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Jennifer Liao
@averagejenn.bsky.social
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Film/TV Director: FROM (MGM+), TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES (The CW), MURDOCH MYSTERIES (CBC). Occasional V.O. artist. Appreciator of comics (both kinds). Based in Los Angeles/Toronto. jenniferliao.com
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Been a real up and down day... A lovely piece of good news followed by two disappointing rejections, one big (grant), one small (development program), then a Blue Jays win and a some points on the board for my Movies Fantasy League choices (owing to the Gotham nominations announcement).
Current Score: 287 Current Rank: 4,380 out of 19,038 Movie Roster: • Hamnet: 30 points • One Battle After Another: 195 points • Avatar: Fire and Ash: 0 points • Sirāt: 15 points • The Testament of Ann Lee: 30 points • Hedda: 15 points • Keeper: 0 points • Shelby Oaks: 2 points
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Ready for the (other) holiday! @aduralde.bsky.social
Book cover that looks like a wrapped present with a bright red background, reading HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE CHRISTMAS, Alonso Duralde, and a gift tag that reads Revised & Updated.
October 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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You've still time to make it over to Revenge Of and get a copy of OUT OF ALCATRAZ signed by Chris Cantwell!
Partial photo of a book cover reading OUT OF ALCATRAZ, with a black-and-white drawing of two men presumably trying to escape something. Underneath is a partial image of a record cover reading MUT (i.e. MUTINY) and a personalized signature.
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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This was my only viral Tweet.
Tweet reading: People that believe the world is suddenly overrun with paid protestors should have to try and produce a crowd scene for a low-budget movie.
October 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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The comics I picked up yesterday were all written by Bluesky- quaintances!

RACER X #2 (@manruss.bsky.social & @nunoplati.bsky.social)

LITTLE NIGHTMARES: DESCENT TO NOWHERE #1 (@lonnienadler.bsky.social & @dennismenheere.bsky.social)

MARY SUE #1 (@megfitz89.bsky.social & @lisasterle.bsky.social)
Three comic book covers arranged in a fan shape, one featuring two women, one with a racecar, one with a city street scene.
October 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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If you've got Prime Video, you can watch FROM during the month of October without having to subscribe to the MGM+ add-on. I directed episodes 7 and 8 of Season 1, and they're really good, for which I take only the credit I am due because everyone who works on the show is exceptional at what they do.
Website home screen with title graphic FROM on the left, and on the right, a close-up photo of a middle-aged Black man with a serious expression on his face, silhouetted figures and moody light in the background. This is actor Harold Perrineau and he is awesome.
October 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Shirley Temple 7-Up is back! Be kind to yourself and pick some up.
Stacked 12-pack boxes of 7-Up Shirley Temple canned sodas, some of the Zero Sugar variety.
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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PSA: The new black-and-white Toronto Public Library tote bag is priced at $3, no added tax.
Black tote bag with white handles, and white text on the front reading: toronto public library
September 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Whitney Wolfe Herd in the NY Times a few months ago:
Earlier you mentioned that many female leaders in tech who were your contemporaries have left or been pushed out. Venture-capital firms are giving less money to female entrepreneurs than a decade ago. Why do you think things seem to have moved backward? I’ll tell you something that I have observed. I’ll have a young woman founder who comes to me, and they don’t just have an excellent deck or an excellent pitch. They have real numbers. They have sales. They have something to show for themselves. And they just can’t get anyone to take a meeting with them. And then a young male founder will come to me, and they’ll be like, “Oh, I just secured $13 million on this valuation.” I’m like, really? Let me see the product. Let me see what you’ve done. “Oh, no, it’s an idea.” How did you get $13 million? So, I am shocked by how little we’ve moved forward.
August 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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A photo I took in Santa Monica on Kodak Gold 200 film, a favourite of my most recent roll.
A landscape view of Santa Monica across a highway, out towards sand and the Pacific Ocean, a hill on one side, with trees and a fence at the top of it.
August 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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The new USPS stamp sheets Chris Ware designed are very nice and available to order online, along with magnet and jigsaw puzzle versions if you so desire. (My local outlet did not carry the stamps, but there are some that may.)
A full-colour illustration of an overhead angle of a town square with multiple buildings and multiple USPS postal trucks and mail carriers among other people in the neighbourhood.
August 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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August 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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I'd seen ASH IS PUREST WHITE before, likely the only movie in this collection whose central character is a woman, and it's a veritable epic. Zhao Tao's performance is a tour-de-force, as a gangster's girl who goes to prison for him for 5 years and has to find her way in the changing eras of China.
Movie poster for ASH IS PUREST WHITE bathed in glowy lights, an Asian woman with tightly pulled back hair sitting in the back of a car, looking ahead, with the face of an Asian man with a mustache in the reflection of the window next to her, his eyes seemingly looking over his shoulder at her.
July 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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I'm shooting on an old Canon A-1 with a 50mm lens I acquired from @gregpak.net (Thanks, Greg!), and the film used for all these photos (except for the Paris nighttime shot, which is Cinestill 800) is Kodak Portra 400.
July 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Close shot of a white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair wearing large black-rimmed sunglasses. Medium shot of a white man wearing a brown jacket and tan hat with a wide brim, standing in a parking lot. Wide shot of an abstract red, white, and blue-coloured design on a concrete parking lot structure, with a far-off person in a wheelchair rolling towards it, back to camera. White man with short blonde hair making an exaggerated frown, being nuzzled lovingly by a white woman with slightly darker shoulder-length hair.
July 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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I've taken up photography on film and while you can see a lot more on my IG account if you so wish, here are a handful of favourites.
Nighttime view facing cars waiting for the light in the middle of a large flat city street. Angled, very wide view on a body of water with palm trees and other trees, plus a bench on the right on which a person is sitting. Nighttime view with a dark blue sky of a motorcycle and cars coming around a round island, large silhouetted buildings in the background. Angled view of an old building with peeling paint and remnants of posters on the wall at the back, with a large mural of an illustrated person in overalls with sparkling, colourful orbs for hair, coloured in pastel. A person had descended the steps along this side of the building.
July 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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It was fun to witness the folks at REVIVAL take a victory lap for the 1st season of their show with a panel & signing, & what better way to reconnect with an acquaintance I hadn't seen in 2 years by asking for their autograph...Andy McQueen's nothing if not a star. ;) Watch REVIVAL on Syfy/Peacock!
Two illustrated posters featuring the characters of the TV show REVIVAL with signatures on them. The poster on the left prominently features a photo-realistic young woman with dark hair with a moody look bathed in blue, the other characters, smaller, arranged on the left, the poster on the right shows a woman police officer with pulled-back hair pointing a gun at the bottom, and across the top, a young woman in a hood with a skull on it, with two middle-aged men on either side of her.
July 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I got to meet longtime social media mutual @danielkibblesmith.com, who is currently writing RICK & MORTY for Oni, but I brought with me the delightful one-shot ARCHIE MEETS RIVERDALE he did with Pat and Tim Kennedy. We had a laugh over it being "healthy" to be out & about in this very chaotic place.
Cover of the comic ARCHIE MEETS RIVERDALE with a goofy-looking orange-haired young man flanked by a young blonde woman and a young dark-haired woman, in the background of a room decorated with balloons, saying, "Hey! That guy's got my good looks!" while looking at another orange-haired young man flanked by a young blonde woman, and a young dark-haired woman who is illustrated in a more serious way, more prominent on the cover.
July 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I stopped by @madcavestudios.com to say hello to @manruss.bsky.social & the main artist, @ohyesverynice.bsky.social, on their current existential horror anthology series VANISHING POINT. I've enjoyed the first couple of issues including this particular story featuring a Jetsons-type nuclear family.
Cover of the comic VANISHING POINT #2 featuring THE TOMORROW FAMILY, with cute and cartoon-y illustrations of two parents and two kids in a retro-futuristic space craft, and one small boy flying with a jetpack in front of them. The sky behind them is largely bright pink and purple.
July 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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I was keen to pick up Mimi Pond's new book DO ADMIT! THE MITFORD SISTERS AND ME from @dandq.bsky.social. Pond's semi-autobio comics are favourites of mine, & the most fun fact is that she wrote the 1st ep of THE SIMPSONS. She drew a very nice dedication & gave me a temp tattoo that says Lyin' Whore.
Cover of the book DO ADMIT! THE MITFORD SISTERS AND ME by Mimi Pond, with small ink portrait illustrations of six women, as well as two women stretched out on the roof of a house and one woman stretched out across a bookshelf at the bottom. Cover is coloured with different shades of blue and there is some maroon text.
July 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Emil Ferris & Daniel Clowes each signed one of their masterworks for me at @fantagraphics.bsky.social. MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS remains a staggering achievement, and PATIENCE's time travel structure only gave the journeys of Clowes' trademark emotionally prickly characters more resonance.
Title page of MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS, the title written on what looks like lined notebook paper, a sketched heart reading M.H. + K.R. on the adjoining page, with an inscription and signature by Emil Ferris. Inside cover of PATIENCE with bold shapes and lines and solid colours, including the text Fantagraphics Books and Seattle, with an inscription and signature from Daniel Clowes.
July 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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8 hrs in the sensory overload of #SDCC once every year or two seems about right for me (this was my 2nd visit), & since I've fallen down on posting about comics I like since leaving Twitter, some nice moments from a Friday spent at Comic-Con as a diversion from sitting in despair.
Section of a Lego diorama depicting San Diego Comic-Con.
July 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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You've inherited a movie theatre, what's your first double feature?

How about a couple of less-seen crowd pleasers about starting a band?
WE ARE THE BEST! and ON-GAKU: OUR SOUND
Movie poster for WE ARE THE BEST! featuring an image of a pre-teen girl with a mohawk in profile, in black and yellow, against a bright purple-pink background, with the title in large letters against the darkest part of the silhouette, and the tagline Three Girls vs The World. Poster for an animated movie, ON-GAKU: OUR SOUND, featuring three Japanese men staring straight ahead on the bottom half, and the same three men in profile crossing a street on the top half, carrying speakers, a guitar, and a drum.
July 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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One of my Paris comic finds was a couple of books from the Yoko Tsuno adventure series known to French youth in the '70s/'80s, created by Roger Leloup. The character is a Japanese electrical engineer and the series is tonally quite grounded (even when it goes full science fiction, to an extent).
Two comic book volumes, LA FILLE DU VENT and LA SPIRALE DU TEMPS, one featuring a young Japanese woman with petite features and chin-length black hair wearing a blue shirt and blue headband against an orange sky and a swirling explosion in the background. The other features the same young woman, now in red with a red headband, her arm around a young Black woman in a space travel-looking outfit, a spacecraft levitating in the background.
July 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Spotted this table display of LGBTQIA+ film texts and movies while visiting the Bibliothèque du cinéma François Truffaut in Paris, including @aduralde.bsky.social's HOLLYWOOD PRIDE!
A table with a handwritten sign on a shelf above reading, "LGBTQIA+ au cinéma", featuring a display of several books and DVDs, and a few small flags representing various queer populations hanging across the front of the table.
June 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM