Trevor Stevenson

Screenwriter, podcaster, beer snob, technology fanatic, recovering introvert.

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A jazz musician working for the Department of Unauthorized Deaths investigates the demise of a mob wheelman and uncovers the sinister force behind it.

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Be sure to check out Midnight Melodies by @capacle for yourself using the link below.

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Have you ever had a moment when you’re playing a #ttrpg when you make a character that you really enjoy? That was me with South.

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Dumpas Gleeb's sojourn into the Intersection leads to a startling epiphany.

Lone Eons Part 2 of 2 is out now!

Be sure to check out Lone Eons by @davidblandyrpgs using the link below.

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What's your favorite episode that needs (new) artwork?
Kicking off a campaign to commission episode artwork for episodes from past seasons.

New poll on Ko-fi! https://t.co/IHZJeyoS0Q

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I was absolutely captivated by how wonderfully bizarre this world was/is and I can see many more adventures springing from this world.

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Follow the story of a post-human as he explores the bizarre far-future in Lone Eons by @davidblandyrpgs .

Be sure to check out Lone Eons for yourself using the link below!

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Wow. This is hitting me pretty hard. Cary was one of the actors I hoped to meet one day. #MortalKombat was my first PG13 movie (he'll always be Shang Tsung to me) and he was amazing in Man in the High Castle.

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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Dies: 'Mortal Kombat, 'Last Emperor' & 'Man In The High Castle' Actor Was 75 https://t.co/tD4ExrbhNA

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Holy what, y'all...

Thank you for the support and shares this year. Many more stories (and some surprises) in 2026!

#ttrpg #actualplay #solottrpg #podcast #actualplaypodcast #TTRPGActualPlay #ttrpgcommunity

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

Here’s why so much of today’s entertainment feels mediocre.

For most of Hollywood’s Golden Age, the major studios owned the theaters. That system ended in 1948 with the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Paramount Pictures. The Paramount Decrees forced the Big Five studios to divest their theater chains and banned practices like block booking. The result? Studios no longer had a guaranteed screen for every film they made. If a movie was bad, theater owners simply wouldn’t book it. Survival required quality—studios had to compete on merit.

The same logic held through the home-video and television eras. Studios made the discs, but they didn’t own Target, Best Buy, or Blockbuster. Networks made shows, but every program lived or died by Nielsen ratings and advertiser dollars. There was friction, transparency, and real risk.

Then streaming arrived.

In 2020, a federal judge officially terminated the Paramount Decrees, declaring them obsolete in a world dominated by Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, and the rest. The irony is brutal: streaming has recreated vertical integration on steroids. The same companies now control production and the only theaters that matter—their own apps. Unlike the old studio-owned cinema chains, these platforms don’t have to disclose viewership numbers because the business model is subscription-based, not per-ticket or ad-supported. Metrics are secret. Accountability is gone.

Because every subscriber dollar flows into the same corporate pool regardless of what is watched, the streamers have zero financial incentive to pay market rates—or any real money at all—for outside independent films and series. Why license an indie movie for $10–20 million when you can spend that and more on an in-house project that keeps 100 % of the upside, strengthens your IP library, and is guaranteed top-of-app promotion? Independents are now forced to sell their work for flat, often insultingly low fees (or give it away entirely for “exposure”) because the platform already has a full slate of self-produced content it will always prioritize. The gate is not just closed, the gatekeeper owns the only road.

With no obligation to report performance, studios face zero external pressure to justify budgets. They can greenlight endless in-house projects that are guaranteed distribution, while acquiring outside films or series for pennies on the dollar—if they bother at all. Independent producers are left begging for scraps or shut out entirely.

This is monopoly power the 1948 Court never imagined: total control of both creation and exhibition, insulated from market feedback. When studios and theaters were forcibly separated, independent cinema flourished because talent and good ideas could still find an audience. Today a handful of tech-entertainment giants own the entire pipeline in a way even the old moguls couldn’t dream off.

Monopolies aren't capitalist. We prevent them to open real competition, innovation, quality, and the occasional movie that wasn't filtered through a Teslabot in Netflix's HR wearing an Apple Vision Pro.

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@MrEricMartin 46 for me, but now I have new things to look forward to. (I’m assuming this is the ‘03 version for Old Boy)

Do we get bonus points for two 17s being on this list?

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Have you ever thought: "Harry Potter is great and all, but where's all the eldritch horror?"

Have I got the solo ttrpg for you...

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Season 3 PREMIERE!

Hunter Hartl is admitted to Brackroot Academy, a boarding school for mages, where four years of study lead him to confront the eldritch forces reshaping his soul.

Check out Tangled Blessings by @CountessCassi in the link below.

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Season 3

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@MrEricMartin Nice!

Now do PWSA...

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@MrEricMartin

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@MrEricMartin Reminder: bluesky is a thing.

[Joe Russo @joerussotweets]

Genuinely cannot believe people think BOOGIE NIGHTS and THERE WILL BE BLOOD are Paul Anderson’s best when he made this —

Happy 30th Anniversary, MORTAL KOMBAT, the best movie I ever saw when I was ten-years-old.

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The wonderfully odd Museum of Jurassic Technology here in LA recently had a significant fire. Please donate what you can to support one of the most unique places in the museum space.

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No ICE in California: 560 items for $10.00 https://t.co/kejIvIrqo7 #indiegames via @itchio

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@MrEricMartin Bring your own lighting.

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@LukeBarnett Done.

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Every couple in Beverly Hills.

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@BrandonProsek Sci-fi, Dark Fantasy & Magical Realism. HMU.