flickers are hammering on my house so that's fun.

Incredible to hear such love for THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY! @taramdscott.bsky.social you absolutely nailed everyone's root trauma and anxieties (and your impression of Georgiana's initial reaction to Caroline request made us laugh so hard)

just #write why do YOU write? 📚🖋️

Sewing

Every time someone says “step foot” on for all mankind I want to cry. A step doesn’t foot. It’s set. Set foot. SET. FOOT. And it’s free “rein” not “reign” but that’s just extra

This is tough because I don’t think knowing craft sooner would’ve saved me from not being ready to tell stories at the level required. I was a kid when I started, so experience was a gate to craft. To that: read for other people. Create the discipline of analysis while providing support to others.

I love the counterfactual montages at the start of for all mankind where they kill off and arrest people we don’t like.

Read. Every. Dialogue. Line. Aloud.

Inventing a Thursday that will hurt us, a little bit, with consent.

one of the hallmarks of any meta platform is that if you click a comment alert it will go literally anywhere else.

What they don’t tell you on For All Mankind is that they all get really good at cutting hair.

Guy thinks he’s some kind of Gail Simone.

What is it with For All Mankind and ketchup spaghetti

It’s been a minute since I made Thai curry. Gonna do a red one with pork tenderloin. Thai curry is one of my favourite ways to vacuum up a ton of veg I need to use.

this may be patch but I’m calling this whale Punkin.

Idea for a protest action: mass screaming.

I found a pair of hiking sandals for $25 at decathlon, something almost impossible to find Vancouver for less than $40. I can’t figure out what it is about this company. They just emphatically do not suck and have reasonable prices. I hope they’re kicking MEC right in the teeth.

sorry for this unhinged post

Periodic reminder:

Sergei and Margo

Learned from my 101-year-old grandfather that one problem of being a centenarian is that airlines apparently only have a 2-digit age variable, meaning that every time he shows up at the airport, the data in the system at the check-in counter thinks he's a 1-year-old unaccompanied child.

Glorious comment thread.

It’s fascinating to hear these “so women in Hollywood?” conversations right before meetoo is about to break. I don’t know if it’s the nature of experience for it to be this kind of linear mush, but the run up to it feels so naive. I don’t remember being less angry before it. But maybe I was.

When you’re listening to an old Scriptnotes and you’re not sure if the sirens are real or podcasted. In this case both. Time travel shit.

It’s typical I invite @minorfracas.bsky.social to run workshops with me and he’s already lapping me by getting them done at x2 the speed

Drink, ye harpooneers! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat’s bow—Death to Moby Dick!

We're at over $6500 with just under 6 hours to go! Can we get to our silly unofficial goal of hitting $6969.69 raised to support sapphic books & authors before time runs out?

Oh, a minor character who's slightly annoying and obstructive up until now has a sudden sympathetic turn and a lot more lines, whoops he's gonna die.

Costa Ronin's gonna be in Season 5 of For All Mankind. I am a happy, happy kitty.

I love Aleida.

some jerks were mean to a user on r/dishwashers for posting selfies, and now a ton of other dishwashers are posting selfies in solidarity and I love it.

it’s that time again (with bonus nose boop)

really ornate but very practical weekly pill boxes. Like gothic ones, art deco ones. Ones with little switches. Ones with gems. Bedazzled ones, carved ones.

I don't want Hollywood to outsource its labour, but the reason HBO and Disney keep coming to work here is because our production labour has single payer healthcare. The AMPTP has labour by the short hairs because it forces negotiation of healthcare. California has to get this done for the country.

of all the attempts, this somehow has managed to be the most boring one.

*wakes up with horrible head pain* Why is this getting RT'd... oh oh...

well that was anticlimactic.

So anyway. Look at this hedgehog in tiny lil flippy floppies!

one. job.

jesus christ i leave for an hour to do some nice screenwriting workshopping with pals and what happens

go ahead. cite the deep magic to me again. you old witch! go ahead. i was there when it was written, like that matters. piece of shit!

friends, I did too much caffeine

any real examples of a storage box for documents in say the 1920s where if you try to break it open, the contents are destroyed (or stained, or wet, or made unusable) but it somehow disarms this effect when you use a key? I feel like something must exist.

#scriptsky I post bits and pieces of Salt the Devil, but since I'm taking it down from the blcklst today I thought I'd post something different from it. John Ogolo is a mix of real people in my life. He's the only teeny tiny path of sanity through all of Stevie's past, present and future trauma.

writing in zohran mamdani for governor of california

We do in fact deserve this… deadline.com/2026/04/park...

Dracula is one of the best novels ever written.

It’s sicko hours so I’m just gonna express my frustration that real altruists get banned or run off this website while weird mfs who do tangible harm to communities get protection & it’s been going on and it always has been and it still does & wrongs that shoulda been righted long ago never were