#the wga is so real

[kimswexler]

Better Call Saul— "Plan and Execution" (2022) written & directed by Thomas Schnauz 75th Writers Guild of America Awards Winner, Best Episodic Drama

#better call saul #bettercallsauledit #bcsedit #jimmy mcgill #kim wexler #howard hamlin #* #belated congrats to schnauz! 🎉 #the wga is so real #anyways here is one of the best scenes of all time #that candle shot... man...

[prima-donna-worm]

y’all cannot seriously be mad that the people with the most leverage are withholding their labor in solidarity with the people with the least leverage thereby giving them actual bargaining power like do you guys understand what a union is or nah

#if I see one more millionaires want more money 🙄 take on the strike I’m gonna lose it #sag strike #wga strike #this is literally just the premise of a guild. be so for real

[chaoticvampirejedi]

*takes a deep breath*

When I was 7 years old I hated that Zack and Cody were no longer at the hotel. I didn't like the new show at first and belive me I was complaining about it for weeks.

And now you're telling me that the reason behind it was Disney's greed?

#ok but let's be real #I can't understand how people can be so nasty about not wanting to pay people who are so important to the show #like #it wasn't even a big salary #this is disgusting #writers strike #wga strike #sag strike #disney #disney channel

[not-so-rosyyy]

congratulations to the WGA and all workers and unions benefitting from this win! 🎉✨

#wga strike #AI you're done!!!!! #also this old tom meme😭 #lmfao i can't believe it's having its little renaissance moment #miss caroline really loves tz she's so real #rosyyy vs ai

[agrebel18]

about the WGA strike that’s going on, I would be fine with a show I like getting delayed and I’d GLADLY wait months and even years if it means that the writers behind this show I love get paid properly and treated well like they deserve. 

#wga strike #the writers deserve better #plus there's a thing called rewatching??? #and picking up new things #and I also have a real life outside of here so it's not incredibly hard #aggie posts

[booksandpaperss]

Netflix CEOs probably screaming and crying n private over the fact that they had no news on Stranger Things aka their biggest show at Tudum as if it isn’t their own damn fault. pay your fucking writers

#found this in my drafts so real #wga strike #writers strike

[starrywangxian]

i am staying so far away from the discourse and izcourse, i have my own thoughts and opinions on it but i just want to see gay pirates and seawitch seagulls please, not people yelling at each other and certainly not people shouting at the cast and crew!!

if you want someone to shout at, shout at hbo max for cutting the show and not paying their actors and writers and the crew !! the creators need our support more than ever because of the strikes, if you haven't forgotten !! stop yelling at them and start yelling at the greedy companies!!

#like besties let's be real #if you don't like a decision the showrunners made then that's an opinion #and you're allowed that #but be respectful!! #it's literally primary school teachings !! #ofmd #our flag means death #the izcourse #starrywangxian #union strong #sag afra strong #wga strong #a lot of season 2's issues can come from the fact that it was cut short #so yell at hbo max

[k1d-crypt1d]

SAG AFTRA IS NOW ON FUCKING STRIKE GO FUCKING DIE IN A DITCH BOB IGER AND EVERY OTHER HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVE WHO WANTS ARTISTS TO LICK THEIR BOOTS!!!!! CHOKE ON IT AND DIE!!!!!!!

#hollywood executives can BURN IN HELL !!!! LETS GOOOOOOO #for real though this is so fucking important like holy shit its been decades since both unions went on strike #good luck to everyone- we will fucking win!!!!! #wga strong #sag aftra strong #sag aftra #wga

[bishoprose]

Okay it’s been a week. I’ve watched the full movie maybe 4 times? And endless amounts of clips in between. The more I watch it the easier it is to separate it from the book and just enjoy it as a sweet little romcom! Like this is exactly what I hoped I’d be able to do- have the book, and then separately, also have the movie. I love it and I am thrilled with how well it’s doing worldwide and need to go watch more edits set to Taylor Swift songs immediately.

❤️🤍💙

#I absolutely adore Nick and Taylor and their perfect portrayals #I NEED studio heads to see the gross error of their ways and come to sn agreement with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA so the boys can talk about it #shoutout to those making TikToks and edits you the real mvps #rwrb #rwrb film #alex claremont diaz #firstprince #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez #prince henry fox mountchristen windsor

[eredins-a-king-aint-he]

For the record: I don’t support nor condone using AI for any art/fandom related purposes. Fandom and fandom art, fic, headcanons, etc are great BECAUSE they are made by real people with unique minds!!!

I think that using AI to create art, fic, character interaction, etc not only discourages the real human creators making art/fic for the fandom by taking attention and support away from them, but it provides a better platform for AI to flourish and eventually become more prevalent, continuing to spread and take attention (and work!!) away from real people. For example, as far as I know, painting AI learns from basically stolen artwork and can be trained to emulate the styles of human artists who have spent YEARS to cultivate their skills and style, then take money and attention away from those people. Plus, there was that whole issue where someone was drawing on twitch and someone stole their wip, put it into one of those AI programs to “finish” it before the actual artist, then demanded credit.

I consider myself to be fairly lucky that my work is not in the mainstream eye and that my style changes constantly, otherwise I’d be genuinely worried that someone might try to use AI to undermine the work I’ve done as an artist that has gotten me to where I am.

Maybe I’m just old and jaded but I’ve watched technology grow and spread over my lifetime, and instead of helping people have better lives, it seems to have a habit of taking peoples’ place in work/life and leaving them to either find other work or just fucking cope. AI is not our friend. It’s not a cute, fun way to make fanart or fic— it’s a robot, not a real artist, or a character created by a unique creative mind.

This post pretty much sums it up🤷🏽

#cedar speaks #discourse #ai discourse #listen I fucking hate ai #I realize this is a full blown rant and some of y’all might disagree with me but I’m not gonna budge on it #using robots to make art and write fic??? literally insane #ai doesn’t ‘make’ anything anyway it just cobbles together the art/writing it’s been given into new configurations #don’t come near me with that shit fr #I’m sorry I would 10000% prefer to either commission an artist or do something myself than to use ai #have y’all been paying attention to how it’s being used?? #the WGA made a statement about it too and shit #ai taking the place of actual people is clearly a very real issue #I just am very angery about it #I have loved finding communities of people who love a franchise so much that they come together and make new things #discussing characters and lore and ideas with people is so fun #and it’s fun because every single person has different and interesting ideas #if the future yall ai lovers want means just having to pick from the same dry-ass stolen takes from robots instead of having the experience #of talking to real people and witnessing the wildness of the human mind in action #that’s depressing as fuck #rant

[dearest--gertrude]

STOP REBLOGGING MOVIES

STOP REBLOGGING GIFTSETS OR RED CARPET STILLS OR WHATEVER THE FUCK OF CURRENTLY STRUCK WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!

If the promo stuff was shot before the strike, the actors are not scabbing by having done work prior to a strike, obviously.

BUT YOU ARE ESSENTIALLY SCABBING FOR FREE.

Just reblog shit about old ass movies.

Nosferatu

Fucking Aliens

Close Encounter of the Third Kind

All About Eve

WHATEVER YOU WANT, JUST NOT BARBENHEIMER YOU SHITS

#NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE #wga #wga strike #sag aftra #sag strike #barbie movie #barbie #jfc you fake ass commies #you wont last a second in a real revolution that you so crave #besides leaving disabled folks behind #but i digress

[coldzonkprofessorturtle]

Looks like the writer’s strike is imminent at this point. Also the combination of the Met Gala happening on the eve of the industry going into potential and likely disarray is high camp. My social media has never been so messy.

#WGA #Writer’s strike #I don’t think this will be like 2007 again #but I really hope some good change comes out of this #film and tv #Hollywood #this industry is so weird #but at least Rihanna made it to the gala #let’s be real #priorities #met gala

[hua-fei-hua]

i have some news that i think will be of relief to some of you, which is that i will be most likely be buying more ram for my computer later, and so i despite altering 0 behaviors, i will be committing less heinous acts of computer abuse moving forward.

this will be a thing of the past.

#for the record i currently have 16 gb of ram and most of the time i'm using like 70-80% of it #so this screenshot is kind of an anomaly but at the same time it's been getting more frequent for reasons i'm unsure of #i will likely be getting a new laptop Real Soon anyway bc my current one's been starting to crash #unrelated but i do need to pay tithes this quarter... maybe wga strike fund this time around #花話

[timemachineyeah]

Keep seeing posts in solidarity with the WGA strike that say things like “no one cares about your favorite shows” and “fuck your tv show. I hope it gets canceled” and while I understand and agree with the underlying sentiment, which is clearly “Real people are more important than fictional ones, you dipshit” I don’t like the framing because, well, it feels shitty to dismiss the importance of the work made by the workers we’re trying to defend.

No one cares about your favorite shows more than the writers do.

No one understands the power and importance of tv and film more than the writers who created them.

No one loves tv, movies, games, and stories more than the people who fought tooth and nail in an incredibly competitive and underpaid profession for the chance to be part of it.

They know it’s important. They know it changes lives. They know it can be more than just a story, more than just a bit of entertainment. They’ve loved and respected this medium, continue to love and respect this medium, more than you ever will.

The person who wants a show to get canceled the least is the writer who poured their everything into making it good.

TV and movies are great, actually, and you are not wrong to be invested and care about them. That’s what the writers gave you. That’s what the writers wanted when they wrote it. That’s why they wrote it.

Which is why we respect them when they make the call that this strike and its demands are worth risking it.

The people on that picket line do not want their shows canceled. They want to keep writing them. They can’t, not under the current conditions.

So we accept the risk with them and support them.

But I don’t want to berate the power and importance of their work, the value they put into it and the love they have for it, in the same breath that I am defending their strike. Worthy shows will likely get canceled or derailed and that will be a tragedy worth mourning. The writers know that better than anyone.

So when they say something else is even more important, we listen. And when your favorite show gets ruined, you make sure your fully justified anger and grief is pointed in the right direction - at the CEOs who killed it.

#timemachine wuz here #wga strike #i stand with the wga

[racefortheironthrone]

Nobody is making anyone go into scriptwriting. No one is born in a Netflix company town where their dad takes them into the script mines at age 12. Fuck writers who want to get paid more than once for the same job. They should only get residuals AFTER all the people who do REAL WORK, like construction, grips, costume, makeup & animators etc. Most of them are much better at their jobs than writers especially for streaming services, and they are what screenwriters can lean on & novelists can't.

People need to realize that the unions for white collar people like WGA or SIEU or NEA (public sector unions are why cops who kill the people they were supposed to serve & protect remain employed get pensions) is not the AFL-CIO or any other historical union fighting for the lives of the people who built the country's industry and made it run, any more than the NRA are the Minutemen of 1775 New England.

First, go fuck yourself, you fucking scab. No, seriously - you don't come to my blog and spout off about what workers deserve unions and decent pay and what ones don't, like it's your fucking decision. The intellectual labor that writers perform is just as real as any other work done on a film set - "all who labor by hand or brain" is the inherent logic of industrial unionism for a reason.

Second, writers aren't asking to get paid more than once: residuals are deferred pay, you absolute moron. In Hollywood, whether it's writers or actors or voice talent or whatever, you get a small fraction up front - it's usually an ok check, depending on the union's day rates and so forth, but you can't make a living off stitching these together - and then most of your pay comes from monthly royalty checks that provide you with the income you need to live off when you're between jobs.

The problem is that, historically in Hollywood, residuals have been structured with a very long "tail" - the payments start out relatively low and then get more generous over time as the show has more seasons and (presumably) goes into syndication. This doesn't work with streaming's new business model, where increasingly shows are getting 2-3 seasons max and streaming services have become increasingly quick to not just cancel shows but yank them off their servers in order to avoid paying residuals.

So what WGA writers are fighting for is a system that ensures writers (but also actors and other creative workers, because the unions pattern bargain) get a fair share of the show's revenue, even if the show is only given 2-3 seasons.

Third, the U.S labor movement would not exist today if it wasn't for white collar workers and public sector workers. About half of the U.S labor movement - 7 million workers - is public sector, and those workers are overwhelmingly women of color, mostly working as either teachers or postal workers. Likewise, about half the U.S labor movement is made up of white collar workers, and we're graduate students and adjuncts and lab researchers, teachers and social workers, administrators and IT departments.

I'm both public sector and white collar, and I'm a member of an NEA union. I'm an adjunct professor who earns $6,000 a course and it's my job to get working adults with jobs and families who've never gone to college or who've been out of higher ed for a decade to graduate with a bachelor's or a master's. If you don't think that's real work, you're free to research and write all the lectures and powerpoints, deliver those in an entertaining and educational fashion, answer a flood of questions from students who need help navigating academia, and then grade all the midterms and finals and research papers.

#labor #wga strike #unions

[valhalla-awaitsfor-us]

Friendly reminder that even if the Percy Jackson teaser looks amazing and it talks to our inner child and ofc we have all the right in the world to like it, we shouldn't forget about the wga strike. I don't wanna ruin the party, on the contrary.I'm SO excited for the show…. but its good to also remember what its happening on the real world.

This is just a reminder.Both excitement for the show and concern for the real people can coexist. Don't forget about neither…

EDIT: a person rebbloged this post with important information about why at least for now we shouldnt consider pracy if we want to help the strike. Go check it out.

#disney #wga strike 2023 #percy jackson #I deleted the aprt were i said “Consider piracy” #it was kinda just to laugh about it #but some people raised cocnerns since Wga said that we should keep consuming the streaming service to help the strike #So just in case #i deleted it #so everyone is cool and in the same page #Just fyi