Teresa Writes Stuff

Writer of your future favorite TV show. 📺📝 Your weird, Xennial aunt. 🧑🏽‍🎤 Storytelling across multiple mediums & geeky pop culture stuff. 🤓 🇵🇷 Puerto Rican ✡️ Jewish 🏳️‍🌈 Bisexual ♾️ ADHD

[teresajusino]

First post! ❤️ Be gentle. Fled the Metaverse so I'm no longer on FB/IG and I wanna make this my new, photo-friendly home. I'm also on Bluesky (@teresajusino.bsky.social), TikTok (@teresajusino711) & Letterboxd (teresajusino)!

Who am I? In no particular order:

The writer of your future favorite TV show (I write hr-long dramas that are usually geeky in some way)

former Pop Culture writer (see The Mary Sue, Teen Vogue, Reactor.com, etc) who still can't help but offer media commentary from time to time

Founder of Pomonok Entertainment (pomonokentertainment.com), production company that aims to "save the world one story at a time." If you wanna keep up with my creative work (filmed content, podcasts, theater, prose fiction, video games), that's where to go!

Host of the Finding Felicity podcast with Katherine Street

a xennial Latina (Boricua), Jewish, queer (bisexual) married woman w/ADHD who loves sci-fi, Post-Apocalyptic, dystopian, fantasy, and horror stories and is in an open marriage.

My great loves are: my wife, English Bulldogs, StarTrek, The Last Of Us, the Scriptnotes podcast, anything by Brian K Vaughan or Craig Mazin, and my Level 5 android Paladin named Lal

If you stick around, you can expect:

opining about the #television and #film industry from the point of view of a #screenwriter pursuing a career in #TV writing who's worked in the industry for 6 years

Stuff about my creative work

Random memes and doohickies about the fandoms and genres above

writing chat

Stuff about my myriad intersecting identities

Whatever I feel like posting

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[teampomonok]

'Scriptnotes NOTES' Episode 3

There’s a huge difference in the way certain behaviors are perceived depending on the gender of the character doing the thing.

There are way more important things going on in the world right now. But if you're a screenwriter who wants ideas on how to have your work better reflect your values, the Scriptnotes NOTES podcast is here to help! Scriptnotes NOTES Ep 3 is LIVE! In "Double Standards Are the Worst," Teresa digs into a conversation in Episode 275 of Scriptnotes from 2016 where John and Craig talk about a piece in @theatlantic by Megan Garber on how rom-coms “undermine women" in order to delve into rom-com tropes and how certain behaviors are perceived differently depending on the gender of the character doing the thing as well as handled differently depending on the gender of the show/film’s creator(s). Check it out at the link above, or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

[teampomonok]

'Scriptnotes NOTES' Ep. #2

Screenwriters have the power to create cultural debates AND dispel them.

Scriptnotes NOTES Episode 2 is LIVE! In 'Friends, Property, and Other Romantic Designations," @teresajusino dips back into Scriptnotes #697 to talk about Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ before jumping over to Scriptnotes #313 to talk about whether men and women can be friends (SPOILER ALERT: they can) and how screenwriters have the power to create cultural debates and dispel them.

[teampomonok]

Pomonok Podcasts' latest offering is HERE! If you're a fan of the Scriptnotes podcast, a screenwriter, or someone who loves film, check out Scriptnotes NOTES, where @teresajusino delves into the craft, business, and societal impact of screenwriting through the lens of a queer, neurodivergent, Jewish Latina writer grappling with what she's learned from two of her industry heroes: John August & Craig Mazin of Scriptnotes. LISTEN TO EP #1 HERE!

[teresajusino]

My wife (who's still not a fan of being in photos) and I rang in the new year watching StarTrek: Voyager, drinking prosecco & eating chocolate. Not bad. Here are some random photos from throughout 2025 before I leave it behind forever.

Wishing you all joy and fulfillment in 2026. ❤️ Happy New Year!

📸1 - prosecco + Godiva chocolate + the best wife of all time = a perfect New Year's Eve

📸2 - January: a rainbow after the first rain after the L.A. wildfires.

📸3 - March: me, director Sebastian & the cast of my short play 'Best Self.' (l-r) Emilie Crotty, Anne Westcott-Navarrette & Sammy Marquis when we were first put together as a team for Force of Nature Productions' 10th Anniversary RUSH.

📸4 - April: me and Michelle, Vicki, & Heather -- the actresses I worked with when I directed the short play 'War, Famine & Bailey!' right before our opening night performance! !

📸5 - May: me and Desiree Levingston during the shoot for the crowdfunding video for her comedy digital series 'Hardly Working,' for which I wrote 2 episodes!

📸6 - June: I spent $25 plus parking money to drive downtown and attend IGN Live just to see ONE panel in-person...The THE LAST OF US panel with Craig Mazin & the production team from the show. Worth it. I literally got there in time to get in line for this and left right after.

📸7 - July: my 46th birthday! Hanging with my wife Ada & my friends Adam and Clif playing one of my favorite TTRPGs -- Dialect -- at Geeky Teas & Games in Burbank.

📸8 - August: on the set of the indie film 'Wake' on which I was a set PA with Ana and Aaron.

📸9 - September: me doing an "ad" for Force of Nature's 'Tales of Blaze City' in character as The Porcelain Woman.

📸10 - October: me and the cast and crew of 'Happy Birthday Harold!' - my first short film!

📸11 - November: me freaking out in Puerto Rico right before going snorkeling for the first time. (I needn't have freaked out - it was great!)

[teampomonok]

Things That Are 'Inneresting' to Screenwriters

This post features: * A book you’ll want to own * An elaborate fan letter disguised as a book introduction * And an announcement about a

This Team Pomonok update includes --

- a book you'll want

- a weirdly elaborate fan letter &

- a new show from #PomonokPodcasts

If you❤️ the Scriptnotes podcast, screenwriting, or adorable Latinas talking about stuff they like, check this out!

[teampomonok]

December 2025: Creating and Moving Forward

It's been a while, hasn't it? You last heard from me in March. Yowza. But that doesn't mean that I haven't been creating and moving things

"[T]here's comfort in knowing that we're all in the same boat and that, while a rising tide raises all boats, an ebbing tide lowers them all. I suppose the point is to stay in the boat." Update on Pomonok Entertainment's upcoming creative projects from founder, @teresajusino.

2026's gonna be busy!

[teresajusino]

Excited for 2026 and all the creative work I've got planned! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

[teresajusino]

On this day 13 yrs ago: I went on a first date w/a friend who became my girlfriend.

On this day 9 yrs ago: That girlfriend became my wife.

Today: we're in New Orleans celebrating, despite the rain. Marrying my Ada was one of the best decisions I've ever made. ❤️

Happy anniversary to us! 🌈

[teampomonok]

December 2025: Creating and Moving Forward

It's been a while, hasn't it? You last heard from me in March. Yowza. But that doesn't mean that I haven't been creating and moving things

"[T]here's comfort in knowing that we're all in the same boat and that, while a rising tide raises all boats, an ebbing tide lowers them all. I suppose the point is to stay in the boat." Update on Pomonok Entertainment's upcoming creative projects from founder, @teresajusino.

2026's gonna be busy!

[teampomonok]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAROLD, the first offering from Pomonok Pictures, wrapped principal photography this weekend! We can't wait to bring @teresajusino's directorial debut to you in early 2026!

Wanna keep up with HBDH's journey as it goes from post-production to release? Sign up for our FREE Team Pomonok newsletter, OR our PAID Pomonok Pictures newsletter (where you get more of our film-specific content) over at the Pomonok Entertainment website so you don't miss anything!

This is a special project, and while it's a period piece it's disturbingly relevant to our current political landscape. We can't wait for you to see this!

[teresajusino]

It's that time of year again... Spooky Season means it's time for the Big Baby Horror Fest 2025, where I watch a new (to me!) horror movie every day in October without being a big baby! I then review them on TikTok. Follow along here!

BTW - g'mar hatima tova to those observing Yom Kippur today. How weird then that my Oct 1st pick for the BBHF was 'Saint Maud' -- a movie about a Christian trying to atone for sins by doing some really fucked up shit. 😱

[teresajusino]

'Finding Felicity' BONUS: A New Version of 'New Version of You!'

We're baaaaack! Finding Felicity, your favorite podcast about life, love, and growing up--no matter how old you are--IS RETURNING FOR SEASO

I co-host (along w/Kat Street) FINDING FELICITY - a podcast about life, love & growing up--no matter how old you are--through the lens of the hit TV show Felicity. S3 drops NEXT WK, but our first BONUS episode's out NOW! Did you hate the new Felicity theme song when you first heard it? SO DID WE! But hopefully our new S3 theme will make up for it!

[teresajusino]

In LOS ANGELES? Check me out in Force of Nature Productions' "Fallen Saints" show (an annual Spooky Season walk-thru experience), TALES OF BLAZE CITY! We open FRIDAY 9/12 for 3 weekends of performances. Visit fonprods.thundertix.com for tickets. DON'T DISAPPOINT PRISCILLA!

[ingydars]

God the 11 year old girls you put on this earth to climb trees and play with plastic animals are buying foundation at the drug store

[manisthebastard]

for a second i thought you meant foundation like, a building foundation. not makeup

[cognitohazardous]

God the 11 year old girls you put on this earth are building something great and terrible on the edge of town

[teresajusino]

I thought you meant that 11 year old girls were reading Asimov, and I wanted to be like "Girls! There's better sci-fi! You should be reading Bradbury!"

[eretzyisrael]

[teresajusino]

This part.

[goatsandgangsters]

an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

[theprofessional-amateur]

For no reason here is a library story

[theprofessional-amateur]

There will be millions of actions like this over the coming years. An important thing to remember is that for them to work (anywhere, not just libraries) is people absolutely can’t announce that this is what they are doing.

Not seeing constant acts of resistance doesn’t mean it isn’t happening all around you all the time. Some very effective methods require silence and secrecy.

Something to keep in mind.

[teresajusino]

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