u/Aqua7KH

Hello everyone, I decided I’m going to go ahead and apply. Thank you for all your advice, suggestions, etc it’s been very helpful.

I’m most worried about my recommendations so far. I have studied abroad in Japan at a language school and I also used to teach children in the past although I have no certification for it. I do not have contact with anyone from those programs I’ve been part of to request letters of recommendation for. Will this be a huge problem for me? Or can I just make the requests from my current unrelated colleagues? Or should I just reach out to my old teachers and colleagues anyway?

Hey all! It’s a pleasure. I’ve been going in circles for the past few years as to if I want to apply for the JET program or not. I believe it’s something I can absolutely do although I’m not sure if it’s something I should do. I’m 29F, have no kids and I’m not in a relationship, and I can easily place all my belongings in storage for a year and go. I also have studied abroad in Japan at a language school for three months on a full ride scholarship and I’m by no means fluent but I can get by. I lived in Tokyo and can easily navigate the city and city life as I grew up in New York.

I also have experience teaching students as a teacher intern for AmeriCorps, specifically math and enrichment for 5th graders. It was an amazing experience and I became close with my students, especially since I’m into video games and anime. Because of this I feel like I would do well, however I’m unsure if it’s something I should do.

My mom encourages me to go as I’m young, have no true commitments or obligations yet and so nothing is tying me down. That being said, I would also have to put all of my relationships, career ambitions and goals off for one year. Currently I’ve been trying to network into the industry im trying to get into, so I’ve been trying to work on those connections as relationships are very difficult for me. I’m worried about putting that on hold and falling behind, plus the relationship with my family which I’ve also been trying to work on. On the other hand this could be my one chance to do something even more incredible than before, and I would have the opportunity to learn more Japanese and make more connections in Japan. I’m also worried about being away from my family, especially through holidays, events, my 30th birthday and more. 3 months is so different compared to one full year.

Hello! I’m making a vtuber model for a friend and it’s going okay so far. I have the body mostly figured out and I’m trying to focus on the outfit. I was able to make some clothes however it was very limited especially since some of the clothes are more elaborate. For example I want the character to have oversized boots but all I can do in the program is just have regular sized shoes and paint it to look like the boots. I bought some pre made shoes off of BOOTH but it looks like it’s for unity.

So when it comes to clothes, should I just make only the base model in vroid studio and then bring it into Unity and add the clothes there? Is it that simple? Or is there a way I can make more elaborate clothes in the program or bring the files into the program? From what I understand in research nothing is really compatible for vroid in terms of other files. It is as easy as simply dropping the base in unity and adding the clothes?

TITLE: Hesperus (Working Title)

FORMAT: TV Pilot

PAGE LENGTH:  25 pages

GENRES: Coming of Age, Fantasy, Drama, Adventure, Animation

LOGLINE: A timid traumatized teen becomes the unwilling apprentice to a vampire, where he must tend to a castle-zoo filled with abominations and creatures of myth and magic while practicing the dark arts.

Feedback concerns: Looking for feedback on the pacing, structure and format, just everything really. I’m worried the beginning sequence is too slow and the ‘supernatural’ aspects need to be introduced quicker. I’m also paranoid that this script is just cringe and isn’t ready to be shared professionally.

I also want to submit this formally on my portfolio and submit it to connections within my network. Any suggestions are appreciated! I wrote this in college and this is one of my favorite ideas. A major theme is how to live with trauma and to forgive oneself from their past while finding hope and happiness in the future.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YXfoqRMBptwlUnACECc0SU-3l59RFytO/view?usp=drivesdk

Thank you everyone for all the support and advice for networking! I went to my first film festival over the weekend and it was a success! I’m very tired (and had to spend today having a social detox) but it went well! I was awkward but a lot of people found that endearing I suppose. I have a bunch of business cards and Instagram contacts, emails and phone numbers. It’s been a bit difficult keeping track of everyone but now that I’ve managed to get it… what now?

I figured I could just message people for birthdays and holidays, and maybe the ocasional hi, I was just a bit worried about how to maintain all these new connections I have, and it honestly feels overwhelming. It feels too awkward to just go ahead and start sending my work now so I was just going to simply message everyone saying how great it was to have the opportunity to meet them. But I’m just a bit confused as to what I should do after that. Any help is great!

Hello everyone! Next week I’m going to my first film festival. I’m excited and nervous and I want to be prepared as much as possible. I have a digital business card, and I’m fixing up my CV over the weekend. I also have a few pilots although I’m worried they’re not presentable. How many pieces of work should I have to show and how long should they be? Should I prioritize shorter simpler works? I I imagine a lot of people wouldn’t really want to read my 60 page pilot.

I don’t really have a formal writing portfolio aside from some things on clippings. I’ve read on this sub that a lot of screenwriters don’t have formal portfolios, although I saw some websites people post their work too.

Hello everyone! I’m a screenwriter looking to get my foot through the door in the great world of writing for film and TV. I’m going to RIFF for my first film festival and I was wondering if anyone here is also going? I’m currently trying to sign up for the screenwriting workshop event but I’m not seeing much information about it in the internet.

Anything I can expect? Or things I should check out?

Hello everyone! I’m a screenwriter looking to get my foot through the door in the great world of writing for film and TV. I’m going to RIFF for my first film festival and I was wondering if anyone here is also going? I’m currently trying to sign up for the screenwriting workshop event but I’m not seeing much information about it in the internet.

Anything I can expect? Or things I should check out?

Hello everyone. I’m 29F and my goal is to write for animation and animated series, to where I would like to make my own show someday. Yes I know that’s what everyone else wants, and I know the odds are extremely slim. Regardless, I want to actually my best rather than not try at all. Currently I have a freelance writing gig but nothing specifically for screenwriting aside from my own personal projects. I’m trying to at least get my foot in the door and have actual screenwriting gigs to work on. I’m anxious about getting older, and I feel like the older I get the more difficult it’ll be to get professional work that isn’t YouTube channels.

As a result I’m going to some local film festivals, but socializing and networking is a huge weakness of mine. I’m a very awkward person and I also have some mental health diagnosis where interacting with others is just very difficult for me. I still network on linked in but I feel like I don’t get very far, or I have a hard time forming a connection with others. Ultimately I am searching for a mentor or just other connections in the industry, so that brings me to the festival. That being said, I’m very nervous to go and I’m apprehensive about how to really ‘network’ with other people. I have some connections I’ve made in the past with other people naturally in the wild but it just feels strange to me to just go up to someone with the sole purpose of just networking with them rather than becoming friends.

Does anyone have any advice? I was just going to see if the festival had a networking event and just walk around to different people and booths and just approach and say hello. Everything after that I don’t really know.

Hello everyone, I was unable to go to the event and I really wanted to get that background Mewtwo. If anyone has one they can spare I’ll be forever grateful! I can trade whatever I have, I have a lot of JP mons including from Yokohama world championship event.

Hey friends, I’m a screenwriter who is trying to break into the screenwriting gig. I currently work writing for articles, however I’m dying to go back to creative writing. I’m applying for those youtube life story scripts but I want to hop on an actual project for an animated series or something at least. I’ve been networking on LinkedIn and discord, however it seems no one is in need for writers (even if I work for free) and/or the leaders of the projects does the writing themselves.

Im just trying to get some footing in so I can start getting some experience going on my resume but like I said it’s been dead.

Hey everyone. I’m trying to get myself on a better and more informed meal plan. Just some general info: Im a woman in my late twenties, and this is going to sound a bit silly but I’m the type of person where I can eat the same thing every day and be fine with it. I prefer a simple routine and I don’t like to cook.

In general, for Monday-Friday my meals look like this:

Breakfast:
- Single Boiled Egg
- Meatless Sausage Patty
- Hashbrown

Lunch:
Tuna Sandwich

Dinner:
Rice cooker concoction which consists of me throwing brown rice, lentils and a can of beans together. I also add soy sauce, ketchup, cheese, a sorayaki sauce and an orange chicken thing from Trader Joe’s. Honestly I’m not too fond of the chicken, so right now I was just going to also add edamame to the mix and also eat it with a cooked egg.

Weekend is usually free for all. I also have snacks here and there but these are my meals. I just wanted to know if this was something feasible for me or if I should just do something else.

Hello everyone. I currently use Canva for my resumes. It works fine, although it’s very annoying having to adjust everything in the resume, drag everything around, every time I have to do even a minor edit. This has made tailoring new resumes and updating them to be very annoying.

I’ve dabbled in some other free resume websites although I’ve ended up having to switch over because I realize it doesn’t work as well, doesn’t look good, are locked behind payments, etc. I wasted a lot of time trying out different websites and programs only to end up back to using Canva. I’m in a creative field so generally I like my resumes having some sort of color and clean design.

Does anyone have any recommendations? Basically I’d like to be able to simply just type up/copy and paste the different information in different fields, to which the program would automatically format everything. So for example, you fill out the work experience section, school section, skill list, etc and it automatically can put it together for you. If you need to edit something, you can simply edit the field without having to adjust the entire resume.

Trigger Warning: Childhood abuse, sexual abuse

Hello all, I as most would assume have CPTSD (formally diagnosed as PTSD because at the time that wasn’t really considered a diagnosis) along with anxiety, chronic depression, etc. I was raised by my grandparents, experienced emotional, physical, mental and sexual abuse as a child. I was molested as a toddler and almost died three times due to neglect and finances. I also for the most part never had a stable constantly healthy relationship with anyone in my life growing up.

In the past I’ve tried dating, but considered myself aromantic/asexual. i was told I’m just this because of the trauma, which is something I never really cared about. In the past I tried dating, but realized I felt numb to everyone I tried to date, and even after having attempted sex with a person I realized I was also just very numb sexually as well.

To be honest, I don’t trust people. I’m very open about my past however I have a wall where it’s so difficult for me to connect to people, which caused me to drift in and out of people’s lives including up until now. I’m trying so hard to break that barrier but it feels like all I do is fuck up. All of my relationships even with family are very fragile (which is for the most part my fault) and I’m cautious with being close to anyone. Growing up I did have multiple people express their feelings for me, to which I reject kindly saying that I’m just not capable at this moment of providing in a romantic relationship. If I want a partner I want them to feel loved, and I always felt i just wasn’t capable of giving a partner the love they deserved.

I’ve been in therapy on and off my whole life. I am in therapy now, and my therapist keeps telling me to put myself out there. Truth is I am scared of being alone. I want to be in a relationship with someone I feel like I can be 100% myself… but I’m always afraid of people leaving me. I self sabotage because of this. I’m afraid of in the future having no one to live life with, no one that cares about me, no one to take me to barbecues with, to go on holidays with, etc. I want a companion who loves me and won’t ever make me feel shit about myself but it feels like that just doesn’t exist. I can’t trust anyone, not even my own family so how can I trust anyone else?

Regardless, I want to try dating again but I’m apprehensive about it. I just don’t want to go on these dates with people and know I’m just not going to feel anything the entire time, and feel horrible because someone is going to want to be with me and I’ll feel numb to it. People have told me I simply haven’t met the right guy yet but I don’t know. If I ‘wait’ until I’m ‘better,’ I feel like I’ll never be ‘ready’ to date, but I also don’t want to just date for the sake of dating.

Has anyone experienced this before? What would you think is best for me to do?

Trigger Warning: Childhood abuse, sexual abuse

Hello all, I as most would assume have CPTSD (formally diagnosed as PTSD because at the time that wasn’t really considered a diagnosis) along with anxiety, chronic depression, etc. I was raised by my grandparents, experienced emotional, physical, mental and sexual abuse as a child. I was molested as a toddler and almost died three times due to neglect and finances. I also for the most part never had a stable constantly healthy relationship with anyone in my life growing up.

In the past I’ve tried dating, but considered myself aromantic/asexual. i was told I’m just this because of the trauma, which is something I never really cared about. In the past I tried dating, but realized I felt numb to everyone I tried to date, and even after having attempted sex with a person I realized I was also just very numb sexually as well.

To be honest, I don’t trust people. I’m very open about my past however I have a wall where it’s so difficult for me to connect to people, which caused me to drift in and out of people’s lives including up until now. I’m trying so hard to break that barrier but it feels like all I do is fuck up. All of my relationships even with family are very fragile (which is for the most part my fault) and I’m cautious with being close to anyone. Growing up I did have multiple people express their feelings for me, to which I reject kindly saying that I’m just not capable at this moment of providing in a romantic relationship. If I want a partner I want them to feel loved, and I always felt i just wasn’t capable of giving a partner the love they deserved.

I’ve been in therapy on and off my whole life. I am in therapy now, and my therapist keeps telling me to put myself out there. Truth is I am scared of being alone. I want to be in a relationship with someone I feel like I can be 100% myself… but I’m always afraid of people leaving me. I self sabotage because of this. I’m afraid of in the future having no one to live life with, no one that cares about me, no one to take me to barbecues with, to go on holidays with, etc. I want a companion who loves me and won’t ever make me feel shit about myself but it feels like that just doesn’t exist. I can’t trust anyone, not even my own family so how can I trust anyone else?

Regardless, I want to try dating again but I’m apprehensive about it. I just don’t want to go on these dates with people and know I’m just not going to feel anything the entire time, and feel horrible because someone is going to want to be with me and I’ll feel numb to it. People have told me I simply haven’t met the right guy yet but I don’t know. If I ‘wait’ until I’m ‘better,’ I feel like I’ll never be ‘ready’ to date, but I also don’t want to just date for the sake of dating.

Has anyone experienced this before? What would you think is best for me to do?