u/Traumarama79

Does anyone remember how Michelle Branch, months after Depp v. Heard, was arrested for slapping her spouse, Patrick Carney of the Black Keys, amidst a separation due to his infidelity? (They have since reconciled.) I remember seeing TikTokers "yas queen"-ing Branch pretty hard about it. I don't know why, but I just remembered today that this happened. Why do we think it's acceptable for a woman to strike her spouse if he's cheated on her, but not if he's struck her first, i.e. defending herself physically against him? Like, the press had just gotten done ruining Amber Heard's life, yet we were praising Michelle Branch for, what, exactly? Make it make sense, someone.

So, I bought a Kodak Easyshare C190, which I believe is about ~17 years old? Still works good and is in great shape. The only problem is I'm in worse shape than I was 17 years ago. I have begun to develop a familial tremor and I have a hard time steadying my hands enough to take clear photos in indoor lighting without flash. The best that I've been able to come up with is setting the timer to two seconds and just holding it still, but that's inconvenient and annoying. Anyone got any tips?

So, this might be wild, but I think the auto spellcheck feature in my web browsers is making me worse at spelling. Like, I used to be a spelling bee kid; I never won, but I always liked to practice and participate, and I'd usually get within the top five if not two. I'd turn spellcheck off Word to keep my spelling skills limber. I'm thinking of doing that again with my browser because I think Chrome's auto spellcheck is making me, genuinely, into a lousier speller. I already prefer not to use a calculator for basic arithmetic--like, longer addition or subtraction--and I don't use my GPS if I'm in my county. Does anyone else do things like this to make sure they're still working the parts of their brain that have these skills?

The tl;dr is that I was a stripper and an alcoholic-addict during the "indie sleaze" era and have been writing and rewriting a pilot and show bible for a television show about that period of my life for years as coping. Now that adult entertainment and the indie sleaze era are really trending on social media, I would love to turn it into a real show. Naturally, it's not exactly like I can link up with an indie company and put it on YouTube, hoping it gets picked up by one of the big producers. That said, I have a cousin who is a filmmaker in Hollywood--horror movies, though.

I guess I'm not sure where to begin as far as the business part of this all goes. I understand that execs are busy people and my focus should be on a tight bible and well-edited pilot. Those parts, I have covered, in part thanks to the ample resources and guidance on this sub. However, I don't know how to turn my vision into a reality. Do I try to ask my cousin for help? It's entirely not his thing and, when I've asked him for advice before, he had none because he works in movies, not TV. Do I stick to my nearest local big city and network with indie filmmakers, trying to put together something locally we can pitch to a bigger company? I am extremely afraid that my idea for a plot will be stolen. It is highly important for me to receive credit, because the show is partly autobiographical.

Does anyone have any advice for a total newcomer to this industry? Thanks!

If you've seen my posts on here before, you might know that I've had trouble with my middle schooler struggling to qualify for her school's gifted curriculum, yet likewise being completely disengaged by the mainstream courses. We decided to transfer her to a different school district, for this reason and several others. The good news is that my child was recommended today to begin honors courses in the new district, effective next school year. The bad news is that, in the process, I've learned that my child was one of many whose educational needs were completely unmet by the district.

It started when I learned that a colleague of mine who is a college-level math instructor had to chide the district into letting her kid into the gifted math course; she is not the only math instructor who had this problem. Another family's third grader has been isolated to do advanced-level coursework by himself in the library all day; when they decided to leave the district in favor of another school system that would skip him grades, they were told by our superintendent that, should the family return, they would place the child in his grade level for his age rather than ability.

One of the more recent times we attempted to have our child placed into the gifted courses, we were told that "the data do not support" her being capable of them. In third grade, she was doing seventh grade math on her own on IXL. She has tested at college-level reading since fifth grade. She is currently in the seventh grade and teaching herself calculus. I have felt insane and gaslit by the whole ordeal, and blaming myself in the process, as I was very young and a mentally ill alcoholic-addict when I became pregnant with her. I thought, surely I have screwed something up to make my daughter not qualify for the courses.

I feel both at once extremely validated and extremely angry that, for the last five years, my child has been educationally neglected and I have been essentially gaslit about it in the process. At the same time, I'm just happy she's finally going to be somewhere challenging for her.