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Gennifer Hutchison

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Writer. Breaking Bad. The Strain. Better Call Saul. The Rings of Power.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · Feb 19

Hey y'all, please do not send me unsolicited scripts, pitches, stories, etc - even as jokes, even to illustrate a point. (This is for legal reasons and is pretty standard practice.) If you do, unfortunately, I'll have to block you. Thanks for your understanding.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 3h

Ohhhh mannnnnn

Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 10h

Oh no! I'm so sorry.

Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 12h

And no, I will not be debating this. If you liked it, that’s fine. But I did not because it broke the rules of adaptation (no, not because of changing plot, because of changing TONE), so it’s not a discussion for me.

Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 12h

Just saw a post asking horror fans for “a movie with a devastating, soul-crushing ending that isn’t The Mist” and it made me furious all over again at the adaptation of The Mist.

(for those who don’t know, the novella ends on a hopeful note, and the film… does not. it’s a betrayal. A BETRAYAL.)

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1d

questions which are stupid because they're asking for magic shortcuts. They want to know how to do a thing without work.

Which is why also creatives are often treated like what we do isn't work

NOT REALLY.

When skull sweat is labor and laborous.

Anyway when all else fails, sleep on it.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1d

Me, young Emma, oh that's easy to answer

Her, eyebrow arched

Me...tell them you put a coin in the idea machine

Folks, she laughed so long and so hard and asked if she could use that. I was pleased as punch.

But later as I created, I realized the real truth under what I had said

People ask

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1d

it critical.

When I was young I met a hugely prolific author of western historical fiction. I didn't know her or her books. We talked about that stuff, she was amazed I didn't ask the 'stupid' questions she normally got.

Me, what could be a stupid question

Her, 'how do you get your ideas'

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1d

Click through so you can also read what she's responding to.

A huge part of the creative process, for every single creative I've ever known, including myself

is you need down time to think, usually while doing another thing that doesn't require thought.

This time, this space, this brain wandering

Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 1d

When I struggled with something writing-wise I take a walk. And 100% of the time I end up figuring out the solution. I would never, ever, ever, ask a machine to do that for me. Wtf.

ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 1d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, particularly the women in his life who will be immediately (already have been) rehabbed into "victims".

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 2d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 1d

*and yes... I know they've done with with many terrible ex-presidents, but this is the one I watched happen in real time.

Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 1d

And before anyone thinks "that'll never happen", I present to you the revisionist public rehabilitation of GW Bush.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 1d

When this is all over, and it comes out that he is/was indeed addled and advisors were feeding him lies and ai... it's vital we don't let anyone use that information to absolve him of any responsibility for every horrific act the admin is doing.

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 1d

cbs story (image 1): www.cbsnews.com/amp/losangel...

latimes story (image 2): www.latimes.com/california/s...

Palisades Fire arrest made; suspect allegedly set earlier blaze that later ignited Jan. 7 LA inferno, officials say

29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht "maliciously" started the Lachman Fire on Jan. 1, which later became the devastating Palisades Fire, prosecutors said.

www.cbsnews.com

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 1d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 2d

Gonna have to go back to ending all my posts with @alexandraerin.com 's "this post does not contain a question".

I'm too grumpy for even the most innocuous of unsolicited advice!

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 2d

My husband played that, and I couldn't be in the same room.

Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 2d

Re: horror films/tv shows: I used to LOVE them, and still like some. But it depends on whatever the "monster" is. Witches, slashers, demons, general occult - not scary for me. Haunted objects, ghosts, malignant stalking spirits, general "shit doing things it shouldn't" - terrifying.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 2d

I did white knuckle my way through Control, and loved it, but it was a TRIAL. Particularly that DLC with the enormous mutant deer man.

Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 2d

Re: my last post - there's a path in the Cyberpunk 2077 DLC that, if chosen, includes a super discordant with the rest of the game horror-genre tone, and I tried to play it because I wanted Precious Backstory, and I COULD NOT DO IT.

Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 2d

to be clear - i can't play them because of my intense fear of the dark and general being a big ol' wimp about that stuff.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 2d

There's an entire subset of video games whose genre is, essentially, "insufficient and unreliable light sources", and I can't play ANY of them, but they all look very Interesting and Cool and Up My Alley Storywise, and I wish I could just, like... turn on some steady overheads...

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 2d

If just a fraction of my followers all chipped in a little, my friends at Merrymac could finish their hay drive today! Please pitch in if you can. ☺️

Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Timothy Tuesday! What is Timothy Tuesday? Why it’s a holiday we just made up to promote our hay drive! donorbox.org/mmfs-2025-ha...

A pastel colored graphic with a photo of Timothy Hayes in the middle of it and text underneath that reads happy Timothy Tuesday.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

This is the thing with the common tic people have towards dismissing people pointing out exactly what’s happening with centrists as some immature or ignorant when more often than not they’re paying much closer attention to what people have done to warrant criticism than their defenders.

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