VIII

Ashley - Film/Reading/History/Music/Art.

[dancyrilkingston]

EVA GREEN Penny Dreadful | 1.01

[anorganizedstreet]

[gentlekiss]

gk

[xcandiedorangesx]

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Danielle de Barbarac's fairy dress in Ever After

[landsccape]

[lizzart-zardonicz]

Here's the result of me listening to IT GIRL too many times, anyways happy new year! 🤠

[gardenersdesire]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

David Bowie as Mephistopheles (1999)

[heyitsphoenixx]

the sun literally sets and casts a golden hue over everything every single day and we fucked it all up and invented paying rent

[lg5]

It's crazy that these strikes are happening given that all the writers and actors are asking for is less than 0.3% of the revenue these studios make.

[rootbeergoddess]

This is what gets me. The writers and actors aren’t asking for much but these CEOs are digging their heels in

[vermilionstarlight]

It's because it sets a precedent that the CEOs are terrified to set. That they will acquiesce to worker demands if the workers are resolute enough.

Because in an ideal world for these rich fucks, the workers give up, and the CEOs win, and its reinforced in the collective public mindset that all a strike does is "disrupt the economy, deprive people of valuable products, and waste people's time". The goal is to maintain the assertion that Strikes Don't Work. I don't think they genuinely give a shit about 0.15% of their revenue. What they care about is the OPTICS.

They cannot back down, for the exact same reason that WORKERS cannot back down. Because if the workers win, it shows people just that bit more that The Poors have power and ultimately we can make the rich do what we want if we put our fucking minds to it. And that, to the rich, is bad news bears to the highest degree.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

“Last year, Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav made $246.6 million; Disney’s Bob Iger made $45.9 million; and Paramount Global CEO’s Bob Bakish made $32 million. These individuals make more money per year than almost any entertainment executive before them. Just a small portion of each major CEO’s annual salary could cover the cost of the guilds’ reasonable structural and financial demands, and yet, they say it’s not possible. How could that be? Because it’s not about the money. It’s about power and perception. Almost none of these CEOs built the companies they run. We are not negotiating with Jack Warner or Walt Disney. We’re not even negotiating with the people who enriched these companies, like producer Robert Evans at Paramount in the 1970s. These CEOs are basically people who just work there—and who have contracts that allow them very large amounts of money. And right now, they don’t want anyone to know that. They don’t want anyone to know that they don’t actually build anything. They don’t want anyone to see them capitulate and bend the knee to any degree by making a deal with the writers and actors who build the product they fund and distribute. They don’t want to reasonably negotiate with these artists, because they think it will make them look weak. They think it will make them look like chumps, make them look simply like the employees of these companies that they are.”

— Justine Bateman on the Destruction of the Film Business (via wilwheaton)

[dduane]

This is absolutely it. All this crap is about nothing but the perceived power that comes with having a big fat paycheck, and (the fear of) losing face.:/

[writergeekrhw]

I made another thing.

With apologies to Neil Gaiman.

[neil-gaiman]

No apologies needed.

[coffeepeople]

sometimes I wonder how we all survive and then I look at my best friends and I go “oh, I survive because I don’t want to leave you yet” and it makes sense. life is so hard a lot of the time, but I want one more bowl of pasta with you.

[maureen2musings]

@shx.photography

[angel-ponders]

It shouldn’t be surprising that writers have some of the best strike signs in existence

[ashenalchemy]

Become a briarwood, and cultivate a space where blossoms can thrive.