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I woke up to an email of a 60-dollar donation and I donno how to thank such generosity so I just cry in happiness. We now at $253. It covers rehearsals, meals during shoot, and half the transport costs. With your help I can make #TheNightDancer a popular characters in Ugandan mythology. I can only give you my artworks as a thank you for your donations though a small voice says it's not enough!
Details dilmandila.com/crowdfund-for-t…
#mutualaid #BuyIntoArt #art #film #sff #writing #writingcommunity
Support The Night Dancer Short Film
I’m making a new short film, The Night Dancer, a revenge fantasy that explores the magical power of dance, based on Luo mythology. This blog is a call for patrons to support my efforts.Dilman Dila
It's my pleasure to announce storyseedlibrary.org/ - a #library of #solarpunk #art and story seeds to help you imagine a better #climate future!
Huge thanks to all the artists who shared their art under various #creativeCommons licenses, including @the_lemonaut , @NiwlCraft and @jacobcoffin ! No AI will replace handcrafted art!
If you liked our @SolarpunkPrompts #podcast , the Story Seeds are expanding its concept - soon with more, unpublished ones!
#climateChange #illustration #writing
Welcome to Story Seed Library!
A library of Solarpunk art and story seeds helping you imagine a better climate future!Story Seed Library
So, human writers are now injecting intentional punctuation errors to convince a bunch of stupid people they’re not AI —- wild!
youtube.com/watch?v=ChffvtelVa…
#ai #writing
Generative AI and the War on Writing
Listen up, writers: No more em-dashes. Why? Because the internet said only ChatGPT uses them—the ChatGPT hyphen, as it's now called—and you don't want to be ...YouTube
It's a bright Monday morning, and we've raised $170, which caters for rehearsals and can feed cast and crew for two days. I'm making #TheNightDancer short film, a revenge fantasy with dance as a magical weapon set in Luo (East African) mythology, and I need your support! As a reward, I'll give you my artwork, including short films, digital art, short stories, and novellas.
Details: dilmandila.com/crowdfund-for-t…
#mutualaid #BuyIntoArt #writing #sff #writingcommunity #scifi
@blackmastodon @scifi
Support The Night Dancer Short Film
I’m making a new short film, The Night Dancer, a revenge fantasy that explores the magical power of dance, based on Luo mythology. This blog is a call for patrons to support my efforts.Dilman Dila
This story bundle with many African scifi books, including mine, ends in 16 days. If there are any "book influencers" here, or perhaps you want to run a campaign of some sort and need to give people a gift or bonus or something, let me know and I can get you gift codes.
@bookstodon #writing #writingcommunity #sffbooks #sff #africa
What it's like being #homeless in a red state -
I was sleeping in a tent in Idaho - that I had to move every 2 days as #police had nothing to do with a low crime rate, and liked harassing homeless - which I was doing as the only shelter in town kicked me out for having #tourettes.
I was excited a new shelter was gonna be opened.
It got cancelled as it was next to a rich neighborhood filled with Mormons who sued them into oblivion, and I moved to #portland.
“I wondered if my ovaries made the decision for me. They sometimes jiggle when I'm around a man I fancy. "¹
😂 or 🤦♀️?
¹Michael Robotham in "When you are mine" (not my discovery, but too gold for not to be shared)
If you want to get into African scifi, there is a story bundle with lots of good books on it, including my collection of short stories, Where Rivers Go To Die.
@bookstodon #writing #sff #sffbooks #writingcommunity #scifi
Librarians are dangerous: A public service announcement by Brad Montague
Dear Enthusiasts,
I write to you today as a concerned citizen. Many aren’t brave enough to say it, but the time has come. So, I will say it:
Librarians are dangerous.
(Dramatic music should be playing in your head right now.)
You thought they were just keepers of the quiet. Guardians of the “shhh.” The ones who handed you a dusty book and pointed to a beanbag chair.
Wrong.
Read More
welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/20…
#library #librarians #essay #writing #life #liberty #shared
As the final season of the #TV series The #Handmaid's Tale is being released, I just watched seasons 4 & 5 which I didn't know.
TBH: They were pretty disappointing. Still visually appealing and well acted, and yet: You can't compensate poor #writing with great production value.
This is a general problem in all media:
The screenplay is the most important part, and definitely not one, you can simply buy with money.
Let's see whether they found good writers for the final season.
Opinions?
I vastly underestimated, as a young-in-path writer, the time to *maintain* a large catalog.
I thought having a large catalog would be the key to a successful career, esp in self-pub (and it was), but the maintenance goes exponential w/ # of books.
Still worth it tho.
I wrote about the mythology of the night dancer, one of the most evil characters from this part of the world (East Africa), but whose stories always end up in horror-comedies. When you talk about a night dancer in Uganda, people expect a good laugh.... But my short film is more #dance than horror, a revenge fantasy. Anyway, if you enjoy folk stories and mythologies and zombies have a read.
patreon.com/posts/mythology-of…
#sff #horror #ghost #blog #scifi #writing #writingcommunity #monster #AmWriting
I'm obsessed with a futuristic techno utopia, where direct democracy flourishes and thousands of people share presidential power, with every citizen being a parliamentarian. It's a #fediverse kind of country. Here is my newest short story set in such a world.
My next feature film has this theme; a young woman invents direct democracy technology but faces off with a dictator who uses gene-editing to hold on to power.
Follow-up on this: Here is an article that explains what you can do as an author if your works have been used by Meta (without your consent) to train AI:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/2…
Feel free to boost.
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#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #writer #writing #spring #ostara #heathen #druid #flowers #uncertainty #fear #renewal
Japanese light novel titles used to be a handful of words - or even a single word. Now, it's not uncommon to see titles topping almost 100 kanji and kana characters. When did people start writing such ridiculously long ranobe titles? And - more elusively - why?
unseen-japan.com/light-novels-…
#japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #anime #popculture #culture #writing
When Did Japanese Light Novels Titles Become So Insanely Long? - Unseen Japan
Help! I Was Researching This Post About Light Novel Titles When I Got Reincarnated In Another World As Their Strongest Harem Leader!Jay Allen (Unseen Japan)
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