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26 September: thread by WGA member David Slack
Twitter thread by David Slack @/slack2thefuture:
"As WGA leaders meet today to finalize our deal, we begin a new era for writers — and for labor in our industry. But we also begin to face the final and most insidious form of unionbusting propaganda: a years-long effort to sell the lie that our strike was not worth it.
Over the coming days, months, and years, the studios, streamers, and their surrogates will take every opportunity to undermine what we have won together. They will seize on the inevitable consessions and compromises made by our NegCom as proof that we “failed.”
They will urge us to overlook all that we won through hard work and unwavering solidarity. They will claim it wasn’t enough, that we should have gotten X instead of Y, that we lost more by striking than we gained in this new contract. And they will be wrong.
They will tell us that the strike was unnecessary, it was a waste of our time and our savings, that our agents or managers or lawyers could have gotten us everything we won through individual negotiations without anyone having to walk a picket line. Well… then why didn’t they?
As hard as it is to believe right now, these lies can work. They’ve worked before. During our 2017 strike authorization vote, it was shocking to discover how many members believed we lost the ‘07-08 strike, in which we went on strike for the internet — and won the internet.
This didn’t happen by accident. It was the result of years of whispering by studios and anti-union allies. And they don’t just do it because they’re bitter about losing. They push the lie that we used our power and lost because they hope to stop us from using our power to win.
Our strike was necessary because, in our individual negotiations, our employers consistently refused to acknowledge our right and reasonable demands. Because the profound changes we needed could only be won through the unique and overwhelming power of collective bargaining.
Our strike was necessary because our employers made it necessary by driving our income down 23% in 10 years. Because they refused to address free work in features, streaming coverage in comedy-variety, the abuses of mini-rooms and the threat of AI until we withheld our labor
Our strike was necessary. Our strike was effective. Our strike is a victory. If anyone tries to tell you otherwise, it’s ‘cause they never want to see us stand up for ourselves again. Don’t believe it. We won this fight. We’re the WGA, and when we fight, we win. #WGAStrong"
#wga strike#writers strike#union solidarity#i stand with the wga#sag-aftra strike#actors strike#wga strong#current events#david slack#long post#fans4wga
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Thoughts from David Slack on 'AI' and copyright
(the voice theft in particular is really depressing)
#wga strike#wga strong#AI MUST be regulated#writer's guild of america strike#writer's guild of america#david slack#copyright#anyone familiar with me will know how I hate and love copyright#long post
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Fuck AMPTP and the bullshit going on. I'm tired, might not do this well:
(link to article in above picture) From The Article
Receiving positive feedback from Wall Street since the WGA went on strike May 2, Warner Bros Discovery, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Paramount and others have become determined to “break the WGA,” as one studio exec blatantly put it.
To do so, the studios and the AMPTP believe that by October most writers will be running out of money after five months on the picket lines and no work.
“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”
The studios and streamers’ next think financially strapped writers would go to WGA leadership and demand they restart talks before what could be a very cold Christmas. In that context, the studios and streamers feel they would be in a position to dictate most of the terms of any possible deal.
[Image IDs: Twitter thread by David Slack posted July 12th, 2023 that reads in totality:
And right on cue, here’s the inevitable Deadline article claiming that the AMPTP and their CEO bosses are ready to wait us out and let us “go broke.”
They’re not. They can’t. This studio propaganda, and here’s why.
In the increasingly mega-merged and hedgefundified Hollywood, these companies live or die on their quarterly earnings reports. It only takes one bad quarter for their stock price to plunge, putting the company and the CEO’s job in jeopardy.
But their stock prices are holding steady, right? Right. For now. Because our industry is a pipeline that starts with writers. The TV and movies they’re releasing now are shows we started making for them 4-12 quarters ago. But what happens when that pipeline runs dry?
What happens is they run out of product. No new shows in streaming to drive and sustain subscribers. No new shows in broadcast and ad-supported to bring in ad revenue.
No shows, no money.
No money, bad earnings report.
Bad earnings report, bye-bye stock price. Bye-bye CEO.
After 70+ days with no writers to create their product for them, the pipeline is running dry.
Their stock price isn’t tanking yet. But if they don’t make a deal with us, it will.
And they know it.
If they make a deal soon, they might be able to weather it. Stretch out releases. Rush some new stuff through.
But the longer they keep us out, the longer that pipeline runs dry, the more unavoidable a catastrophic dip in new high-quality shows becomes.
And they know it.
So yeah, the studios are planting articles in the trades that make it sound like they’re so determined not to pay us the 0.02% of company revenues we’re asking for that they’re willing to hold out forever.
Bullshit.
I’m sure the AMPTP bosses would love to break our union. But they love their jobs more. They love money more. They can’t make that money without us.
And they know it.
Ignore the trades, walk the line, stand together, and win. #WGAStrong
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Bonus: John Rogers' Reaction
[Image ID: A tweet from John Rogers that he posted July 12th, 2023 that reads:
I was trying to be cool and professional about this strike, but this AMPTP “we want to drive them to homelessness” shit means I’m going to be dug in at WB Gate 4 like Hiroo Onada. They’re gonna have to send @ellenstutzman with a bullhorn to order me out of the bushes.
The second image is Ellen Stutzman's Twitter bio that says:
Cheif Negotiator for WGA MBA, Assistant Executive Director, Writers Guild of America, West; Cornell ILR and UCLA Anderson alum. Views are my own.
/End ID]
EDIT: Please see the update on this HERE
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#mine#doctor who#dwedit#david tennant#catherine tate#bernard cribbins#:D#my second week of summer break has started#and i've been slacking on the gif making!!! but it's been busy#(surprisingly!!!)#anyways i hope you've all been well :')
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engineering nerd vs Kibby Cat
#been slacking on my guys. and art in general. here's a low-effort comic gradient maps carried#steelheart redux#my comics#my art#zarian#david manalo#arthur steele#id in alt#first time trying to id a comic hopefully its sufficient. if not lmk and ill adjust#anyways david is fascinated by zarian early on cause thats like. Retro Tech kinda that most people do not live to observe#“”“retro”“” its like 15 ish years old but tbf that tech advanced fast haha
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#this can go both ways#remembering your devotion and sacrifice#or remembering your shit takes and buffoonery#anyways david i let you get away with mass murder so you gotta cut me some slack 😭#romance club#rc abh
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I don't know what it is about this lil 'stache on him, but it makes me absolutely feral
#Good God#*bites fist*#I came across this pic a couple of days ago#and have not been able to stop thinking about it#like the Phileas 'stache always did it for me#but I thought part of it came from the waistcoats and period dress? and wet cat nature?#none of that here.. and yet... this pic is significantly more powerful#this window of the month is not helping matters#HNNNNG#ok backing away#David Tennant's moustache#come yell at me about it#David Tennant#i also didn't sleep much last night so cut me some slack#Phileas Fogg#thirstposting#screaming crying throwing up#etc#also does he have v mild hetetochromia? or is it just the lighting and/or me?#I apparently saved this in my drafts#yesterday evening#I’ve since had some spearmint tea and calmed down#(it’s all still true)#whatever—send it#no tag editing we die like men
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#@neymar ur fucking slacking#leo messi#david beckham#rodrigo de paul#rodressi#I think#or rodriguessi idk
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I decided to do some drawing and figured that I could use my lack of being able to draw things in proportion to draw the one man that doesn't need proportion whatsoever
(featuring my phone's absolutely abysmal camera quality)
#also featuring david tennant presenting have i got news for you in the background#i love michael so much#also this is the first thing that ive ever propely drawn that im proud of so cut me some slack#the magnus archives#michael distortion#tma#michael tma#michael shelly#the distortion
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SUPPORT SAG-AFTRA
Find a picket line near you
Donate to the Entertainment Community Fund
#sag-aftra strike#sag strike#actors strike#hollywood strikes#wga strike#writers strike#union solidarity#fans4wga#david slack#id in alt
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SOLIDARITY WORKS!!!
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It's a drop in the hat. They should be asking for so much more.
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I was not conscious when reading 2099 is the talking horse a thing that happened in the mainline book?
yup, the panels i most recently posted are from SM2099 v1 #29!
#talking tag#asks#Ive been slacking too much on putting credits under panels lately. need 2 just save a form 2 drafts...#the talking horse bit is a reference to an old black & white TV show called Mr. Ed#PAD (Peter David) likes putting pre-90s pop culture refs in his comics for the sake of a gag he does it a lot
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Favorite first watches of October 2024
Harakiri (1962) dir. Masaki Kobayashi / Rabid (1977) dir. David Cronenberg / Late Night with the Devil (2023) dir. Cameron and Colin Cairnes / Peeping Tom (1960) dir. Michael Powell
#slacked on the movie watching this month.. these were the only 4 i saw#favorite first watches of..#harakiri#rabid 1977#late night with the devil#peeping tom 1960#masaki kobayashi#david cronenberg#cameron and colin cairnes#michael powell#film log#filmblr#film stills#film lovers#cinephile
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I predatori di Atlantide (The Raiders of Atlantis, 1983)
"It's terrible, Mike. It's like living something unreal."
"Unfortunately, it's all very true."
#i predatori di atlantide#raiders of atlantis#atlantis interceptors#and like. a dozen more titles in different territories. such is life. such is the way of the cheapy italian knockoff#italian cinema#ruggero deodato#tito carpi#vincenzo mannino#christopher connelly#gioia scola#tony king#stefano mingardo#ivan rassimov#giancarlo prati#george hilton#bruce baron#mike monty#michele soavi#adriana giuffrè#maurizio fardo#lewis e. ciannelli#john vasallo#gudrun schmeissner#brainless italian action fantasy thing‚ where the biggest surprise is simply the absence of David Warbeck; this was his bread and butter!#what were they thinking not casting him.. oh well‚ we do at least get George Hilton (playing against type as a nerdy scientist) and#(be still my beating heart...) my main squeeze the beautiful Ivan Rassimov... the story is some absolute nonsense about Atlantis but also a#Mad Max style biker gang of killers but also also maybe aliens and... idk‚ there is A Lot happening here and very little of it makes sense#Connelly‚ bless him‚ is a fine bland action man but he's no Warbeck‚ and Tony King has to pick up a lot of the slack in the ass kicking and#bone crunching department. there's a tsunami (adorable miniature fx)‚ there's mystic sci fi death traps (suitably colourful) and about a#million explosions‚ so y'know‚ it's a pretty good time if you're willing to turn your brain entirely off
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SPIRIT OF THE SEASON:
Depressed guy and friends
Has anti-Christmas weekend
Snowman possess them
youtube
#spirit of the season#random richards#poem#haiku#poetry#haiku poem#poets on tumblr#haiku poetry#haiku form#poetic#Robyn slack#Michael vetsch#Katie cutting#the debutantes#laena Anderson#David Rae#Glenna Schowaiter#Sue Goberdhan#horror#Youtube
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