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Pynchokami
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When I'm not crafting magical tales like #M&F or #BerkeleyTapes, you can find me lost in a good book, strategizing over a board game, or experimenting in the kitchen.
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Update: I've stepped off the Elevator Isekai for now. A new story, DEDICATED BENCHES, is here, a near-future tale of resistance, history, and ghosts. Live writing the first chapters soon. My regular posts will continue.

📖 MEDDY & FRANK: 1ST Draft Complete! (100%)

#M&F #BookSky #WriterSky #SFF
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From the writing desk (bonus track):

It's raining in SoCal. Really raining.

I insisted on my Sunday walk to my coffee/writing spot, along the bike path bordering the wash. I had an umbrella, at least.

Which is progress.

#BerkeleyTapes #AmWriting 🧵
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Mira loses David's hand. Sam loses sight of Jess.
Four of them find a doorway. A dark alcove. Safety.

#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #BookSky 🧵
A weathered brass dedication plaque set into the wooden backrest of a park bench. The plaque reads: "IN MEMORY OF ELENA ROSTOVA. A DOORWAY TO SANCTUARY." The wood of the bench has visible grain and is slightly weathered. Green foliage and rocks are visible above the bench. (Photo taken by the author in the Berkeley Rose Garden; AI tool used to fictionalize names on plaque.)
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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From the Writer's Desk:

My research for the "product demonstration" in Chapter 1 led down a disturbing rabbit hole: sonic weapons. They're called LRADs, and they've been used to silence dissent globally for years. (1/6)
#BerkeleyTapes #WriterSky 🧵
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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The product demonstration was now officially underway.

#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #BookSky 🧵
A weathered brass dedication plaque set into the wooden backrest of a park bench. The plaque reads: "IN MEMORY OF MICHAEL “MIKE” CALLAHAN. THE WAR FOLLOWED HIM HOME." The wood of the bench has visible grain and is slightly weathered. Green foliage and rocks are visible above the bench. (Photo taken by the author in the Berkeley Rose Garden; AI tool used to fictionalize names on plaque.)
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Ben calls out the rackets. Mira sees the future they can't afford. David's patience is gone. The march is an agitated organism, ready to break. And then it does.

#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #BookSky 🧵
A weathered brass dedication plaque set into the wooden backrest of a park bench. The plaque reads: "IN LOVING MEMORY OF DR. ARIS THORNE. HE UNDERSTOOD THE PERIL OF A CHAIN REACTION." The wood of the bench has visible grain and is slightly weathered. Green foliage and trees are visible above the bench. (Photo taken by the author in the Berkeley Rose Garden; AI tool used to fictionalize names on plaque.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Today's song is the gut-punch of a missed connection: "Skyway" by The Replacements.

It’s a simple, melancholy tune. The feeling of being so close, yet so far away, told in 2:09.

#Prompt: What's your MCs big "almost-moment"?

#BerkeleyTapes #WriterSky

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The Replacements - Skyway
YouTube video by Date Coma
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November 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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From the Writer's Desk: Confession. Part of why I'm writing this story is as an outlet, a kind of catharsis. When I doom scroll through my BlueSky and Reddit feeds, fictionalizing our national trauma feels like a kind of therapy. An ACE inhibitor in keyboard form.
#BerkeleyTapes #WriteSky 🧵
November 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The dance party is over. The street ahead is blocked. First lesson of the day: a sanctioned march only goes where they want you to go.

#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #BookSky 🧵
A park bench with a weathered brass dedication plaque that says “Julian “Jules” Adler. A Debtor to Justice” Photo taken by the author in the Berkeley Rose Garden; AI tool used to fictionalize names.
November 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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It started as a march. But then the beat dropped, the unicorn started dancing, and for a single moment, the protest became a party.

#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriteSky 🧵
A park bench with a weathered brass dedication plaque that says “For Kenji Tanaka. He built joyful worlds.” Photo taken by the author in the Berkeley Rose Garden; AI tool used to fictionalize names.
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Watched E1 of the new series Billionaires' Bunker and it has me thinking. From this to the Nazi server in Mythic Quest (S1E3, "Dinner Party"), the fantasy is the same: put the most toxic users in their own gilded cage.
A group of three individuals, two men and one woman, stand on a bridge-like structure with a natural, hilly landscape in the background. All three are wearing teal-colored jumpsuits. Below them, a golden banner with black text reads "BILLIONAIRES' BUNKER". A still image from the TV show Mythic Quest. Poppy stands in a server room, grinning excitedly. She holds both of her hands up near her face in a playful, almost frantic gesture. Behind her, two large monitors display lines of code. White, all-caps text at the bottom of the image reads, "DINNER PARTY."
October 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The stage is set. In the crowd, a mosaic of hope and worry. Meet the six young people at the heart of the protest, before the day that changes them.

#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #BookSky 🧵
Image: A park bench with a weathered brass dedication plaque reading "In Loving Memory of Sylvia Rosen" and the epitaph, "Art Lives Here." (Photo taken by the author in the Berkeley Rose Garden; AI tool used to fictionalize names.)
October 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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From the Writer's Desk: A note on what this project is (and isn't). You're reading a serialized for Bluesky version of the first draft of Chapter 1. The truth is, there is no Chapter 2 yet. This plane is being built while it's still in the air. (1/3)

#BerkeleyTapes #WriterSky
October 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Before the march, a word from our correspondent on the anatomy of a sanctioned protest.

#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriteSky
A weathered brass dedication plaque on a park bench. It reads: "IN MEMORY OF FOR ELEANOR GOSSE. 'Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.'" Photo taken by Pynchokami in the Berkeley Rose Garden; AI tool used to fictionalize names.
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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It's about a group of activists who find moral clarity from a chorus of ghosts who remember a time when the fight was clear. A history lesson in how to, for lack of a better term, punch Nazis. (3/3)

#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriterSky
October 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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It’s the anxiety of watching a world you love slide into something unrecognizable and not knowing how to respond. DEDICATED BENCHES is my attempt to answer that question by wrapping it in a ghost story. (2/3)

#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriterSky
October 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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From the Writer's Desk: This story began with a question that I think haunts many of us lately: Am I overreacting, or am I underreacting? (1/3)

#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriterSky
October 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Update: I've stepped off the Elevator Isekai for now. A new story, DEDICATED BENCHES, is here, a near-future tale of resistance, history, and ghosts. Live writing the first chapters soon. My regular posts will continue.

📖 MEDDY & FRANK: 1ST Draft Complete! (100%)

#M&F #BookSky #WriterSky #SFF
October 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Thinking about the art of the mixtape title, that perfect phrase that scores a moment in your life.

Meddy's would be "A Gorgon's Guide to Goodbyes" with Scandal on the first track.

#Prompt: What title would your MC slap on a mixtape right now?

#M&F #WriterSky #AmWriting

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Scandal, Patty Smyth - Goodbye To You (Official Video)
YouTube video by ScandalVEVO
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October 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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#Mixtape: Learn a language in 4 months for 1 song?

For Japanese, my vote is "Lemon" by Kenshi Yonezu.

It's about grief's "bitter scent", perfect for my MC Franko, haunted by a life he never lived.

#Prompt: What's your OC's 4 month song?

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#M&F #WriterSky
Lemon
YouTube video by Kenshi Yonezu - Topic
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October 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Original "One Tin Soldier" by Dennis Lambert & Brian Potter, performed by Coven (1971). This thread is my reimagining, inspired by the structure but addressing today's conflicts.

The Original Caste version
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Coven version
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(14/14)
One Tin Soldier - The Original Caste [Original]
YouTube video by Soheil Koushan
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October 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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In the original “One Tin Soldier” the reveal was that the treasure was peace all along. Today, our treasure is, or I fear was, our connections and our dependence on each other. This I fear we might not see again, or not for quite some time. At least, until our ice soldiers melts away.
(13/14)
October 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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(Last Refrain)

Go ahead and fear your neighbor,

Go ahead and build a wall.

Do it in the name of "Freedom,"

So your culture doesn't fall.

There won't be any angels singing,

When you've turned them all away,

On the silent morning after...

One ice soldier melts away.

(12/14)
October 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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(Final Verse):

But the thaw revealed the ruin,

And the soil, hard and cracked,

For the “threat” that they had ridden

Was the stream that kept them fed.

(11/14)
October 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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(Verse 6)

They stood their watch all through winter,

Their frozen hearts still held fast,

Believing that their pure valley

Was a culture built to last.

(10/14)
October 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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(Verse 5):

Now the drums of war fell silent,

And the gates were locked up tight,

The valley people stood triumphant,

In the cold and fading light.

(9/14)
October 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM