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Reminder that trees are super important for not only lowering the heat index, but also for all creatures that use the trees for shelter!
Like Chipmunks, insects, birds, WGA, SAG-AFTRA, squirrels, certain lizards, frogs, and much more!
Make sure you prune them only when necessary!
i love physical media. i love dvds and cds. i love the cover art on the boxes and the way they look organised on a shelf.
i love owning a piece of media that will have to be pried from my cold dead hands to take it from me, instead of being wiped off the face of the earth with the click of a button the moment it stops being profitable.
i love the little manuals that came with video games. i love the design and effort and care put into the little details. i love it all, and we should appreciate it more as a society.
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“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.
jesus fucking christ
better not see anyone cribbing about WGA going on strike because your shows get affected.
Hey yeah in the midst of all the hype and the strikes, can we PLEASE fucking talk about this
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Studio Sour Grapes
83 years ago, 20th Century Studios (now 20th Century Fox) released the masterpiece, Grapes Of Wrath, based upon the best selling novel by *John Steinbeck. Here is a reminder that the struggle for labor, for content creators, for artists, for writers, for all of us to be seen and valued as human has been a long one. Outright slavery was replaced with other institutions and legal methods designed to marginalize and control specific groups and socioeconomic classes and further divide labor based on race, gender, etc. Those in the arts who tried to call attention to this never ending struggle were (and in some cases still are) labeled with slurs, blacklists, and so on.
The point I am trying to make is that while highlighting the experiences of a downtrodden group of people resulted in some absolutely fantastic written, filmed, acted, and directed artistic endeavors, those endeavors resulted from the hardship and plight of ordinary people and their situation was the result of the greed and antipathy of the 'corporate' owners. Across a multitude of industries and types of labor, the many have been at the mercy of the few. It's easy to vilify the highest paid celebrities and writers in order to sow division and obfuscate the reality for most workers in America, whether within the art industry itself or any other form of labor.
The producers and owners have tried to say that the grapes are sour, that the writers don't make good wine, that the actors have plenty of money to pay for healthcare (not true), and so on.
Don't believe them: feed them the grapes of wrath. Feed them the truth.
*Without getting into the weeds regarding the controversy surrounding Steinbeck's novel & the novel by Sanora Babb's Whose Names Are Unknown (do look it up on wiki; fascinating story), it serves as a tale and backdrop for some of the current topics being discussed right now with respect to appropriation, equal pay, gender, as well as the name, image, and likeness.
If I see ANYONE complain about their fav shows next season being delayed due to WGA and SAG strikes it's kill ON SIGHT. Is this show really good enough it's worth letting writers starve and lose their homes for the next season to come out? Being upset over this is valid. That's the point, to make us upset. But don't take the anger out on the people striking, take it out on the studios leaving them no other choice
After finding out that AI has supposedly been taking data on how to write better from gdocs and other online documents apps I am going to write exclusively on my typewriter, the backs of old papers, or my own goddam skin. Elsewise I invite every to bomb the sites with omegaverse fanfiction and watch the big execs shit themselves when they see what their ai is churning out.
Even though I never post stuff like this
Congratulations to everyone in the writers' strike for reaching an agreement in your contract. I hope everything goes amazing, you all deserved that win, and I hope that all the other strikes will have a successful win as well :)
GUYS
Wow! I am suddenly craving a titanic remake. It would be really great if the studio executives were to gain inspiration from the Titanic shipwreck! Up close and personal. In a submarine.
we all knew hollywood was evil but to reach the level of publicly admitting to letting writers go broke and homeless before giving them a living wage that they can easily afford to pay is insane.
pay your fucking writers.