Amanda Leduc

#PLR DAY! I love PLR Day! Thank you thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts!!

On Mike Birbiglia's podcast, he talked about realizing he was wrong for 99% of roles, not because of what he did but because he wasn't what the director was seeking. You have to keep doing your thing the best you can until the right person sees it. I think that's close to the whole game in the arts.

Every time I watch that season I think Ben Daniels and Lee Pace must have had an amazing time.

(Or maybe not. Maybe they hate each other! But they make it look SO GOOD if they do, haha.)

Really love having to make retroactive tense changes when I am 40,000 words into a project. Really, REALLY love it. 😒

@peterbcounter.com If it is any consolation at all (like, maybe even atomically small?), reading this thread has made me love both of you that much more.

75%? HEATHER THAT FEELS REALLY LOW. 🤣

a man in a black jacket is running down a road with trees in the background Alt: a man in a black jacket is running down a road on a hobby horse, with trees in the background

Cdn gov’t: “Centaurs? On a Canadian budget.”

My problem, Peter, is that I seem categorically incapable of writing things that do not require massive CGI budgets. 😭

Just over here wondering how many other Canadian writers are now secretly, desperately, hopelessly fantasizing about Jacob Tierney sliding into their DMs with an adaptation request. 😭🤞😜

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

🤞🤞🤞

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YESSS. The few times I’ve tried to have conversations abt it I’ve been met with, “OH SO YOU WOULD RATHER HAVE HAD PP?” and I’m like, “…no? I didn’t vote for either of them?” (I 100% understood the need to vote Liberal for many in the last election but WE LOST MATTHEW GREEN & I’m still sad about it.)

WORD, friend. WORD.

It's #BannedBooksWeek in the US. Canadian Freedom to Read Week is in February but we should all be vigilant about the threats to reading and access to information today and everyday.❤️📚

Since 2020, disabled people have been pointing out the rising ease with ableist rhetoric/language, the comfort with which so many people used the r word, the number of people willing to abandon disabled people for some notion of the "normal."
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.

Thank you so much for those kind words, Judith! It’s a great group of editors and I feel so lucky and honoured to be pulling this together with them. Feels like such good work. 🥰

[Image description: White text against a purple background: The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada's Literary Journal. Disability: The Revolution. The Fiddlehead's Summer 2026 Special Issue. Call for Submissions from Disabled Writers: Deadline November 30, 2025.]

Disabled friends! I am thrilled to be overseeing @fiddlehd.bsky.social's Summer 2026 issue--DISABILITY: THE REVOLUTION.

Our theme is REVOLUTION and you can interpret that as widely as you like. If you identify as disabled and want to answer this call, please submit!

thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

hey @mark-carney.bsky.social ; Canada Post should be deemed essential service; every strike affects businesses across the country who rely on it to run smoothly; some of us lose business every time a strike, a shut-down, a delay; im already losing due to US tariff nonsense, we dont need this worse,

Acetaminophen doesn't cause autism AND pregnant people should have access to safe pain/fever relief AND autistic people should exist

I can't believe we have to say things like this in 2025

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

This is unironically a lot worse than Jimmy Kimmel but you won't see 1/1000 of the outrage

Thank you Barbara! 🥰

Thank you so much Jonathan!

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Hard agree. Looking forward to an entire three-season rewatch now, which will give me even MORE feelings. 😭

Ben I have so many FEELINGS. 😫

Here for it. GO! 🙌