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Ooh, I like that.

I would! I think I agree.

(Like all music hipsters/southern Californians)

No disrespect taken; I’m a huge Brian Wilson fan! 🕶️

I might begin simply being Dana Claire, as a musician, and if I had a logo it might look like this

It’s a cool bar that way. Leave it to the goth bar to get something like that right.

My sexy sexy leg

And even if it’s that they’ll still manage to be mad about it.

But if they did do that, you know the same people would be mocking them for their obvious canned insincerity and how it reveals their total inability to be authentic.

“Every single democrat condemned it, but they didn’t all use the same phrasing, which is terrible, and also if they had done that I’d be making fun of them for that right now.”

Well I’ve already been given an edible by a random guy since I’ve been here.

Normally I wouldn't put an account this popular on blast because I'm not suicidal, but this is asinine theater kid criticism made out of a refusal to focus your rage on deserving targets. If you think the real problem with Trump bombing Iran is the Democrats, log off and stay logged off.

Dana at a table someplace very red

Hangin’ at the Crypt

“Just the other day I was making fun of Chuck Schumer for not using his death ray to kill Trump at the state of the union, and some totally lame liberal tried to explain to me that he doesn’t have that, they don’t exist, and murder is a crime, so I made fart noises until my mom went back upstairs”

Really lovely.

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“They demand we should live in a better world, but insist that that involves knowing how numbers and civics work, which is like, so laaaaaaaame”

So you don’t actually know one, because in your circles knowing how the government actually works is socially unacceptable, so when someone asks you just repeat the question in a sarcastic font.

What a serious big boy you are.

It does have its appeal.

It’s clear I’m bragging, right? It’s part of why we live here.

I’m telling you, we are the queerest city in Washington. Which surely places us high in the running for queerest worldwide.

I’m a bit of an oversharer. :) but I’d love to hear yours some day, if you ever do feel like you want to share it.

If and when the moment does come, though, I’d like to be as ready as possible.

And anyway, the show’s been optioned, gotten to the script phase or even the hiring staff phase, and then been dropped, twice now (Amazon, then Nickelodeon). Plus I was a writer on another show that didn’t get made.

I’ve had to learn not to get too excited about this stuff.

It’s a weird time in Hollywood and a weird time in animation. Not much is getting made. Existing shows are getting disappeared off streaming. No one seems to know what’s going on.

At least, that’s my perception. (I’m still mostly a Hollywood outsider.)

I’ve sort of had this half-finished in the background for a couple of years. Recently, my agent and the Hollywood division of AMU told me they’d like to see it, so I’m finishing it.

My hopes of getting a show made in the short term aren’t high.

This friend, whose name rhymes with Shmauren Shmaust, gave me some of the show bibles she’s made for her shows, and I’ve just sort of been copying their structure, beat for beat, but for Phoebe.

Phoebe and Her unicorn: a treatment for an animated television series by Dana Simpson, March 1, 2026 A little girl dancing, while a unicorn spins a vinyl record on her horn

I’m assembling my Phoebe and Her Unicorn TV show bible.

I want to emphasize that the show is not currently in production. No one has optioned it since Nickelodeon canceled us in the script phase in 2022.

But I was told by a friend in animation that I should make one anyway.

I believe that too, even if we suffer setbacks and hardships along the way.

But I still don’t care for setbacks and hardships.