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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Guy Ritchie pfffft, man, put the voiceover down

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is from Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke. Tore me up. Left me completely speechless.

"I boiled crawfish for supper, and Alafair and I shelled and ate them on the redwood picnic table under the mimosa tree in the backyard. That night I dreamed of a bubble of fire burning under the Gulf's green surface. The water boiled and hissed, geysers of steam and dirty smoke rose into the air, and an enormous blue-green oil slick floated all the way to the western horizon. Somewhere far down below among the twisted spars and drill pipe and cables and the flooded wreckage of the quarter boat were the bodies of my father and nineteen other men who went down with the rig when the drill bit punched into a pay sand and the wellhead blew.
The company's public relations men said that they didn't have a blowout preventer on because they had never hit an oil sand at that depth in that part of the Gulf before. I wondered what my father thought in those last moments of his life. I never saw fear in him. No matter how badly he was hurt by circumstances or my mother's unfaithfulness, and eventually by drunken brawls in bars and the time she was locked up in the parish jail, he could always grin and wink at me and my brother and convincingly pretend to us that misfortune was not even worthy of mention.
But what did he feel in those last moments, high up on the monkeyboard in the dark, when the rig started to shake and groan and he saw the roughnecks on the platform floor dropping tongs and chain and running from the eruption of sand, salt water, gas oil, and cascading drill pipe that in seconds would explode into an orange and yellow flame that melted steel spars like licorice? Did he think of me and my brother, Jimmie?
I bet he did. Even when he clipped his safety belt on to the Geronimo wire and jumped into the black, even as the rig caved with him on top of the quarter boat, I bet his thoughts were of us."

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Russell Gascoigne @russgascoigne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Should you feel like supporting a thoroughly worthy cause, my son is fundraising for the RNLI by running the Cardiff Half Marathon on Oct 4. Go on, he's a lovely lad fundraise.rnli.org/s/25611/27516 Pls RT. Thanks.

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

when a dumpling floats to the top of the pot, it's cooked. no games with dumplings. why can't men be like that

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Anna Koukouli Born @akoukouliborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just received a new review for my short film ANGEL, and I couldn’t be more thrilled!!! Thank you @filmcriticalspace for the kind words and for recognizing the amazing talents of our cast and crew #film #indiefilm #shortfilm filmcriticalspacecom.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/a...

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ANGEL

Grief and addiction are notoriously difficult subjects to tackle on screen, but writer-director Anna Koukouli Born’s short film Angel balances both through a remarkably clever and touchin…

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't think we should allow Germany to do this again, I'm not trying to be funny

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

so I've written 2 novellas, what do I actually do with them now? yes, yes, write a third novella, I understand, but what ultimately. a fourth one, of course, no doubt, but then what

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I love in saving private ryan when tom hanks refuses to share intimate details about his wife when ryan is telling that rotten story about saving his friend from an ugly girl. he saw right through that shit. loved him for that. he was like: oh I'll save your ass but I don't like you

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Trust the reader to--" No. I don't trust that son-of-a-bitch to do shit.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"We need AI to democratize art" I wrote my first spec script at my kitchen table with a bic pen in the hour every morning before I went to work on a natural gas pipeline, based on a screenwriting book I got at the public library. We good

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

More and more when people critique a piece of writing by saying it's bad because the main character was morally flawed, wrong, or just plain annoying, I do feel like just saying: "yea it's their story." Like what? Now what?

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

cannot believe Tim curry and Dolly Parton went out in the same breath, what an actual nightmare

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I can't listen to her music or I'll cry, I am going to have to brace myself to put on The Grass Is Blue without sobbing.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 26/08/2026

A phenomenal woman

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Adam Seybold (C-Bold) @adamseybold.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton founded and funded the Imagination Library, and that's one of the finest things any American has ever done. Rest in Glory, Queen.

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

not dolly for the love of god

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

See, you don't need to rush... #BookSky

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

no hate at all, but I just used to love fantasy when I was a kid, and then I grew up and I was like gee the real world is interesting enough

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

if you've been developing something for a while and it's not quite clicking or you don't know what's missing--it's likely irony. If you are wondering why it feels pedestrian or isn't quite punching, the secret ingredient is usually just: "An X who is / has Y [ironically] must / is drawn into Z"

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

make something, doesn't matter what it is, you literally just have to make something. story, painting. make a finished thing. don't sit around and wait and hope someone will give you permission to you finish it, just finish it

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I only recently watched all of Downtown Abbey (I know, ten years too late), and I found it really entertaining but the castration of Tom Branson cannot be forgiven.

the character of Tom Branson in Downtown Abbey as pictured in an early season in his green chauffeur uniform. Tom was originally an Irish socialist who made a great rebellious pairing with the youngest Crawley sister, Sybil.

the character of Tom Branson in a later season, wearing a three piece suit but carrying the jacket. he now works for the family and has abandoned his socialist values in favour of comfort and belonging. Chauffeur Tom would definitely throw old soup on this guy.

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

if anybody out there likes AI writing, try this one trick for me: *expletives as you drag me away from the microphone*

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

depression is like a long flight. nothing you can do until the plane lands. you wait in that weird pocket of time, desperate for the bite of cold or wave of heat where you're headed. and to feel the earth under your feet again. time between flights gets shorter. that's how it feels, then it passes.

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

sexiest thing you've ever seen in your life and it's just tom hanks in turner and hooch

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

my summary 10,000 words long, I'm done for dog

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/08/2026

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

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David Wales @davidwalesnm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I've got one hour and fourty-six minutes left to live:

Poster for 1980's Inferno, written and directed by Dario Argento with a black background and the merging of a skull and the lower half of a face in red and blue, respectively, with Inferno in white font beneath.

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I've go two hours twenty minutes left to live:

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

my lesson about twists in stories is to A/ never let the story depend upon a twist and B/ spoil the twist by presenting it as a possibility right from the beginning, because if it's good people still won't get it.

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I fold instantly, next question

Timothy Dalton as Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, holding Jane from behind in a crushing embrace and telling her "[you've come downstairs] I've been waiting for you long enough" after their tiny argument about him trying to marry her after he was already married and also keeping his wife in the attic. But I wish it to be known that I would have folded regardless.

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

this is what heaven would look like to me, it would be the slightly dried out plants outside some strange air conditioned office on the lower floors of some building a the edge of the city, and the trees overhang the flat roof and the husks of insects are all over the ground

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Hugo Dabas @hugodabas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

*standing up on the plane* We're gonna draw a little bit of everybody's blood... 'cause we're gonna find out who's The Thing. Ya see, when a man bleeds, it's just tissue, but blood from one of you Things won't obey when it's attacked. It'll try and survive... crawl away from a hot needle, say.

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John Henderson @jhenderson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

*standing up on the plane* Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. Just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a

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Cory Marciel @cmarciel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's the eyes. And the ears. Me, in Wrath of Khan: "What's your name again? Saavik? Lt. Saavik, could you explain the Genesis probe to me again? I've, uh, I've forgotten."

Kirstie Alley as Lt. Saavik in Start Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. She is wearing the red Star Fleet uniform of that era. The tunic is partially open. There is a red turtleneck beneath.

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

if I told you I needed it biblically

black and white photo of Spanish/German actor Daniel Bruhl holding a mug cup of tea and wearing a plain button-down. it is a disarmingly cute and playful photo of him, whereas he has the ability to look quite sharp and devastating, which is part of why he is so charming (imo)

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Patrick Swayze is a top tier lover in Ghost because he waits the length of one song before unzipping his pants

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I hate when your cracker snaps and all your cheese falls off it into your lap and you're mid-bite like "nghhhh", that shit makes me so mad

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

when my dog was a puppy, if he chewed my socks I used to tie his ears up with them and tell him "you chew it you wear it" and he kinda understood

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

the villains in most scripts and books I read struggle from absolute overkill, your man does not have to be doing all that, the oceans are boiling over so who gives a fuck, but that's bad writing

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

been doing this thing where when I need people to do something for me, I ask them in Nandor's voice and I call them Guillermo, and it has worked the one time I have tried it.

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

be nice to yourself today or I'll come to your house and fuck you up

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

ethically, if I were making a movie, I would have to get actors who were already smokers because the amount of stuff I would want them to do with cigarettes would be disgusting.

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Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Write your book, I wanna read that shit

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