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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦
@dewline.bsky.social
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Writer/artist/office worker; openly meddling 🇨🇦; nerd re: superheroes + starships. He/him/il; Do say "Hi!" (💉 x10) + 😷=Peace of mind!

Ottawa/Adàwe/Odàwàng, Canada

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I love putting that kind of work into things.
Screencap of work in progress from the base map for Edge of Midnight, focused on the Rotarran region of the Klingon Empire. Screencap of the work-in-progress base map of Romulan history for Tranquility Press projects currently underway. Regions highlighted include the Afehirr Nebula from Star Trek Online and Gasko Sector. Screencap of a work-in-progress base map for Cardassian, Bajoran and Dominion history projects for Tranquility Press fan fiction. Screencap of a work-in-progress base map of the Taurus Reach region of the Orion Arm for Edge of Midnight. Highlighted are two possible locations for the Cait system.
January 16, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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"People Hugging" emoji.
January 15, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Reproduction of "People Hugging" emoji.
January 15, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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Reproduction of the "People Hugging" emoji, uploaded because Bluesky isn't making it available to its users yet.
January 14, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Reproduction of the "People Hugging" emoji.
January 11, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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Hey, @variety.com , you could be promoting this report right here!
A screencapture of a Twitter posting by Variety Magazine about a profile of Guillermo del Toro. del Toro is quoted as follows: "Be kind, be involved, believe in your art. At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always a prelude to fascism. They think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters..."
January 5, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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@kathleenpetty.bsky.social

This got my attention over on Twitter tonight about a certain resignation in the #Alberta cabinet:
Screencap from Kathleen Petty's Twitter account re: the resignation of Rebecca Schulz as Alberta's environment minister as announced on 31 December 2025.
January 1, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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We are also still on good terms...
Excerpt from a work-in-progress starmap covering the coreward regions of the Orion Arm for Star Trek fans purposes. X-axis range: +220 to 260 lightyears. Z-axis range: -450 to +450 lightyears. Designer: Dwight Williams.
December 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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December 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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New(?) hybrid emoji by Dwight Williams, entitled "Sweating While Masked". Dwight suspected while posting this that he's not the first to have this idea.
December 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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This is still bugging me, so I'm asking around. I'm *still* trying to find real stars that fit the X-Y coordinates published and broadcast for #Bajor and #Cardassia and are on the same Z-axis "altitude". Details in the alt-text included.
Excerpt from a work-in-progress star map inspired by Star Trek. This map is made in association with several other people in the Tranquility Press fan fiction collective. The region focused on here is centred on coordinates supplied by HYGMap.space as follows: X= -35 lightyears Y= +60 lightyears Z= 0 lightyears Z-axis coverage is from +300 to -300 lightyears. Real states in the region include Wolf 476. Gliese 4.1, BK Piscium, FF Andromedae and many others. Proposed X-Y plane coordinates for Bajor and Cardassia are marked with blue dots.
December 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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I think I finally tracked down a candidate for its host star. Maybe, barring additional data from the #GaiaMission, #TESS, #CHEOPS, etc.. There may be corrections yet to come.

simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-b...
Excerpt from a work-in-progress map based on Star Trek and selected works of fan fiction inspired by Trek of the Romulan - or Rihannsu - zone of influence within the Orion Arm, with the star TIC 220416121 highlighted as a possible host star for the fictional planet Iconia.
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Is this close enough? Swapping out Wolf 414/Gliese 469 as we've known it and swapping in "UFC 892" from "Bread and Circuses"?
December 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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I remembered to add alt-text *after* clicking "post". My apologies for my mistake.
Promo imagery for the CBC-backed TV series "Intelligence" created by Chris Haddock, and starring - among many others of high talent - Ian Tracey, Klea Scott, and Matt Frewer.
December 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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That cancelled show you'll never stop thinking about.

This show got the axe at #CBC in part because of #StephenHarper and #GWB trying to do cross-border water deals...
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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@daytonward.bsky.social I had a thought about Satera from your novel, Pliable Truths. Subject to debate and discussion, as ever...

#StarTrek #novels #astrocartography #galacticcartography #CardassianUnion #starmaps #starcharts #astronomy
Excerpt from a "work-in-progress" map of the spaces in and around the Cardassian Union, highlighting the star BC Arietis as a candidate for the Satera system as depicted in the Star Trek: the Next Generation novel "Pliable Truths" by Dayton Ward. That choice depends on Minor Korva being "ten light-years away" (give or take a fraction of a light-year) and also being in the GJ 3150 system.
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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A picture of "Tough Topics" signage recorded by Dwight Williams at the Cumberland Branch of the Ottawa Public Library in November 2021.
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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A movie that takes place where I'm from.

(A province, not a specific town.)
An image of the promo poster for Corner Gas: the Movie.
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Placing #Bajor and #Cardassia is giving me fits tonight. Not for the first time either. I just want to find X-Y placements that fit what's been published and broadcast/streamed.

#StarTrek #mapdesign #wip #starcharts #stellarcartography #TranquilityPress #fanart #fanfiction
Excerpt from a work-in-progress star map designed by Dwight Williams, inspired by various works set in the Star Trek universe. The Bajoran and Cardassian home systems are highlighted with spot-colour rings. A scan of the map of the region from the book Star Trek: Star Charts is used as an underlay for reference as the work continues.
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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There used to be rail tracks directly connecting #Ottawa and #Sudbury. Those tracks should be rebuilt. Soon, please.
Screenshot from openrailwaymap.org centred on the Ottawa-Gatineau region. Recorded by Dwight Williams on 20 November 2025.
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Update: Tentatively making do with LHS 1847 for Rura Penthe for #TranquilityPress projects' goals. Alternative suggestions welcome!
Screenshot from regional star map depicting LHS 1847 as the host star of Rura Penthe from Star Trek: the Undiscovered Country.
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Understood!
Self-portrait, while wearing preferred N95 respirator.
November 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Self-portrait, wearing my preferred brand of N95.
November 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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There is another such airport in Gary, Indiana...
October 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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And there's six airports designated as "International" in the metropolitan region around Chicago *and Milwaukee*, right?

This radius (imperfectly) covers 100 miles from O'Hare...
October 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM