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i sometimes forget that this is everyone’s first time on earth too. like. this is my first time seeing a butterfly this color. but its that little girl’s first time seeing any butterfly, ever. and i accidentally left a bag of groceries at the store after paying and now i’m cursing under my breath and it’s like. there a thousand other people out there who did that today too. and a thousand more from yesterday. and. like. we’re not actually alone. and we’re not actually failing. at least not in a way that a few billion people haven’t before you

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stop believing that you ran out of time to shape yourself into who you want to be! stop believing that its ruined! stop believing you don’t have potential! you are not a fixed being! you have endless opportunities to grow.

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some of my fav gotg3 reviews

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No because the family bond between the guardians is insane. Like we been known since vol 1 but vol 3 just SOLIDIFIED that bitch. Pure love all around. I love the avengers but they could NEVER.

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Me on the ride home from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3:

RUN FAST FOR YOUR MOTHER RUN FAST FOR YOUR FATHER RUN FOR YOUR CHILDREN FOR YOUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS LEAVE ALL YOUR LOVE AND LONGING BEHIND YOU CAN’T CARRY IT WITH YOU IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER THE DOG DAYS ARE DONE

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James Gunn doing a lot for the world by showing cute CGI raccoons and then two hours later showing you precisely why you do not want one as a pet. Most filmmakers don’t build a disclaimer into their film quite so violently.

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Can't believe i agree with them....

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I was on a plane this weekend, and I was chatting with the woman sitting next to me about an upcoming writer’s strike. “Do you really think you’re mistreated?” she asked me.

That’s not the issue at stake here. Let me tell you a little something about “minirooms.”

Minirooms are a way of television writing that is becoming more common. Basically, the studio will hire a small group of writers, 3-6 or so, and employ them for just a few weeks. In those few weeks (six weeks seem to be common), they have to hurriedly figure out as much about the show as they can – characters, plots, outlines for episodes. Then at the end of the six weeks, all the writers are fired except for the showrunner, who has to write the entire series themselves based on the outlines.

This is not a widespread practice, but it has become more common over the past couple of years. Studios like it because instead of paying for a full room for the full length of the show, they just pay a handful of writers for a fraction of the show. It’s not a huge problem now, but the WGA only gets the chance to make rules every three years – if we let this go for another three years and it becomes the norm? That would be DEVASTATING for the tv writing profession.

Do I feel like I’m mistreated? No. I LOVE my job! But in a world of minirooms, there is no place for someone like me – a mid-level writer who makes a decent living working on someone else’s show (I’d like to be a showrunner someday, but for now I feel like I still have a lot to learn, and my husband and I are trying to start a family so I like not being support rather than the leader for now). In a miniroom, there are only two levels – the handful of glorified idea people who are already scrambling to find their next show because you can’t make a decent living off of one six-week job (and since there are fewer people per room, there are fewer jobs overall, even at the six-week amount), and the overworked, stressed as fuck showrunner who is going to have to write the entire thing themselves. Besides being bad for me making a living, I also just think it’s plain bad for television as an art form – what I like about TV is how adaptable it is, how a whole group of people come together to tell a story better than what any of them could do on their own. Plus the showrunner can’t do their best work under all of that pressure, episode after episode, back to back. Minirooms just…fucking suck.

The WGA is proposing two things to fix this – a rule that writers have to be employed for the entire show, and a rule tying the number of writers in the room to the number of episodes you have per season. I don’t think it’s unreasonable. It’s the way shows have run since the advent of television. It’s only in the last couple of years that this has become a new thing. It’s exploitative. It squeezes out everyone except showrunners and people who have the financial means to work only a few months a year. It makes television worse. And that is the issue in this strike that means everything to me, and that is why I voted yes on the strike authorization vote.

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TV Executives: “if the strike goes on, you won’t get new episodes of your favorite shows! You won’t get new movies you were looking forward to! Isn’t that terrible, what the writers are doing to you?”

Me: Bitch, that might have been an effective threat in 2007, but we have since survived a Covid shutdown and discovered ways to amuse ourselves while we waited, we can outwait this shit, too. I got a pile of shows saved I haven’t even watched yet, and a Mt. TBR waiting for me.

Compensate (and respect) your writers for their work, assholes.

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the desire to not have Matthias die in the show versus the fear of SOMEONE ELSE TAKING HIS PLACE

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It's been a month since the Crows returned and I've missed them ever since 🥺❤️

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They’re ready to party

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they really said helnik slowburn, wesper speedrun and kanej diehard

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the book ice court heist has big group project involving people who don’t like each other vibes but the tv version is just going to be forced couples counseling via trying not to die together

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WATCH SHADOW AND BONE SEASON 2!!!

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Manifesting SoC spin off 🤞🏻

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kaz keeping the fact that wylan is not on the boat when van eck blows it up is going to hit so much harder since jes and wylan are in a relationship. but it’s also going to hit so much harder because he is doing the same thing that jesper did to inej. she almost died at the end of oomen’s knife because jesper couldn’t keep his mouth shut, so kaz punishing jesper by believing wylan is dead, because “something inside him felt frayed and raw. it was the same feeling he’d had as a boy, in those desperate days after jordie’s death.” because kaz almost lost inej, he did the same thing to jesper making him believe he lost wylan, which i fucking can’t wait to see that cruelty from him and see kit young act that.