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I was on a plane this weekend, and I was chatting with the woman sitting next to me about an upcoming writer’s strike. “Do you really think you’re mistreated?” she asked me.

That’s not the issue at stake here. Let me tell you a little something about “minirooms.”

Minirooms are a way of television writing that is becoming more common. Basically, the studio will hire a small group of writers, 3-6 or so, and employ them for just a few weeks. In those few weeks (six weeks seem to be common), they have to hurriedly figure out as much about the show as they can – characters, plots, outlines for episodes. Then at the end of the six weeks, all the writers are fired except for the showrunner, who has to write the entire series themselves based on the outlines.

This is not a widespread practice, but it has become more common over the past couple of years. Studios like it because instead of paying for a full room for the full length of the show, they just pay a handful of writers for a fraction of the show. It’s not a huge problem now, but the WGA only gets the chance to make rules every three years – if we let this go for another three years and it becomes the norm? That would be DEVASTATING for the tv writing profession.

Do I feel like I’m mistreated? No. I LOVE my job! But in a world of minirooms, there is no place for someone like me – a mid-level writer who makes a decent living working on someone else’s show (I’d like to be a showrunner someday, but for now I feel like I still have a lot to learn, and my husband and I are trying to start a family so I like not being support rather than the leader for now). In a miniroom, there are only two levels – the handful of glorified idea people who are already scrambling to find their next show because you can’t make a decent living off of one six-week job (and since there are fewer people per room, there are fewer jobs overall, even at the six-week amount), and the overworked, stressed as fuck showrunner who is going to have to write the entire thing themselves. Besides being bad for me making a living, I also just think it’s plain bad for television as an art form – what I like about TV is how adaptable it is, how a whole group of people come together to tell a story better than what any of them could do on their own. Plus the showrunner can’t do their best work under all of that pressure, episode after episode, back to back. Minirooms just…fucking suck.

The WGA is proposing two things to fix this – a rule that writers have to be employed for the entire show, and a rule tying the number of writers in the room to the number of episodes you have per season. I don’t think it’s unreasonable. It’s the way shows have run since the advent of television. It’s only in the last couple of years that this has become a new thing. It’s exploitative. It squeezes out everyone except showrunners and people who have the financial means to work only a few months a year. It makes television worse. And that is the issue in this strike that means everything to me, and that is why I voted yes on the strike authorization vote.

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The shitposting moment of inspiration actually gave me unique insight. The metaphor of watching Twitter news from Tumblr as watching the collapse of the Roman Empire from a Saharan oasis is too accurate. Like.

You live in your small community of people you well know and mostly get along with. You know of that moloch that has not so long ago been setting the blueprint of public debate and rule of law for centuries to come. Maybe you even traded with people under its rule. Recently, though, you mostly get news of its depostic ruler getting rid of all checking insititutions and advisors, enjoying setting things and people on fire and general economic collapse.

Make no mistake though, move too far away from your save little enclave and heat and dehydration will drive you mad or kill you or both in one order or another. Other tribes are as likely to trade with you as attack you via anon asks. Sometimes staff brings about unilveable sandstorms and draughts.

Neil Gaiman is the nomadic poet sage that everyone consults on everything from the meaning of life to cooking their meals. He's usually surrounded by the possy of five fenec foxes.

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Meanwhile, at Twitter...

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Every recent follower here is a spam account

Make of that what you will.

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Doug wasn’t even alive when dial-up was a thing, but he knows your website is slower than Geocities in 1999.

Doug wants you to check out Jetpack. It’ll make your site fast. ⚡️

Peeking at the #FreeDumbConvoy from sidelines, Canadian Pride Flag and microphone at the ready. @OCCTranspo covering it well. No counter needed, as they don't even have a protest formed. Their dance moves are atrocious tho, maybe we can protest those (at Ottawa, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoAv6z-OYki/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#freedumbconvoy

Right cards, right place, right time. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn735rjgcWb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Satisfying the inner child (at Tampa International Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnwuo79r9pJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK shit damn omg what a mistake ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh (at The RITZ Ybor) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnvOAx9P3bv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Sole mates ❤️ #hokusai #docmartens https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnnp-FnDL4O/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Coasterin' in Style (at Bush Gardens Tampa Fl) https://www.instagram.com/p/CniF_xBADo9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Found one napping with turtles! (at Bush Gardens Tampa Fl) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnhhuJfu62c/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

DS9, made of toothpicks, no placard required. (at MOSI) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnfoKKILyAB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

the sand on the beaches of Siesta Key consists of 99% quartz, flowed down over millions of years from the Appalachian range. can confirm, as soft as flour, as fine as sugar, though tastes like neither of the two! (at Siesta Key, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnc712Qg5NN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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