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I'm not sure what the rules are but if it's «horror»...

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Just a cheap sake.

The list of ingredients

is three shaku long.

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Ah, for rodents I toss out the rules. Sounds like a sake with bite🖤

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Since it's Lunar New Year today, sake should be replaced with toso which is essentially a «New Year sake»; as an added bonus, it's officially a kigo.

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Oh that’s very cool! Thanks for the info. Is there a specific set of kigo used in haiku, or does any word with a seasonal connotation work?

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I'm not sure but I've heard there was a list of 16 thousand words, so it should include pretty much anything imaginable.

There also are «500 essential» – https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/files/original/d22bc15ada2b14fa309f849c3fddab5f.pdf – many of which refer to things we Europeans wouldn't even recognize. (Toso is one of these 500, that's why I called it 'official'.)

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Thank you for the link! I’m definitely going to check this out!

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This one makes you small;

Does the other make me tall?

What will mama's do?

(apologies to Jefferson Airplane) 😂

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😂You’re going to have me singing the song all day now.

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origins in earth

alchemy makes it into

sacred medicine

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Omg I love the alchemy reference! So arcane and mysterious 🖤

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😀

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Bubbling cauldron’s brew

Lurking power, dark and deep

Glowing elixir

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This image is so good! I can just see the old witch bending over it with her face lit by the brew. I love it 🖤

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Feb 10, 2024
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Cherry chocolate chitin builder for covering your most beautiful enemies in hideous scales?

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Oh absolutely, and I’ll throw a cherry blossom age reversing potion on the house.

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