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"Where does your script live?"
Wanted to get into why this question is so important -- and the two separate parts to it. 1/
[Your Mileage May Vary / Parental Advisory Warning Goes Here] /2
The idea for this thread sprang from a tweet that @nevslin put out there: /3
What should I write next? A Quiet Place-esque thriller with a Sixth Sense level twist or a comedic re-imagining of a Greek myth? (Both features.)
— Noah Evslin \U0001f4fa\U0001f39e\U0001f58a (@nevslin) December 16, 2020
People like @MuseZack, @bryanedwardhill, and myself encouraged Zack to write the "A Quiet Place-Esque thriller with a Sixth Sense level twist." As Zack put it: /4
If it's got a great hook, the former has a better chance of selling.
— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack) December 16, 2020
And as @bryanedwardhill pointed out:
I think about it like this. The first idea could be made by a LOT of different filmmakers, with varying levels of celebrity stars.
— Hilluminati (@bryanedwardhill) December 16, 2020
The second? A shorter list on both accounts so much harder to put together. You\u2019d need an 800 lb gorilla directing AND major A-list talent acting.
Since this site has pretty much disappeared, Iāll maybe transfer them to Spotify. But here in this thread are links to the original mixes.
https://t.co/P7IgNuqQS9?
https://t.co/spU0Vf9YFV
https://t.co/EoAoJLpfZh
" As the corona virus swept round the globe killing hundreds of thousands, putting millions out of work & shattering life as we knew it, board signs appeared randomly in public parks across London. 'When all this is over how do you want the world to be different? signs asked 1/16 pic.twitter.com/DB2yqUjve7
— Yameen (@1YameenM) January 6, 2021
inclined to listen to others, particularly to people whose views differ from ours. Communication across the culture & ideological spectrum will falter &, eventually, crumble. And when communication is broken, coexistence, inclusion & social harmony will also be damaged. 2/15
In other words if perpetuated & made routine, the feeling of being systematically unheard will slowly, gradually, seal our ears, & then seal our hearts. In retracting our willingness to listen to others, we ensure that they too feel unheard. And the cycle continues.. 3/15
worsening every time it revolves.
The moment we stop listening to diverse opinions is also when we stop learning. Because the truth is we don't learn much from same_ness & monotony. We usually learn from differences. 4/15
In life most of what we have come to understand throughout the years we have acquired by interacting dis_similar & often challenging views, & by encountering information, criticism & knowledge hitherto unfamiliar to us & then processing these internally growing.. 5/15
An Open Letter To: .@KirkCameron
— Chelle (@rellehcim) December 24, 2020
So, I opened Twitter. I hoped to find a cute animal or maybe a funny meme or - I don't know - something to alleviate this weight in my chest. The lack of relief from my fears. The overwhelming range of emotions that reduce me to crying when our heater kicks on at night so
Husband doesn't hear me and feel bad about my sorrow. Anything but what I actually found. You. Trending on Twitter. And against better judgement, I clicked your name. And there, embodied before me in a solid form, unlike me in a cancer visit with my husband, was YOU doing the
unimaginable: mocking COVID protocols with a large group of people and forcing yourself into the lives, and twitterfeeds, of people who follow the rules and try to do the things that would allow cancer patients' families in the doctor's office with them.
I also want to talk about being intersex (a thread) and Regan
There are as many ways to be an intersex person as there are ways to be "a girl," whatever that means (something Regan spends the whole book struggling with). Regan's specific flavor of intersex was very much informed by @Galactoglucoman, who is an incredibly patient...
— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) January 12, 2021
I worked as a sensitivity reader for this book. Reganās experiences were modeled in part after my own, though our diagnoses are different (my intersex variation is so rare my endocrinologist could only find one other reported instance).
This book is beautiful to me. Regan is a girl, an intersex girl. Just like I was. Sheās different. She has to mask and play along to fit in and happens to have one hobby girly enough to be accepted by other girls. This is also luxury I barely got.
When the world comes crushing down, Regan gets to escape to a world of magical talking equines who do not give a flying fuck what her body is doing or what her chromosomes are.
She gets a gift many of us in the intersex community never doāa chance to just BE
I donāt know how to adequately describe what this experience would have meant for me.
Being intersex isnāt like being nonbinary or trans, though these things are often conflated. Every doctor I see I must disclose my condition to because medications affect me differently
As America secularizes, Evangelicalism is increasingly southern Evangelicalism. It\u2019s the population center. The power center. The culture center. And it helps explain some of the ungodly rage we see. It\u2019s the southern culture leaking out. My Sunday essay: https://t.co/ezkdtmRcP1
— David French (@DavidAFrench) January 17, 2021
French does a great job describing honor as an ethical system in which your worth and identity depends on how others see you. If your claims about yourself are challenged, violence (or rhetorical violence) is an ethically "righteous" response in an honor culture.
French writes, "This approach represents a dramatic contrast with biblical commands to āturn the other cheekā or to ābless those who persecute.ā Instead, the shame/honor imperative is to punch back, hard. Any other approach...risks the well-being of the community." Exactly.
I saw this tension between honor and Christianity all the time in 19th c. church disciplinary records where men explained to fellow church members how they had to fight somebody who insulted them (or their mother, wife, family, etc.) even though they knew it was sinful.
I began calling it the "I know it was wrong, but I still had to do it" defense. If you live in the South, you've heard a version of it.
I love the law.
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) January 4, 2021
Too many forget or do not recognize that U.S. Constitution & our judicial system are based on God\u2019s laws.
The rules are simple & easy to understand. They should be studied & followed.
\u201cAnd ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\u201d
- John 8:32 pic.twitter.com/wdw8J10jh3