Cait

needed a place to put all of my stuff

[criedtoneverdreamagain]

Emma D’arcy has the most insane face card, I can’t get over how ethereally gorgeous they are

[criedtoneverdreamagain]

I fucking love women lol

[criedtoneverdreamagain]

Just had a 92 Norwegian woman that I was chatting with at the airport look at me and say “Oh, you’re so lucky to be young,” pause for a beat and then say, “AND you’re good looking!”

Absolutely made my week, what sweet woman.

[turing-tested]

generate a girlfriend here and tag this with what kind of girlfriend you got

[criedtoneverdreamagain]

Before You Came by Faiz Ahmed Faiz giving me some major avatrice vibes

[syniiart]

[criedtoneverdreamagain]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

If you’re not reading this Avatrice fic by NinesRadScreenname, you’re absolutely missing out

[turtleheartz]

can someone explain the WAG and SAG-AFTRA strike to me like I'm a child. who does it affect, what can I as a consumer do to help, what does it mean for both current and future productions, etc. etc.

[fans4wga]

The writers' guild (WGA) and actors' guild (SAG-AFTRA) of America are both on strike as of today, July 13. Both guilds have good reason to believe the future of their industries rests on getting better contract protections against AI, against understaffing and underpaying, against laughably small residual payments, and more. (Read the WGA's demands and the studios' absurdly terrible responses here.)

This primarily affects American TV shows and films, though international productions and co-productions with any American guild members working on them (such as House of the Dragon) are also affected by work stoppages. For a more comprehensive list of overseas shows/films affected by the imminent actors' guild strike, see here.

What it means for actors and writers is that they will be picketing the studios and out of a job for the foreseeable future (previous WGA strikes lasted 100+ days; this one might be longer.)

Fans and the public can financially support both the striking writers/actors and the below-the-line crew and support staff affected by the strike via the Entertainment Community Fund or the Green Envelope Grocery Aid fund (more info on Twitter here, on Tumblr here.)

Neither the WGA nor SAG-AFTRA has officially called for a boycott of streaming services; the main issue right now is drying up studio pipelines of film/TV to really hit them where it hurts: running out of shows and films to premiere. Strikes are supposed to hurt, and when this fall rolls around and the networks/streaming services suddenly don't have anything new, that will hurt.

It's up to each individual to decide to cancel streaming services in solidarity or not. (Keep in mind that shows premiering before the fall were already in the can before the strike was called and might depend on viewership for another season. Also, if a future official boycott is called down the line, you may want to maintain your leverage for that.)

Current productions have been halted and future productions will be delayed until the strike is over. In the meantime, watch old stuff and vocally support the strikers via social media & to any IRL friends/family who may not know as much as you about the current state of the entertainment industry!

[ice-block]

It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc

[ice-block]

I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks

(Faces censored and additional text added by me)

[eroticcannibal]

Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.

[libraford]

I am a photographer. It is my job to go into schools and take candid photos for the yearbook.

The number of kids that are on a 'do not photograph' list isn't large, but it is a non-zero number. If that kid is even out of focus in the background, we do not use that photo.

If a child shows even the tiniest bit upset that there's a person in the room with a camera, I do not take their photo.

At pop culture conventions, I ask people if I can take their photo. Or if I take a candid of them, I track them down and give them my info and get th3ir consent before posting.

At events like parties, concerts, performances, consent is generally implied because these are photographed events, but if an attendee approaches me and tells me to crop them out then I crop them out.

This makes street photography tedious, but I learned in my very first job as a camp counselor that people have very good reasons for not wanting their photo publicized. There are kids in the foster system with abusive parents. There are adults with stalkers. There are people who might be a witness to a crime.

Even outside of this- I've seen how private persons become memes against their will just by going out in public. Some people are super not normal about meme fame.

Leave people alone. The world is complicated. Make your own content.

[brandyllyn]

I'm going to need y'all to preemptively chill out because the actor's strike is going to mean a lot of things including shows and movies we've been anticipating being pushed way back, and absolutely minimal press tours for the next however long this lasts.

The effects of the writer's strike are months down the road which made it a whole lot easier to support because as third parties we weren't really being affected (yet), the effect of the actor's strike is going to be immediate and we're going to get a lot more propaganda of "these people are overpaid to begin with."

Remember our desire for content does not supersede these people's rights to live.

Support unions, support the strikes.

[these-are-the-first-steps]

REMEMBER!!!!! The actor's strike is NOT about the ten or so A-list actors whose names you can rattle off off-hand, this is about everybody else, the people you see on tv shows and movies, who you recognize as often being in the productions you love playing this or that bit character but you have no idea what their actual name is. The guest stars, the background actors (aka 'extras'), and everybody in between. A-list actors can name their own price- this isn't about them. But SAG-AFTRA is *BIGGER* than those people! And this is about them and protecting their incomes and rights.

As this second strike joins the first, remember that!!!

[glynnisi]

It's about all the "hey, it's that guy"s.

[prismatic-bell]

With that said, it’s GOOD that A-listers are also walking off! That creates more pressure! There are always ten, a hundred, a thousand more extras. There’s only one Chris Evans and if he walks, there’s no replacing him. Those folks striking is GOOD for the smaller actors.

They know it, too. Right before this one, literally RIGHT before it, I read a post where Matt Damon said for him it’s about the minimum income requirement to get health insurance, and how most actors only cross that threshold because of residuals. He straight-up called it “a life or death matter for some people.” He knows he’s not “some people,” but he’s also aware “some people” are out there and need their voices amplified.

[criedtoneverdreamagain]

Sophie Nélisse was robbed

[criedtoneverdreamagain]

Might turn the book I started writing a few years ago into an Avatrice fic because I think that’s genuinely the only way I’ll ever finish it

[kittanthalos]

beatrice + gay panicking™ whenever ava gets too close to her face

[orfanmakr]

Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Bisexual Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day before the end of Pride month.

- Luke 24:46

[criedtoneverdreamagain]

“Oh, that was fire.” - me to myself after writing a sentence in an essay that I will no doubt delete later because it doesn’t flow with the rest of my paper

[lusuey]

[chelseafcwmemes]

oh 🙃🤛