F. Lewis Scott Maynard Normandy

Cusp-millenial working on silly things @ Rutgers-Camden

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[F. Lewis Scott Maynard Normandy @fleserty]

My fav story I've written is out on X-R-A-Y rn! Huge thx to them for pubbing and all my pals who read this!!! Feels surreal to be in a mag with some of my fav contemporaries work 🦖🦕

[X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag]

today we have a killer 7,000 word story by Tyler Fleser @fleserty !! it’s about a man who gets a job wearing a dinosaur suit at dinosaur theme park

so funny & well written – i love the ending to this story <3

https://t.co/rQvrcfkLvZ

[F. Lewis Scott Maynard Normandy @fleserty]

George Lucas is based

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The man who made Star Wars offered to pay for this whole museum himself, every brick and every painting inside it. The first two cities he picked couldn't get it built. He spent 16 years chasing it, and the theater in this photo is one room in the version that finally worked.

He started with San Francisco, where he built his film company. The people who control the land he wanted turned him down. So he moved the whole plan to Chicago, his wife's hometown, where the city basically handed him a prime spot by the lake on a 99 year lease for ten dollars. Then a local group took the city to court. Their argument was simple: the lakefront belongs to the public, and a city can't just sign it over to one private museum. A judge let the lawsuit go forward, construction was blocked, and after about two years of fighting, Lucas gave up and walked away. Los Angeles won it in 2017.

He paid for all of it himself, the building and everything in it. He also locked away a fund big enough to keep the place open for decades after he's gone. Cost was never the problem. Back in 2012 he sold Star Wars and the rest of his studio to Disney for around 4 billion dollars, and this museum is one of the things he chose to do with the money.

The art tells you why he bothered. It mixes famous paintings, old comic strips, and props pulled straight off his movie sets, including Darth Vader's helmet. Lucas calls all of it narrative art, which is a fancy way of saying art that tells a story. He's been hooked since college, when he couldn't afford paintings and bought cheap comic books instead. The building matches the man. A Chinese architect designed it to look like a spaceship that just landed, all curves and barely a straight edge anywhere, with a green lawn rolled across the roof. It runs five stories tall, with floor space about the size of five football fields, on what used to be a parking lot.

The theater you're looking at is one of two inside. It was supposed to open in 2021, then 2023, then 2025. The doors are finally opening on September 22, 2026, more than ten years after a broke college kid who bought comics because paintings cost too much set out to build a place to hang them.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The man who made Star Wars offered to pay for this whole museum himself, every brick and every painting inside it. The first two cities he picked couldn't get it built. He spent 16 years chasing it, and the theater in this photo is one room in the version that finally worked.

He started with San Francisco, where he built his film company. The people who control the land he wanted turned him down. So he moved the whole plan to Chicago, his wife's hometown, where the city basically handed him a prime spot by the lake on a 99 year lease for ten dollars. Then a local group took the city to court. Their argument was simple: the lakefront belongs to the public, and a city can't just sign it over to one private museum. A judge let the lawsuit go forward, construction was blocked, and after about two years of fighting, Lucas gave up and walked away. Los Angeles won it in 2017.

He paid for all of it himself, the building and everything in it. He also locked away a fund big enough to keep the place open for decades after he's gone. Cost was never the problem. Back in 2012 he sold Star Wars and the rest of his studio to Disney for around 4 billion dollars, and this museum is one of the things he chose to do with the money.

The art tells you why he bothered. It mixes famous paintings, old comic strips, and props pulled straight off his movie sets, including Darth Vader's helmet. Lucas calls all of it narrative art, which is a fancy way of saying art that tells a story. He's been hooked since college, when he couldn't afford paintings and bought cheap comic books instead. The building matches the man. A Chinese architect designed it to look like a spaceship that just landed, all curves and barely a straight edge anywhere, with a green lawn rolled across the roof. It runs five stories tall, with floor space about the size of five football fields, on what used to be a parking lot.

The theater you're looking at is one of two inside. It was supposed to open in 2021, then 2023, then 2025. The doors are finally opening on September 22, 2026, more than ten years after a broke college kid who bought comics because paintings cost too much set out to build a place to hang them.

[F. Lewis Scott Maynard Normandy @fleserty]

@LiquidSnake311 @Daily_SWGames Neo-Kel dor

[Ramit Sethi @ramit]

Fuck Hilton. Boycott @HiltonHotels

One of their independent hotel owners in Minneapolis refused to let ICE stay there, so Hilton corporate dropped them as a hotel

Americans hate ICE's illegal gestapo soldiers & we can't wait to see them prosecuted. Kudos to any company who stands up against them...

...NOT Hilton, who we will be boycotting & I encourage you to do the same

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

What the fuck is wrong with you?

You have no idea who this woman was. You have no idea what she believed. You have no idea what an actual investigation might show. A 37-year-old American citizen was killed. Her 6-year-old son has been orphaned. Her family and friends are going through the worst moment of their lives. And all you can do is call her a "deranged leftist"?

Seriously what the fuck is wrong with you?

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

this is why episode 1 is the best star wars, review by @ethantgibson

[Rutgers Camden Writers House and MFA @MFACamden]

⚡️ July 23, 12pm: ORDINARY MOMENTS: WRITING FLASH NONFICTION. In flash nonfiction, writers zoom in on everyday moments and make meaning of them within 750 words. In this workshop, we’ll learn the key craft elements of writing flash and generate the beginnings of our own pieces.

[F. Lewis Scott Maynard Normandy @fleserty]

TWO DAYS - If you haven't signed up yet, you still have time!

[Rutgers Camden Writers House and MFA @MFACamden]

🙃 June 11, 6pm: WRITING ABSURDIST FICTION with @fleserty. When grounded in the human experience, absurd stories can break our assumptions and reveal hard truths about our world. This workshop will help you fill your writing with spectacle and empathy for the characters within.

[mktoon @mktoon]

Remember that part in #Andor when all those reporters on Ghorman made it sound like the Ghormans were violent and the Empire HAD to send in soldiers to stop things from getting out of hand but in reality the soldiers WANTED things to get out of hand?

Yea, that was crazy huh?

[F. Lewis Scott Maynard Normandy @fleserty]

The ampersand be thicc

[rosie.visions @Rosiejaccola]

https://t.co/AS2czeRuSL it's called citizen journalism, baby.

[F. Lewis Scott Maynard Normandy @fleserty]

@Rosiejaccola The JVN Plant Parenthood posts killed me

[X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag]

it's tha 1st of tha month, which means that all submission categories are open !! (until we reach our cap) -- thank u :)

https://t.co/t0BJlQrjEB

[Drew 🧂🔥Gummerson @drewgum]

May the 1st is the inaugural #IndiePressDay and so the perfect day to purchase 🙏😊😝 my recently released book Saltburn direct from the publishers Haywood Books @renardpress

https://t.co/UloyGCYKNN

[F. Lewis Scott Maynard Normandy @fleserty]

The fact that they are in at the same time as Warren Zevon is so right only for my specific life, but it's awesome.

[Pearl Jam @PearlJam]

Congratulations to our friends @soundgarden on their well-deserved induction into the @rockhall!

[F. Lewis Scott Maynard Normandy @fleserty]

We don't deserve Andor.

[F. Lewis Scott Maynard Normandy @fleserty]

Super excited about running this workshop! Even clocked one of my most-used emojis.

[Rutgers Camden Writers House and MFA @MFACamden]

🙃 June 11, 6pm: WRITING ABSURDIST FICTION with @fleserty. When grounded in the human experience, absurd stories can break our assumptions and reveal hard truths about our world. This workshop will help you fill your writing with spectacle and empathy for the characters within.

[F. Lewis Scott Maynard Normandy @fleserty]

Me walking by the nonfiction workshop class discussing deeply personal and traumatic life events on my way to write silly fiction.

[Eden Dranger @Eden_Eats]

Just to add to Walton Goggins discourse, when I wrote on a sitcom he starred in, sometimes he’d pop into the writers room like this:

[F. Lewis Scott Maynard Normandy @fleserty]

Second most embarassing moment of my writing career is mispelling Layne Staley's name. I'm not a fake fan I swear.