Oddly enough, the best and simplest summary of what the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are about is contained in this extremely sweary Phil Jupitus cartoon. People have been asking me to summarize. This does the job.
(Can someone do the alt text?) I’ll do it as a picture and as a link.
[ID: A nine panel webcomic posted by Phil Jupitus @/phillipjupitus7276 on Instagram.
The first panel reads “Mark Ruffalo and his Sweary Buffalo” in bubble writing with an angry cartoon buffalo saying “Monkey Cock”. All the ensuing panels are a conversation between Ruffalo and the buffalo on a red background with speech bubbles.
Ruffalo: Oh blimey! The Screen Actors Guild have called a strike! And me about to pay for speech therapy for my sweary buffalo!
Buffalo: Shit the bed!
(Ruffalo is now wearing a black shirt that says “Hell no, we won’t appear on your show” and holding a black sign that reads SAG AFTRA WGA STRIKE.)
Ruffalo: As much as I would like to curtail my ungulate’s potty mouth, the strike has to take precedence
Buffalo: Great big sweaty bollocks
(Ruffalo’s shirt now says “Mark Smash”)
Ruffalo: What the industry fails to address is the changing way the consumer is granted access to the labour of both actors and writers
Buffalo: Knob cheese
(Ruffalo’s shirt now says “Act Up!”)
Ruffalo: The fact that the payment model for residuals has not been properly adjusted to take into consideration the way that viewers now access content is a major issue
Buffalo: TIt wank tit wank tit wank
(Ruffalo’s shirt now says “Actor-vist”)
Ruffalo: Also the implications of AI and ownership of the image of an individual requires clarification
Buffalo: Buggery fucktwat
(Ruffalo’s shirt now says “Unionize”)
Ruffalo: Another sticking point is that streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney Plus will not share viewing figures…
Buffalo: Shit prick turd balls
(Ruffalo’s shirt now says “Fuck the algorithm”)
Ruffalo: One industry organisation actually proposed scanning actors and owning their very likenesses for future projects without consent or compensation.
Buffalo: Fucksticks
Ruffalo: The issues are complex at least. But producers and studios need to recognise that a proper debate must take place with the unions.
Buffalo: Management are CUNTS
/End ID]
Thank you for spreading the message, Neil! As a fellow screenwriter (non-WGA but still supporting), this is important and a great comic.
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hey, so, i feel weird promoting this, but you know how the collective we of tumblr are always like, someone should write a cookbook that’s actually easy? i did the thing, just in time for gross summer heat/seasonal affective disorder, depending on the hemisphere, to kick in.
Cooking is terrible, and food is often a massive pain in the ass. Eating is sometimes ok, sometimes a giant drag, and somehow still a thing that you have to do multiple times a day, which seems enormously unfair.
This book isn’t going to teach you how to cook, or turn you into the kind of person who hosts effortless dinner parties, or make you more attractive and popular and interesting. At best, it’s going to make it slightly more likely that you manage to eat something in the ten minutes between walking in the door and falling into the sweet embrace of the internet. I’m not joking—a lot of this can be done, start to finish, in ten to fifteen minutes. I resent thirty-minute meals because it feels like about twenty-eight minutes too long to spend on feeding myself.
If you’re excited to get home from work and spend an hour cooking dinner, this isn’t the book for you. If you really value authenticity, this isn’t the book for you. If you literally only eat three foods and you’re happy like that, this isn’t the book for you. If you, like me, are tired and depressed and just need to get some food into your face once in a while, this is definitely the book for you. You should buy it. Maybe it’ll help.
anyhow, you can buy it for $5 on amazon (for kindle files) and gumroad (for a pdf and epub), and any money earned goes towards things like paying my rent and buying groceries.
i’m disabled and mentally ill and a single parent, and i’d love to be excited about food, but most of the time, it’s just an inconvenient thing i gotta do to stay alive. i wrote this for people who’re kinda like me. i hope that maybe it helps someone.
I’ve read this, and it’s super useful– a whole lot of lists and easy to make meals that are better than eating nothing, again, for the sixth time this week because everything is too many.
I suspect it’ll be super useful to a lot of y’all– brain weasels suck, and being out of ideas for food sucks, and being hungry because you open the fridge and then stare at everything and cry because it’s too many to work out what food is super sucks
Now that I bought it and read it, it really is just the thing I wanted.
I know how to cook and like cooking and there’s some actual cooking recipes in here, but when you’re someone whose mind just conks out completely for no reason, it really does help to have somebody suggest things as simple as “hey, nut butter and cucumbers go good on bread together, try that”
some pet portraits from 2021 that i dont think i posted, on the left is Angus and on the right is Momma Mora (Angus’ mom). they were 2 out of 5 pet portraits i did for a lovely client. she has 4 rescue kitties and one dog and we came up with outfits to match their personalities. challenging but fun !!
Expecting her to be repelled by it, I let her check it out. She wiggled her antennae all over it before shoving her face right into it with the fervor of a five-year-old sugar addict. Sean managed to snap a shot of the moment!
Apparently it’s not “bad” for her, but too much sugar can’t be very ‘good’ either! Though, I’m have a feeling that she would insist otherwise if she were capable of doing so.
just in case anyone missed this in the news or maybe not in the loop, Disney is currently refusing to meet with or acknowledge the newly formed animation production workers union that just voted to join IASTE and become an official part of TAG, the animators and animation artists guild
production workers across all studios are currently voting to be recognized for their hard work and invaluable skill at keeping these productions running, but studios are refusing to meet with them to let them negotiate deals or even exist
as someone who works in animation as a designer i know i wouldn’t be able to do my job at all without any of my production workers. they are the incredibly hard working people who oversee pretty much everything in animation. they make sure everything is running on time, that schedules are being followed, they have to know pretty much every single word of the scripts and beats from the storyboards to make sure nothing is missed, and most importantly, they make sure artists are being taken care of and not overworked. they really are the unsung heroes of the animation world
production workers are also by far the most exploited workers in animation currently. they make about a fraction of what artists make for just as much work put in, and currently have no agreement for health coverage or other benefits that artists protected by the union are guaranteed
BUT! there is some good news. right now there’s a petition on IATSE’s website that has over 80,000 signatures currently addressed to disney leadership to do the right thing and meet with this new union and recognized their vote to form. it still needs roughly 21,000 signatures and only takes a minute to sign! anyone with a zip or postal code can sign, meaning both US and Canadian residents can sign and help this union get the deal it deserves!!
My friend and I started a podcast recently where we discuss the Marvel Cinematic Universe and fanfiction related to Marvel. At first we didn’t think the strike would relate to our independent project and we’ve planned to dedicate the beginning of our next episode to aline our support for the strike.
But since our podcast is fan promotion for Marvel we are wondering if it would be better to pause.
If you have a podcast where you are contracted as an influencer to promote a studio, then you should absolutely stop.
If you are making a fan podcast about Marvel movies then there’s no reason to stop and every reason to talk in each episode about the strike and what it’s about, and how Marvel movies have so far made over 28 billion dollars in profit, and that the Writers Demands could be settled with about half a percent of those profits.
