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dilmandila

@dilmandila@mograph.social

I Write. I make films. Transmedia artist. My blog https://www.dilmandila.com/author/dilman is about my works and life. I daydream a lot and want to be paid for it. Been creating #sff #scifi since 2001 but only recently got BSFA 2021 + Nommo Awards 2022 shortlist. PKD Awards 2024 finalist!

My films #DilmanShortFilms

#fedi22 #filmmaking #writing #writingcommunity

East Africa

Avatar: my selfie in a grey hood, in a misty freezing town, I look miserable. Header: comic page of a woman holding a baby

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Fury, to scifi
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Got a new idea for a novel. Pre-industrial society on nameless planet. Disabled people sometimes disappear and come back “fixed”. It’s the aliens. The kicker is they’re purifying the gene pool and replacing the people in synth bodies. I know this might trigger some disabled people, but what I wouldn’t give to be in a non disabled body with the same mind…

dilmandila,
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@Fury No publisher would touch such a book. I was asked to tone down on character's quest to heal his body. He eventually doesn't succeed, but they said the quest in itself was problematic, which didn't make sense since all my life I have longed for a solution to a disability that made my childhood a nightmare.....

dilmandila,
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@Fury Anyway. Sidenote. In the 90s, HIV/AIDS in Africa got so much attention that it became a lucrative industry. Victims got free food + grants to start businesses + free education for their children among many other benefits from NGOs. Thus to a poor person, getting AIDS was a way out of poverty, and I heard stories of people deliberately infecting themselves to get all this free stuff.

RickiTarr, to random
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Would half chicken half ducks be called Chucks or Dickens?

dilmandila,
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@RickiTarr Charles Dickens was half chicken half duck

dilmandila, to books
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Author copies arrived of this bulky anthology of African ghost stories. Now I can say that my story was published in the same book as the legend, Amos Tutuola!

@bookstodon @blackmastodon #books #ghost #ghosts #africa #africanwriters #sff #fantasy #gothic #horror #writing #writingcommunity

dilmandila,
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@waiting @bookstodon @blackmastodon I see its available for pre-order from the publisher
https://www.flametreepublishing.com/african-ghost-short-stories-isbn-9781804177976.html

dilmandila,
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@msquebanh @bookstodon @blackmastodon I believe through the publisher is a good place to start. I see its available for pre-order

https://www.flametreepublishing.com/african-ghost-short-stories-isbn-9781804177976.html

melissabeartrix, to random
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I'm so old I remember when people liked google

Giggles

Hugz & xXx

dilmandila,
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@melissabeartrix I'm so old I used to have a geocities site.

Giggles

melissabeartrix, to random
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I am not injured ... I repeat I am not injured

It's beetroot mixed juice

The glass just fell off the counter ... I promise

I thought right away, it could be worse ... It's not a half dozen glasses and a full bottle of wine @sister_ratched ... Hugz

Hugz & xXx

dilmandila,
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@melissabeartrix @sister_ratched looks like a film in a horror movie

dilmandila, to writing
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There's a review of my new collection of stories, Where Rivers Go to Die.
"Dila leverages his experience working in film to craft his prose, in his approach to plot, characterisation, structure, and tension in his stories. The intense, cross-genre assortment of stories collected here blends African spirituality with horror, the fantastical, and technology"
https://locusmag.com/2023/07/eugen-m-bacon-reviews-where-rivers-go-to-die-by-dilman-dila/

Buy the book here
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/057836803X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=publiweekl05-20

dilmandila, to random
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16. How comfortable are you with writing kissing and/or intimacy scenes?

Oh-oh. I once wrote a romance novella for a publisher launching an imprint like Mills and Boon. The biggest comment I got from the editor was "Dilman, this is a romance. You have to give your readers a hot-hot-hot scene! Saying 'they kissed' and 'they made love' is a big cheat and a big no-no!"

Uhm.... well, in films I do sex scenes without batting an eyelid. But in prose...... I don't know why I avoid it.

dilmandila, to writing
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This idle evening I check goodreads for new reviews of my works, and like always I'm pleasantly surprised to find someone left something on a book I'd given up on.... but this one has me baffled, for this person doesn't like the book because "I didn't have much pre-existing knowledge of or emotional attachment to the mythology and story-telling of" the area Dilman based his book on, and I keep wondering why people expect African books to be anthropological texts! 1/2

dilmandila, to random
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Is it just me or are there a lot more dudes in these parts of the internet?

(or rather people who society has conditioned me to think of as dudes, at first glance🙂 )

dilmandila, to HashtagGames
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Inglorious Bastard


dilmandila, to random
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Just wondering, are there any celebrities here?

dilmandila, to twitter
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Looks like people in Nigeria, Kenya and perhaps Uganda are moving en mass to Truth Social. They were so addicted to twitter that now with the limits many feel like their life is at an end. I talked to a young lady today and she sounds very depressed, not sure what to do next. But Truth Social.... yo, not sure how that happened, but its trending in these countries and a flock effect is happening. Sadly.

dilmandila, to writing
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It's a quiet Sunday morning here. I spent all of yesterday writing a 5K word treatment for a feature film, and today I have to write a 6K non-fiction essay for an academic publication. I can't say I'm having a fun weekend :-((

dilmandila, to writing
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It's Friday so we do a thing? I'm a transmedia artist from Uganda, mostly work in and in the realms and would love to follow people in the same fields, generally, but anyone involved in the business, or those who and have a good sense of humor. I'll such folk.

Its hard to read a post with so many hashtags, but well, looking to increase my and so give me a boost or tag people you think I should connect with.

dilmandila, to linux
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I have failed to find a solution to this, so perhaps someone here can help me? Using @linuxmint and I want to associate .blend files with the blender logo, and any files with its associated program. How do I do this?

dilmandila, to KindActions
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I'm a bit stuck now. A big corporation has not paid me work I finished in October last year. Its in the contract that they can take this long to pay as they conduct audit. But I'm broke. 😭 Banks in my country can't give me loans because I have no running contract.

Does anyone know where I can urgently borrow money online? $2K Payable within 6 months.

Can anyone lend me this money?

dilmandila, to linux
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Trying to move away from Windows to Linux Mint but my biggest annoyance so far is installing software. Like the most effective way is you have to be online to install software and that consumes data. I have 3 to 4 machines I use regularly, so if I am to migrate all to Linux, I'll have to download software 3 or 4 times, not once as in windows. A pain and costly.

@linuxmint

dilmandila, to scifi
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So Publishers Weekly gives a kind review of my new collection of short stories, Where Rivers Go To Die, saying it is a "meticulously concocted volume full of starkly vivid imagery and gripping prose. These tales are guaranteed both to tickle the imagination and give readers the heebie-jeebies."

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780578368030

#short #shortstory #amreading #AmWriting #writing #writerscommunity #sff #scifi #horror #bookstodon #book #review #read #readingrecs

dilmandila, to random
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@FediVideo Here are some of my on peertube that I'd love for you to boost ;-)
Documentary
The Sound of One Leg Dancing
https://video.ploud.jp/w/gzbWTXdhKs912NDL4WEzAs

What Happened in Room 13
https://video.ploud.jp/w/6fytAG7Xf8BSJF8NZ7vAXL
Ghost of a Broken Heart https://video.ploud.jp/w/bXjd3kem7WYG9d55RAfoAk
How To Start A Zombie Apocalypse
https://video.ploud.jp/w/rq9sqKutP6tJpBGypZmysk
What Happened to Jilted Lovers
https://video.ploud.jp/w/nATmXEyMLSuwVF4u6CJ95N

dilmandila, to random
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Its so again I'll do I'm a transmedia artist, Ugandan, into (see my films ) and and I'm addicted to but I create stories in any media and format that I can lay my hands on, though all in

Looking to and accounts of of any kind, or those with a good sense of humor as I need a good laugh every so often.

Boost or @ me with accounts you think I should follow

dilmandila, to random
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"How to Start a Zombie Apocalypse" is a short film I did in 2017 (or was it 2018?), about a woman who defies death and accidentally unleashes #zombies upon the world. I wrote it like a folk tale, and it's one of those I had a bit of fun working on. You can watch it here on PeerTube

https://video.ploud.jp/w/rq9sqKutP6tJpBGypZmysk

If you enjoy it, please consider supporting #DilmanShortFilms over on #patreon

#film #filmmaking #horror #horrorfilm #shortfilm #folk #indie #followfriday

dilmandila, to random
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I used to share my films under before moving servers, but now I can't see any of the posts! Says the list is emtpy.

That's a bit annoying! Nothing to do about it?

@feditips

dilmandila, to movies
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What Happened in Room 13. About an extramarital affair that goes horribly wrong. The woman ends up dead and the man races against time to hide the body.

My first #shortfilm is here. Love it so much. I think its still my best work since I was very naive when making it and eight million views on YouTube suggest its a good one to watch. Here it is without ads
https://video.ploud.jp/w/6fytAG7Xf8BSJF8NZ7vAXL

If you enjoy it, support my films on #patreon

#DilmanShortFilms
#Noir
#film #filmnoir #thriller #silentsunday

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