In local news: Attempted potato waffle recipe. Utter failure. Waffle plates now soaking in boiling water. Elsewhere, news too painful to look at closely. ...Feeling like chucking everything and doing useless digital art (like putting all the #MiddleKingdoms characters into Green Lantern uniforms).😅

Kynall Kitchens Roast Smoked Chicken - Food and Cooking of the Middle Kingdoms A signature dish of one of the Four Realms' most famous eating establishments

Over at the "Food and Cooking of the #MiddleKingdoms" site: A recipe that's taken me a while to get posted due to video issues... but here it is: "Kynall Kiktchens Roast Smoked Chicken." foodandcooking.middlekingdoms.com/kynall-kitch...

Status report, "Always Leave Yourself A Note About What Your Note MEANT": Found this pair of titles and/or ideas buried among some digital "sticky notes" on a #MiddleKingdoms project to which they ABSOLUTELY do not apply:

WHEN IKEA BOUGHT (Looney Tunes) ACME
WHEN ACME BOUGHT IKEA

...🤣

Post by @dduane · 3 images 💬 2  🔁 21  ❤️ 87 · Howdy! I picked up your full store bundle recently, and I've started with the Young Wizardry series because I read most of them in middle school, and after following you here I r…

Just in passing—off an ask-box query, a beginner's guide to the #MiddleKingdoms: www.tumblr.com/dduane/80292... (Caution: contains a #Polycule in Shambles.) 😅

Status report, "Internal Dialogue While Looking Over Notes" dep't:
...DD: I think this could be another novel series starting.
ALL #YOUNGWIZARDS & #MIDDLEKINGDOMS CHARACTERS AT ONCE: Oh NO you don't!
DD: ...And it looks like it's about FOOD.
(long silence)
FREELORN OF ARLEN: ...We're cooked.

Freelorn and the Queen of Arlen (or so they call her, lacking any humans to hold down the title)

In the "Sorry Not Sorry" dep't: Digging around among some previous #DazStudio renders for a particular pose, and this wasn't it, but she is just SO CUTE. #MiddleKingdoms #Freelorn
#theQueen

Post by @dduane · 1 link 💬 0  🔁 7  ❤️ 22 · At the Ebooks Direct "office": A chance meeting - Out of Ambit · Is there a chocolate analog in the Middle Kingdoms (I don't remember seeing one)? After seeing your latest crosso…

Status report, “Interesting Tumblr Asks” dep’t: #Chocolate in the #MiddleKingdoms — yes or no? Well, maybe. (But that said, we may have much more serious problems…) www.tumblr.com/dduane/78980022930320588...

Post by @dduane · 2 images 💬 1  🔁 7  ❤️ 54 · Stumbled across while cleaning out the Twitter account · ...And now wondering how much more of this kind of stuff I should go prospecting for before the bird-place-that-was goes a…

Status report, “Cheap Fantasy Humor” dep’t: off recent discussions of the necessary balance of reality against fantasy: some #MiddleKingdoms characters have Opinions to bounce off the author. 😏 www.tumblr.com/dduane/77727630037529395...

(chuckle) In some parts of the #MiddleKingdoms, they could make this guy a ruler. The principle is the same. Your people have the right to see you in the street. If you have to hide (or worse, only come out with guards) you need to find a different job.

Post by @dduane · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 13  ❤️ 64 · Hmm, I wonder if I've got enough decent images to keep this going for 30 days? Let's find out. (The original of the above, and its explanation, are at this post.)

Status report, "Let's See If This Works" Dep't: Wondering if I've got enough appropriate digital art to make the #MiddleKingdoms version of a #30DaysOfPride work. Let's find out! Day 2: "The #Polycule Is In Shambles." :) www.tumblr.com/dduane/78525...

DD vs. the Solanaceae | Diane Duane DD vs. the Solanaceae(snicker) No, not single combat against an alien race. (…jots down the title anyway) Something else, though. This again! Seriously, I thought I had this business pretty much...

...And yet: Oh great, once again the *Solanaceae* are trying to mess with me. (dduane.tumblr.com/post/7112504... ) ...Now trying to figure out whether I'm going to allow these things into the #MiddleKingdoms... and how I can work them into a photoshoot. 😅

Well, there've been references to that approach here and there in #MiddleKingdoms canon. Trouble is, it's not wildly effective for the usual reasons that holding a meditative state for very long is tough work. And if a gifted enough adept is intent on underhearing you, you *will* get heard...

7 Influential African Empires | HISTORY From ancient Sudan to medieval Zimbabwe, get the facts on seven African kingdoms that made their mark on history.

#BlackHistory
#Origins #AfricanHistory
#AfricanKingdoms: #Egypt #Kush #Aksum #Benin #Kongo (Northern Angola) #Carthage #LandofPunt
#TradingKingdoms #MiddleKingdoms: #Ghana #Mali #Songhai #Zimbabwe #Kila
www.history.com/news/7-influ...

Ebooks Direct Whole Store Bundle This ebook bundle (not available in the UK: details below) contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works. All our ebooks are DRM-free, and come with the usual EBD lifetime replacement guar...

Still at the Black Friday price, somehow or other. 😄 For those (not in the UK, sorry) looking to hole up with a big TBR pile over the holidays: 36 DRM-free #ebooks! #YoungWizards, #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms, standalone #fantasy… Grab the bundle now! https://dduane.link/EBDWholeStore

Ebooks Direct Whole Store Bundle This ebook bundle (not available in the UK: details below) contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works. All our ebooks are DRM-free, and come with the usual EBD lifetime replacement guar...

So tomorrow's #CyberMonday and this bundle remains on sale through then. 36 #ebooks, #YoungWizards & #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms fantasy, DRM-free, free replacement guarantee, etc etc. I'm going to bed soon, so if you want to help me buy groceries while I sleep, go for it. 😄 ebooks.direct/products/ebo...

Ebooks Direct Whole Store Bundle This ebook bundle (not available in the UK: details below) contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works. All our ebooks are DRM-free, and come with the usual EBD lifetime replacement guar...

Pointing at this now, as the price is already at #BlackFriday levels: the full #Ebooks.Direct collection of #YoungWizards, the #LGBTQ #MiddleKingdoms series, etc etc! DRM-free, includes our usual lifetime free-replacement guarantee, yada yada. Come take advantage of us! 😏 dduane.link/EBDWholeStore

Ebooks Direct Whole Store Bundle ETA, with regret, for UK users: we cannot sell our ebooks to you due to Brexit. Our profound apologies. There's a note with a few more details at the bottom of the product description.)  By popular d...

Just to mention in passing that this price for a whole #ebook store's worth of books (36 titles) is still holding firm: containing the first nine revised #YoungWizards novels, the #MiddleKingdoms #LGBTQ works, and a whole lot more. Grab the whole lot here! dduane.link/EBDWholeStore

From the top, The Door Into Fire, The Door Into Sunset, and The Door Into Shadow by Diane Duane sit in a stack on top of a shelf. The books are all well-loved paperbacks.

#101-103 I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to explore the #MiddleKingdoms. Segnbora is my girl. Or my dragon. My girl and dragon. What I’m saying is these are excellent books.

On a marble background, plates holding grapes and slices of lamb marinated in blackberries and fruit beer, with parsnip chips and a sweet/sour blackberry sauce on the side to dunk things in. Also a fancy glass of the fruit beer in the background.

Just finished the second shoot on the Lamb and Sour Blackberry Sauce recipe for the Food and Cooking of the #MiddleKingdoms site. This is the casual version: "the Ambassador's Snack", as seen in *The Door Into Sunset." She's doing her paperwork late in the evening, and nibbling on this... :)

In one of the dedicated indoor practice spaces associated with the Kynall Castle compound, Herewiss and Freelorn get ready for a sparring session

"Before they spar": Two members of the core #MiddleKingdoms marriage as they get together for one of their regular staying-fighting-fit sessions.

The Merothian Vavasours were one of the strongest forces of resistance to Te Essar's conquest of the Crown Baronies. The Vavasour tradition of striped sleeves and pants made them distinctive in battle, and led to Essarian laws outlawing stripes on Merothian garb.
#MiddleKingdoms

Food and Cooking of the Middle Kingdoms A recipe/cookbook project based in Diane Duane's award-winning Middle Kingdoms epic fantasy universe

He just put some wholemeal flour in it, because this is officially for a #MiddleKingdoms recipe. (See foodandcooking.middlekingdoms.com for more info. Briefly; Different Earth, no potatoes, but many good things regardless.)

Just off a beach, neon letters rise from the surf spelling out "50% OFF". A cat wanders off down the beach, and a dragon flies off in the distance. Somewhere it's apparently Miller Time...

At our Ebooks Direct store for the month of July: everything in our #ebook store is 50% off! #YoungWizards YA #fantasy and #MiddleKingdoms #LGBTQ series are in the #sale too. Stop by our sale page, get the details, and find out about our free replacement guarantee! dduane.link/SummerReading