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ryaangosling:

“Now i’m entering my 40s and I can start talking like an adult” - Happy birthday Sebastian Stan! (August 13th, 1982)

It’s not even Sad Hours yet, but it IS mid-August and I always get this way in mid-August, so feel free to ignore –

I feel very meaningless lately. I don’t feel like I have a place in fandom even though I pour so much of myself into trying to be generally nice to people and generally a maker of things, but like, nobody wants the things I make anymore and I’m not sure where I went wrong. Maybe I just got incredibly spoiled in THG and 1D, and even to some extent Star Wars, that people were interested in the things that I know how to make and put out into the world. But interactions have been decreasing for years and now are virtually nothing, and I KNOW stucky has an audience so even though I know it’s not personal-personal, it does really hurt that apparently there’s just not an audience for me. I love my story and the majority of stuckies I’ve met, and I still feel like –

I don’t know. I feel like at this juncture in time, no one would really notice or care if I disappeared, and I’m maybe dickishly not used to feeling like that. I just don’t think that I matter all that much to anyone specific or to anyone, general, in the community that I have chosen to put my heart into. And it’s bumming me out.

It’s probably just that it’s August, I just am really sad. And slightly existential crisis ish. And it’s over people not reading a fic I knew no one would read! I’m the worst! Ack!

thebibliosphere:

jabberwockypie:

roach-works:

dduane:

neil-gaiman:

Nothing’s wrong with a writer doing other jobs to make ends meet. Writers and artists have been doing that since the dawn of time. Actors too.

But by the same token, there’s nothing right about assuming that writing isn’t a blue-collar job, or that writers and other people who make art can only make it for love and that thus they need other jobs to subsidise their craft.

I like living in a world in which the people who make the things that make the world worth living in get paid for their work. For me, that includes the people who make films and TV, books, art and music and comics.

Having spent a lot of time on film and TV sets, it’s a blue-collar world on set, and everyone is working long and hard to make the shows you love. I’m never going to suggest that the riggers or the gaffers or the make-up team or the focus-pullers should drive ubers in order to have the privilege of being on the set and working there.

Or to put it another way, from the most blue-collar writer I ever knew…

The issue about the strike isn’t about having a more privileged life than blue-collar people. It’s about having sort of, please gods, as privileged a life as blue-collar people… while doing both that work (to support ourselves) and another kind of work from which those who do it never get a day off, from the moment we start it until the day we die.

Not one.

Because Story will wake you up for attention on your days off, on your weekends, on your holidays (as if 95% of writers ever have any!). And as for the waking hours, they’re already toast. Story will interrupt you over your coffee while you’re hardly even conscious, in the middle of your normal day’s paperwork, at lunch (if you can afford or are allowed time for any), in the throes of orgasm with your spouse. It will haunt you while you’re changing out people’s catheter bags, and come up to surprise you in the middle of an average workday (per a discussion about the Battle of Salamis that I had with a specialist while resecting someone’s colon). It will leave you in tears, once again, while wrapping yet another patient’s dead body.

Plainly the side of the arts in which you’ve been working isn’t Story. Otherwise we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

If you haven’t been paying attention to the increasing levels of crap that US-based writers (and, also, others elsewhere) have been dealing with… you need to seek out some education at best speed.

Most of us are lower-paid and (to judge by our income) lower- or middle-class. For the last half-century or so, thousands of writers whose labors you’ve enjoyed have worked in a storytelling ecology that’s supported the vast majority of independent/freelance screen storytellers in making a modest or supplemental living. (For example: my only Star Trek: The Next Generation script earned me about $14,000 [my split of $28K with my co-writer]. After that, low-and-dwindling yearly residuals in the low 4 figures continued for some years after. That’s long done, now… but it bought a lot of groceries and cat food while it lasted, while I was also working other jobs.)

That ecology, though, has steadily had the blood sucked out of it with the shift to streaming—when the streamers told us, at the last Guild negotiations, “Nobody knows if this’ll work. We’ll make it up to you later if it does…!”).

…Guess what? It worked. And now they don’t want to make it up to us. (And somehow it’s hard to be surprised.)

The old writer-payment ecology, as a result, is gone. It’s not as if our stories are worth less than they were. (Indeed, evidence suggests far otherwise.) It’s not as if the Earth’s orbit’s changed, or something’s occurred that’s had nothing to do with human actions. It’s because rich people at the top of rich studios and streaming companies have decided they’ve got better use for the companies’ billions of [insert favorite currency, it doesn’t matter which one] than fairly paying their writers.

Some of us actually remember how things were before a workable system was broken, and can compare them to how they are now… bearing in mind what we were promised. As a result, better-known storytellers like Neil (and others: it’s too late in the evening for me to do your homework for you…) are on strike now to assist those of us who’re not so well known. People like me, for whom $14,000, spread over a whole year (or two, or three, or five…) made a big difference in our lives… not like the few hundred dollars now being offered to writers who’ve done a whole lot more work over a far shorter term.

In the larger sense: it’d be just lovely if the world were so arranged that all of us who prefer to mostly do creative work—because it’s what we know best, and do best—were easily able to share (perceived) middle-class labor time around with those who don’t do it (like something out of Le Guin’s The Dispossessed). …Though most of us have also been doing second or third jobs as well. I don’t know any writer who’s grudged that if it meant also being able to do the work we love best.

It’d also be lovely if those whose privilege (as per your description) allows them access to higher education could understand the challenges of those whose situation didn’t allow them anything of the kind. For example: I was lucky enough to pull down a Science and Nursing scholarship at the end of high school… otherwise my lower-middle-class family’s finances couldn’t have afforded me any other higher education at all. I happily worked to support myself all during my nursing training, and special-duty nursing kept me alive until my first few novels sold and made enough to kept me afloat.

That was just fine…for me. But I don’t see why writers more talented than I (and who can tell who they are?), who’ve got more than I have to give to the world, should have to work two or three jobs to support their writing.

And I don’t see why, having lived through the multiple-job bullshit, your vision should supersede other, less onerous ones. I mean, I’m sorry for the stuff you went through… but don’t see any reason why others should need to go through the same. (“I suffered for my art. Now it’s your turn…” is so 1970s.)

Anyway. For the time being, everyday working writers are fighting that corner right now, the only way we can: by withdrawing our middle-class [by definition of middle-or-low-five-figure-USD$] labor from the people making themselves rich off it. And isn’t it funny that the people from whom we’ve withdrawn it are so desperately trying—via AI, etc.—to find a way to do without our labor entirely? (As if what would pass for daily donut money for most series is somehow too expensive…?) It kinda indicates that (color-of-collar) class isn’t at all the issue here.

Understandable, then, that you might be glad you’re retired… and not down in the trenches with the rest of us. Those of us still working hard to survive (including me, still writing at 71 despite theoretical “retirement ages"—impossible for us to consider in this "new world” economy…) hope to survive long enough, if we’re as lucky as you, to eventually, have something similar.

Meanwhile, those of us who weave stories for the entertainment of those around us would just like to make enough from this work to buy groceries and pay our electric bills and feed our spouses (for those of us who have spouses), or kids (those of us who have kids). …Or cats. (etc) You know: the kind of things that ordinary blue-collar people have.

And for their sake: just as the writers before us (in the 1960s) fought for the right to the then-revolutionary concept of residuals, we fight. Not just for ourselves, but for the writers to come after us, who also have spouses and kids*… and tales worth telling.

*And cats.

what an insanely self-centered, mean-spirited, ignorant take that asker has. i’m also an artist and a writer and i work a blue-collar job to make ends meet. and the thing is that i have a five year gap in my creative output because A FULL TIME JOB IS A FULL TIME JOB. i was working 50-60 hour workweeks and taking 2-4 aspirin a day and regularly blowing up at my friends and partner from the sheer stress of always always always being exhausted and hurting. i wasn’t writing. i wasn’t drawing. i wasn’t sewing, or sculpting. after awhile i wasn’t even reading. 

that changed when i got a job that was strictly 8 hours a day, not 10, not 12, and with enough time here and there to type on my phone. i’ve since written a 100k novel in about a year.

so: creative work is work. physical labor is work. BOTH OF THEM ARE WORK. the 40 hour work-week is already too long to be physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy, even though some of us are lucky enough to be able to withstand these harsh working conditions for years and even scrape up a little spare time for extra work on top of that.

but you go and expect creative folk to write, draw, dance, act, sing, film, edit, at 60 hours a week, 80, 90? unpaid? for the love of it? it’s work. you want their work for free because you don’t want to pay them? because when you do it voluntarily on your own, you don’t ask for money?

because you want to read a book and know that somewhere on the other side, a stranger wrote it just for you as a beautiful sacrificial gift of creative love, and not that they actually won themselves financial comfort and security with their labor and skill? fuck off.

im blisteringly angry about this. writing should pay a living wage. drawing should pay a living wage. editing, sculpting, propmaking, sound mixing, songwriting, all of these. they’re work. they’re jobs. and jobs should pay.

Also, IQ testing is both deeply flawed and based in eugenics and you should probably disregard people who try to cite their IQ as any serious indicator of anything beyond being good at taking IQ tests - and I say this as somebody who tests higher than the person sending that ask does.

Absolutely baffled by the take that because you suffered others should also suffer.

Like what is the point of being on this rock hurtling through space if not to leave behind a better world than the one you has to endure?

aemma-arryn:

FLORENCE PUGH as YELENA BELOVA
Black Widow (2021) dir. Cate Shortland

xcziel:

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tribow:

titenoute:

sonic-wildfire:

PSA

If you happen to stumble upon an ad that looks like this, DO NOT SCROLL DOWN.

The rest of the ad is a very tall GIF of strobing red light that can potentially cause seizures. You cannot scroll past this ad quickly enough to avoid seeing it.

There seems to be no way to report the ad, so the next best thing is to use an adblocker (if you haven’t already) or even stay off the mobile app.

Please reblog to help spread awareness.

@staff if you can’t check on the adds you are let go on this website, you have to let us report them.

At this point it is actually becoming a matter of health and safety.

Okay but everyone CAN report this. Go to Tumblr’s Help Center and make them aware of it that way. Report exactly what is happening there. You’re able to attach images to your report as well.

It’s important to make sure Tumblr’s community is aware of course, but it’s just as important to use the resources staff provide to message them directly. Don’t just @staff like some kind of Discord ping. This doesn’t reach them.

Filling out a quick form in the Help Center will

You’re right, I’m doing that right now.
However, maybe people are not going on the Help Center because it’s not exactly obvious that they can or should go there for this kind of complain.
(btw guys, go on pc for this, I have yet to find where to go the help center on the app. Fill your report under “something else”)

If we can report spams in one click, the same should be possible with adds.

Not only that’d be easier on the users, but to the staff too. If the adds were flagged directly for the staff to review, rather than having to find it manually, that’d make things easier for everyone.

Help Center on mobile:

go to account settings

scroll all the way to the bottom to Help

click on Contact Support

everythingfox:

Croissant 🥐

thisweekinfandomhistory:

We did a photo shoot for the podcast today! Come see us tomorrow at Fan Expo Chicago and say hello!!!

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

Update: The fradulent titles were removed by Goodreads and Amazon under pressure from the author community. However, because there’s a chance this just happened due to the bad publicity, she also linked The Author’s Guild for other authors who might have their names stolen for fake books, but who might not have the connections she has or the luck to go viral.

transformativeworks:

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nonasuch:

myautisticpov:

bananonbinary:

prokopetz:

What y’all think ‘gifted child’ discourse is saying: I used to be special and now I’m not and that makes me sad.

What ‘gifted child’ discourse is ACTUALLY saying: The way many educational systems treat children who’ve been identified as ‘gifted’ is actively harmful in that it a. obliges kids to give up socialising with their same-age peers in favour of constantly courting the approval of adult ‘mentors’ who mostly don’t give a shit about them, b. demands that they tie their entire identity to a set of standards that’s not merely unsustainable, but intentionally so, because its unstated purpose is to weed out the ‘unworthy’ rather than to provide useful goals for self-improvement, and c. denies them opportunities to learn useful life skills in favour of training them up in an excruciatingly narrow academic skill-set that’s basically useless outside of an institutional career path that the vast majority of them will never be allowed to pursue.

also: the way “gifted” children are taught largely just rewards them for already knowing things or having a specific skill come easily to them, and thus not only gives them severe anxiety about asking for help or not knowing something right away for fear of disappointing those adult mentors, but also actively discourages them from learning HOW to learn things and pick up new skills, thus sabotaging any life they might try to pursue outside of that institutional career.

Plus, not only is it possible to be “twice exceptional” - aka “gifted” and have a disability that can make learning more difficult - if you’re “gifted”, people usually don’t notice you have a disability.

So you spend your life split between being academically smart and then also unable to do basic, day-to-day functions and being told that you’re “too smart to struggle with this”.

Like, I do believe that neurotypical “gifted” kids are also fucked up by the system, but the majority of people who I personally know who complained about the system turned out to be neurodivergent in some way but didn’t know when they originally started in “gifted child” discourse.

And I’m going to take a stab and say that the people hit the hardest by this are probably women with ADHD, as their presentation usually looks like their life falling apart at/post-uni.

So you can spend your entire life being told you’re definitely going to succeed - and usually you’re pushed to specific career/life goals - and then overnight, your life falls apart and you can’t figure out why.

And I’m going to take a stab and say that the people hit the hardest by this are probably women with ADHD, as their presentation usually looks like their life falling apart at/post-uni.

trupowieszcz:

trupowieszcz:

does anyone know if i can like block sites from appearing in my google images searches??? i keep getting those awful ai generated things with a hand coming out of a man’s neck and just straight up not what i was looking for, because this was in a search for “curly hair in medieval paintings”. it happens every time i search for anything vaguely art-reference-like and it’s so fucking annoying and it clutters my search results so much. i don’t wanna add specific commands to the query every time too, what i need is like a browser extension or something

uBlacklist – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download uBlacklist for Firefox. Blocks sites you specify from appearing in Google search results

addons.mozilla.org

okay i found one! it works! everyone come get your blacklist 👍👍👍

imsfire2:

Dear staff,

Please give us the option to turn off Tumblr Live for more than a week. As in, permanently.

I don’t want to have a dash where once a week the header turns into six buxom-but-vaguely-fake-looking people with cringey sub-porno usernames. I don’t want that - FULL STOP.

It’s not “maybe next week this user will want the porn bots”. THIS USER DOES NOT WANT THEM AT ALL, FULL STOP.

And not because I’m anti porn or anti sex. I just don’t want it shoved in my face without my say-so. Especially not by bots.

It makes no sense to maintain the boob ban and yet to have created - and forced upon us - this feature which has clearly instantly become the go-to for porn bots.

ms-musers:

Clark Kent, trying to leave a gala he’s covering: Ope, just gonna squeeze right past you.

Bruce Wayne, who heard Superman say the same thing at a Justice League meeting that morning: No fucking way

djo:

JOE KEERY
for Interview Magazine (2020)

freezing-and-i-fall: