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[nothingunrealistic]

EXCLUSIVE: On the third day of its first strike in 15 years, the Writers Guild of America closed down Wall Street drama Billions for several hours Thursday.

The shuttering of the Showtime series started on a chilly, gray Thursday morning in New York after a tow truck hauling a prop Jeep to the set pulled up to a parking lot near the Brooklyn waterfront and came to a stop in the street amid picket signs and WGA members. Elsewhere in the Big Apple, Teamsters showed solidarity with another group of picketing scribes and turned their trucks around outside where American Horror Story‘s latest season is filming.

Over at the Billions studio, an entryway was blocked. A line of picketers — several dozen sign-waving film and television writers and their supporters — were not making way as the tow truck driver tried in vain to ease forward, with help from a New York City police officer. “Day or night/rain or shine/you don’t cross/a picket line,” the protestors chanted as more officers arrived outside Seret Studios, one of several production hangars in a warehouse district facing the East River and the Manhattan skyline.

Watch video from the scene here:

The roughly four-hour shutdown of Billions today occurred after cast and crew members decided not to cross the WGA picket lines. Representatives for Paramount could not be reached by Deadline on Thursday to comment on the temporary shutdown.

However, that decision by cast and crew not to cross the WGA picket line was respected by the production and Showtime parent company Paramount Global, and there will be no repercussions, sources connected to Billions tell us. Filming did resume on the show later Thursday.

Even so, it is also worth noting that there were no writers today on the set of the final season of the series created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien  and Andrew Ross Sorkin, even if unionized stagehands or actors working under no-strike contracts were expected to be. In that context, a WGA East rep noted, “I don’t know how you run a production without writers on set.”

With labor actions taking place at several locations across New York, the WGA East chose Seret in particular for picketing Thursday because of the production going on within. Accordingly, the demonstration spread across several blocks, with bands of protestors breaking off from the main group to picket other facilities used by Billions.

Outside the parking lot, a WGA union organizer stood next to police officers in the middle of the street and said the marchers had the right to walk the curb. “You’re blocking the driveway,” the officer replied. The local precinct commander showed up minutes later and spoke by phone with a union leader to explain that “impeding business” by blocking driveways is illegal in New York State. About 20 minutes after the tow truck arrived, protestors opened a lane for the driver to pull in, with cries of “scabs!” trailing him into the lot. 

“We want them to get their message across,” the precinct commander, NYPD Deputy Inspector Kathleen E. Fahey, said of the protestors. “But we also want to preserve the peace.”

Demonstrators did succeed in turning away at least two production trucks from pulling into Seret’s main delivery bay, but it was unclear whether their drivers found other ways through side streets or interconnected industrial docks in the sprawling neighborhood. 

[wardensantoineandevka]

is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn't catering to your specific desires and expectations?

[fineapple20]

Portraits

Retouched this set from last year, because it was haunting me laying there 80% finished

[cremanata]

brazilian miku ♡

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[give-soup-please]

raise a glass to the posts you love that end up deleted. to the fanart and fanfics you lose track of and can't locate. to the blogs you used to look through that ended up unexpectedly disappearing. to the things you didn't archive because you always assumed they'd be there.

[potato-gay]

[heritageposts]

🇵🇸 From Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA):

This Ramadan make sure you’re not breaking your fast with the taste of apartheid. All you need to do is check the label to avoid buying dates from apartheid Israel. This includes dates labelled from Israel, the West Bank and the Jordan Valley or if the country of origin is not shown. Ramadan is a time of reflection and self-improvement. During this month we are more conscious of our actions and how they affect others. Israel is the world’s largest producer of Medjoul dates. Let's be conscious of not buying dates that support Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine and apartheid regime. * Major UK supermarkets like ASDA, Tesco, Iceland and Waitrose all sell dates from apartheid Israel as well as local grocery stores * The UK is the second-biggest importer of Israeli dates in Europe 50% of Israeli dates are exported to Europe, where the UK, Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy import huge quantities of the dried fruit. In 2020 the UK imported over 3000 tonnes of dates from Israel, worth roughly 7.5 million pounds. There are two peaks of date consumption in Europe. One is during the month of Ramadan and the other is during New Year’s Eve and Christmas. Boycotting Israeli dates in Ramadan is a concerted community effort that can show we are not powerless. It would be brilliant to see all Israeli dates still left on shelves across the UK and Europe at the end of the blessed month. This would reflect our strength as a community to stand together with a very important message: We will not support the oppression of Palestinians and we will not be complicit in Israeli apartheid. So, this Ramadan #CheckTheLabel and boycott Israeli dates.

With Ramadan approaching, please consider sharing!

If you're in the UK, they also have leaflets available for order on their webpage. These tie into their upcoming campaign #CheckTheLabel, with a national day of action on the 16th of February.

Again, check their webpage for more info.

[lesbianjamies]

Why did you do it?

[airlocksandaviaries]

OK TUMBLR PRETEND WE'RE ALL ON SET TOGETHER PICK A JOB

if you actually work/have worked as one of these pls select it and tell me in the tags im curious

if you've worked as multiple, pick your favorite

everyone else, VOTE ON VIBES ALONE!!

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x08 - “Killing is a Cycle” ↳ "Some people are really misunderstanding the dialogue before the scene in the cell" | (essay link)

[cardo-de-comer]

10/10 - "all is gone, none is won"

[nothingunrealistic]

newly noticed: so far, all the showtime episode pages for season 7 list “graphic language” and “adult content” under their content advisories, as does every other episode of the show. however, the page for 7x08 the owl also lists “nudity” as a content advisory. reminder that the episode summary is: “Chuck and Prince venture upstate to rub elbows with a new political force. Prince sacrifices pride to do a personal favor. Wendy helps Wags unpack his deepest desires.” the “upstate” piece is almost surely the upscale elite male summit filmed in paul smiths, new york back in march.

[renthony]

Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make.

People make shit. It's what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also to cope, to process, to educate, to warn, to go, "hey, wouldn't that be fucked up? Wild, right?"

Yes, sure, there are things that should be handled with care if they are used at all. But plenty more things are subjective. Some things are just not going to be to your tastes. So go find something that is to your tastes and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing and trying to dictate universal moral precepts about art based on your personal triggers and squicks.

I find possession stories super fucking triggering if I encounter them without warning, especially if they function as a sexual abuse metaphor. I'm not over here campaigning for every horror artist to stop writing possession stories because they make me feel shaky and dissociated. I just check Does The Dog Die before watching certain genres, and I have my husband or roommate preview anything I think might upset me so they can give me more detail. And if I genuinely don't think I can't handle it, I don't watch it. It's that simple.

[bethanydelleman]

One of the things I loved about The Wild Robot from a writing/world-building perspective was that it was clearly set in a post-apocalyptic world, but the details were very vague, and you don't even know until about an hour in:

"Beautiful shot," you think, and then it hits you that the whales are swimming over the Golden Gate Bridge.

Abandoned, crumbling satellites and a sunken city. And then when we do see the human city, they freak out at the sight of geese:

Animal-derived plague? Global warming? We don't know. We only know that something has happened. But like the general theme, whatever bad has occurred, the natural world is thriving. An unexpected positive from a history of tragedy.

[oifaaa]

It's funny how opinions can change over time for instance I used to want Bruce to be a good parent but then I realised how fucking boring that is to read at the end of the day comics are soap operas and I'm here for the drama