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Interview with Biswanath Datta

Retired Civil Engineer, Educator, Book Author, and Writer I’d kindly appreciate it if you could please share them so that more readers learn about these authentic writers and benefit from their insights🙏 Image courtesy of Biswanath Datta Dear readers and writers, welcome to my new interview story, which introduces a book author and an accomplished writer. I enjoy interacting with people from…

[chirpsythismorning]

This is everything the Stranger Things writers have posted publicly about the WGA strike:

TIMELINE

May 3rd:

Stranger Things writer Caitlin Schneiderhan tweets picture from personal Twitter account of sign from the strike that reads 'Pay us or Steve Harrington is toast'

May 6th:

Official Stranger Writers Twitter account makes post on behalf of the Duffers Brothers. They have since pinned this tweet to their profile. "Duffers here. Writing does not stop when filming begins. While we're excited to start production with our amazing cast and crew, it is not possible during this strike. We hope a fair deal is reached soon so we can all get back to work. Until then -- over and out. #wgastrong

Bonus:

May 12th:

Stranger Things writer Kate Trefry posts picture from personal Tumblr account of sign that reads, 'Byler won’t write itself'

As far as I know, the two writers that posted on their personal socials are the only writers from ST that even have personal accounts that are public, whereas the rest of the writers do not.

What does make me take a pause though, is that, while yes they did post these pictures from their personal accounts, which is about as official as it gets, they also cryptically did not include themselves in said pictures...

This just got me thinking about how Stranger Things is quite literally Netflix and vise versa. They are practically one in the same, where one without the other just doesn't make sense.

While this conflict of interest might run deep for many writers out there fearing to speak out against their employer, for us, the consumers, the fans, we as a collective have so much more power than we realize.

In contrast to the writers, streamers can't just fire their consumer base sometime down the line, out of spite for speaking out. Without consumers, neither Stranger Things nor Netflix would be what it is today.

We have the affordance of being able to speak up the loudest of anyone. And so why wouldn't we take advantage of that?

There are so many people out there protesting: writers, actors, others in the industry and even outside of it who are also taking a stand, many who need support so that they can continue to fight in the upcoming days, weeks, months, without being deterred by corporations that are making them feel greedy for demanding a contract that at most, asks that they be paid fairly.

And so I want to encourage anyone that is reading this, but fellow fans of Stranger Things especially, who have so much power in this strike when it comes to getting Netflix's attention, to consider taking the time to do whatever you can individually + with the masses as a community in order to best support the strike.

Follow the Strike! If you're active on various social media already, please be sure to follow the official accounts advocating for the strike via Instagram (@writersguildwest/@wgaeast), via Twitter (@WGAWest/@WGAEast). Engage with posts from folks that are out there daily, many with whom you can find by following tags like #WGAStrong, #WGAStrike and #WritersStrike. Although most fans are not able to join in picketing themselves, we can at least recognize all of those out there's individual efforts and do our best to show that we're paying attention and listening!

Spread the word! Show support any way you can by sharing posts and articles about the strike, or even fun memes to inform others in a more engaging way. This is the official site for the WGA strike if you want to learn more about what’s going on before diving in! And make sure to stay up-to-date here as things continue to unfold!

Donate! The Entertainment Community Fund is endorsed by the WGA for anyone that wants to support those affected by the strike financially. And this thread on Twitter is an incredible resourse, as it provides an ‘easy, one-click, stress-free, accessible-to-all-budgets’ ways you can support folks on the front lines.

Also! Consider donating through this link for the Entertainment Community Fund, where the money donated still goes directly to that fund, this is just an organizing page for Stranger Things fans specifically! By allowing fans to see how much of an impact we make as a collective, in real time, this could encourage even more ST fans to want to contribute. In a best case scenario, if this GoFundMe were to reach impressive proportions of donations from fans, that could lead to news outlets reporting on it, which could allow an opportunity for even more eyes on the strike, while also even more importantly being able to provide financial support to those that need it.

Trend! On social media, use #StrangerFansforWGA to trend or even just to reach other fans also looking to come together to support the strike!

While I know this post probably wont reach anywhere outside of Tumblr, I want to make a point to encourage those of you that are on other platforms to inform fans in those spaces about the strike and what they can do to help!

We might not all agree on everything, but I think we can agree on at least one thing... @Netflix & all major streamers and networks out there, who are still refusing to make a fair deal: PAY YOUR WRITERS!

In the mean time, if you're interested in working on different ideas for initiates we can carry out as a fandom, please reach out to me! I might only one person and I might not have all the answers and solutions, but I do know that with more of us working together, our odds of making an impact are much greater!

Over and out!

[icewindandboringhorror]

I made a few new wax seal stamps out of clay (like the ones I did for my worldbuilding stuff forever ago), this time just of random symbols that I thought might look good done in the style of painting over the raised part of the wax or etc. :0c Some of them aren't carved deep enough to really show up that well, but overall they worked okay for being clay lol

[foundfamilynonsense]

Y’know. Anakin was a real asshole in Ahsoka’s hallucination.

Like. She mentions something about what she’ll be able to teach her padawan one day, since all she’s being taught is how to be a soldier, and Anakin’s like “teaching’s not all it’s cracked up to be”

And like. Asshole move. And Ahsoka rightfully calls him out on it. And he goes on the whole “uuuh I was joking. Lighten up.” Literally a complete jackass.

But beyond how he answered the question, it’s a valid complaint Ahsoka is bringing up! Anakin’s teaching her how to live or die. But Ahsoka wants to be taught how to be a jedi.

What happens after the war is over (order 66 never happens) and she now has to navigate a galaxy without a war? The Jedi take teaching very seriously there’s no greater honor than teaching a padawan. And she’s not being accurately taught, so she will not be able to pass anything on to the next generation.

But Anakin brushes it aside because he simply does not respect her or her wishes. Like. He never wanted a padawan, despite teaching being foundational to the Jedi. And he only took ahsoka in because he started to like her and became attached to her. He doesn’t care about jedi legacy, not really. So he brushes her comment off with a joke.

But in the rest of the vision… idk it didn’t feel like we were supposed view Anakin as entirely wrong here. He wasn’t in the right, he was definitely channeling Vader and being an ass, but he was basically the reason Ahsoka survived the fall, right? Bc he was making her choose life? When Ahsoka wins against him it’s sort of like she’s both learned his lesson and moved beyond him. And then for the rest of the season he’s only talked about in positive ways.

And like. That one line ahsoka said was really powerful in relation to the entire point of the show. What does she have to pass onto her own padawan (Sabine) if she wasn’t properly trained herself? That is, perhaps, the only valid plot question asked in the entire show. And it doesn’t get an answer. It’s never even brought up again.

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

i have several drafts from back in january comparing some of my old man yaoi ™️ ships which i decided against posting at the time because, quite frankly, they were thoughts no one would appreciate but me. two of the ships i know have some overlap, but the third didn't fit. a different genre. too niche.

but, with a new deadpool movie out and other ppl seeing the buggy parallels, i might as well get this off my chest:

shuggy is cablepool.

(not movieverse cablepool, to be clear. (i enjoy movieverse cable but he is not my mutant messiah.) comics cablepool.)

the dynamic is eerily similar:

we have an occasionally slapstick murderclown with obvious issues about the unusual way he looks, who presents himself as only having selfish motives but is (sometimes) lying about that, is very hard to kill, is disliked by ppl who have to work with him and popular with and beloved by ppl who don't both in-universe and out!

and his ex-bestie, a massively overpowered would-be martyr who is missing a flesh arm, has three scars over one eye, whose continued fondness for the murderclown post-breakup baffles everyone around him (murderclown included), and who refuses to elaborate on his motives for doing shady shit (including manipulating our beloved murderclown) except that he's doing everything for the sake of the future

like. tell me that's not them.

[hussyknee]

I have decided that USAmerican authors need to be banned from writing about historical Britain until they've undergone some kind of apprenticeship under a British writer. "City block", no "and" after "come/go", absolutely no attention paid to accents or speech patterns between classes and eras. This idiot really said the rain washed 18th century London clean for once. I nearly put my face in my hands and wept. If rain could wash London clean the place would have been fresh as a daisy since it was founded. "Doctors" attending village births in 1818. I'm losing count at this point. I'm in pain. I'm not even fucking British, I've just read a truckload of 18th century historical novels set in the UK and looked up everything I could while I was doing it. Are USAmericans just pathologically incapable of reading and researching other places and cultures before trying to put pen to paper or what. Imagine having this much audacity. My soul is bleeding. I need a hospital

[bisexualbuckl-y]

maybe unpopular opinion but if we do get an interaction of the 118 with capt gerrard, I hope is with hen and/or chim instead of buck or tommy... hen is on her way to become a captain, the cruise rescue happened under her command, and I feel like that would be a more interesting conversation, seeing that man in front of hen, a lesbian black woman he dismissed and belittle, while hen is being praised and awarded? I'd devour that shit

[dharmafox]

Mononoke's subtext is designed to fold back on itself in an infinite loop; if you ever try to figure it all out you'll have to give up eventually or go insane.

I'm aiming for insane.

[thebirdandhersong]

Rereading Persuasion on bus and can I just say. Yowza

[ryns-ramblings]

Did some numbers at questpit and two agent responses. Gave me some 🔥 to keep going!

[tangledinink]

MY CHILDHOOD LOVE, WARRIOR CATS MY ONE AND ONLY

I MADE MY FIRST OC'S, SELF INSERTS, AND PERSONAS FOR THAT SERIES

WE WARRIOR'S FANS STAND TOGETHER IN OUR SEA OF BLOOD AND PILE OF BONE

oh BIG MOOD. i was obSESSED with warrior cats for AGES. like. lowkey baby's first true hyperfixation. i deVOURED those books. they were typically too expensive for my family to buy (esp coz there were SOO many of them) so every time a new one would come out i'd beg my mom to bring me to the bookstore and then i'd straight up just sit in the aisle and read the entire thing then and there.

warrior cats is definitely, like, a huge part of what truly got me into drawing/writing/storytelling. i used to dedicate hours to illustrating scenes from those books. i had four HUGE handmade posters up on my wall as a tween with each and every cat from each and every clan that i'd update as the allegiances changed in the books. i used to design 'warriorsonas' for each and every one of my classmates because i was a super normal child. warriors is how i got into roleplaying, which was definitely a huge influence on my writing-- i read in an interview when i was, like, 11 that the erins sometimes got inspiration for warrior names from roleplay sites, and i was like!!!!! omg i have to start roleplaying on roleplay sites so that one of my warrior names get into the books!!!!

(they never did lol)

but i still obSESSIVELY roleplayed online for YEARS, i'd draw all my characters and draw my friends' characters, too, and scenes from the rps. we'd all write PARAGRAPHS upon paragraphs with, like, proper grammar and everything (because at that age and in those circles, roleplaying *with actions in asteriks* and stuff was CRINGE and everyone KNEW that the LONGER you wrote the BETTER your writing was, obvs, and that was the only factor--) i spent, like, every waking moment on this massive chatroom-based site called kugyay that had, like, hundreds and thousands of users in its heyday. granted, like, most people had more than one account (so you could have a custom profile for each character, obvi) but i remember everyone freaked out when we hit more than 10,000 accounts.

i could talk about my experience with warrior cats and all my various ocs for... like.... ages. also like. this is random and won't mean anything to most people, esp coz i only posted, like, a few pages about it, but i also want y'all to know that this graphic novel that i desperately want to bring to life and do justice someday and that i've dedicated SOOO much time thinking about is... like....... 1000% inspired by/based on warrior cats lowkey. like. i am infected. forever and ever.

[aclockmaker]

8k, rated E. sequel to heavy melodies (girl/girl steddie 'verse).

first scene here and under the cut:

Steve and Robin have their usual Friday night shift at the last video rental store in America and Steve knows, knows she has to find a way to tell her. She’s being extra nice to make up for the slight that Robin doesn’t even know about, doing all Robin’s go-backs and leaving her to enter returns on the computer, which is her favorite. Robin is definitely aware that something is up.

“I know something’s up with you,” Robin tells her when she’s back behind the counter. Well, one point to Steve.

When she’d needed to get herself to tell Eddie something all she’d had to do was get exceptionally high. But she can’t get high with Robin, who doesn’t smoke.

Maybe booze, though.

“I know,” Steve says. “I’m sorry. Um, I do need to talk to you, but—can we get drunk first? I think it might go better.”

Robin’s eyebrows are in her hair. “What the hell happened, tell me right now!”

“Oh, um. I don’t know.” Steve glances around the store, which is obviously empty. “It’s kind of—a lot, for work?”

“Since when do you give a shit about what’s work appropriate! Come on, you’re really freaking me out.”

“Don’t be, it’s not—bad, I guess,” Steve says, feeling her cheeks heat up.

“Oh my god. Is this a sex thing, somehow? What—the dry spell is over? But why is that making you all—“

“Robin, please,” Steve says, pathetically. “Okay, but, um. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you beforehand—“

“Steve, did you… what—sleep with my… dad?” She makes a disgusted face. “I don’t really think so because my parents’ marriage is pretty good but that’s the only thing I can think of that—“

“Okay, you gotta just let me get it out.” She must sound serious, because Robin puts up her hands placatingly. “Of course I didn’t sleep with your dad, Jesus. But—Robin. I hooked up with a girl.” It comes out quieter than she means it to, her heart racing.

Robin’s mouth drops open and there’s stunned silence. “You hooked up with a girl,” she repeats.

“Yes, I’m—sorry—“

And then Robin’s face is all movement again. “Oh, Steve, no—you were really worried about telling me? You don’t have to—I mean, that’s great, this is huge! Well—is it huge? What does this mean for you?” Robin’s sincere big eyes make Steve feel like she could cry, actually.

“I guess I don’t know, but. Well. Um, it means I like girls.”

“Oh, Steve,” Robin says and throws herself at her, wrapping her up in a big hug. It’s, like, nice that Robin gets to be the one comforting Steve about this, because she’s been there.

“Hey, I’m really happy for you,” Robin says into her hair, and squeezes her. “And a little bit for me.” She laughs. “I always wanted a gay best friend. I mean, I know you’re—you don’t have to know right now, but I guess I was assuming, but you tell me. Do you like boys and girls?”

Steve nods against Robin's shoulder, willing herself not to cry. There’s nothing to cry about. “Yeah, I guess I feel like I’m, um. Bi.”

When Robin pulls back her eyes look suspiciously wet. “I’m proud of you, dingus. And happy for you. And now I need you to tell me every single detail. Who was it? What happened?”

Why didn’t Steve prepare for this moment? She has no idea what to say. “Robin, um, it’s kind of awkward because you know the person—“

“Not—Vickie?”

“No, Jesus, stop guessing. I wouldn’t steal your girl.”

“Thanks, but she’s not mine, clearly. Also I notice you didn’t say you wouldn’t sleep with my dad. Kidding! Oh my god, Steve, was it—“ Robin lowers her voice— “Nancy?”

“I said stop guessing—“

“I always knew there was something going on there—“

“It's Eddie, Jesus,” Steve blurts out, just to get her to stop.

Robin’s eyes go impossibly bigger. “Oh. Oh. Holy shit.”

“Yeah,” Steve says weakly. “I know.”

“Oh my god, how did it happen?”

“Um.” Steve can’t possibly tell the sordid tale as it happened. But she doesn’t want to lie. “I don’t know, it happened really fast. We were hanging out in my room and then the next thing I knew we were kissing, and then I went to her place the next day, and we… you know.”

“Holy shit,” Robin says again, helpfully. “Details, please.”

“But isn’t it kind of weird because you know her too?”

“Steve, if I had to sit in this very same rolly chair and listen to you talk about Josh McGuire’s disgusting hands, you can give me a little dirt about an actual girl hookup.”

Well, Steve did this to herself. But still.

“Um, I don’t know what to say.”

“Well, was it good?”

Steve feels herself flush. “Yeah. Um—yeah.” There’s nothing else to say. Yes, it was good.

“Oh my god,” Robin says, helpfully.

Just then the bell dings and a middle-aged woman enters, glancing around before heading to the comedies. “Hi, let us know if you need help finding anything,” Steve calls after her. Technically she should be following the woman to offer her help, not just shouting from the desk, but nobody’s perfect.

“Did she—“ Robin whispers, spinning her chair to face Steve, and holds two fingers up vaguely toward her mouth, tongue poking out.

“Did she what,” Steve whispers back, unimpressed.

You know, Robin mouths, glancing toward Comedies.

Steve just raises her eyebrows.

Robin rolls her eyes, puts two fingers on her face, and sticks her tongue out between them.

Steve hesitates, then nods, laughing.

Robin’s eyes go big. “Did you—?“ she whispers back, barely any sound.

“Oh my god,” Steve murmurs. “Okay, that’s enough! Enough details.”

She gets out of it until the wave of customers that followed in the woman are all gone. “So,” Robin says after taking a lap around the store to check for stragglers. “The verdict on lesbian sex is…”

Steve sighs. If she says it’s good it’s just going to make Robin feel bad. But she also can’t really say anything else. “Rob… on god, we are gonna get you a girlfriend.”

“I knew it,” Robin says sadly. She shakes her head. “But, okay, sex aside—are you and Eddie like…? Together?”

“No,” Steve says without thinking, a little more forcefully than is cool. “Um. It’s not like that. I, like, basically asked her to do it?”

“Wait, what?”

Steve feels herself blushing but she tries to sit up straight, not duck her eyes. “I asked her to have sex with me.”

Robin furrows her brow. “Well, someone had to break the ice, I guess.”

Yeah. Eddie did that when she whispered door’s open directly into Steve’s ear, but Robin doesn’t need to know that. “No, I’m saying it was mostly like… her doing me a favor?” Steve doesn’t know how to explain it at all. Even if Eddie had been all—sweet with her at the end, it still hadn’t been more than what it was. Experimenting, Steve’s brain supplies helpfully, but the only one experimenting was her, and she still had disgusting feelings for Eddie.

“A favor,” Robin says slowly. She tilts her head. “Um—”

“Look, just,” Steve says. “I don’t know. I don’t know what she’s thinking.”

“But what are you thinking?”

“Ugh,” Steve says.

“Oh, Steve,” Robin says, and hugs her again. She spends a lot of her time casually leaning against Steve but she’s rarely so openly affectionate as to hug her multiple times in one conversation, so this is a lot for Steve.

“Just—I don’t even know if she’d want me to tell anyone,” Steve says. Robin looks at her pityingly and Steve sighs. “Be chill whenever we see her next, okay?”

“About that—” Robin says.

[thealogie]

Thea you called it when you said there’s something about that generation of actors that will say everything short of the words “queer” or “bisexual.” I respect that they have a right to not label themselves (epistemology of the closet etc etc) but I also think that for professional reasons actors/performers hide behind the straight version of themselves, when they have that option. It’ll be nice to see less of that. Anyway in Michael’s case I think the way the John Taylor question was asked and responded to “I thought his hair was a MIRACLE” pretty much establishes what we always knew

Exactly I didn’t want to say “exactly as I said” but it’s exactly as I said. Michael Sheen let me be your official biographer I understand you on a psychic level.

[rollercoasterwords]

still pondering but. i actually don't think it's possible for "[x thing] was unnecessary" to ever be a valid or useful or productive critique of fanfiction....

[naquey]

For once i wrote a chapter that wasn't the night of my self-assigned deadline!

[kaatiba]

i guess i should just accept that i am primarily a fanfiction writer. i've completed one (1) long-form original work in my whole life and it's increasingly feeling like a fluke. i've written two "collections" of prompt fills, which are very like fanfiction as you take someone else's idea and run off with it, but they're not short stories really, as they're not complete narratives, just expansions. fanfiction I can write quickly and easily and well and I almost always finish them. but I can't do the same with og work no matter how hard I try. And maybe that'll change in the future but I just feel like a failure and a fraud and a flop