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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · 3h

If I had a cat I would dance around my apartment with him singing the song Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon to him

Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · 3h

I have no reach so there’s no real point in this but I put up my old novellas in a Halloween sale on here and they’re both good and incredibly cheap please buy them #itchio #halloweensale itch.io/s/165796/nov...

Novella Halloween Sale 2025 by Kai Johansen

A bundle by Kai Johansen, $5.98 for Lowlanders Vol. 1, The Lilac Fields

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · 2d

I want more followers on here but I do not like most of you

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · 2d

Less than 2 months left of unemployment and I have no hope of getting a job and all I can do is write and I’m an alcoholic

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · 4d

My life is in chaos I’m asleep during almost every operative hour of my life but I have been writing a lot and drinking beer a lot also so things are moving well for me by that rubric

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · 9d

[Halloween Warren Zevon]
I met a girl at the Monster Mash
She asked me if I’d spook her
She took me back to her haunted house
I don’t wanna talk about it!

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · 9d

Me: Tired of this individualist culture where we think refusing to help others will give us more space to handle ourselves. We all need each other to figure out how we’ll make it through this

Woman on a dating app who I don’t really like: what do you do for fun 😉

Me: Groceries

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · 19d

Friend: yeah they’re saying it’s gonna be inclement weather patterns all week long

Guy who has been listening to Warren Zevon’s self titled album all week: Who said it, the mystics or the statistics?

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · 28d

It’s the years of bread because I’m about getting that money! Can you please send me 25 dollars for binge drinking?

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Sep 27

Nurse Jackie showed up on my YouTube shorts now that was a show, some exec off his four martini lunch, “What if a middle aged woman did pills at her job?” You’re describing every woman I’ve been fired by in my life

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Sep 27

[Goggins character in a McBride show] I’ll have you know muthafucker I spent 6 months living with the bonobos and they thought I was ice cold, even the lady ones kept trying to grab my dick

[Danny McBride Character] I bet you my damn left nut them monkeys was all dudes!

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Sep 17

Whenever they describe someone as a leech in an old book expecting you to side against the character but that’s everything I’m about, my entire life has been about figuring out elaborate ways to give as little as possible and take more than I’ve earned, nothing wrong with that

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Nora @casezhongguo.bsky.social · Aug 4

Communism is good and I want it

Nathan 2️⃣ Legit @nathanlegit.bsky.social · Aug 3

We gotta drop the "communism is good, actually" thing. Nobody believes you want that, and it's just annoying at this point

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · Aug 2

the problem with the US democratic party is that it is not communist

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Aug 3

Anyways if you wanna read it like this and I’ll send you the absolute mess first draft it’s in

Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Aug 2

Way too late for anyone to be around but I finally finished my novel and it feels insane but I feel so good about it even though it’s a mess editing wise

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Aug 3

Anyways if you wanna read it like this and I’ll send you the absolute mess first draft it’s in

Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Aug 2

Way too late for anyone to be around but I finally finished my novel and it feels insane but I feel so good about it even though it’s a mess editing wise

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thank you! I’ll send you a link to it on Twitter since it’s on another document now

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Aug 2

Way too late for anyone to be around but I finally finished my novel and it feels insane but I feel so good about it even though it’s a mess editing wise

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Aug 1

The space race is ultimately just a representation of how much further ahead the ussr technologically than any comparable capitalist nation and it’s weakening/loss just made those fields atrophy

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Aug 1

Writing is really easy if you literally sacrifice everything for it: career, friendship, companionship, any chance at bettering your life. Throw it all away, then the pages just fly

Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Aug 1

Can’t believe I’ve written 315 pages of absolute bullshit in three months there really is something wrong with my brain

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Jul 31

Sorry I haven’t been on here I’ve been miring in unemployed misery but I’m getting very close to being done with my novel so one good thing going

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Jul 21

I’m running on 3 hours of sleep, I’m clearly experiencing a life event induced manic episode and I see the ending of my novel now perfectly. I’m never going to die

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Jul 20

Float on playing in the bar, you mind if a white boy speaks a little Cascadian?

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Jul 20

That’s really sweet of you to say, I appreciate it dec

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Kai @tasnyx.bsky.social · Jul 19

Hey I lost my job today and I’m gonna be fucked for a bit if you’re able to I’d appreciate any purchases of my book from earlier this year thanks tasnyx.itch.io/lowlanders-v... #booksky #fantasybooksky

Lowlanders Vol. 1 by Kai Johansen

The gnarled root, the murky swamp underfoot, the soot on the autumn air, it's coming everyday, the Lowlands gets us all

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