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David Dalglish
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Author of THE SHADOWDANCE SERIES, KEEPERS TRILOGY, THE HALF-ORCS, VAGRANT GODS, LEVEL: UNKNOWN, RADIANT KING, and more. site: ddalglish.com
Patron: http://patreon.com/thatdalglishguy He/him.
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This is a story of six completely, utterly broken individuals, and the ruination of the world that comes from their hurt and sorrow. THE RADIANT KING is out today! (links below)
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It's done.
The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2025
YouTube video by Todd in the Shadows
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I don't care what awards you win. Even the FIFA Make Words Good prize will still have me mocking you for needing ChatGPT to write your book for you.
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
All these "I've been discriminated against as a poor helpless white man" posts are just proving these guys are made out of fucking glass.
December 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We've fallen so far from grace and must find a way back to salvation.
Do you remember when the entire internet could fit under 14 categories?
December 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Most people don’t lack ideas. They lack resources. What we’re living through right now is a constructed reality of people who have inflicted themselves with the opposite problem. They have all the resources, more that any single person could blow through in a lifetime. And utterly no imagination.
December 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Fingers crossed this doesnt age poorly but I keep thinking back to how the devs for Lies Of P, a South Korean game company, gave their employees a paid vacation and a free switch 2 as a thank you.

Nothing's stopping companies from caring about their employees except greed.
December 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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This is a bunch of bullshit

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
December 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Earlier this year, Matt Yglesias and Hakeem Jeffries urged progressives to shut up about immigration and Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Yglesias said "bad groups" were pushing Dems left on immigration and would help Trump's numbers.
How did they get this so wrong? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
The cost of playing defense on immigration
What Matt Yglesias, Hakeem Jeffries, and Keir Starmer got wrong about the politics of immigration
www.gelliottmorris.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I can't wait to find out he puts his hair in a ponytail because that's how his dad wore it and the lore reveal at how his now dead girlfriend who died to a totally different Beast always cooked him his twelve eggs.
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory

he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
Disney Developing Live-Action ‘Gaston’ Movie From Writer Dave Callaham And Producer Michelle Rejwan
Disney is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston.
deadline.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"If you know how to tell a great story, you will LOVE AI."

Yet every single person who tells great stories is currently giving LLMs a gigantic middle finger and wanting nothing to do with it.

Curious, that.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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‘Where do you get your ideas from’ that authors often dread focuses on this misunderstanding. Ideas are easy.
Ideas spring from ideas. Ideas create a more complex ecosystem that prompts the evolution of…
December 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Look, for real, if you have a problem with trans folks, you can unfollow or block me right now.

(And if you think this is virtue signalling, you can go too, although I'm immune to all that ad hominem shit)

These are our brothers and sisters, for fuck's sake.
December 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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losing my mind watching people genuinely complain that there wasn’t enough ‘variety’ in their awards show because Expedition 33 - a game that is exceptional in almost every way - won several awards for being exceptional in almost every way
December 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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(one of the paradoxes of publishing is that while publishers as entities are... not doing a great job on the whole, the employees that I have worked with at publishers are often freaking amazing and trying really hard with zero ability to navigate impossible systems while being paid too little)
December 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Yeah, we can work with this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdA...
Supergirl | Official Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by DC
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I wanted to share some bookish gift ideas. Hope this helps!

🎁 A Book Stand - this is great hands-free reading.

🎁 A clip on book light - I like this rechargeable one.

🎁 Book ends

🎁 DIY Book Nook Kits - The one in the video is from Cute Bee but even Lego have some!
December 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Hey, let's write a world with a stationary sun. That won't cause issues involving directions, the concept of day/night, sleep schedules, the passage of time, the meaning of months and years, or any other dozens of things you would normally use to write a book.

Easy stuff, yup, no regrets here.
December 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I hope they hear those whistles in their nightmares for the rest of their lives.
Minnesotans face off against ICE as they target Somalis.
December 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Nothing like going through edits and realized I changed the color of a dragon from book two and now need to scour every bloody chapter with it to make corrections.
December 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The reason a sex scene is like an action scene is because it is literally an action scene.

We understand that two bodies meeting to punch each other is an action scene. Two bodies meeting intimately is also an action scene.
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
When I started running a few years ago, it was from nothing. My workout partner, however, she was running seven days a week if she could find the time. I felt bad at first, knowing she was slowing down immensely to handle my out-of-breath old ass desperately trying to keep up with her. However!
One of my big light bulbs of this year was realizing that all of my training plans have been too hard with the end result that I don't stick to them because I get injured.

If I go easy, I actually do it.

Easy thing you do >>>>>>>> hard thing you can't keep up
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM