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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 31/08/2026

Our film got to the 2nd round of Sundance’s Feature Film Program!! THE LAST SETLIST is a musical—Station Eleven meets Andor, community resilience as resistance—with music/lyrics by @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social and @chrisfarren.bsky.social. Advancement ≠ acceptance, but it’s a huge deal nonetheless.

An email from the Sundance Institute that reads: “2027 Development Track |
Invitation to Round 2
Dear Sarah,
We are pleased to inform you that we are advancing The Last Setlist to the second round of consideration for the 2027 Development Track. Below are instructions for submitting Round 2 materials; please read them all!”

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 26/07/2026

Long shot expecting the non-existent algorithm to serve up the previous post to the few absurdist humor-loving cinephiles who also follow local Seattle news, but it has to be said: if you haven’t seen NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE yet, you really should.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 20/07/2026

“Millions of dollars a day.” Wouldn’t it be lovely if that bill came due right as Oracle collapses from its overexposure on OpenAI?

From VARIETY: “In antitrust cases, the injunction is often the whole ballgame. If it is not granted, the deal is allowed to close and it becomes almost impossible to unwind later on. But if it is granted, the deal tends to fall apart before the underlying case can go to trial.

Paramount has pushed for a hearing on the injunction with live witnesses. The company hopes to get a ruling on the injunction by early September. If the deal has not closed by Sept. 30, Paramount will start to owe millions of dollars a day to Warner Bros. investors.”

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 19/05/2026

Did my first post-cancer reading at a literary event last night. It went well, performance-wise, but my heart rate was around 120bpm the entire time. I kept telling my body: 'you've done this before. It's just words. It's just words in front of people' and oof if one's soul could roll their eyes...

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 04/05/2026

Spent my weekend writing (short fiction! taking a break from the film for a few days with a new story!) while @vasantsalcedo.bsky.social built me a cedar garden box. It smells so pretty—can’t wait to fill it.

A man kneels before a garden box made of western red cedar, adjusting a board.

An unfilled garden box made of western red cedar.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 22/04/2026

Working on the punk musical at the tea shop. The vibes are contradictory, but the caffeine’s complimentary.

In the foreground, a laptop next to a blue script cover with an illustration of a wave crashing into a bluff under the words THE LAST SETLIST. The background, a pot of tea in a flowery cozy, a teacup and saucer, and a trellis of flowering jasmine.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 30/03/2026

Ah yes, Star Trek. What a famously unpolitical show.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 13/03/2026

It’s been snowing around WA since 5am. Mountain passes are shut down, flights are delayed—no one expected this. No plows were ready. No snow all winter and now right before spring, this! It’s got ‘I’ve-procrastinated-until-the-last-second-and-now-I’m-doing-the-most’ ADHD energy and I love it. #wawx

Snow covering a deck and weighing down the branches of a hemlock tree.

Snow falling and covering pine trees and bare cherry tree branches.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 04/03/2026

Film stuff with my sweethearts.

In the foreground, a script lays open next to a computer. In the background, a man in glasses works at his computer next to a sleeping black cat.

A sleeping black cat’s face dangles over a script that reads ‘THE LAST SETLIST ’

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 09/02/2026

The constant AI ads tonight have all reeked of desperation, but this is just flat out funny.

The site ai.com has crashed after it aired its Superbowl ad, underscoring perfectly how well this snakeoil industry works.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 29/01/2026

The @badtimerecords.bsky.social tour rolled through the Vera Project in 2023 and it was epic. Grab one of the remaining tickets before they’re gone!!

Kill Lincoln on stage at the Vera Project in Seattle: a man in a white tee raises his hands above a backlit crowd below

We Are the Union on stage at the Vera Project in Seattle: people play trombone, saxophone, guitar, and drums while singing

In the pit at the Vera Project in Seattle: the keyboardist from Catbite gets in the pit ti dance while soloing during a song

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti. Renee Good. Keith Porter. And dozens of immigrants, most of them lawfully in the United States, who have died in detention in the last year. Do something. Don’t look away. Don’t say you didn’t know.

They killed a nurse today. 37 years old. He worked at the VA. He was directing traffic. He was trying to help another person up when ICE surrounded him, brutalizing him. They took a gun from him that he wasn’t brandishing, that he had a permit in an open carry state for, and then when he was prone and restrained, executed him at point blank range. They’re killing US citizens, without arrest, without trial. Alex Pretti. Renee Good. Keith Porter. And dozens of immigrants, most of them lawfully in the United States, who have died in detention in the last year.

Call your electeds: ask your Senators not to fund ICE. Ask your reps to call for ICE to be abolished and to support Rep. Kelly’s H.Res.996 to impeach Noem. Leave a vm today, call again on Monday. Then, because that may feel fruitless even though it matters and is already moving moderates towards abolition, do something concrete and positive: pick a mutual aid to donate to (standwithminnesota.com) so you can support those defending democracy and our neighbors in Minnesota.

Dr Dimitri Drekonja, MD writes: “Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
(Referencing a picture of a young man) Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We'd chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now.”

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 21/01/2026

Therapy talk aside, INFODUMP TIME: if you too want to know why birds swallow small stones to digest food (other species use gastroliths/gizzard stones, so it's not just a bird fact), read this birdfact.com/articles/why... or just look up pics of fossilized dino gastroliths for fun (they're pretty).

"Gastroliths from Jurassic strata near Starr Springs, Utah"

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 28/12/2025

Driving in the mountains, listening to good music, and trying so very hard to not jump back into my projects. Resting/rebooting is the priority, so stranding myself amongst this beauty is the strategy.

A snowy mountain backlit by the sun in the clouds.

The sun setting in the clouds behind a snowy mountain.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 21/12/2025

I recently reread Sense & Sensibility and watched the 1996 film in theater. It’s still my favorite Austen novel and my fav film adaptation of her work. I’m Elinor by family role but Marianne in mood and the phrase ‘inside you there are two Dashwood sisters’ kept coming to mind as I reread the book.

An illustration of two wolves in Regency era costume, beneath a scroll that reads ‘Inside of you there are two Dashwood sisters’, referencing Jane Austen’s SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 12/12/2025

Issaquah Creek, mid-November vs today. So glad the rain’s finally tapering off. #wawx

A picture from the bridge at the Issaquah Fish Hatchery comparing a photo from mid-November which shows the creek at its normal height and a photo taken today at a flood stage of 10’, where the grass and salmon ladder have been swallowed by the water.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 21/08/2025

Love @realgdt.bsky.social’s philosophy. Actors do better on physical sets than green screens. Hiring more craftspeople strengthens our film ecosystem. And being anti-AI is great marketing: it says, come see this—it was crafted with hard work and dedication, not theft. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

An image of Guillermo del Toro and Oscar Isaac on the set of Frankenstein. Below them are the words from VARIETY, quoting del Toro:
"I don't want digital. I don't want Al. I don't want simulation. I want old-fashioned craftsmanship. I want people painting, building, hammering, plastering."
— Guillermo del Toro on Directing 'Frankenstein'

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 11/08/2025

Into the nonfiction section of this thread: Howard Zinn’s A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES makes me think of my fav teacher (1999-2000) who put Zinn and Chomsky in my hand, assigned hw on the Zapatista Movement, let people go join the Seattle WTO protests w/o notes—forever indebted to him.

Howard Zinn’s A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES sits on a shelf next to Barthes’ A LOVER’S DISCOURSE, Solnit’s A FIELD GUIDE FOR GETTING LOST, Biss’ ON IMMUNITY, McPhee’s ENCOUNTERS WITH THE ARCHDRUID, Wilkerson’s THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS, THE POLITICS OF THE CANOE, Arendt’s ON REVOLUTION, Didion’s THE WHITE ALBUM, Kael’s I LOST IT AT THE MOVIES, and Washuta’s WHITE MAGIC

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 10/08/2025

Another queer Greek myth I adore is @wiswell.bsky.social’s WEARING THE LION. If you were into SUPERMAN’s ‘kindness is the real punk rock’ vibe, read this. It’s about how we react (good and bad) to suffering, found family, and as with all John’s work, pro-disability (the Atlas encounter made me cry).

John Wiswell’s WEARING THE LION stands facing forward on a bookshelf.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 09/08/2025

Jo Walton’s LENT is quiet and moving. I never thought a SFF alt-history of Florence’s Savonarola being stuck in a Groundhog’s Day purgatory cycle would move me as much as this did but it’s another story I think about often. Its final line made cry and hug the book close.

Jo Walton’s LENT, showing an image of a demon looming over a medieval scholar.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 08/08/2025

My grandma gave me this copy of A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST decades ago. It’s a treasured not only for the story (think Anne of Green Gables + mother issues and environmentalism) but because it reminds of how much Grandma loved books—she gave me so many classics when I was young so I’d love them too.

A green clothbound edition of Gene Stratton Porter’s A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST stands next to JANE EYRE and TO THE LIGHTHOUSE on a bookshelf.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 08/08/2025

Battle for Middle-Earth II: The Rise of the Witch King. Vasant and I only have Bootcamp installed on our Macs to continue playing this. There’s a whole Discord group dedicated to patching it to keep it working. 19 years of campaigns!

A computer screenshot of real-time strategy game BATTLE FOR MIDDLE EARTH II: THE RISE OF THE WITCH KING depicting elves gathered outside Rivendell. The elves are pretty and the territory is a fun battle, but elves are a boring faction to play with. They’re for looking at, not looting with.

A computer screenshot of real-time strategy game BATTLE FOR MIDDLE EARTH II: THE RISE OF THE WITCH KING depicting a goblin base with giants as trebuchet add-ons, web coating for extra defense, and baby drakes guarding it! 10/10 VRBO rental

A computer screenshot of real-time strategy game BATTLE FOR MIDDLE EARTH II: THE RISE OF THE WITCH KING - Summon four balrogs on your friend’s army! Why be subtle? Maximalism!

A computer screenshot of real-time strategy game BATTLE FOR MIDDLE EARTH II: THE RISE OF THE WITCH KING depicting my faction of choice: dwarves!! Slow and stout, these shorties are the best at resources, defenses, and overall outlasting a siege. There’s a reason Sauron sent an army of dragons to keep these guys busy in the North.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 07/08/2025

… and I made a Peach Poppyseed Olive Oil Cake, he made quiche, and we set out our fancy coffee service. It’s not a trip to the beach, but we’ve been working all day on a dream project: talking punk music, climate chaos, mutual aid, and the concepts of utopia in fiction. Happy anniversary to us.

A cup of coffee, piece of cake, and a laptop, (and a handsome person in the background.)

A bundt studded with pearl sugar, ruby red peaches, poppy seeds, and citrus zest suspended in cake.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 07/08/2025

It’s @vasantsalcedo.bsky.social and I’s anniversary today and it’s a big one. TWENTY YEARS!!!! But we’re also on a big film deadline so we can’t take the day to celebrate. So we’ve made today’s writing environment as romantic as possible… (1/2)

Two goofy and giddy kids flipping off the camera with an engagement ring.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 06/08/2025

Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. I’m in good hands.

A picture of Pedro Pascal in a Suicidal Tendencies shirt. The text above the image features a quote from the actor: "As a kid I fell in love with punk culture and then I was very active in the hardcore scene. Suicidal Tendencies is my favorite band. And even though I no longer actively participate, I financially support the CNA, Food Not Bombs and the IWW in my town. The press says I'm progressive and there may be some truth to it, but my heart will always be an anarchist."

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 28/07/2025

Just got out of the Streetlight Manifesto show—so good. As always.

A band of punk musicians takes the stage at Seattle’s Showbox SoDo

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 11/07/2025

Got lost in a clock shop the other day and came out with several new story ideas and this picture I took of a tiny bronze lady who has either been benched during a basketball game or is defusing a bomb.

A tiny bronze statute of a lady attached to a clock, surrounded by antique grandfather clocks behind her. She is either on the bench during a basketball game or is defusing a bomb.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 17/06/2025

Late evening walk at the lake.

Sun setting over the lake, framed by bushes, bracken, and tall grasses

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 14/05/2025

Evening walk by the lake, then home to watch Andor!!!

Lupine being visited by a pollen-laden bee

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 16/04/2025

When you stop everything on your walk to get a close up of dandelions…

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 02/04/2025

Demanding cuts across the board (education and healthcare are already underfunded), saying you’ll veto the wealth tax our legislature passed, but asking for an extra $100 million increase here of all places?

From THE SEATTLE TIMES: “While laying down his expectations for cuts and minimizing tax increases, Ferguson repeated his vow to not sign any budget that fails to include $100 million over the next two years to help cities and counties hire more police.”

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 01/04/2025

Birthday cat enjoying the cuddles and commandeering of monitors she’s entitled to.

A black cat looks out watchfully from in front of a computer screen as a man tries to do his work.

A black cat snoozes on her dad’s shoulder

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 28/03/2025

Tiny break in the rain today—just long enough to get a few miles in without getting drenched.

Sunbreak over a mossy beach that we pass by on our daily walk

Two ducks waddling through a lakeside puddle

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 27/03/2025

It’s Opening Day so here’s a @havehashad.com essay I wrote about growing up an A’s fan in the Bay Area. The A’s are no longer in the Bay and neither am I, but that era was still magic. When I think about my love for the game, it’s rooted in 1989. www.havehashad.com/web_features...

An illustration (by Matt Mitchell) of Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire above the essay’s title “Baseball Marks the Time by Sarah Salcedo”

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 25/03/2025

Today is our lone warm, sunny in the midst of a stretch of rainy weather and the forest is making the most of it. I found native berry blossoms, baby salmon, and a spot on our walk where I could hear snapping from every direction as cambium stretched and buds broke open to new growth.

The hint of green at the canopy of leafless trees just barely waking up

BABY SALMON IN THE CREEK!!!!!! ADORABLE BABY SALMON ARE GETTING BUFF IN THE CURRENT!!!

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 18/03/2025

Today’s walk by the lake was 10% walk and 90% me tromping through the woods hunting for all the wild plum trees in bloom. 🤍

White plum blossoms on thin branches in the woods

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 13/03/2025

Since The Muppets always cast 1-2 humans per film, for MLOTR (Muppet Lord of the Rings) there’s only one logical choice as Gandalf. Or Gollum. Or both. “Hello fellow hobbitses…”

Steve Buscemi, with a gray beard and mossy-colored cardigan, looking ornery and particularly Buscemi-like

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 12/03/2025

We all know the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is a Nazgûl. That’s what happens when you get magic rings as presents.

Scrooge, an elderly white man in 19th century PJs, played by Michael Caine, is shown the future all evil capitalists may expect, by a floating gray bedsheet creature.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 12/03/2025

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

Gonzo, a blue muppet, and Rizzo, the rat, are dressed in Dickensian costume, debating the omniscient powers of a narrator in 19th century fiction

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 10/03/2025

We were outrunning a storm during our walk earlier. The wind was roaring in the woods and the clouds made the surface of the water dark and lovely. It only started really come down after we’d reached home.

Storm clouds reflected in the water of Issaquah Creek

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 28/02/2025

Also seen on the walk tonight: someone pinned a white rose in a barren tree by the shore. Done as a remembrance? Flung there without intention, striking the right branch in the right way? Mystery aside, it was perfect in its solitude and beauty.

A white rose droops from a barren tree branch.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 28/02/2025

169k words isn’t a “far higher” WC for epic fantasy. It’s fine preferring to rep shorter fantasy, but a professional reducing the genre down was dispiriting to read. I love my chonky pro-disability, anti-colonial epic fantasy. I believe the right agent’s out there. The search, though, is brutal.

Text on a white background with blue border:

“Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell WC: 308k
Babel WC: 200k
The Name of the Wind WC: 250k
The Priory of the Orange Tree: 260k
A Game of Thrones WC: 298k
Wheel of Time - each book is between 200k-400k words”

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 28/02/2025

It got over 60F today and the woods at the lake were ACTIVE. I saw a beaver, two blue heron, and several eagles during our evening walk.

A beaver swimming along the lake’s edge at sunset

Sunset over the water where Issaquah Creek flows into Lake Sammamish

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 06/02/2025

I spent one of our snow days earlier this week cooking a ton of soup for the next few weeks (tomato, butternut squash, and leek) and this afternoon, as more snow fell, Vasant warmed some up and made a grilled sweet onion, chèvre, and comté sandwich to split. Coziest afternoon work session ever.

Tomato soup in a blue bowl and a sandwich on a white plate

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