It'll all be okay. You'll be okay. You just have to do more math. Do more math and everything will turn out alright. You'll see. You'll be alright. Chin up. There's math to do. You'll be fine.
‘You ask me that as if you expect a different answer this time.’
“It could be.”
‘It’s not.’
A silence lapsed between the Eldritch and other, rigid and fake in the comfort it offered. Wing wasn’t looking up; couldn’t. His gaze was firmly locked on the unlit cigarette he had been holding the entire time, poised as a delicate distraction between black claws.
“Are you dreaming now?”
A soft draw of air. A sigh.
Wing rubbed his broken face with his free hand.
‘I don’t know anymore. Dreams are real, reality is fake, and I don’t know up from down. I’m scared of finding out I’m asleep and coming to a waking world not mine.’
Another silence ( except it wasn’t because the scratching of the pen swallowed it ).
“Wing, I want you to look at me.”
‘I can’t. I—‘
“I’m not asking.”
Wincing at tone and timbre, the Eldritch looked up
and up
and up
and up
and up
and up
and
and
and
a n d
a n d
He was there, standing on the precipice of his legacy. The way the Core heaved and groaned around him was a barely contained beast. The wind —he was so far up— whipped, exhaust mixing with the rising heat of the lava the Core depended on.
He had turned to say scream something.
It is so loud.
It was so loud.
He was supposed to have fallen. But the hand this time grabbed his wrist. In
“Are you dreaming now?”
Teeth and eyes. All around him as a writhing mass. He could hear their silence.
They’re plotting. Run. RUN
He had to make himself invisible. Small. A single space. Curled in on himself.
He didn’t mean it. Limbs that don’t move— he had them. They were bearing down. He was too much a liability. He swear he didn’t mean it. He had to hide. They were looking for him. He kept his head down, not knowing why the colours shifted. He wasn’t aware yet.
But they passed over him.
Something he thought was a laugh crawled from his throat.
“Are you dreaming now?”
The clock ticked patiently, soothing raw nerves with its expected monotony. There was no pressure to the question. Just a gentle curiosity that lingered behind lips.
Wing drew the cigarette to his fangs. Paused. Blinked.
The etchings were almost to his wrist. Intimate stories and memories sacred to himself and the one who carved them. They grounded him and when he breathed, it was with his chest.
‘First the fuck of all, unless this yahoo has some magical fucking boosters on multiple parts of this ship, you’re not going to be instantaneously changing directions in.’
‘Fucking.’
‘Space.’
‘And let’s say he DID have multiple engines on all parts of the craft, even small ones to create adjustments to the trajectory. Which really would be the most logical thing to do, and then allowing the main thrusters to continue the path— the weight of the fuel alone would make it beyond unrealistic. That’s an aside. A very far away aside.’
‘And a second quick point to that aside, doing something like that would not be a quick and instantaneous shift in direction.’
‘Travel does not exist and cease in an instant in the vacuum of space. You can’t apply the same laws of physics of flying something like a plane on Earth— which I am assuming is the writer’s reference point— to a space ship in a vacuum where there’s no fixed frame of reference, there’s no gravitational pull outside the planets, stars, and satellites, there’s nothing that will demand the craft to behave as, say, a jet in Earth’s lower stratosphere. Which is where you see those quick maneuvers performed. The air is thinner, you can fly faster, but the laws of fucking gravity still apply.’
‘No engine in space is capable of an immediate stop because immediate stops don’t exist in space. As I said before, there’s no fixed frame of reference in the universe. Side note, it’s why the humans that go up in space complain about spatial problems. You don’t have a sense of direction when there’s no direction. You can’t immediately stop in space because there’s no reference for that stopping point.’
‘Don’t treat the fucking universe like a planet.’
‘It would have been slightly more realistic to talk about using the pull of the asteroids to change the direction of the ship.’
‘Slightly.’
‘A forgivable degree of slightly more realistic than whatever fucking bullshit the writer is on about with quick change maneuvers by- checks notes -a single set of thrusters.’
So, Video Game Voice Actors Are On Strike: A Quick and Dirty Guide for Tumblr Users
Starting on July 26th, SAG-AFTRA members that are part of the Interactive Media Agreement (so mostly voice actors for video games) will be on strike. If you're a member of SAG-AFTRA with questions, I would speak to them.
Most of this information is coming from the SAG-AFTRA website, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about anything or ask if you need anything.
If you are a random tumblr user who wants to know what's going on, here we go.
Why are video game voice actors striking?
AI, as one could expect. From the union's statement:
Although agreements have been reached on many issues important to SAG-AFTRA members, the employers refuse to plainly affirm, in clear and enforceable language, that they will protect all performers covered by this contract in their A.I. language.
Which Games Are Being Struck?
Games from: Activision Productions Inc., Blindlight LLC, Disney Character Voices Inc., Electronic Arts Productions Inc., Formosa Interactive LLC, Insomniac Games Inc., Llama Productions LLC, Take 2 Productions Inc., VoiceWorks Productions Inc., and WB Games Inc. are all being struck.
There is also a website to confirm which union projects are being struck but you'd need to be a member actively working on it to use it.
Ok so I'm not a voice actor, union or otherwise, I just like games. What should I do.
I can NOT stress this enough. Do NOT stop playing games. The union has not asked for this, and is instead asking for people to amplify our messages online using #LevelUpTheContract, #VideoGameStrike and #SagAftraStrong."
You can also sign this petition in support of voice actors getting a fair deal.
I'm not a union representative but if a game you're looking forward to is being covered by the struck companies, I'd blow up your social media and their mentions with how much you love the voice acting and the actors deserve a fair contract, but other than that you are not being asked to boycott any games or not cosplay or attend events.
A Streamer is playing a struck game! Is that crossing the picket line?
No, SAG-AFTRA explicitly says that is fine, and in fact encourages it.
An actor is promoting/promoted a struck work at SDCC, is that crossing the picket line?
No, the statement explicitly says those attending SDCC can still do work there because of the short notice, they are also fine.
Wait didn't SAG-AFTRA already do some weird bullshit regarding video game voice actors and AI?
Yes, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, SAG-AFTRA signed a deal with Replica AI to allow their members to create digital replicas, it was a whole thing and many voice actors were pissed.
So they're hypocrites?
Ok it's more complicated than that. Their logic for the Replica AI thing is rather than allow companies to do whatever they want, it was better to have a system in place to be able to clearly say when a company was breaking the rules and ensure that talent got some compensation.
We can debate the efficacy of that strategy all day and voice actors at the time were not happy, BUT the companies being struck here refuse to even rise to THAT standard and will not agree to the most basic protections for actors, which is worse.
People and organizations contain multitudes and it is not a betrayal or hypocritical to disagree with SAG-AFTRA leadership on the Replica AI situation and side with them, and more importantly their members in this case.
Why aren't game devs striking/ It's not devs on strike so I don't care
The Screen Actors Guild covers actors, so it would not be in everyone's best interest if they were to try and negotiate on behalf of people in different fields with different needs.
However, one way to build support for the various movements to unionize at places like Activision-Blizzard and Bethesda is to support labor movements everywhere and show solidarity whenever it comes up.
Why are the actors striking when the developers should be paid more.
They should be paid more! And they should not be laid off as much. One way to help with that is to be able to point to voice actors and say, hey they got a raise, I want one too.
I want to do unethical psychological experiments on you, break you down mentally without ever laying a hand on you. And right when you are about to break I'm going to vivisect you. I think you would just be so precious in such a vulnerable state~
You go right on and try, but when you're done trying I'm going to spit in your mouth and do the same to you, but baby I'll break you right in half. You ain't worse than what I already dealt with.
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