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If there's a power rankings of "people I'd be most terrified to be publicly destroyed by" gotta figure she's up near the top, along with the Menswear guy.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 7h

Are we nervous? Excited? Terrified of the comments?

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 10h

Not me, inventing a specific combat role as a 'Shield' for this new series, and then promptly forgetting to even give the first one the MC meets an actual shield to wield.

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026

absolutely amazing chart

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 28/09/2026

I took one look at Mu's starting magic stat and started laughing. No, your kiddo is absolutely not going to magic school.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 27/09/2026

Ah yes, after picking such sure-fire targets like the Odyssey and GTA6 to destroy, they're now gonna go after Toy Story...whose target audience is, for sure, heavily on Twitter. Good strategy. They just love winning.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 27/09/2026

I recruited her and her mom and basically ensured they fought together at all times.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 27/09/2026

My playlist is a liiiittle more curated than that, but yeah, full random while writing or playing games. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

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That Dalglish Guy's Writing Playlist by David Dalglish on Apple Music

Playlist · 300 Songs

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 27/09/2026

That's talent right there.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 27/09/2026

We're approaching "people who believe in alien abductions" percentage numbers here.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 26/09/2026

This is up for me after Fire Emblem. How's it comparing to f?

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 26/09/2026

With no Pan's Labyrinth, started off the spooky horror month a little early and watched THE THING. Kiddos were rightfully freaked. Those practical effects are still bonkers.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 25/09/2026

Oh wait there is one...for $60...

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 25/09/2026

Amazon doesn't even have a blu ray for sale that works on US region players. What the fuck?

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 25/09/2026

Pan's Labyrinth, which was to be our movie for the night, is not available to rent anywhere. Why. Just why.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 25/09/2026

I tried it again recently'ish and basically came to the conclusion certain puzzle games are not for me lol

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 25/09/2026

I was in 7th grade, so not exactly the most patient at the best of times, and mostly certainly not when an M-rated fantasy warfare game was the reward for beating it.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 25/09/2026

I played this at school with an awesome teacher who pretended it was educational. We looked up a cheat guide to beat it, though, because once we did, our next up game was Warcraft 2.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 24/09/2026

Sweet bleeding Mithras y'all, I get being an unhinged Astarion fan, that is one messed up guy, I like him and I don't usually have time for vampires. But you do realize that he's, like, pretend?? And that someone can have a different take on who he is or his story, right?

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026

Why is economic sentiment so low when GDP growth is positive? There’s no reasonable explanation, the only possible conclusion is that people are all just doing a mass hysteria (/s)

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 24/09/2026

The american psyop attacks begin, first target, clueless Canadian stomachs.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 23/09/2026

Two years ago I wrote a stupidly long reddit post about writing a climactic battle scene for your novels, and I still get notifications every now and then from someone stumbling onto it and finding it useful. Figure I'll reshare again! www.reddit.com/r/writing/s/...

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 23/09/2026

But did you consider taking your monitor, lowering it to an appropriate eye level, then yanking it off entirely to throw out the window and then sprint into the forest to live in a deep cave amid the trolls and faeries?

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 23/09/2026

They got a wedding and a happy ending!

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 22/09/2026

3: not really, just some more early stuff in book one as I mentioned. 4: yeah they were in love, but I made it pretty obvious that Lucavi couldn't due to quite literally the previous god-kings screaming in his head. 5: Eshiel was originally to die in book two when I plotted it. Obv that changed.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 22/09/2026

1: I really wanted to tell a story full of gods, heavily inspired by FFXIV and its primals. 2: Keles, specifically in book one. I'd have given her PoV chapters showing a lot of what is referenced in books two and three, such as her time in prison.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 22/09/2026

Also...maybe brace yourself for Ch 53...

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 22/09/2026

ok you're gonna make me go grab the book and see what the hell is happening on page 405... Oh. Riiiight. Um. Just don't murder me until the book is finished? I promise it's worth it lol

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 22/09/2026

Rough, but surely it won't be as bad as Krista playing Hades, right?

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 21/09/2026

Averaging about 2.5k peak with a delay of new content until December. For an extraction shooter made by a small team that hopes to slowly grow the game over years, it'd be perfectly fine. For a team the size of Bungie (what's left after the layoffs) it's not even a fraction of what they need.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 21/09/2026

Chrono Trigger. I didn't even try to hide its influences on Skyborn, either.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 20/09/2026

Hrm. I don't think I'll use that too often but I'll keep it in mind if there's some character I just have to have...could probably just use the auto task to blast thru the month pretty quickly between meals, then do another restart for real once they're recruitable.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 20/09/2026

Didn't know this. So you'll sacrifice your exp/levels for the chapter but get relationship stuff you for sure want?

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 20/09/2026

Are you trying to recruit *everyone* you can? I've found pretty quickly I have more people than I have party slots. Just sharing three meals every week or so they're up and focusing on the characters I for sure want, I've gotten five people recruited and at only Renown lvl 6.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 19/09/2026

... sigh, I'm scared to go see what the gasbag did now...

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 19/09/2026

She's in love! Nothing wrong with that right?

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 18/09/2026

Don't worry, she'll remove that apology desire soon enough.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 18/09/2026

Emma Ruth Rundle, Paris Paloma, Kiki Rockwell, and Rabbitology all having new albums out has me drowning in fantastic writing music.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AI critics: This is a theft machine for lazy turds with no imagination AI Stans: This is the greatest, most powerful tech in history. It is not a theft machine. There are no original thoughts anymore People Who Created AI: This is a theft machine for lazy turds with no imagination

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 18/09/2026

Watched the first two seasons of Golden Girls this year, bought them as a present for my wife. Absolutely still holds up.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

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