Also on mastodon https://gamepad.club/@jikial Just a writer. Might post about games. PFP is drawn by me. Profile banner pic taken by me at Jigokudani, Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, Japan. Writes all sorts, reads all sorts.https://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3mqovqi5mh22sBeginning in morning daze I take to the brain-foggy maze Okay In the seat winding down 2:40 am clown Putting on makeup Enough foundation to drown 2:40 wake up And go into town Having a pleasant day Everything always okay Living a silent way Forgive me my utterance I must have lost my sense. #poetry15 Jul 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqovqi5mh22shttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3mlcinu3bn224It's hard to write. There isn't much History Left. #poem08 May 2026 00:41 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcinu3bn224https://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3miw3figurk27These days, man, I swear.07 Apr 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3miw3figurk27https://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3mbsnak37sk2bIt's easy to write soul mates. Just tear two peices of yourself apart, then write them finding each other again.07 Jan 2026 04:33 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbsnak37sk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3mbgy2wt5hk2jI will keep going I will move forward I will improve And I will succeed Despite: -The world -The self -The fear -The failure I am strong enough Good enough Well enough To keep on. I have not quit Even though I stumble. I am I continue to be I will be What I set out to be. #resolution #y2k2602 Jan 2026 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbgy2wt5hk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3m6wfj3stuc2uYears reflecting years Until twisted and well warped. A melting funhouse. #haikufeels #reflect01 Dec 2025 12:10 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6wfj3stuc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3m6kpwmahqk23Sweet, soft, in sing-song, The harried man finds his peace. At last, at last, hush. #Haikufeels #hush26 Nov 2025 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6kpwmahqk23https://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3m6kpeio7bk23Caught in the fire. Screaming, suffocating, burnt, Clamouring from the urn. #haikuhorrorprompt #urn26 Nov 2025 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6kpeio7bk23https://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3m6kotshsrc2lGiving it time, no solution? Go ahead and start a grassroots revolution. Pull up the stakes and hail the mighty warriors; "we are all failing but presume to be victorious." Okay. Well, not quite like that. Upon further #reflection I'd settle for a peaceful intercession. #vss36526 Nov 2025 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6kotshsrc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3m6akchydq22vI like writing horror but it is increasingly hard to write anything convincing these days, what with the climate closing in and the rise of hatred and stupidity. At this point the eldritch whispering is a lullaby. The slasher a mercy. The ghosts? Waiting, not wailing, for us to join them.22 Nov 2025 19:37 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6akchydq22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3m5mejl6z5s2ySevered limb swinging, Swinging in the midday sun. Has no smell about it As the colder season has begun. Where did the body go, If it left this fell piece behind? And why does it wave to me, As if it's me it's hoping to find? #poetry #bitsandpieces14 Nov 2025 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5mejl6z5s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3m5abkyrunc2fSun, Though I turn my face toward you, a flower I am not. What do you see? Down here I can work without cease, toiling, to see you. And yet for you all I am is flutter upon the surface of the Earth, destined to flee the moment you blink. No way to join you in our lonely sky. #poetry #lonesome09 Nov 2025 23:36 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5abkyrunc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3m4luo3mwic2gWho the fuck is Dave Ramsey and why won't he shut the fuck up? Gods I hate the media for pushing his shillbilly nonsense. #money #news01 Nov 2025 20:52 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4luo3mwic2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3m3su3ualxk2bDead end after end, As the road winds further 'round The lost driver's neck. #haikuhorrorprompt #haiku #senryu22 Oct 2025 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3su3ualxk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3m3kuu7pgsk2rI think a re-examination of why the protests led my MLK jr. and the efforts of Malcolm X as well as certain other activist organisations all worked together during the Civil Rights "Era" is an order. I think there is a confusion behind how civil disobedience works and what peaceful protests do.19 Oct 2025 17:57 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3kuu7pgsk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3m2k7eeoll222Nothing will ever quite capture that moment again. Nothing will ever quite make the heart flutter the same way. But that is the beauty of it; how temporary it is. How unique. Even other eyes won't fill their hearts the same way.06 Oct 2025 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2k7eeoll222https://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3m26yxpd6m22v3 am, #blur on the radio and I'm coming down from where I've been for a while now. Just for a while now. Bloodshot eyes make the world a rosy pink and the nostalgia hits like the backdraft of a car on a speedway. Drifting nowhere. But closing in. And I feel pins and needles. #vss36502 Oct 2025 07:14 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m26yxpd6m22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3m23evutvdk2w"Get in here," Harry grumbled, waving the quivering person inside. It was the neighborly thing to do and Zane was technically the source of at least three wine bottles in Harry and Xander's cabinet. Harry offered Zane a wine glass in the dark. Zane preferred to be scared and sober. #spook [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Sep 2025 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m23evutvdk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3lzwsun2qgc2iZane started as Harry's door opened, the thunder crashed, and power went out on the whole street simultaneously. Even Harry squeaked a scream. Both took a moment to catch their breath before Harry half-hissed an obvious question. Zane had come over because they were scared of the storm. #spook [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2025 01:03 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzwsun2qgc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3lzuerj3ugk2vA tipple, only with wine, was just what Harry needed with the storm overhead. The clap of thumder and knock of wood startled the man, however, and caused his wineglass to slosh. A shame. Brow furrowed, he set his glass down and marched to the door without questioning the oddity of the time. #spook [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Sep 2025 01:46 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzuerj3ugk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3lzrpkbnvb22bThe sky split open as thunder peeled through the atmosphere. But the house remained unchanged, of course, but for the man who sat within. He was clutched to a bottle of wine, his heart pounding for the storm as his mind urged for drink. That would be the ticket, he thought, and set about it. #spook27 Sep 2025 00:21 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzrpkbnvb22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3lzjwep2tls2vIf the Rapture were to happen I would never know, for none I walk among are innocent.23 Sep 2025 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzjwep2tls2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3lzec6tddoc2vHave a Sloopernewsaphone? Want to trade it for a skagglemine? Act now! Four dollar fivedays at Bodislom will boc your poc today! Haverblidditopoofersham, eggs galumpy! Skeeg!21 Sep 2025 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzec6tddoc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3lyzzobhd622vStanding here at the edge of the universe. What life there is all slowly draining out. Going cold in the entropy. But the souls that fuel the fire Number fewer than before And there is no replacement For those lost And freely given. We stand alone.17 Sep 2025 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyzzobhd622vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3lyjb2oaqzk2vIt's okay though, because in the end this is what he grovelled for, what he advocated, and what he wished upon others. Anyway, pumpkin spice season.10 Sep 2025 22:15 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyjb2oaqzk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3lyixdegqk22aI hope he dies.10 Sep 2025 19:21 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyixdegqk22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3lxa4eyexw22tBalmy morning dew, The breeze plays from the cold north. Even squirrels pause. #dailyhaikuprompt (refreshing) #senryu25 Aug 2025 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxa4eyexw22thttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3lwo7daneuk2hWeathered under stars Twinkling over turning leaves. Our last years of autumn. #dailyhaikuprompt (chill) #haiku18 Aug 2025 10:37 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwo7daneuk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3lwae4zf4uc23Generations flow Toward our inevitable. Mogami river. #haiku #senryu #nichijou12 Aug 2025 22:25 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwae4zf4uc23https://bsky.app/profile/jikial.bsky.social/post/3lvxpfrtfuc2oThey claim to be my children. They wear the faces of the people in the photographs I don't remember hanging on my wall. They plead their love for me, but I have never had a child. Even my reflection lies; saggy and worn? No, a trick. I'll wake up from this, soon. I hope. #horrorprompt degradation09 Aug 2025 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:fbbyccjfccw7f2fvfgci2dzk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvxpfrtfuc2o