Niki
@nikiwilliams.bsky.social
Stories I have told,
Making tales for youth with care.
Now, I seek what’s next.
Gary -> LA -> NY
Making tales for youth with care.
Now, I seek what’s next.
Gary -> LA -> NY
Doing a bit of language learning. I have to admit one frustrating situation as I’m conversing with folks is explaining why my family ain’t from anywhere but the US. Whatever origin exists before here is clearly complicated. I’m SO confused by their shock and awe.
July 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Doing a bit of language learning. I have to admit one frustrating situation as I’m conversing with folks is explaining why my family ain’t from anywhere but the US. Whatever origin exists before here is clearly complicated. I’m SO confused by their shock and awe.
Literally just got back last night from a family reunion in Mississippi. Yup- I grew up Gary Indiana because my grandparents left Chicago for better work after bailing on D’Lo, MS.
Wild the nearby town is my family last name. Wild that the back roads are my great-grandparents name.
Wild the nearby town is my family last name. Wild that the back roads are my great-grandparents name.
17 year old me thought my freshman year AFAM history professor was a wizard when he asked where I was from (Chicago) and proceeded to correctly identified where my people came FROM (Mississippi).
I will never go “back to school”
But if i were to commit myself to research something… it would be this
It’s the only thing I’m interested in
But if i were to commit myself to research something… it would be this
It’s the only thing I’m interested in
June 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Literally just got back last night from a family reunion in Mississippi. Yup- I grew up Gary Indiana because my grandparents left Chicago for better work after bailing on D’Lo, MS.
Wild the nearby town is my family last name. Wild that the back roads are my great-grandparents name.
Wild the nearby town is my family last name. Wild that the back roads are my great-grandparents name.
Ok but for real. Can someone hire me to do what I’m good at?
This is wild. These are wild times.
Gonna go eat some Lime Fritos.
This is wild. These are wild times.
Gonna go eat some Lime Fritos.
June 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ok but for real. Can someone hire me to do what I’m good at?
This is wild. These are wild times.
Gonna go eat some Lime Fritos.
This is wild. These are wild times.
Gonna go eat some Lime Fritos.
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"Graham realised that many of the films she loved by Black women, such as the coming-of-age drama Drylongso by Cauleen Smith, or Naked Acts by Bridgett M Davis, which are featured in the season, were debuts that neither director has yet followed up." www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...
‘As a film lover, I want more’: the Black female directors taking centre stage
The curator of the BFI’s Black Debutantes season on piracy, truncated careers and the frustrations of dealing with big studios
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"Graham realised that many of the films she loved by Black women, such as the coming-of-age drama Drylongso by Cauleen Smith, or Naked Acts by Bridgett M Davis, which are featured in the season, were debuts that neither director has yet followed up." www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...
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A tale of two movies:
Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.
One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.
The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.
And yet this is the coverage.
Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.
One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.
The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.
And yet this is the coverage.
April 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A tale of two movies:
Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.
One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.
The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.
And yet this is the coverage.
Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.
One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.
The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.
And yet this is the coverage.
Awe - I was PJ Hogan’s assistant back in the aughts. I wonder how he is these days. Nice to see his name in ink.
How we made Muriel’s Wedding: ‘No one wanted a film about a plus-sized thief and liar’ www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
How we made Muriel’s Wedding: ‘No one wanted a film about a plus-sized thief and liar’
‘I wanted to do an Australian Mike Leigh film. I was convinced it was terrible – but we showed it at Cannes and they went crazy. Audiences had never seen a character like that treated sympathetically’
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Awe - I was PJ Hogan’s assistant back in the aughts. I wonder how he is these days. Nice to see his name in ink.
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Healthy reminder that I write in all genres and mediums. No pigeonholing necessary.
Welp, I'm gonna lose my TAG insurance because there's been no work for over a year. If anyone wants to hire me to write on their shows, let a boy know.
April 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Healthy reminder that I write in all genres and mediums. No pigeonholing necessary.
It is always a delight when the TMNT (x3) gets on the bus or train. BOY did the last film capture NYC kids because I legit just said “OK Michelangelo” in all seriousness.
April 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It is always a delight when the TMNT (x3) gets on the bus or train. BOY did the last film capture NYC kids because I legit just said “OK Michelangelo” in all seriousness.
Captiain’s Log #6404. It has been over 6,000 days of being harangued by a cat named Willis for hours on end. It started as a joke. “Whatchu talking ‘bout?” It has now been 18 years and I still have no idea. He is a healthy cat who yells (not meows) non stop.
I am tired y’all.
I am tired y’all.
an elderly woman says it 's been 84 years ...
Alt: an elderly woman says it 's been 84 years ...
media.tenor.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Captiain’s Log #6404. It has been over 6,000 days of being harangued by a cat named Willis for hours on end. It started as a joke. “Whatchu talking ‘bout?” It has now been 18 years and I still have no idea. He is a healthy cat who yells (not meows) non stop.
I am tired y’all.
I am tired y’all.
How can we convince Workday to adopt a single login/password account for applicants? I have so many logins!! For the same site. It doesn’t help to have a PW manager because it’s the same site. Daily applications has made this a WILD experience.
April 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
How can we convince Workday to adopt a single login/password account for applicants? I have so many logins!! For the same site. It doesn’t help to have a PW manager because it’s the same site. Daily applications has made this a WILD experience.
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It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.
April 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.
I told myself I wasn’t going to cry. But with this one it’s legit impossible. Like. 😭😭😭😭😭
#WhenLifeGivesYouTangerines was officially Netflix’s most popular non-English series as of Friday.
The kdrama is making waves globally, a feat that carries unique significance compared to other global korean hits such as #SquidGame and #TheGlory.
The kdrama is making waves globally, a feat that carries unique significance compared to other global korean hits such as #SquidGame and #TheGlory.
March 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I told myself I wasn’t going to cry. But with this one it’s legit impossible. Like. 😭😭😭😭😭
When I tel you the weather in NY changed on a DIME. Like….. aht aht. Don’t get too happy.
March 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When I tel you the weather in NY changed on a DIME. Like….. aht aht. Don’t get too happy.
So Pop The Balloon is now a legit Netflix show. Wow. And yup. Imma watch too.
March 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
So Pop The Balloon is now a legit Netflix show. Wow. And yup. Imma watch too.
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It's official: The Sundance Film Festival has chosen to move from Park City, Utah, to Boulder, Colorado. Announcement is coming soon. End of an era for America's most influential film fest.
March 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It's official: The Sundance Film Festival has chosen to move from Park City, Utah, to Boulder, Colorado. Announcement is coming soon. End of an era for America's most influential film fest.
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Hamdan Ballal, Oscar-winning Palestinian co-director of No Other Land, attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested.
Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Hamdan Ballal, Oscar-winning Palestinian co-director of No Other Land, attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested.
It’s so bad. It fills up my inbox. I have started staying in to get through to a human and the person on the other end is always confused. And acts as if I called them. It’s so weird. Now I just block and report as spam.
How long are these people going to call me talking about they need my info to complete my loan application. Longest running scam ever come onnnnnn
March 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It’s so bad. It fills up my inbox. I have started staying in to get through to a human and the person on the other end is always confused. And acts as if I called them. It’s so weird. Now I just block and report as spam.
This made my day. Whew!! I hope one day they tell the version of the story we don’t know.
What a world they left vs returned to.
What a world they left vs returned to.
BREAKING: Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore return to Earth after nine months stuck in space with a SpaceX splashdown.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams left the International Space Station after nine months in space, checking out with two other astronauts.
bit.ly
March 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This made my day. Whew!! I hope one day they tell the version of the story we don’t know.
What a world they left vs returned to.
What a world they left vs returned to.
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If you’re staffing, hire everyone who worked on Moon Girl the past 4 years. You will not regret having them on your team. This show was firing all cylinder, A++ on every department.
The #ChildrensEmmys Award for Outstanding Children's or Young Teen Animated Series goes to Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Disney+).
March 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
If you’re staffing, hire everyone who worked on Moon Girl the past 4 years. You will not regret having them on your team. This show was firing all cylinder, A++ on every department.
I do wonder about the future of Kids Entertainment. The conversations lately are not great.
March 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I do wonder about the future of Kids Entertainment. The conversations lately are not great.
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Your characters exist. They WANT you to tell their story. Seek them out. They are your allies. #writing #scriptsky
March 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Your characters exist. They WANT you to tell their story. Seek them out. They are your allies. #writing #scriptsky
The thing is. Kdramas don’t have this problem. They are so addictive and it’s fine for them to just be 16 or so episodes of 1 season and you feel like you got deep investment. The fans discuss rank rewatch them obsessively. We make forgettable plain scoops of popcorn.
Remember when we used to have TV shows with premises that could be at least 100 episodes? No shows have any gas in the tank anymore and it leads to audiences not investing in characters and it's really depressing.
March 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The thing is. Kdramas don’t have this problem. They are so addictive and it’s fine for them to just be 16 or so episodes of 1 season and you feel like you got deep investment. The fans discuss rank rewatch them obsessively. We make forgettable plain scoops of popcorn.
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In animation we hear "We want the next Bluey". The cost of doing business used to be making a hundred shows to get a Spongebob. All the other shows? A lot will still make money, and the talent who worked on them could give you the next Bluey.
This makes me so angry - because this translates to "I too would like to make a lot of money"
But let's be real. You would not have published Balatro.
You want a lightning strike- fund 20 games. Fund 30 games. Fund so many damn games that maybe you find the right field to be struck by lightning.
But let's be real. You would not have published Balatro.
You want a lightning strike- fund 20 games. Fund 30 games. Fund so many damn games that maybe you find the right field to be struck by lightning.
Publisher bizdev people at events like GDC and Dice trying to sign "the next balatro" should realize that, statistically, the developer of "the next Balatro" you need to be talking to isn't at GDC or Dice talking to bizdev guys seeking 2m+ in funding
March 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
In animation we hear "We want the next Bluey". The cost of doing business used to be making a hundred shows to get a Spongebob. All the other shows? A lot will still make money, and the talent who worked on them could give you the next Bluey.
I think this is the issue for entertainment right now in general. Creators and folks making it happen on the ground level keep saying it over and over and over. But still — sigh.
But you aren't going to fund these games. You aren't going to take a chance on something that likely, you can't even tell if it has it. This isn't a diss to you- You likely don't even have the expertise to see what really makes something tick.
Which means you have to take risks to make up for it.
Which means you have to take risks to make up for it.
March 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I think this is the issue for entertainment right now in general. Creators and folks making it happen on the ground level keep saying it over and over and over. But still — sigh.
I am the only person I know who is cussed out daily (hourly) by their cat. LOUDLY. Dramatically. Emotionally. This is an abuse. I am legit hiding from him right now.
The vet says he just has a lot to say. 😩 18! Years. Lots and lots of serious feline words. 😐
The vet says he just has a lot to say. 😩 18! Years. Lots and lots of serious feline words. 😐
March 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I am the only person I know who is cussed out daily (hourly) by their cat. LOUDLY. Dramatically. Emotionally. This is an abuse. I am legit hiding from him right now.
The vet says he just has a lot to say. 😩 18! Years. Lots and lots of serious feline words. 😐
The vet says he just has a lot to say. 😩 18! Years. Lots and lots of serious feline words. 😐