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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 4m

Both fantastic shows that I will miss! Thank you (and the rest of the teams) for your work.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 55m

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 1d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1h

Nothing stops you returning to an online game like a falling-out in a friend group that played it together. Heartbreaking.

Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 16h

Multiple post-show audience Q&As I've been involved in have seen somebody asking some variant of "do you stay in character outside the show" and let me tell you it is so very satisfying to put that concept firmly to bed

Holy Heck, It’s STACYHDEMON! @stacyhd.bsky.social · 16h

Method acting, also known less formally in theater circles as “being an absolutely insufferable prick.”

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 18h

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”

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Holy Heck, It’s STACYHDEMON! @stacyhd.bsky.social · 16h

Method acting, also known less formally in theater circles as “being an absolutely insufferable prick.”

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 18h

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 16h

The last dog he'll ever wag, hopefully

Moxie 🔜 blfc @dracocat.bsky.social · 18h

Its wild too because apparently Tron Ares was a different story/film initially but Leto wanted to explore his character so much he convinced the director to change it to focus on him.

“The first iteration of [Tron: Ares] was a different movie, but it had a character named Ares that [Leto] was cast as while we were in pre-production,” Wigutow says, “He really got his teeth into this character and really wanted to hold onto it, and ultimately came to me and said, ‘Let's just build a movie around this character. I want to understand this character, his origins, and I want to take him to a very different place.’ So that's really the provenance and the origin of this specific film is Jared's dogged persistence on getting it done, but also telling the story of this character specifically.”

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 19h

The talent has notes

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 20h

Oh and a letter after the date if there are multiple revisions on that day

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 20h

I use "project title, document type, YYYYMMDD" plus initials of author at the end if working on a collaborative project.

So for example "Spectrum screenplay 20250915 AT".

Genuinely believe that's the best way to name files based on my experience.

*Always* year month day

Steve Barr @barrsteve.bsky.social · 7d

Screenwriters, what are your file naming conventions?

Depending on the needs of the production, I usually bounce between version numbers (v1, v2.5, v3.2.4.111, etc) or dates (Cheers ep706 060925).

What I never ever ever write is "final".
For three reasons.

(a short thread)
#scriptsky #filmsky

Mostly text as an image. The title says "Every Designer In This World" and then there are six file icons, with names suggesting that each was supposed to be the "final" version but then there were more changes.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 22h

Weirdly also one of the best soulslikes? Same psychological feeling, except the combat is walking, the bosses are tricky climbs, and the souls are your pride. (Not an unfair or even unintended comparison either imo, given the world design and the bonfire checkpoints)

Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 22h

BABY STEPS is a top 10 game for me, I think. It's so funny and so well-designed and so thematically rich, at once beautiful and troll-like. Bennett Foddy's thoughtful design and sick sense of humour writ large as the greatest damn walking simulator ever.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · Jan 13

Rewatched Birth. Love that movie. Here’s how you know it’s good: it’s in the strike zone of IMDB/Rotten Tomatoes for a good movie.

The Google result for Birth showing a 6.3 imdb and a 40% rotten tomato ranking

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 1d

Give me pointy $2-3M games showcasing a strong creator's POV over yet another super sanitized $100M FPS any day of the week.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

if you're not where you want to be as an artist or entertainer and didn't come from money or an industry family try to remember that it was never an even playing field to begin with and you're probably doing great considering

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 2d

This is probably a cold take, but the Akira Slide is in the Wilhelm Scream territory of References So Overdone They Don't Mean Shit Anymore

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 2d

Up there with the Brass Eye special for sure - but goofing on a new era of hyperdramatic documentary. Weirdly it kinda picks up where AMERICAN VANDAL left off too, stylistically at least. I laughed!

The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.

Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 2d

Today, we go into tech on Hansol Jung's WOLF PLAY. What a delight it's been rehearsing this beautiful, hilarious, moving little play, and what a nightmare* it's about to be coordinating hundreds of lighting and sound cues, prop choreography, running water, and more. Theatre!

* affectionate

Three actors and a puppet rehearsing a theatre show (specifically, WOLF PLAY by Hansol Jung)

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 3d

Alex Jones tried to warn us about this

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 3d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 3d

You know what they really look for in Nobel Peace Prize laureates, being a sore loser

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 3d

How many cities will Trump attempt to raze in his I Didn't Win The Nobel Peace Prize tantrum

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 3d

It is so very very easy to forget that most people are, essentially, basic bitches (gender neutral though still pejorative)

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