Sandrene Mathews
@iamsandrene.com
Looking for a reason, roaming through the night to find my place in this world.
I write coming-of-age stories with adults, because we’re also still figuring out life. On a quest to normalize conversations about mental health. Available for staffing.
I write coming-of-age stories with adults, because we’re also still figuring out life. On a quest to normalize conversations about mental health. Available for staffing.
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Happy Public Domain Day!
Here's just a handful of the works entering the public domain today.
Time to get to work #Scriptsky
Here's just a handful of the works entering the public domain today.
Time to get to work #Scriptsky
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Happy Public Domain Day!
Here's just a handful of the works entering the public domain today.
Time to get to work #Scriptsky
Here's just a handful of the works entering the public domain today.
Time to get to work #Scriptsky
I’m going into 2026 with half as many orphan socks, so it already has way less baggage.
January 1, 2026 at 7:05 AM
I’m going into 2026 with half as many orphan socks, so it already has way less baggage.
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2025, and the big, beautiful challenge it was, will always be the year we embraced hope.
I can't wait to see that hope come to fruition in 2026. Thank you for being part of the journey.
I can't wait to see that hope come to fruition in 2026. Thank you for being part of the journey.
January 1, 2026 at 3:22 AM
2025, and the big, beautiful challenge it was, will always be the year we embraced hope.
I can't wait to see that hope come to fruition in 2026. Thank you for being part of the journey.
I can't wait to see that hope come to fruition in 2026. Thank you for being part of the journey.
I’m really glad Stranger Things decided to embrace how stressful saving the world is and let the kids look like the 40 year olds they’ve become. #nospoilers
Also, my phone tried to correct it to Stranger Thugs, and now I’m eagerly awaiting the sequel.
Also, my phone tried to correct it to Stranger Thugs, and now I’m eagerly awaiting the sequel.
January 1, 2026 at 3:06 AM
I’m really glad Stranger Things decided to embrace how stressful saving the world is and let the kids look like the 40 year olds they’ve become. #nospoilers
Also, my phone tried to correct it to Stranger Thugs, and now I’m eagerly awaiting the sequel.
Also, my phone tried to correct it to Stranger Thugs, and now I’m eagerly awaiting the sequel.
Stress Monsters
30 min drama
When a perfectionist’s plan to provide for his family hits a snag, his stress manifests in an unexpected way—his childhood monsters return. He must confront the source of this anxiety and learn to control it before he loses his love, his job and his reality. #Screenpit
30 min drama
When a perfectionist’s plan to provide for his family hits a snag, his stress manifests in an unexpected way—his childhood monsters return. He must confront the source of this anxiety and learn to control it before he loses his love, his job and his reality. #Screenpit
December 31, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Stress Monsters
30 min drama
When a perfectionist’s plan to provide for his family hits a snag, his stress manifests in an unexpected way—his childhood monsters return. He must confront the source of this anxiety and learn to control it before he loses his love, his job and his reality. #Screenpit
30 min drama
When a perfectionist’s plan to provide for his family hits a snag, his stress manifests in an unexpected way—his childhood monsters return. He must confront the source of this anxiety and learn to control it before he loses his love, his job and his reality. #Screenpit
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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
I’m so behind on my indie films. I got the list of Spirit Award eligible films and I’ve only heard of 2 of them. Any suggestions on which I should watch first?
December 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I’m so behind on my indie films. I got the list of Spirit Award eligible films and I’ve only heard of 2 of them. Any suggestions on which I should watch first?
Seeing Noah Wyle push a cart around Trader Joe’s, browsing the aisles, a few days before he won an Emmy.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Seeing Noah Wyle push a cart around Trader Joe’s, browsing the aisles, a few days before he won an Emmy.
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Here's a trick I just used. If you're undecided about a choice you have to make in your script, write an email framing the question - for your showrunner, producers, co-writer or friend. I usually realize I'm subtly advocating for an option. Then I have the answer, don't need to send the email.
December 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Here's a trick I just used. If you're undecided about a choice you have to make in your script, write an email framing the question - for your showrunner, producers, co-writer or friend. I usually realize I'm subtly advocating for an option. Then I have the answer, don't need to send the email.
I set intentions for the new year instead of resolutions. I had a few in mind for 2026 to keep up the momentum of 2025, despite its many hardships. But then I thought about how I’ve spent at least half the year in burnout and the rest in functional fear state and realized what I need most:
HEAL
HEAL
December 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I set intentions for the new year instead of resolutions. I had a few in mind for 2026 to keep up the momentum of 2025, despite its many hardships. But then I thought about how I’ve spent at least half the year in burnout and the rest in functional fear state and realized what I need most:
HEAL
HEAL
It’s interesting watching Ozark and The Big C at the same time. Laura Linney’s characters are polar opposites, but she’s so good in both roles.
December 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
It’s interesting watching Ozark and The Big C at the same time. Laura Linney’s characters are polar opposites, but she’s so good in both roles.
I applied to a job I’m perfectly qualified for yesterday, the day after Christmas.
I got a rejection today, the Saturday after Christmas.
And at a place that’s supposedly employee-owned, so you’d think they would look at their applications. The market is impossible.
I got a rejection today, the Saturday after Christmas.
And at a place that’s supposedly employee-owned, so you’d think they would look at their applications. The market is impossible.
a man with a beard and a hat is standing in a room with the words `` what 's the point '' .
Alt: a man with a beard and a hat is standing in a room with the words `` what 's the point '' .
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December 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I applied to a job I’m perfectly qualified for yesterday, the day after Christmas.
I got a rejection today, the Saturday after Christmas.
And at a place that’s supposedly employee-owned, so you’d think they would look at their applications. The market is impossible.
I got a rejection today, the Saturday after Christmas.
And at a place that’s supposedly employee-owned, so you’d think they would look at their applications. The market is impossible.
Looks like LA finally got the memo that it’s the end of December, it’s overcast and kind of cold today.
But not, like, winter cold. More like “maybe I’ll grab a jacket” cold. It hasn’t complete sold out.
But not, like, winter cold. More like “maybe I’ll grab a jacket” cold. It hasn’t complete sold out.
December 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Looks like LA finally got the memo that it’s the end of December, it’s overcast and kind of cold today.
But not, like, winter cold. More like “maybe I’ll grab a jacket” cold. It hasn’t complete sold out.
But not, like, winter cold. More like “maybe I’ll grab a jacket” cold. It hasn’t complete sold out.
Having ADHD means doing all of your Christmas shopping in October but not wanting to mail it out too early, then waking up the next day and it’s 2 days before Christmas and now everything is going to be late.
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Having ADHD means doing all of your Christmas shopping in October but not wanting to mail it out too early, then waking up the next day and it’s 2 days before Christmas and now everything is going to be late.
“We want to tell our stories!” - people from underrepresented communities.
We see an increase of 3.5% in 1
category ONE time and we rejoice.
“No one will hire me now!” - some white people
Despite always being the majority, they’re now 92% of showrunners and 80% of leads of the top 2024 shows.
We see an increase of 3.5% in 1
category ONE time and we rejoice.
“No one will hire me now!” - some white people
Despite always being the majority, they’re now 92% of showrunners and 80% of leads of the top 2024 shows.
December 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“We want to tell our stories!” - people from underrepresented communities.
We see an increase of 3.5% in 1
category ONE time and we rejoice.
“No one will hire me now!” - some white people
Despite always being the majority, they’re now 92% of showrunners and 80% of leads of the top 2024 shows.
We see an increase of 3.5% in 1
category ONE time and we rejoice.
“No one will hire me now!” - some white people
Despite always being the majority, they’re now 92% of showrunners and 80% of leads of the top 2024 shows.
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Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.
December 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.
I walked past a giant pink stuffed unicorn at Pavilions and it took all of my willpower not to buy it so I could hug it. In case anyone is wondering how my mental health is right now.
a sloth is holding a stuffed animal in its paws
Alt: a sloth is hugging a stuffed animal and topples over
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December 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I walked past a giant pink stuffed unicorn at Pavilions and it took all of my willpower not to buy it so I could hug it. In case anyone is wondering how my mental health is right now.
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If it was inevitable, they wouldn't work so hard to convince you.
December 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
If it was inevitable, they wouldn't work so hard to convince you.
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This industry that provides comfort for our loneliness is also one of the biggest abusers of our desire to belong. And it's especially predatory to young people. If we're going to disrupt tradition, we need to go all in.
December 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This industry that provides comfort for our loneliness is also one of the biggest abusers of our desire to belong. And it's especially predatory to young people. If we're going to disrupt tradition, we need to go all in.
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While we're forging the next iteration of Hollywood, there are a few new trends we want to start while we're at it.
- Cultivating shows and communities that are body positive, showing it's okay to be comfortable in your own skin.
- Cultivating shows and communities that are body positive, showing it's okay to be comfortable in your own skin.
December 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
While we're forging the next iteration of Hollywood, there are a few new trends we want to start while we're at it.
- Cultivating shows and communities that are body positive, showing it's okay to be comfortable in your own skin.
- Cultivating shows and communities that are body positive, showing it's okay to be comfortable in your own skin.
Starting a small business while trying to advance my writing career and also searching for work so I can survive means getting rejection from THREE different areas.
Sometimes all within 24 hours.
I don’t know if my heart can handle it.
Sometimes all within 24 hours.
I don’t know if my heart can handle it.
December 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Starting a small business while trying to advance my writing career and also searching for work so I can survive means getting rejection from THREE different areas.
Sometimes all within 24 hours.
I don’t know if my heart can handle it.
Sometimes all within 24 hours.
I don’t know if my heart can handle it.
The darkest timeline keeps getting darker.
People call these senseless tragedies. But they made perfect sense to the person committing such a horrid act.
Our world is an echo chamber of depravity. Always enabling, rarely helping. And the best are lost along the way.
Brown. Bondi. The Reiners. 💔
People call these senseless tragedies. But they made perfect sense to the person committing such a horrid act.
Our world is an echo chamber of depravity. Always enabling, rarely helping. And the best are lost along the way.
Brown. Bondi. The Reiners. 💔
December 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The darkest timeline keeps getting darker.
People call these senseless tragedies. But they made perfect sense to the person committing such a horrid act.
Our world is an echo chamber of depravity. Always enabling, rarely helping. And the best are lost along the way.
Brown. Bondi. The Reiners. 💔
People call these senseless tragedies. But they made perfect sense to the person committing such a horrid act.
Our world is an echo chamber of depravity. Always enabling, rarely helping. And the best are lost along the way.
Brown. Bondi. The Reiners. 💔
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Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
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I don’t know how to process the horrific fire hose of tragedy that has been omnipresent but has spiked this weekend, and I suspect I’m not alone. We aren’t meant to carry this much suffering and be able to function at “normal” capacity. Be gentle with yourself and others, if you can.
December 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I don’t know how to process the horrific fire hose of tragedy that has been omnipresent but has spiked this weekend, and I suspect I’m not alone. We aren’t meant to carry this much suffering and be able to function at “normal” capacity. Be gentle with yourself and others, if you can.
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When we remember the names of Bondi Beach - victims, survivors, perpetrators - let’s remember, too, this hero: Ahmed al-Ahmed.
A Muslim Australian fruit shop owner of Syrian descent, al-Ahmed risked his life & took 2 bullets to save Jewish strangers.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A Muslim Australian fruit shop owner of Syrian descent, al-Ahmed risked his life & took 2 bullets to save Jewish strangers.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘It was a matter of conscience’: Ahmed al-Ahmed’s family reveal why he risked his life to disarm alleged Bondi shooter
Family say al-Ahmed ‘doesn’t discriminate’ and would have done anything to save lives during the attack
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
When we remember the names of Bondi Beach - victims, survivors, perpetrators - let’s remember, too, this hero: Ahmed al-Ahmed.
A Muslim Australian fruit shop owner of Syrian descent, al-Ahmed risked his life & took 2 bullets to save Jewish strangers.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A Muslim Australian fruit shop owner of Syrian descent, al-Ahmed risked his life & took 2 bullets to save Jewish strangers.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...