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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE

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she/her, 28, transgender poet -- STILL MY FATHER'S SON (2025) and THE MOST HOLY DAY OF THE TRANSSEXUAL CALENDAR (2025) Seattle WA -- KILLBOY at killboy-novel.com

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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know that blowing up my social media presence every few months and frequently vanishing off the internet to return in manic frenzy is not the most sustainable way to build an audience, but alas, if I were anything else I'd not be myself. KILLBOY IS COMPLETE!!!! killboy-novel.com
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KILLBOY
A WEBNOVEL BY NORA HIKARI
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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nora Hikari's science fiction mecha webnovel event Killboy is now available in full at the link below, and the full novel governs. do yourself a favor and give it a read. a brief review: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...
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Killboy / an duilleag gheal
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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 27/07/2026
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Two Poems by Nora Hikari
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Summer of my youthfire, tender liking of my token sun, there is always a close.” —Nora Hikari’s poem “Paper Birch Lullaby,” featured in @alocasiamag.bsky.social & our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: alocasia.org/2023/03/20/n...
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Nora Hikari :: “Exposition on Pears, as a Transmisogynist” and “Paper Birch Lullaby” – ALOCASIA
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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
“Every day God asks, Cruelty again?” — Nora Hikari . . . This poem appeared in Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets, 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
just finished act I and it governs severely. you should all get in on this ASAP.
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ACT 1 OF KILLBOY IS LIVE killboy-novel.com
front page of killboy
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ACT 1 OF KILLBOY IS LIVE killboy-novel.com
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
KILLBOY launch in 1 hour and 20 minutes. killboy-novel.com
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KILLBOY
A webnovel by Nora Hikari - Scheduled Launch JULY 24 2026 / UCF 250
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
the reader will be subjected to increasingly dense blocks of diegetic political theory until morale improves
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never make the mistake of thinking I'm making a creative decision that's shooting myself in the foot on accident. I know exactly where my foot is and where the barrel of this gun is and I'm pulling the trigger over and over as an intentional creative decision.
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THE READER WILL BE SUBJECTED TO WHITE PAPERS ON ENERGY POLICY UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES. YOU WANT A LOREDUMP? YOU GET A LOREDUMP. IN THE SAME MEDIUM IT HAPPENS IN THE REAL WORLD.
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
KILLBOY LAUNCHING JULY 24th 2026 UPDATES WEEKLY A SCIENCE FICTION MECHA WEBNOVEL EVENT BY NORA HIKARI <<GENDER IS WAR>> <<GRIEF IS FUEL>> <<HISTORY IS COST>> <<WHAT WILL YOU BURN?>> <<WHAT WILL YOU BURN FOR?>> killboy-novel.com
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tanze bravopueblo / w.s. healed @tattletale.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
underside, my dark cape ttrpg, is now available in playtest form. if you wanna support its development or just can't wait to get your hands on it, you can get it here: thehorizonmachine.itch.io/underside-beta
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UNDERSIDE Playtest Edition by the HORIZON MACHINE
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
KILLBOY LAUNCHING JULY 24th 2026 UPDATES WEEKLY A SCIENCE FICTION MECHA WEBNOVEL EVENT BY NORA HIKARI <<GENDER IS WAR>> <<GRIEF IS FUEL>> <<HISTORY IS COST>> <<WHAT WILL YOU BURN?>> <<WHAT WILL YOU BURN FOR?>> killboy-novel.com
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
discord message containing the finished draft of KILLBOY followed by the messages "it's DONE AAAAAAAAAA"
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I think that understanding the Base is basically essential to understanding why the fuck literally anything happens and if you locate your analysis in superstructural critiques exclusively or worse, individualist idealisms, your analysis will fall the fuck apart.
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"Who the fuck is this bitch and where does she get off talking like this" is a justifiable criticism of my posts and the answer is that I'm a communist nobody, like many of the masses of the world, and I dream of a better world than this one, and those dreams taunt me day in and day out.
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I don't believe in "content creation" and I think that it's more of a plague upon humanity's relationship with art than "AI image generation" which is, really, just an advancement of the already extant technology of making utterly hollow middling slop for the sole purpose of engagement and income
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I talk about KILLBOY like it's a manual for ML dialectics but only because I have OCD. it's actually a horribly intimate tragedy about what it means to be a member of the impcore who understands that she is complicit and evil and decides that the only redemption is to k*ll everyone (correct)
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
with KILLBOY I tried to stick the landing on something that I think a lot of left-liberal texts (or even nominally "anti-imperial" novels) fail at -- which is critique the empire, and then in the same breath, offer a real image of revolutionary success and politics, while also contending with the inevitable, real costs of actually existing socialism, rather than making gestures at an idealist, liberal portrayal of a "pure" revolution without cost. HISTORY IS COST.

I also tried very hard to, so much was correct for the structure and format, forefront a real depiction of democratic centralism, rather than, again, making gestures towards a liberal understanding of "spontaneous horizontalist revolution." The mass line is also implicitly discussed by the structure, and the dialectical relationship between the vanguard and the People is portrayed in, I hope, respectful and nuanced complexity while retaining it's unabashed Marxist-Leninist politic and refusing to compromise on the class character of the revolution and its necessity.There's also an explicit discussion about the primacy of the base and how ideology flows downstream from the mode of production, which is also articulated in another section via a revolutionary discussing the political consciousness of the imperial core (lack thereof) being a consequence of the enlistment and complicity of the labor aristocracy rather than due to "brainwashing," and the necessity of destabilizing the base to heighten contradictions in the Core rather than ideological rhetorical contestation. I swear this book is not as dry as it sounds. There are giant robots and they brutally murder each other. There are exclusively lesbian sex scenes. The mechs have literal teeth.

also the primary sort of antagonist is named White Meniss. lol
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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word count for KILLBOY, reads 35,215 words
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
KILLBOY. SOON.
Newspaper, MUNDAN EXEMPLAR, from Nora Hikari's *KILLBOY*Physics journal, from Nora Hikari's *KILLBOY*
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I trust the reader implicitly. "Here's a code snippet written in nearly-compilable Ada. Figure it out. I love you."
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
KILLBOY
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
22k words so far
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Girl this novel writing shit is hard
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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 06/03/2025
issue 5: DAWN SHATTERS THROUGH MY SPLINTERED GUTS AND THROWS SPARKLING LIGHT ACROSS THE WALLPAPER; OR, ON TRAUMA AND ITS CONSEQUENCES by Nora Hikari manyworlds.place/issue-5/nora...
II. Dialogue with a Lover (an Intra-System Discourse)

<The past cannot save you. It holds an infinite amount of wisdom to be mined, but that wisdom can only be put to use in the present, as a way of directing the course of the future. You cannot go back. The inevitable march forward of time is a trauma that every single human in history has had to contend with and either overcome or succumb to. Will you march into the future, stalwart, unyielding, into that roiling unknown? Will you take those brave steps into the void of absolute possibility? Will you free yourself from the chains of your sentimentality? Or will you perish like a fucking dog?>

It is so hard, and I am so tired.

<Say that you are tired. Say that you need to pause. Pause but do not stop. Rest but do not waver. Stumble but do not falter. It is by love that I hold you to a higher standard. It is by love that I expect more from you. By love I am disappointed when you fall short. By love I am frustrated when you are petty. By love I ask you for your kindness when you are cruel, for your wisdom when you are slipshod, your patience in your haste, your bravery in your fear, your strength when you stumble, your love when you are hateful, your anger when you are wronged.>
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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 25/11/2025
Like both of these I only know about because of an email, and they look incredibly cool.
Wolf devouring a wolf devouring a wolf by Cassandra WhitakerThe Most Holy Day of the Transsexual Calendar by Nora Hikari
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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"EVERY DAY MORE OF THE PEOPLE I LOVE TELL ME THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO KEEP STAYING ALIVE. I TELL THEM THAT IT IS POSSIBLE." —Nora Hikari beestungmag.com/issue18/two-...
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Nora Hikari - KILLBOY IS LIVE @norahikari.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I re-emerge, an hour before TDOV concludes on the East Coast. Hello again, internet!
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