lauralot89:

lauralot89:

hey chicagoans

do you actually eat deep dish or is that just for tourists

I’m from Chicago and we eat deep dish

I’m from Chicago and deep dish is for tourists, we eat Chicago thin-crust

I’m from Chicago and we occasionally eat deep dish but rarely

I’m from Chicago and we eat deep dish about half the time

I’m not from Chicago and I want to click things

Other (specify in tags)

I think I overestimated how many Chicagoans this blog reaches

reblog for Chicagoan exposure

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fans4wga:

What it means when an indie film gets a SAG-AFTRA waiver:

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[id: tweet from Alex O'Keefe @/AlexOKeefe1994 that says “People keep saying SAG-AFTRA is handing out "waivers” for indie productions to keep filming. These are NOT WAIVERS they are INTERIM AGREEMENTS. That means the employers have agreed to all the demands actors are making of AMPTP. If indies can afford it, why cant billionaires?“ end id.]

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laylainalaska:

Okay, this is a collection of thoughts I’ve been having on the way Bucky deals with his metal arm in Falcon & Winter Soldier, and hence with himself/his past, and the way this changes through the show. 

Basically, I think the show is very deliberate about when and how he uncovers it, and the way this relates to his state of mind and relative level of comfort with the people around him. There are times when there are external factors in play (the weather, the need to hide his metal hand in public, the need for his arm to do something specific in some scenes) but even in those cases, I feel that whether or not he has it uncovered is still significant, and still works with the emotional context of the scene.

Let’s gooooooo!

Okay, so basically Bucky’s main emotional arc in the show is struggling to come to terms with his past as the Winter Soldier, the things the Soldier did, the way he feels about it, and the way he fears that other people feel about him because of it. And this is all symbolized by his arm.

It’s not exactly accurate to say that he’s embarrassed or ashamed of it. He knows that people know about it, and he will uncover it around them in certain contexts. But in the first couple of episodes, I think it’s safe to say that he really dislikes people seeing the metal hand and covers it up most of the time, even around people who already know about it, like Sam and Dr. Raynor. People who don’t already know never get to see him with his gloves off; he wears them literally all the time outside and inside, including on his date with the girl at the bar, when he’s at Yori’s apartment, and during his session with Raynor.

I think the Raynor session is honestly the most telling, because in that case, it doesn’t actually matter if he takes them off. With people like Yori, or the girl he had a date with, or the public in general, he’s actively hiding his Winter Solder past. But with her, it’s not actually a secret that he’s hiding. It’s just that he doesn’t want her to look at it. It’s a vulnerability thing.

I really like how subtle this is, because he’s not weird about it in any obvious way. He’ll even occasionally take his gloves off around Sam, like on the plane in ep. 2. But there is only one circumstance in which he displays the whole arm openly:

…. when he’s going to use it for a weapon. (And there is a noticeable bit of steeling himself that happens right before he rips his jacket sleeve off, too, and Torres gets a look at it.)

But again, it’s not that he’s openly, actively uncomfortable about it most of the time. Walker and Hoskins see the arm during the fight, for example, and it’s not a big deal. But Bucky continues to have it covered in just about every civilian context - at the police station, in the “couples therapy” scene with Sam and Raynor, etc. 

But then he starts hanging around Sam a lot (and also Zemo, and Sam’s family) and things start to get interesting.

Keep reading

the-party-bus:

“Wait, there are people blaming the writers?”

Are you surprised? Fandoms have become notorious anti-writer spaces. Studios love you guys. They can cut the budgets, cut the number of writers, cut the wages of the writers, and you guys always blame the writers. “The writers ruined the show!” It’s never “the studios ruined the show.”

I hate to break it to you: more than half the shows you complain were “ruined by the writers”, were ruined by the studios. Studios cut the scenes and arcs you were excited for. Studios cut the budget of the show, or even raise the budget of the show and force a “bigger, louder, bolder” tone on shows that were unexpected hits (this is where we get “the Netflix look” on every show post-Stranger Things and Queen’s Gambit).

You guys do not do your research. Half your fanfics are tagged with bad faith digs at the writers, when a few searches would reveal how strapped that show was and how poorly the writers were treated. Writers are being given a 10 weeks to write 10 episodes. How are good arcs and scenes supposed to happen under that time limit, with a max of only four writers?

Tumblr, the self-proclaimed “pro-union, pro-worker, pro-artist” site is also a major fandom site. You guys rarely practice good faith consumer etiquette for television and film writers, because your fandom salt always turns you against writers. And studios love you for it.

Yeah, individual writers do create bad writing from time to time. But so do painters, chefs, and musicians. Directors and actors sometimes refuse to film certain scenes or follow a show’s projected style and arc, and the writers always get the crap for a bad performance or a poorly directed episode. This isn’t to blame actors or directors; it’s to point out that you guys have one villain, and it’s always the writers. You guys never give writers the same grace you give animators, designers, directors, actors, composers, and editors.

Studios love you every time you say “the writers ruined the show.” Every single popular fandom is guilty of this. View any of the “why did the writers cut this scene, they hate my characters” talk when leaked scenes hit the internet. Writers barely get paid for what they do write. You think they’re writing scenes and then happily throwing them in the shredder? You guys just eat the talk that studios put out. Always have.

technoturian:

One thing about the WGA Strike is that Onion article was kinda right. Hollywood shot themselves in the foot with their current standard of cancelling every show people like to produce more and more short-term novelty.

It’s not like we have tons of shows ending on cliffhangers waiting for season six anymore. Due to their greed, they’ve personally taken long-term viewer investment outside and shot it and now they can’t count on it for negotiating power. What are viewers going to be mad about missing out on? The Twilight reboot? Another Star Wars spin-off? Several promising pilot seasons on Netflix with great representation that were already produced and cancelled before they aired and would’ve been even if the strike hadn’t happened?

the-diabolic-acid:

the way these strikes get framed is always so funny to me

“the strike could stretch on until the end of summer” or the execs could pay their workers

“there won’t be ANY new shows because of this strike” or the execs could pay their workers

“no more content for us because the mean old writers and actors are-” OR THE EXECS COULD PAY THEIR WORKERS

aquitainequeen:

Pay heed to Klaudia Amenábar’s words! Don’t let the executives weaponize fandoms. WGA Strong.

chalice-light:

The difference between a strike and a boycott is the focus of what is being withheald

In a strike the supply is being withheald because the workers aren’t producing whatever it is.  It works by having the masses demand what the companies cannot produce and therefore, if the company wants to continue providing whatever it is in order to continue making money, they have to listen to worker demands

In a boycott the demand is being withheald because the masses aren’t buying or engaging with whatever it is.  It works because companies, obviously, need to actually sell things in order to function.  The point is to make the company change something about a product in order to appeal to the masses again

That’s why you shouldn’t boycott when a strike is on (unless the union says so) because it kind of cancels out the strike.  If there is no demand then witholding supply is meaningless - again, unless the union says so, since that means they factored it into their industrial action plan and believe it would be beneficial

I know people want to help but the reaction to call for a boycott whenever there’s a strike just kind of…… doesn’t