A gorgeous, talented Black girl on TikTok independently released a single with a music video for it that’s probably one of the few songs I could describe as Goth Pop, both by the sound itself and by her being clearly versed in the goth subculture, and she’s getting so many mean comments. The song is good, she dances gothly and beautifully, her voice is very soft and sweet. Pay her a listen!
This is literally the most heart warming story I have read on Twitter so far.
I think this is exactly what friends should do, and I feel everyone deserves people like this.
A barn rasing:
a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community.
because you cannot, you CANNOT, build a barn on your own, and without it, you will not be able to survive.
What a fuckin’ gem of a sentence. “What we did today was a barn rasin”
i think that very last line is what a LOT more people need to fully digest. there’s this romance around friendship that it should be perfect and smooth and unproblematic at all times but that isn’t what being a friend is. that isn’t what a normal connection with another human being is. sometimes you NEED to do things that might not end well for you personally, in order to be a friend to your friend. sometimes you’ve got to be willing to face serious consequences to help, to save your friend’s life in the way they need saving at that moment.
being a friend takes commitment. a willingness to take that risk.
In case you missed it, SAG-AFTRA just finished up a press conference where they talked to union members and the press about what’s up.
Here are the big things (that I remember):
The deadline extension from June 30 to July 12 was made in good faith on SAG-AFTRA’s part. They thought the AMPTP would utilize the extra time to come to the table with a fair deal. They did not. It is suspected that they wanted the extension to have more time to promote their summer blockbusters.
The studios wanted to be able to have AI scans of background actors. These actors would be paid once, and then the studios would be able to keep the actors’ likeness, use the data for eternity without the actors’ consent, and never pay them again. Keep in mind that only two percent of SAG-AFTRA members are big names. This proposal would’ve affected the other ninety-eight percent of members, many of whom are living paycheck to paycheck at the moment.
The AMPTP tried to turn union membership against Fran Drescher (current union president) by circulating a picture of her “living it up” in Italy with Kim Kardashian. This was a work obligation on Drescher’s part. She’s a brand ambassador for a fashion line, and whenever she wasn’t on set, she was working with the negotiation committee via Zoom and text.
The video that was sent out to union members on June 28, in which they were told that the negotiations were going well, was filmed before the negotiations got to the core issues – AI, residuals, etc.
The AMPTP’s deal was “disrespectful and egregious.”
The other labor unions in the industry stand in solidarity with each other.
Fran Drescher called the AMPTP’s plan to wait out the WGA until they were homeless “unnecessary evil.”
While SAG-AFTRA is open to returning to the negotiating table at any time, leadership was signaled that the AMPTP was not interested; they believe the strike could last for a while.
“i wish i could do something 😔 / i wish the wga had a kickstarter or a gofundme, i would throw money at it” good news! it’s amazing how you can literally go onto the wga strike website or the wgawest linktree from their twitter and find links to support writers and other workers affected by the strike
me for the first 33 years of my life: my dad used to say “what would happen if you woke up on the titanic?? think about it” when he was tucking me in at night from at least age 5 and up, a form of psychological torture
me in my 33rd year of life: my dad optimistically thought i would have $250k to blow on something stupid by now and shut that shit down at the jump in the 90s
this was his response 5 seconds later
[ID: a screenshot of two text messages. Blue reads, “Thanks for scaring me with the titanic when I was little so I never spent $250k exploding in a glorified Pringle’s can at the bottom of the ocean.” Grey says in response, “You’re welcome. I knew.” /end ID]
here’s my one whole discourse post for pride month. you fucks will never ever ever wean off the radfem shit if you keep trying to give “cis men are evil” nuance. no, it’s not bad because they could be closeted or questioning, it’s bad because gender essentialism is a fucking brain poison and it makes you stupid
this is “not all men” cloaked in progressive-sounding vocabulary
