David Niall Wilson
@davidniallwilson.com
Author, Publisher, some awards, USA Today bestseller. Wrangler of 12 cats & chinchilla, ex-Prez HWA, trivia not fact checked. Way left. Husband & father, I'm Crossroad Press! #startrek #stargate #WoD https://davidniallwilson.com
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Not sure why, but there seem to be a lot of new folks among us today... most everything about me is in my bio. Author, publisher, cat herder (Currently 11). IT and cybersecurity by day... my newest book, Hickory Nugs and Bones and Other Uncomfortable Tales came out on Halloween.
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December 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Not sure why, but there seem to be a lot of new folks among us today... most everything about me is in my bio. Author, publisher, cat herder (Currently 11). IT and cybersecurity by day... my newest book, Hickory Nugs and Bones and Other Uncomfortable Tales came out on Halloween.
One of my superstions is that I love lucky pennies. I wear one around my neck I found the day Clive Barker said we could do his audio (and I could write the afterword to one of his books). I carry three in my pocket. Every morning I toss for as many heads as possible. Going to start posting them.
December 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
One of my superstions is that I love lucky pennies. I wear one around my neck I found the day Clive Barker said we could do his audio (and I could write the afterword to one of his books). I carry three in my pocket. Every morning I toss for as many heads as possible. Going to start posting them.
Most of us here like our neighbors a lot,
But the Trunch, who lived down in Mar a Lago, does not.
The Trunch, he hates people, whole human race!
It spews from his mouth, and is etched on his face.
It could be his brain doesn't function just right.
But if I were to guess, well, he isn't too bright.
But the Trunch, who lived down in Mar a Lago, does not.
The Trunch, he hates people, whole human race!
It spews from his mouth, and is etched on his face.
It could be his brain doesn't function just right.
But if I were to guess, well, he isn't too bright.
December 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Most of us here like our neighbors a lot,
But the Trunch, who lived down in Mar a Lago, does not.
The Trunch, he hates people, whole human race!
It spews from his mouth, and is etched on his face.
It could be his brain doesn't function just right.
But if I were to guess, well, he isn't too bright.
But the Trunch, who lived down in Mar a Lago, does not.
The Trunch, he hates people, whole human race!
It spews from his mouth, and is etched on his face.
It could be his brain doesn't function just right.
But if I were to guess, well, he isn't too bright.
I know sometimes they are legit, but a thing that bugs me more than a lot of other things is a pretentious pile of books clearly curated to make the poster seem like some quirky intellectual who reads only classics. There are so many good things being created now.
December 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I know sometimes they are legit, but a thing that bugs me more than a lot of other things is a pretentious pile of books clearly curated to make the poster seem like some quirky intellectual who reads only classics. There are so many good things being created now.
The number of times I'm singing along with a 1950s or 1960s song that is (in theory) a man telling a woman how much he loves her and then drops into absolute cringe is not a small number. "If you'd do what I want you too... baby we'd be so fine..." WTF?
December 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The number of times I'm singing along with a 1950s or 1960s song that is (in theory) a man telling a woman how much he loves her and then drops into absolute cringe is not a small number. "If you'd do what I want you too... baby we'd be so fine..." WTF?
Also, he's quirky, sometimes has been entertaining, but fuck Snoop Dogg. He's not a genius but he's damn sure smart enough to know what he hitched his wagon to. WTF Snoop?
December 26, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Also, he's quirky, sometimes has been entertaining, but fuck Snoop Dogg. He's not a genius but he's damn sure smart enough to know what he hitched his wagon to. WTF Snoop?
Apparently in the midst of hundreds of idiotic, embarassing posts on Truth Social today, we launched an attack on Nigeria. Again, without congressional involvement. Again, misnaming the Department of Defense so GI Bro Hegseth can pretend he's a warrior. I hate this timeline so much.
December 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Apparently in the midst of hundreds of idiotic, embarassing posts on Truth Social today, we launched an attack on Nigeria. Again, without congressional involvement. Again, misnaming the Department of Defense so GI Bro Hegseth can pretend he's a warrior. I hate this timeline so much.
Christmas was good to me. The Silver Grove is from New Riff - onliy available from the distillery. Oldest daughter and her boyfriend brought it on their way from Ohio. The Wilderness Trail is from my Son Zane and is wheated and very good. The Silver Grove is 116 plus proof Cask Strength #bourbon
December 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Christmas was good to me. The Silver Grove is from New Riff - onliy available from the distillery. Oldest daughter and her boyfriend brought it on their way from Ohio. The Wilderness Trail is from my Son Zane and is wheated and very good. The Silver Grove is 116 plus proof Cask Strength #bourbon
#possums #Possumsofbluesky BOTH of our two porch possums are back, or, possibly the offspring of the originals. This smaller one is feisty and backed that big boy down.
December 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
#possums #Possumsofbluesky BOTH of our two porch possums are back, or, possibly the offspring of the originals. This smaller one is feisty and backed that big boy down.
I'm about to go to that GROK trending and block every freaking one of the people posting those AI images like they are a cool thing.
December 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I'm about to go to that GROK trending and block every freaking one of the people posting those AI images like they are a cool thing.
So... Trish is fixing the turkey and says...
No giblets. No heart. THREE NECKS?
ME: What kind of fucked up turkey was that?
SON: Cerebrus... we're havin a Cerebrusation.
No giblets. No heart. THREE NECKS?
ME: What kind of fucked up turkey was that?
SON: Cerebrus... we're havin a Cerebrusation.
December 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
So... Trish is fixing the turkey and says...
No giblets. No heart. THREE NECKS?
ME: What kind of fucked up turkey was that?
SON: Cerebrus... we're havin a Cerebrusation.
No giblets. No heart. THREE NECKS?
ME: What kind of fucked up turkey was that?
SON: Cerebrus... we're havin a Cerebrusation.
Reposted by David Niall Wilson
I don’t know why I’ve been on a poetry kick recently, but I have discovered I love writing poems to prompts from pals, even if they didn’t mean them to be prompts.
Step along the stanzas, lightly
brushing fingers across the rhymes
if rhyming is what your blood
has to say, sinew and bone
speaking, skin your paper,
your heart persistent,
beating out a meter only
you can feel unless
you touch us with it.
brushing fingers across the rhymes
if rhyming is what your blood
has to say, sinew and bone
speaking, skin your paper,
your heart persistent,
beating out a meter only
you can feel unless
you touch us with it.
December 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I don’t know why I’ve been on a poetry kick recently, but I have discovered I love writing poems to prompts from pals, even if they didn’t mean them to be prompts.
Why in the WORLD would so many people be sharing AI art from GROK... here?
December 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Why in the WORLD would so many people be sharing AI art from GROK... here?
He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy!
December 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy!
Got my occasional reminder that commenting on anything on any big, commercial account is like ringing that HEY REPLY GUYS! bell...
Merry #Christmas y'all... #Cats
Merry #Christmas y'all... #Cats
December 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Got my occasional reminder that commenting on anything on any big, commercial account is like ringing that HEY REPLY GUYS! bell...
Merry #Christmas y'all... #Cats
Merry #Christmas y'all... #Cats
Christmas Eve drawing to a close. I made an Apple Pie, helped my daughter with her Pumpkin Pie (I wrote a book about baking pies) we made sugar cookies with a themed tree... and Telly says she is NOT an Elf Now... #cats #pie #Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Christmas Eve drawing to a close. I made an Apple Pie, helped my daughter with her Pumpkin Pie (I wrote a book about baking pies) we made sugar cookies with a themed tree... and Telly says she is NOT an Elf Now... #cats #pie #Christmas
Have proof of concept that a very cheap bourbon distilled by Buffalo Trace is fine for sipping and very good. This, while the average Jim Beam bourbon tastes young and does NOT sip. The pricing of bourbon is inflated by the new "cool" culture... you don't have to go broke.
December 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Have proof of concept that a very cheap bourbon distilled by Buffalo Trace is fine for sipping and very good. This, while the average Jim Beam bourbon tastes young and does NOT sip. The pricing of bourbon is inflated by the new "cool" culture... you don't have to go broke.
Merry Christmas huminz... luk whut dey haz dun to me. Ah jinglez all de way #christmas #cats #Catsofbluesky
December 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Merry Christmas huminz... luk whut dey haz dun to me. Ah jinglez all de way #christmas #cats #Catsofbluesky
Merry Christmas from Giorgio the Magificent, who wishes your days to be Merry and Bright, and for catnip to fall like rain...
December 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Merry Christmas from Giorgio the Magificent, who wishes your days to be Merry and Bright, and for catnip to fall like rain...
Should we wish everyon a @jcsalterego.bsky.social JERRY XMAS?
December 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Should we wish everyon a @jcsalterego.bsky.social JERRY XMAS?
>They had a freakin’ Mynah bird in there that could talk. Old dude told me they split its tongue when it was very young. Now that sounds like next level cruel to me but let me tell you, young Pete thought a Mynah bird saying hello in perfect English was about the best thing in the universe..." WIP
December 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
>They had a freakin’ Mynah bird in there that could talk. Old dude told me they split its tongue when it was very young. Now that sounds like next level cruel to me but let me tell you, young Pete thought a Mynah bird saying hello in perfect English was about the best thing in the universe..." WIP
WIP: "Tony “Little Man” Vincent was out of money, staggering drunk, and looking for a target. Any target. A fight, something to break, something to steal and sell and do it all over again when he saw it." From "Guilty Until Proven Innocent"
December 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
WIP: "Tony “Little Man” Vincent was out of money, staggering drunk, and looking for a target. Any target. A fight, something to break, something to steal and sell and do it all over again when he saw it." From "Guilty Until Proven Innocent"
Okay, upon a read by my best editor, Trish, I added a short prologue to the three chapters I wrote with a good hook in the first line. 6500 words on book 2 of what I hope will end up being a series. It's off to the agent for her first perusal. I am not working tomorrow. Whiskey Tuesday in effect.
December 24, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Okay, upon a read by my best editor, Trish, I added a short prologue to the three chapters I wrote with a good hook in the first line. 6500 words on book 2 of what I hope will end up being a series. It's off to the agent for her first perusal. I am not working tomorrow. Whiskey Tuesday in effect.
Artist friends. I do a lot of pencil sketching. I've tried some colored stuff and I'm wondering. If you are doing, say, the face of a cat. Do you lay in a background color that is most of the face, and then paint the other colors over it?
December 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Artist friends. I do a lot of pencil sketching. I've tried some colored stuff and I'm wondering. If you are doing, say, the face of a cat. Do you lay in a background color that is most of the face, and then paint the other colors over it?
NC Trump supporters legit backing a nose-up-the-orange-butt guy named Whatley. It's like they've never read the Dunwhich Horror (or my story, Cletus J. Diggs & The Dun WHAT? Horror). I mean, if they are looking for Elder Gods to rise, that's how you get them.
December 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
NC Trump supporters legit backing a nose-up-the-orange-butt guy named Whatley. It's like they've never read the Dunwhich Horror (or my story, Cletus J. Diggs & The Dun WHAT? Horror). I mean, if they are looking for Elder Gods to rise, that's how you get them.