I Am Taking Stage Fencing Classes And It Is One Of The Best Decision I Have Ever Made.

I am taking stage fencing classes and it is one of the best decision I have ever made.

Couple weeks ago, I got to perform my first choreographed fight making me feel like I was embodying a character I could’ve written. It was thrilling ! After seeing the pictures I couldn’t help myself… I had to use them as reference and draw this version of myself.

Pictures by Tryphon Fenographe (insta : @tryphon_fenographe)

I’ve never read a character more exhausting than Night from Overture.

I can deal with Time and his “I brought you into this world” trump card that he has as a mentality, but Night is just- *audible uncomfortable sigh*

I don’t know how Dream did it, but if I went to my mother and she didn’t even know about one of her daughters death, didn’t know that her son left and then compared me to my younger sibling all while sitting at a table with dick shaped foods on it, I’d probably crack. 

Dream: the universe is literally exploding, please help me.

Night: I really don’t care and I don’t even want you here. How come you never visit me, hon? You are my favorite child after all. 

Nobody is making anyone go into scriptwriting. No one is born in a Netflix company town where their dad takes them into the script mines at age 12. Fuck writers who want to get paid more than once for the same job. They should only get residuals AFTER all the people who do REAL WORK, like construction, grips, costume, makeup & animators etc. Most of them are much better at their jobs than writers especially for streaming services, and they are what screenwriters can lean on & novelists can't.

People need to realize that the unions for white collar people like WGA or SIEU or NEA (public sector unions are why cops who kill the people they were supposed to serve & protect remain employed get pensions) is not the AFL-CIO or any other historical union fighting for the lives of the people who built the country's industry and made it run, any more than the NRA are the Minutemen of 1775 New England.

First, go fuck yourself, you fucking scab. No, seriously - you don't come to my blog and spout off about what workers deserve unions and decent pay and what ones don't, like it's your fucking decision. The intellectual labor that writers perform is just as real as any other work done on a film set - "all who labor by hand or brain" is the inherent logic of industrial unionism for a reason.

Second, writers aren't asking to get paid more than once: residuals are deferred pay, you absolute moron. In Hollywood, whether it's writers or actors or voice talent or whatever, you get a small fraction up front - it's usually an ok check, depending on the union's day rates and so forth, but you can't make a living off stitching these together - and then most of your pay comes from monthly royalty checks that provide you with the income you need to live off when you're between jobs.

The problem is that, historically in Hollywood, residuals have been structured with a very long "tail" - the payments start out relatively low and then get more generous over time as the show has more seasons and (presumably) goes into syndication. This doesn't work with streaming's new business model, where increasingly shows are getting 2-3 seasons max and streaming services have become increasingly quick to not just cancel shows but yank them off their servers in order to avoid paying residuals.

So what WGA writers are fighting for is a system that ensures writers (but also actors and other creative workers, because the unions pattern bargain) get a fair share of the show's revenue, even if the show is only given 2-3 seasons.

Third, the U.S labor movement would not exist today if it wasn't for white collar workers and public sector workers. About half of the U.S labor movement - 7 million workers - is public sector, and those workers are overwhelmingly women of color, mostly working as either teachers or postal workers. Likewise, about half the U.S labor movement is made up of white collar workers, and we're graduate students and adjuncts and lab researchers, teachers and social workers, administrators and IT departments.

I'm both public sector and white collar, and I'm a member of an NEA union. I'm an adjunct professor who earns $6,000 a course and it's my job to get working adults with jobs and families who've never gone to college or who've been out of higher ed for a decade to graduate with a bachelor's or a master's. If you don't think that's real work, you're free to research and write all the lectures and powerpoints, deliver those in an entertaining and educational fashion, answer a flood of questions from students who need help navigating academia, and then grade all the midterms and finals and research papers.

desperately looking for more movies like this...

Brief Lives: Role Swap AU!!

Doze 💤 & Delusion ꩜ of the endless

Since January, I've been wanting to redesign them because I wasn't pleased with what I originally drew in November.

!!!! Spoiler Warning for Brief Lives since I am going to be talking about it for a bit !!!!

What I had in mind was that Brief Lives plot is still the same but Delirium has the bright idea of switching places to keep things interesting on their journey to find Destruction (also because she wants Dream to have fun with her one last time before shit hits the fan)

AU Example: When Doze and Delusion end up in Destiny's Garden asking for an oracle, Destiny confronts Doze that she need to stop her own delusion and realize that she can't save her brother from what is about to come. When Doze collapses from the harsh truth, almost reverting back to Delirium; Delusion steps in.

Getting serious and is fearful for his little sister, his Dream side shows (eyes black with twin stars) telling Destiny to basically mind his own business. He tearfully notes that he knows that they must talk to his son but he's staying strong for Doze. Regrouping, Doze and Del go to meet Orpheus.

That's as far as my mind is willing to go with these silly doodles and AU before I let it become my personality.

Don't take this seriously, but I imagine Delusion voiced by Andrew Garfield okay Bye!