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#LoveMakeShare May 26: What's something that brought you joy recently?

A day where:

• I completed my full morning constitutional without dying
• I didn't need a nap to survive.
• Met with a friend and didn't collapse with fatigue when I got home.
• No more than the usual coughing.

i.e., I may be recovered from this cold.

#NMLMS #NMPrompts

#LoveMakeShare May 26: What's something that brought you joy recently?

A day where:

• I completed my full morning constitutional without dying
• I didn't need a nap to survive.
• Met with a friend and didn't collapse with fatigue when I got home.
• No more than the usual coughing.

i.e., I may be recovered from this cold.

#NMLMS #NMPrompts

#lovemakeshare Towel #towelday
#ScribesAndMakers № 24 ('26 May) Warp?
#ScribesAndMakers № 25 Stella had been dreading this moment...

Livestreaming, she looks between the scorched omelette, the warped turner, and finally the smoldering towel used as a hotpad.

#NMLMS #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#lovemakeshare Towel #towelday
#ScribesAndMakers № 24 ('26 May) Warp?
#ScribesAndMakers № 25 Stella had been dreading this moment...

Livestreaming, she looks between the scorched omelette, the warped turner, and finally the smoldering towel used as a hotpad.

#NMLMS #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#lovemakeshare Towel #towelday
#ScribesAndMakers № 24 ('26 May) Warp?
#ScribesAndMakers № 25 Stella had been dreading this moment...

Livestreaming, she looks between the scorched omelette, the warped turner, and finally the smoldering towel used as a hotpad.

#NMLMS #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#WordWeavers 25.05.2026 What one event defines your MC? Part 2

From a meta point of view it is the moment I finish my character sketch and begin writing.

#NMWW #NMPrompts #KonbiniIdol

#WordWeavers 25.05.2026 What one event defines your MC?

Many moments define my characters. But one point stands out as the moment Ume from #KonbiniIdol is forced to decide how much of her integrity she is willing to sacrifice for love.

Actually, I am not going to share it. It is a pivotal moment in the character arc. Let's say there is a moment where she could have gone either way.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1024 — MC POV: Name a time where you cried your eyes out.

Snip from "For Love of a Konbini Idol:"

Shishi: A second highball did nothing, but when I started on a third, something broke in me, and all my misery came rolling up my chest. I had been an idol, and now I was nothing. NOTHING. The lights blurred, and the bartender behind the counter became indistinct.

It was in that haze that I heard a husky woman’s voice say, “You’re crying.” I looked up, expecting a ghost, but it was a woman’s face, framed in bleached blonde hair. I touched her face to be sure. Even as drunk as I was, I could tell it was beautiful. Her heavy makeup couldn’t hide its innate loveliness.

She touched my glass and said, “Another highball?”

End Snip #KonbiniIdol

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1024 — MC POV: Name a time where you cried your eyes out.

Snip from "For Love of a Konbini Idol:"

Shishi: A second highball did nothing, but when I started on a third, something broke in me, and all my misery came rolling up my chest. I had been an idol, and now I was nothing. NOTHING. The lights blurred, and the bartender behind the counter became indistinct.

It was in that haze that I heard a husky woman’s voice say, “You’re crying.” I looked up, expecting a ghost, but it was a woman’s face, framed in bleached blonde hair. I touched her face to be sure. Even as drunk as I was, I could tell it was beautiful. Her heavy makeup couldn’t hide its innate loveliness.

She touched my glass and said, “Another highball?”

End Snip #KonbiniIdol

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1024 — MC POV: Name a time where you cried your eyes out.

Snip from "For Love of a Konbini Idol:"

Shishi: A second highball did nothing, but when I started on a third, something broke in me, and all my misery came rolling up my chest. I had been an idol, and now I was nothing. NOTHING. The lights blurred, and the bartender behind the counter became indistinct.

It was in that haze that I heard a husky woman’s voice say, “You’re crying.” I looked up, expecting a ghost, but it was a woman’s face, framed in bleached blonde hair. I touched her face to be sure. Even as drunk as I was, I could tell it was beautiful. Her heavy makeup couldn’t hide its innate loveliness.

She touched my glass and said, “Another highball?”

End Snip #KonbiniIdol

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1024 — MC POV: Name a time where you cried your eyes out.

Snip from "For Love of a Konbini Idol:"

Shishi: A second highball did nothing, but when I started on a third, something broke in me, and all my misery came rolling up my chest. I had been an idol, and now I was nothing. NOTHING. The lights blurred, and the bartender behind the counter became indistinct.

It was in that haze that I heard a husky woman’s voice say, “You’re crying.” I looked up, expecting a ghost, but it was a woman’s face, framed in bleached blonde hair. I touched her face to be sure. Even as drunk as I was, I could tell it was beautiful. Her heavy makeup couldn’t hide its innate loveliness.

She touched my glass and said, “Another highball?”

End Snip #KonbiniIdol

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 5/24 Warp

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

Ancient wood
Softly warping
Forgotten

Sun and rain
Remember still

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

#poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #PoetryCommunity #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 5/24 Warp

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

Ancient wood
Softly warping
Forgotten

Sun and rain
Remember still

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

#poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #PoetryCommunity #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers May 23: If you were going to tell a story about a #cryptid, which would you choose?

The line between a cryptid and an urban legend is fine. Depending on how you choose to define the word, I have written many stories involving cryptids. Youkai and urban myths play a key role in my fiction.

The one creature that is standardly considered a crypid I have written about is the Chīsai-ojisan 小さいおじさん (Little Uncle)

Chīsai-ojisan 小さいおじさん:

Which one would I choose in the future? Whichever one fits my current plot line.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1022 — How would your MC like to be remembered after their death? What sort of legacy would they want to leave?

#TimeTravelingGhost: They are dead. Emily hopes her legacy will have been stopping the Nazi from obtaining mind-reading. As a spy, she doesn't hope to be remembered for it.

#KonbiniIdol: Ume hopes to leave some books behind that will entertain people for years to come.

#MyGirlFriend: Kao would like to have done something to decrease discrimination against sexual/gender minorities. Not that she is doing much along that line.

The rest haven't thought about it.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1022 — How would your MC like to be remembered after their death? What sort of legacy would they want to leave?

#TimeTravelingGhost: They are dead. Emily hopes her legacy will have been stopping the Nazi from obtaining mind-reading. As a spy, she doesn't hope to be remembered for it.

#KonbiniIdol: Ume hopes to leave some books behind that will entertain people for years to come.

#MyGirlFriend: Kao would like to have done something to decrease discrimination against sexual/gender minorities. Not that she is doing much along that line.

The rest haven't thought about it.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1022 — How would your MC like to be remembered after their death? What sort of legacy would they want to leave?

#TimeTravelingGhost: They are dead. Emily hopes her legacy will have been stopping the Nazi from obtaining mind-reading. As a spy, she doesn't hope to be remembered for it.

#KonbiniIdol: Ume hopes to leave some books behind that will entertain people for years to come.

#MyGirlFriend: Kao would like to have done something to decrease discrimination against sexual/gender minorities. Not that she is doing much along that line.

The rest haven't thought about it.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1022 — How would your MC like to be remembered after their death? What sort of legacy would they want to leave?

#TimeTravelingGhost: They are dead. Emily hopes her legacy will have been stopping the Nazi from obtaining mind-reading. As a spy, she doesn't hope to be remembered for it.

#KonbiniIdol: Ume hopes to leave some books behind that will entertain people for years to come.

#MyGirlFriend: Kao would like to have done something to decrease discrimination against sexual/gender minorities. Not that she is doing much along that line.

The rest haven't thought about it.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1021 — Have you ever co-written a story before?

I have been given credit for co-writing, but all I really did was edit the story to be more understandable in English.

I have co-written poems. The last one was Saba Dreams: with @extraspecialbitter

Others with @MarkBrigham

Anyone interested in doing #rengay can join us.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #renga #haiku

#PennedPossibilities 1021 — Have you ever co-written a story before?

I have been given credit for co-writing, but all I really did was edit the story to be more understandable in English.

I have co-written poems. The last one was Saba Dreams: with @extraspecialbitter

Others with @MarkBrigham

Anyone interested in doing #rengay can join us.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #renga #haiku

#PennedPossibilities 1021 — Have you ever co-written a story before?

I have been given credit for co-writing, but all I really did was edit the story to be more understandable in English.

I have co-written poems. The last one was Saba Dreams: with @extraspecialbitter

Others with @MarkBrigham

Anyone interested in doing #rengay can join us.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #renga #haiku

#PennedPossibilities 1021 — Have you ever co-written a story before?

I have been given credit for co-writing, but all I really did was edit the story to be more understandable in English.

I have co-written poems. The last one was Saba Dreams: with @extraspecialbitter

Others with @MarkBrigham

Anyone interested in doing #rengay can join us.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #renga #haiku

#PennedPossibilities 1021 — Have you ever co-written a story before?

I have been given credit for co-writing, but all I really did was edit the story to be more understandable in English.

I have co-written poems. The last one was Saba Dreams: with @extraspecialbitter

Others with @MarkBrigham

Anyone interested in doing #rengay can join us.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #renga #haiku

#TimeTravelAuthors Char. meet any relatives when they time travel?

Bijou meets herself at two or three stages of her life, and her father, which is something she isn't willing to own up to.

This option was presented to reader votes and never scored high.

#NMTTA #NMPrompts

#TimeTravelAuthors Char. meet any relatives when they time travel?

Bijou meets herself at two or three stages of her life, and her father, which is something she isn't willing to own up to.

This option was presented to reader votes and never scored high.

#NMTTA #NMPrompts

#TimeTravelAuthors Char. meet any relatives when they time travel?

Bijou meets herself at two or three stages of her life, and her father, which is something she isn't willing to own up to.

This option was presented to reader votes and never scored high.

#NMTTA #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1019 — Has your SC ever been bullied? By who, and for what reason?

Ther are also scenes of MC's being bullied. Lots of my work is tagged that bullying appears in it. I don't shy away from the subject. It would be pretty unrealistic, given my characters are queers. I also don't wallow in it.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1019 — Has your SC ever been bullied? By who, and for what reason?

Ther are also scenes of MC's being bullied. Lots of my work is tagged that bullying appears in it. I don't shy away from the subject. It would be pretty unrealistic, given my characters are queers. I also don't wallow in it.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1019 — Has your SC ever been bullied? By who, and for what reason?

Let's go with Kan-chan in My Girlfriend Almost Got Me Killed and #Konbinidol since we have side stories about that.

Who: schoolmates
Why: Because she is an otherkin/Cat Ears.
Unhappy Kitty:
Tomino (トミノ):

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Dogs #Otherkin

#PennedPossibilities 1019 — Has your SC ever been bullied? By who, and for what reason?

Let's go with Kan-chan in My Girlfriend Almost Got Me Killed and #Konbinidol since we have side stories about that.

Who: schoolmates
Why: Because she is an otherkin/Cat Ears.
Unhappy Kitty:
Tomino (トミノ):

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Dogs #Otherkin

#PennedPossibilities 1019 — Has your SC ever been bullied? By who, and for what reason?

Let's go with Kan-chan in My Girlfriend Almost Got Me Killed and #Konbinidol since we have side stories about that.

Who: schoolmates
Why: Because she is an otherkin/Cat Ears.
Unhappy Kitty:
Tomino (トミノ):

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Dogs #Otherkin

#PennedPossibilities 1019 — Has your SC ever been bullied? By who, and for what reason?

Let's go with Kan-chan in My Girlfriend Almost Got Me Killed and #Konbinidol since we have side stories about that.

Who: schoolmates
Why: Because she is an otherkin/Cat Ears.
Unhappy Kitty:
Tomino (トミノ):

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Dogs #Otherkin

#PennedPossibilities 1019 — Has your SC ever been bullied? By who, and for what reason?

Let's go with Kan-chan in My Girlfriend Almost Got Me Killed and #Konbinidol since we have side stories about that.

Who: schoolmates
Why: Because she is an otherkin/Cat Ears.
Unhappy Kitty:
Tomino (トミノ):

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Dogs #Otherkin

#TimeTravelAuthors 05/19. How organized are your characters?

My protags form tight, chosen family organizations. One is a marginal leader who listens to the other members. Each person provides a different perspective. They seldom have detailed long-term plans.

#NMPrompts #NMTTA

#TimeTravelAuthors 05/19. How organized are your characters?

My protags form tight, chosen family organizations. One is a marginal leader who listens to the other members. Each person provides a different perspective. They seldom have detailed long-term plans.

#NMPrompts #NMTTA

#TimeTravelAuthors 05/19. How organized are your characters?

My protags form tight, chosen family organizations. One is a marginal leader who listens to the other members. Each person provides a different perspective. They seldom have detailed long-term plans.

#NMPrompts #NMTTA

#TimeTravelAuthors 05/19. How organized are your characters?

My protags form tight, chosen family organizations. One is a marginal leader who listens to the other members. Each person provides a different perspective. They seldom have detailed long-term plans.

#NMPrompts #NMTTA

#TimeTravelAuthors 05/19. How organized are your characters?

My protags form tight, chosen family organizations. One is a marginal leader who listens to the other members. Each person provides a different perspective. They seldom have detailed long-term plans.

#NMPrompts #NMTTA

#PennedPossibilities 1017 — Reveal a source of misery for your MC.

Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost keeps discovering limitations and side effects of time-travel. A major part of volume one is the act of discovery, so I will not discuss the details.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1017 — Reveal a source of misery for your MC.

Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost keeps discovering limitations and side effects of time-travel. A major part of volume one is the act of discovery, so I will not discuss the details.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#WordWeavers 17 How would your MC react to being handed a kitten?

It's part of #Airisu's contract, no cats allowed in the house. Sumika is sad about that.

So if it was Sumika who presented the kitten, there would be trouble!

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#WordWeavers 17 How would your MC react to being handed a kitten?

#Airisu: Ack!!!

Flies to the top of a bookshelf

"Get that filthy thing away from me."

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#WritersCoffeeClub 17 If you work exclusively digitally, could you work by hand? (Or vice-versa!)

No. Computers were a boon that let me work around my information processing structures, so I was coherent to "normies."

Is that coherent?

#NMWCC #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1016 — MC POV: Tell us about a time that you found a “skeleton in the closet,”

Ume: We went to a fortuneteller, and the "reading" revealed many "skeletons." I don't feel comfortable sharing them with others, though. Those are my family members' secrets, not mine.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1016 — MC POV: Tell us about a time that you found a “skeleton in the closet,”

Ume: We went to a fortuneteller, and the "reading" revealed many "skeletons." I don't feel comfortable sharing them with others, though. Those are my family members' secrets, not mine.

#NMPP #NMPrompts