Status report, "Always Leave Yourself A Note About What Your Note MEANT": Found this pair of titles and/or ideas buried among some digital "sticky notes" on a #MiddleKingdoms project to which they ABSOLUTELY do not apply:
WHEN IKEA BOUGHT (Looney Tunes) ACME
WHEN ACME BOUGHT IKEA
...🤣
WHEN IKEA BOUGHT (Looney Tunes) ACME
WHEN ACME BOUGHT IKEA
...🤣
January 28, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Status report, "Always Leave Yourself A Note About What Your Note MEANT": Found this pair of titles and/or ideas buried among some digital "sticky notes" on a #MiddleKingdoms project to which they ABSOLUTELY do not apply:
WHEN IKEA BOUGHT (Looney Tunes) ACME
WHEN ACME BOUGHT IKEA
...🤣
WHEN IKEA BOUGHT (Looney Tunes) ACME
WHEN ACME BOUGHT IKEA
...🤣
In local news: Attempted potato waffle recipe. Utter failure. Waffle plates now soaking in boiling water. Elsewhere, news too painful to look at closely. ...Feeling like chucking everything and doing useless digital art (like putting all the #MiddleKingdoms characters into Green Lantern uniforms).😅
March 30, 2026 at 3:02 PM
In local news: Attempted potato waffle recipe. Utter failure. Waffle plates now soaking in boiling water. Elsewhere, news too painful to look at closely. ...Feeling like chucking everything and doing useless digital art (like putting all the #MiddleKingdoms characters into Green Lantern uniforms).😅
Meanwhile, in other news: while getting ready to reshoot a recipe that’s central to the main timeline in the #MiddleKingdoms universe, it seems I’m going to be smoking some lamb shank this evening.
June 9, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Meanwhile, in other news: while getting ready to reshoot a recipe that’s central to the main timeline in the #MiddleKingdoms universe, it seems I’m going to be smoking some lamb shank this evening.
In the "Sorry Not Sorry" dep't: Digging around among some previous #DazStudio renders for a particular pose, and this wasn't it, but she is just SO CUTE. #MiddleKingdoms #Freelorn
#theQueen
#theQueen
October 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In the "Sorry Not Sorry" dep't: Digging around among some previous #DazStudio renders for a particular pose, and this wasn't it, but she is just SO CUTE. #MiddleKingdoms #Freelorn
#theQueen
#theQueen
Status report, "Internal Dialogue While Looking Over Notes" dep't:
...DD: I think this could be another novel series starting.
ALL #YOUNGWIZARDS & #MIDDLEKINGDOMS CHARACTERS AT ONCE: Oh NO you don't!
DD: ...And it looks like it's about FOOD.
(long silence)
FREELORN OF ARLEN: ...We're cooked.
...DD: I think this could be another novel series starting.
ALL #YOUNGWIZARDS & #MIDDLEKINGDOMS CHARACTERS AT ONCE: Oh NO you don't!
DD: ...And it looks like it's about FOOD.
(long silence)
FREELORN OF ARLEN: ...We're cooked.
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Status report, "Internal Dialogue While Looking Over Notes" dep't:
...DD: I think this could be another novel series starting.
ALL #YOUNGWIZARDS & #MIDDLEKINGDOMS CHARACTERS AT ONCE: Oh NO you don't!
DD: ...And it looks like it's about FOOD.
(long silence)
FREELORN OF ARLEN: ...We're cooked.
...DD: I think this could be another novel series starting.
ALL #YOUNGWIZARDS & #MIDDLEKINGDOMS CHARACTERS AT ONCE: Oh NO you don't!
DD: ...And it looks like it's about FOOD.
(long silence)
FREELORN OF ARLEN: ...We're cooked.
(chuckle) In some parts of the #MiddleKingdoms, they could make this guy a ruler. The principle is the same. Your people have the right to see you in the street. If you have to hide (or worse, only come out with guards) you need to find a different job.
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
June 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
(chuckle) In some parts of the #MiddleKingdoms, they could make this guy a ruler. The principle is the same. Your people have the right to see you in the street. If you have to hide (or worse, only come out with guards) you need to find a different job.
Status report: Long work day punctuated by small deliveries & making book trailer slides. Currently watching TRON: LEGACY and wallowing in Daft Punk while more rendering goes on. …Meanwhile: a digital “model sheet” of some non-invisible #bisexuals. Happy #BisexualVisibilityDay to all celebrants! 😀
September 23, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Status report: Long work day punctuated by small deliveries & making book trailer slides. Currently watching TRON: LEGACY and wallowing in Daft Punk while more rendering goes on. …Meanwhile: a digital “model sheet” of some non-invisible #bisexuals. Happy #BisexualVisibilityDay to all celebrants! 😀
Meanwhile, in the #DIgitalArt dep't: Have spent a while looking for a Daz Studio face to suit this guy. Found it at last. Wine jobber, dive bar owner, queen's husband: Wyn s'Heleth. www.tumblr.com/dduane/82829... #MiddleKingdoms
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September 20, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Meanwhile, in the #DIgitalArt dep't: Have spent a while looking for a Daz Studio face to suit this guy. Found it at last. Wine jobber, dive bar owner, queen's husband: Wyn s'Heleth. www.tumblr.com/dduane/82829... #MiddleKingdoms
Over at the "Food and Cooking of the #MiddleKingdoms" site: A recipe that's taken me a while to get posted due to video issues... but here it is: "Kynall Kiktchens Roast Smoked Chicken." foodandcooking.middlekingdoms.com/kynall-kitch...
Kynall Kitchens Roast Smoked Chicken - Food and Cooking of the Middle Kingdoms
A signature dish of one of the Four Realms' most famous eating establishments
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March 29, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Over at the "Food and Cooking of the #MiddleKingdoms" site: A recipe that's taken me a while to get posted due to video issues... but here it is: "Kynall Kiktchens Roast Smoked Chicken." foodandcooking.middlekingdoms.com/kynall-kitch...
So I'd say today's experiment is a success (though, per the above, not entirely complete). You can definitely smoke lamb shanks. I might go for a different wood next time: hickory or mesquite (both of which are present in the #MiddleKingdoms, under different names). Anyway: that worked. 😄(9/9)
June 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
So I'd say today's experiment is a success (though, per the above, not entirely complete). You can definitely smoke lamb shanks. I might go for a different wood next time: hickory or mesquite (both of which are present in the #MiddleKingdoms, under different names). Anyway: that worked. 😄(9/9)
Genuinly, the only thing Paige wanted all those years at MiddleKingdoms is to stay away from your toxic gathering. Sorry for the debt he had, but when a person is ready to claim "YEAA, that's because of MY pressure", it barely gives him credit in the eyes of strangers.
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Genuinly, the only thing Paige wanted all those years at MiddleKingdoms is to stay away from your toxic gathering. Sorry for the debt he had, but when a person is ready to claim "YEAA, that's because of MY pressure", it barely gives him credit in the eyes of strangers.
Just in passing—off an ask-box query, a beginner's guide to the #MiddleKingdoms: www.tumblr.com/dduane/80292... (Caution: contains a #Polycule in Shambles.) 😅
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December 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Just in passing—off an ask-box query, a beginner's guide to the #MiddleKingdoms: www.tumblr.com/dduane/80292... (Caution: contains a #Polycule in Shambles.) 😅
Pointing at this now, as the price is already at #BlackFriday levels: the full #Ebooks.Direct collection of #YoungWizards, the #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms series, etc etc! DRM-free, includes our usual lifetime free-replacement guarantee, yada yada. Come take advantage of us! 😏 dduane.link/EBDWholeStore
Ebooks Direct Whole Store Bundle
This ebook bundle (not available in the UK: details below) contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works. All our ebooks are DRM-free, and come with the usual EBD lifetime replacement guar...
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November 22, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Pointing at this now, as the price is already at #BlackFriday levels: the full #Ebooks.Direct collection of #YoungWizards, the #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms series, etc etc! DRM-free, includes our usual lifetime free-replacement guarantee, yada yada. Come take advantage of us! 😏 dduane.link/EBDWholeStore
Status report, "Let's See If This Works" Dep't: Wondering if I've got enough appropriate digital art to make the #MiddleKingdoms version of a #30DaysOfPride work. Let's find out! Day 2: "The #Polycule Is In Shambles." :) www.tumblr.com/dduane/78525...
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💬 0 🔁 13 ❤️ 64 · Hmm, I wonder if I've got enough decent images to keep this going for 30 days? Let's find out.
(The original of the above, and its explanation, are at this post.)
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June 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Status report, "Let's See If This Works" Dep't: Wondering if I've got enough appropriate digital art to make the #MiddleKingdoms version of a #30DaysOfPride work. Let's find out! Day 2: "The #Polycule Is In Shambles." :) www.tumblr.com/dduane/78525...
...Meanwhile... back to the pie. Bear in mind that this is a leftover dish (indeed the very *end* of the leftovers from the pork roast of a day or two before) and is going to be very casually gobbled at the ( #MiddleKingdoms householder's) communal lunch table. —So. The background... (9/n)
July 1, 2026 at 4:03 PM
...Meanwhile... back to the pie. Bear in mind that this is a leftover dish (indeed the very *end* of the leftovers from the pork roast of a day or two before) and is going to be very casually gobbled at the ( #MiddleKingdoms householder's) communal lunch table. —So. The background... (9/n)
So, assuming you were going to be in town in the next day or so, you'd go to your butcher and say: "Can you do me a thing? Grind me up about [ #MiddleKingdoms equivalent of] half a kilo of really fatty pork." (21/16)
July 1, 2026 at 7:38 PM
So, assuming you were going to be in town in the next day or so, you'd go to your butcher and say: "Can you do me a thing? Grind me up about [ #MiddleKingdoms equivalent of] half a kilo of really fatty pork." (21/16)
Over at #Ebooks Direct: our Summer Reading #Sale is on! Everything's ridiculously discounted —works from the #YoungWizards universe, from the #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms series, and lots more! And our Whole Bookstore Sale is still on. Stop in and grab a bargain! ebooks.direct/pages/our-su...
July 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Over at #Ebooks Direct: our Summer Reading #Sale is on! Everything's ridiculously discounted —works from the #YoungWizards universe, from the #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms series, and lots more! And our Whole Bookstore Sale is still on. Stop in and grab a bargain! ebooks.direct/pages/our-su...
So tomorrow's #CyberMonday and this bundle remains on sale through then. 36 #ebooks, #YoungWizards & #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms fantasy, DRM-free, free replacement guarantee, etc etc. I'm going to bed soon, so if you want to help me buy groceries while I sleep, go for it. 😄 ebooks.direct/products/ebo...
Ebooks Direct Whole Store Bundle
This ebook bundle (not available in the UK: details below) contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works. All our ebooks are DRM-free, and come with the usual EBD lifetime replacement guar...
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December 1, 2024 at 10:34 PM
So tomorrow's #CyberMonday and this bundle remains on sale through then. 36 #ebooks, #YoungWizards & #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms fantasy, DRM-free, free replacement guarantee, etc etc. I'm going to bed soon, so if you want to help me buy groceries while I sleep, go for it. 😄 ebooks.direct/products/ebo...
...And yet: Oh great, once again the *Solanaceae* are trying to mess with me. (dduane.tumblr.com/post/7112504... ) ...Now trying to figure out whether I'm going to allow these things into the #MiddleKingdoms... and how I can work them into a photoshoot. 😅
DD vs. the Solanaceae | Diane Duane
DD vs. the Solanaceae(snicker) No, not single combat against an alien race. (…jots down the title anyway) Something else, though. This again! Seriously, I thought I had this business pretty much...
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March 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
...And yet: Oh great, once again the *Solanaceae* are trying to mess with me. (dduane.tumblr.com/post/7112504... ) ...Now trying to figure out whether I'm going to allow these things into the #MiddleKingdoms... and how I can work them into a photoshoot. 😅
Over at #Ebooks Direct: our Summer Reading #Sale is on! Everything's ridiculously discounted —works from the #YoungWizards universe, from the #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms series, and lots more! And our Whole Bookstore Sale is still on. Stop in and grab a bargain! ebooks.direct/pages/our-su...
July 23, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Over at #Ebooks Direct: our Summer Reading #Sale is on! Everything's ridiculously discounted —works from the #YoungWizards universe, from the #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms series, and lots more! And our Whole Bookstore Sale is still on. Stop in and grab a bargain! ebooks.direct/pages/our-su...
Status report, “Cheap Fantasy Humor” dep’t: off recent discussions of the necessary balance of reality against fantasy: some #MiddleKingdoms characters have Opinions to bounce off the author. 😏 https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/777276300375293952/preserving-this-here-temporarily-having-just?source=share
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💬 1 🔁 7 ❤️ 54 · Stumbled across while cleaning out the Twitter account · ...And now wondering how much more of this kind of stuff I should go prospecting for before the bird-place-that-was goes a…
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July 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Status report, “Cheap Fantasy Humor” dep’t: off recent discussions of the necessary balance of reality against fantasy: some #MiddleKingdoms characters have Opinions to bounce off the author. 😏 https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/777276300375293952/preserving-this-here-temporarily-having-just?source=share
At #Ebooks Direct: our Summer Reading #Sale is on! Everything's ridiculously discounted—#YoungWizards universe works, the #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms series, and lots more! And our Whole Bookstore Sale's still on too. Stop in and grab a bargain! (Not valid in UK, sorry.) ebooks.direct/pages/our-su...
July 28, 2026 at 2:05 PM
At #Ebooks Direct: our Summer Reading #Sale is on! Everything's ridiculously discounted—#YoungWizards universe works, the #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms series, and lots more! And our Whole Bookstore Sale's still on too. Stop in and grab a bargain! (Not valid in UK, sorry.) ebooks.direct/pages/our-su...
Still at the Black Friday price, somehow or other. 😄 For those (not in the UK, sorry) looking to hole up with a big TBR pile over the holidays: 36 DRM-free #ebooks! #YoungWizards, #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms, standalone #fantasy… Grab the bundle now! https://dduane.link/EBDWholeStore
Ebooks Direct Whole Store Bundle
This ebook bundle (not available in the UK: details below) contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works. All our ebooks are DRM-free, and come with the usual EBD lifetime replacement guar...
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December 21, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Still at the Black Friday price, somehow or other. 😄 For those (not in the UK, sorry) looking to hole up with a big TBR pile over the holidays: 36 DRM-free #ebooks! #YoungWizards, #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms, standalone #fantasy… Grab the bundle now! https://dduane.link/EBDWholeStore
Status report, “Interesting Tumblr Asks” dep’t: #Chocolate in the #MiddleKingdoms — yes or no? Well, maybe. (But that said, we may have much more serious problems…) https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/789800229303205888/is-there-a-chocolate-analog-in-the-middle-kingdoms?source=share
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July 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Status report, “Interesting Tumblr Asks” dep’t: #Chocolate in the #MiddleKingdoms — yes or no? Well, maybe. (But that said, we may have much more serious problems…) https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/789800229303205888/is-there-a-chocolate-analog-in-the-middle-kingdoms?source=share
It's starting to smell REALLY good in the kitchen. 😋
(sighing) These are officially for "The Bean Dish That Saves The World" in the #MiddleKingdoms universe. But though the beans (haricot/navy) arrive tomorrow, these shanks may not last that long. I may need to go to the butcher's again tomorrow.😅
(sighing) These are officially for "The Bean Dish That Saves The World" in the #MiddleKingdoms universe. But though the beans (haricot/navy) arrive tomorrow, these shanks may not last that long. I may need to go to the butcher's again tomorrow.😅
June 11, 2026 at 4:37 PM
It's starting to smell REALLY good in the kitchen. 😋
(sighing) These are officially for "The Bean Dish That Saves The World" in the #MiddleKingdoms universe. But though the beans (haricot/navy) arrive tomorrow, these shanks may not last that long. I may need to go to the butcher's again tomorrow.😅
(sighing) These are officially for "The Bean Dish That Saves The World" in the #MiddleKingdoms universe. But though the beans (haricot/navy) arrive tomorrow, these shanks may not last that long. I may need to go to the butcher's again tomorrow.😅