled the gradual introduction of information, I am hopeful.
There is no romance so far, A+ in my book, but possibly some yuri subtext, most likely of the onee-sama type. The story mixes slice-of-life and light adventure, leaning toward the former. Sara doesn’t aspire to be a Hunter (adventurer); instead, she has an eye on alchemy. Will the universe force her into her expected niche, dungeon crawling?
Summary: A pleasant light read for escapism. If the author maintains its light tone, it will stay on my read-as-available list.
Volumes 1-7 are free to read for members of J-Novel Club until 5/31/25. Volume 8 is currently in pre-pub and is free to read until 8/15/25.
https://j-novel.club/series/culinary-chronicles-of-the-court-flower
#AmReading @npub1ny7…uv57 #NMReview
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2025-05-01 22:35:21 UTC

#wss366 #request
Tsugumi stepped into the dingy rent-by-the-day office, Matsumoto a step behind her.
“Why couldn’t the tako at least pick a yakitori?” Matsumoto was thinking.
“Damn right,” Tsugumi answered. “We could have gotten a drink.”
They were being very disrespectful to the man behind the rented desk, a minor flunky or bureaucrat.
“I see The Man couldn’t come himself,” Tsugumi said, addressing the flunky, without bothering to introduce herself. “I know, I know, plausible deniability. Just so you know, we charge more for secret clients, and we are bounty hunters, not assassins. You had a request for us?”
Indignation marbled the man’s face, but he held it in check. What could he expect from borderline criminals? Society’s decay was a result of people like them.
He pushed a folder across the desk. If they could be disrespectful, so could he.
“Yorokobu no Gakuryoku has sent some people into Kakuriyo.” He said. “It has something to do with their master plan. We want you to spoil their mission, killing as many of them as possible. The law has no hold there.”
“We charge more to go to Kakuriyo, and spiritual expenses will be exorbitant. You never know what you might meet,” Tsugumi said. “Funeral, spiritual, and medical expenses covered with no quibbling. Check our references; we don’t pad.” Then she named an astronomical figure for each kill.
The man’s eyes crimped angrily. “That is outrageous.”
“Secret employer, Kakuriyo, human not supernatural targets. That’s a lot of extras. Plus, we don’t like you. You want cheap? Request an assassin to do it on this side. Retainer for five kills upfront. No refunds. You haggle it’s six.”
“You don’t want this job, do you?” Matsumoto thought.
“Nope, not at all,” Tsugumi replied.
The man looked puzzled but reached for a briefcase of money.
Money counted the two left.
“We’re eating good tonight,” Tsugumi said happily.
#microfiction h/t @extraspecialbitter #KonbiniIdol #NMPrompts

2025-05-01 21:47:02 UTC

Under lilacs
Softly weeping
Dogs rest
In eternal repose
Wandering no more
In memory of Charlie and Belle
Copyright 2025 Do not use in AI
#WakaPoetry #和歌 #Haiga #俳画
#poetry #詩 #poetrycommunity
@npub1xfw…mava #NMPrompts
#Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真
#urbanphotography #都市写真
#Spring #春 #Lilac #ライラック #Dogs #dogsofmastodon #犬 #memorial
https://media.sakurajima.moe/media_attachments/files/114/434/765/090/859/944/original/78009e61e25ec71c.webp

2025-04-29 17:50:46 UTC

#DailyHaikuPrompt 4/29 #Blossoms (North)
Seasons first
Apple blooms spread
White petals
Fanning out toward
Sun’s glorious beacon
(Left first apple bloom, Seattle)
(Right apple blooms in a wetland preserve)
Copyright 2025 Do not use in AI
#WakaPoetry #和歌 #Haiga #俳画
#haiku #poetry #詩 #poetrycommunity
@npub1t2v…gelj @npub1xfw…mava #NMPrompts
#Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真
#urbanphotography #都市写真
#Spring #春 #Apple #リンゴ
https://media.sakurajima.moe/media_attachments/files/114/422/508/341/769/338/original/5af84bba0cb6c861.webp

2025-04-25 18:17:28 UTC

#DailyHaikuPrompt for4/25 #Calf (North)
Ancient Farm
Grass, water, blue sky
Calf and cow
Dreams of yore
Febrile apple remain
Copyright 2025 Do not use in AI
#Waka #和歌 #WakaPoetry #Haiga #俳画
#haiku #poetry #詩 #poetrycommunity
@npub1t2v…gelj @npub1xfw…mava #NMPrompts
#selfie #Marsh #沼 #泥沼 #Apple #リンゴ
https://media.sakurajima.moe/media_attachments/files/114/399/964/133/823/342/original/3944b895566e275d.webp

2025-04-25 17:07:19 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 4/24: Show us an image that inspires your creativity with source.
Candy blushing
Crab apple red
The choke cherry
That never blooms
bursts con amour
Nara Moore Copyright 2025 Do not use in AI
#Waka #和歌 #WakaPoetry #Haiga #俳画
#haiku #poetry #詩 #poetrycommunity
@npub1xfw…mava
#Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真
#urbanphotography #都市写真
#ChokeCherry #上不見桜 #うわみずざくら
#Spring #春
https://media.sakurajima.moe/media_attachments/files/114/399/639/049/325/229/original/39146c7d9a55b380.webp

2025-04-24 16:50:45 UTC

#DailyHaikuPrompt for4/24 #NewLeaves (North)
#ScribesAndMakers 4/24: Show us an image that inspires your creativity with source.
With poetry I am often inspired by images. One's I collect myself as an amateur urban photographer.
Flower viewing
Daytime lanterns ablaze
Leaves spring
Emerald blades
Fresh, new, reborn
Copyright 2025 Do not use in AI
#PoetryOnTheFly
#Waka #和歌 #WakaPoetry #Haiga #俳画
#haiku #poetry #詩 #poetrycommunity
@npub1t2v…gelj @npub1xfw…mava #NMPrompts
#IsTheOrderARabbit #ご注文はうさぎですか? #GochiUsa #Plushies #SnowDrops
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2025-04-24 16:19:59 UTC

滝夜叉姫を待つ
Waiting for Princess Takiyasha
Steed awaiting
Nightmare’s border
Dread whispers
The Empress’s return
Masakado’s heir
Copyright Nara Moore ©️ Do not use in AI
📷#Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真
🏙️#urbanphotography #都市写真
#Waka #和歌 #WakaPoetry #Haiga #俳画
#haiku #poetry #詩 #poetrycommunity
@npub1xfw…mava
🐸#Frog #かえる #FrogFriday
#Yokai #youkai #妖怪
#滝夜叉姫 #Folklore #伝説 #japaneseMythology
https://media.sakurajima.moe/media_attachments/files/114/393/842/529/783/219/original/76cd99f564e28466.webp

2025-04-21 21:06:31 UTC

Waka as it was used in the 10th century to communicate through symbols, not just to signal emotions.
#Waka #和歌 #WakaPoetry #Haiga #俳画
#haiku #poetry #詩 #poetrycommunity
@npub1xfw…mava
https://sakurajima.moe/users/NaraMoore/statuses/114377892403836849

2025-04-20 16:33:43 UTC

#PoetryOnTheFly: Telephone Lines
Electron paths
Roadway of words
Slice the sky
A cutting phrase
Sails right through
Copyright 2025 Do not use in AI
#dailyhaikuprompt - #ClearSky (South)
#Waka #和歌 #WakaPoetry
#haiku #poetry #詩 #poetrycommunity
@npub1t2v…gelj @npub1xfw…mava #NMPrompts

2025-04-19 18:13:35 UTC

#WakaHaiga #俳画の和歌 Colors Turning
Fall fires
Half remembered
Spring witnessed
Crimsons turning pink
Each warm in turn
Copyright 2025 Do not use in AI
#dailyhaikuprompt - #Fire
#Waka #和歌 #WakaPoetry #Haiga #俳画
#haiku #poetry #詩 #poetrycommunity
@npub1t2v…gelj @npub1xfw…mava #NMPrompts
https://media.sakurajima.moe/media_attachments/files/114/365/978/140/707/843/original/6430e47cd3af8a93.webp

2025-04-13 08:34:04 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 12, Shameless self-promotion day.
For Love of a Konbini Idol
Join Ume's family as their relationship develops. In a creepy world where “love” never dies.
Volume 3 is now in serialization.
At: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52770025
https://www.pixiv.net/novel/series/11417104
#Yuri #Romance #Trans #TransFem #TransMasc #Asexuality #Polyamory #Otherkin #SapphicBooks #LightNovel @npub145p…j2zc @npub1ny7…uv57 @npub1yla…y5zs
https://media.sakurajima.moe/media_attachments/files/114/329/697/123/400/542/original/9cecfd1df7c092e5.webp

2025-03-21 01:49:59 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub 21. Happy World Poetry Day! Share your most poetic line.
I write hiaku, waka and Katauta. So I would never be able to pick. People seem to like it. This one that appears in my WIP that has been popular:
Sacred tea
Amid the rocky hills
Wander sits
Beside lonely fire
Distant Memories
It also appears in my second collection
"Waka to Katauta (和歌と片歌)"
At: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63339307
Below is more waka & haiku as Haiga which can be found in one of my pixelfed accounts
https://pixelfed.tokyo/i/web/profile/574345021382074749
#NMWCC #PoetsOfMastodon #PoetsOfPixelFed #Waka #和歌 #Poem #Poetry #Haiga #俳画 #Haiku #俳句 #Senyru #川柳 #WorldPoetryDay
https://media.sakurajima.moe/media_attachments/files/114/197/867/614/151/674/original/764b2fe17d9da44c.webp
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2025-02-14 07:42:02 UTC

There are too many of you to send this too personally. (But is hand made) and 🍡#ChiyaUjimatsu #宇治松千夜 baked the cake.
#PalentinesDay
🐇 #GochiUsa 🐇 #ごちうさ 🐇
☕️ #ご注文はうさぎですか ☕
🐰 #IsTheOrderARabbit 🐰
#Plushie
https://media.sakurajima.moe/media_attachments/files/114/001/107/226/932/602/original/fb4015798d65ed6c.webp

2025-02-01 05:17:11 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub 1st Feb: Shameless self-promotion. What writing project are you working on?
I am working on volume 3 of my serialized yuri light novel, "For Love a Konbini Idol."
Vol. 1: For Love of a Konbini Idol, I Faced Her Onryo Lover
Vol. 2: For Love of a Konbini Idol, I Braved the Otherside
Vol. 3: For Love of a Konbini Idol, I Searched for the Kudan
pixiv.net/novel/series/11417104
https://archiveofourown.org/works/52770025
#Yuri #Romance #Paranormal #Wierdtales #AmWriting #Sapphic
@npub145p…j2zc @npub1ny7…uv57 @npub1yla…y5zs
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2025-01-17 23:51:04 UTC

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I thought you would appreciate the other one as well since your a Hikari Shiina wota.

2025-01-17 23:42:53 UTC

#JIdol @npub1vx8…3nhq Says Since participation is quite low today, here is another #JMusicFriday weird videoclip...
Not that I need an excuse #TheStrangeClip
Minnano Kodomochan - The Final Blinkings [Official Video]
CW: Violent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byP14yM2aq8
We miss Kodomochan
#MinnanoKodomochan #みんなのこどもちゃん #Cinnamon #しなもん
#地下アイドル #アイドル #Idol

2025-01-17 23:31:24 UTC

#JIdol Today is #jmusicfriday
The theme for today is #TheStrangeClip
椎名ひかり (Hikari Shiina) ‘hate!hate!hate!’ Official MV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoFlrgqSgo8
#ShiinaHikari #椎名ひかり #椎名ぴかりん #PSama
#地下アイドル #アイドル #Idol

2025-01-03 12:02:35 UTC

#JMusicFriday Theme is happy.
This one is going to be def. out of my usual rep. but it is from an anime I really love and one of the few anime songs I could probably do karoke too.
ハッピー・ハッピー・フレンズ
Happy Happy Friends by the #Wataten☆5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQVUsWlq8yw

2025-01-03 11:29:31 UTC

#JIdol Idol Yurapico ゆらぴこ
#JMusicFriday starts with Yura Smile i.e. Yurapico
and
ゆらぴこ『Happiness for you』
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpjySTG5mDE
#Yurapico #ゆらぴこ #YuraSmile
#地下アイドル #アイドル #Idol

2024-12-28 02:17:49 UTC

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I'll give FOKALITE a listen. I've been binging THE+BETH all morning.

2024-12-28 02:10:51 UTC

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MIGMA SHELTER another 2024 casualty.

2024-12-28 02:06:36 UTC

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And you be right! they are not insects. But I am not going to delete my spider entries for JMusicFriday.

2024-12-28 02:04:00 UTC

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I thought they were insects but not bugs. It will probably bug me till I check.

2024-12-27 20:29:38 UTC

Today's theme for #JMusicFriday is INSECTS.
From @npub1vx8…3nhq
Finally on a lighter note - Insects from space
【24 10 20】めろん畑a go go「HORROR BILLY NIGHTS 2024」
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM5GtzAVn9I
#JIdol #Rockabilly #MelonBatakeAGoGo #めろん畑AGoGo #Idol #Psychobilly

2024-12-27 20:22:21 UTC

Today's theme for #JMusicFriday is INSECTS.
From @npub1vx8…3nhq
And we mustn't forget the queen of spiders - Sari
Those were the days
NECRONOMIDOL - DAWNSLAYER Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tS3_OCnQRc&list=PLghYzmkF89GnFmz9rStz6CW_vB58P-u6a&index=28
#Necromidol #Idol #JIdol #JMetal #GothicMetal #Sari #瑳里

2024-12-27 19:38:16 UTC

Today's theme for #JMusicFriday is INSECTS.
From @npub1vx8…3nhq
And classic bugs. From an old fav #Necromidol
NECRONOMIDOL あたいの爪痕　MV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y88BXeo1ogo&list=PLghYzmkF89GnFmz9rStz6CW_vB58P-u6a&index=32
#Idol #JIdol #JMetal

2024-12-27 19:23:15 UTC

Today's theme for #JMusicFriday is INSECTS.
From @npub1vx8…3nhq
You wants bugs, I have got bugs for you. From the now defunct Melancholic Cinderella Story
垂れる (SE)- メランコリック少女物語
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogpqgscLGj8&list=PLghYzmkF89GlVpYYxmqgi8_Y9ebwcyz-x&index=9
#MelancholicCinderellaStory #メランコリック少女物語 #Merasisu #メラシス #IJidol #Idol #JGothic #JRock

2024-12-27 19:14:37 UTC

Today's theme for #JMusicFriday is INSECTS.
From @npub1vx8…3nhq
Let start with the iconic line "Do want to be a Moth"
[Not really.]
ガ(鬱P) /Zsasz【歌ってみた】
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmGOeyahQtw&list=PLghYzmkF89GkOpcFBoItDWOYTKyhudu9L&index=32
#JIdol #Idol #Zsasz

2024-12-24 19:40:10 UTC

#JIdol Idol Tsukishiro Himari of Isiliel
第473🖤🎅🌙
Merry Christmas Eve ! 💖
Source Hima
#月城ひまり #TsukishiroHimari #isiliel
#地下アイドル #アイドル #Idol #JMetal
#Christmas
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2024-12-21 04:25:33 UTC

Welcome to #JMusicFriday This week's theme is #TheNativity #JIdol
Older idol stuff from Martha’s stream, not chika but seasonal
* 【MV Full】µ's 2ndシングル「Snow halation」【スクスタリリース記念！】 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ3jNTH2QL0
* Tanpopo - Oujisama to Yuki no Yoru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d24CwSytcDM
* e-girls / Mr.Snowman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtrTH1vxGFQ
* Petitmoni - Pittari Shitai X'mas! (ぴったりしたいX'mas!) (2001) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GL-3VeX8hg
* ℃-ute 『会いたいロンリークリスマス』https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DhZ_1bETkg
* [SNOW MIKU Official Song] Love! Snow! Really Magic feat. Hatsune Miku - Mitchie M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79N1O0lF0GY
* ZYX「白いTOKYO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuNt0brrUFg

2024-12-21 01:35:09 UTC

Welcome to #JMusicFriday This week theme is #TheNativity #JIdol
Not chika but seasonal
e-girls / Mr.Snowman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtrTH1vxGFQ

2024-12-20 20:10:30 UTC

Welcome to #JMusicFriday This week theme is #TheNativity #JIdol
Menma with Nantyara Idol
I did this one for #TuneTuesday, but this is last year's CHIYoppy Christmas show. I have tickets for this years as wel.
【23 12 26】やわらぎめんま(POPPY)「なんちゃらPOPPY主催なんちゃらアイドル＆POPPY炎の2マンライブ！」
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmSozcm2iQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Olmp51IOt4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBhoTB6b-Sc
Sorry only youtube sources for this.
#CHIYoppy #PoppyGRP
#YawaragiMenma #やわらぎめんま
#あおはる #yokuwakan_nai
#御茶海マミ #みさみまみ #samami27
#なんちゃらアイドル #NantyaraIdol
#地下アイドル #アイドルル #Idol #JIdol

2024-12-20 19:53:27 UTC

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Just got up and Yuotube has declared war on me.
But the first is up.

2024-12-20 19:51:27 UTC

Welcome to #JMusicFriday This week theme is #TheNativity #JIdol
Okay, let me lead off with the song that turned from a mere NecronomaIdol wota to super HIMARI wota
santa sangre
by NECRONOMIDOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kBK33DvIoM
https://necronomidol.bandcamp.com/track/santa-sangre
#月城ひまり #TsukishiroHimari #isiliel
#地下アイドル #アイドル #Idol #JMetal JIdol

2024-12-16 21:06:43 UTC

#MenmaMonday 第34
#めんま火曜日
😺👑Menma is the Cutest👑😺
🐈めんまがいちばんかわいいね🐈
Image Source: アキネに汐コショウ
#CHIYoppy #PoppyGRP
#YawaragiMenma #やわらぎめんま
#地下アイドル #アイドルル #Idol #JIdol
Idol JIdol MenmaMonday CHIYoppy
https://media.sakurajima.moe/media_attachments/files/113/664/531/947/029/298/original/a5b015536040009e.webp