Pynchokami
@pynchokami.bsky.social
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
📖 MEDDY & FRANK: 1ST Draft Complete! (100%)
#M&F #BookSky #WriterSky #SFF
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 🧵
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #BookSky 🧵
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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 🧵
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #BookSky 🧵
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
youtu.be/FED6AHlXXaA?...
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
youtu.be/FED6AHlXXaA?...
The Replacements - Skyway
YouTube video by Date Coma
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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
youtu.be/FED6AHlXXaA?...
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
youtu.be/FED6AHlXXaA?...
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 🧵
#BerkeleyTapes #WriteSky 🧵
November 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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 🧵
#BerkeleyTapes #WriteSky 🧵
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 🧵
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #BookSky 🧵
November 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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 🧵
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #BookSky 🧵
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 🧵
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriteSky 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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 🧵
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriteSky 🧵
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.
October 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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.
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 🧵
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #BookSky 🧵
October 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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 🧵
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #BookSky 🧵
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
#BerkeleyTapes #WriterSky
October 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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
#BerkeleyTapes #WriterSky
Before the march, a word from our correspondent on the anatomy of a sanctioned protest.
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriteSky
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriteSky
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Before the march, a word from our correspondent on the anatomy of a sanctioned protest.
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriteSky
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriteSky
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
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriterSky
October 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriterSky
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
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriterSky
October 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriterSky
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
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriterSky
October 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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
#BerkeleyTapes #SpecFic #WriterSky
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
📖 MEDDY & FRANK: 1ST Draft Complete! (100%)
#M&F #BookSky #WriterSky #SFF
October 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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
📖 MEDDY & FRANK: 1ST Draft Complete! (100%)
#M&F #BookSky #WriterSky #SFF
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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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
youtu.be/_50-gOeBilc?...
Scandal, Patty Smyth - Goodbye To You (Official Video)
YouTube video by ScandalVEVO
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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
youtu.be/_50-gOeBilc?...
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
youtu.be/_50-gOeBilc?...
#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?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NNh...
#M&F #WriterSky
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?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NNh...
#M&F #WriterSky
Lemon
YouTube video by Kenshi Yonezu - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
#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?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NNh...
#M&F #WriterSky
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?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NNh...
#M&F #WriterSky
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
youtu.be/cTBx-hHf4BE?...
Coven version
youtu.be/6asItlu-fYQ?...
(14/14)
The Original Caste version
youtu.be/cTBx-hHf4BE?...
Coven version
youtu.be/6asItlu-fYQ?...
(14/14)
One Tin Soldier - The Original Caste [Original]
YouTube video by Soheil Koushan
youtu.be
October 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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
youtu.be/cTBx-hHf4BE?...
Coven version
youtu.be/6asItlu-fYQ?...
(14/14)
The Original Caste version
youtu.be/cTBx-hHf4BE?...
Coven version
youtu.be/6asItlu-fYQ?...
(14/14)
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)
(13/14)
October 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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)
(13/14)
(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)
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
(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)
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)
(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)
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
(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)
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)
(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)
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
(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)
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)
(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)
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
(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)
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)
(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.
(8/14)
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.
(8/14)
October 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
(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.
(8/14)
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.
(8/14)
"They will come and take our treasure!"
Cried the leaders and the old,
"They will change the songs we sing here,
And the stories we have told."
"Bar the gates and guard the borders,
For our very soul's at stake!
For the crime of being different,
There's a price that they must pay."
(7/14)
Cried the leaders and the old,
"They will change the songs we sing here,
And the stories we have told."
"Bar the gates and guard the borders,
For our very soul's at stake!
For the crime of being different,
There's a price that they must pay."
(7/14)
October 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"They will come and take our treasure!"
Cried the leaders and the old,
"They will change the songs we sing here,
And the stories we have told."
"Bar the gates and guard the borders,
For our very soul's at stake!
For the crime of being different,
There's a price that they must pay."
(7/14)
Cried the leaders and the old,
"They will change the songs we sing here,
And the stories we have told."
"Bar the gates and guard the borders,
For our very soul's at stake!
For the crime of being different,
There's a price that they must pay."
(7/14)
(New 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.
(6/14)
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.
(6/14)
October 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
(New 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.
(6/14)
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.
(6/14)
(Verses 1 & 2)
Listen, children, to a story,
Whispered on the morning wind,
'Bout the quiet valley people,
Living safe among their kin.
They had cozy, lighted windows,
They had customs carved in stone,
And a fear of the dark mountain,
And the foreign seeds it's sown.
(5/14)
Listen, children, to a story,
Whispered on the morning wind,
'Bout the quiet valley people,
Living safe among their kin.
They had cozy, lighted windows,
They had customs carved in stone,
And a fear of the dark mountain,
And the foreign seeds it's sown.
(5/14)
October 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
(Verses 1 & 2)
Listen, children, to a story,
Whispered on the morning wind,
'Bout the quiet valley people,
Living safe among their kin.
They had cozy, lighted windows,
They had customs carved in stone,
And a fear of the dark mountain,
And the foreign seeds it's sown.
(5/14)
Listen, children, to a story,
Whispered on the morning wind,
'Bout the quiet valley people,
Living safe among their kin.
They had cozy, lighted windows,
They had customs carved in stone,
And a fear of the dark mountain,
And the foreign seeds it's sown.
(5/14)