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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter

@thewightrabbit.bsky.social
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(she/her) 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘺 Californian. #Screenwriting psychological horror, thriller, dark comedy, & sci-fi An obsessive, manic trash-goblin, I collect things, I create things, and I write through things.

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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yeah, I've got around 20 In Considerations, and probably the same Not Selected. Seems unlikely that everyone behind those 40ish gigs all popped in at the same time and mass selected. I hope @networkisa.bsky.social is on it? I also archived a few before I clocked it, I hope I didnt mess it up more.
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Horror is such an important outlet to process trauma and confront our fears, and the Horror Not Hate project gives marginalized voices a platform to share some much needed catharsis through creativity. I hope you'll check it out & share! #horrorsky www.kickstarter.com/projects/slo...
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Horror Not Hate
An anti-fascist, anti-hate anthology of horror comics and art supporting LGBTQIA+ and Immigrant rights!
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is such a good point. We need to document what's happening now for the future, because we can't trust the spin. Current powers want to erase and rewrite history, and the only way to combat their lies is to flood with truth. More physical media. youtu.be/bYhy2ufJllc?...
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I’m BEGGING You To Make Zines
YouTube video by brattyxbre
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Eeee! Silly aloe, it's snowy outside! Looks like a happy plant to me. :)
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aric @aghastronaut.com · 14/01/2026
We've got to Home Alone all of Minneapolis against ICE
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I meant hippopotamus. See? I need my weekend.
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a cartoon duck is holding a fishing rod and a musical note on its head
Alt: a duck from Animal Crossing, merrily stomping through the snow with a fishing rod
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Hoping I'll finish this rewrite (did I mention I got another one? Days after the last. Is that a good sign? 🤞🤞) in time for the Animal Crossing update, I could really use a braindead weekend, and shaking island trees and chatting up a hippocampus sounds perfect.
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Matt Anderson @mattbegins.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Q: What’s better than listening to me poorly explain the concept of SECRET DEFENDERS to screenwriters Ian Springer and Jeff Kaplan? A: Listening to screenwriters Ian Springer and Jeff Kaplan talk about what it was like writing FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS. Episode drops 1/13/26. More info below
Screenshot from the recording of an episode of DOES THIS COME IN CHROMIUM
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I know it's ridiculous, but I really don't like how the proper spacing looks— I like how *I* do it. Like a comma, or a broken thought. That's how it works in my head. Everything else looks — Wrong. But by golly, I'll do it. This is not a hill I will die on!
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I never realized how much I use the em dash until a producer asked that I double check my spacing across my entire script. They were right, btw— I am grammatically inconsistent. (See what I did there? That's incorrect. You want a space on either side — Or—no spaces.)
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Meg • Turner @inkedwerdsmith.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The goal of a successful logline is to pitch your script in the timeframe an escalator needs to reach its destination. (If anyone knows who created this image, please tag them so I can give them an Autistic hug.) #WritingCommunity #ScriptSky #Logline
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Just discovered Pickle Surprise and the genius of Tom Rubnitz (rip, gone too soon)
A still from Picke Surprise.
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I dont want to to be greedy and take all the good 2026 luck... jk yes I do 🤞🤞🤞🤞 I've been clawing at the industry door for 10 years, I'm ready to be an overnight success!
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I submitted my new draft to producers, and I want to barf-- Don't be concerned, this happens every time. I love the script! It may be the best thing I've ever written. Time to go stare at a wall until I find purpose again (and maybe catch up on my unread email 😬). #scriptsky
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Just found this line in a script I wrote; "[she was] wheeling from the burn." Producers read this draft. #scriptsky
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a woman in a red shirt is sitting on a couch .
Alt: ghost leaving a body
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
So, uh... Where do we stand on feature page count lately? #scriptsky Zach Cregger's WEAPONS was what? 118ish? Hell, SINNERS was reportedly 167 pages! What do we think some asshole nobody like me can get away with? 👉👈
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
If I had a nickel for every time I thought this script was impossible— I'd have a shit-ton of nickels.
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I was feeling a little extra shit because I worked so hard to cut pages on this script, and I'm up 5 pages on this rewrite-- then my partner pointed out that means I wrote 5 pages this week, and I'm like
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a woman is standing on a stage holding a microphone .
Alt: A crying woman cheeses suddenly to camera and continues crying
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Is it that I'm in my 30s, or do colds just hit different now?
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a cartoon character is laying in a bed with a pillow
Alt: Jake the Dog is grotesquely ill
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I got more rewrite notes from producers right as the holidays and a nasty head cold swept through my house, but Dinah Dinglebottom had a merry christmas #caturday
A very cute calico cat with a weird butt (sorry, no tail for modesty), posing with her catnip ropeThe same cute calico cat looking relatively normal with her handmade port wine cheese toy (full of catnip)That calico cat a wild blur with her tongue out, having torn some fuzz off her homemade catnip toy
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/12/2025
Ach, my heart. It breaks. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
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Opinion | Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Background paintings by Sue Mondt for Dexter's Laboratory (1996–2003), created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
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Daily Dead @dailydead.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
EVENT HORIZON Sequel Comic Book Series INFERNO Coming April 2026 from Christian Ward, Rob Carey, and IDW Publishing @idwpublishing.com @cjward.bsky.social @robcareyart.bsky.social
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EVENT HORIZON Sequel Comic Book Series INFERNO Coming April 2026 from Christian Ward, Rob Carey, and IDW Publishing - Daily Dead
With the Event Horizon prequel comic books series Dark Descent now in its fourth and final printing, readers have made it clear that they are hungry for more hellish sci-fi horror set in the ever-expa...
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This is a confusing fusion of my childhood, and I like it.
Back to the Future in classic Polly Pocket form, there's even a tiny DeLorean. McFly is cute as hell.

(You can buy it at Creations.Mattel.com)
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Submitted my script to big, important people. Relieved it's out of my hands, but as a secret control freak, I'm also *slightly* losing my mind. You know how it is. Luckily, December is a hectic month, and I have plenty of distractions! #scriptsky #Screenwriting
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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar:

“No way. Why should I change?
He's the one who sucks.”
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I can't easily juggle multiple projects at once, and while I am able to orient myself with landmarks, my sense of direction is pretty shit. I like your theory! I never would've put those talents together, but I think there could be something to it!
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
THE THING (1982) dir. John Carpenter
A photo of a strangely pale, meaty aspic jelly, on a bed of lettuce and shrimp, slathered with cocktail sauce, and erupting with Lovecraftian crab legs and various skewered pickles.
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Rim a michalada. Maybe rim a mango smoothie for the kiddo (unless you're a cool/careless parent)
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Ahhh, she said it, she said the title! Does everyone call it out when it happens in film, or just my goofy household? #filmsky #scriptsky
A tight excerpt from my script reads

"The mug in Mom's hand trembles. She won't look at Maya.

MAYA (cont'd)
It's as if he just vanished... Into thin air... That seems to happen a lot out here."

"Into thin air" is highlighted. It's the working title of the script.
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Silly past-me. *NOW* I'm in the home stretch. Rewrite done, I'm 4 pages up (boo!), hoping to carve it down with a quick edit pass before sending it off to producers after Thanksgiving. Apart from the page count, I'm super happy with it! Tentatively optimistic! #scriptsky
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
(Honestly, idk if I even need to crack down this hard, this is the month/week production and professionals in general seem to check out. I hope good food and better people are on your calendars for the [too-quickly] approaching holidays! 🫶🫰)
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I'm in the home stretch of this deep edit, then I hope to come up for air. I miss you, Internet People. #scriptsky
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I'm in the middle of a deep rewrite on a script I fought HARD to get to 110 on the last draft. I'm working off producer notes, and I know they'd love a script under 100 pages... And so far I've added 6 pages. I keep telling myself it's too soon to lose my mind, there's plenty to cut... #scriptsky
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a close up of a dog 's face with a tiktok watermark on it .
Alt: A zooming closeup of a dog glancing nervously to camera.
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
If you're not sure where or how, and/or photoshop seems complicated, Canva is pretty good. Super user-friendly.
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
-- but it's likely that the keyboard software is not getting the same attention as everything else, and as everything is updated around it, it fails to interact properly with changes to the OS. It's atrophy! And it's not you! I've gaslit myself about this for months. The truth shall et you free.
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Okay, my eyes probably are getting worse, too, but default touchscreen keyboards are absolutely getting worse, and there are a number of theories, such as hardware limitations as phones get thinner, or the letter hitbox is bigger or smaller depending on how commonly used the letter is--
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
IT'S THE PHONES. For months, maybe years, I thought my eyesight was deteriorating, or my nails were getting in the way, causing more and more typos via mobile. I cant get through a thought without a "thr" or something equally stupid, and all this time I've thought it was me-- but it's the phones!
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Your** your**! But if you are bloom, I would like to see it. 😉
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Are yours planted directly into your yard? I wish I could plant mine-- but I'm a millennial, and a forever californian renter. 🥲
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I love aloe-- though it took me a beat to realize she was getting sunburnt (ironic). I guess they're finicky about direct light. Maybe yours would appreciate a few hours of a nearby grow light? I think they take a few years to flower, btw. I'm sure you're bloom is coming! :)
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I repotted my aloe a few months ago because she was struggling in a too-small pot, and bitch had the nerve to outgrow the biggest pot I have 😤
A very happy aloe bursting out of 14gal pot
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
It really is. Things either move at break-neck speeds, or a snail's pace, there is no middle. The highest highs, and the lowest lows. I hope the bummers ease up soon!
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t4trees @repinuj.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I painted ur dog
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Thanks! Fingers crossed I don't mess it up! 🤞🤞
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Sometimes it feels like CPR, doesn't it?-- Don't you die on me, Script! 😉
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Thank you!
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Oh, I know it has to be such a challenge to narrow it down! Looking at all the names and succinct hooks, I get why mine didn't fit. No shade at all the the Dead List/Stunt List team, I love what you're doing!
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Thank you, I am proud! And nervous! Development feels like a very fragile stage in production-- but at least we have interest. That's worth celebrating.
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Alyssa Jefferson ☆ Screenwriter @thewightrabbit.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I'll take honorary cool kid 🥲 And thanks-- I'm so fortunate to have connected with a producer that likes my weird!
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