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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️

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Kara Moon (she/her/they/them) The R18+ pseudonym of @clairehiria.com Māori lesbian author, playwright and poet from Aotearoa NZ Host of #pretendpanel www.karamoonauthor.com

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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 3h
Welcome to the October #pretendpanel calendar. As the year wears on, let's get deep into the reasons why it's worth it to keep going in this sometimes rewarding, sometimes punishing, and almost always quixotic endeavour we call writing. #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
#pretendpanel
a daily prompt tag hosted by @karamoonauthor.com
OCTOBER - THE REASONS WHY
2nd: Why do you write?
3rd: Who do you write for?
9th: What was your origin story/the spark that ignited your writing?
10th: Who inspires you (specific to your writing)?
16th: Why are you writing/did you write your current WIP/recent release?
17th: What do you want readers to take from this work? 
23rd: How does it feel when you are in the thick of the process?
24th: What comes next after current WIP/recent release? Why that?
30th: What’s the thing you have to write while on this planet? 
31st: Freebie Saturday - post anything!
Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts
New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 3h
🙂‍↕️ as it should
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 3h
The classic 😂
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 4h
Come on bsky, load the pic 💀
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 4h
... why tf did my brain just read clarinet as clar-i-nay?! I was a music student for christs sake 💀 But seriously playing a clarinet with a horse mask on sounds mad skillful
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Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 5h
Man cannot just be. He must also do. But even though 15-year-old Alexander's family has accepted him as a son, they won't let him live the flashy gallant's life he wants. So what can he do but start shit at parties, fight a blackmailer, and duel for a lady's honor?🤷‍♂️ #DVPit #YA / #A #LGBT #TV #HF
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 5h
😭 ouch 😅
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 5h
They had one but he's illiterate 💀
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 5h
Bloody cabin boy 🥲
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 5h
💯☝️
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 5h
It bloody was and then her wannabe cabin boy came stumbling in and wrecked it 💀
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 6h
Geni would meanwhile write an alt timeline fic where her and Kallista got to meet like a decade earlier instead of having to wait (lol I've partially written an alt timeline story myself too, but unlike me, she'd give her version a happy ending 🥲)
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 6h
#AwesomeCharacters Kallista might rewrite the tile-playing scene from their day off together to end how she wanted it to 😏 instead of getting interrupted just as she dropped some killer innuendo. "Take the queen"?! Come on, when is she ever going to get the chance to use that line again? 1/2
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 7h
Eyy 👉
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Jack Nicholson's Evil Grin
ALT: Jack Nicholson's Evil Grin
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Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 16h
1. Be born tranſexual Anno 1645 2. Don 1000 yards of ribbon 3. ??? 4. Manhood Join the worst 15-year-old fopling imaginable as he duels, bites, and swashbuckles across Restoration England until he figures step 3 out. #DVPit #YA / #A #LGBT #TV #HF
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 18h
Thank you for the idea 😁
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 18h
#Septopolis As per a request you made earlier Khonri. Thank you for another amazing month of prompts 💜 It's been great playing along with y'all!
image made with free assets in Canva

A pink castle locks out over a misty blue ocean. Pink flowered rocks in the foreground, lower right corner. Three inset images: people gambling, tourists walking down a quaint street with old European style buildings and paving, and delicious pastries.

The text reads: BELAQUA ... would that you were here!
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 19h
So true! I have leaned even harder into unlikable in the past with certain characters. With this one though, he was posing the challenge to me to get the kid readers deeper into the character's POV. But that being said, I'll be watchful of not losing too much of what makes her her.
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 22h
#WIPSnips "guard" from that time when A Prayer for the Pirate Queen changes genre into board game rivalry romance 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ currently in third draft revisions
Kallista clicked a tile down before Geni expected it. She had to hold the gasp back when Kallista's hand came away. The queen—that resourceful, stubborn piece which had stayed on the board this whole time despite her aggressive use of it all game—swept out, free of her honour guard, to make a killing blow to not just one or two of Geni's tiles, but three.

It didn't quite even the playing field, but it was just audacious and unconventional enough that Geni hadn't factored it into her analysis at all.

"What on Ao are you doing?"

"Sometimes a queen has to make a sacrifice play. When there's no other choice."
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 30/09/2026
This is not the first boring long afternoon at work where I've been found staring at a glorius WIP pic saved on my phone from [REDACTED] only to get a message with the next level of WIP that just blows the last one out of the water. God damn, y'all. Buckle tf up.
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 30/09/2026
Absolutely, and doctoring too
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 30/09/2026
#AwesomeCharacters Welcome back Charlie 🫂 Kallista and Geni are both very patient. They are competent adults 😅 Of course, one must be patient, if one is going to be a stereotypical "useless sapphic" 🥺
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 30/09/2026
LOL I hope she really questions her life choices
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 30/09/2026
Omg thank you I was so worried
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 30/09/2026
Tangentially, my favourite time with this was the best ever Middle English professor, had the Chaucerian accent down and everything, he kept giving me my papers back saying "A+ but please cite more sources". Um if my original thoughts are so brilliant why should I 😈
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 30/09/2026
Omg brilliant 🤣
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 30/09/2026
I love it when you do your own take on the assignment and the prof is so impressed you get an A+ anyway
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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo 😈🧄 @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For Ashrah, it's the beach. When she steps into shallow water and sits there, the wind caressing her face and playing with her hair, small waves dancing around her—no other place brings her as much peace and that kind of quiet joy that makes her soul hum with delight. #SayaAshrah
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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#GodsOfAtalantis Mireia's favorite place is any beach, but especially her favorite cove in her hometown of Habuuket. It's where she feels free & can forget about the world. For Kena, it's his garden. Caring for the plants gives him purpose, and he finds the process peaceful & meditative.
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
Because they don't have a lot of options as outlaws, Kallista and Geni like to retreat to Kallista's cabin (the biggest one, as pirate captain of the Paxos) and relish in some alone time 💜 It's like their own private world in there, where the worries outside can't touch them
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Khonri 🫜 @khonri.com · 29/09/2026
Mana and Mori have their favorite place being the third floor balcony outside their bedroom. It's covered just enough by an awning so they can enjoy spring and fall rains both. It's a cozy spot perfect for being able to curl up with a comforter and enjoy coffee watching the weather together. ☕✨
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
Oh gross 😔 sorry to hear
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
I've worked with Gillian St Kevern on my vampire novella most recently, she was great
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AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers @amaralynn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧙TIS TIME 🎃 Join us for #LGBTQWriteAThon October 1-31! Answer each day or just the days you like. Have fun & make friends while working on your WIP! Prompts repost daily to @queerwriters.bsky.social (follow & turn on notifications for reminders!)! @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writesky
#LGBTQWRITEATHON
Use the tag and follow the feed on Bluesky! Tag @lgbtqwriteathon in photos on Instagram!

1. Introduce yourself & goal
2. Introduce your WIP moodboard
3. Check in day
4. Line share — foreboding
5. Goals day
6. Bugbears/fears
7. Does your MC wear a mask?
8. Favorite outfit
9. Skeletons in the closet
10. Check in day
11. Line share — mysterious
12. Goals day
13. Share a treat
14. Ghouls/anxieties
15. Never has your MC ever...
16. Thing MC would protect with their life
17. Check in day
18. Line share — creepy
19. Goals day
20. Genre swap!
21. Monsters/antags
22. Tingler your title
23. MC's most embarrassing memory
24. Check in day
25. Line share — terror
26. Goals day
27. Favorite spooky pastime?
28. Favorite fantasy creature
29. Most haunting thing you've written/read?
30. Brain worms — writing songs
31. Was your month a treat or tricky?

Hosts:
Bluesky: @amaralynn, @rebeccafrostwrites.com
Instagram: @lgbtqwriteathon, @amaralynn, @krakengoddess

[Image description: fall decor including Jack o lanterns and bats on a soft orange background]
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
I hope things get easier soon!
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
And yeah they actually love GC which is why they name a pastry rather than something nasty. It's that kinda rivalry (at least to the Belaquans), where you are actually bros
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
Sorry haha I realised it would be better as a quote post
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
#Septopolis I accept your GC rivalry @khonri.com And for sister city I choose you, @wizzardsupreme.bsky.social 's West Harewood, simply because I wanna see how whack it would be to watch humans vs. animals sports, but I reckon Belaqua would cheer on such an outsider team when watching their games
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
Belaqua returns GC's rivalry with a dozen chants full of innuendo and naming a sweet sauce filled pastry made on game days after the team to signify how all GC's players are soft 🍴🧁😋
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
Curate this #Septopolis
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Angry Flork Italian Meme
ALT: Angry Flork Italian Meme
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
I've been using it since my teens when I was a music student, using it with other teens more experienced with it. Which is kinda ideal conditions to learn in. Hopefully there are some nice video or text tutorials. All I know is, any time I've had a question, there's a wealth of open-source info
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
Oh shit you guys, have you ever summoned the curb your enthusiasm theme on yourself as hard as I did? (Pictured: a snip from my blog post in July, foreshadowing my post this month)
(That does leave me wondering though… am I due for another humbling some time soon? Is it Dunning-Kruger effect all the way down? Only time will tell.)
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
Some thoughts from my mainstream persona (stuff I've been vagueposting about here and there over the last month)
clairehiria.com
Why did this knock me so hard?
Critique is a vital part of the writing process, especially for any writing which is going to meet an audience one day. I have gotten used to receiving critique over the years, learning to separate…
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
It's complicated 😅
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
#WIPSnips "well" from The First Mate and the Dryad's Daughter 🦜 💚 🌴 currently first drafting
Iona's eyes flicked over Daphne's shoulder. Following her gaze, she saw it was those twins again, minding their own business. She turned back to Iona at the first mate's annoyed tongue click. "Don't look," she hissed, much too late, her shoulder hunched as if trying to hide behind Daphne.

"Would they give me up to the mages, do you think?"

Iona didn't meet her eyes. "I don't know them as well as I thought I did, let's just leave it at that."
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/09/2026
🥹
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estroJenna Seven @jenna7.tgirl.gay · 29/09/2026
1up
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 28/09/2026
Post to give writers heart palpitations 😬
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 28/09/2026
Spoilers.... 😂 nah of course you know they do 💜
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 28/09/2026
I love this about him 🫶
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