#i support wga

[departmentq]

[rosalie-starfall]

Space Mom Gates Mcfadden with Space Son Wil Wheaton SAG-AFTRA strike at Paramount studios.

[departmentq]

Welp, there goes the rest of Trek content on P+.

Thank goodness for my tbr pile.

Strike is on. Actors will be joining the writers on the picket lines. This is the first strike in 60 years for SAG, and essentially shuts down the entire US film and television industry.

[writergeekrhw]

I made another thing.

With apologies to Neil Gaiman.

[montanabohemian]

if i see a single one of you pissed that your faves canceled an event or a con appearance because they're striking for fair wages then imma come for you in your sleep 🔪🔪🔪

(direct that fury where it belongs: AMPTP and the execs)

[trans-elrond]

i hope everyone knows that the last wga strike was ~100 days and it's a pretty common phenomenon for strike support to tank after a month or two when it feels like it's dragging on and some writers and talk show hosts are crossing picket lines and trying to "return" to "normal" because of people's livelihoods etc when they're really just scabs. sure hope that we keep that in mind and are prepared for the long haul and aren't just in it while it's convenient for us <3

[neon-slime]

Good job WGA!

For more information and to support the WGA please:

Follow their official social media on all platforms and only trust statements from the union itself, and articles they promote (be wary of other articles).

Read up on the issues being fought for (there are articles supported by the union in their linktree)

Be vocal in your support and inform others in your communities.

Stop using ChatGPT and other AI tools, even for fun.

[the-party-bus]

“Wait, there are people blaming the writers?”

Are you surprised? Fandoms have become notorious anti-writer spaces. Studios love you guys. They can cut the budgets, cut the number of writers, cut the wages of the writers, and you guys always blame the writers. “The writers ruined the show!” It’s never “the studios ruined the show.”

I hate to break it to you: more than half the shows you complain were “ruined by the writers”, were ruined by the studios. Studios cut the scenes and arcs you were excited for. Studios cut the budget of the show, or even raise the budget of the show and force a “bigger, louder, bolder” tone on shows that were unexpected hits (this is where we get “the Netflix look” on every show post-Stranger Things and Queen’s Gambit).

You guys do not do your research. Half your fanfics are tagged with bad faith digs at the writers, when a few searches would reveal how strapped that show was and how poorly the writers were treated. Writers are being given a 10 weeks to write 10 episodes. How are good arcs and scenes supposed to happen under that time limit, with a max of only four writers?

Tumblr, the self-proclaimed “pro-union, pro-worker, pro-artist” site is also a major fandom site. You guys rarely practice good faith consumer etiquette for television and film writers, because your fandom salt always turns you against writers. And studios love you for it.

Yeah, individual writers do create bad writing from time to time. But so do painters, chefs, and musicians. Directors and actors sometimes refuse to film certain scenes or follow a show’s projected style and arc, and the writers always get the crap for a bad performance or a poorly directed episode. This isn’t to blame actors or directors; it’s to point out that you guys have one villain, and it’s always the writers. You guys never give writers the same grace you give animators, designers, directors, actors, composers, and editors.

Studios love you every time you say “the writers ruined the show.” Every single popular fandom is guilty of this. View any of the “why did the writers cut this scene, they hate my characters” talk when leaked scenes hit the internet. Writers barely get paid for what they do write. You think they’re writing scenes and then happily throwing them in the shredder? You guys just eat the talk that studios put out. Always have.

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

Production houses: but if the writers stay on strike we can't guarantee the future safety of your favorite shows 🥺🥺😭😭

Viewers who 1, have already lost their favorite shows because they were cancelled in spite of good ratings and good reviews or 2, have stopped watching new content entirely until the entire series has aired and concluded as a result of so many good shows getting cancelled on cliffhangers and thus leaving said viewers unable to gain closure with those characters and with a hollow viewing experience, so they've begun a, watching older shows they know came to a planned conclusion or b, revisiting their old favorites and enjoying the nostalgia or c, reading new books or fanfic instead: YOU ALREADY CAN'T GUARANTEE THE FUTURE OF OUR SHOWS SO GET FUCKING WRECKED AND PAY WRITERS WHAT THEY DESERVE!

[heylookitsghost]

hi tumblr featured post by @ the barbie movie! i support the wga and sag-aftra unions and their current strike. it is important to me that writers and actors get paid fairly, especially on streaming residuals and rights on their protections from AI. I hope that studios respect writers and actors soon and give them what they deserve rather than withhold proper pay and treatment, because i want to see more barbie interviews from well treated writers and actors (background or not!) who make these films possible. i cant wait for the wga and sag-aftra to get what they deserve and to continue to show my support for their strike until that happens!

[littlepeninsula]

The way he SLAYYEDD

Ai could never give us “we put the greed in ingredients”

[queerism1969]

[lady-griffin]

“What if my favourite show is delayed due to writers strike?” 

This is such a weird premise to me, because wouldn’t you want the people who are responsible for your favorite show be fairly compensated and given their due for their work?

The work that you just said is your favorite.

Your favorite show didn’t magically appear out of nowhere; many people were involved and not just the studio, showrunner, directors, or actors (this also goes beyond writers as well).

I just...

This is honestly a worse take then – “tv shows and movies have been on a decline for years, so how dare they have the gall to strike;” which is just not how television or films work in the slightest.

There’s a blatant fallacy in that logic, because if the studio or network is producing or airing/streaming the show, then the writers (and others) should get paid fairly for their work - whether it’s bad or not; simply because the studios and network are benefitting and profiting off said that work, so clearly it being “bad” is not a factor for them, so it shouldn’t matter here.

Even though that take is filled with hatred for what the writers have made, there is at least some kind of consistent logic in them thinking the writers are therefore not “owed” anything.

It’s still a bad take, but it makes more sense than the nonsense above.

Because seriously, what’s wrong with you people?

You’re proudly admitting that you don’t care about the people who brought you this great joy in your life, not as long as you get what you want. Which to be clear, what you want, are the tv shows these writers had a big hand in creating.

Like, do you even hear yourselves?

Also, crazy thought here, maybe instead of blaming the writers for going on strike, why don’t you blame those who are not respecting the writers nor are willing to negotiate or work with them on some very reasonable requests?

"What if my favourite show is delayed due to writers strike?"

With respect, no one cares about your favourite tv shows.

This is about real people fighting for their real livelihoods, for their futures.

I cannot articulate sufficiently how unimportant the production of some tv show or other is.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

The fact that SAG-AFTRA has concessions in the strike for actors to attend cons for meet-ups/photos.

The rule is that they'd like to keep actors off panels to discuss particular projects because that's promoting stopped work.

But a LOT of actors, especially older actors, characters actors, and voice actors rely on the ability to do photo ops and meet-and-greets with fans for a good chunk of income.

So, good job on that, SAG-AFTRA. That's thinking of the 98% of the union who aren't multi-millionaires.

[nottawriter]

Twitter post by Kelly_McKernan:

If we don’t fight back against predatory practices and exploitation against AI right now, than what was it all for? Raise a ruckus. Let’s do this.

[demigoddessqueens]

The agreement is tentative!!! Keep going strong writers and actors!!