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Writeup as I listened

12:10 
Secrets to writing great horror

12:12
He wrote the Kundalini equation < https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/the-kundalini-equation-1 >

originally wrote to have a best seller and increase his career. A white guy was put on a peers cover. The firms back in the day to the original publication was not willing to look at their own responsibility. 
True, the white audience in modernity is used to 

17:36 
STeven sees the potential to do something unique to him. He will rewrite a former novel and turn it into something it should had been, and he will collaborate with Tananarive in the script form. He wants to use Tananarive practical historical smoothing.

18:46 
People suggest Tananarive Due is one of the greatest horror writers alive. 

20:10 
what makes a great horror story?

22:06
What is the greatest extent, what is the most extreme moment?
There is a point where it is too much or that is not enough. A symphony of different emotions to feel the experience. Using vision boards matters.  You can feel your way before you write it. 

23:50 
Now that a cardboard treatment, and now a written treatment and ask what is the experience of this movie be.
What is the difference between action or horror movies?
In action movies, people are getting hurt in a sequence, like in horror. 
For Tananarive, the difference is the depth of characters.
For example, a horror movie about a bunch of college students on a ski trip. She can relate to college students through friends who like skiing.
Then a mercenary on a mission is on a ski lift. She can't relate to a mercenary or being on a ski lift. 

26:31 
Horror needs a relatable character who is experiencing fear, a haunted house is not enough. You need a customer who has never been in that haunted house and something goes wrong. A couple for example trying to work out their stuff and it makes the external side internal.

27:41 
Tananarive has a template. 
If she has to write a horror story and has three weeks.
->What scares you?
She uses survivor horror as that is scary to her and she has been camping, rafting. 
->How do you make the story yours? 
So more than bears, it becomes about a cult. Stephen King was a teacher growing up
->Believe in the characters
Suffered a trauma, and committed a transgression is common among writers of horror. Grief is common , the one horror no one overcomes. 

31:29 
All horror is about surviving what you are in.
Imagine Get Out if Chris wasn't in grief over the lost of his mother.
Steven makes a point, deer antlers were used as a symbol to defend himself, which is like the deer he hit in the beginning of the film.

32:37 
Tananarive, she weaponized his Grief, and by the end, he has weaponized his own grief. To make it his strength and overcome. 

34:09 
Tananative You can make "Get Out" a drama. Is Chris in love with the secret psycho white woman? 
Peele discussed Guess who is coming to dinner in the early screenplay version of "Get Out" 
< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpGmCLcqgAw >
< https://www.shadowandact.com/what-is-black-horror-the-sunken-place-professor-tananarive-due-explains > 

36:27
Peele started with social anxiety. It wasn't about phenotypical frictions, merely the frictions of the stranger among a group of friends and amplify it. 
Turn it up to 11. 
Tananarive isn't into human horror. She is triggered by Human horror and make it a journey. It is a journey of self revelation. 

37:39
Liam Neeson, eyes in the grey.
She loves that film, for not about the wolf winning but standing up. Even though many call the end a downer. The film is about who the character becomes. 

38:44 
Tananarive considers gaslighting her least favorite horror. PArents or spouses gaslighting children or spouses in her opinion is poor storytelling. Is it going to kill your character to cut on a flashlight in the dark room? She feels it is overdone. She calls it an artificial conceit. She loves Miles in the good house. Miles doesn't believe but stands by the female character. 
< https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-good-house-2 > 

40:47
You want psychological realism, nothing breaks more than when people act away from common responses. If you do not pick up a weapon going to a dark place you are an idiot.

41:36
STeven Barnes, asks is that why meetings are the best part in horror to Tananarive. 
Tananarive loves the meeting in horror.  

42:40 
Steven talks of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, people of normal intelligence with no idea what is about to happen. In alien, normal people of normal intelligence. Whereas in prometheus, they were scientist and should had known better. 

43:57
Steven, Difference between action in horror, something killing you in the dark is horror, in the light as a tiger is action. 
Horror is unknown, playing on the minds ways to whatever the truth is in the darkness. Action is more strategic, allows for knowable assessment. 
 
45:20 
Tananarive, the feeling of fear is different in action. 
Steven, it will be interesting to take a liam neeson skill set taken man into a situation where he finds himself in a situation beyond his comprehension that he realizes. 

46:42
Tananarive, war time horror is like that. ala Predator. 

47:25 
Steven, talks of Prey, the predator underestimates the human female lead. 

48:25 
Elegance usually takes years. Steven says, the best pieces of horror were not primordial, they evolved. 

49:33 
Tananarive, Think about the antagonists too. Make sure their is logic to Zombies. What is different in the way you write zombies?
< https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/devil-s-wake > 

Put your own unique spin. For example, the reason for haunting of ghost matters. 
The interaction between characters side antagonist matters. 
Steven, your god of the universe in your story
Alot of readers like the antagonist more than anybody else in the story, make it pop ,and don't repeat things. 

52:55 
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how to format screenplay, all the hacks. 
www. hollywoodloophole.com
< https://store.payloadz.com/details/2686637-other-files-arts-and-crafts-10-secrets-of-hollywood-writers-live-zoom-workshop.html > 

They want engaged people. 

Writing Grief in SFF

6:24  What is your definition of grief?
Grief is pain but in modernity in the anglophone, grief is connotatively, lamenting a death to someone in your personal circle. 

13:54 What is your favorite works about grief?
First to my mind: film-> the leopard 1963 < based on a book> ; music-> strange fruit sung by billie holiday <it was written by a white man for the record> ; dance-> wade in the water by Alvin Ailey troupe< music of the negro spiritual>; animation-> the wind rises 2013 <studio ghibli > ; literature -> The Raven , of edgar allen poe <I admit most of the craft I like or I have made myself doesn't involve grief, but I admit, I enjoyed my youth alot, loving embracing home, and embraced outside of it, I love the adventure so to speak>
I am willing to speak as to these entries, just ask in comments. 

22:53 What unique opportunities if any do you think the science fiction fantasy genre provides for writing about grief?
In generating a cause of grief or creating an environment for a character to grieve or generating a way to diminish /end/or be consumed by grief, science fiction allows a greater flexibility in the identity of such things. 

29:00 Do you have a process in writing grief or what in your crafting does grief influence?
I write everything from my heart. I tend to like adventure, a going somewhere, usually a positive or not frightening place. So it is rare I have grief naturally, but when I do, it is the same process as when I am not. When  I write something that makes me think of a funny memory I laugh, when I write something that makes me think of a sad memory I cry.
A nice film to think about is The Innocents 1961. It leads you up to a place where your own mind will dictate what you sense. We in modernity in the anglophone talk about being triggered, but it is a good example of a film , which is a collective art project, that allows the viewer to trigger themselves. 

30:41 how do you write someone who experiences grief differently from you, the writer?
To be honest, I write out world or character definitions so when I ask a question about them, I follow the guidelines I set. If I write a character like Ryunosuke Tsukue  , Sword of Doom 1966, who is a character based on a philosophy, then his actions need to reflect that. He may be called crazy, but he isn't being written as crazy, but who he is. Don't betray your characters, even if what they do goes against what you will. 

35:28 Do you have a recovery process from writing about grief?
No need but the reason is because my mind has always been a large place. I have places in my mind where my negativities reside or where my positivities reside or where my emotionless reside or where my disorderliness reside and I can go to wherever I want to go. Many people minds tend to be filled with too much of one or the other.

38:22 Do you see an importance of writing grief as a black writer or reading grief as a black reader?
In the anglophone, historically grief has a historical place as a communal while also individual torment at times, sequentially in the arts, it can be a non violent therapy from the artists to the readership/viewership/listernership.

43:19 Where do you see the conversation about black grief going or what authors have done a work that sticks with you in the present?
I recall a film from 2011 called inheritance, Keith David was behind it. I remember it mentioned an elephant in the room in the black community. In it, Keith David and the others in this group take their descendents and offer them up as sacrifice, stating they are not suitable to what the ancestors wanted. I think few films deal with the black community or parts of the black community unsatisfied with the result, ala modernity, to why the community grieved in the past. To rewrite myself, what if the ancestors who lived through enslavement in all forms all their breaths aren't proud or overjoyed at the modern black community? What if the college educated/business owning/integrated blacks in modernity aren't fulfilling the wishes of the ancestor?. I know it has been written before, I have. But, it is rare to see in film, which is one of if not the most expensive art craft.

49:34 Can Dominique speak more on being trans and being associated with death?
After listening to Dominuque....
We all have heard of people saying another person has died equivalent to physical death in their personal circle because of an issue. That is what excommunicado is, a word that means to be out of the community, but functionally a term started by the christian church after the Nicean creed to christian groups that did not abide by the new set of rules, meaning a living death.  A taking out of the community of the living, even though one is not dead. Are you alive if someone can not talk to you, look at you, write to you, touch you. Women in india who are banished from the lowest castes are in similar situations and the caste is ancient. In modernity in the anglophone this comes from some to those in their personal circle who have what is called in modernity  transgender change. 

55:14 When does grief go from science fiction to horror?
Well, science fiction can be a horror, of a fantasy or a romance or other. So, the way in which grief is utilized can or will give specificity to a science fiction work. Dominique said a point and I thought to the following... Sadly, griefully, but truthfully, many people, not all, in some places not most, will rather see those in their private circle whom they feel need to be in a dress , in a dress rather than alive. 

Authors featured
Shingai Njeri Kagunda: https://www.shingainjerikagunda.com/
Voodoonauts: https://www.voodoonauts.com/
Zin E. Rocklyn: https://twitter.com/intelligentwat
Dominique Dickey: https://dominiquedickey.com/

Thanks to:
Erica of The Broken Spine:    / @the_broken_spine &nbsp;
Suzan Palumbo: https://suzanpalumbo.wordpress.com/

yesterday they had on local television a celebration of the 100 , which i had no idea of, before presenting encanto and I thought to myself Disney probably will be only angry at one thing today. And that is how little competition Disney has garnered from other artist in the USA. Yes, Disney the firm, from Walt's time to now is competitive and likes to be the main/sole/primary cartoon source in the usa. But, Disney was correct when he spoke to the artists who wanted to strike years ago. Owning your own business is what he did to free himself from others, as an abused artist. He wanted his workers to do the same but most did not feel or have the strength to do that and I think workers still don't.

ODe to disney

https://www.deviantart.com/flapperfoxy/art/Disney-100-988789370

yesterday was the anniversary of the first time a us president lived in washington d.c. and that president was... john adams:)

Today is the greatest elongation between mercury and the sun, that means today mercury will appear farthest from the sky than any time after until the next greatest elongation

Tomorrow is a lunar penumbral eclipse. MEaning the moon will go across the penumbral which is where the light of the sun is refracted off the side of the earth, not the umbral where the sunlight is blocked by the earth.

It is also a strawberry full moon, a better word I think is totluc moon meaning total light moon. The moon is always full. Where as the %paraluc moon can be for the other phases of the moon outside the new moon , which is more appropriately anluc meaning no light.

It is called a strawberry moon based on the habit of algonquin's , a native people that used to live where the midatlantic states in the usa reside, who will pick strawberry's around this time of year.

It is also the roman catholic st bonafice day who is known as the patron saint of the germans. As well as an Ember day for the Latin Catholics, so be ready to fast you latins.

Zahera of Nalak-bel
The poem is entitle=> Yerewfo, The Bard to Zahera: The cup of Zahera plus six fool
Audiobook
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/yerewfo-the-bard-to-zahera-the-cup-of-zahera-plus-six-fool
Book cover black and white version
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Zahera-of-Nalak-bel-BW-941242244
Book cover color version
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Zahera-of-Nalak-bel-Color-941248429

Zelensky Hit With Double Blow from European Ally

Story by David Brennan 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing a growing challenge in Central Europe as populist leaders—including the newly elected prime minister of Slovakia—push back against European Union-NATO military assistance for Kyiv.

On Thursday, Ukraine-skeptic Prime Minister Robert Fico—fresh off his victory in last month's parliamentary election—said that Slovakia would no longer provide military aid to Ukraine. Fico is following through on campaign trail vows to push for negotiations with Moscow and an immediate end to the Kremlin's war.

"I will support zero military aid to Ukraine," Fico said. "An immediate halt to military operations is the best solution we have for Ukraine," the prime minister added, noting that Bratislava would continue to send humanitarian supplies to the country. "The EU should change from an arms supplier to a peacemaker," Fico said.

Fico added that he would push back against any sanctions on Russia that he deems harmful to Bratislava. "I will not vote for any sanctions against Russia, unless we see analyses of their impact on Slovakia," he said. "If there are to be such sanctions that will harm us, like most sanctions have, I can see no reason to support them."

Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry by email to request comment.

Fico's election has raised the prospect that Slovakia will join Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orban as a spoiler in the EU's ongoing measures against Moscow.

Alena Kudzko, vice president for policy and programming at the GLOBSEC think tank in Bratislava, has told Newsweek that Fico has been known for his pragmatism throughout his long political career.

"He will not support Russia for the sake of supporting Russia, he will not support Orban for the sake of supporting Orban, and he will not support the EU or NATO for the sake of supporting the EU or NATO," Kudzko said.

"If it's necessary, he very may well go along with EU and NATO decisions," she added. "But, of course, he may make sure that he is bargaining hard and that he's able to get certain concessions for Slovakia that are useful for him at home."

Slovakia is one of the smallest nations in NATO and the EU, but the unanimity decision-making process of both blocs gives Bratislava significant influence. Even one nation—Hungary—has caused significant discord within the two bodies, and EU-NATO officials may now be facing a doubled challenge.

Oleksandr Merezhko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament and the chair of the body's foreign affairs committee, told Newsweek that Fico's announcement "is not a pleasant development, and we might be dealing with a 'mini-Orban.'

"But Slovakia was not the biggest provider of aid to Ukraine anyway," he added. "At the same time, I hope that Slovakia's democratic opposition is strong enough not to let Fico turn this country into Hungary."

Despite its small size, the pre-Fico Slovakian government provided a significant amount of military aid to Ukraine. Ammunition, armored vehicles, artillery pieces and even fighter jets have made their way eastwards from Bratislava since February 2022, with former Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad declaring weapons delivery as "the right thing" to do.

When asked Thursday about Fico's decision, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: "Slovakia did not have such a big share in the supply of weapons, so it will hardly affect the entire process."

URL

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/zelensky-hit-with-double-blow-from-european-ally/ar-AA1iWzuu

My Thoughts

The two key important points. Fico won votes saying he would stop aid to Ukraine and desires only an end. People in his government are pulling for a minority position in the country to continue to support ukraine with military aid. 

These two points lead to a simple truth. The war in Ukraine is being led by an agenda against the will of the majority in europe. The majority in Europe if in control would had let russia annex ukraine. And this would had been over. But Biden chose to step in as a war lord. He will not aid ukraine to defeat Russia but he will arm ukraine to resist russia enough to maintain a war. This is an ancient strategy. 

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