Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)

Rich, fascinating stories, board game designs, and random thoughts, graciously provided by David Dawkins.
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2026-07-26 21:58:23 UTC

How influential is religion in your world? How influential would it like to be?
#WorldBuilding #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #dnd #ttrpg #GameDev #religion
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2026-07-20 23:46:26 UTC

Do you employ dramatic irony in your work?
#writing #AmWriting #cycling #Bike #irony #WritingCommunity.
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2026-07-18 02:27:38 UTC

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@nprofile…awd8 I always make sure my villains are never cool or charismatic.

2026-07-16 22:38:12 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers
Our next featured creator is a baker. Describe a baked good you enjoy.
Chocolate Éclair. It's really difficult to find a good one outside France. To be honest, it's increasingly difficult to find a good one inside France with large-scale corporate bakeries muscling in on traditional patisserie. But if you can find a good Éclair, there's nothing like it.

2026-07-15 03:41:20 UTC

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@nprofile…l0np Doesn't look like it'll warm up any time soon, either. I'm going to wrap up well for sitting behind my stall at the Writer's Market this weekend.

2026-07-14 09:03:03 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub
How do you escape your comfort zone, writing-wise?
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No comfort zone for me. Weird shit going through my head all the time.

2026-07-07 00:41:42 UTC

Theatre troupes in the past used to have a book of skits, from which they could construct plays on the fly depending on the audience, a Zibaldoni in Commedia del Arte. Do you have a book of snippets to pull from in your writing?
#WritingTips #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
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2026-06-30 23:23:18 UTC

Are you a "true gamer"? How many of these sets do you own? I have French, German and Italian (also Hanafuda Japanese cards). Tell me which country you're from/in as well.
Also interested to know what you think is the best design.
#BoardGames #Tabletop #TabletopGames #cardGame #Europe #brettspiel
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2026-06-29 00:17:23 UTC

New standard for measuring pocket size just dropped.
#makers #sewing #feminism #dnd #ttrpg #gaming
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2026-06-27 22:50:13 UTC

I'm straight. But I mainly work in #theatre and the #arts .
For #Pride #PrideMonth: is there's any LGBT+ representation in your #books?
Cruel Provocations: Lesbian witch fights capitalism in Steampunk southern France. (yep: main)
Somebody Keeps Callin': A woman wakes next to a headless corpse and says, "Oh, no. Not again." (yep: side)
Desolation: Hetch didn't mean to destroy the world. She was just curious. (yep: secondary)
Check out my books: https://ororo-productions-bdd3bl.mailerpage.io/books
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2026-06-27 02:45:45 UTC

Small town eatery window for #fenesterfritag
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2026-06-26 09:55:16 UTC

What's your pet grammar peeve? That one rule you learned but everyone else still gets wrong?
#WritingCommunity #writing #AmWriting #reading #books
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2026-06-23 10:03:56 UTC

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@nprofile…l0np Never ask a writer about a book.

2026-06-23 09:54:54 UTC

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@nprofile…l0np DNF for me. Download your consciousness and sleeve it in another body. Live forever. Fails on the scientific with how much memory and personality is stored physically in the body, Desperate prosaic clumsiness, constantly talking about the character's penis and bodily functions to mke it seem cool. I liked some of the writing, and the story kicks along, but too much that made me go, Meh. Try Emma Newman: Planetfall, Iain Banks: Feersum Endjinn, or ye olde Permutation City by Greg Egan.

2026-06-21 01:23:29 UTC

I have officially sold out The Overdue Library, book one of the Desolation series. See if you can work out how you can still get a copy.
#books #Supanova #SupanovaSydney #reading
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2026-06-15 22:21:13 UTC

Your characters are banned, from a place, or engaging in a certain activity. What clever work around do they find?
#Pride #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev
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2026-06-15 12:40:42 UTC

What would happen if the borg tried to assimilate the Discworld?
Who would win in a fight between a hundred bord and the luggage?
#Discworld #Pratchett #books #SciFi #Fantasy

2026-06-09 09:47:31 UTC

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@nprofile…45zq The point of the sampler is to give you an idea of what my books are like without you having to commit to a whole book. Is that something that interests you?

2026-06-09 07:41:31 UTC

Testing a new promotional tool. Please feel free to click the link and let me know what you think. You can also pick up a free sampler (first chapters) of all my books.
https://ororo-productions-ntkwsm.subscribepage.io/
#books #reading #writing #WritingCommunity #bookstodon
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2026-06-05 22:26:28 UTC

It's #Pride #PrideMonth, so time to roll out these classics.
#humour #funny
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2026-06-04 22:22:13 UTC

Your characters come across a building dedicated to a redundant technology and wonder what it was for.
#WritingPrompt #AmWriting #writing #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev
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2026-06-01 12:12:12 UTC

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@nprofile…9rjk I literally just wrote about this.
https://writing.exchange/@golgaloth/116657597920141841

2026-05-29 11:21:19 UTC

"My roomba just escaped."
"What?"
"My roomba. I left the front door open. It got out."
"So what?"
"Don't you understand? It has no natural predators. It could run rampant in the wild."
"Nah. Don't worry. It won't last long. Nature abhors a vacuum."
#MircroFiction #writing #humour #funny

2026-05-27 22:08:07 UTC

How are we all doing today? Remember, spite and contrariness are just as good a fuel for your light as love.
#Art #writing #theatre #light #resistance
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2026-05-26 23:20:33 UTC

One of the best ways to demonstrate inequality in your world is to show a double standard. A thing one person does that is forbidden for someone else. What's an example of a double standard your characters might encounter?
#WorldBuilding #writing #ttrpg #AmWriting #DnD #GameDev #grendel #folklore
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2026-05-24 22:53:47 UTC

Your character has a signature move. One day it fails.
#WritingPrompt #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity
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2026-05-24 21:28:20 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub
What do you need in order to finish your current WIP?
I need to work out the ending. But to do that, I need to work out the middle for the other section of characters. What makes that particular part of the story so compelling? Why does it exist at all? I mean, I know why it's there. It's the bit that reveals the Big Bad's plot, but how do they connect, even if it's in the next book, with the other characters?
A bit lost, so that's going on the backburner.
#writing

2026-05-22 04:18:57 UTC

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@nprofile…wtt2 Fall chasers?

2026-05-21 22:11:05 UTC

There used to be sun chasers. Rich folk who travelled to the southern hemisphere for summer, then then to the northern hemisphere for summer, experiencing summer all year round.
Soon we will have winter chasers, as summer becomes unbearably hot.
#ClimateChange #Climate #summer #HeatWave

2026-05-20 22:44:25 UTC

What is your character's relationship to art? Do they take time to experience it? Maybe give it a glance when they encounter it? What forms of art exist in your world?
#WorldBuilding #art #theatre #sculpture #painting #movies #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
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2026-05-20 22:24:32 UTC

What two games would you give this treatment? Frame the boards, hang the pieces in baggies on the back.
I'd try Castles of Burgundy, though I'd probably need a thicker frame, and maybe Fresco, as that has such a gorgeous board.
#BoardGames #TabletopGames #games #gaming #brettspiel
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2026-05-20 02:54:01 UTC

Your character is a minor celebrity amongst a small fanbase. At what point does that get annoying?
#WritingPrompt #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity
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2026-05-18 03:41:50 UTC

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@nprofile…y6us Toledo was well worth the drive, or train trip of you're doing things that way.

2026-05-17 23:06:30 UTC

Your character's job contains dangers that would make most people baulk. Why do they find it enjoyable?
#WritingPrompt #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity
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2026-05-17 22:23:44 UTC

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@nprofile…y6us I've been there. I remember the virtual reality thing they have in the cathederal. It poured with rain in the morning, but then cleared up enough for us to walk the walls, etc.
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2026-05-17 00:09:22 UTC

#BoardGames! Had a great time last night at our local club. Played heaps of fun stuff. Quick reviews in alt-text.
#TableTopGames #gaming #games
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2026-05-15 22:48:35 UTC

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@nprofile…y5xj I can't access this without signing in to confirm my age. I don't have an account here and I have no interest in making one. Can you please do a quick summary, or link to something not paywalled.

2026-05-15 22:38:40 UTC

More #BoardGames this weekend! Are there some games you don't like playing? Or some types of people you don't like playing with?
I'm pretty much up for anything except straight out wargames, but even then, if I'm in the mood...
#TabletopGames #Brettspiel #games #gaming
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2026-05-15 01:40:12 UTC

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I told you not to look.
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2026-05-15 01:39:38 UTC

Whatever you do, don't turn this photo upside down. And don't look at the version in the replies.
#art #music
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2026-05-15 00:18:17 UTC

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@nprofile…y5xj Ooo. Not familiar. Tell me more.

2026-05-14 21:44:39 UTC

#WordWeavers
Which of all the characters you’ve ever written are you most proud of?
All of them. That I write at all after all the shit I've been through astonishes me, sometimes. I'm really liking Arla, the character in my WIP. She's ... well, "Beleiter Arla Liché was not a young lady who strolled, or wandered, or meandered. She swept into a stride that forced the rest of the world into a run to catch up. A terrifying force in green silk: breeches, long waistcoat, cape and hat."
#writing

2026-05-13 22:36:13 UTC

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@nprofile…gtqw Ooo. Love me a good cave. We have the Mole Creek caves and King Solomon Caves near us. I've been half a dozen times. Mostly when I'm going to write an underground scene in one of my stories.

2026-05-13 01:25:47 UTC

Star Wars
The stars do not actually engage in warfare.
#DisclaimersForBooksOrMovies
#HashTagGames

2026-05-12 22:40:08 UTC

Have you thought through the consequences of having magic in your world? What's the most unexpected realisation you've had about how things will work differently?
#WorldBuilding #writing #ttrpg #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #GameDev #gaming
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2026-05-11 21:56:12 UTC

Your characters are tasked with finding something. This is somehow unreasonably difficult.
(Vietnamese Mossy Frogs, so called because they are often not found in Vietnam.)
#WritingPrompt #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev
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2026-05-11 11:22:53 UTC

Same, plant.
Same.
#Art #writing #life
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2026-05-11 07:44:55 UTC

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@nprofile…pj3u I already have vampire butterflies in my latest WIP.

2026-05-06 08:02:06 UTC

What's that piece of classical music they used to use for every typing scene in a movie? Not the Trish Trash Polka, the other one?

2026-05-01 05:09:44 UTC

Maria Wisnowska, undisputed star of the Warsaw Theatre scene in the 1880. Her performance combines innocence and corruption, and she took many lovers. She shot in her hotel room at the age of thirty, dying at the scene. Full story in Alt-text.
#theatre #writing #history #murder.
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2026-04-29 02:11:32 UTC

Your heroes set out to right the wrongs of the world. How exactly will they do that?
#WritingTips #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev
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2026-04-27 23:26:59 UTC

You have to live here for one year. There's no heating in winter except what you can provide by cutting down local trees.
(Things like this are great for imagining #fantasy settings.)
#WritingTips #travel #AmWriting #writing #winter #WritingCommunity
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2026-04-27 23:23:04 UTC

Why is it I still have to look up Discrete vs Discreet? I'm fifty-six years old, ffs.
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #writing

2026-04-25 10:40:24 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj To understand the Vietnam War you have to understand the Korean War. In which the Americans lost half of Korea.

2026-04-22 10:02:03 UTC

Autumn colours coming in down under. How's Spring going in the Northern Hemisphere?
#Autumn #Spring
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2026-04-20 22:22:45 UTC

There are rumours and mythology about your world. Even a science fiction world. Some of it might even be true.
#WorldBuilding #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #writing #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Australia #SciFi #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev
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2026-04-19 22:16:03 UTC

I'm so glad mobile phones have gotten smaller since the 1930s. Imagine having to walk around with all that kit everywhere you went. What technological advancements have your characters noticed in their lifetime? Remember, your world is not static.
#WritingTips #AmWriting #SciFi #writing #WritingCommunity #mobile
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2026-04-19 11:06:42 UTC

I mean. Technically it's the Massive Attack beetle. Or the Fat of the Land crab.
#music #cartoon
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2026-04-17 21:54:41 UTC

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@nprofile…732y This is not even its final form.

2026-04-16 22:07:38 UTC

I mean, I like digging into pre-history when designing monsters, but seriously. Hallucigenia is a a 5cm (2inch) worm with legs and spikes. If reality could just fuck off and stop being more creative than me, that would be great.
#WritingTips #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #ttrpg #dnd
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2026-04-16 04:05:54 UTC

#PennedPossibilities⁩
Do any of your characters have an unusual or uncommon pet? What is it? How did they acquire it?
Define unusual....
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2026-04-15 22:43:26 UTC

"digging deep for answers in the library, Hetch is a character after my own heart."
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"a dystopian, low-tech sci-fi world defined with expertly trickled backstory"
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"The Same River Twice adds new complexities to the Desolation series while maintaining the fast pace and heart-in-mouth moments of previous instalments."
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"above all, it's just fun."
Final days of the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dharrigon/desolation-the-same-river-twice
#books #reading #IndieAuthor #art #Steampunk #SciFi #Bookstodon
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2026-04-15 08:32:22 UTC

What does your character like to eat? Do you describe food in your work?
#WritingPrompt #Writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #food
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2026-04-10 01:36:58 UTC

Les Champidragons by Belgian artist Xavier Collette ( @nprofile…6tet ).
#art #dnd #ttrpg #dragons #cool
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2026-04-04 23:18:16 UTC

What do you hope people will learn from your work, if anything?
#writing #AmWriting #art #WritingCommunity #PillowFort
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2026-04-04 07:20:58 UTC

Always fun when you have to punch the game before you play it.
#boardgames
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2026-04-03 23:43:33 UTC

Off for some #BoardGames today! Wingspan has eggs, but I'm not sure it's really #Easter themed. Maybe I should go with a #moon theme with the whole #Artemis thing. What would you peeps recommend?

2026-04-03 10:24:29 UTC

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@nprofile…l0np Taking a day off can be hard. I've got one tomorrow when I go to my board game group outside Devonport.

2026-04-02 22:11:28 UTC

Artemis flight has some tough depravations ahead. Here's to a successful trip. Also enjoying the fact I get to pull out all my space memes.
#Artemis #ArtemisII #Moon #meme #funny
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2026-04-02 00:31:09 UTC

Thought I'd just drop this absolute classic from usersname Dustin Couch.
#Artemis #ArtemisII #NASA #Moon #MoonLaunch
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2026-03-30 22:20:06 UTC

Someone lays a trap for your character. What does that look like?
#WritingPrompt #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #DnD #ttrpg
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2026-03-30 10:17:24 UTC

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@nprofile…l0np Are you able to continue your work remotely? Is that more or less satisfying? What's the online community like?

2026-03-30 10:14:57 UTC

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@nprofile…l0np With the increasing deterioration in the external breathability of air, that has the potential to be a very important field. Was it a disappointment with the system or were there people who made you feel welcome?

2026-03-30 10:12:32 UTC

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@nprofile…l0np It can be a very weird vibe to get into. What was your academic focus?

2026-03-29 00:31:29 UTC

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@nprofile…k3fr Glad you're liking the series. Book 3 is my favourite so far.

2026-03-28 23:48:11 UTC

It's my birthday, today! So I'm watching my favourite TV show.
If you want to get me a present, check out the Kickstarter for my latest #SciFi book.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dharrigon/desolation-the-same-river-twice
#Murderbot #SanctuaryMoon #books #reading #birthday
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2026-03-27 21:20:32 UTC

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@nprofile…c82n But with poker you're not actually playing the cards you draw. The whole point of poker is the bluffing. Even in Blackjack you have the decision to hit or not. If I roll a die five times and you roll a die five times and I win because I rolled higher numbers, that's not a game. If there's some other activity around those rolls and the numbers are used for different things, that's a game. Game design has to balance being able to do things and just blind rolling to win.

2026-03-26 03:55:37 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj Great book on the early days of flying, by the French guy who wrote The Little Prince. Well worth reading to recapture that lost romance.

2026-03-25 01:33:31 UTC

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@nprofile…ch3z currently in Australia, eating noodles for lunch.

2026-03-24 21:07:35 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers
"Do you have a sewing kit in your home?"
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2026-03-24 20:59:28 UTC

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@nprofile…z867 The turn structure on White Castle feels a bit weird. I understand why it has to be like that. Still weird. But I Love, Love, Love the engine building and points scoring off the back end. I need to play this a few more times.

2026-03-24 00:54:16 UTC

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@nprofile…5vm9 I find most Western cakes are saturated with so much sugar! Way too sweet. There's a lovely Hungarian walnut cake I used to get in a little shop in London. Been trying to find something like it ever since I moved to Tasmania.

2026-03-23 21:28:42 UTC

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@nprofile…l0np I'm on hold with the complaints line, but thanks.

2026-03-23 21:20:09 UTC

Twenty minutes on hold with Centrelink...

2026-03-22 20:51:04 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub
How do you organise your notes? (No notes?)
I used to keep a document of characters that I'd created in alphabetical order, then a separate section for world-building I did on the fly. I now do both of those in the same document with Scribus, along with my entire manuscript with each section labelled at the side so I can find bits easily. That works well for me. I just wish there was a version for android.

2026-03-21 22:22:26 UTC

There are four lights.
#square #Clunes #books #booktown #writing #WritersLife #SciFi #StarTrek
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2026-03-21 19:15:08 UTC

#writersCoffeeClub
Do you celebrate any writerly anniversaries or special occasions?
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Towel Day.

2026-03-20 22:57:48 UTC

All set up at Clunes! Come find me up by the Town Hall.
#Clunes #books #scifi #fantasy #reading #bookstodon
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2026-03-20 03:30:04 UTC

Project Hail Mary has some laughs and spectacle. Definitely worth seeing. Still feels a little but the numbers. They're desperate for a big summer blockbuster. This ain't it.
#ProjectHailMary #movies

2026-03-19 21:56:44 UTC

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@nprofile…5t9f
Brought a second hand Leaf to drive around London. Saved the entire purchase price in petrol and congestion charges within two years.

2026-03-18 21:06:59 UTC

I do not use AI at all, at any stage of writing my books. I have the &udm=14 code in my search engine so I don't even use it for research.
#AI #creative #writing #ttrpg #rpg #GameDev #art #artist
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2026-03-15 23:24:07 UTC

You'll notice Alan Tudyk's character is not in the cast sketches for the new Firefly animated series. That's because he's outside Washing the cars.
#firefly #animated #series
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2026-03-11 21:07:41 UTC

Rogue planets in interstellar space could have moons supporting life. If you're interested in a setting for your next #SciFi adventure.
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-moons-of-rogue-planets-could-have-liquid-surface-water-and-thick-atmospheres-they-could-be-habitable
#writing #AmWriting #ScienceFiction #exoplanets #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev #WritingCommunity
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2026-03-10 00:06:00 UTC

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@nprofile…25tr Love me some Murderbot. I read a lot of Andre in my youth. Sharon Lee is a name I've heard. I'll definitely check her stuff out. Thanks.

2026-03-09 23:53:16 UTC

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@nprofile…lrtw Love me some Nnedi. Just finished Death of the Author.

2026-03-09 23:50:48 UTC

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@nprofile…w76z I think you might be right. They had some wax cylinder recorders and players as well that the nice gentlemen showed me on the tour. Fascinating stuff.

2026-03-09 23:49:46 UTC

Yes, but what female scifi (NOT fantasy) authors would you recommend?
I'd say Ryka Aoki Light from Uncommon Stars, The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley, and Margaret Killjoy's The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion.
#books #reading #scifi #bookstodon

2026-03-09 21:01:21 UTC

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@nprofile…aa2d
Ah, yes. John Mastodon. And his smaller brother Alfred.
#JohnMastodon

2026-03-09 21:00:05 UTC

While my car was being serviced, I took a little wander around #Launceston #Tasmania, visited the monkeys in the park and discovered, right next door, the old radio museum. Awesome.
#museum #radio #discovery #history
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2026-03-09 20:46:36 UTC

And it's only Tuesday.
#war
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