On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Let's Reintroduce Myself To You

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 03:27:31 GMT

2023 Edition

With apologies to Matt Dusk.

A lot of you have been here with me a while, so you can skip this one, as it's for the newer arrivals. It's been three years since the last edition, so it's overdue.

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"...and 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.

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Hello to kathleen_dailey!

Mon, 29 May 2023 18:15:59 GMT

Good to meet you via Dreamwidth!

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I see new usernames on my profile...

Mon, 16 Mar 2020 01:15:39 GMT

...two of them so far today. Care to introduce yourselves?

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Let's Reintroduce Myself to You...

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 16:57:44 GMT

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.

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A quick greeting...

Fri, 17 May 2019 02:44:00 GMT

...to peoriapeoriawhereart. Honoured to make your acquaintance, and I hope you'll find reason to stick around a while!

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For Those of You Just Arriving From Tumblr...

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 10:54:05 GMT

I've read some of the news and opinions about how the place is being taken apart by Verizon via their Oath subsidiary. This is cause for no small degree of distress, and I share in that.

I think you'll find Dreamwidth a congenial place to hang out via the Internet. Here's the official welcome from the Dreamwidth management.

For myself: I have been a writer, an illustrator, an office worker and a software tester. I expect to fill other roles as well between now and my eventual death. Some of which I expect to discuss here. As noted on my profile page, I was once a LiveJournal user, but when their server farm finally got moved to Moskva and the management made it clear I was expected to conduct myself on LJ as if I lived in Putinist Russia...well, that was it.

I hope some of you looking at this weblog for the first time will find me a congenial online neighbour.

More later, here and elsewhere...

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In case there's a migration of strangers from Facebook

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 02:13:20 GMT

Because with the latest from the Cambridge Analytica mess underway, who knows, right?

Some people might remember my name from Facebook and wonder who the heck this guy is that's been typing out...something that maybe is sometimes sensible and on other occasions makes you want to perforate their skull with your fist.

I'm Dwight. I'm a Canadian nerd. Sometimes, I've been a writer. Others, an artist, still other times, an office worker. I don't plan to discuss that last part of my work history much. It's not secret, just not what I want to talk about here.

I started this out on Livejournal years and years ago. I thought then that I was going to promote myself as a writer and illustrator. Some of my friendlist here knows me from at least that far back. I left because Livejournal was expected to expect me to write this here blog as if I were living and working in Putin's version of Russia. Because their servers had been moved there.

I was born in what some call Treaty 4 territory out on the prairies of North America/Turtle Island to Euro-Canadian parents. I live in Ottawa-Gatineau, built on what's still unceded Alqonquin territory.

So that's the short version.

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Reintroducing Myself

Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:27:20 GMT

Most of you reading this already know me.

For those of you seeing this for the first time: I'm Dwight Williams. I've been a writer, an artist, an office-worker. My closest approach to Real Fame was co-writing the Daily Planet Guide to Gotham City with Newsarama co-founder (and current lead writer at The Science Of) Matt Brady. It was a fun gig.

I'm also an irregular contributor to the Spacing Ottawa weblog on local urban infrastructure, history and culture. I've done courtroom art, op-ed cartoons and the occasional comic book over the years as well.

I'm interested in a lot of subjects, so expect a lot of wandering in my writings here. As I hope to see from you in turn.

More as it occurs to any of us...

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