Aw, arrows no
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“Author of 25+ best-selling Pride & Prejudice variations”
Yeah, no.
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Does anyone have an update on where things are at with the writers strike? It’s disappeared from my various feeds and algorithms.
The writers’ strike is ongoing and the studios are still not returning to the negotiating table. Unfortunately a lot of the coverage has tapered off because we’re on 50+ days of striking and it’s not new anymore. The last strike in 2007 lasted 100 days, so don’t be surprised if this strike lasts as long, or even longer.
The biggest recent news is that the Directors’ Guild of America (DGA) voted to ratify their new agreement with the studios (article from June 23), and it appears likely that the actors’ guild (SAG-AFTRA) will also take a deal instead of striking (article from June 24). Although this is disappointing news, it’s completely expected. During previous strikes, the WGA held its own without other unions going on strike. Which is to say—don’t be disheartened by the news that there won’t be a triple strike. The WGA is strong enough!
Please keep vocally supporting the WGA online to keep the pressure on the studios & to keep WGA members motivated and encouraged! There are many ongoing donation drives, such as the Star Trek fan snack squad (Twitter account required to DM the organizer) and the Our Flag Means Death snack squad (opens the PayPal fundraising page—no Twitter required). There’s a longer list of ongoing donation drives here.
The Entertainment Community Fund is also always accepting donations to support entertainment workers affected by the strike. Please boost and encourage your friends to keep supporting the strike. Hashtag #IStandWithTheWGA #DoTheWriteThing to boost the cause!
Hi, WGA strike captain here, and I just want to say that the other unions taking contracts is NOT disappointing news. I feel like a lot of people are forgetting that the point of this isn’t to take a strike, it’s to get a good deal.
DGA, we can quibble over whether it’s a good deal or not. (I personally think everyone got too excited about a triple strike summer and forgot that the DGA was simply never going to strike)
But SAG-AFTRA? They got an absolutely killer strike authorization vote. They walked into negotiations with a loaded gun. That plus the fact that with everything shut down most actors aren’t working right now anyway, their leadership is incentivized to hold out for a deal with everything they want in it. Many of those demands overlap with ours, especially concerns about AI, which SAG membership is VERY fired up about.
If SAG gets a great deal with everything they want, then that’s GOOD for us. If the AMPTP were still fucking with them the way they fucked with us, “rejected our offer, refused to counter,” then that means the AMPTP isn’t feeling the pain of strike and doesn’t care how long this strike goes and is happy to stonewall indefinitely. But if they’re giving into the actors? Fuckkkk they’re hurting and this means they might actually come back to the table with us and negotiate in good faith finally. And if SAG gets strong language about AI, you bet your ass we’re going to argue for the same thing.
The DGA built on the writers strike to get a better deal. SAG is hopefully building on the writers strike and what DGA got to get an even better deal. And we’re hopefully going to build on our strike and what DGA and SAG got to get an even better deal. We’re all working together!
The point is not to strike, the point is to get a good deal. I think SAG will, and in my opinion that’s a massive win for us.
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First day of work today and it was Quite Something, so here’s some highlights:
- We start with the fact that I applied for a custodial job and it just so happens to be where I went to high school
- Semi-related factor that I graduated 2020
- The school wifi sucks so I can’t clock in. My boss has to do that for me
- I got hired for specific hours that do not line up with the rest of the crew. They decided they’ll switch that starting tomorrow
- Detailing cleaning bc it’s summer and it’s in the one wing I never had classes in
- Getting to finally see the inside of the teachers lounge, lol
- Moving a bazillion crutches and wheelchairs in the CNA classroom
- Hanging a skeleton up and his jaw falling off
- Language barrier between me and the person I’m shadowing. We only had to have someone translate for us once so I think we were doing pretty good
- Also I’m pretty sure I’m the only college kid on this crew. I don’t think they realize I’m going to school out of state at the end of August
- Not a single desk didn’t have gum on the bottom. Wedged in the back of the seat, underneath, bare remnants of gum of days of old. You name it, it’s there
- Many, many stickers and pieces of tape
- Including one that says “A piece of a snack” with a cookie on it?
- Being told to go home half an hour early, with the half an hour before that being just us sitting since we didn’t want to start up another room, lol
- Gimme gimme gimme by Abba being stuck in my head the entire shift bc it was the last song that played on the drive over
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SPOILERS for Across the Spiderverse
i love how it’s never really explained how Hobie broke that force field in his introduction scene. like. he just showed up. played a sick cord. and it exploded. i had to check if his guitar is some powerfull piece of tech or smt. it’s not. he is just This Fucking Cool™.
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Ah, I love my grandparents. I’m staying at their house tonight and the door was locked when I tried to open the front door. My grandpa knocked from the inside before letting me in and it made me laugh like I was a lil kid visiting over summer break again
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miles booking it through the spiderverse HQ with approximately a million spidermen after his ass like my guy. you can turn invisible
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Let me be perfectly fucking clear for one second:
The opposite of whitewashing is not fetishization.
Just because you aren’t whitewashing characters, doesn’t automatically mean you’re completely respecting their race and identity. Just because you’re giving characters correct racial features and skin tones, doesn’t automatically mean you’re respecting their race and identity.
Whitewashing isn’t the only form of racism.
Be mindful of racial fetishization, it is another form of racism.
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the common name “fools gold” for iron pyrite is funnier than we give credit for. imagine scientists discover a new metal and they’re like “We’re calling this Copper for Idiots”
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Hi,
It’s your friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:
I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.
That is my anti-permission.
Thank you for your attention.