Akilla Cooper

Akilla Cooper

@akelacooper.bsky.social

Hollywood writer whose stuff you may have seen: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1, Luke Cage. Malignant. M3GAN. The Nun 2. The Boulet Bros. Holiday of Horrors (with a directing credit!). It's a pleasure scaring the shit outta you.

11.6K followers315 following5.9K posts

"Daddy's comin' and I gotta get my ass good and tight," is not the messaging they want right now

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Husted: "The president is coming in tomorrow again to Ohio. Don't worry, I was in the weight room this morning working out. I don't want to let him down."

The day will come when he's no longer here and they will all have to reckon with the fact that everyone in their corrupt party genuflected for a senile pedophile.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Husted: "The president is coming in tomorrow again to Ohio. Don't worry, I was in the weight room this morning working out. I don't want to let him down."

Akilla Cooper reposted

Since it's spooky season and some folks have been passing it around again today, here, once again, is my How to Write a Horror Movie Crash Course!

C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social

Since there are so many new folks over here these days, it’s time to once again roll out my How to Write a Horror Movie crash course!

Akilla Cooper reposted

"socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!” Hang it in the Louvre

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have. We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”

Akilla Cooper reposted

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Akilla Cooper reposted

Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Agreed. Really enjoyed it

Eric Vespe@ericvespe.bsky.social

So, Wildwood is terrific. A lot of old folks like me wish for the dark, quasi-traumatic family film of our youths. We don’t get them very often, but Wildwood fits the bill. High fantasy, real stakes, complicated characters, incredible animation. Long live Laika.

A win is a win but McVay still can’t coach 4 full quarters. Came very close to blowing yet another lead due to turnovers on offense. Hope they learn from this and use the momentum. The good news is that we can win when we’re down a lot of weapons. We just gotta survive until everyone’s healthy

Love this for him with ten days to go before Election Day

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

We know *he’s* gonna see this. We can only hope that his man crush openly mocking to loud applause sends him into a fit of rage that ends with us finally popping that bottle of champagne.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Obama in Michigan: "He is focused on home renovations. He should be on HGTV! ... He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory"

Akilla Cooper reposted

So, wait, has NaNoWriMo rebranded as "Novel November", paid for by ProWritingAid, which used to be a spell/grammar checker but now is (you guessed it) an "'AI' grammar checker"--in short, yet another way for a griftslop machine to grab human-written text? Do I have that right?

Akilla Cooper reposted

Replying to @sharonk.bsky.social

*when a dem is in power* The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants *when a republican is in power* criticizing the government is treason actually

Whenever I write, inevitably at some point Ro will hop on my desk and demand pets, which results in a forced break. I'd love to know how cats think. I really wanna know what thought/impulse triggers her to go "I want the large, two-legged cat who lives in my house to pet me and give me scritches"

I've voted, dropped it off in a ballot box and got the confirmation it's been received. I kinda wish there was a notification that went out to campaigns that I'm no longer an option so they stop sending me mailers and texting me.

Akilla Cooper reposted

Hollywood isn't a zero-sum game where someone else's success diminishes yours. Their staffing doesn't take away your opportunity. Their sale doesn't block yours. Your only meaningful competition is the writer you were last month. Focus there. #scriptsky

Akilla Cooper reposted

Remember when I told you that the trigger for the screaming reactionary backlash wasn’t e.g. public anger over Black Lives Matter: it was the personal terror of a bunch of rich arse-grabbers, watching Harvey Weinstein get dragged to jail unprotected by his wealth