#your house will pay

[bloodmaarked]

➸ reading list

just added:

the battle drum, saara el-arifi

malice, keigo higashino

the missing american, kwei quartey

your house will pay, steph cha

the firm, john grisham

how can i help you, laura sims

never sleep, fred van lente

the deep sky, yume kitasei

vera wong's unsolicited advice for murderers, jessie q. santo

the murder at the vicarage, agatha christie

#the battle drum #saara el-arifi #malice #keigo higashino #the missing american #kwei quartey #your house will pay #steph cha #the firm #john grisham #how can i help you #laura sims #never sleep #fred van lente #the deep sky #yume kitasei #vera wong's unsolicited advice for murderers #jessie q santo #the murder at the vicarage #agatha christie #reading list #tbr #bookblr #booklr

[friendly-neighborhood-furry]

for anyone who doesn't have the Return YouTube Dislike Plugin, here's how Watcher Entertainment's "Goodbye Youtube" video is doing right now

yeah... gonna throw out a yikes on that one

i suspect this number will only keep growing in the coming days/weeks, especially the longer and longer we go without any sort of response.

EDIT: its only been three hours and the number has already jumped to 206K dislikes.

#the fucking balls to link to their merch store on the announcement video too #as a long time fan i'm very disappointed #i get that creatives want to and SHOULD be paid fairly for their work. #hell my dad got laid off by MF DISNEY for wanting to be paid a fair wage for the work he was doing #but we're not talking about the billion dollar mega-corporation Disney here #we're talking about a company that by *all respects* should be able to sustain itself off of Youtube Ads & Patreon & Merch & Live Shows- #WITHOUT blowing 100K on flying 6 people out to haunted houses or paying 20 people to make and produce ONE lets play video #in short: Watcher... get your shit together. #watcher entertainment #we are watcher #watcher #shane medej #ryan bergara #steven lim

[chimaeraonwards]

no ai generated content will ever compare to the absolutely cartoonishly evil plot to cut down trees to prevent workers from striking to get livable wage.

#tree law #sag strike #wga strike #also also it can be hard to admit but the US does set some industry standards so although im on the other side of the world its concerning!! #if bigwigs at US companies are screwing out their own workers what would this mean for those producing content in other countries? #what about our own local production companies that model american production houses? #oh we cant pay you a living wage cause thats industry standard. dont believe me? here is what a writer at X USA company at X TV show earns #also if you “cant afford” to pay your creatives a living wage then maybe you shouldnt be in charge #so yeah #i think this whole strike thing will affect more than just the US #just fucking pay your creatives

[reality-detective]

I'll just leave this 👆 here, you decide 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think for yourselves #think about it #think for yourself #do your homework #do your own research #do some research #ask yourself questions #question everything #house speaker

[rileylastname]

people who add non-autogenerated subtitles to videos are the most attractive people on this planet and allowed to steal one (1) thing from my home. including a kiss

#if they’re competently done and timed well it can be open mouth #I love subtitles #i say ‘yippee!! yeehaw!’ and dance a little jig whenever I can watch a video with closed captioning on #NOT autogenerated subtitles though. proper ones #if you have a budget for a youtube video there is no reason to not add subtitles. #yes it’s time consuming but you can pay a professional to caption them. OR do it yourself #also if you deliberately turn off autogen captions and don’t supply a sufficient replacement then I get to steal something from your house #and it will not be a smooch. but it might be violent #auditory processing disorder #APD #disabilities #hoh #deaf #youtube #subtitles #shut up riley

[novelist-becca]

Once again, I hate hate hate it when certain people that saw TOH judge Luz based ONLY on how in episode 1 she brought fireworks to school and let loose live snakes and spiders.

And just boil her down to that.

#they act like that’s her hobby #no it isn’t #pay attention #I saw a video of some guy claiming that Luz lacking self awareness and ‘common sense’ was bad writing #no it’s not she’s just neurodivergent #and she matured and learned from those mistakes/incidents #she’s FAR from a terrorist #he also pointed out the reasons those three folks were in the conformitorium and said it wasn’t fair to compare them to Luz #the owl house #toh #owl house #luz noceda #media literacy #you can have your opinions #but this was a wrong opinion

[veryinnovative]

bodyguard regulus is so hot bc he'd wear the slutty holster body harness and slutty black tight-fitting turtleneck and pants and his signature scowl nd james will dreamily sigh while staring at him across the room, intentionally let himself get kidnapped so reg has no choice but to chase after him but then his captors make the call trying to blackmail nd he can hear reg tell them through the speaker 'you can keep him' before hanging up

#answered #james wld be fuming nd cursing nd telling his captors he will pay them great money to inconvenience regulus black #nd then theyre all like oh my god your bodyguard is regulus black? [unhand james immediately] #james enters his house 2 see reg sitting on the couch flipping through a book mimosa in hand

[somecunttookmyurl]

insurance makes sense on a conceptual level but in reality insurance companies turn decently huge profits by a) relying on things not happening, which they mostly don't b) ensuring things mostly don't happen by exluding anything that might make "things happening" more likely and stacking it in their favour and then c) finding any excuse and loophole possible to not cover you if anything ever does happen

like. insurance would be good if it wasn't managed by insurance companies

#insurance is quite literally a bet #the company is betting that nothing will happen to you (or your house/car/stuff/pet) #except it's a very one-sided bet because you give them money either way and they're cheating about it #not having insurance is ALSO a bet #except YOU'RE betting nothing will happen to you #on the basis that (by keeping money in savings instead) you could reasonaby afford it if it did #rather than give that money to someone else and trusting that the thing which might happen IS something they will have to pay for #and can't wriggle out of #(obv american health insurance is an outlier and should not be counted you will always need medical care of some kind and all of it is so #expensive you guys are just so fucked i'm sorry) #insurance companies would still ultimately profit even if they paid out without whining and even if they covered the slightly more likely #bc the chance of it NOT happening is still greater than it happening & across all their clients Not Being Giant Cunts wouldnt bankrupt them #but here we are #something something capitalism

[wretchedspecimen]

i need to lie down. perhaps forever.

#this scene single handedly made me at least 500% more mentally ill and i was already very mentally unwell so that's saying a lot #house md writers you will pay for your crimes #leave foreman alone !! #house md #eric foreman

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

hell. hell. hell.

#life #about me #auspol #every time i watch a dave ramsey show thing where theyre like 'pay off your house in 5 years..... #....with our financial peace university and our baby steps outta debt program!!! #im always like 'LMAO your houses rn arent exactly an average price of like $765 #*$765;000 to $1.4million are they???? #like even in regional areas (like where i am 2 hours out of sydney) the prices are like $740 #740k to a million for an avg house ! #*and like 640k for a fuckin unit thats falling apart right whej you buy it #like dave and team how the fuck am i meant to pay of a house in 5 years when theyre over a million or close to a mill lmao #i hate it hete #and also where are these elusive 300k jobs #or even 150k p/y jobs whem i cant even get people to hire me for fucking 50k or $30 an hout

[daenerysies]

link

“Baela shrieks with her father’s anger.”

“Jace the closest to Aemond in age —”

“Aemond puts his hands around Luke’s throat, throttling him.”

“You will die screaming in flames just as your father did.”

“…comes at Aemond, who readies the big rock.”

“He counters, smashing Jace’s face in with the rock.”

I’m gonna knock some teeth out ‘closest to Aemond in age’ and he was canonically 6 to Aemond’s 10. Jace and Luke were the only ones really involved with the fight in the book, and it’s stated multiple times that Aemond had the clear advantage over them and was beating them ruthlessly. It was a clear power play on his part that quickly turned sour because the younger brother feared for both his and his older brothers life (as he should, the kid was 5 fucking years old).

I know why they added the Dragon Twins to the fight, and it was solely to infantilize Aemond even further than they already had (and demonize the girls and the Velaryon boys in turn). Sure, I’m supposed to feel sorry for him because he was bullied for not having a dragon (boo fucking hoo); but I’m not supposed to feel sorry for the twins after they just lost their mother, considering how quickly that storyline was left in the dust to further Aemond’s. I’m not supposed to feel sorry for the woman and kids who were targeted purely due to their blood/gender (but that doesn’t matter ofc just that they’re bastards and harming poor helpless trueborn baby Aemond how dare they).

The agenda being pushed in the show is obviously full of microagressions against these kids — the Velaryons were made into POC just to make certain the audience knew that Rhaenyra’s first three children were bastards, and Baela and Rhaena were added to the fight to show them as the ‘true’ aggressors to the entire situation. It didn’t matter that they had lost their mom recently, it didn’t matter that they didn’t even know who Aemond was. They had one of the last living relics of their mother stolen out from under them by this random kid who immediately insults them to their faces for having the audacity to be upset, but HE is the victim here. Jace had just found out about Harwin being his bio dad and then lost him within a short amount of time. He was being openly mocked and told he and his baby brother were going to die in the exact same way at Aemond’s hand. But no, no! Don’t jump to the obvious conclusion; AEMOND is the victim here.

Four grieving children reacted on their extremely volatile emotions, with one acting on fear alone, and it ended poorly for all parties involved— who would’ve thought?

#fire and blood #house of the dragon #rhaenyra targaryen #jacaerys velaryon #lucerys velaryon #baela targaryen #rhaena of pentos #team black #anti aemond targaryen #anti team green #anti team green stans #i hate this discourse but these scripts keep reigniting my anger #take a shot for every time aemond tried to or threaten to kill jace & luke #i’m not paying your hospital bills #i don’t think young aemond ‘deserved to lose his eye’ #but considering what he goes on to do #he’s lucky that he only lost an eye 🤷‍♀️ #hotd racism #hotd sexism #hotd is the reason these blood superiority complexes have developed #with all of the openly proud ‘bastardphobic’ bios and comments

[mundaneandmagicalcreature]

Dale + Alison's dog 🐶

Bonus: Gerry having to shove Dale inside the house because the big dork wants to stay outside and play with the dog

#i've decided that gerry and carla are to busy and the dog is alison's #if you invite me to your house i will also pay more attention to your pets than to you (no matter how rich and famous you are) #the newsreader #the newsreader spoilers #sam reid #dale jennings

[lonicera-edulis]

Frog-fearing hobbit... I forgot everything from Bingo's quests in Shire.

Also, I love this painting. Is it possible to get one to put it in my own house?

#gaming tag #apparently he also doesn't like apples because there can be worms in them #at first I was like: okay I will play your game #but now I want to drag him back to his house for his stuff he forgotten twice #you don't pay me enough to do that bingo

[inlovewithhisblueeyes]

So SAG-AFTRA is on strike, here’s what it means for you as a viewer

1) For Americans, it means the fall cable tv slots are going to be either re-runs or previously recorded content that was already scheduled to come out.

2) For non Americans, it means you will in the same boat and not be getting any new American episodes or shows until the strike is over and even then it will be at least 3-4 months before they have stuff filmed.

3) Any production that is still ongoing even though the writers walked out first, will most likely be shut down which includes House of the Dragon. The studios are trying to push the agenda in the news that they won’t be because most non-American actors are a part of Equity. Most Equity members are also SAG-AFTRA members or the productions are based in the US making them partially in SAG-AFTRA territory.

The productions will either shut down fully or they will film what they can with people who are not SAG-AFTRA members which will not allow them to stay open for long. Especially considering productions like HOTD have been violating the rules of the writers strike by having non-writers take over that job.

You may be asking hey Madi what can I do as a viewer to help?

1) Donate to strike funds. Especially as the heat as ramped up here in LA and the strikers will need ice and water.

Strike Fund for Picketers - covers water, ice, snacks, and financial needs of the Protestors

Entertainment Community Fund - helps out all those who work in the entertainment business that are affected by the shutdowns

2) Buy WGA or SAG-AFTRA merch directly from their shops. Its’s a great way to help the cause and represent their cause even if you might not live in NYC or LA. Plus their items are union made!

WGA Shop

SAG-AFTRA Shop

3) Join the Picket Lines.

WGA Picket Locations - Lists both NYC and LA picket spots.

SAG-AFTRA Locations - TBA abut most likely the same as WGA.

4) Spread the word on your socials. Maybe you don’t live close but spreading the word online is helpful. Make it so the executives cannot escape what they’ve done.

5) Do not engage with the social media that’s coming from the studios/entertainment companies accounts. No liking, watching, saving, etc. Make their metrics hurt and maybe even unfollow. But don’t go spamming their accounts with comments supporting the strike. The people behind the social media accounts aren’t the ones to blame.

#sag aftra #sag aftra strike #wga #wga strike #entertainment news #pay your writers #pay your actors #stop being greedy zaslav #house of the dragon #hbo series

[tethered-heartstrings]

time blindness is made so much worse when it gets dark at 4:30pm

#and when you have been stuck not only in your house but your rook for the better of 2 weeks #like if i didnt have a calendar you couldnt pay me to believe it was saturday rn #the speaking clown

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

i am so sorry this trend online that promotes this kind of obnoxious and helpless childish ass persona for women is driving me fucking insane. i cannot stand videos where women brag about thinking something stupid or not knowing basic life skills or not knowing about sports. you do not have to know about things you aren’t interested in but try posting about something you do know rather than implying a lack of intelligence and general awareness is a cutesy feminine trait. and then theres all the weird nonsense that acts like women cannot pay for things ourselves. and what gets me about that is the absolute audacity of women who think they should never have to pay for anything but always wanna call someone else broke. girl you need to fucking grow up

#‘imagine going over a mans house and paying for your own uber’ IM NOT A CHILD! #and some of it gets really escortesque like this ridiculous fake pretty woman type scenario where some man is so transfixed by your beauty #and your pussy that he spoils you like a child or a beloved pet #fuck off with that