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Kara Moon (the artist formerly known as Hiria Dunning)
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Kara Moon (she/her/they/them)
Totally not the R18+ pseudonym of @hiriadunning.com I swear!
Queer and indigenous author and poet from Aotearoa NZ
Member of @hookandquillpress.com
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I've posted so much about my adult spicy fiction here, so it's about time I change this account to rep for my pseudonym, and make a clean account for my mainstream persona. If you'd rather follow her and drop me, check out @hiriadunning.com
Or follow both, if you're into that 😉
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you don't suck at art. you're learning. you aren't an awful writer, you're still understanding how things work. You aren't horrible, you see the places in your work that have space for improvement. Even if you think your art isn't the best, you still created something and you should be proud of that
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
#smutcember
Both kinda well and kinda terribly?
Like, when forced to work as colleagues, Kallista and Geni argue over ethics but come to a working compromise in time. Over personal emotions, they will talk things out and get on really well.

It's just that there's this _damn subtext_ in the way!!!
Hope you're having a restful Friday, #Smutcember! Today's question:

How well do your characters communicate? This could be verbally or non-verbally, and it could be outside of, before, after, or during intimate encounters.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 26, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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#Smutcember 26:

The whole relationship between Jenna and Tarek in The Stars Will Be Our Ocean is built around how they connect through communication, so it's very important they do it well. Jenna in particular can't help but lay out everything on her mind in her desire to be understood.
Hope you're having a restful Friday, #Smutcember! Today's question:

How well do your characters communicate? This could be verbally or non-verbally, and it could be outside of, before, after, or during intimate encounters.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
#LoreOutLoud
I could stand to celebrate more. Getting away for a few writers' festivals was probably the nicest treat I had this year. I know what I'll do for certain big milestones, if/when they come. And I might buy myself a nice new dress for the upcoming anthology launch 😁
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December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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#LoreOutLoud I took a day to celebrate each win with something small - time off, a dinner out, small purchase, etc. But, I pushed myself incredibly hard and often lost sight of the little things this year. I owe it to myself to be more mindful and recognize when I've done something well.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#DeckTheHalls
My Hanged Man is 'One of Psistos. He's the Bosun of the Zakynthos on Kallista's final deployment before her promotion to captain. He gives her a new perspective, and his actions and sacrifice push her out of her own uncertainty and stagnation.
#DeckTheHalls

We're matching up our work to the Major Arcana Tarot Cards. Tell us how your characters (or places, things, or events) match up!

Today's card is: THE HANGED MAN

Ironic for Dec 25th.

Who or what from your writing would go on it and how does it fit?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
December 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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#DeckTheHalls

My Hanged Man is Rei Matsuba.

The youngest of my problem three, he was a man that adored his friends and did what he could with increasing status to take care of them.

He went as far as to take in their surviving son when he thought they were both gone and his reward was 🔪.

🧵1/2
December 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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I’m the most basic bitch out there, so whatever kinks my characters have arise organically the more I write them. Generally it depends on their personalities; for example, sociopath Jason likes being muzzled and leashed, whereas prim and proper Lex likes to sneakily do it in public. #Smutcember
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, #Smutcember! I'm partial to the Yule vibes myself, but any excuse for a little holiday spice. 😏 With that in mind, we ask you:

Do you plan your characters with specific kinks, or do they arise organically?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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#Smutcember

My inexperience is showing here. I haven't written very many couples yet, and I, personally, am pretty vanilla, so I haven't explored this territory much. I am doing lots of reading and taking notes, though. For science.😉

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, #Smutcember! I'm partial to the Yule vibes myself, but any excuse for a little holiday spice. 😏 With that in mind, we ask you:

Do you plan your characters with specific kinks, or do they arise organically?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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All of it is planned as a consequence of the character being *what they are* if that makes sense, for example:

Bekah is a vampire, so their senses of taste and smell are hyperactive and the desires of feeding and sex get mixed up. It’s just so happens that their girlfriend Annie is +
#Smutcember
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, #Smutcember! I'm partial to the Yule vibes myself, but any excuse for a little holiday spice. 😏 With that in mind, we ask you:

Do you plan your characters with specific kinks, or do they arise organically?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Happy #Smutcember 25!

Character kinks come from their personality, but sometimes that works in reverse; I wanted Luke to be most into Isabelle when she's going full badass mode, so I developed him to be more of a ""alpha"" personality in the beginning so the reveal/flip feels more satisfying.
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, #Smutcember! I'm partial to the Yule vibes myself, but any excuse for a little holiday spice. 😏 With that in mind, we ask you:

Do you plan your characters with specific kinks, or do they arise organically?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Merry Christmas to me 😁😁😁🤩🤩🤩
December 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
#smutcember
100% organic, babyyyyyyyyyy

I generally get to know the characters first before I have any idea what they're like in bed.

(except Katrine, they were horny on main right out the gate, but they're the exception so far)
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, #Smutcember! I'm partial to the Yule vibes myself, but any excuse for a little holiday spice. 😏 With that in mind, we ask you:

Do you plan your characters with specific kinks, or do they arise organically?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 25, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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#Smutcember 25:

Y'know, I was all ready to say I don't plan them, but I think I actually do? Just not in the way I'd expect. Since I like to write human/non-human pairings, I think the kinks come in as I'm planning the physiology of the non-human partner. (1/2)
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, #Smutcember! I'm partial to the Yule vibes myself, but any excuse for a little holiday spice. 😏 With that in mind, we ask you:

Do you plan your characters with specific kinks, or do they arise organically?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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#Smutcember 24

Don't sleep on writing smut as a great way to learn things about yourself, too!
Does it ever feel like your characters do things of their own volition and you're just here to record it? Let them, and they'll press buttons of yours of which you may have only had a vague awareness.
Time to share some wisdom, #Smutcember:

What advice would you give others about writing smut? Alternatively, if you're newer to writing smut, what advice would you like to get from your fellow participants?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
#LoreOutLoud
So many people, but in particular my private discord friends who have been there for me basically every day, and with whom I engage in mutual feralness over our WIPs, such a good feeling 🫶
Day 024 // WEEK 4: WELCOME THE RETURNING LIGHT
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December 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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#LoreOutLoud My husband and my two best friends were instrumental on encouraging me to keep going. From afar, the community I've found myself in, the people who have taken the time to read my book and talk to me about it. People who have bought my artwork and returned to talk and buy more.
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December 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Watson. We'd been cowriting another project, but when I asked her to take a look at #Shield&Scalpel, she really dove into it and gave it her all. Her direction and excitement for the story has shaped it into something marvelous. I'm so excited for our future stories together.
#LoreOutLoud #WriteSky
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December 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Hello #humpday camel, for your consideration, page 19 of the alternate timeline black hole I've been losing myself in for the last week 😅 'A Quiet Decade', in which my girls Kallista and Geni get to find each other a decade earlier than they're supposed to
December 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Twitter Exodus? Agin?

ok I guess here's my contribution, a starter pack of folks whose content makes me like coming to this app.
December 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
#DeckTheHalls
My Hermit is fan favourite, Sister Adelpha. She lights the way for Geni to enter the nunnery, which is a place where Geni feels all of those things in the upright and reversed meanings. But Del has found peace and purpose in this state, and she mentors Geni with humour and compassion.
#DeckTheHalls

We're matching up our work to the Major Arcana Tarot Cards. Tell us how your characters (or places, things, or events) match up!

Today's card is: THE HERMIT

Who or what from your writing would go on it and how does it fit?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
December 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Happy #Smutcember 24!

How your characters approach sex should be as unique as your characters themselves. There's no rigid formula for how people are "supposed" to have sex; who your character is doesn't change.
However, DO keep in mind that a smutty scene is a great way to reveal character.
Time to share some wisdom, #Smutcember:

What advice would you give others about writing smut? Alternatively, if you're newer to writing smut, what advice would you like to get from your fellow participants?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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JUST DO IT

No but seriously. Write your heart’s desires, freaky encounters, silly boinking, whatever you want! Without fear! The first time always feels weird and awkward (haha) but you get better at it the more you do it and make notes of what worked well and what didn’t. Practice!
#Smutcember
Time to share some wisdom, #Smutcember:

What advice would you give others about writing smut? Alternatively, if you're newer to writing smut, what advice would you like to get from your fellow participants?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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#DeckTheHalls That's Shujinko, an Earthrealmer adventurer who... well, went on quite *the* adventure before becoming the martial arts and magic mentor that Ashrah meets in Book 2.

He lives in self-imposed solitude, which gives him plenty of time for meditation and introspection, but also does (1/2)
#DeckTheHalls

We're matching up our work to the Major Arcana Tarot Cards. Tell us how your characters (or places, things, or events) match up!

Today's card is: THE HERMIT

Who or what from your writing would go on it and how does it fit?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
December 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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From Tree to Book Writing Group Podcast: writers talking about writing!
Our second episode drops 12.30.25 🎉

#writingpodcast #writesky #writingcommunity #writinggroup

Featuring @annawwrites.bsky.social , @sgledoyt.bsky.social , and @eliwoodsgheist.com !
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM