It's strange to see anyone surprised by Universal using a tactic as cruel as denying even shade to picket line members, in the heat-based hellscape that is Los Angeles. So let's try to condense the explanation.
By and large, executives are people who already come from wealth and privilege, and have that wealth and privilege protected throughout their life as they're escorted through whatever levels of education and then into employment.
Most of them have never received any kind of culture shock to make them aware of the struggles of 'lessers'. Their parents and peers had a vested interest in keeping the then-children from mixing with 'those people'.
They are insulated enough from daily life that they no longer see anyone outside their immediate wealth and influence bracket as human.
So a strike, to them, is not "people who want enough money to live and work in health", it's "The machine that makes us money is broken, get those workers back into their jobs so we can keep making money."
So the executives treat the strike like they would a broken machine or a disobedient pet. Hit it until it works, and replace it if it breaks.
And don't doubt for one minute that this wasn't at the advice of a Pinkerton or similar union-busting agency consultant. This is more than just petty; this is tactical cruely.
Bard-aby <3 except he's only loosely a bard bc i don't subscribe to absolutes <3
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BARNABY WITH PANTS??? BLASPHEMY!!! however this is a (dnd-inspired) fantasy au so. pants! loose pants tucked into modified boots because no one can tell me No!
based off of Clown's pokemon au human Barn, it seems like he might be a bit of a jewelry guy! he was wearing rings! and had an earring! also i think Barn just looks great w/ some extra shinies, yk yk
since ties aren't really a Thing in fantasy settings, i combined the iconic pattern w/ his vest for a two-in-one. then suspenders bc they fuck severely! his belt buckle is a bone both as a nod to the pattern on his tie / house decoration, and to go along with how Wally has an apple buckle! besties stay twinning!
you can't see it but on his other side he has his pack & his smoking pipe holster, which attaches to his belt! it's very high quality leather that he spent so much money on. his pipe is important to him - he carved it himself out of wood from an important tree from his childhood, so he wants it to be properly stored & protected! he has two kinds of tobacco for it - normal, and magic tobacco that essentially allows him to cast minor spells w/ the smoke
the feathers on his hat are from Ms. Beagle! in my mind he left the farm to go adventuring on a bit of a bad note, but his mama made sure to give him a couple feathers to take with so that she'd always be close <3
he keeps his claws blunt so that he doesn't accidentally scratch people/things, and so that he can play stringed instruments without cutting the strings. while i imagine for this au he plays a wide range, he prefers Loud Handheld Instruments that allow him to sing along. so in mind he has an Accordion here! loud! jaunty! but i imagine he also keeps a recorder in his pack for when Frank needs annoying. (he did have a lute, but he broke it over someone's head in the act of defending Wally's honor)
im still trying to pin down the right balance of colors for his outfit, but! for a little au tidbit - all of his spots are the same two blues as his ears. in this im imagining that he, at a young age, learned a very basic cosmetic spell that allowed him to change his spots color to mimic Ms. Beagle's! he wanted to look like his mama! but by the time he's in his late 20s he no longer changes his spots
i havent seen this on tumblr at all but i see it a surprising amount in youtube thumbnails (???) but . people portraying gourm as this food obsessed beast who will keel over and hyperventilate at the sight of A Food rubs me the wrong way . dont do that please .
i was gonna ramble in the tags but i dont wanna leave it all in there so under a cut it goes.
it feels laced with fatphobia, even if just mildly in some cases (theres some images ive seen where ... its not mild at all. its right there .) . like. the stereotypical like . "ohhh all fat people are obsessed with food and just cant stop eating !!!". and idk . as someone who is fat i dislike it . a lot.
theres? nothing in gourms campaign or cutscenes that really indicates that i dont think . at leastnot the THAT extent . like theres that one dream of gourm with a rlly big blue fruit (i think its a blue fruit . its some kind of fruit) but thats literally it? and he's just like . happy . not like . foaming at the mouth . the dude likes food sure but not like . gonna go feral over a single baby centipede levels of liking food .
AND LIKE . im fairly sure the main thing with the food quest isnt "oh gourm wants to try all the food!!" its "oh gourm wants to bring a bunch of food back for his family and friends!" based on the outro cutscene variations and ending art. like thats just a caring guy who wants to make sure the people he loves are fully fed!
LOOK AT THEM !! LOOK !! THEY ARE EVERYTHING TO ME !! ONLY 2 EPS ARE OUT BUT I ALREADY WANT 10 MORE SEASON IDC
clark and lois are so sweet already !! and look at their height difference 😭😭 idc height difference always gets me man I eat it up EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Fuck the assholes who decided to murder trees to spite the WGA:
I was upset before. Now though? Now I'm fucking furious.
We're murdering the planet and these ultra rich assholes decided to kill a bunch of trees in order to increase the likelihood that the people fighting for their rights would get sunburns or heat stroke. They DECIDED to destroy a part of a city, to take away something everyone enjoys, in order to hurt people they'd already victimized.
If I were in LA right now, I'd go on the picket lines just for this. I hope every environmentalist in the fucking state goes there. I hope their goddamn yachts get eaten by orcas and that a comet falls on their bloody private estate and that a tornado sweeps up their shiny new Mercedes and tosses it into their corner office.