
De Vliegende Hollander from Efteling for @coastermaynia :)
This is my first watercolor of 2023 💖
speaking as an under-the-line crew member affected by this, it’s great to publicize and speak out. send messages of solidarity. threaten to cancel your subscriptions.
but also know that this will lead to significant working-class strain in major cities, namely new york, los angeles, atlanta, chicago, and albuquerque. it’s unavoidable, and it’s imperfect — the people fucked over the most will be the most financially vulnerable, such as PAs, other assists and day-rate workers.
if you live in one of the cities mentioned, this is a great time to get familiar with, and volunteer for, your local mutual aid organizations. you can also reach out to your local teamsters or IATSE chapter — these two have a reciprocal mutual aid pact, and can likely funnel you to relevant resources. monetary assistance is great, but if you can’t donate food banks or even picketing supports will need hands and time as well.
stay safe, stay well, and hold the line!!
suspicious trucking companies I have actually worked with:
- Sam & Merry Freight
- Káno Transportation (yes, with diacritic)
- Avar LLC
- every almost-elvish or accidentally-elvish name, especially Artamir Trans, Arvedui Inc, and Artaran LLC
y'all heard about the WGA strike? here's how you can support us if you're not a member.
writers with the WGA have access to a strike fund that will help them out, but there are many other hollywood employees, assistants, and crew members who will need financial aid during the strike. you can donate to the entertainment community fund (tax deductible!) and help ease their burden. choose "film and television" in the drop-down menu under the gift designation.
if you can't donate, please at least boost and spread the word! and thank you to everyone who's been showing solidarity and asking how they can help us out, it's been overwhelming in the best sense of the word ♡
Hey guys please donate to this! Writers cannot collect unemployment while striking as they are technically refusing work so they desperately need your support!
Many of us in the other fields such as the crews, assistants, and other below-the-line staff have been feeling the pinch since December, when the Studios stopped production on a lot of things in anticipation of the strike, since they never meant to bargain fairly with the writers and didn't want to be caught flat-footed like they were last time. They also wanted to create resentment towards the WGA from the other Unions, but that just backfired because now we're all REALLY pissed at the studios.
It's going to be a really hard summer for me and a lot of people, so if you can contribute (like what you paid for your streaming services or whatnot) we really appreciate it!
“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 single week to write each episode—I’m not kidding, one-week-per-episode is one of the reasons for the strike. 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.
stopping myself from getting into a fight with a dead guy because he takes the wrong side in the “who topped in Patrochilles” debate
I don’t believe in gatekeeping at all but if you flat out admit to me that you’ve consumed little to ZERO of the canon media and have gotten all of your information based off of reading fluffy fic with woobified characters, I will not be taking ANY of your fandom opinions or meta seriously
Like I do read fic from fandoms where I’ve never interacted with any of the source material. I do it all the time! It’s fun! I get to read a little glimpse of a story and be entertained without having to put in the work of reading a whole book or dividing my time so I can watch through countless hours of TV. Reading fandom-blind is fun!!!
I do not, however, think that makes me actually knowledgeable on the subject
I also wouldn’t be writing my own fic where I bash characters and critique plot points of the original media when I’ve never actually gotten a firsthand look at it as a source
That just leads to, begging pardon, a wack-ass game of Fic Of Theseus where other people who haven’t interacted with the original fandom read MY fic of a fic, write their OWN fic of a fic, and every deviation gets further and further away from canon so it’s not even the same story REMOTELY anymore
And then those people will get into fights on Tumblr with people who DO know the source material and it’s like bro, you didn’t even pass the introductory course
Hollywood Writers Strike: Official Sources
The Writer's Guild of America has voted to strike, and I want to get out ahead of something Tumblr is bad about doing and encourage y'all to PLEASE get your information about the strike from the guild itself, not from random people on Tumblr telling you it's "actually" about this or that.
The WGA wants the public to understand why they are striking. They have plenty of info available that is written with a general audience in mind.
- WGA.org is the official website of the Writer's Guild of America West.
- WGAwest is on Twitter and posting extensively about the negotiations and strike. This account is linked from the WGA website.
- WGA also has a Linktree (linked from their Twitter bio) with more information about the strike, including their own Twitter threads about various strike issues, as well as articles in the media.
- WGA Contract 2023 is a website full of information about the strike. It is one of the first links in the Linktree above. It's a great resource if you want to get deeper into the subject. There is a FAQ.
Any third party explaining the issue for you has an opportunity to, intentionally or not, insert their own spin or agenda. Get the information from the source.
Just so we're all on the same page with the writer's strike.
If during the strike, it's announced about AI generated shows. We are not watching them. Not even out of curiosity. Let them fail every AI generated show they try make.
The human voice can not be replaced by AI. Don't let them try.
St. Bridget needs a Battle Creek rest cure and a bowl of cornflakes
Alcis Abernathy, or “wow this got derailed fast”
it sounds bullshit for me to say “I watch Yellowjackets for the Russingon vibes” but like. it’s not untrue.
honestly this is a breath of fresh air nobody ever remembers Finno is capable of just as much instability as Maitimo and my god I’m just basking in the warmth of it all







