finally a show that is not afraid to depict the harsh realities of being a woman such as: hiding terminal illness from your girlfriends so they don’t sacrifice someone to cure you, getting institutionalized for a decade, making up musicals about yourself in your head, sucking face with your ex within 24 hours of seeing her for the first time in years, getting annoyed about your friend surviving you beating her half to death, getting sad about your friend not surviving you pushing her off a cliff
Your reaction to chatGPT instantly lets me know how easy it would be to trick you into thinking that you are haunted
“omg it’s literally alive!” Two beers, 45 minutes, deck of tarot cards, and I’m charging you 350$ for an exorcism.
“I read an article that it’s showing simple self-awareness” two days, mild preparation, hot and cold reading, I can get 60$ for joints laced with sacred sage
“It’s a multi-stage neural network we really shouldn’t be calling an expert system an AI just yet” Ninety minutes, two glasses of wine, I can convince you to pay for dinner.
wealthy people in the global north will get like irrationally angry at the idea of people in the global south pirating their work but they don’t offer sliding scale prices nor price their work differently in different countries to reflect local currencies like of course people will pirate your work, it’s their only option. like a book that costs $25 USD costs 110 malaysian ringgit plus import charges, and more if you have to ship it from abroad. 110 ringgit to malaysians is just like spending $110 dollars in the US, but in a country with a national minimum wage of what amounts to $341 USD a month. and this is only one country, like be fucking for real.
One difference between this strike and the last one is that there are a lot more fellowships targeted at early career tv writers than there used to be (there have always been some, but the fellowship model is way more commonplace these days)
Studios are about to make a ton more of these opportunities and advertise them widely as a way to break into the industry, and they will be very specific about the fellowship not technically counting as a writers room or a tv job
THIS IS A TRICK TO GET YOU TO SCAB
Sharing any written content with a studio (even if they route it through a 3rd party “foundation” or development org or something) IS SCABBING
What you do in regards to the strike is your business, but the WGA has been very clear that anyone who scabs will be BANNED FROM JOINING THE UNION FOR LIFE. That means even if you get hired, that’s no health & pension and no union protections for your entire career. This shit is serious
So please please double check and dig into any new submission opportunities you see in the next weeks. Playwrights especially be careful - many studios are finding their writers through play scripts these days so be very careful about how and where your work is being shared
No writing going to the studios means NO WRITING of any kind
(if you see suspicious fellowship stuff being passed around let me know, I’d love to keep an eye on that for my peeps)
they will be very specific about the fellowship not technically counting as a writers room or a tv job
THIS IS A TRICK TO GET YOU TO SCAB
anyone who scabs will be BANNED FROM JOINING THE UNION FOR LIFE
This is how unions support their members and discourage people from working against their interests.
Anyone can work for a company when the workers are on strike. But the union doesn’t have to accept them as a member later - someone who scabs has already shown they’re not going to stand with the union when they need solidarity. They’ve already proven they disagree with the union mission statement and won’t support its interests.
If you want to join a union, you have to avoid actively working against its efforts to provide its members better working conditions.
