Riddling

Oct. 24th, 2025 09:34 pm
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How does a new shirt lose its teeth?
Where did the blown whistle go?
When will your mother catch a cold?
And why is her birthday affected so?
-K Royka, 10/24/2025

Wakeup

Oct. 23rd, 2025 03:40 am
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Three AM wakeup
My head simply pounds
Can't skip the office
But wince at each sound
Swallow some medicine,
Rest in a chair
Hope that by 6 AM
Headache's not there.
-K Royka, 10/23/2025

Cursed

Oct. 22nd, 2025 09:12 pm
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150 years ago, when Englishmen ate mummies
And whitewashed Roman monuments they'd stolen for their fame
I wonder if those pharoahs' curses weren't upset tummies
It's not like any looters showed a fraction of a brain!
-K Royka, 10/22/2025

Crash

Oct. 21st, 2025 04:28 pm
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Doesn't matter what you have dreamed, wished, or prayed for
Whole new world is here and it's what you were made for
No one ever wants to be part of the fall
But welcome to the rush and watch out for it all!
-K Royka, 10/21/2025

Costumes

Oct. 20th, 2025 08:51 pm
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Turn a shirt into a face,
Teeth and eyes and mouth and all.
Make some wolf ears, add some lace
For a princess' lupine ball.
Me? I have the hardest part --
Pretend I'm awake to start.
-K Royka, 10/20/2025

AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

Orbit

Oct. 19th, 2025 09:28 pm
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Stitches made
Clay fired
Ripped seams mended
Though I'm tired,
And the work
Comes round again
At least this
Is done and clean.
-K Royka, 10/19/2025

Dear Yuletide author, happy Yuletide!

Oct. 19th, 2025 07:43 pm
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It's been two years since I signed up for Yuletide, but I'm looking forward to it this year!

Thank you so much for writing for me, and I hope you also have a fantastic Yuletide exchange, whatever that looks like for you. I've included both what I particularly like about each canon and a couple of prompt ideas, but I'm up for anything that doesn't hit my DNWs and includes the characters.

General notes, things I love, my do not wants )
All Of Us Murderers - K.J. Charles )
Greta Helsing Series - Vivian Shaw )
England Series - K. J. Charles )
The Odyssey - Homer )

Onward

Oct. 17th, 2025 09:03 pm
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Another week forward
Another day finished
Even if all I have accomplished
Seems, as yet, so small.
-K Royka, 10/17/2025

Eyes

Oct. 16th, 2025 07:59 pm
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Tomorrow I will see
Whether I can see
Better.
-K Royka, 10/16/2025

Benediction

Oct. 16th, 2025 06:54 am
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If I have a thousand words may each word reach you
Hold you or teach you
If need be, preach too
If I gave a thousand sticks you could make fire
A raft or higher
Whate'er'ed inspire
If I threw a thousand ropes you'd have a strong net
Or rope for miles yet
Or one thick garment
But I wrote two hundred poems if you want to see
I shared a part of me
Use them as you may need
-K Royka, 10/16/2025

Muddled

Oct. 15th, 2025 09:42 pm
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Lost my sense of days again
Is this week new or at its end?
-K Royka, 10/15/2025

Anticipated

Oct. 14th, 2025 08:06 pm
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Busy tomorrow
Either both kids go to school
Or spouse screaming pain.
-K Royka, 10/14/2025

Cynical

Oct. 13th, 2025 04:43 pm
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History is whitewashed
It's more than shades of gray
But people who ate mummies
Couldn't bear to think that way
History was vibrant
But marble's more refined
According to those rich thieves who
Can't keep an open mind.
Not one soul is perfect
But if you look ahead
Just become more famous --
You'll be saintly when you're dead.
-K Royka, 10/13/2025

Difference

Oct. 12th, 2025 02:56 am
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May each step
You take
Into this world
Carry the weight
Of your ability.
May you see clearly
That each task
You take
Is one of portent
And significance,
Shaping the world around you.
When you feel
That your steps
And your world
Are small,
And the expectations
Hunching
You
Over
With
Guilt
Are great
...
Does the pebble
In the pond
See
What happens to the still surface?
Hold to your heart.
Let the mighty
Write their histories of names.
We craft a different legacy.
-K Royka, 10/12/2025

Summons

Oct. 11th, 2025 08:23 pm
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I call on strength
That I may ever carry through
I call on patience
That I may bear these burdens too
I call on hope
That I may still reach for tomorrow
And on love
That I hold on through fear and sorrow
-K Royka, 10/11/2025

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