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Mandy Benanav

@mandybwriting.bsky.social

she/her. Skeleton enthusiast. Narrative Designer + Writer IF author: https://mandybwriting.itch.io/enchanted-house

251 Followers  |  126 Following  |  112 Posts  |  Joined: 16.08.2023  |  2.0625

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Oh no

24.05.2025 06:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WILD! Well enjoy! Twin Peaks is one of my very favorite things. Two years ago I did a complete rewatch (incl. FWWM & S3) with one of my discord servers with a book club format - set episodes per week w/ discussion after. One of my favorite experiences I’ve ever had!

25.02.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, what?? Who says that about season ONE??? S2 is the famously β€œuneven” one because after [REDACTED] Frost & Lynch left the series until the finale (which is incredible)

23.02.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"One in ten respondents were laid off last year, with roles in game narrative being the most affected at 19%"

I've known anecdotally that writers were hit hardest, but it's wild to see the hard numbers. Over 3x the layoffs of business & finance

21.01.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 206    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3

if we are all going to be forced to relive 2016, they should at the very least let us see mad max fury road in theaters again

20.01.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 27609    πŸ” 2556    πŸ’¬ 458    πŸ“Œ 109

I would for sure support it!

19.01.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Flowers for Lynch at Bobs Big Boy.

17.01.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 624    πŸ” 144    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7
Artwork for DAVID LYNCH: A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE at the Music Box

Artwork for DAVID LYNCH: A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE at the Music Box

Rest In Peace, David Lynch🌹

16.01.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7114    πŸ” 1560    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 116
excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. 
     When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work.
     If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."

excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work. If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."

once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish

11.12.2024 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 9138    πŸ” 3502    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 137
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Issue 51: David Lynch Archives - Bright Wall/Dark Room September 2017

A truly awful day for movies and art, losing one of the most singular and brilliant voices to ever make them.

We've unlocked our full David Lynch issue from 2017, which is now entirely free to read.

R.I.P. Mr. Lynch, and thank you forever for the work and example you left us.

16.01.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 961    πŸ” 394    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 12

Hell yes!! Extremely good shit. The DLC is excellent btw

Rise is good, maybe even great, but I personally didn’t like it as much. Highly still recommend though

15.01.2025 05:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œConditions at your job suck? Look for another job” actually what if we didn’t all have to play a horrible little game of musical chairs for our entire lives

14.01.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 792    πŸ” 197    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

That sweaty moment when you go to send a message with an image but you can’t remember whether *this* platform puts the image BEFORE or AFTER your text….

15.01.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s a rare bookseller who loves Tolkien and a retired artsy lady who lives in an old church and a guy who built a sun-powered β€œdeath ray” he uses to destroy hot dogs (β€œweiners”)…

15.01.2025 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer.

The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election β€” β€œPope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest β€” are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election β€” β€œPope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest β€” are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

15.01.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 26250    πŸ” 9374    πŸ’¬ 1382    πŸ“Œ 977

My deepest condolences 😭 praying it dies soon 4u

10.01.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

they should give the nobel prize to the guy that invented the 3rd dishwasher rack

07.01.2025 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcing my new chrome extension, in the millennials/snake-people tradition, to fix one of the major aesthetic liabilities on the internet right now: "I asked ChatGPT" phrases in posts and headlines. Join me and free yourself by installing My Stupid Friend chromewebstore.google.com/detail/my-st...

06.01.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 635    πŸ” 211    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 14

What is the ruling on β€œwowie zowie”?

06.01.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Wish I could log onto the metaverse to see what the Brian Thompson murder discourse was like there

09.12.2024 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The TEENIEST peets!!!

06.12.2024 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Greetings from my chinchilla

06.12.2024 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

feels like we never hear anything about the metaverse anymore

05.12.2024 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

But suppose I would *like* to...?

05.12.2024 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have the same memory!! Only for me it was middle school and electric keyboards, until the first computer lab opened

05.12.2024 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How many hamsters have been named Skibidi by this point?

02.12.2024 05:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And yet she will never leave you

02.12.2024 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is Mavis Beacon still teaching or is she retired at this point?

01.12.2024 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank youuuuu πŸ’–

19.10.2024 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who loves text games but has generally been on the outside of them, this is a completely surreal experience. A huge thank you to my testers, supporters, and of course the judges and organizers of IFComp! I can’t wait for my next project πŸ’–

19.10.2024 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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