Estelle Olivia

I don’t care if you watch TV the whole time. Enjoy. But why not do it with a view?

I am begging you. Please. Open your window shade on the plane. We are FLYING through the SKY! Like a bird! You can see the tops of clouds!! Where is your sense of wonder‽?‽

It’s been a good week! @whispodcast.bsky.social made it into NJ Webfest, we got a few new patrons, and one of my script consulting clients just found out his screenplay made it into Austin After Dark and Oh Scares LA!

May your meeting be cancelled, may your morning be misty, may your fridge contain delicious leftovers, may you remember that idea from last night, and still be excited by it in the light of day! #Amen

Absolutely chuffed to be selected for New Jersey Webfest!

Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And-

Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

Just watched the Grenfell Tower documentary. £69.44 for every person that died—that’s how much money they saved using cheap and highly flammable cladding to give the tower an unnecessary facelift, which ultimately caused the severity of the fire. #EatTheRich

Client: “the car is parked FACING OUT of its parking space, trunk facing the building.”

Me: You could just say the car is backed in?

Client: 🥲🤪🤓

#scriptdoctor #freelanceeditor #writing

We won Best Indie Podcast at The Ambies last night!! I’m over the moon, and so proud of our amazing, tiny team for all their incredible work! Thank you thank you to everyone who’s listened, reviewed, voted for, and helped to fund us! 🤩

For anyone wondering, The Titanic had 6,000 lb of butter and 2,200 people.

Anybody else get into joking arguments with your partner that end in him researching exactly how much cheese vs butter was on the Hindenburg and the Titanic??

If you have never tried making scissor-cut noodles (or jian dao mian) I hiiiighly recommend. I just put some in chicken soup and the texture is to die for. Also surprisingly great with an Alfredo. The key is to let them rest so the flour can absorb the water properly. #easydinner

I may have shown up for my 4 PM dentist appointment at 2 PM (cause I had a 2 PM appointment last week so my brain decided that is when appointments happen and #dyscalculia) but at least my barista accidentally made me an extra large chai when I paid for a small. Counting my wins.

If you made $10,000 every day and never spent a cent, from when the Declaration of Independence was signed, to the time you're reading this, you still wouldn't have a billion dollars.

Elon Musk has that more than 190x over and he’s cutting people’s SNAP money (just ~$6.16/day)

Government efficiency at its finest!

I have to say, it’s such a joy to have our work recognized, and all the more so because I love this team and this project so much, and these wonderful artists absolutely deserve it!

So happy to share this honor with you Teddy! We’re lucky to have you on the team!

Ooooh, I know what @aaronblanton.bsky.social and I are doing this weekend!

I’ve got slots open in the second half of the month if anybody wants to feel that sweet sweet pain of diving into a rewrite armed with the tools to kill your darlings. #scriptdoctor #freelanceditor #screenwriting #novel #playwriting

Haha, I just got feedback from a client I spent three hours on the phone with today, and I think they gave me my new tag line as a script doctor. “Notes so good you’ll hate me!”

My family is Finnish and I love that this concept is becoming more well known! Hard agree.

Yesssssssss. I cannot wait for this one. 💜😈

Count your wins. Not your losses. Define your own reality wherever you can.

This is doubly true when the losses weren’t in your control. You put your best work forward but you didn’t get the job, the fellowship, the part, the award. Ok, then it wasn’t for you. You were never what they were looking for. But maybe applying made you write a better synopsis of your play.

Reading before bed and a line in my fantasy novel drove an important idea home for me: you’ve got to learn to count the battles you win, not the ones you lose.

Yessss, this looks so good! Congratulations, and thank you. Can’t wait to see it, hope you’re headed to NYC too.

What should I call this series? I’ve been casually referring to them as ‘scribble drawings’ for years. Which is technically accurate, but not really satisfying. It doesn’t convey much. #art #abstractart #intuitiveart #abstractdrawing

Thank you so much! And I feel you. I find it helps me to actively think of something as an experiment while I’m making it, not a ‘real’ art piece. Or to set out to ruin it on purpose, or to go for quantity over quality. Those techniques have been helping me!

An abstract art experiment of red, black, and blue ink on white paper. It is a mix of quick, messy, fluid mark making, and smooth more precise and bold brush strokes, unclear whether the two are in conflict or harmony with each other. There is a faded, watery red texture on the paper and on top of that lines of spidery blue pen scrawl like illegible cursive, scattered across the page. In the center, a bold, thick black, twisting brush stroke runs diagonally from bottom left to top right. It has matching, mottled grey-blue strokes to either side. A smaller version of this mark does a curly cue in the upper left corner. The top layer is a thinner red brush stroke that spikes and loops like cursive from the top left to bottom right corner.

Always experimenting to find the balance between adding a new element and knowing when to stop. All you can do is play and be willing to “ruin” the final piece. #abstractart #artexperiment