Elsa Williams
@elsawilliams.bsky.social
Writer. Shortlisted for Thousand Films Screenwriting Scheme
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Telly is weird. As an autistic person, I’ve never felt wholesome
The microphone is passed to a young man sat along the row. He laughs a little, avoiding all eye contact, and suddenly struggles to speak…
medium.com
The new series of The Assembly dropped on ITVX at the weekend, starring David Tennant and Danny Dyer.
Here’s an article I wrote last year about the show’s format and portrayals of autism on screen.
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Here’s an article I wrote last year about the show’s format and portrayals of autism on screen.
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Kae Tempest has this pinned to his studio wall. I needed it above my desk
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Kae Tempest has this pinned to his studio wall. I needed it above my desk
Did a thing that I haven't done in months, which is get up in the middle of the night to write.
The discipline is another thing, but when you feel it inside you it's like leaping and running along for miles. I feel like l've been somewhere, by the end of it.
The discipline is another thing, but when you feel it inside you it's like leaping and running along for miles. I feel like l've been somewhere, by the end of it.
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Did a thing that I haven't done in months, which is get up in the middle of the night to write.
The discipline is another thing, but when you feel it inside you it's like leaping and running along for miles. I feel like l've been somewhere, by the end of it.
The discipline is another thing, but when you feel it inside you it's like leaping and running along for miles. I feel like l've been somewhere, by the end of it.
Just had a doctor interrogate the autism diagnosis on my records due to the ‘high levels of emotional empathy’ observed during our consultation. He then suggested that being a writer and autistic was, in his mind, highly unlikely.
Sorry, lads…but am I in the wrong century?
Sorry, lads…but am I in the wrong century?
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Just had a doctor interrogate the autism diagnosis on my records due to the ‘high levels of emotional empathy’ observed during our consultation. He then suggested that being a writer and autistic was, in his mind, highly unlikely.
Sorry, lads…but am I in the wrong century?
Sorry, lads…but am I in the wrong century?
Me opening the door to the crisis team on the day of Wicked release: it’s good to see me, isn’t it
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Me opening the door to the crisis team on the day of Wicked release: it’s good to see me, isn’t it
Reposted by Elsa Williams
Today we’re winding back the clock to Episode 127: “Ticket to Ride” by The Beatles!
Andrew explores the making of the Beatles’ second film, and the influence of Bob Dylan on the Beatles’ work and lives.
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
Andrew explores the making of the Beatles’ second film, and the influence of Bob Dylan on the Beatles’ work and lives.
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Today we’re winding back the clock to Episode 127: “Ticket to Ride” by The Beatles!
Andrew explores the making of the Beatles’ second film, and the influence of Bob Dylan on the Beatles’ work and lives.
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
Andrew explores the making of the Beatles’ second film, and the influence of Bob Dylan on the Beatles’ work and lives.
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
Just seen ‘We will remember them’ on the front of a bus and thought, they’ve never done a war film from the perspective of a Stagecoach have they
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Just seen ‘We will remember them’ on the front of a bus and thought, they’ve never done a war film from the perspective of a Stagecoach have they
Deep dish et decorum est
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Deep dish et decorum est
Reposted by Elsa Williams
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Went out to do a walk and a cry.
Then had to flee for my little life cos some kids behind me started letting off leftover fireworks just as the second verse to Sinead O'Connor was starting up
Then had to flee for my little life cos some kids behind me started letting off leftover fireworks just as the second verse to Sinead O'Connor was starting up
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Went out to do a walk and a cry.
Then had to flee for my little life cos some kids behind me started letting off leftover fireworks just as the second verse to Sinead O'Connor was starting up
Then had to flee for my little life cos some kids behind me started letting off leftover fireworks just as the second verse to Sinead O'Connor was starting up
Goodbye, Shirley Valentine ❤️
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Goodbye, Shirley Valentine ❤️
Goodbye, Shirley Valentine ❤️
November 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Goodbye, Shirley Valentine ❤️
Goodbye, Shirley Valentine ❤️
November 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Goodbye, Shirley Valentine ❤️
Right, I’ll be honest, I saw the timid teenage boy with headphones on the John Lewis advert and immediately feared the worst
November 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Right, I’ll be honest, I saw the timid teenage boy with headphones on the John Lewis advert and immediately feared the worst
But did they ever think of doing a topless brunch
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
But did they ever think of doing a topless brunch
Reposted by Elsa Williams
New episode just rolled out!
We’ve covered Tina; now it’s time for the steady, bluesy original. Andrew looks at “Proud Mary” and the brief but productive career of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Available to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via Andrew’s website: 500songs.com/podcast/2714/
We’ve covered Tina; now it’s time for the steady, bluesy original. Andrew looks at “Proud Mary” and the brief but productive career of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Available to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via Andrew’s website: 500songs.com/podcast/2714/
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
New episode just rolled out!
We’ve covered Tina; now it’s time for the steady, bluesy original. Andrew looks at “Proud Mary” and the brief but productive career of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Available to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via Andrew’s website: 500songs.com/podcast/2714/
We’ve covered Tina; now it’s time for the steady, bluesy original. Andrew looks at “Proud Mary” and the brief but productive career of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Available to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via Andrew’s website: 500songs.com/podcast/2714/
Reposted by Elsa Williams
Whenever I'm with him, something inside…🎶
Today we’re revisiting Episode 111: “Heat Wave” by Martha and the Vandellas, and the beginnings of the legendary Holland-Dozier-Holland.
Available to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via Andrew’s website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
Today we’re revisiting Episode 111: “Heat Wave” by Martha and the Vandellas, and the beginnings of the legendary Holland-Dozier-Holland.
Available to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via Andrew’s website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
November 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Whenever I'm with him, something inside…🎶
Today we’re revisiting Episode 111: “Heat Wave” by Martha and the Vandellas, and the beginnings of the legendary Holland-Dozier-Holland.
Available to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via Andrew’s website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
Today we’re revisiting Episode 111: “Heat Wave” by Martha and the Vandellas, and the beginnings of the legendary Holland-Dozier-Holland.
Available to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via Andrew’s website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
Hallowing the ween etc
November 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Hallowing the ween etc
Reposted by Elsa Williams
I confess wild horses COULD drag me away. In fact it would only probably take a single very sickly one
October 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I confess wild horses COULD drag me away. In fact it would only probably take a single very sickly one
TV production company: What’s the premise? What’s the conflict?
Me: A pudding’s life is turned upside down after unexpectedly becoming a pineapple upside-down pudding
Me: A pudding’s life is turned upside down after unexpectedly becoming a pineapple upside-down pudding
October 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
TV production company: What’s the premise? What’s the conflict?
Me: A pudding’s life is turned upside down after unexpectedly becoming a pineapple upside-down pudding
Me: A pudding’s life is turned upside down after unexpectedly becoming a pineapple upside-down pudding
Just smiled at a new mum in the supermarket with her week-old baby. She smiled and nodded back, initially in solidarity, then realised I was cradling a two pack of flame baked naan breads
October 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Just smiled at a new mum in the supermarket with her week-old baby. She smiled and nodded back, initially in solidarity, then realised I was cradling a two pack of flame baked naan breads
A pumpkin just feels like a lot of unnecessary effort, to me. Why must I scoop out this stubborn flesh with a tablespoon?? I signed up to carve a silly window decoration, not perform complex neurosurgery on a gourd
October 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A pumpkin just feels like a lot of unnecessary effort, to me. Why must I scoop out this stubborn flesh with a tablespoon?? I signed up to carve a silly window decoration, not perform complex neurosurgery on a gourd
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I’m sorry but these sound like vintage esoteric euphemisms for “homosexual”
October 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I’m sorry but these sound like vintage esoteric euphemisms for “homosexual”
Opened the fridge. Just read the back of a tub of ricotta that instructs, ‘consume within 24 hours.’
That’s not a cheese. That’s a time bomb
That’s not a cheese. That’s a time bomb
October 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Opened the fridge. Just read the back of a tub of ricotta that instructs, ‘consume within 24 hours.’
That’s not a cheese. That’s a time bomb
That’s not a cheese. That’s a time bomb