Sonya Ballantyne
@sonyaballantyne.bsky.social
Swampy Cree writer, filmmaker and nerd. Truth, justice and a better tomorrow! Treaty 1 Territory
THE UNBEATABLE SONYA BALLANTYNE releases soon from @highwaterpress.bsky.social This #MG #graphicnovel re @sonyaballantyne.bsky.social's origin story is illus by @raysdrawlings.bsky.social w @wapimostosis.bsky.social & Kielamel Sibal canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-... 👍🇨🇦📚
The Unbeatable Sonya Ballantyne
Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators
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"Why did you become a writer?" I dreamed of a life where I did not have to get up before 10am.
Hey @lecinenerd.bsky.social! Wake up! New U2 ep dropped and it's good?
I was walking out of SDCC one year with my friend and this really handsome man in the loudest neon pants I had ever seen. He held the door open for us and walked with us for a bit. Someone yelled "JOHN!" and I realized it was Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who
Muskrat 8647@muskratjohn.bsky.social · 8mo agoWhat is YOUR most mundane celebrity encounter? Belle and Sebastian asked me to hold the elevator for them at a Holiday Inn in Paris, after a gig...
Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 9mo agoFirst trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776' • Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War • Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind • Has SAG voice actors
People be saying Jimmy Crystal in Bone Temple is more evil than West in the original 28 Days Later. Dude, West was tricking people into coming to him for help. Christopher Eccleston is one of my fave actors but I hate him so much as West.
Can’t argue with that logic! #YanquiStayHome www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'No such thing as a better colonizer': Inuit emphatically reject U.S. takeover of Greenland | CBC News
Inuit advocacy groups, as well as Greenlanders who live in Canada, are emphatically opposed to American designs on their homeland. And, they say, they're tired of being used as geopolitical chess piec...
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Being Native means your elders will often drop such insane lore like an older lady telling me a family member of mine may have killed his married lover by accident.
The Welcome to Derry people made something amazing. That season was just brilliant.
Can I just say that the new Bluey game (the quest for the golden pen) is ADORABLE. It is like Baby's First Legend of Zelda.
Me explaining The Dark Tower mythos to friends who are watching Welcome to Derry
a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .
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When the AI bubble finally bursts, I'm going to raise my editing and writing rates to triple digits per hour out of pure spite. Coulda hired me before, but you wanted to be a water-poisoning plagiarist instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Creator Bless the crew and cast of Heated Rivalry for giving me ammunition with producers now for why Canadian content doesn't have to be America Jr.
I really love seeing real life professions react to how they're portrayed on screen. As a screenwriter, there's some stuff you leave out for the sake of the story. I saw a doctor saying something like real ER doctors don't talk that long with patients like they do on the PITT.
Loving that post I just saw of a user asking why they haven't "fully adapted King's It" and everyone was like
a man with a beard is making a funny face while wearing ear buds .
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Media literacy is dead: what do you mean all of the welcome to derry's audience is like "What's in the box" THEY SHOW YOU.
I'm not watching Euphoria but I've seen a lot of clips on Tiktok and it boggles the mind that the actress who plays Maddie is not a bigger thing. I mean I know why her Jeans costar is being pushed to the moon but Alexa Demie is really talented.
That image of the Native Warrior seeing It as a White Priest with a demonic baby Jesus on this week's episode of Welcome to Derry both triggered the hell out of me but also pissed me off because I cannot believe I didn't think of it first.
I didn't anticipate being this old so please excuse me if I enjoy a bit of my life I never dreamed would exist.
If you're in Toronto at the end of this month, come and check out my spoken word performance of "How Bono Saved my Life (Three Times)" at the Weesageechak Begins to Dance festival or new and in-progress works. nativeearth.ca/shows/all-sh...
Weesageechak Begins to Dance – 38th edition — Native Earth Performing Arts
Weesageechak Begins to Dance is a two-week festival showcasing new works and works-in-development by Indigenous artists across Turtle Island and beyond.
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One of my love languages is giving friends cool gifts that they immediately freak out over. My best friend is a huge fan of Deadpool and has basically every single piece of memorabilia EXCEPT the Deadpool branded Coke cans. I got him two and for a man who doesn't show emotion, he showed a lot <3
I'm a ho for swashbuckling and hot guys with sexy hair so I'm watching that Disney Musketeers movie and good grief Kiefer and that hair
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It's truth and reconciliation day. A day that can be pretty hard for the Indigenous folks. White people, buy me KFC on ubereats, I'm Native, I've been through a lot.
Thanks for having me out for this @sonyaballantyne.bsky.social ! It was an honour 💖
Tiff Bartel@tiffbartel.com · last yr.My short film PORTAGE PLACE is showing as part of @sonyaballantyne.bsky.social 's NEECHIS shorts program on Sept 24th followed by a Q&A, and it's an honour to be among so many cool people that I know and admire! Please check it out: davebarbercinematheque.com/were-still-h...
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
I didn't get to learn my ancestral language as a child and I'm learning to now and it low key feels like I'm learning Elvish because of the poetry of trying to translate a concept that doesn't exist in English but exists in Cree.
I say this as someone who writes about Hollywood and entertainment for a living: People have got to stop thinking Hollywood is one monolithic mass. The creatives are a wholly different group than studio executives. The former group keeps making art despite the latter.
Juan Escalante@juanescalante.com · last yr.DISNEY: Wins 5 Emmys for ANDOR, a show about resisting fascism ALSO DISNEY: Bends the knee to the federal government and suspends Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel for resisting fascism
