Dwight Williams 🇨🇦

@dewline.bsky.social

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Writer/artist/office worker; openly meddling 🇨🇦; nerd re: superheroes + starships; autistic. He/him/il; Do say "Hi!" (💉 x10) + 😷=Peace of mind! Ottawa/Adàwe/Odàwàng, Canada https://web.ncf.ca/ad696/

Excerpt from a work-in-progress map of the region of Star Trek's version of our galaxy from Yridia to Septra to No'Mat to Ardana. Focus is on the subregion around Starbase 18. Map design by Dwight Williams, inspired by Geoffrey Mandel, Larry Nemecek, Timothy Peel, Mike Okuda, all the way back to Franz Joseph Schnaubelt. Among many others.
Prototype of "Atlas of the Milky Way" banner, using the "Rocket Man Second Stage" font as proposed by Dwight Williams - saved and uploaded July 9th, 2026.
Screenshot of a testing of Comicraft's Rocket Man Second Stage font by Dwight Williams - recorded July 9th, 2026.
Screenshot of what Dwight Williams saw on his Bluesky feed this date, 1124 AM EST.
Screenshot of work in progress starmap, depicting the new name of Alpha Scuti, Tiān Biàn. Map designed by Dwight Williams. Screenshot recorded 5 July 2026.
Screencap from HYGMap.space, recorded 1 July 2026. Highlighted is a possible gravitational relationship between two M-class stars 127 light-years from Sol, probably in the direction of Leo Minor.
Self-portrait of Dwight Williams, recorded on 1 July 2026. However you think of Canada Day, may the day be kind to you.
Emoji of two people hugging.
Emoji depicting two people hugging.
Title card of the Canadian-American-British-German TV drama/comedy series "Due South", reproduced under fair use/fair comment doctrines.
Screencap of WUSA9's YouTube feed from the Kennedy Center, recorded at 838 AM EST on 13 June 2026 by Dwight Williams.
Excerpt from a work in progress map of the Disputed Zone spaces contested by the Federation and the Klingon Empire in several Star Trek series. Highlighted is the star eta Leporis, some 49 lightyears from Sol system, as a possible "upper" Z-axis boundary marker for the Chantico Nebula. The Chantico Nebula was created by writers of the Strange New Worlds branch series of Star Trek as a waypoint between the Prospero system - not shown here - and Starbase 12. Map design by Dwight Williams, inspired by the work of Geoffrey Mandel, Michael Okuda, Larry Nemecek, Timothy Peel and many other artists, writers, etc..
The prompt received by Dwight Williams on 31 May 2026 when he started to reply to Ted A'Zary about Jason Cornett's reaction to being told that Ted was supposedly writing in Abkhazian. Most unexpected.
Excerpt from a work in progress mapping of the Alpha and Beta Quadrant theatres of operations of the Cardassian and Dominion Wars as depicted in various Star Trek series. Highlighted are specific stars: Gliese 193, HD 33725, HD 32965 and AF Leporis.
A modification of the "Burger King" logo, reading "UBI for all, So no one goes without".
Screenshot of why.bsky.team's profile page as viewed from my own account, recorded 22 April 2026 at 733 AM. Notations include "User Blocked by 'The Great AI-NFT-CRYPTO Cull'" and "User Blocking You".
Excerpt from a Work-In-Progress map of the regions around the Cardassian Union as depicted in various Star Trek series. Real-universe stars included as part of the excerpt depicted include: phi-1 Ceti, Gliese 41, 7 Canum Venaticorum, rho Piscium, 38 Ceti, EO Piscium, Struve 142, Mothallah, Hamal, MZ Ursae Majoris, gamma Ursae Majoris, Sheratan and a lot of others.
Mutual-support-hug emoji
Excerpt from the base map for The Edge of Midnight. Highlighted by a rounded-corners box is the star HIP 56399, tentatively designated by map designer Dwight Williams as a candidate for home star of the planet Benzar.
The Delta-Syrma-Miri's World region, with the stars' Z-axis coordinates shown rounded up/down to the nearest full light-year.
Screencap of Jamie McKelvie's comment that "The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health, is it?" All too true.
"People hugging" emoji.
"People hugging" emoji.
Screencap of work in progress from the base map for Edge of Midnight, focused on the Rotarran region of the Klingon Empire.
"People Hugging" emoji.
Reproduction of "People Hugging" emoji.
Reproduction of the "People Hugging" emoji, uploaded because Bluesky isn't making it available to its users yet.
Reproduction of the "People Hugging" emoji.
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..."
Screencap from Kathleen Petty's Twitter account re: the resignation of Rebecca Schulz as Alberta's environment minister as announced on 31 December 2025.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A picture of "Tough Topics" signage recorded by Dwight Williams at the Cumberland Branch of the Ottawa Public Library in November 2021.
An image of the promo poster for Corner Gas: the Movie.
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.
Screenshot from openrailwaymap.org centred on the Ottawa-Gatineau region. Recorded by Dwight Williams on 20 November 2025.
Screenshot from regional star map depicting LHS 1847 as the host star of Rura Penthe from Star Trek: the Undiscovered Country.
Self-portrait, while wearing preferred N95 respirator.
Self-portrait, wearing my preferred brand of N95.
Screenshot of a browser window showing my access to the City of Ottawa website to be blocked by security measures. Recorded 21 October 2025.
Screenshot of a work-in-progress starmap depicting the region of Star Trek's version of the Milky Way galaxy including Illyria, Hetemit and Cait. Highlighted is a star catalogued in the astronomy database SIMBAD as - among other things - "Koenig 53" and "Ross 360".
Excerpt from work in progress on Romulan history-focused base map by Dwight Williams.
A screenshot recorded by Dwight Williams on 10 October 2025, showing a search result from Wolfram Alpha regarding the star catalogued as "HD 4077".
Screenshot of a "work in progress" map of the "Romulan zone of influence" spaces, antispinward of the region formerly held by the Romulan Star Empire or Rihannsu Imperium. Covers from Iota Tucanae to Epsilon Corvi along the antispinward, and from i Velorum and k Carinae coreward to the aforesaid Iota Tucanae and Epsilon Corvi. Map researched and designed by Dwight Williams. Screenshot recorded on 5 October 2025.
An excerpt from one of Dwight Williams' Star Trek-inspired fanfic-based map projects. Includes real stars such as Lambda Hydrae and XZ Fornacis, and a whole mess of fictional planets orbiting other far-more-real stars.
Excerpt from a work-in-progress map trying to compare the Demilitarized Zone of the 2260's with that of the 2360's. Includes the general neighbourhood of Zeta Piscium, Mothallah/Alpha Trianguli, Hamal/Alpha Arietis, etc.
A proposed "loop" route for serving all three current council wards of Orléans in eastern Ottawa. Designed by Dwight Williams.
Screencap of work-in-progress star map design for my friends in the Tranquility Press fandom team. Astronomers may recognize many of the catalogue numbers of the stars depicted. Inspired by the book Star Trek Star Charts by Geoffrey Mandel and company. Artist: Dwight Williams. Screencap recorded 14 September 2025.
Work-in-progress star map excerpt based on assorted Star Trek-related works. Highlighted are two stars: TIC 7394090, assigned by designer Dwight Williams as the host of the planet Fenris; and NLTT 17935, assigned as host of the planet Skånevik Prime. Other real stars depicted in the region as shown include 33 Sextantis, Psi Fornacis, UZ Sextantis, and XZ Fornacis.
Title screen of the Canadian-American-UK-German co-produced television series Due South. Yes, it was cross-border copaganda, the adventures of a Canadian Mountie in what was then modern Chicago. Yes, it became a weird hybrid of drama, comedy, mystery and urban fantasy. And this Canadian viewer had fun watching it while it lasted.
Self-portrait of Dwight Williams with his copy of An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets by Tim Brookes. Portrait recorded 28 August 2025.