#wga-w

[dynamoe]

via twitter

#WGA PROTEST #WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA #WGA STRIKE #wga-west #wga-w #arrested development

[presidentalpaca]

From: Adam Conover ("Adam Ruins Everything")

"Instead of negotiating with us, Netflix decided to open an overpriced restaurant. Here's what we did in front of it. Starring the incomparable Adam Lustick, with concept and props by WGA writer Shawn Wines."

#netflix is nuts for this lmao. what is wrong w them??? 🤦‍♀️ #wga strike #wga #wga strong #union #writers strike #unionize #adam ruins everything #adam conover #adam lustick #shawn wines #netflix #babbles

[hermanunworthy]

me and @biirbi went to dnd picketing day today in support of the wga strike!! not only did we get to participate in a dnd game dmed by BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN, but i got to MEET THE CAST OF DNDADS!!!! (ft the hermie normal and scary dolls zoe made :D)

"this is the only way we can get hermie and normal together bc anthony is never gonna let it happen" -will

#I CANT BELIEVE I GOT TO TALK W THEM ALL OMGGG #i was so nervous but i am so so happy #i unfortunately forgot to mention that i was the one who made the playing cards for them at the la show though 💔 #dungeons and daddies #dndads #dnd picketing day #dnd #wga strike #wga solidarity #siren says

[boogieboba]

As someone who is dipping their toes into the possibility of screenwriting, I’m 100% on board with the WGA strike. Even if I wasn’t a writer, even if I wasn’t planning on going into the entertainment industry, even if I didn’t give two shits about Hollywood, I would still support the strike. People deserve to be treated like people, not as content machines.

#wga strong #wga strike #cant wait to see how these corporations shit their pants trying to deal w this

[dixidin]

Even though I never post stuff like this

Congratulations to everyone in the writers' strike for reaching an agreement in your contract. I hope everything goes amazing, you all deserved that win, and I hope that all the other strikes will have a successful win as well :)

#WOHOOOO #MASSIVE W RIGHT HERE BOYSSSS #Also sorry if this doesn't make sense. I don't understand how to word this😭 #wga strike #writers strike #wga strong #support the wga #wga solidarity

[time-is-restored]

ted lasso 3x11

got through the latest episode tonight, below are unassorted ramblings abt a kansas ending (which i, despite being almost certain is where the show is heading, am still ardently rooting against):

so i was talking a little with my family abt the extremely likely kansas ending*, and was mentioning how much i really don't vibe with it. i said smth like 'i mean, what's even there for him in kansas?' to which they said (fairly, and rightfully!) 'his son!'. like, that's a pretty bulletproof argument, so i guess im just writing this to figure out why i feel like even that isn't. idk. enough?

[*though if that is the ending, what's the point of the cliffhanger? it's the most obvious + expected outcome, how would it be a 'reveal'? idk, some part of me is still praying for one of those classic Twists™ ig]

like. we've known that ted has a kid since day one. we've known that he loves + misses that kid since day one. according to the text, the number one reason ted left kansas was as a last ditch effort to save his marriage, by giving michelle as much space as humanly possible. they were divorced by the middle of the season, and ted chose to stay at the end.

so like. idk. am i missing something? did he just stay bc he felt an obligation to the team? and now that they're doing well (absurdly, breaking the bounds of belief well), he feels okay moving on? like many ppl have already pointed out, that's a pretty standard plot line in these kind of stories: the mary poppin's style exit stage right. but, say ted goes home (potentially even without beard???? agh??). what's happened to him, these past few seasons? what's different now?

like, it kind of feels like im only gonna be hurt by reading in between the lines here, but kansas doesn't seem to hold a lot of good associations for ted w/o the bedrock of his + michelle's marriage. he's reduced to a morose, spaced out mess within 5 minutes of talking with his mother, he very nearly goes through the Extremely fucked up move of paying someone to spy on michelle after seeing her + jake together for an afternoon, and ofc if anything even remotely reminds him of his dad he gets triggered really badly.

and of course, maybe the idea is 'well, he's started to cope with that all now, and he's starting to talk openly with his mum + grieve his dad, so he has the tools to return' but like. does he???? his support system are EXTREMELY london based. setting aside sharon since he could always telehealth w her, all of the positive progress he's made in his 'home' life seem to exclusively come after he talks w his support group at richmond.

he ended up admitting he was mad at michelle after speaking with the diamond dogs, he was pulled out of his obsessive spiral by rebecca, and he was able to put words to his feelings abt his mum by talking w jamie. to be clear, those are all massively positive things for ted to have done, and i think they at least make a good case for ted progressive positively w his mental health (even if its all gotten a bit tell don't show in this last season). but like. what happens when all that's on the other side of an ocean?

to be clear, from the perspective of real life, it absolutely makes sense that ted would want to return to his son. but on a narrative level, im just. i feel like im being expected to take certain things about ted + henry's relationship for granted, when the text itself hasn't even tried to make those things apparent.

is henry miserable or even generally upset when he has to leave his dad/go back to his mum? not that we ever see! im pretty sure the only time we've seen henry explicitly upset is when ted was ignoring him while he was like five feet away which, yeah, mood! and last we saw, henry even sees more enthused abt richmond winning the whole thing than ted is, so its not like he thinks his dad is just going away to do absolutely nothing of import.

do ted and henry not spend a lot of time together/talk very often? technically we don't see enough of ted's daily routine to know for sure, but the casual mention of playing roblox seems to imply they spend a lot of time together! and ofc none of their phone calls ever have the vibe of 'i haven't spoken to you in ages, here's ALL THE THINGS you've missed!'. they're almost all abt stuff that happened that day.

is ted struggling with being away from henry? well... yes, duh, but i don't even think this season's done particularly well establishing THAT (incredibly obvious and free) piece of ted characterisation.

is ted capable of feeling anything other than vague nostalgia (ie: all of his annecdotes being set there) or extreme distress wrt kansas? apparently not! like, seriously, what is there for him? does he have any friends? a job? family that isn't his mother? where's he gonna live? does he miss the weather? his neighbours? like i am literally on my hands and knees give me ONE (1) concrete opinion ted has about the fucking place that isn't about its FOOD (<- ESPECIALLY coming off the back of an episode where ted was able to experience texan food So Authentic™ that it inspired a literal career-changing epiphany?? like HOW are we supposed to take that as anything other than 'ted is at his best when he acknowledges BOTH of his lives rather than cutting one out in favour of the other'???).

idk. i guess my real problem this late in the game is i can see so many POTENTIAL versions of this show, but what ive been given doesn't feel like it matches up with any of them.

i can imagine a story in which ted's avoidance + variations upon running-away tactics for dealing w conflict get thoroughly deconstructed and challenged while in london, so at the end of the show he's finally emotionally prepared to return to his life in kansas even though it's never going to be a fairytale picturesque no-problems-ever ending again.

i can imagine a story in which going back to kansas isn't good for ted, and will be a major sacrifice, but it's a sacrifice he will be making with the support of his new friends + family, and something that he is determined to make in order to be there w his son, all meaningfully juxtaposed w how he feels his dad 'quit' on him.

i can imagine a story where ultimately, the life that ted's made alongside richmond is just as important to him as his life in kansas, and so he + michelle work out a more equal and long-term custody arangement* with henry (it definitely seems like the 'you get him for the whole year and i get him on school break' was something haphazardly worked out while they were both still under the assumption he'd be in richmond for less than a year), and they alternate who goes to whose home for holidays and shit.

[*side note, why hasn't that come up at all? i'd personally think somewhere around the six month mark of working overseas i'd want to have a talk w my expartner + kid about a schedule that isn't so much of a 80/20 split? like, it's fine if henry moving isn't on the table at all for one reason or another, but at least take the time to actually SAY that??? like, what does michelle do for a living? why is SHE so happy to stay there? give me Literally Anything here gang!!!]

...but ultimately what ive actually seen on screen feels like it fits into none of those categories. eleven hours (in as many episodes!! HOUR! long! episodes!!!!!!) in and i feel like i know infinitely less about ted + his mental state than i did in s1. like, from episode to episode, the writer's aren't sure if he's stuck, or progressing, or going through that classic recovery 'one step forwards, two steps back' dance, or just completely and utterly depressed. there's no continuity. nothing that happens to him in one episode seems to have literally any bearing at all on the ted in the next episode. if u scrubbed all of the notable Ted Scenes™ of any overarching plot references, and shuffled them all up, i genuinely think you would end up w a plateau of scenes totally indistinguishable from each other!*

[*of course, this is my main critique of s3 for like. literally everyone, but it's paticularly damning when im left feeling this lost about the main fucking guy.]

i don't know. i guess after the past few weeks of being really genuinely hurt + angry + upset abt the choices made this season, the feeling im left with near the end of it all is. underwhelmed. and im really not sure what 3x12 could possibly do to change that feeling... even if i am still regrettably, but sincerely rooting for a last minute switcheroo.

#mine #ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso meta #ted lasso critical #ughghghghhhh. breaking up w a show is emotionally exhausitng one hasn't hit me this bad since s10 -> 12 of d*ctor wh*. #the potential :( the blorbos :( all doomed to languish in a fucking. lifeless enclosure. w no prospects or hope or vision for fucking #anything interesting to happen to them literally ever. bluuuuuuuh. #the only thing keeping me sane through all this is unironically the fact that the WGA are striking rn. i hope they all get $600 million #dollars and lifelong permission to rock up to execs + ceo's office with a Fucking Bat. #:(

[aberfaeth]

aw, so sweet. hashtag solidarity! hey quick question how much money do literally any and all of these top showrunners make from their streaming contracts

#yeah distributors could probably stand to give a little leeway to junior staffers #you know what would help? #if they didn’t have to shell out three hundred fucking million dollars every few years for ryan murphy to make two good shows #anyways. love when i get off the phone w my mom and am immediately so crushed by the weight of humanity’s greed #c.txt #wga strike

[tranzcommie]

yall..im just sayin..these ceos would not be running their mouths like they do if unions still had some of that mafia muscle…idk

#p #im jus sayin #robby iger should be sleepin w them damn fishes rn #when is someone gonna gift him some concrete boots #labor unions #unionize #sag aftra #wga strike #strike #ups strike #teamsters

[trainerdawn]

tumblr gets less enjoyable with each update i really hate the turn that this app has taken

#being on the “queerest place on the internet” and knowing they not only let transphobes on staff but they PROTECT them from criticism #tumblr disregarding the WGA strike to run an ad campaign that they didn’t even openly disclose was an ad campaign #being unable to even scroll through my fucking dash anymore because even scrolling past an ad w/o clicking it redirects me to the appstore #like a fucking movie pirating site #staff members openly mocking people for voicing discontent with their shit updates #they remove profile pictures they force tumblr live down ur throat despite its apparent privacy violations they add evil clowns(?) #this platform is genuinely going to shit but where else is there to go. what are the viable alternatives

[californiagoddess]

Does anyone know if we have returning to the right timeline tomorrow

#sag is meeting w amptp I'm so nervous #but the wga deal gives me hope

[nyctarian]

SAG-AFTRA is officially on strike

The WGA is on their 73rd day striking, at midnight SAG-AFTRA will join them, having both unions striking at the same time for the first time in 63 years

#sag aftra #labor rights #unfortch the dga already came to an agreement but that union has made it clear (along w iatse and the teamsters) that they have solidarity #in the same way the wga is striking but some members for like online mags etc can keep writing the sagaftra strike i believe #is specific to the tv and movies and theater doing labor stoppage but the whole union will be in solidarity #orig post

[presidentalpaca]

bold fucking move from CN's social media team

#context: their ceo is arguably the biggest perpetrator of this. tied w netflix maybe #cartoon network #david zaslav #warner brothers #wga #wga strike #babbles

[mars-the-clown]

LMAOO

#absolute win #W #oppenheimer #sag strike #wga strike

[persephonesfill]

honestly i feel like non-writers already don't understand how hard it is to start writing something let alone finish that draft, edit, and revise it and the rise of AI has only made that worse

#“the writer's strike doesn't even matter we can just have ai write for us” bitch w h a t #wga strike #anti ai writing

[derba-vance]

I stand w WGA

#strike the mfs #nothing gets made w/o writers #🖕🏻 #wga strike #WGA #amptp #writers

[sodrippy]

the infighting on any moviesethumour post is like. no wonder we dont have workers rights

#obviously i get the frustration and bitterness of a lot of crew affected by the strikes and all but like #come on be serious. also why arent you more angry w iatse for flaking last yr than you are at wga for having better organization lol