C Meaker

Playwright, theatre maker, screenwriter, teacher, horror nerd. Former Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights' Center. (they/she); co-host @dontdeadpod

[C Meaker @cmeak]

It's posted! "S(wallow)" @PorterHouseLit is about losing a mentor, learning to swallow correctly as a kid, and having straight sex in undergrad for homework, but like, poetic and shit. (It won the Editor's Prize & I'm still shocked & honored) Read & share! https://t.co/NJPBn7UM7v

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In case anyone else is still here, I'm done. The X on my app and the website and you know, the dude being a terrible human. I'm on threads and instagram (cmeaksmeaker) and will be on blue sky when it's up and running.

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What is this black x on Twitter? I do not like it. And I like so little about the platform as it is...

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@lexderman Also fucking congrats!!! Well deserved!

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@lexderman You picked one of my favorite Eric plays...

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Like also, brains are weird. Why has it taken this long to be able to see myself in that relationship? I can see her in every moment, but I can't see myself ever.

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I'm writing an essay about my abusive ex and after working on it for six months, my memory is finally letting me take a good hard look at who I was in that relationship and owwww. Like I just made a Donna Reed comparison and yikes. My journey with gender is a fucking onion

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It's dumb, but as I'm watching She-Hulk all I can think about is what my father would think of the legal arguments involved

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Can confirm that moving couches out of apartments is dumb. Questioning whether ever having a couch is worth it considering it might have to be moved out one day

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Oh no. I'm at that phase of packing where I just want to feel something so I've decided to re-watch the handmaid's tale

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Every time I start working on anything that isn't moving, my brain starts running through my moving checklist. I really hope this is the last time I have to move for the next five years. I'm too old for this shit.

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@pmijatov But I'm moving now so it's gotta happen now cause I'm not moving with it again. I really doubt it's worth anything since it was bought in the 80s so if no one wants it, it's getting dropped at goodwill

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Things my mother brought me two moves ago and I've moved with out of obligation but have never opened: a fucking china set my grandma bought me for "my wedding" when I was five

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Holy shit. I move to New York in two and a half weeks

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@lexderman It's been several weeks and I haven't heard from them so I assume I didn't get it which is just as well cause I want to be in new york and that one thing has been gnawing at me anyway

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A few weeks ago I had an interview for a playwriting teaching job and they were flabbergasted at my intro syllabus where students write a monologue, 10 minute play, and one act. They insinuated it was too much work for an intro class and I haven't stopped thinking about it since

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@lexderman I know, right? Like we do a 10 minute so they can practice beginning middle end before tackling longer work, but otherwise the ten minute is just sort of meh

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@Hammy1780 Exactly. My Intermediate class did three 30-40 page submissions over the semester. But one student ended up doing three full-lengths because they wanted to push themself and that student just learned so much more! Write write write and finish things! It's not too much.

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As always it's delightful to be functional

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The problem with being a broken-brain person who feels unworthy of love is when you receive sexts about your body you instinctually check over your shoulder to see who they're talking to.