Pastel Bear Studios

I'm a self-taught screenwriter. I mention that because I somehow went most of my life without even considering that as a career option. But I've always loved television and especially animation. So when Steven Universe ended in March of this year and the pandemic just started--as someone who wrote as a hobby--I dedicated all my time to learning screenwriting in the following months. Literally. March 20th. I bought Final Draft. March 31st Nickelodeon announces their accepted shows for their program. At this point I'm watching every Film Courage interview, helpful video essay, get every writing resource I could get my hand on and go to work. Before April is out I finished my first draft of my Bob's Burgers SPEC. I write some scenes here and there and by the end of June I have a draft of my first pilot written. Throughout Spring and Summer I've been attending virtual speaker series and talking with working writers and making connections. I joined a black ...

Bob's Burgers is a down to earth, relatable sitcom so I wanted to touch on what was currently going on through the lens of the pandemic life going on around us. Struggles with unemployment and poverty, protests, and the pandemic alike seen through the namesake establishment of Bob's Burgers. Logline: "When the restaurant's dine-in service is shut down and Mr. Fischoeder implements a curfew on the Wharf, Bob still has to pay rent." READ HERE I wanted to give it the human touch of mistakes, as well as my voice of sexuality that I bring to the table. Both times I've met my boyfriend we've gotten each other sick so I wanted to put that into this script, the irony of exploring sexuality and getting sick as a result. (not the pandemic disease, just a cold).

Checking in here again, I've been writing non-stop whittling away at my Bob's Burgers SPEC and my pilot for " Pastel Bears " and I thought I would talk about my pilot here and why i have it as my namesake for this blog. Logline: "When a lazy koala gets roped into a routine at a failing gym, a personal trainer whose job is on the line helps him unleash his hidden instincts." READ HERE It's a half hour adult animated comedy that touches on sexuality, bear subculture, carnivore/herbivore social dichotomies, predatory/prey power dynamics, identity, and the like. I'm very queer, as everybody should know. I'm into guys, big guys especially. As long as I can remember, I've had that fascination which led me to discovering the bear subculture and getting into those aesthetics. But as you should know, bears in the LGBTQ+ community--the ones who fly underneath the bear flag at least--can be racist, hold values that align with toxic masculi...

Hi blog! I wrote a story for a prompt in a discord server I'm in, and I wanted to share. We were limited to five pages, and the prompts were: First Dates, Outer Space, Animals, Birthdays, and Childhood Friends. I went with both First Dates and Outer Space. The idea came from the fact that my boyfriend lives in South Africa, while I'm on the other side of the Atlantic in the states. Such a great distance in a long-distance relationship, you leap at any chance to meet. Relish any physical time together. Just to meet each other feels like a journey across space. And so what if an LDR...was a Light Distance Relationship? That was the genesis of the idea and I just ran with it as far as I could. Logline : "Two boyfriends on opposite ends of the cosmos go to great the lengths to meet on a planet for a single hour." LIGHT DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP

My name is Jacob Dammons, I'm writing this blog post to discuss who I am and where I come from. I'm from Detroit, Michigan. Child of a single mother. One older sister. Grew up in a house of women, lack of a father figure in my life. I was fairly isolated in the dark and didn't know myself very well. In 2013, Steven Universe came out and through that show I was able to discover who I was. I figured out I was gay that year and later found out I was actually bi. I got in touch with my emotions and feelings and that's always what I come back to with my writing. And on the topic of my writing, I want to get right into how I develop my characters and writing. My core writing philosophy. I break characters into two axes of behavior. Those two axes I find are goals and interests/kinks. A goal is what pushes and drives a person, a character each and every day. Where they want to go in life. What pushes them and keeps them moving forward. An interest, a kink is someth...

1. Nickelodeon Writing Project: Pick out two series from the Accepted Shows List, one live action and one animation, and make the best SPECs I can. For my first SPEC I've chosen Bob's Burgers. I'm into food a lot and it is a major influence in my behavior and sexuality. I have anxiety about food, food creates euphoria, my brain is always drawn towards where the food is. My heart yearns for my stomach to be filled. And so I can relate to the main character Bob Belcher for his affinity with food. My writing specialty is dealing with explorations of sexuality so I want to tap into motivations for how we can show Bob to have a bi experience on screen. His own food seems to be a primary motivator for how he operates. If someone were to sexually interact with his food in front of him, I think it would stand to reason he'd be compelled to join in. After he calls and contacts Linda of course. And this sort of queer experience ties into what I enjoy, I'm into bears....

As a programmer, which I used to want to want to be, I guess this would be the place I would say Hello World. I'm a screenwriter now so let me just start off with a FADE IN: OVER BLACK CHYRON: HELLO WORLD! FADE TO BLACK or something similar in a 12 point Courier font in Final Draft. But I just wanted to be out and open about coming into screenwriting. My name is Jacob Gregory Dammons, I was born in 1998. I grew up in Michigan, moved with my mom to New Jersey in the middle of high school, graduated in 2016, and attempted to go to college that year. I only attended for a semester. I saw a private school with high employment rates post-graduation and figured that it didn't matter how much debt I racked up, if I got through school I could just pay it back because of these high employment rates. That made sense to me then. I dropped out after one semester. Afterwards I was mostly aimless for the next several years, moving around with disparate family members...