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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 1d

Torn between the reality that sailing ships smelled like sweat, shit, and moldy everything, and the fantasy that the book I’m writing would smell like sea salt, musk, and cedar.

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 1d

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 1d

I am currently dating right now, and I think I prefer my cat Rudy lol.

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 1d

I adored that movie as a kid! I’m pretty sure To Wong Foo and The Birdcage were crucial to my understanding of gender non-conforming people growing up.

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 1d

My sister had a VHS tape from 1984 converted to DVD for us a few years ago, so fingers crossed they’re still good!

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 1d

I just rewatched one of the Horatio Hornblower miniseries for the first time since college, and WOW. What an amazing period drama! I had forgotten how intense they were.

Project: Bang Boat is going to end up being the ultimate candy project. My love of the Age of Sail has come back in full force!

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 1d

My TBR will always be larger than I can read, and that is OK because I supported the authors.

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 1d

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 1d

I still get the song I wrote to remember the preamble to the U.S. Constitution in my head regularly, and that was in 5th grade! Why do I still remember that stupid song???

Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 1d

Once upon a time (in undergrad) a friend and I made a songbook for one of our senior projects. In that songbook was a song about Doctor Faustus....set to the tune of Copacabana.

That song (30 YEARS LATER) is in my head. I don't know if it's because homecoming is this weekend or because it's me.

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 1d

WUT.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 2d

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE and their owner is helping to develop military AI. Maybe hit that "cancel my account" button?

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

Following you now because this take is Good and Right.

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

Like, this drabble, “Warning”, won a fandom award at the time, and I was a runner up for several of my round robin chapters.

Am I good at writing???

Teaspoon :: Angel of Destruction by Molly Schlemmer

www.whofic.com

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

Y’all, I just had reason to go back and read some of my high school fanfic, and it’s good??? I was a good writer then???

Why the hell am I doubting myself now???

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

It was a ton of fun. I made Adric die to Vogon poetry once, while Discworld’s Death sighed because he had to, once again, collect poor Adric.

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

Were you ever on the alt.drwho.creative newsgroup? We literally had an ongoing setting everyone could write in where all universes met, called This Time Round, the pub outside continuity. Adric died every night 😂

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

ADHD stress dreams are the worst. I could be having a cool Star Trek adventure dream, but instead I’m dreaming that the road to work keeps crumbling in front of me and I cannot get there on time? No thanks.

Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

Harper in the Sharpe series is definitely charming despite his size, but in a way that makes me think Cornwell thinks all Irish people are charming.

But he also uses a six-barreled rifle that Sharpe gives him, which historically broke most users’ shoulders due to kickback, so… big man.

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

I think people forget that most books aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. I use a lot of old books in my art, and I promise you fucking NO ONE is holding my copy of “The Deserted Wife” sacred, and it was by one of the most widely read female writers of its time!

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

And where does this reverence end? Must we faithfully preserve all crumbling copies of old travel guides? Phone books? The Highway Code? Of course archives should hold a few copies, but all of them?

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Open the edit letter.

☠TheDeadDon'tDie☠ 🐢🎨🧜‍♀️🎪🎠 @railroadofsin.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Where's the door key?

Big Miss Steak 𓅚 🐊 thru the heart of a vampire @hawaiijeno.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Those embers are out.”

Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

My dad would have used the crap out of this when he was mayor of Gambier, so I support this.

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Sophie Stern | L.C. Mortimer @sophiestern.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re thinking about becoming a writer, you should do it.

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

Dear sir:

Dunning-Kruger is an Effect, not a Syndrome. Further, people who accuse well researched women of being examples of said Effect are generally suffering from that Effect themselves.

Happy for you or sorry that happened,
Diane

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

Holy crap, what?

I devoured Cornwell’s books as a kid, and somehow missed this entire series. Ugh, and I was seriously considering starting a reread of the Sharpe series…

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

It’s been a while since I read Cornwell, but I vaguely recall the Welsh generally portrayed poorly in the Sharpe series too.

Then again, his main Irish character in that series is a huge brute who is very stereotypically Irish, so maybe not the most nuanced portrayal there either 😬

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

Well, if you insist… 😂

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Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 2d

I am occasionally annoyed that my brain insists on things like “plot” and “worldbuilding”, preventing me from just writing “they’re a foursome on a sailing ship and three of them wear sexy Napoleonic War uniforms and they bang a lot” like I want to.

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