Coming Back To This As I Read At The Feet Of The Sun, Aaaaaah.

Coming back to this as I read At The Feet of the Sun, aaaaaah.

new at the feet of the sun chapter just dropped, i am losing my entire mind thanks!!!!

Hi, it’s me, the SAG-AFTRA strike captain and fannish person since forever with today’s update from Day 116 of the SAG-AFTRA strike against AMPTP for a fair deal in our film/tv contracts.

I’m pretty sure I saw a few of you on our picket line today (non-union folk who were clearly at a first picket) and I’m so hyped you came! I bet some of you were at other sites too. I told folks about the level of Tumblr enthusiasm (I also had to explain Tumblr) and they got really excited. The morale boost matters!

Update and info for people who want to join us at pickets below the pics.

Right now, it’s Monday November 6, 2023 in the early evening. We are waiting for news from the union (which usually works on PST and often comes in pretty late for NYC people like), but we have every reasons to believe we will be back on the picket line tomorrow as the AMPTP’s offer likely still isn’t where we need it to be on AI and streaming residuals (when I have details, I will post details).

But as we wait for official word from the negotiating committee, we must be prepared to continue to flood the lines. The way the WGA got its exceptional deal was making it clear they would walk the line as long as they had to. We need to send the same message. to the AMPTP, to the media, to our negotiating committee, and to our membership, industry, and union siblings.

Every person on the line helps. If you come at the beginning of pickets (around 9:30am) our line is usually small; if you come later (around 11am) it’s usually a giant dance party. We appreciate you whenever you show up!

If you have questions, I will try to keep an eye on this — feel free to ask in replies, reblogs, or in asks or messages to me.

The content below repeats the information I have put in previous posts for folks who may be joining a picket for the first time.

If you are in NYC or LA, we need you to find five minutes (or more) of your day and come out an join us tomorrow. If you are a fan or a consumer who has been eager for a way to help, this is the moment. If you can get to a picket line, please come.

Picketing is hard work, but joining a picket for whatever time you have to give us is easy.

When you show up at a picket location (there’s a link to find picket locations attached to this post), you’ll see a SAG-AFTRA tent. You should go there and check in.

If you’re in the union, they’ll ask for your membership card. If you’re not, they’ll either have a book for you to enter your info in by hand or a QR code for you to scan to fill out a brief online form.

They’ll hand you a sign, offer you shirts/hats/pins/stickers (all free and all dependent on what got sent to that site that day), and point out other free stuff they have that you might need — like water, snacks, and ear plugs (it gets loud).

After that, you’ll join us on the line. You can chant if you want. You can also bring noisemakers if you want. Sometimes we have dance breaks. At my site we also pause for historical facts about labor history, and have a union song singalong with live music most days.

Take a rest when you need to rest. Stay as long or as short as you want. When you leave, just turn in your sign and take off. No explanations needed.

No one is gonna quiz you on your time commitment, your actorly history, or anything else. Sometimes people are chatty, sometimes people are focused on the task. Both are okay.

Accessibility has been learn-as-we-go and imperfect. That said, we regularly have wheelchair and other mobility aid users and blind and low-vision people at our pickets. We also have ASL interpreters available at least some of the time. You are welcome, and we will make it work.

If you wanna bring your kids, bring your kids. If you wanna bring you dog/cat/bird/lizard — totally chill if appropriately leashed/contained and we will put SAG shirts on your pet if your your pet wants a shirt and we have appropriate sizes.

Picket schedule and locations for week of November 6 available at this link: https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/picket-schedule-locations (Los Angeles and New York always have stuff scheduled. Other locations are less frequent).

oh to have a silly little house like this...

We have Marisa Mell to thank for the most iconic scene in sapphic cinema history <3

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

some say the goat will end in fire some say in ice from what I've read on the Wikipedia page of past Goat-destroying efforts, I'm pretty sure none of us were reckoning on absolute swarms of hungry birds but birds are also great and will suffice