Dahlia Donovan
@dahliadonovan.bsky.social
romance author, autistic, abuse survivor, game nerd, lover of stickers, chihuahuas, tea, and cozy mysteries. asexual - she/her
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Dahlia Donovan
@dahliadonovan.bsky.social
· Sep 12
“We’re never too old to restart a romance. The question is…do you have the courage to try?”
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I think my spouse probably celebrated more than I did whenever I had a new book coming out. It was one of the things I adored about him...how much he supported me and my creative endeavors.
So tell me, #writingcommunity... what do you do to celebrate a writing milestone? And what is your cutoff for what deserves a celebration vs. what doesn't? Or do you have a sliding scale?
I'm so terrible at remembering to celebrate, probably mostly because I don't have an idea of what I want to do.
I'm so terrible at remembering to celebrate, probably mostly because I don't have an idea of what I want to do.
December 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I think my spouse probably celebrated more than I did whenever I had a new book coming out. It was one of the things I adored about him...how much he supported me and my creative endeavors.
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When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a fucking mask!
Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a fucking mask!
If we are really worried about the pressure put on the NHS by flu then shouldn’t we have offered the flu vaccine to more people for free?
Super flu' wave hits hospitals in England with no peak yet
Numbers in hospital rise by more than 50% in a week as NHS faces 'worst-case scenario'.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a fucking mask!
Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a mask
Wear a fucking mask!
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I guarantee you, Person Who Is Somehow Still A Harry Potter Fan In 2025, that there are so many books by trans authors that are better and not fueling hate.
Go read them instead.
Go read them instead.
December 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I guarantee you, Person Who Is Somehow Still A Harry Potter Fan In 2025, that there are so many books by trans authors that are better and not fueling hate.
Go read them instead.
Go read them instead.
I love this so much.
They* said it couldn't be done! But Mr Rational Amounts of Confectionery Architecture has long left the building, so I present...the Gingerbread Street.
*me
*me
December 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I love this so much.
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Activist Mollie Davis unfurled a scroll of all the school shootings in the US
In 2019.
I deliberately showed the end of the scroll in this illustration, with the hope & belief that there will be an end someday.
How much longer until we act??
Illo from No Brain the Same (June 2026 (c)me)
In 2019.
I deliberately showed the end of the scroll in this illustration, with the hope & belief that there will be an end someday.
How much longer until we act??
Illo from No Brain the Same (June 2026 (c)me)
December 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Activist Mollie Davis unfurled a scroll of all the school shootings in the US
In 2019.
I deliberately showed the end of the scroll in this illustration, with the hope & belief that there will be an end someday.
How much longer until we act??
Illo from No Brain the Same (June 2026 (c)me)
In 2019.
I deliberately showed the end of the scroll in this illustration, with the hope & belief that there will be an end someday.
How much longer until we act??
Illo from No Brain the Same (June 2026 (c)me)
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it is completely reasonable to not be excited about right to die being legislated during a fascist regime that is constantly doing eugenics, actually
December 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
it is completely reasonable to not be excited about right to die being legislated during a fascist regime that is constantly doing eugenics, actually
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I am once again here to implore you to use ALT text on every single image you can.
You can change your settings so that it won't let you post an image without it, and thus you don't have to worry about forgetting.
It only takes a little to be inclusive.
You can change your settings so that it won't let you post an image without it, and thus you don't have to worry about forgetting.
It only takes a little to be inclusive.
December 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I am once again here to implore you to use ALT text on every single image you can.
You can change your settings so that it won't let you post an image without it, and thus you don't have to worry about forgetting.
It only takes a little to be inclusive.
You can change your settings so that it won't let you post an image without it, and thus you don't have to worry about forgetting.
It only takes a little to be inclusive.
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I genuinely affirmatively think that it is now a democratic imperative to spend as much time as you can offline. Read more offline. Socialise more offline. Discuss media you consume with other people offline. Out there is a real world full of people looking for real human connection - seize it
Reading a bunch of books this year has really solidified for me how awful the internet is in comparison nowadays. Obviously in terms of general hostility but more generally in terms of lack of depth, insight, reading comprehension, base of knowledge, etc
December 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I genuinely affirmatively think that it is now a democratic imperative to spend as much time as you can offline. Read more offline. Socialise more offline. Discuss media you consume with other people offline. Out there is a real world full of people looking for real human connection - seize it
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
This. I want one where you can...figure out what makes them who they are.
What is your favourite kind of antagonist?
One that makes sense.
I've seen too many writers, both in books and movies, create "inherently evil" characters. Not a fan.
Nobody is "inherently evil". People have reasons. People make choice. Show me.
Don't dehumanise your villains, that's boring.
One that makes sense.
I've seen too many writers, both in books and movies, create "inherently evil" characters. Not a fan.
Nobody is "inherently evil". People have reasons. People make choice. Show me.
Don't dehumanise your villains, that's boring.
What is your favourite kind of antagonist?
Intelligent and well spoken, yet still the worst person you've ever met.
Intelligent and well spoken, yet still the worst person you've ever met.
December 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This. I want one where you can...figure out what makes them who they are.
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A lot of Americans are weighing in on the tragedy at Bondi Beach in Australia & saying MORE guns is the answer.
They should sit this one out.
The fact that the shooters didn’t have automatic weapons saved lives.
America has had more than 350 mass shootings this year. More guns is never the answer
They should sit this one out.
The fact that the shooters didn’t have automatic weapons saved lives.
America has had more than 350 mass shootings this year. More guns is never the answer
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A lot of Americans are weighing in on the tragedy at Bondi Beach in Australia & saying MORE guns is the answer.
They should sit this one out.
The fact that the shooters didn’t have automatic weapons saved lives.
America has had more than 350 mass shootings this year. More guns is never the answer
They should sit this one out.
The fact that the shooters didn’t have automatic weapons saved lives.
America has had more than 350 mass shootings this year. More guns is never the answer
oh these are lovely.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
oh these are lovely.
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#SundayPixWings A small murmuration in one of my walks a year or so ago.
December 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
#SundayPixWings A small murmuration in one of my walks a year or so ago.
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If you are worried this is too big an executive function barrier you can go to a pharmacy and they will probably just jab you. That is what I did.
I'm not saying it's necessarily the right way to do this, that is just how much I am not fucking around with the measles
I'm not saying it's necessarily the right way to do this, that is just how much I am not fucking around with the measles
Go to your doctor and get your measles titers checked to make sure you are still immune and if not get re-vaccinated. It’s more and more likely all of us are going to eventually come in contact with it.
The thing about measles is that it’s the only known virus that triggers immune amnesia - it causes your immune system to forget everything it has previously learned. Meaning you essentially reset to zero and are now at risk of basically everything.
It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.
It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.
December 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you are worried this is too big an executive function barrier you can go to a pharmacy and they will probably just jab you. That is what I did.
I'm not saying it's necessarily the right way to do this, that is just how much I am not fucking around with the measles
I'm not saying it's necessarily the right way to do this, that is just how much I am not fucking around with the measles
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Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.
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Folks in power will always attempt to discourage action.
All those folks who insist on jumping on boycott posts and with unmitigated self-satisfaction announcing how it won't work?
That's the voice of the folks in power. They're just amplifying it, knowingly or not.
All those folks who insist on jumping on boycott posts and with unmitigated self-satisfaction announcing how it won't work?
That's the voice of the folks in power. They're just amplifying it, knowingly or not.
December 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Folks in power will always attempt to discourage action.
All those folks who insist on jumping on boycott posts and with unmitigated self-satisfaction announcing how it won't work?
That's the voice of the folks in power. They're just amplifying it, knowingly or not.
All those folks who insist on jumping on boycott posts and with unmitigated self-satisfaction announcing how it won't work?
That's the voice of the folks in power. They're just amplifying it, knowingly or not.
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And yet another reason why every person in the U.S. should read atleast one slave narrative.
#Lit #BlackSky
I never use ChatGPT because people in my family who were forced to leave school early always said ability to read and write was a blessing.
Literacy is a right we need to protect.
#Lit #BlackSky
I never use ChatGPT because people in my family who were forced to leave school early always said ability to read and write was a blessing.
Literacy is a right we need to protect.
"The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" details how he was being taught to read by his enslaver's wife, and the "Master" found out, flew into a rage, and said it was dangerous & would change him.
This is how young Douglass realized that literacy (reading & writing) was key to liberation.
This is how young Douglass realized that literacy (reading & writing) was key to liberation.
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Back when I was more active in the adoptee community, I recall a lot of "term policing" from the industry. You weren't supposed to use "adoptee." You couldn't say "real family" for people actually related to you. Fuck that. I as the "child" in the center of all this, I can use any language I want.
December 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Back when I was more active in the adoptee community, I recall a lot of "term policing" from the industry. You weren't supposed to use "adoptee." You couldn't say "real family" for people actually related to you. Fuck that. I as the "child" in the center of all this, I can use any language I want.
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Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!
a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people
ALT: a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people
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December 13, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!
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December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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This is Pancho. He’s mad because he asked for five more minutes and then you woke him up five minutes later. Unforgivable. 12/10 (IG: panchothediva)
December 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is Pancho. He’s mad because he asked for five more minutes and then you woke him up five minutes later. Unforgivable. 12/10 (IG: panchothediva)