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PLEASE do not spread misinformation about cosplay, fandom and the Strike. SAG-AFTRA has NOT called for any cessation of cosplay/cosplayers or fan/nerd events including drag & burlesque. As a cosplayer (non pro) and nerdlesque producer I’ve seen a lot of disinformation spreading with good intention. Unless you are a *paid influencer* (re: someone receiving income from the studios) a call to cease work for “promoting struck properties” does not apply to you!
Cosplaying at an event or con for fun is not paid work.
This call to not accept “promotion” work is for *paid influencers* receiving payment or press kits from the studios themselves.
Please PLEASE be mindful of what information you share as I have already seen people calling for a boycott of fandom events
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it’s part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS’ UNION RECOGNIZED
this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!
Hi sorry to correct this info but please actually read the petition from IATSE- it’s specifically for union recognition for Disney Production NOT for CGI/VFX/3DAnimation artists- its for Disney Production workers such as production coordinators, assistants, managers, etc to be recognized as a craft and part of The Animation Guild (TAG) 839. they are the people who do the organizing, scheduling, trying to maintain budget and team pace. They are NOT cg/vfx artists. Please still support them bc their unionizing is critical and they’re hugely underpaid and treated like garbage BUT these are not the same crafts.
Disney “animators” (story, *anim, design, edit, writers, etc) are already unionized if they are in-house artists (*so 3D cg animators @ disney who animate in-house on the films are union- while most TV series are outsourced to vendor studios with some exceptions of the rare dtva in-house animator like Spencer Wan who is probably the most well known despite there being a bunch of them. this also doesnt include freelance workers but thats a different problem all together)
“CGI”/VFX is hugely underpaid, undervalued and unrecognized. Most people have never heard of ILM, Framestore, Animal Logic, or Ghost VFX despite them working on some of the biggest Marvel movies of the past few years. If you want to advocate for VFX workers unionizing, go to the source, do a bit of research, find and advocate for them in specific rather than a broad “disney” bc Disney will always say they’re already union when they’re using outsourced labor (which to be clear totally legal and unfortunately normal just. VFX should also unionize. lol)
Support both and be vocal about workers rights for all animation workers from Prod to CGI/VFX (fittingly- the very beginning and very end of production pipeline)
When September and October are nearing and you’re planning an event: google “Rosh Hashanah *year*” and *Yom Kippur *year*” and then, and I cannot stress this enough, don’t plan your event on those days. In fact, don’t plan any events starting sundown the night before. Those are the three most important days of the Jewish calendar, and, once again, I cannot stress enough how much this little bit of forethought and kindness will make every Jew you know cry tears of joy.
in 2023, the night before Rosh Hashanah is Thursday evening, September 14.
I was talking with my housemate about how to be more physically active if you’re not used to it at all because everywhere you’re told to start a training routine where you push yourself a little every day, and while that may seem easy for some people it can be really fucking daunting if you start from zero.
As someone who comes from a very physically active family that doesn’t exercise just for the sake of exercising but do things like walk to the grocery store and bike to work, here’s my advice that has always worked for me:
Go super duper easy on yourself.
If you want to walk more start by walking for 3 or 5 minutes. The shortest possible walk you feel you’re capable of. A trip around the block or across the yard. You don’t need to sweat or get your blood pumping. Just a short stroll. The hardest part is to convince yourself to set aside 5 minutes every day to go on this short walk but nothing else about it should be hard. Do it every day and one day you’ll realize that you don’t want to go home just yet. It’s very important that you don’t think “I want to pressure myself to walk further” but rather “I haven’t spent all my walking energy yet. I have more walk in me” and only then do you lengthen the walk. I repeat, at no point should it be exhausting or difficult because even when it feels easy your body will be building muscle and stamina and it will eventually feel too easy and you’ll naturally want to crank it back up to easy again.
If you’re not used to being physically active it might not make a ton of sense when I say that you’ll have more walking energy left but trust me, you’ll get it when you get there.
I grew up with going on evening walks with my parents and passed that on to other housemates who didn’t get it at first but are now going on walks long after they moved somewhere else. Because once you get the hang of it you’ll realize how calming it is on the brain to move the body even if the body isn’t exhausted afterwards.
And it of course helps to entertain yourself especially in the beginning. My housemate started out listening to audiobooks and podcasts but eventually realized Pokémon Go was the best motivator. Whatever you feel like you want to do on your 5 minute easy stroll.
if you are dealing with extreme heat or even just. moderate heat in your area right now. 80f/26c is when it starts getting toasty for a lot of people. if you are in a heat wave and you have not done yourself the favor of googling fucking “heat exhaustion symptoms” i am shaking you violently right now. look it up. burn the symptoms into your brain. heatstroke is no joke and it can and WILL sneak up on you before you’re aware it’s even an issue. ohh my god
if you are outside and it is hot and sunny and you are sweating thru your clothes or feeling tired or starting to get irrationally agitated or upset in another way or feeling nauseous or your heart is pounding etc etc if you are feeling Weird and Bad for no apparent reason while you are in a warm/hot area then i have news for you! you need to cool down! right now! oh my god.
and there’s a very good chance that you’re gonna think “it’s not heat exhaustion, i don’t feel any warmer than i have all day” when you consider it as a reason why you are suddenly feeling weirdbad for no apparent reason during a record-breaking heatwave and i would like to say. there is no harm in sitting in the shade and drinking some water even if heat exhaustion isn’t the cause of whatever ailment is inflicting itself upon u. once i swore up and down to my bf that i was just kinda tired and headachy and got bitchy about the possibility of being overheated and needing to drink water. because heat exhaustion tends to make you bitchy. but i did as he asked and drank some cold water and my condition immediately improved. because it was heat exhaustion and heat exhaustion is evil and a liar. sit down. drink water
figure this might be of interest to folks here, a mutual of mine who doesnt have tumblr (i believe) just released a super handy extension called Indie Wiki Buddy. does a lot more than just redirects, itll filter out search results and add a banner to fandom wikis youre viewing, and it goes hand-in-hand with Breezewiki if you’re already using it :)
Has either union called for a boycott? Because boycotting can disrupt their plans and make negotiations harder unless they’re actively asking for one. I’m boycotting reality TV (which every studio is going to be pushing because it’s the only content they can make cheaply and without writers or professional actors) but nothing else unless we are asked to.
This is correct. If anything, I want the execs to be terrified because the consumers are demanding more from them and they have nothing in their reserves to sell and no way of making anything else to sell.
Also “new” content is going to keep coming out for a while because it’s already been written and acted and edited. (I’d actually expect a lot of bad-but-finished movies that would normally never be released to get released once they start running out of the good stuff) There is less than no point to boycott anything right now.
1) Nobody in the unions has called for a boycott.
2) Boycotting takes away the residuals/initial payout due to the actors and writers right when they aren’t working.
3) Boycotting let’s the studios say “See? You aren’t valuable; nobody wants your labor” which is precisely the opposite of the message to be sent.
It's really telling that every leftist I've talked to irl about transandrophobia, agrees that it exists and should be talked about more often. Interesting, almost like it's a vocal minority that criticizes the existence of these discussions and also tries to make it seem like more people agree with them than actually do 🤔
can’t tell you how many trans men and trans mascs i’ve talked to irl who, when i bring up the shit i experience, immediately go “holy shit thank you for saying that i’m always too nervous to try to talk about it because i don’t want to talk over anyone.” and when i bring it up to most trans women and trans femmes or other trans people who don’t have comparable experiences, usually the response is “wow i had no idea, that’s awful!” cis women tend to be more resistant to listening but that’s true pretty much across the board, whether online or offline. but in the trans spaces i’ve been in, when i talk about this stuff, usually i don’t use any specific language and i just get a bunch of trans men and mascs who seem like they’ve taken a huge gulp of air after holding their breath or other trans people who have had a lightbulb moment irt to trans experiences outside their own.
and like to be fair, my irl community is generally a pretty level headed one. i talked to a friend the other day who lived in the pacific northwest and their irl experience was more like my online experience. but yeah a lot of these discussions go over very differently offline than they do online.
Literally everyone irl I’ve talked to has gone “yeah of course it makes sense that trans men and mascs would have unique problems, isn’t that true of every marginalized group? Of course it makes sense if y’all want a word for it” so like. It’s really primarily assholes on tumblr refusing to let us have our conversations in peace. People do believe us.
I led trainings on transphobia for my camp’s entire staff of over 100 (they’re fairly progressive, mostly college kids from the PNW, but we were having some issues and it was requested by a couple of other trans employees)
we broke it down into “transphobia”, “transmisogyny”, “transandrophobia”, and “exorsexism”. for each one, we defined the terms, brainstormed some examples of how it might look practically, and then talked about some ways we could respond to be allies to one another if anyone saw these things happen.
y'all, I cannot emphasize enough how on board everyone was with fucking everything we talked about. obviously transphobia and transmisogyny were better known coming in, but when we started talking about infantilization, “mutilating bodies” rhetoric, and other stuff that’s more unique to transmascs- they got it! they understood!
the trans staff in the room lit up and started adding examples like they were having revelations, and the only pushback I received was a staff member asking, “don’t trans women have the highest risk of sexual assault?”. when I asked where they’d heard that, they didn’t have an answer; we talked about statistics and included that trans women do experience higher rates of other forms of violence, and certainly higher rates than any cis group of sexual assault, but in general it was transmascs who faced this specific form of violence most often.
it was just discussion and learning, and like, this stuff makes intuitive sense. introducing transphobia as an umbrella with some more unique experiences beneath it is not challenging or confusing. even to most cis people.
Someone needs to inform the (rightly) pro-piracy tumblr users that it is no longer 2014 and some of the services they are recommending will turn ur computer in a broken microwave that serves bitcoins to shitheads.
Do NOT EVER use uTorrent. Be VERY CAREFUL on tpb.
someone said utorrent doesnt mine anymore but honestly dont use it anyway given its history, and it being proprietary closed-source adware. theres literally no reason to use utorrent, its only used because its already well known.
in comparison, programs such as qbittorrent and transmission are entirely free and open source and ad free. the great thing about being open source is you yourself (or other people who know more about security) can check the safety of the code, vulnerabilities get patched quickly, and if some bullshit does happen you can always compile it without the bullshit yourself. just make sure youre getting it from official sources, no doubt theres probably 1 or 2 fake sites with modified versions thanks to it being open source
there is literally 0 reason to use utorrent in 20fucking23, theres better options
i personally recommend qbittorrent especially if youre moving off of utorrent as its ui is explicitly designed to feel familiar to utorrent users. provided transmission as another option if you want something different, theres plenty more free opensource options out there though im sure
and use 1337x and rarbg for torrents instead of TPB, both of them are moderated and their torrents are safe to download!
18th July 2023
Reblogged From old-thymey-magpie
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