So, I won the war

Huge victory. After those smarmy billboards telling me to eat my words, I'm very close to reversing it and having them eat their words about me re: Weeded Out. Re: legalising weed. Well, no, we haven't legalised it: it's just lax enough now that creative loopholes and polite white lies are allowing us all to smoke stigma-free. - Re: my movie script

It's great that so many people thought it was good, but like most first encounters with the professional industry, it was rather stressful and at times really demeaning to talk out the legalities and veracity of all these various points of view on the 'did you promise the movie by advertising the tests' question that the lawyers of my enemies have attempted to imply...

There was no promise: I was merely updating people on the pre-production process, but none of them met with me and we never set a shooting date. The webseries films were tests, though obviously I also took them seriously as little mini movies.

After that set of tests, I'd concluded that I didn't want to make the movie, but that I was enjoying making those little films.

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VUW and the Council overreached. That's the scandal. They tried to bully a mentally ill person into producing a film so that their wealthier acquaintances could make easy money during the lean years that most creatives have been having since 2020.

Their smarmy attitudes and sense of superiority ticked me off, hence AMPP and my current campaign.

It's very much a Wellington beltway scandal, though it's not in the news (unlike some of the attacks that I received from the drag queens): all about the perceived objectivity of the public sector being breached in this outrageous display of capital vs. the renegade.

A lot of my wānanga class were public servants.