noir-renard

ramblesamongstardust

I understand the "I will die for you" ship dynamic, but what about the "I will not let you die, I will not let myself die- we will, at any cost, survive" kind of couple?

neil-gaiman

elektraking

Just gonna remind every aspiring or beginner writer on here from personal experience to NOT participate in any “Pitch Contests” or even “fan-casting” rn. Hollywood studios do not have ideas w/o writers. Don’t ever let them take yours for free. #WGA #writersstrike pic.twitter.com/i88O5Hmo1S — Nicole Nichelle (@alamanecer) May 2, 2023

popculty

THIS^^^

And if you do get paid for your ideas/writing during the strike, that is considered scabbing and you will be barred from the WGA for life, as per this email from the Blacklist:

neil-gaiman

And, because a lot of people don't understand this bit, this is about you selling your ideas or writing to US-based TV studios or movie studios who are part of the AMPTP. There is no strike against book publishers. Nor audiobooks, graphic novels, or poetry publishing. Or just writing.

Read the above from the WGA.

last-wednesday

Important additional note for early career filmmakers and students (like me!):

For pre-WGA writers (i.e. people who want to join WGA but cannot yet qualify / still earning early-career credits) - this FAQ by an authorized WGA representative is very helpful.

15 Writers Strike Dos and Don'ts to Avoid Being a Scab, Explained by the WGA

Writers strike rules are clear for WGA members. Here's what you can and can't do if you're pre-WGA.

MovieMaker

Notably, you are still allowed to:

1. Create student films to share in class

2. Upload student films to YouTube, Vimeo, Patreon, or your personal social media

3. Create indie films for *under $20,000*("micro-budget" films)

-->unlike WGA members, pre-members are still allowed to actively write and film. We are not "pens down."

4.Submit micro-budget films to film festivals

5. Send spec scripts to agents, sign with an agent

What you CANNOT do is sign any production or distribution deals. Nor can an agent submit your film or script to producers, streamers, studios, or distributors on your behalf.

This prohibition includes "major indie" studios unaffiliated with AMPTP, such as A24. Note that this is a key difference between WGA and SAG-AFTRA!

SAG-AFTRA allows student and early career actors to continue to submit reels and audition for non-AMPTP films. WGA does NOT want student writers to do this with our scripts. The WGA rep in the article gives good sample messaging if any studio or producer is interested in your script or self-published films. Emphasize that you would love to work with the studio after the strike is complete and WGA terms have been met, and you will reach back out at that time.

Essentially: as a pre-WGA member, you are allowed to do your film class homework! You are allowed to write scripts and film them yourself. You *are* allowed to self-produce, self-publish, and self-distribute your work on platforms that do not pay residuals (i.e. social media, etc).

You are NOT allowed to contribute to the pipeline of content that AMPTP studios and major streamers profit from. Do not submit or sign any deals for your scripts, nor for distribution of your independently created films.

__

Eta: direct questions and answers - this is most relevant to student + early career filmmakers.

MovieMaker: And that’s also detrimental to the agent, because they’re also going to lose money on you.

Christopher Kyle: Yes. The only thing I would say is, I would guess that agents have time on their hands right now. It may be a good time for an aspiring writer to send them a script to read. Because they may have more time to read it.

MovieMaker: Is that considered distasteful or tacky or anything?

Christopher Kyle: Tacky to sign with an agent? We’re not we’re not in conflict with agents. So if agents want to use this time to find clients that they’re then going to market in the future, I think that’s fine. But you know, they can’t start that marketing until after the strike.

MovieMaker: Got it. Okay. And there’s no conflict at all with using screenwriting platforms for coverage service?

Christopher Kyle: I don’t think so, unless their coverage service is somehow sponsored by one of the signatory companies, which I can’t imagine is the case.

MovieMaker: I get emails from contests that say, basically, “Here’s your chance to pitch your ideas to managers and agents” or to “pitch your ideas to producers.” It sounds like pitching to managers and agents is fine, but pitching to producers would clearly be out of bounds.

Christopher Kyle: Correct.

MovieMaker: Can independent filmmakers seek investors or crowdfunding during the strike?

Christopher Kyle: As long as the investments aren’t coming from a signatory company.

MovieMaker: Can independent filmmakers enter their films and film festivals during the writers strike?

Christopher Kyle: Yes, but as I said before, if they put their film in a festival and it leads to an offer of sale or option from a company that we’re striking against them, they wouldn’t be able to take advantage of that without running across the rules.

MovieMaker: So if Netflix or another signatory reached out to you and said, “We love your film, we want it,” what is the proper response? Is it no response? Or should you say, “Let’s talk when the strike is over”?

Christopher Kyle: That’s what you should say. “I really appreciate your interest in my work. I’m in solidarity with the striking writers. As soon as the strike is over, I hope to have this conversation with you then.”

-

TLDR version - pre-WGA writers can write scripts, post scripts to Blacklist or social media, pitch agents, sign with agents, create mico budget films, post films to social media or your online portfolio, submit films to festivals, get direct funding for films (via Patreon, Only Fans, or Kickstarter)

The only things you cannot do are: pitch to, meet with, actively write for, or sign with an AMPTP signatory studio or streaming service.

Hope this helps others, it definitely clarified things for me 😁

stealingyourbones

pillsburysoyboy

putting on the high vis corset and running in front of cars across a dark country road like a deer

4ever-september

lamoorgalore

wiisagi-maiingan

I think one of the most annoying things about trying to talk about religion and spirituality in Western spaces is how Christianity has conflated the term "sacred" with "holy" so now there's just a bunch of smug assholes who refuse to consider that a figure or spirit in a culture can be feared and hated while still being sacred.

feminetomboy

unalivejournal

thunderdone

ka3l

thebibliosphere

nessa007

the amount of people in the replies saying “what career” lmao

thevanillahorizon

Gladly

officialbillyhoehargrove

Don't forget this meme exist because everyone on the set was hating him and they get super happy when he died.

electricparasite

masseffectdoctor

Okay so I reblogged this somewhat uncritically at first I'll admit. I remembered that media is going to attempt to turn actors into people that we can turn against. Despite his... Previous behaviors I wanted to be 100% sure. So here is his comments from Instagram on what he said:

Also here's a link to the previous behaviors in question

A complete timeline of every controversy involving 'Arrow' star Stephen Amell

"Arrow" star Stephen Amell recently came under fire for calling the SAG-AFTRA strikes "a reductive negotiating tactic."

Insider

Now you can see here he is just saying striking is something he does not like and he expects to be present on the picket line.

HOWEVER

He has already crossed the picket line. As many are aware SAG-AFTRA has called for all union members to STOP promotion and events. This includes social media promotion. For his show, Heels, new season he did this:

So not only has he promoted the show on social media, and done so in a way that shows that he clearly knows what he is doing. BUT he also attended a convention which if you look it up was 100% AFTER the union call to cut event attendance. AKA something DIRECTLY in opposition to his union's strike requirements. If you check their website you can see it is one of the immediate things that is seen as a call to arms for striking actors.

To attend this convention and sign autographs and do promotion for the show with his attendance is a CLEAR CUT violation of the union rules for the strike. Full-stop right there, he's a Scab 100%. No "he maybe had to do it to survive!!" Nick Cage has a crippling dinosaur bone addiction and somehow managed to stay the picket line soooo. Fuck Amell right there. Not to mention the people losing their homes and what not. He had a choice and he made it, scab right there. But I'll continue because it's kind of fun to rip him to shreds.

To promote his show on social media was to cross the picket line, to do so in this little "haha I'm not promoting it, it just happened to be there!" Bullshit way was a spit in the face of his union leadership and his fellow union members. ESPECIALLY combined with the fact that he promoted it at a convention with his attendance, and clearly in the timeframe of the strike.

You may be saying, "Maybe he's really dumb and thought this was okay!" In regards to his social media posts. Okay sure but at best he thought it was wrong because he purposefully went out of his way to misdirect what he was doing. But hey I'll give you that, maybe he's the most braindead guy ever.

Except for this:

He was fully aware. He was told. He was informed. He continued to make this decision. If he shows on a picket line I highly suspect he will not be welcomed as a studio exec would not be welcomed. I hope they fully rescind his union leadership. The replies to the tweet are him defending his actions, to which the other replies with the gif in which he becomes big cry baby Jane about.

This is also COMPLETELY ignoring the Jordan Peterson retweet where he is happily saying he must be offensive to "think" which is just.... Well a defense for the braindead thing I'll give you that. But the main message here is this:

Stephen Amell is 100% unmistakably and unapologetically a scab, and this is not just BS propaganda. May his union membership be revoked with prejudice.

lotsofquestions

nemainofthewater

sapphosewrites

Teaching creative writing to 8 to 12 year olds this summer, a demographic whose stories include a shocking amount of murder. The use of "unalive" was so egregious I had to tell them, "if you aren't comfortable using the words death, die, and kill, you aren't mature enough to be writing about them yet". Kiddo asked me if that applies to adults as well, and I told them it very much does, so here's a PSA.

If you aren't comfortable using the words death, die, and kill, you aren't mature enough to be writing about them yet.

terresdebrume

luwha

I beg pls I BEG artist that joined tumblr recently PLEASE tag your art with your tag, it can be “my art”, “myart “ “your url art” I beg I just want to go to your tumblr and see your art all in one place please I just want to see your art I am crying and beggigm

nemainofthewater

videodrome-fag

Sorry this is from the Annoying app but I do enjoy I can do cool time lapse things of my crochet

fandom and other stuff

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Stephen Amell is 100% unmistakably and unapologetically a scab, and this is not just BS propaganda. May his union membership be revoked with prejudice.