WEEDKILLER RUNNING WITH SCISSORS

we simply are not making it out of this one alive fellow pervs

I. What?

ACAB includes the cop in your head. you numpties.

I could have lived in peace (stayed warm in my bed) but my enemies (job that pays my bills) brought me war (e-mails i have to respond to)

Midnight mass as text posts part 3

Angela Carter, excerpt from The Magic Toyshop

peace was never an option

oof been a while since i did one of these but

john silver is lying again i thought it would be funny but it's not i don't want to watch this anymore

Actors and Animators should go on strike next tbh. Especially cgi animators. Put the fear back into Hollywood

Animators? Yes. Actors? If youre talking ppl like RDJ or Jamie Lee Curtis or what have you. They have more than enough fucking money. Take a look at one production cost and see how much these people are paid.

My dad is an actor/playwrite. He has to constantly search for new gigs to make ends meet, and even then ends up doing retail or lyft or doordash a lot of the time between gigs.

And my parents don't live in a huge house in New York or LA, it's a tiny townhouse in a really small city. My mom's the one who really pays the mortgage with her events organizer and house manager jobs at local theatres, and even then they struggle to afford living expenses. They used food stamps when I was a kid - not every month, but enough that I see it as a normal thing to do.

And when he does get gigs, especially like big tv gigs, working conditions are CRAP. He nearly got severe hypothermia once for having to jump in a freezing cold river in early winter from 11pm-3am, repeatedly, for a shot they didn't even end up USING.

Scheduling is abysmal, overtime is never properly compensated for, the jobs are DANGEROUS (mostly on a physical fatigue level), and work is contractual by nature. Are there some contracts that are ridiculously good? Yes, that's how contract-based work tends to happen for a lucky few.

But getting a contract like that is like winning the lottery, and even then they can be really exploitative if you don't have a kickass agent and/or a really good entertainment lawyer. There aren't really steady 9-5 full time acting jobs with benefits the way there are with other jobs. It's difficult to get any gigs in the first place, I cannot emphasize enough how much it is a constant job search.

And that's not even getting into the horrendous conditions and disrespect for voice actors. Actors should ABSOLUTELY go on strike

I fucking hope RDJ and Will Smith and everyone on top strike too. You want a real impact? Let's see what happens when top names refuse to work until the people on the bottom are compensated fairly too.

Being able to pretend it's just some uppity character actors or commercial actors lets studios distract. When there's no star for the best blockbuster to be, they can't ignore the demands.

The top-paid members of an industry strike in support of better working conditions for their coworkers, not for more money. Neil Gaiman and George RR Martin aren't striking because they want or expect to be paid more, they're striking to support the entire rest of their industry because they care about it.

Not to mention, even the big names are often treated like absolute shit.

Kate Winslet nearly got hypothermia on multiple occasions whilst filming titanic because, despite the fact that the whole thing was happening on a carefully controlled set and thus could have the water at whatever temperature he wanted, James Cameron wanted to take the "acting" out of acting and he had the water set to be as cold as possible without it being frozen. He called it method acting. He didn't bother to see if Kate could ACT as though the water was one-degree above freezing; he just called it right from the go and was like, hey, what if I make my lead actress spend several days getting in and out of BORDERLINE FREEZING WATER, so that it will look realistic.

Her chattering teeth and whole body tremors? Yeah, not acting. That was her body on the edge of actual real life hypothermia.

And look at the way they treat men these days with making them fast and dehydrate to the point of collapse, just so the director can get two seconds worth of a shot where their muscles and veins are all bulging unnaturally.

When he was filming Logan (I think it was Logan) Hugh Jackman literally DID collapse. One of the scenes of him all bare-chested and muscly and roaring angrily? Is a much shorter scene than it was supposed to be, because that's all they managed to get out of him before he LITERALLY PASSED OUT.

And these are the big name lead actors who are getting treated like this. If THEY are being treated so appallingly, what hope in hell do the smaller actors have of not being worked into the ground?

YES, the actors should go on strike. Yes, including the biggest-name stars who've never been mistreated and who get the cushiest most comfortable jobs. They should go on strike too because they support the improved conditions and pay for all those in their industry who ARENT treated well. Which is most of them.

Kate Winslet full on almost drowned making that movie. Her costume got genuinely caught when they were flooding the set for the lower level for the boat sinking. And she's not the only one to almost drown on a James Cameron set, there were incidents on the also contentious set of The Abyss.

Jenna Ortiga's famous viral dance scene was filmed while she had covid. She was symptomatic and they had her perform in a room full of people before the test results were in. The virality of the performance was more literal than we all knew when it was all over tiktok.

Listen to even a few episodes of the podcast What Went Wrong and tell me you think actors can count on safe or sane working conditions with any reliability. I am celebrating SAG-AFTRA authorizing a strike in their vote.

Sometimes we forget that there are more actors out there than just the same one hundred or so people who keep getting put in every single famous movie role. My cousin is an actress with her most famous roles being a minor character on The Goldbergs and Criminal Minds. She is no where near making the money or fame of the top names in the business. She is constantly having to put herself out there for new roles and doesn't have much power over what work she accepts because it's either the roles she's given or not being able to afford the astronomical rent prices in California.

Not only are there lesser known actors and voice actors who don't get treated right, but there are also countless child actors who have come forward as adults saying they were abused and exploited as children. Just listen to the cases of abuse against the child actors at Nickelodeon in shows like Zoey 101, iCarly, and Victorious. These former child actors have even done protests outside of the Nickelodeon building, but barely anyone pays attention to their fight for their own justice and to protect the current child actors at risk.

Alexa Nikolas, who played Nicole on Zoey 101, is very vocal about her experiences at Nickelodeon if you want to listen to the interviews she's done. I believe Jennette McCurdy, who played Sam on iCarly, has also come forward about abuse she experienced as a child actor. Just even looking up top ten lists of the worst moments in children's television that "have not aged well" will shock you about what was allowed, like children put in situations on TV that were for clear fetishistic purposes. I'm not embedding the YouTube video here because it's so horrifying, but this video is a compilation of just a few of the scenes where then-child Ariana Grande was purposefully fetishized. I warn you to not watch the video if this could possibly trigger you since you will not be prepared for how pedophilic and disturbing the situations are.

When you add marginalized identities, the abuse just keeps coming. One example is how absolutely horribly fat actors get treated because of both fatphobia in general but also because these actors are usually relegated to playing fatphobic caricatures that make it even easier to dismiss these actors as human. I still remember reading about the fat child actor who played the fat joke character in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies and how the ridicule, harassment, and oppression he experienced because of that ended up causing him to develop an eating disorder.

And unless stunt doubles have their own union, I imagine they would be included under this fight. I cannot imagine how terrifying it would be to be a stunt double combined with the poor working conditions that most actors endure.

enough reclaiming slurs, I think in 2023 we should reclaim nascar. they banned the confederate flag on all properties & their stance on lgbtq+ isn’t just performative bc in 2013 they fined a driver 10k for using a homophobic slur, condemned indiana in a statement for an anti lgbt law, and partnered w carolina’s lgbt+ chamber of conference in 2022. nascar was founded by anti-cop moonshiners/bootleggers who drove suped-up fords to out-run the police. #yaaascar

HELP

To this day, my favorite argument I ever had was with my Nascar-loving family about how a thin blue line flag on a Nascar is antithetical to the core tenets of Nascar. There is no organization more rooted in ACAB than Nascar. Literally, the only reason it exists was that a bunch of moonshining families had to build cars that could outrun the cops while on supply runs during the Prohibition Era. The goal was to make the car look like a regular vehicle so they could pick up supplies or drop off illegal alcohol without arousing suspicion. But if the cops were on you all you had to do was put the pedal to the metal and that little truck could outrun them with no problems. And of course, families would be in competition over who made the best alcohol, and whose car was fastest. So, they would have races on the weekends. When prohibition was lifted, the races continued. And that is why we have Nascar. It really frustrates me how people look at American car culture and scoff at it. Formula One racing is more exciting and more dynamic to watch, but the history of it is not as interesting: a bunch of rich assholes who made specialized cars for racing. And to this day, it is still a rich man's sport. Whereas Nascar was about a bunch of so-called hicks in the backwoods who used some basic hand tools and trial and error to make a junker into a racecar.

fahrenheit defenders i do not respect:

- “why would you need to know what temperature water freezes at” (i live in a place where snow and cars co-exist)

- “it’s a 0-100 scale so 50 degrees is a perfectly average temperature” (‘average temperature’ is subjective, i have seen enough people from different climates fight over what qualifies as ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ to know that does not work)

- “it just makes more sense objectively” (it’s only intuitive to you bc it’s what you’re used to)

fahrenheit defenders i respect:

- “you’re just jealous because we can say it’s 69 degrees outside” (i am)

Yellowjackets (2021–) / FantasticLand, Mike Bockoven (2016)

you can enjoy your rainbow Oreos, and celebrate with rainbow bottles of alcohol, and take rainbow pens from your bank, and buy pride merch from Target and Walmart.

you can take advantage of the spoils that rainbow capitalism offers you, you can enjoy them, and celebrate them.

it's a symbol of how far we've come, just to be recognized as a valuable demographic to be catered to, to be publicly aligned with.

just don't forget their place. don't mistake their marketing as compassion. don't mistake their inclusivity as allyship. don't forget that actions speak louder than words.

billion dollar corporations are not our friends, and they will not protect us.

but you, as an individual, are not responsible for boycotting and avoiding every billion dollar company that does wrong in this world. especially when it's well known that they have their dirty fingers in every pie.

enjoy yourself this pride month. genuinely.

just don't let their pretty packaging make you complacent. 💖

‘‘jesus is my homeboy’’ photographed by david lachapelle for i-D magazine, september 2003

I've tried a couple of times to get my thoughts organized regarding white viewers commentary on how AMC's IWTV handles race, but I'll just simply say there's definitely a cynicism that is common in a lot of those analysis that is...bemusing.

Thanks for okaying a reblog! I'm going to add the tags for full context before I reply:

I wanted to check if you wanted white fan's input bc I didn't want to be speaking over you on stuff I'm sure you already know. From my POV, a lot of white fans just don't know how to actually speak to anyone who isn't white. I think there's only a handful of us who actually directly, frequently engage with any fans of color. Many other white fans have clearly never done that....anywhere, in any setting, and so also don't understand that our opinions on certain scenes or things kind of...don't matter? There's Black fans here now who can speak on issues, white people don't need to be the mouth piece for everything. But we're not used to living in that world, so white fans without that experience are massively fumbling everything here. I mean, I'm not perfect, either. I'm never here to say I'm the best white person ever, I always know fully what I'm ever doing. I don't. I just aim to create an environment that feels comfortable for anyone to engage in. Many white fans say a lot of things & then run screaming / crying if a Black fan says, 'that's really not what this is,' no matter how gently it's done. A lot of us are just terrified of being seen as racist & so we center our own opinions & have a tantrum if they're challenged even the tiniest bit - by people who would actually know better! This fandom literally cannot exist now without Black fans, especially. If I'd seen this series without input from y'all, I'd have missed out on so much. A lot of white people here as it aired were missing even the most blatant stuff like Jonah being a Black man and Antoinette being a white woman & all the things that meant beyond just the 'cheating' thing. Race HAS to be part of this story, but a lot of white people exist on the level of brainwashing still that says 'paying attention to race is racist' and so then you get this overly concerned stuff when there's literally Black fans right here to tell us what's actually concerning or not. Anyway, I don't know if this is on topic enough but that's what I'd wanted to mention. These have been my observations as someone who was in the fandom prior to the series & has been watching how other white fan have navigated these things as they've occurred. Also, to that point, the fandom prior really WAS racist as hell & a lot of this 'concern' springs solely from that. There's white fans still who desperately want this fandom to be white again so badly that they're still trying to claim this show flopped when it didn't. Whether they realise it or not, they're using their platform to try & silence Black fans & that's complete bullshit. They'll try to bully any fans off the internet saying this too rather than reflect inwards & accept they've got some stuff to unlearn.

lets be reminded what lestat said about claudia to antoinette.

this is as much about the domestic tension as it is the vampirism as this is an incredibly racially charged sentiment. coupled with his prior statement to louis about claudia “She was a destitute little girl, destined to live an inconsequential little life.” all of this is racially charged. its the white vampire thats created these black vampires being pissed that this destitute arrogant little negress is ‘ defying ‘ him so and is so ~ ungrateful ~ for all hes given her. that a ‘nobody’ like her dares to try to challenge and outsmart him. you’re playing a game you have no acumen for. you lost for the thousandth time. thats why in ep6-7 claudia mocks lestat as being akin to master. she was there when he told louis + antoinette those things about her and shes reminding him of what hes said about her.. you must think me an idiot, uncle les. indeed. and thats why lestat is so angry when she wins the chess game but refuses to play it. hes as proud of claudia for being able to kill him as he is angry. claudia & lestat were kindred spirits, but bc claudia is now challenging him, lestat cannot bring himself to honor those vengeful aspects of himself reflected in a black vampress. and thats why claudia cannot even be bothered to appease to lestat at that point & to a certain extent, nb audiences who see themselves in him. even tho lestat shows how he feels lestat has no meaningful response to being called massa either bc louis omits such in the recollection and/or bc it shows how lestat did not free anyone from their roles but trapped them in immortality + in such roles forever. claudia cannot break free and he has no answer for his culpability in claudia’s creation. as her master (bc where can an immortal black teenager go without a white lord& master in the jim crow south? she was hiding in dirty corners of southern universities before she got raped.) as her maker. as the white uncledad in her life. nb fans are uncomfortable with the reminder of the racial dynamics at play here. but claudia wont let u forget the words on her page

The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:

The pain….

🪦for pun.

​in this situation I would probably attempt charm, and ask the baker to choose for me - “whatever’s good today” - therefore leading to new awkward interactions as the baker forcibly, scornfully assigns me bread that might not actually be the best.