Let's Reintroduce Myself to You...

[dewline]

2020 Edition

I'm Dwight Williams. That's the name my parents gave me, and I continue to hold onto it for lack of anything better to choose to adopt.

I've been an office worker, an artist (comic books, courtroom art, and op-ed cartoons) and a writer. I am a member of the precariate, seeing as my work situation is always uncertain from month to month. Somehow, I still manage to be able to afford this Dreamwidth account for now.

You could call me "cis-het-male", "settler-descended", "white", "Euro-Canadian"...but I am not interested in restricting my friendships and other relationships to those circles. I can't afford that habit to begin with, and it's damned boring besides. To those of you, whether you're inside or outside such circles, who call me friend here and elsewhere: I thank you. You are doing me a kindness for any number of reasons of your own, and it's appreciated.

I live in a place with at least two identities: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada...and also the unceded traditional territory of the Omàmiwininiwak (or as non-Indigenous Canadians were taught, the Algonquin people). Neither of these identities are wrong to me.

I'm a fan of super-heroes, space opera, crime drama, mysteries, science fiction in general...and I read a lot of other stuff besides.

This is not all of who and what I understand myself to be. And much of it is subject to change.

Thank you for visiting and chatting on whatever basis you're comfortable with.

Comments

[mordorbot]

Where did the name dewline come from?

[dewline]

My initials coincide with the old Distant Early Warning Line acronym.

[mordorbot]

What's that? I remain confused.

[dewline]

Dwight
E.
Williams

Distant
Early
Warning

[mordorbot]

No, but I meant I don't know what distant early warning is!

[dewline]

It was a thing set up by the US and Canada via NORAD back during the First Cold War to watch for Soviet missile/aircraft launches. There's half-dismantled installations scattered across the Arctic real estate of the US, Canada, and Kalaaliit Nunaat/Greenland that's what's left of it.

More details here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Early_Warning_Line

[kaffy_r]

I really enjoyed reading this. One thing I've told myself is that I will try to engage more with people online, and you're one of the ones I want to include in that effort. Does it give my age to say that I knew whence "Dewline" came when I first saw your call sign?

[dewline]

It might give away your age range, but I'm not sure that it matters.

[kaffy_r]

Heh ... no, it doesn't matter. I'm still amused by the fact that I've gotten old - which is, I suppose, a better way to approach the subject than abject terror.