Diane Duane
@dduane
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40+ yrs in print, 50+ novels, asst'd TV/film, NYT B'seller List a few times, etc etc. Rarely here now. Where to find me:
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I’ve been looking into this, and calling it “a fad” is trivializing/demeaning the behavior. It’s a vendetta.
An orca known as “White Gladys” was apparently injured by a small boat last year. She has seemingly decided to put a stop to this kind of thing… (1/2)
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Terry Pratchett.
You have the power to grant fifty more productive years to an artist of any discipline (writer, musician, painter, etc.) who died too young. Who do you pick?
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She’s teaching her family how to make boats less dangerous: by either frightening them away or overturning them. She’s plainly willing to go as far as necessary to show her family how to be safe. And when this group goes elsewhere… my money says they’ll pass the technique on.
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@benedict_rs
(chuckle) Well, that's *me* told, then. 😄 That's where I started. And in between doing paid work, I still go back that way on occasion. ...If you really choose to buy into this line of reasoning, may you do as well without fanfic as I've done with it.
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White Gladys has been implicated in a number of these attacks, and reportedly has been accompanied to recent attacks by her sisters (“Brown Gladys” and “Black Gladys”), as well as by her mother and her own two calves.
Gladys is plainly proactive. (2/3)
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@nakedvix
@ruhawksley
As an author who's dropped more than one of my colleagues' books down the (mental) oubliette 10 or 20 pages in, I will defend to the death every reader's right to do the same to mine or anyone else's if they find it uncongenial. (1/2)
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As a NYT bestseller-listed writer published for 40+ years who got her start writing Trek fanfic (and later read tons of printed/mimeoed 70s fanfic sold clandestinely at Trek-convention dealers' tables), it's my not-very-sad responsibility to inform you that you need better data.
@MadelineAndraia
You're another one who does not understand the definition of Fan Fiction. (I am an editor of 35+years and have a degree in writing and in classic lit, so I kinda know this stuff...) Fan Fiction by the proper definition was an internet-exclusive phenom that began in chat room
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They may also show that God once got a Spirograph for Christmas. 😄
Space doodles. These diagrams show the patterns that these planets make in our skies. Source:
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Hmm, I see a (forget-the-heartwarming) children’s book in this. (Because that expression says “WTF?? YOU CHOPPED DOWN MY F*CKING TREE!”) So on Christmas Eve, a MILLION OWLS mount a rescue mission from the North, pick up the tree, and take it (and their buddy) home. The End. ❤️
They found a small owl inside of this year’s Rockefeller Christmas tree, he hitched a ride all the way to NYC and is now being treated and cared for at a wildlife rehab facility.
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@nakedvix
@ruhawksley
Reading is letting someone into your *mind*—and ideally for enjoyment. If you don't get to gatekeep at that frontier, where *do* you?...
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@rolypoly1234
Agreeing. I worry about them, as the immediate (too-human) response is, “Kill them.” What I’d like to see is: Tag them. Build an app to track the tags. Help boats *avoid them*… thereby gradually demonstrating that the attacks are *no longer necessary.*.
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(PS: I’ll be happy to add cites to this later, as I’m presently away from the machine that has the bookmarks/history. Most of them are small local news sites that haven’t gotten much notice until Reuters picked up the story.)
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(…meanwhile, terrifying thought:
“There’s a novel in this.”
“Yeah, what?”
“These days, we’d say, ‘What are your comps?’”
“‘Comps?’”
“The books it can be compared to.”
“So?”
“THE GODFATHER meets JAWS.”
“…Yikes.”)
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…Two notes to the above: [1] Anyone who’s read DEEP WIZARDRY will know I have “a dog in this race.” But the dog sleeps in a doggie bed made almost entirely of *accurate* science about cetaceans, (And other underwater lifeforms.) And [2]: (NEXT)
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.
@neilhimself
"(Yes, that Satan.)" 🤣
Neil Gaiman announced that Benedict Cumberbatch is joining the cast of
#GoodOmens
as Satan. (Yes, that Satan.)
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...Getting increasingly weary of the people claiming that Terry Pratchett wouldn't have known what being transgendered was, or didn't have an opinion about it. This quote from an interview is *two decades old* now.
"The people I know who are gay (and one transgendered, I think -- like the dwarfs, I don't ask people what they're not prepared to volunteer) are ... quite amiable about people's sexuality so long as they don't act like a jerk" - Terry Pratchett
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(NEXT) …since last night I’ve wanted to email
@terryandrob
and tell Terry, “‘Black Gladys’ is a FABULOUS name for a Pirate Queen; FFS take it off me before I do something ridiculous with it that you’d do a lot better.” (sigh) 😏
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(re SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD, at a signing:) "This book's a ripoff of Harry Potter, isn't it?" "Um, no, since it came out in 1983." (After a surprised pause, actually *cheerfully:*) "...Oh, that's okay then, it's probably no good anyway!"
#WeirdShitAuthorsHear
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…Cripes. :/
Facebook now removing pages of businesses with "Meta" in the name
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Thanks, friends! ☺️
Happy birthday to writer Diane Duane, who has written
#StarTrek
novels, comics, short fiction, games, and co-wrote the
#StarTrekTNG
episode "Where No One Has Gone Before." (That's just for starters.)
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THIS is a potential comics writer. :)
4YO while watching Superman: he must be really sad.
Me: why?
4YO: Because he's strong that nobody um nobody probably thinks he ever needs to be saved.
Me:
4YO: But I think sometimes he does.
Me:
Me: fuck
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Nope. The saddest thing in the world is when people who were not going to be good parents go ahead and do it anyway (due to being browbeaten into it by clueless people like this one) and damage or kill their children, and *you* wind up having to heal or mourn them. 😡
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Really. REALLY. If the beckoning cat says "go left"? GO THE FECK LEFT. If the little humpbacked horse says "Take the small ugly-looking saddle and not the fancy one"? DO AS YOU'RE BLOODY WELL TOLD!! *Sheesh,* people. A TALKING ANIMAL IS GIVING YOU ADVICE. Just roll with it FFS.😅
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…Thread. 😏
Bought a used Charles Bukowski book and the best part are the notes in the margins from a woman who clearly was having none of this shit.
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#JKDoesntSpeakForMe
. I've got a couple of universes to do that. Both of them are way older than hers. Both of them have had gay people in them for nearly four decades.* ...And when trans people arrive in them, they'll be as welcome as our gay wizards have been.
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😄I am utterly delighted to cop to having been part of the team that alerted Terry to this. (Partly because we instantly recognized it as something that had been done to us!) The full story of how we called Terry, and what happened then, is here:
Few translation stories can be worse than Terry Pratchett discovering soup commercials written *into the text of his novels* by his German publisher.
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…It’s like GREAT BRITISH BAKEOFF meets CORALINE. (*Don’t* anybody ffs tag You Know Who, it’s not *his* fault…!!)
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I will make no apology for RTing this every time I see it. It ranks as one of the more notable times when the Law was *not* a ass. (PS: don't @ me about the "a". Check the original quote.)
1837: Thomas Saverland brought an action against Caroline Newton, who had bitten his nose when he tried to kiss her at a party. The judge ruled against him, stating that "When a man kisses a woman against her will, she is fully entitled to bite his nose off, if she so pleases."
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Just a note for those wondering at the whimpering of certain political figures over canceled book contracts: Many publishers now routinely insert morality clauses in author contracts. (see this article for a good background: )
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(snort) WHAT. 😄
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Seems we're at one of those hinge times where (due to recent circumstances) workers realize they should have *some* power...and a lot of organizations who employ workers are *desperate* to keep them from following up on this realization.
...Gonna be an interesting half-decade...
Here’s how media enables corporate injustice. Zero mention of how
@KelloggsUS
is stripping workers of:
•premium health care
•holiday & vacation pay
•retirement benefits
•or how Kellogg may ship jobs to Mexico
Instead “Will we have enough Frosted Flakes???”
Do better,
@AP
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[SFX: sound of INNOCENT WHISTLING in the [IRISH] distance...)
Rowling: i'm not worried, they'll alwayssss come crawling back
Rowling: where else will they get wizard ssstoriesss
Butler:
Rowling: DO NOT SSSAY DIANE DUANE
Rowling: I WILL NOT HAVE THAT NAME SSAID IN THIS SSSCOTTISH MANOR
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Still trying to remember where I found this. Probably on Tumblr...
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@p_morwood
says, "How long before they start going elsewhere to find more garbage to bring back for rewards?" Seems inevitable. They're corvids. They'll find a way to game the system... :)
Puy du Fou, a historical theme park in France, has trained six rooks to collect the litter left by visitors. The rooks are happy because they get s special treat each time they deposit rubbish in a special bin. (Image: John Haslam)
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@fellbeasts
As someone who's written both fanfic and profic and has been on the NYT Bestseller list: (a) You're wrong, (b) There's no reason it can't be unless you refuse to take it seriously and put in the work, and (c) You're right, but so are stopped clocks, twice a day. Sorry about that.
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:) I can get behind that.
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Status report, "Tumblr 4EVAR" Dep't: Apparently Al*x J*nes, having been run off other online platforms, started using # Tumblr. Tumblr users... dissented. 😁The poor snowflake soon fled, defeated by thousands of nothing-unusual notes (for Tumblr). Cousins, I salute you!
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"Tell the Mediterranean yachtsmen: I want them to know it was me."
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Thread. This is DEEPLY bizarre.
TRAVELER BEWARE! Have you ever had a rental car company steal their car back from you? Well this just happened to me. I’m not usually one to take to Twitter in this way. I’m barely ever here. But I feel this is my only option short of taking legal action. So here goes
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…Okay, this is going to be my new visual referent for the phrase “crash and burn.” It’s got *everything.* The swaying, the swerving, the suggestive but slow-to-pay-off leaking, the slow tilt, the augering-in… !!!
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Status report: Cleaning out some duplicated material in the desktop machine's backup drive. And finding the occasional interesting or amusing thing in the image dumps...
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What's kind of astonishing here is how *long* it takes for the cat to stand up going "Okay, I'm good, thanks for that..."
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This evening: the Emissary of the Globi returns to its starship and tells their High Commissioner for Interstellar Relations, "I have negotiated a treaty with the dominant species. We can move in next week. Meanwhile we have to pay a negotiation fee. Find out what Whiskas is."
My cat Wingus has spent a significant part of his morning staring at this basketball in our neighbor’s front yard.
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Damn it, those of us who both do and teach at the writing end have to keep dealing with this crap. And it should be so simple. Do you write? Then you're a writer. Only write sometimes? Still a writer. Pause for long periods of selfcare between writing stints? Still a writer.
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Happy 52nd birthday to this sweet creature & all who journey in her, from someone honored to be involved in her story -- who's enjoyed her as playground & home away from home ever since her keel was flown. May she and all associated with her live very long & prosper!
#StarTrekDay
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Meanwhile, over at Tumblr... () The whole story: "Lest we forget..." 🤣
#StarTrek
#StarTrekFandom
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There's something to be said for this, though. Most nurses learn how to use the weaponized version of the Mom Voice fairly early on. One time long long ago I used it to get someone to give me the gun he'd just pulled on me. 😏
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This.
(sigh) Some of us have *reasons* for walking away from families...like our sanity. Tolstoy was right on this: while happy families can be all alike, the ways that unhappy families *aren't* happy exceeds all mathematics. Sometimes no amount of talking can fix them. Sorry.🙄
Don’t yall hate when you tell someone you don’t talk to a family member anymore and the first thing they say is life is short? Like yea I know…which is why I’m not finna spend it tolerating several forms of abuse and narcissism 😭TF
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Ideas are easy. Execution is hard.
Told a story idea to a friend in a cafe once. I heard this trio on laptops behind us snickering, “You KNOW you’re in a cafe full of writers, right?”
I turned and told them if they wanted to take a shot at the idea, go for it.
I’ve yet to see their version on bookstore shelves.
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In the "Meanwhile, Over At Tumblr" dep't: Regarding those Olympic anti-sex beds... people have some thoughts.
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Status report, Grimly Satisfied Vaguetweets dep’t: Noting with pleasure that a good friend’s great heart and thoughtfully fearless writing have rendered him far more alive than the small, cruel people so desperately trying to claim him—and he doesn’t even have to be *breathing.*
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Status report, (pauses to do the math) 34 years and counting: Still married. Still having a blast. Happy anniversary,
@p_morwood
. Love you! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Well, THIS is evocative of something or other... 😄
#Discworld
#GNUTerryPratchett
This very popular photo captured by Timothy C. Roth from Task Force Turtle portrays a snapping turtle that emerged after hibernation carrying the "earth" on its back [read more, full story: ]
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…Well, the new ep of
#Picard
was absolutely *terrific*. Perfectly escalating tension (always great to catch yourself white-knuckle clutching the arms of the chair), super performances, and twists in all the right places. Can’t wait for more. 😀
#PicardSeason3
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And just think about this: Nobody in the makeup suite said a word. No one in the Green Room said a thing. THEY ALL LET HIM GO OUT LIKE THAT. ...It’s rather choice.
[P] When your only friend is a taxidermied plague rat, then there's nobody to warn you that the spray-on hair won't go over well in HD.
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Thread. CAUTION: Contains mint. And things. 😅
So there I was in the Target feminine hygiene aisle, shopping for the usual suspects, when I see something in Aggressively Eco-Friendly-Looking packaging.
I like eco-friendly things, I think. I examine this product.
It is a pad that claims to be infused with essential herbs.
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I've been fond of Georgia for a long while. (I got engaged to
@p_morwood
there, after all...) But fonder than usual, today.
#ThankYouGA
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@jason_m_heller
And a note in passing: "Accept my conclusion or you're a bitter loser" is generally a poor inducement to agreement. Verbum sap.
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This gets better EVERY TIME it appears. (And so do the comments.) 😄
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Harry would probably not even be offered wizardry in the
#YoungWizards
universe. Hermione would have her own series. (And possibly would have run off with Carmela.)
Now is a good time to drop your hottest takes while everyone is distracted by the election
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And in the DAMN IT ALL, CAN I NOT JUST BE IN THE TUB FOR FIVE MINUTES??! department...
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(muttering) Same. :/
9yo (frustrated and crying): I just want to read my book, but I keep having to talk to people and do chores!
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(Bemusement) Does this dingbat actually not know that some international travel *does* require vaccination? And has for MANY YEARS? And if he doesn't know this very basic international public-health fact, WTF kind of doctor *is* he? :/
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This wasn’t some clinical understanding weaponized for fiction.
@terryandrob
told us once about standing in a video store trying to decide which of two videos he wanted to buy, and then realizing, astonished, “Wait. I’m making enough now. *I can have both!”*
#GNUTerryPratchett
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Oh, a Firefox.
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Seriously having a pareidolic moment here, because it's like that thing is *looking* at me... and my bingo card for today honestly did *not* include Being Eyelessly and Cryptically Regarded By A Ceramic Brassica.
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Hell, there are nearly-70-year-old New York Times list *writers* who... (cough) But I digress. 😁
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…what? WTF is the matter with these people? I’m a New Yorker born and bred, and we routinely say THE (long E) sometimes, for emphasis. (Noting of course that a lot of these folks hate New Yorkers, too, as they have for… a couple/few hundred years…)
The
@VP
again used the "thee" pronunciation for the word "the" when making a point. Some critics have claimed she appeared to adopt "a fake French accent" when she said "the plan" during a tour of a research lab on Tuesday. Today at Paris press conference, she said "the topic."
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The next time someone tries to tell you that manspreading isn't real, or that complaining / being annoyed about it is a recent development: Laugh at them. This comic dates between 1905 and the 1920s. More about the strip "The Outbursts of Everett True":
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@theinfophile
Or you may simply be advised to try a brand that’s NOT horrendous. :) (such as Hadgi Bey’s, Truedi, Aytac…)
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This is deeply annoying. I worked cleaning people's houses while I was in nursing school, and the money I made doing that was the difference between being able to afford the occasional Jack in the Box taco and subsisting exclusively on very basic school-cafeteria food. So WTF. 😡
this person thinks they’re being ultrawoke but the underlying presumption here is that domestic work is inherently less dignified than other work
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“Oh they just said get up there and make some trouble”
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@neilhimself
@chelseabwrites
Neil. …IN MANHATTAN!! ffs. (eyeroll) I apologize for my people. :/
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Enough with the pious platitudes, you cheapskate. “A calling” is code for “workers we can cheat other people into paying lower pay than they deserve.” They’ve been underpaid for decades. Pay them a decent living wage!
Teaching is a calling. You don't do it for the money, you do it because you believe in the kids that come into your classrooms.
The largest school system in the country is only as strong as the teachers behind it.
Happy
#TeacherAppreciationWeek
to all our amazing NYC teachers!
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