I should really lock in and revise this TV pitch but I stress-doodled instead.

remember in that thread how i said i had some revelations coming? here they are… theankler.com/lost-produce...

From: High Noon (1988), dir. Viktor Kubal, Slovenská Filmová Tvorba

Doodling while watching the World Cup.

Reading books (or scripts) as a writer is just constantly oscillating between "I can do this!" and "Wow I'll never be able to write like this I should just give up".

Been in a big fantasy mood lately and I'm really enjoying THE WILL OF THE MANY. So pleased the second book is already out (and it's somehow even longer than the first?!).

I'm back! Happy to have finally put a big deadline behind us. Up next: revising a TV series pitch that's been woefully neglected. I also *should* finish the horror short story I started... but a new horror idea has taken hold of me and I fear I must respond to its call...

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Few things are better than that long, hot shower you take after turning a script in.

Sometimes work consists of watching a 10-hour long video game lore video and I'm very okay with that.

OMFG A NEW GAME FROM THE SHADOW OF COLOSSUS CREATOR??????? THIS IS EXTREMELY MY SHIT

and no, none of what is going on right now leads to “better” shows - why? BECAUSE WRITERS/DIRECTORS/CREATIVES DON’T GET ENOUGH OPPORTUNITIES TO GET BETTER AT THEIR CRAFT AND CAN’T EARN ENOUGH TO STAY IN IT FOR LONG ENOUGH TO GAIN MASTERY. (10/14)

@isabel.kim Excited to read Sublimation! Happy belated pub day!

I binge-read three books in two weeks instead of writing and now I must suffer the consequences (a script due in 3 weeks).

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY HAD JACK QUAID IN A PVC PIPE CONTRAPTION FOR CUBE MOCAP

Ah yes, the classic tale of the heroine and her gelatinous cube.

YOUR WORLD IS NOW TWO, my sci-fi feature spec you might have seen me post about here during ungodly hours, the script that took me three years to write and honestly thought I'd never finish, the script of my heart, is finally out in the world ⛵🌊

Most importantly it gave execs who were good at their job cover to bring back TV they knew the viewers wanted and execs who were bad at their job -- some of whom actively broke networks they used to be in charge of -- an irrefutable data point, something to mimic and then pretend they always loved.

It's 2:34 AM and I should be writing but instead I read the first 30 pages of a fantasy adventure feature I never finished during film school and realizing a decade later that it should be a novel??? Hm.

"A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam." -- Frederik Pohl

UGGGGHHHHHH i should be writing

I can't quite put to words just how delightful it's been to replay Mother 2 (or Earthbound for the English speakers) for the first time since I was a tween.

Guillermo del Toro about his new animated feature film "The Buried Giant": - "a stop motion movie for adults, being produced without any concession to a family audience" - "I want all the creatures to be of the same material. It's gonna take us years." 💪💪💪 deadline.com/2026/05/guil...

CATERPILLAR on Netflix is one of the most fascinating documentary films I've wathced in a while (fwiw I watch a LOT of docs). It's almost structured like a horror film, which works SO well for this bizarre tale.

Just your regular 2:36 AM despair/procrastination looking up how much I need to save up for comfortable retirement instead of finishing my pages.

HOW??? HOW IS IT MAY???????????????????????

Parents: we hate the tech Teachers: we hate the tech Local admin: we hate the tech Tech companies: here’s lots of tech! Media: whoa so much cool tech Politicians: thanks for the donation let’s get tech in schools!

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Catching some quality glitches on the NASA stream when the signal from the spacecraft was breaking up. Space glitch, a truly rare glitch.

Wow. Look at that view.

oh no i'm supposed to be away writing. please yell at me if you see me online again

My favorite behind-the-scenes story from a Q&A with the director: they built two identical sets to allow for one takes but the cast and crew kept getting lost in them/couldn't tell them apart. So they named one set "Kubrick" and the other "Hitchcock".

I spot Artemis from Sailor Moon!!!

I'm loving working on my script while I have the Artemis II live feed chatter in the background. My username is pleased 🚀🌕

So hyped for this movie. The Oldest View next please and thank you

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is taking Indigenous culture past the Moon: his mission patch was designed by Henry Guimond, an Anishinaabe artist, incorporating one Indigenous perspective about the seven sacred laws, which are represented by animals. 🧪 #ArtemisII

LOVE that they were just like "and here we see the moon, which as it happens is where we are going"

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

!!! Hell yes to more WOMEN WRITING HORROR! Congrats to the Zuckerman sisters! @norazuckerman.bsky.social

Just sitting here procrastinating and thinking about how good Torchwood: Children of Earth was.

The film was built entirely by hand, from watercolor backgrounds to multiplane underwater scenes to needle-pricked paper and inverted paint techniques, without any CG. www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

Tomorrow is the LAST DAY OF MARCH????? HOW???

[trying to be encouraging in these difficult times] good job on having a day

I'll be at the KALH (Korean American Leaders in Hollywood)'s 5th Annual Mentorship Summit today. If you're attending, please say hello!

A fantasy drama series pitch! Getting there...

move slow and repair things

This is the first/last time I mention this show until it's buried. Fuck J.K. Rowling. Fuck you if you support this show. I can rattle off the top of my head at least 100 book series & creators you could be funding instead of this feckless abomination whose filthy lucre is used for bigotry & hate.

My writing partner @gryphonmetal.bsky.social who has a PhD in biological sciences watching PROJECT HAIL MARY: "He didn't balance the centrifuge!"