#wga sag strike

[respectissexy]

[theemmtropy]

Amazing that everyone's forgotten the collective wait for Sherlock season 3. Oh we're gonna have to wait for new content bc of the strikes?? Gee, I'm sure fandoms have never had to do that before...... 🙄🤡

[lovepollution]

Luke Kirby joins members of the AFL-CIO, WGA and SAG-AFTRA on the picket line outside HBO and Amazon in New York City - 22nd August 2023

[serious-goose]

fran drescher being a union leader and calling for equal pay is so fran fine of her 💕

[positively--speculative]

Remember how I likened media made to he consumed once and not enjoyed several times (like many of the recent MCU movies and shows) to junk food and that everyone who refuses to demand more and hates any form of media analysis are like people who would demand everyone else should eat junk food because *they* like junk food?

Everyone hating on the writers and actors striking are those people.

The quality of media has been taking a nose dive for the past several years, but these people don't care because they are more loyal to the big studio names than the writers and actors who work hard to bring these stories to life. So much so, they've become defensive of any criticism. Disney must win. WB must win. They must be on the winning side. The execs have been forcing these people to work long hours for shit pay and unreasonable deadlines. These people cannot work at their full potential because of it, but brand loyalists don't care because they don't want to demand more. They don't want to be challenged. Media was never supposed to be mentally enriching or stimulating to them. It's all supposed to be "turn-your-brain-off" entertainment because everything else makes them uncomfortable--so, they really don't care about the conditions that's made a lot of media decrease in quality, because that's how *they* like it and they're mad that writers and actors don't want to be put in the worst conditions to create shit when they could be working in better conditions to create something meaningful.

[arc-angel-o]

Why are people still trying to put writers and actors against each other while our unions are striking side by side 🙄

Saying writers have it worse is not helpful. Perpetuating this idea that actors don't contribute anything is not helpful.

[ineffably-ryuu]

All hail Tree Law.

[sumontienne]

“this is a safe space where we dont talk about politics” no. coward. you are a coward.

fostering healthy communities requires you to talk about shit you’re uncomfortable with. whether you like it or not, everything in your life is political, and you have to talk about it. living in fantasy worlds where politics are off limits is unhealthy actually.

hot take: maybe this kosa shit is good bc it’ll push ppl out of their comfort zones. that way we can finally have some definitive action in this country.

[i-am-depraved-linda]

It's pretty messed up that like...after years of having the "starving artists" trope and variations ingrained in society....arts being who can't sell their work, wannabe writers just sitting in cafes, actors who are never gonna "make it"....Like how common and understood are these ideas? As a narrative point or butt of a joke?

The sort of thing people work hard to fight against and prove wrong, that it is possible (but it's also incredibly fuckin difficult)

But now with the strikes suddenly it's: "Oh but writers and actors make so much tho" possibly coming from the same people who acknowledge and joke about said starving artist trope.

Just admit you want the labor but don't actually care about laborers especially for things you expect to be made available to you to casually consume.

[neuronary]

IN LIEU OF THE STRIKES

(which i am technically participating in but also i hadn’t had a writing job in like eighteen months before this and i was planning on breaking for the entirety of my degree anyways)

currently neither unions are calling for a boycott but if this goes on long enough, production will start grinding to a halt. personally, i am hoping this lasts long enough to get the tech crews, directors, and animators/cg artists/effects people also striking, because i am really hoping that that will get more of these fields unionised too and really scare the bosses into doing what we want. this industry makes hundreds of billions of dollars a year and those profits go directly into the pockets of shareholders that don’t fucking deserve them.

the point being: now if ever is the time to start catching up on the old shit. by which i mean anything you missed when it came out.

so my contribution here is sharing my current watchlists and also giving some recommendations for my favourite films and tv shows.

without further ado,

FILMS - HORROR

FILMS - COMEDY

FILMS - DOCUMENTARY

(there are in fact many more films but i wanna also cover my tv watchlist plus recs for film and tv)

TV

if anyone has any more recs for film or tv based on my current watchlists please let me know! these don’t even cover everything but i don’t want this post to be megalong.

as for my own recs:

in terms of horror, i will always rec everything jordan peele. he is one of my favourite filmmakers of this century and he has yet to miss. although personally i would advise grabbing some friends and keeping the lights on for us. another favourite of mine is the original scream. i’m not so big on the sequels personally, but i’d advise giving them ago because many people love the entire franchise and i have heard excellent things about the one with jenna ortega. thoroughbreds is technically a thriller but my god was it one of the most underrated and gripping films i’ve seen in years. 5/5 stars. check it out.

in terms of comedy, i will never not recommend pride (2014) it is a heartwarming film about solidarity between different marginalised communities, based on a real organisation of queer people that raised money for the striking miners in the uk in 1984. it was also my gay awakening in more ways than one and despite the somewhat bittersweet ending gave me a lot of hope for my future. i also highly recommend my cousin vinny which not only has marisa tomei giving the greatest comedic performance i’ve ever seen (which she deserved best actress for, by the way, she carried that fucking film) but also amazingly accurate legal dialogue. another favourite of mine is the spy who dumped me which has me actual pissing myself every time i watch it. also, the first kingsman film is a masterclass in successful parody and cinematic proof that the only good parodies are made by the lovers of a genre, not the haters.

in terms of documentary, now is a great time to revisit david attenborough’s work (we stan that man on this blog i won’t hear a word against him) and be reminded of what exactly it is that our conservationists are trying to save. particularly a life on this planet is a fascinating documentary about his own journey and beautifully scored. the elephant whisperers won best short doc at the oscars this year for a reason. although i have my issues with my octopus teacher’s philosophy in certain places, it is still one of the most incredible documentaries i’ve ever seen. lewis capaldi: how i’m feeling now is not what you think but is definitely worth a watch. (also mandatory watching for any american that calls shrek’s accent scottish.) chasing coral on netflix is something i rewatch whenever i need reminding of why i’m doing what i’m doing.

finally in terms of tv, this is my daily reminder to everyone to subscribe to dropout it is well worth the money and for today what i actually want to recommend is total forgiveness which legitimately broke me as a person and is also one of the most candid and grounded depictions of the impact of student debt i have ever seen. i would also, however, like to put some people on some limited series/complete tv shows that absolutely fuck. firstly, maid came into my life at the worst time possible and sent me into multiple meltdowns and panic attacks but remains one of my top tv shows of the year. the last of us is actually worth the hype, as much as it frustrates my science brain. la revolution is the best thing to come out of france since pain aux abricots but also comes with about four hundred content warnings so check yourself before you wreck yourself with that one. alien worlds is not quite what i’d consider a documentary but is one of the most creative things i’ve ever watched and a really accessible show about ecology and exobiology, which i love. russian doll is a show that tore me into pieces and stitched me back together again laughing and crying the whole way. don’t do yourself the disservice of not watching it. the ethos of the good place is too good not to put on here. yes it’s been memed to hell and back but it’s genuinely one of the greatest tv shows of the century so far and found and carried such a fundamentally good message that i rewatch at least once every couple years.

anyways, please include your own recs in the notes, yell about tv/films you love and show some appreciation for the people that brought them into existence. also note that they don’t have to be considered ‘great works’, i am just a wanker when it comes to this stuff. i want all your recs, good and ‘bad’.

[were-wolverine]

i feel like the wga and sag-aftra strike delaying show/movie production won’t really hinder many of us considering a majority of the ppl on here just rewatch shows/movies and haven’t started something new in years (ergo we can all support them without being bitter about it)

that being said, if it does affect you, don’t be a dick about it. these people literally just want to be paid enough to have a stable income

[realifezompire]

Them: if you support the writer's strike, your fave TV shows will get canceled!!

Me: my favorite TV shows have already been canceled ��

[voidingintotheshout]

No longer Scab Barrymore.

(She was about to break solidarity with the WGA and screen actors Guild strike and do her show improvisationally because she felt like it was a news show, and everyone hated her for it because her show is about as much news as watch what happens live. After a lot of backlash, she backed off and apologized.) 

[faircatch]

When AMPTP finally concede...

So, here is my take and I'm going to have to wait and see how it plays out, but I feel pretty confident about it:

AMPTP will have to concede to SAG-AFTRA / WGA at some point.

Watch all the streaming services raise their rates.

The streaming services will claim it is because of the demands they had to meet for SAG-AFTRA / WGA and that they need money to pay the actors and writers... and that the cost will have to fall to the consumers.

This is of course BS. They have the money now... but they will flip this making it sound like the actors and writers are greedy and the poor poor streaming services etc have no choice but to make the consumers pay more to cover themselves.

I would love to be wrong... but... I doubt it.

[jason-please-see-a-psychiatrist]

hold on does the good omens s2 release go against the strike rules? it feels like it should

[cuchillx]