You ever pet a dog and think... “hmm, am I the first black person to ever pet this dog?”
You ever go to your friend’s parent’s place and think... “hmm, am I the first black person to ever enter this house?”
You ever-
And lo, my agent appeared with pizza right as I was feeling faint. I’m grateful for WME’s support and looking forward to benefiting from the other company’s corporate guilt! Ice cream sundae party, UTA? Mimosa flights, CAA?
GO SEE JOY RIDE!!! I’m not being facetious when I say I’m still laughing. I’ve been home for an hour and every time I remember something from the movie, I laugh to myself. It’s that funny. You must must go!! I saw that other r rated comedy and— trust me, go see Joy Ride.
Friendly reminder that the episode I co-wrote of the girls soccer team show premieres Friday on streaming and Sunday on Showtime proper! Enjoy this unrelated screenshot.
#Yellowjackets
LMAO this is so messed up. But it’s true! New episode just dropped! And I co-wrote it! Hopefully the AMPTP will watch and find my contributions to tv necessary and valuable enough to pay me what I’m worth and make my career sustainable for years to come!!!!
We did it, Joe! 😭 — Is this a reference we still like? Considering the not as much doing that’s been done lately? Regardless - I still did this. Proud of me. ☺️
I signed something earlier today, and in four days I begin something. I truly cannot say anything else about it and never realized how silly this process of announcing but not announcing was until now. Please... clap?
What is with these trades throwing black filmmakers under the bus like this? I mean… I know what it is, but why are they so loud with it?? You’re saying she was working? This is how the work works.
“The Marvels” director Nia DaCosta began working on another film while “The Marvels” was still in postproduction. The filmmaker moved to London earlier this year to begin prepping for her Tessa Thompson drama “Hedda.”
I could NOT be more proud of my friend
@chikiguna
for being a WHOLE ASS CREDITED TV WRITER!!!! LOOK AT THE MATERIAL!!!!!!! She made us laugh. She made us cry. She made us feel all the things. You’re welcome, America. You’re all welcome 🦜🐥🐓🕊🐥🦉🐧🐤🐦🦤🦩🦢🦚
#TucaAndBertie
@RaphaelBW
The Greatest Showman! Amazing music. Insane that it’s a “biopic”. If a movie can be a Ponzi scheme, this movie is it… but the album has been one of my top played albums every year since it came out.
Just got a big laugh from one of the alts I fed to the actor/director on this commercial shoot. THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO BE ON SET. For this feeling alone. I feel 100 feet tall. 🥰
Walked out of a bookstore the other day and a man on the street immediately goes, “hey, who’s your favorite author?”
Reader, I feared for my life. Couldn’t remember if Beyonce has ever written a memoir.
One of the best things about
#TheBearFX
is that my son’s titi Karen
@ckharyn
is one of the amazing writers! He adores her. We adore her. And she deserves to be paid fairly!
#WGAStrike
No one asked for this take, but I really don’t get encores. Why am I out here BEGGING you to sing another song the time for which you’ve already budgeted?? Just give me everything you got then leave. Why are we playing games? Who is this for??
In an informational, a student who saw me on a panel last November, asked how things have been going for me as a writers’ assistant. It hadn’t hit me until then that I just started my third room as a writer and first as a story editor - and all w/i a year. God is just so— 🙌🏾
Happy one year anniversary of my boss arriving at work and saying, “everyone go the fuck home! I saw on Joe Rogan that this shit breeds in rooms of people like this. We’ll meet up again when it’s safe.” I’ll always regret not grabbing more snacks and not stealing the nespresso 😔
I love how everything is like - THIS WAS FILMED/CONDUCTED/WRITTEN BEFORE THE WGA/SAG-AFTRA STRIKE WE PROMISE DON'T LOOK INTO IT SOLIDARIIITTTTYYYYYYYYY
I’ve been texting someone for 2 weeks, planning to hang for the first time in a while. However, the person I thought was Javi, a 40-year-old mom I was friends with in college, is actually Xavi, a 30-something I dated early pandem who doesn’t know I’m in a year-long relationship.
Just finished the first draft of an action-comedy-crime feature I only started writing because I saw a movie in a similar vein and thought... "I could do that. And I can do it better." Cheers to the forever one-upping know-it-alls. May we forever do the most.
Last year, 8 Hollywood CEOs made nearly $800 million, yet pay for TV writers has fallen by 23 percent over the last 10 years. I stand with the nearly 12,000
@WGAWest
writers on strike for a fair contract.
Having
@StumbleJohnson
as a peer and friend is pretty high up on my list of accomplishments tbh. The list goes: 1. Saw Tommy Wiseau in traffic once. 2. Friends with Patrick 3. Somehow a TV Writer 4. Read the most books of my class in 5th grade
My friend did a thing! And that thing is available to watch now! Everybody go check out
#HIMYF
on Hulu and follow the awesome
@ckharyn
so you don’t miss any more cool things from her
I’m taking the bus to the picket line at Fox bc if there’s anything I hate more than labor infractions and unfair wages it’s looking and paying for parking in Los Ángeles.
@sankofa_bird
Hey! I’m a black Karen (😛). I’m currently a mid level writer on a drama series, but dramedy is my real bag. I’m working on a couple features and a pilot I’m excited to pitch when the dust settles. Just wannna create more characters I don’t get to see enough. I’m also a captain!
HOW DO YOU PEOPLE WATCH LOVECRAFT COUNTRY WHEN JONATHAN MAJORS IS SO FRIGGIN HOT? I HAVEN’T HEARD A SINGLE WORD ANYONE HAS SAID. I DON’T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING BUT HIS CHEST AND FACE AND CHEST AND DID I MENTION HIS FACE?
She got her own house*, she got her own car, three jobs*, work hard, she a bad broad. If you ain’t known sit down. If you ain’t known sit down...
#independent
* she rents with three roommates
** not exactly...
The point is, my car is paid off. Should we get a new one? 😛
I just saw
@RepMaxineWaters
at the grocery store near my place and I was so star struck and said hello and she said hello and this encounter has 100% changed my whole day. Maybe even my whole outlook on life.
Grandma: What work do you do?
Me: I write for television.
Grandma: *Confused*
Me: Like your stories? I write the words they say.
Grandma: So you have to remember it all? I bet you write fast!
75-year old uncle: Do you have to use shorthand to get it all down?
Me: Wait, no—
Skipped from Saw I to Saw VI and I just really need to know how this man has all this real estate. Could’ve used all this “abandoned factory” money on his experimental treatments! (I acknowledge that his obscene wealth might be explained somewhere in II - V)
When
@crissles
said wagwan, I paused what I was doing, waiting with bated breath to see if
@KidFury
was gonna call her out of her name. My patient, measured king. He moved on with grace. Why does she test him so?
Someone broke into my car last night and stole my laptop:
1. I’m physically fine.
2. God sent an angel to replace my laptop already.
3. Apple had previously bullied me into purchasing iCloud for $1 a month, so I got all of my files back.
GOD IS SO EXTRA SOMETIMES!!!
I just watched a black guy with the most beautiful smile charm a flight attendant as he stuffed his bag into the overhead and walk back to his seat holding two laptops, a book and a second cap in his hand. Y’all... 😋
An older white man in a Porsche just smiled at me in traffic… I gotta say it, I was very tempted to break social distancing in order to have the rest of my life taken care of 😔
You let us hang out with and get to know each other for 100+ days and thought we’d turn on each other? Joke’s on you, I’d kill for Ellen. Haven’t you heard? “That’s a bad bitch right there.”
~my writing process~
*Uses a word*
*Googles to make sure I know what it means*
*Realizes it doesn't mean what I think it means*
*Keeps it in anyway*
"They gon' know what I mean!"
I should be able to pay the movie theater to let me bring outside food in. Your food sucks! Why should that be my problem?
Unrelated: I need a milkshake flask.
Just forgive my loans, please. Just regulate the rollout of vaccines, my guy. Just send ppl checks so they stay home. I’m not tryna touch a $20 bill no matter who’s on it!! Issa virus out there!!!
Halle Bailey and Donald Glover should do something together so all our mamas and grandmamas can be hella confused when we try to explain that they're not Ms. Berry and Danny.
“You know what’s funny? Niggas invented calculus in Timbuktu. Now look what the white man using it for.” is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard. Thank you
@terencenance
and co. for
#RandomActsOfFlyness
Just remembered that a couple years ago, I went on two dates within a week with two different guys to the same fancy taqueria and got the same waiter both times. When he asked me and Guy
#2
if we needed to see the dessert menu, he rolled his eyes when I said yes.