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Today is #TransgenderDayOfVisibility, and I find myself recalling “Dirty Work” and working with the amazing Jamie Clayton.  

As part of the initial writing team that developed the show, I was the one who pitched the idea of making one of the three leads transgender.  (If memory serves, @MaureenMcQ had been writing something else that had her researching a lot about transitioning, and specifically the financial costs associated with it, which inspired me to suggest we incorporate that into the show.) Which is how the character of Michelle was born. 

We patted ourselves on our backs for how inclusive we were being, but honestly at that stage Michelle was the epitome of a token – all of her stories were about being trans, and there were many, many jokes constructed around that and nothing else.

So the author of this article doesn’t see much of a distinction between a love triangle and a threesome…guess I missed that scene in Twilight where Edward and Jacob put aside their *ahem* differences for the sake of a little ménage à trois.

Finale! THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER Starring ELISE CANTU, DYANA LIU, and LAUREN MAYHEW

It’s almost time to leave.

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New episode! GATEWAY GALA Starring ELISE CANTU and LAUREN MAYHEW

Getting ready to go to the gala - can’t wait to see what it brings.

New episode! MUSICA MUNDANA - GEOMETRY IN THE HUM

Starring ELISE CANTU, DYANA LIU, and LAUREN MAYHEW

Gonna get this triad thing on film if it kills me…

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Hi, people

Nice to meet you all, I’m Jacqueline Viana and I’m one of the co-creators, assistant writer and transmedia producer of “Dona Moça”. If you don’t know what is “Dona Moça”, let me explain it: it’s a Brazilian webseries adapted from José de Alencar’s “Senhora”, published in 1875. “Senhora” is as important for us Brazilians as “Pride and Prejudice is for British and Americans. José de Alencar is not our greatest writer, but he’s definetely one of the best.

Just as many webshows, we’re heavily inspired by Pemberley Digital’s work, such as Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Emma Approved. Of course, “Dona Moça” is not the first brazilian webseries, but it is the first one in our country with the “modern literary adaptation / transmedia storytelling” approach. Oh, and don’t worry if you can’t understand Portuguese. We provide English captions for those interested in watching it. Hopefully, we’ll be able to translate all the transmedia events on Twitter, Wordpress and Instragram too, but this might take a little more time. If you’re not Brazilian and already watch our TV show, wow! Thank you so much for taking your time and watching it! We couldn’t even imagine how far we would reach when we decided to provide those captions. Please continue talking about it here on tumblr, or comment on our videos. Give us your opinion on it. Tell us where we can improve, where to stop, where to continue. We’re starters here, so any type of feedback is pure gold for us!

I don’t know if you’ve seen, but we’re currently finishing our first season. These first ten episodes where based upon the first part of “Senhora” (the book is divided in four sections, but I promise to present you foreigners with a special video talking about the book so you can follow the show without a lot of doubts). We have just started our crowdfunding campaign on Kickante. Believe it or not, this first season was produced with about 500 reais taken from our own savings (approximately 158 dolars). The money was spent mostly in structure, rental of equipments and payment for our actors. Everybody from both the creative and production team worked for free, mostly because everybody believed in this project and wanted to create something far different from what’s being done so far in entertainment in our country. You can learn a little more about us at the following video (with captions in English, as usual):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPMyw-qU6pQ

This month’s book and comic Humble Bundle includes our very own A Hero at the End of the World by Erin Claiborne!

Humble Bundles are a pay-what-you-want deal to get a whole bunch of books, comics or games all at once – and support a charity at the same time!

This is an especially great deal for international customers who wanted to order Hero when it was first published in the U.S. International customers can now get a multi-fomat, DRM-free ebook copy of Hero as part of this Humble Bundle!

Buy now! The offer closes on July 29.

Introducing… MUSICA MUNDANA, a new spinoff about Cara and Lily’s adventures in LA, written by nonmodernist and directed by our own hackettkate​!

Premiere episode: LOS AN-HELL-EES! Starring ELISE CANTU, DYANA LIU, and LAUREN MAYHEW

Awww yeah, we’re in Los Angeles! Well. I am. Cara here, and this is my very first vlog!

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Kristin is seeking out a very smart, very awesome human who’d be interested in a late-summer internship to work alongside her to help manage social content for First Person!

Position would start ASAP, and go through the end of the summer, with the possibility to extend through the fall with interest/availability. You can live anywhere within three hours of EST!

Hey there!

Great question - I haven’t heard much from the fan base about this, actually, so I’m glad it’s still active! I don’t think you guys actually got much in the way of information about the spinoff to begin with? Some basics: Alexandra Edwards wrote it, it focuses on Cara & Lily and their adventures in Los Angeles over the summer, and it was six episodes long. Alex & I have continued to workshop the scripts a little bit, just in case the planets align properly.

Some background…

The lovely, Emmy-winning Alexandra Edwards - nonmodernist​ - approached me during our IndieGoGo campaign and asked if I was open to her writing something for the show, or being somehow a part of it. This was a huge no brainer for me! So I said absolutely and she pitched me a plotline.

I loved the idea of having an expanded world with a beloved character, but the biggest issue was money. We were inching toward our goal but we weren’t quite there and I decided to make a hard line in the sand: if we didn’t make the goal on IndieGoGo (indep. of any investors we might find), we can’t do an extra set of filming – we just couldn’t. Alexandra said sure and offered to write it anyway.

A few weeks later, I had some amazing scripts in hand and … we didn’t hit our goal, so I put the whole thing kind of out of mind because I had a crap load of work to do for the main show. I still liked the project enough to want to keep playing with it, but as chatter dwindled & I, sadly, moved away from it.

!!!! Cara and Lily!

Cara and Lily!!!! 

Obviously I’m immensely biased, since I wrote the dang thing, BUT hear me out, dear CA fans.

One thing I am always, always pushing for on the shows I work on is more queer characters with standalone stories. I pitched a queer storyline for Welcome to Sanditon that didn’t end up working because we changed direction with that piece of the show. I have asked for specifically queer representation on many other projects I’ve worked on, some of which are still in development and go forward with my explicit emphasis on the importance of queer characters.

So when I was offered the chance to write a Cara/Lily storyline, I was beyond thrilled! Kate and I agreed on one very specific rule: their relationship couldn’t be exploited or stereotyped. Neither of us wanted to make a story about them being gay. They’re gay, and they deserved a story, but the former couldn’t just be a gimmick for the latter.

I wrote them, instead, a story about the summer and the very specific places they’re at in their lives right now. I wrote them something that felt meaningful to me, and that dealt with their established relationship and how they experience that. This is very much not a story like Alice and Andrew’s—because college-aged kids don’t just fall in love and have first kisses. They also have 90th kisses. They also work and play and try to figure out their lives. They go places and see how other people live, and they succeed at life stuff and they don’t succeed at life stuff and they keep on having to relate to other people through all of that. 

It would make me so, so happy to see Cara and Lily’s story play out onscreen. I think you’ll enjoy it—this little window on the lives of two really great characters, who also happen to be living a queer love story. 

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