everyone needs to stop telling rich white women to stay safe by "trusting [their] gut" bc now theyre just attacking minorities
rich white women will see a man of color or a poor man or a disabled man or god forbid all 3 and go "i dont know guys im kind of getting bad vibes. like he seems dangerous i cant put my finger on why. he just acts off. my gut is telling me to call the police idk why"
Dealing with my fear of rejection by never asking for anything, and my fear of being a burden by never doing anything that involves other people. Foolproof.
Antisemitism truly is everywhere and is nightmarish and disgusting. I was looking for old anti-scabbing Union posters and a whole bunch depict scabs as obvious awful Jewish stereotypes (big hook nose, hunched over, long beard and curly hair… it’s obvious what they’re going for) and are still being reposted online to this day? By supposed leftists? But who’s surprised, leftists ignoring antisemitism isn’t news.
ALTdon’t forget during the WGA strike that animation is not covered under the WGA deals and as a result animation has gotten the shortest possible end of the stick in under-staffing, under-paying, and generally turning the field into gig employment.
please sign the petition here for Disney to recognize animation production workers as a union and reblog this post!
“what’s posted on the internet stays there forever” is true for everything except that one piece of fanart you saw when you were 10 that changed the trajectory of your life forever. you will never find that again it is gone forever
“really?” I say to inanimate objects that are not working like they usually do
“Stay.” I glare at inanimate objects that continuously fall over
“Thank you!” I say exhasperatedly to the inanimate objects when they do finally work right/stay put
“Sorry! I say to the table I bumped into
“SHHH” I say to the inanimate object that keeps making noise
“Yeah, yeah, I’m coming,” I huff at the persistent kitchen timer.
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
werewolves are the best because they can be about womanhood or transness or morality or self-image or any type of Otherness. alienation. being afraid of yourself. society being afraid of you. finding your true self. becoming free.
If you give me any positive reinforcement whatsoever i will go full doggo and hang on to that shit forever and my internal thought process will pretty much boil down to “!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
(ID: Water-color-style illustration of an orange fox (The Fox, from Worlds Beyond Number podcast). He is sitting, facing the left of the screen and looking slyly off screen to the right with a smirk. On his left is a small brown bowl with dead fish in it.
“If they can’t catch me they can think whatever they want about me.”
“If I stop trying to do what I wanna do then they have already caught me.”
/end ID)
during the wga/sag-aftra strike, we may see:
- film in other countries continuing as usual, but those actors/writers are NOT crossing picket lines! other countries unions often have rules where they can’t strike in solidarity with american unions.
- new indie movies separate from hollywood studios. indie movies can continue as usual too, and may even use union actors if they follow certain guidelines and/or get permission from the union.
- awards shows, although they might look different and may be postponed. if there are award shows during the strike, there’s a chance they will just be live conferences announcing winners with no celebrations attached.
- celebrities will not be promoting their work during this time— that WOULD be crossing the picket line! yes, this includes social media. they can still post on social media, as long as it doesn’t pertain to their work.
- a lot more reality tv. this happened the last time there was a writers strike, and it will certainly happen again.
- actors will also not be able to campaign for awards. this awards season is going to be a strange one.
- propaganda from hollywood. they are already trying to flip the narrative by claiming they can break the unions, but they can’t. the strikers have the power. stand with them for however long this takes!
today in defenses of boromir that no one asked for: tired of reading that boromir’s death was in vain because he failed to save merry & pippin from the uruk-hai. the fact that this clearly important warrior was willing to die to protect those two is what convinced the urukhai that they had indeed captured the halfing who carried whatever important thing saruman wanted. they took the hobbits to isengard (to isengard gard) because they thought they had the right ones! boromir didn’t succeed in preventing their capture but he did in fact keep them alive by making them seem valuable. furthermore, he actually also saves frodo in this way: because the orcs and uruk-hai think they have what they came for, they stop looking and turn back: if they had not, they might have ultimately found and captured frodo or at least raised the alarm that a hobbit with an Important Thing was on the loose, setting others searching. which is the very heart of tolkien’s worldview - that you do the right thing because it is right, and doing the right thing is never in vain.
to conclude this essay boromir died a hero and saved not just merry and pippin but also frodo and sam.
(Image transcript:
#thank you op #and also on a wider note #it bothers me that people say
boromir’s death was in vain #as if utulity [sic] is the only axis we measure worth on #i’m sure tolkien would have disliked the implication #that honor and courage and a real effort to do better #especially after succumbing to temptation #somehow don’t matter #because they do!
#but also his willingness to sacrifice himself for the hobbits/fellowship
shows the ring did not end up consuming him #his love for the hobbits saved him from the ring (big eyes emoji x2)
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THE NANNY – s2e13: THE STRIKE (1994)
Congratulations to Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA Union President, for standing in solidarity with the WGA and for her incredible dedication to ensuring fair treatment and better working conditions for all. Never forget that Fran has always been pro-union!
(ID: Gif set of scene from The Nanny – s2e13: THE STRIKE (1994). Mr. Sheffield and Fran are outside of The Whitney Hotel where there is a picket line. Mr. Sheffield has already crossed but Fran hasn’t, and the strikers are continuously marching between them as they talk.
Mr. Sheffield: Miss Fine, after you.
Fran: Mr. Sheffield, I can’t go in there. My mother had three rules:
Fran: Never make contact with a public toilet…
Fran: Never, ever, ever cross a picket line…
Fran: What was the third one? Oh, yeah. Never wear musk oil to [the] zoo.
Mr. Sheffield: Miss Fine, you’re embarrassing me. Now come along.
Fran: I can’t. My Aunt “Or-Blouse” would roll over in her grave!
Fran: Which was paid for by her union!
Mr. Sheffield: Now, will you please come in before this turns into a spectacle!?
Fran: No, no! I can’t!
Mr. Sheffield: Would you let go, Miss Fine! Please!
Fran: Stop it! No, no!
The final gif shows Mr. Sheffield struggling to drag Fran across the picket line, grabbing her from behind, as she latches onto a random striker so that she isn’t pulled in. The photographers covering the strike take photos of them, and the scene cuts to a newspaper with the same image with the headline ‘SHEFFIELD HAS LABOR PAINS’.
/end ID)
The last time writers and actors went on strike at the same time, Ronald Reagan was head of SAG. If history truly repeats itself as hilariously as it keeps doing, this means in a few years we can expect President Fran Drescher. in this essay i will–
frankly i just think that we shouldn't have been putting so much straw on that camel's back in the first place