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Jennifer Liao
@averagejenn.bsky.social
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Film/TV Director: FROM (MGM+), TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES (The CW), MURDOCH MYSTERIES (CBC). Occasional V.O. artist. Appreciator of comics (both kinds). Based in Los Angeles/Toronto. jenniferliao.com
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I'm taking a bit of a break from shooting photos on film... It can be an expensive hobby when you're going through a lot of rolls. But I got a free expired roll of b&w Love Film 200 from one of my regular shops before the holidays and here are some of my favourites from that set. #believeinfilm
Silhouettes of palm trees at dusk in the city, with roads on either side. Medium close-up of a white man with a Santa hat on, against a fence, frowning and looking off to the side. Nighttime wide shot of two partially-spotlit dancers in large patterned skirts and white shawl-vests dancing in front of a choir of people with an arm raised in the air. Church steeples and spires with crosses on them visible from behind vegetation and fences in the top half, a drainage grate and pipe and darkening tunnel in the bottom half.
January 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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In the one bit of lightness I can offer you in these troubled times, apparently the Starz network's slogan has been for years, unbeknownst to me as someone who regularly watches and enjoys their programming, "We're all adults here".
Screen that reads: STARZ and underneath WE'RE ALL ADULTS HERE
January 5, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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New Year
Old Me
(New T-shirt from @ashcanpress.com / @tylerboss.bsky.social)
Asian woman with a chin-length bob of black hair wearing a grey t-shirt with illustrated people and A.P. Ashcan Press text on it.
January 1, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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• The best book I read this year
• The best book I read FROM this year
• The best comic book I read this year
• The best audiobook I heard this year
Book cover for BABEL by R.F. Kuang, a black-and-white illustration of a university campus with a domed tower in the centre with birds circling it. Book cover for THE LAST KING OF CALIFORNIA by Jordan Harper, showing a silver trailer sitting in the desert with black smoke billowing from it, against a pink sky. Book cover of CANNON by Lee Lai, an illustration of an Asian woman with close-cropped hair wearing an apron, framed by birds and bird wings. Book cover for WOODOWORKING by Emily St. James, a photograph of various classroom chairs stacked in a haphazard way.
December 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Merry Christmas, fellow Blueskyers.
Deflated Santa lawn decoration facedown on the front lawn of a home, a bare tree with some baubles on it in the foreground.
December 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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see this, post a #comics cover that you love

(by @jasonloo.bsky.social)
Comic book cover for THE PITIFUL HIMAN-LIZARD #6 featuring an illustration of an Asian boy in a school photo. He's in a shirt and tie, smiling with headgear on, and has a black eye.
December 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Oh, wow, I didn't remember that was you!
Small square book with an illustration of William Shakespeare on the cover and the title The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare, and As Adapted by Eric Kim.
December 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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(illustration by human artist Gilbert Hernandez)
Asian woman with chin-length black hair wearing a blue t-shirt with an illustrated figure drawn by Gilbert Hernandez of a grinning, winking man himself wearing a read t-shirt that says FUCK AI on the front.
December 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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ROGERS V ROGERS is @healey.bsky.social's terrific follow-up to THE MASTER PLAN, a witty docu-fiction detailing Canada's infuriating love of monopolies, starring Tom Rooney and Tom Rooney alone as various characters, including failson Edward Rogers and a regulator who tried to stop the Shaw takeover.
Cover of a theatre program with a medium-shot photo of a white man with a beard in a suit holding his hand over his face.
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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So much credit to prop master Craig Grant and his team. (That's him in the middle.)
Two women in old-timey-style hospital scrubs and white helmets on either side of an exposed (prop) stomach that has been sliced through, and a white man with grey hair in the middle, wearing a brown t-shirt and holding a metal implement.
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Been a real up and down day... A lovely piece of good news followed by two disappointing rejections, one big (grant), one small (development program), then a Blue Jays win and a some points on the board for my Movies Fantasy League choices (owing to the Gotham nominations announcement).
Current Score: 287 Current Rank: 4,380 out of 19,038 Movie Roster: • Hamnet: 30 points • One Battle After Another: 195 points • Avatar: Fire and Ash: 0 points • Sirāt: 15 points • The Testament of Ann Lee: 30 points • Hedda: 15 points • Keeper: 0 points • Shelby Oaks: 2 points
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Ready for the (other) holiday! @aduralde.bsky.social
Book cover that looks like a wrapped present with a bright red background, reading HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE CHRISTMAS, Alonso Duralde, and a gift tag that reads Revised & Updated.
October 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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You've still time to make it over to Revenge Of and get a copy of OUT OF ALCATRAZ signed by Chris Cantwell!
Partial photo of a book cover reading OUT OF ALCATRAZ, with a black-and-white drawing of two men presumably trying to escape something. Underneath is a partial image of a record cover reading MUT (i.e. MUTINY) and a personalized signature.
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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This was my only viral Tweet.
Tweet reading: People that believe the world is suddenly overrun with paid protestors should have to try and produce a crowd scene for a low-budget movie.
October 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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The comics I picked up yesterday were all written by Bluesky- quaintances!

RACER X #2 (@manruss.bsky.social & @nunoplati.bsky.social)

LITTLE NIGHTMARES: DESCENT TO NOWHERE #1 (@lonnienadler.bsky.social & @dennismenheere.bsky.social)

MARY SUE #1 (@megfitz89.bsky.social & @lisasterle.bsky.social)
Three comic book covers arranged in a fan shape, one featuring two women, one with a racecar, one with a city street scene.
October 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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If you've got Prime Video, you can watch FROM during the month of October without having to subscribe to the MGM+ add-on. I directed episodes 7 and 8 of Season 1, and they're really good, for which I take only the credit I am due because everyone who works on the show is exceptional at what they do.
Website home screen with title graphic FROM on the left, and on the right, a close-up photo of a middle-aged Black man with a serious expression on his face, silhouetted figures and moody light in the background. This is actor Harold Perrineau and he is awesome.
October 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Shirley Temple 7-Up is back! Be kind to yourself and pick some up.
Stacked 12-pack boxes of 7-Up Shirley Temple canned sodas, some of the Zero Sugar variety.
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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PSA: The new black-and-white Toronto Public Library tote bag is priced at $3, no added tax.
Black tote bag with white handles, and white text on the front reading: toronto public library
September 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Whitney Wolfe Herd in the NY Times a few months ago:
Earlier you mentioned that many female leaders in tech who were your contemporaries have left or been pushed out. Venture-capital firms are giving less money to female entrepreneurs than a decade ago. Why do you think things seem to have moved backward? I’ll tell you something that I have observed. I’ll have a young woman founder who comes to me, and they don’t just have an excellent deck or an excellent pitch. They have real numbers. They have sales. They have something to show for themselves. And they just can’t get anyone to take a meeting with them. And then a young male founder will come to me, and they’ll be like, “Oh, I just secured $13 million on this valuation.” I’m like, really? Let me see the product. Let me see what you’ve done. “Oh, no, it’s an idea.” How did you get $13 million? So, I am shocked by how little we’ve moved forward.
August 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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A photo I took in Santa Monica on Kodak Gold 200 film, a favourite of my most recent roll.
A landscape view of Santa Monica across a highway, out towards sand and the Pacific Ocean, a hill on one side, with trees and a fence at the top of it.
August 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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The new USPS stamp sheets Chris Ware designed are very nice and available to order online, along with magnet and jigsaw puzzle versions if you so desire. (My local outlet did not carry the stamps, but there are some that may.)
A full-colour illustration of an overhead angle of a town square with multiple buildings and multiple USPS postal trucks and mail carriers among other people in the neighbourhood.
August 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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August 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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I'd seen ASH IS PUREST WHITE before, likely the only movie in this collection whose central character is a woman, and it's a veritable epic. Zhao Tao's performance is a tour-de-force, as a gangster's girl who goes to prison for him for 5 years and has to find her way in the changing eras of China.
Movie poster for ASH IS PUREST WHITE bathed in glowy lights, an Asian woman with tightly pulled back hair sitting in the back of a car, looking ahead, with the face of an Asian man with a mustache in the reflection of the window next to her, his eyes seemingly looking over his shoulder at her.
July 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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I'm shooting on an old Canon A-1 with a 50mm lens I acquired from @gregpak.net (Thanks, Greg!), and the film used for all these photos (except for the Paris nighttime shot, which is Cinestill 800) is Kodak Portra 400.
July 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Close shot of a white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair wearing large black-rimmed sunglasses. Medium shot of a white man wearing a brown jacket and tan hat with a wide brim, standing in a parking lot. Wide shot of an abstract red, white, and blue-coloured design on a concrete parking lot structure, with a far-off person in a wheelchair rolling towards it, back to camera. White man with short blonde hair making an exaggerated frown, being nuzzled lovingly by a white woman with slightly darker shoulder-length hair.
July 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM