The aliens are gonna be so confused when humans first board their ships and start doing this, and by GOD I hope at least one of them is going to have a camera when it happens.
I hate that Canadians pronounce Regina like vagina. I cringe every time I hear it. You need to go back to the indigenous place name because that’s a truly abominable name choice for a city.
They do what now??
The city was renamed from Wascana to Regina (pronounced like vagina) to honor Queen Victoria. 🤢🤢🤢
It’s a normal city name. If you think about vaginas every time you hear it that’s your own problem.
There is no way you are defending Regina (pronounced like vagina) you gotta suck it up and admit Canadians took the L.
Look, if you’re starving in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and suddenly someone is like ‘oh I have tons of food and it just happens to be meat do you want some lol’ you CANNOT act surprised when it’s people. You simply CANNOT.
There are times and places where it is realistic to expect NOT to be served people. For example, in a pie shop underneath a barber shop. THEN you can be all 'OH GOD IT’S PEOPLE.’
If you are in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and are suddenly served a really good meat pie, you have to know it’s people. Do you see any cows? No, they all apocalypsed. It’s your neighbor.
If you’re served food in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, ask yourself these questions first:
Do I trust the person feeding me?
Is this meat fresh, and if so, have there been any livestock non-apocalypsed recently?
Have I seen Kevin within the past week?
Am I willing to commit the penultimate culinary taboo? (The ultimate culinary taboo is putting pineapple on pizza, a crime I regularly commit)
this might seem dumb but is a genuine question i have… is writing fanfic of mainstream content (Star Wars, Marvel, DC, LOTR) a form of scabbing? because everywhere i look the answer is different and it seems kinda… not really important to email SAG-AFTRA or the WGA to say “sorry misters but can i still write my silly little fanfic or would that be consider some sort of promotion for struck companies?”
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Because they said cosplaying is sort of doing that and to please refrain from doing it, but fanfic? To my understanding fanfic is taking canon and saying “uhm actually, what if…” so we should be in the clear, right?
But then again we haven’t been in a position like this since the 1980s and back then social media wasn’t that… big of a deal (I know the writers strike of 2007/2008 happened but I wasn’t writing fanfic back then)
Maybe i’ll never get my answer, maybe is not wrong because i’m not promoting anything by writing X character kiss and fuck Y character and by putting them in situations beyond canon.
Maybe I’m just over reacting and I’m fine.
But if anyone has an answer, i’d like to know for sure, please.
(The image is a screenshot i found on twitter, i didn’t email SAG-AFTRA myself)
Fanfic isn’t scabbing! The email screenshot in your post has since been deleted from Twitter because SAG-AFTRA clarified its guidelines here. “Influencer promotion” doesn’t apply to fans/hobbyists; it’s designed for people who meet the union’s definition of influencer (read here.) There’s understandably a lot of confusion in the early days of the strike, so please go straight to the SAG-AFTRA guidelines (or ask us here!) if you have any questions.
just a reminder - do NOT boycott streaming services or not watch new things. the unions have not called for one for a reason. for one, it affects residual payments, which as minimal as those currently are, actors are still getting them during this time, and for two, studios will use lack of viewership as an excuse to cancel shows because you are showing them there is no demand. it deeply affects the industry the writers and actors stand to come back to once the strike is over
Also: going to these places puts pressure and demand on the company. Demand they can’t meet without actors and writers. That puts stress on them, and stress is good.
^^^^ive been looking for a rb with this addition because YES. if a customer wants a burger and there is no cook to make it, that puts pressure on the owner to pay the cook what they want so the customer will still give them money. if there is no customer, the owner has no reason for the cook to make burgers
Stop watching IF AND ONLY IF the unions call for a boycott. For the time being since they haven’t, streaming the shows actually helps. You’re not crossing a picket line to watch because that picket line does not exist unless a boycott is called for.
Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.
No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.
We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.
Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.
And they especially are not scabs.
*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.
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