Katherine Arcus
@katherinearcus.bsky.social
Emerging TV writer, current story coordinator, recovering stage manager, occasional copy editor (she/her) #NorthOfNorth #LessThanKind #KITH
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Hello Canadian Producers and Showrunners! 🇨🇦
I’m an experienced story coordinator, soon to finish up my second season on the critically acclaimed Netflix/CBC/APTN series NORTH OF NORTH, and open to work in the new year!
Let me introduce myself... 🧵
I’m an experienced story coordinator, soon to finish up my second season on the critically acclaimed Netflix/CBC/APTN series NORTH OF NORTH, and open to work in the new year!
Let me introduce myself... 🧵
For all the American journalists pontificating on why Canadians won’t cross the border anymore…
November 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
For all the American journalists pontificating on why Canadians won’t cross the border anymore…
I got sidetracked again - this time raking leaves in a windstorm! (At least my procrastination is productive?)
In my defense, I got notes on a script last night that were brutal but fair, which are both the best kind and the worst kind. So it's taking a bit of an emotional run-up to dive in today.
In my defense, I got notes on a script last night that were brutal but fair, which are both the best kind and the worst kind. So it's taking a bit of an emotional run-up to dive in today.
In a new procrastination low, I apparently just decided that cleaning the bathroom and *starting my taxes* was better than sitting down to write.
SO. I'm going to dive into some pomodoro-timed WRITING SPRINTS! Anyone who wants to play along, jump into the comments.
First one starts 11:15am EST!
SO. I'm going to dive into some pomodoro-timed WRITING SPRINTS! Anyone who wants to play along, jump into the comments.
First one starts 11:15am EST!
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I got sidetracked again - this time raking leaves in a windstorm! (At least my procrastination is productive?)
In my defense, I got notes on a script last night that were brutal but fair, which are both the best kind and the worst kind. So it's taking a bit of an emotional run-up to dive in today.
In my defense, I got notes on a script last night that were brutal but fair, which are both the best kind and the worst kind. So it's taking a bit of an emotional run-up to dive in today.
In a new procrastination low, I apparently just decided that cleaning the bathroom and *starting my taxes* was better than sitting down to write.
SO. I'm going to dive into some pomodoro-timed WRITING SPRINTS! Anyone who wants to play along, jump into the comments.
First one starts 11:15am EST!
SO. I'm going to dive into some pomodoro-timed WRITING SPRINTS! Anyone who wants to play along, jump into the comments.
First one starts 11:15am EST!
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In a new procrastination low, I apparently just decided that cleaning the bathroom and *starting my taxes* was better than sitting down to write.
SO. I'm going to dive into some pomodoro-timed WRITING SPRINTS! Anyone who wants to play along, jump into the comments.
First one starts 11:15am EST!
SO. I'm going to dive into some pomodoro-timed WRITING SPRINTS! Anyone who wants to play along, jump into the comments.
First one starts 11:15am EST!
Ongelooflijk.
It’s Dutch, but it is the best word.
It’s Dutch, but it is the best word.
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Ongelooflijk.
It’s Dutch, but it is the best word.
It’s Dutch, but it is the best word.
I wish this were true! (The first day of Christmas music part, not the Santa thing.) I got Whammed in a grocery store two weeks ago. Out of the game and it wasn’t even mid-November!
As today is the first day many people start to play Christmas music, let’s take a moment to remember the special message behind so many of our seasonal holiday favorites:
Santa fucks
Santa fucks
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I wish this were true! (The first day of Christmas music part, not the Santa thing.) I got Whammed in a grocery store two weeks ago. Out of the game and it wasn’t even mid-November!
We used to toboggan down the slope of a ravine. Multiple trees. Slope so steep we often couldn't get back up it with the toboggan. At least one tree fallen across our path that, with the snow, created a jump mid-slope. Looking back, I am ASTOUNDED no one died. 🤣 Had the BEST time, tho.
I’m sorry but I can’t stop laughing, yeah we would sled down hills in the winter with whatever we had on hand, toboggans, crazy carpets, tubes 😂 someone always got injured because of jumps on the hills or wipeouts #Canada
Credit to momodoulk
Credit to momodoulk
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
We used to toboggan down the slope of a ravine. Multiple trees. Slope so steep we often couldn't get back up it with the toboggan. At least one tree fallen across our path that, with the snow, created a jump mid-slope. Looking back, I am ASTOUNDED no one died. 🤣 Had the BEST time, tho.
Slings and Arrows - an artistic director in the midst of a mental health crisis takes over a rep theatre
X Company - Canadian spies in WW2 (SO GOOD)
Pure - drug-running Mennonites
Pretty Hard Cases - women-led buddy cop comedy
Cardinal - murder mystery (brutal but stunning)
X Company - Canadian spies in WW2 (SO GOOD)
Pure - drug-running Mennonites
Pretty Hard Cases - women-led buddy cop comedy
Cardinal - murder mystery (brutal but stunning)
Orphan Black, Continuum, Travelers, Letterkenny
There are lower-budget ones too, all honor and glory to their name, but these are the ones that are top of mind for me
There are lower-budget ones too, all honor and glory to their name, but these are the ones that are top of mind for me
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Slings and Arrows - an artistic director in the midst of a mental health crisis takes over a rep theatre
X Company - Canadian spies in WW2 (SO GOOD)
Pure - drug-running Mennonites
Pretty Hard Cases - women-led buddy cop comedy
Cardinal - murder mystery (brutal but stunning)
X Company - Canadian spies in WW2 (SO GOOD)
Pure - drug-running Mennonites
Pretty Hard Cases - women-led buddy cop comedy
Cardinal - murder mystery (brutal but stunning)
The oak tree in my front yard waited until the morning of the last yard waste pickup (today) and then dropped every single one of its leaves at once. 🤣😭
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The oak tree in my front yard waited until the morning of the last yard waste pickup (today) and then dropped every single one of its leaves at once. 🤣😭
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
Some of these movies are actual comedies. And some of them are comedies the way certain Shakespeare plays are comedies - like, well, there was a wedding at the end and no one died, I guess? So, sure, “comedy”, why not.
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Some of these movies are actual comedies. And some of them are comedies the way certain Shakespeare plays are comedies - like, well, there was a wedding at the end and no one died, I guess? So, sure, “comedy”, why not.
This whooooole thread. Up and down.
And again, the “battle of the sexes” in terms of preventing harm from the other has largely been against men trying to remove women’s autonomy so women have no chance of harming them
Vs
Women trying to impose consequences for harm men actually do
Vs
Women trying to impose consequences for harm men actually do
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This whooooole thread. Up and down.
Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks
My heart was actually pounding while I read it and I ALREADY KNEW HOW IT ALL ENDED 😭
My heart was actually pounding while I read it and I ALREADY KNEW HOW IT ALL ENDED 😭
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks
My heart was actually pounding while I read it and I ALREADY KNEW HOW IT ALL ENDED 😭
My heart was actually pounding while I read it and I ALREADY KNEW HOW IT ALL ENDED 😭
A little boost...
Hello Canadian Producers and Showrunners! 🇨🇦
I’m an experienced story coordinator, soon to finish up my second season on the critically acclaimed Netflix/CBC/APTN series NORTH OF NORTH, and open to work in the new year!
Let me introduce myself... 🧵
I’m an experienced story coordinator, soon to finish up my second season on the critically acclaimed Netflix/CBC/APTN series NORTH OF NORTH, and open to work in the new year!
Let me introduce myself... 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
A little boost...
Reposted by Katherine Arcus
Look upward and share the wonders I've seen. 🥹
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Look upward and share the wonders I've seen. 🥹
Reposted by Katherine Arcus
Thank you Intermission! Another review for The Christmas Market at Crows Theatre! Make sure you grab your tickets now as they are selling real fast!
www.crowstheatre.com/shows-events...
www.crowstheatre.com/shows-events...
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Thank you Intermission! Another review for The Christmas Market at Crows Theatre! Make sure you grab your tickets now as they are selling real fast!
www.crowstheatre.com/shows-events...
www.crowstheatre.com/shows-events...
Reposted by Katherine Arcus
After the episode on TV Staffing Meetings, this is probably the second-most-useful podcast episode in existence.
“How to Never Struggle with Small Talk.” I KNOW!
This is from The Jefferson Fisher Podcast about communicating with confidence.
41/?
“How to Never Struggle with Small Talk.” I KNOW!
This is from The Jefferson Fisher Podcast about communicating with confidence.
41/?
Jefferson Fisher
www.jeffersonfisher.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
After the episode on TV Staffing Meetings, this is probably the second-most-useful podcast episode in existence.
“How to Never Struggle with Small Talk.” I KNOW!
This is from The Jefferson Fisher Podcast about communicating with confidence.
41/?
“How to Never Struggle with Small Talk.” I KNOW!
This is from The Jefferson Fisher Podcast about communicating with confidence.
41/?
This was today's card*.
Salt. "Protection, banishing negativity."
I'm extending its influence to anyone who needs it.
* from the Green Witch's Oracle Deck by Arin Murphy-Hiscock, illustrated by Sara Richard.
Salt. "Protection, banishing negativity."
I'm extending its influence to anyone who needs it.
* from the Green Witch's Oracle Deck by Arin Murphy-Hiscock, illustrated by Sara Richard.
November 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This was today's card*.
Salt. "Protection, banishing negativity."
I'm extending its influence to anyone who needs it.
* from the Green Witch's Oracle Deck by Arin Murphy-Hiscock, illustrated by Sara Richard.
Salt. "Protection, banishing negativity."
I'm extending its influence to anyone who needs it.
* from the Green Witch's Oracle Deck by Arin Murphy-Hiscock, illustrated by Sara Richard.
My beloved orange boy was very seriously ill at the beginning of the month. He stopped eating and drinking for five and a half days, developed jaundice, threw some terrible liver numbers. He was nauseous and miserable for most of that time. 🧵
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
My beloved orange boy was very seriously ill at the beginning of the month. He stopped eating and drinking for five and a half days, developed jaundice, threw some terrible liver numbers. He was nauseous and miserable for most of that time. 🧵
Reposted by Katherine Arcus
Best literary analysis ever
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Best literary analysis ever
Tonight on #Forgotten90sFilms I'm watching Practical Magic (1998).
The IMDb summary is "Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love."
Which... sure. Close enough, I guess. 🧵
The IMDb summary is "Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love."
Which... sure. Close enough, I guess. 🧵
November 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Tonight on #Forgotten90sFilms I'm watching Practical Magic (1998).
The IMDb summary is "Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love."
Which... sure. Close enough, I guess. 🧵
The IMDb summary is "Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love."
Which... sure. Close enough, I guess. 🧵
Is it even a craft project if you haven’t frogged some part of it all the way back to zero to start again? 😂😭🧶
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Is it even a craft project if you haven’t frogged some part of it all the way back to zero to start again? 😂😭🧶
Reposted by Katherine Arcus
1/
Learning loss didn’t come from “lockdowns” or remote instruction.
It COMES FROM (still happening) illness.
Illness caused by COVID.
Illness that makes kids miss school and teachers miss teaching.
SICK DAYS. And the vascular damage that causes incapacity to think & retain.
This is still happening.
Learning loss didn’t come from “lockdowns” or remote instruction.
It COMES FROM (still happening) illness.
Illness caused by COVID.
Illness that makes kids miss school and teachers miss teaching.
SICK DAYS. And the vascular damage that causes incapacity to think & retain.
This is still happening.
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
1/
Learning loss didn’t come from “lockdowns” or remote instruction.
It COMES FROM (still happening) illness.
Illness caused by COVID.
Illness that makes kids miss school and teachers miss teaching.
SICK DAYS. And the vascular damage that causes incapacity to think & retain.
This is still happening.
Learning loss didn’t come from “lockdowns” or remote instruction.
It COMES FROM (still happening) illness.
Illness caused by COVID.
Illness that makes kids miss school and teachers miss teaching.
SICK DAYS. And the vascular damage that causes incapacity to think & retain.
This is still happening.
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I don't often notice things like sound design in movies.
But when I was watching Dead Poets Society a couple of weeks ago, I kind of stumbled sideways into an example of the sound design running with the theme of the film in a really beautiful way. 🧵
#scriptsky #film #movie #cinema
But when I was watching Dead Poets Society a couple of weeks ago, I kind of stumbled sideways into an example of the sound design running with the theme of the film in a really beautiful way. 🧵
#scriptsky #film #movie #cinema
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I don't often notice things like sound design in movies.
But when I was watching Dead Poets Society a couple of weeks ago, I kind of stumbled sideways into an example of the sound design running with the theme of the film in a really beautiful way. 🧵
#scriptsky #film #movie #cinema
But when I was watching Dead Poets Society a couple of weeks ago, I kind of stumbled sideways into an example of the sound design running with the theme of the film in a really beautiful way. 🧵
#scriptsky #film #movie #cinema
I seem to have put a rib out by… sitting perfectly still. 🤦🏻♀️😭
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I seem to have put a rib out by… sitting perfectly still. 🤦🏻♀️😭
I don't often notice things like sound design in movies.
But when I was watching Dead Poets Society a couple of weeks ago, I kind of stumbled sideways into an example of the sound design running with the theme of the film in a really beautiful way. 🧵
#scriptsky #film #movie #cinema
But when I was watching Dead Poets Society a couple of weeks ago, I kind of stumbled sideways into an example of the sound design running with the theme of the film in a really beautiful way. 🧵
#scriptsky #film #movie #cinema
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I don't often notice things like sound design in movies.
But when I was watching Dead Poets Society a couple of weeks ago, I kind of stumbled sideways into an example of the sound design running with the theme of the film in a really beautiful way. 🧵
#scriptsky #film #movie #cinema
But when I was watching Dead Poets Society a couple of weeks ago, I kind of stumbled sideways into an example of the sound design running with the theme of the film in a really beautiful way. 🧵
#scriptsky #film #movie #cinema