Dispatches from Stepford

>inb4 don’t push yer luck kid I mean ideally the cast would mostly consist of actors from the Northeastern US to give it a little air of authenticity and maybe save on dialect coaches etc, but if this ever turned into a real thing I would probably have to make a few compromises. And I’d be fine with that if the actors were good enough!! As long as they stay close enough to my character concepts, I’m not looking to turn anyone white Kim Eberhart: Mary Stuart Masterson duh this is the most definite thing, it’s literally the same role she played in the original when she was like 7 lmao William Everett: I’m genuinely having trouble pinning him down lmao the dude has to be tall obviously, good at playing a complete bastard, not look too much like Matt Walsh to risk a lawsuit Helen Van Sant/Olivia Murray: dunno man I did have Lea myren from the ugly stepsister in mind at first but then I gave her lines. the gal from portrait of god maybe? Martha Huntington/Jasmine Wells: jayme Lawson!!!...

In August of 2019, the Brooklyn-based punk band Disaffectress were halfway through a tour of the East Coast when guitarist Roxxi Riot was kidnapped from the band’s touring van after a show in Connecticut. She spent five years in a nearby town called Stepford, living under the coercive control of a man who had reconditioned her into a submissive housewife, her mind separated from her body until her eventual bloody escape in October 2024. With her two sons born during her captivity in tow, Roxxi immediately reunited with her bandmates and threw herself into channeling her trauma through music, the result of which was the single Stepford Wife, the first musical release from Disaffectress in five years. But she was far from done telling her story, and neither was the rest of the band.

“And the whole time… All I could think about was you.” [TRIGGER/CONTENT WARNINGS: discussion of rape & fetishisation of Asian women] I’m literally on my phone posting this at goth night lmao This is a story about Annie Nguyen – who’s a full-blown goth by this point – and the goth gal she sees at the supermarket! I’ve decided her name is Erin, and maybe she’s very distantly related to somebody in the original Stepford Wives book, idk who specifically but I put Migliardi (as in the lady in the book who drops the bombshell that the MA is only a few years old) just as a placeholder y’know. And I know making every new character a relative of a pre-existing one is the dumbest legacy sequel cliché ever, especially in the case of Stephen Axhelm, but I imagine Stepford is a pretty small town anyway and some of the kids who grew up there would have followed in their fathers’ footsteps and joined the Men’s Association, under the impression that the life their parents led is one that they shou...