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Gennifer Hutchison

@gennhutchison.bsky.social

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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 · 17h

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 · 22h

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

Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 22h

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 · 22h

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 · 22h

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 · 22h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23h

The fact that these “just right” moderate candidates consistently hoover up funding while running bad campaigns premised on catering to the idea the rest of their state party (the urban base) is out of touch, while losing, never crosses peoples minds as a contributing factor to general Dem struggles

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 23h

(and if I've shared this before, apologies. I just think about it a lot!)

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 23h

It's so good. Like... firing on all cylinders.

Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 23h

And it's super efficient. So, so chef's kiss neat and tidy and effective. It also tells us about King's character and how she approaches the world.

It makes the weird mundane, but also sets the stage for all the big worldbuilding to come & how the mundane breaks down.

A great model to consider.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 1d

2 - and this is the brilliant bit - King's resigned annoyance shows it happens regularly - often enough to have a regular protocol. But also - it's not considered scary or particularly dangerous. There's a warning - like particularly bad weather, and then it's just bs making the commute worse.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 1d

So far, the world has been pretty normal by our standards. This scene does a couple things.
1. It obviously tells us - this world is NOT the same as ours... and it's weird.

And like, that alone, is key world-building stuff. But also...

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite bits of worldbuilding on a show ever was in the Watchmen pilot (I believe that's the ep). Regina King is driving, and baby squid suddenly rain down from the sky. She pulls over, resigned and annoyed, gets out and cleans the windshield.

It's brilliant.

Here's why:

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 1d

Serialization is the fanfiction model, and the meandering padding is generally a feature, not a bug.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

One of the reasons Crime and Punishment is so long, yet ends so abruptly, is that it was serialized, Dostoyevsky had gambling debts and strung it along to get paid, and finally his editor told him to wrap it up, already

Plague Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 1d

The last time I saw someone pushing the idea, they claimed it would stop books becoming so padded with filler to make them longer.

As an owner of an unabridged copy of the Count of Monte Cristo, I don't think they really understood how this actually works.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 1d

I've been extremely lax in cancelling Spotify (I know - I feel the appropriate shame), but I finally did yesterday. It took approximately one minute. Perhaps you've been knocking it down the to-do list as well and could use this extra push.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

this is so fucking gross i don’t even have words to process how fucking gross it is

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 1d

I’m far too grumpy, like on a base level, with minimal provocation, to really be posting here ever.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 1d

My dad is a geologist, and sometimes we end up talking about various geology-centric extinction level scenarios, and he's always so giddy about the science part of it and like, only slightly less animated about the "oh, and we'd all be wiped out" part of the equation.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so sorry, Jeremy. Thinking of you and your family and everyone who loved her.