DK_Latta

I write sometimes: F/SF/H/Myst &, when I can, superheroes! Tweets a mix of self-promotion, pop cultural musings, whimsy, politics. Older than I used to be.

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

1. Exploring concepts of heroism and morality🦸
2. Monsters that aren't what/who you assume👻
3. A dry wryness😏
4. Oddly describing light & shadows as if they have physicality🤷
5. Canadiana 🇨🇦

[Ai Jiang || 江艾 || 🇨🇳🇨🇦 @AiJiang_]

5 writers/5 things you might find in a story of mine:

1. Hope in hopelessness
2. Focus on interiority
3. Too many em dashes
4. Wild concepts
5. ✨Vibes✨

*Please feel free to tag yourselves huhu so I can look through everyone’s 5 things 👀

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

There's definitely a smug anti-US side; equally there's a smug anti-anti-US side. Canadians who basically embrace an American-lite identity, who regard as embarrassing & with sneering contempt any attempt at expressing, nurturing, let alone developing, a Canadian culture🤷

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

heroine battling wits w/villain). I've seen that in other mysteries, where they present an intricate puzzle...then throw away the pieces, or cram them in willynilly. Still: I found it engrossing, Great production/performances; creepy without being a generic serial killer plot.4/4

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

Praise-with-Caveats: Listened to an audiodrama mystery/thriller called The Ratcatcher (apparently first a German production, remade in other languages inldng Eng). Part of why I decided to try it was it starred Ayesha Antoine, an actress I've liked in a few audio prods. 1/4

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

The problem was: once you get to the end...they kind of handwave away a bunch of the questions that fueled the mystery (like how the bad guy did some of the things they did). They build suspense with seeming impossible clues...and then shrug. (Maybe they planning sequels: 3/4

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

A thing that can bother me is people who criticize something but with no real interest in making it better. This can range from people who just like to be snide to people who have a hidden (destructive) agenda behind critiquing. Criticism that can be disingenuous and nefarious.

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

People posting favourite turns from Val Kilmer - a maybe under-the-radar role was as the iconic...The Mark of Zorro! In a full cast audio production that has grown on me. More like a vintage play than a movie (more talk than action) Kilmer plays the (dual) role with gusto RIP

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

If I had more reach/thought there'd be interest, I'd be tempted to post random 🇨🇦 pop cult quizzes like, I dunno:
Which historical figure has NOT been portrayed by Colm Feore?
Richard Maurice Bucke
Pierre Trudeau
Glenn Gould
Norman Bethune
John McCrae

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

There should be more to 🇨🇦 "pride" than a Tragically Hip T-shirt & rooting for a hockey team; more than just an interest in your particular demographic/race/region/etc. The Mosaic. Francophone, Anglophone, Allophone, Indigenous, tangled like yarn a kitten has played with.5/5

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

A problematic aspect of the push for 🇨🇦 pride/patriotism is, frankly, that too many CDNs think of Canada as just America -- but with health care (or better hockey, or whatever) rather than with a genuine interest in (and love for) the cultural mosaic. I'd love it if...1/5

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

..threw together from a 30 sec Google search. And maybe talk about things beyond military victories. I remember, when I'd post at Huffington Post Canada lists like "10 Great CDN Bio-Pics)" etc. (Break for shameless plug of my film/TV book...which I can't link too apparently:( 4/5

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

And Nikki M. James seems wasted -- I remember seeing a TV/filmed version of a Stratford prod of Caesar and Cleopatra with her opposite no less a luminary than Christopher Plummer -- and she stole the show! 2/2

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

Don't know if it's 'cause of the gravity of things, but seem to see less pop cult posts these days. Still, been watching Daredevil: Born Again. Think it's stronger in general than the Netflix run. A great supporting cast. I've been a Clark Johnson fan since his Night Heat days1/2

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

An expanded version of the shorter description/blurb that appears on Amazon for my stand alone novelette, The Ice Station (available in kindle & print).

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

The plot of The Ice Station has echoes of stories like "Heart of Darkness" & "The Eagle of the Ninth" but hopefully does its own thing. Part of the idea (and the "Canadian" vibe) was to try and create a horror/magic/myth around *cold* and ice/snow itself.
https://t.co/qLe0czs8x2

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

In the same way Tolkien's pipe-smoking Hobbits were anachronistically British or Howard's Beyond the Black River was inspired by a mythologized Americana, The Ice Station tries to splice a Canadian history vibe onto traditional Fantasy elements of Elves and Goblins. 2/2

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

My Fantasy novelette, The Ice Station, is out from Farthest Star Publishing—a small press focusing on short novels . A peculiar focus in my life/work is a pulpy/mythologized Canadiana and this story was a long-germinating idea: a kind of 🇨🇦 Fantasy 1/2
https://t.co/qLe0czs8x2

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

@kebramm Thanks :) Although I always worry about announcing a project too early, given the vagaries and uncertainty of the publishing biz lol

[DK_Latta @DkLatta]

At the risk of jinxing it: my novelette The Ice Station has been accepted for pub by Farthest Star Pub. The Ice Station was an idea I'd nurtured for a while: imagining a *Canadian* spin on a High Fantasy/Trad Fan story, like how Tolkien's Hobbits were wery, wery British. 1/2