Does anyone have an update on where things are at with the writers strike? It's disappeared from my various feeds and algorithms.

The writers' strike is ongoing and the studios are still not returning to the negotiating table. Unfortunately a lot of the coverage has tapered off because we're on 50+ days of striking and it's not new anymore. The last strike in 2007 lasted 100 days, so don't be surprised if this strike lasts as long, or even longer.

The biggest recent news is that the Directors' Guild of America (DGA) voted to ratify their new agreement with the studios (article from June 23), and it appears likely that the actors' guild (SAG-AFTRA) will also take a deal instead of striking (article from June 24). Although this is disappointing news, it's completely expected. During previous strikes, the WGA held its own without other unions going on strike. Which is to say—don't be disheartened by the news that there won't be a triple strike. The WGA is strong enough!

Please keep vocally supporting the WGA online to keep the pressure on the studios & to keep WGA members motivated and encouraged! There are many ongoing donation drives, such as the Star Trek fan snack squad (Twitter account required to DM the organizer) and the Our Flag Means Death snack squad (opens the PayPal fundraising page—no Twitter required). There's a longer list of ongoing donation drives here.

The Entertainment Community Fund is also always accepting donations to support entertainment workers affected by the strike. Please boost and encourage your friends to keep supporting the strike. Hashtag #IStandWithTheWGA #DoTheWriteThing to boost the cause!

It's sad to see the DGA go the way they went. SAG-AFTRA are still, I think, waving in the wind.

But for the WGA, this strike is currently at (borrowing a metaphor) Helm's Deep. We have to take the stand that will allow us to—in a month or two, or three (argh), when shit starts to get serious at the AMPTP's end—roll up in front of Minas Tirith and let the other side hear the horns in the morning.

They think they're going to successfully wait us out. They are now slowly (however slowly) beginning to realize that we're waiting them out. Writers are USED to one form or another of the Great Hiatus. They're not. Their stockholders are going to get restive.

We can wait, though it hurts. It's what writers do.

I was wondering how it was going too

when u friend-zone ur girlfriend but like in a different way than before whos actually also friend-zoning you but in almost the same way as before and you’ve kissed but you also havent kissed yet but the all the times you kissed it was NOT currently in the relationship where you havent kissed yet and you spend all day being absolutely disguising about one another until nightfall when you proceed to sneak out and meet up again and insist on how just friends you are while you gush about your partner who you were making kissy eyes with all day (and not actually kissing)

big fan of the new love square dynamic we got in the second half of season 5, quite possibly be even stupider than before

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I’m so glad someone did this

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I'm certain I'm not the first to think/realise this, but during my hunger games reread I noticed that the announcement that there can be two victors if they are from the same district comes when the only pairs left are Katniss/Peeta and Clove/Cato. Plus, when Thresh gets ahold of Clove, she calls for Cato. The book states he cradles her, begging her to stay with him. I reckon the rule change was not just for the Katniss/Peeta romance drama angle, but because unbeknownst to our otherwise occupied narrator, Clove and Cato had formed a romance in the arena that was being televised. So the capitol was like,,, let's add a couple V couple love island element

The Dragons Trove - Merakigemini - M, WIP - “I saw your latest adventures in the Prophet.” His voice was deeper than she remembered, it was less whiny, more, menacing.Hermione had intended to remain unwaveringly calm, but this was the first time she had seen Malfoy since he let Death Eaters into her school, her resolve was buckling.He leaned forward and rested his forearm on the stone wall above her head, his entire upper body forming a canopy over her, blocking her. She lifted her chin defiantly, her nose an inch from his own.Dropping his gaze from her face to her body, lingering on her hips, he whispered “How do you fancy riding another Dragon? I promise I won't be gentle.”She dug her wand farther into the soft flesh under his chin. Hermione could feel the blood rushing to her face with fury as she glared at him. He was still an intolerable, smug arsehole. A lot like before, except now, he was lethal. He took his sweet time to lift his eyes from her body back to her face.“I don't have time for your childish games Malfoy.” She seethed. “I would love nothing more than to hex you and send you crying back to daddy Malfoy. But not before I know, why the fuck my prophecy was inside your vault at Gringotts.”

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Begged and Borrowed Time - RomanticMisanthrope - M, WIP - Just then, Draco noticed that where her robes were embroidered with her name, there was something missing entirely. Something he had failed to note when she came in. Healer Granger was all it said. Draco’s eyes scrunched. He knew what her robes were meant to say. He had been with her when she had magically enhanced and changed them. "Hermione,“ he said, glancing at her left hand again. "Where’s your wedding ring?" - In which Draco Malfoy remembers a life he hasn’t lived…yet. – AN: Essentially like Nicholas Sparks’ "The Vow” but Draco does not lose memories, he gains them? We’ll see!

WAHHHHH😭😭 I know memory loss tropes wreck my soul why do I do this to myself???! (It’s great though, waiting for the update)

he literally can’t be stopped

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Shout out to Finnick Odair for spending literally all of Catching Fire saving not only his own life AND everyone else’s especially Katniss, but also has to save Peeta because of How Katniss Is About Peeta and even while he’s in the middle of saving their lives or getting them food or whatever he has to talk Katniss down from fucking bolting like a skittish horse “😐 okay… you stay right there, cracking apart in your not? Boyfriend?’s arms that’s great I’ll go— NO KATNISS IM NOT GOING TO KILL YOU why do I even…”

He is trying to hold this death seeking family together

Peeta and Johanna conversing at a distance

Katniss: I'm not jealous. I just get this weird burning feeling in my chest when I see Peeta talking to someone else.

Finnick: That's jealousy.

Katniss: Scratch that I feel my blood boil, an irresistible urge to draw my arrow clean through a certain someone's skull!

Finnick*runs away picking up Johanna on his shoulder midway*:

Johanna: ???

Finnick: I am saving your life.

No you don’t understand, the fact that Katniss cannot FATHOM the idea of Peeta actually having a crush on her and immediately accuses him of lying is  funny but soo accurate to their characters.

Katniss is literally only focused on her family’s survival in District 12 after the loss of her father. She steps up as the family’s main provider when her mother succumbs to grief becoming unable to properly take care of herself or her kids. Katniss probably paid 0 attention to her classmates, or really school in general, instead focusing on where/how she’d get her next meal.She absolutely has zero awareness of boys, she is solely focused on making sure her sister is provided for. Gale is like a brother to her and she only thinks about marrying him cause its literally just another way to survive (reference to the quote about possibly marrying him and having kids). Like half of their interactions are when they are hunting for game to eat or sell, she does not have time or energy for bs flirting. Of course Katniss would assume anyone who said they liked her is lying, she never tried to warrant any attention.

Peeta on the other hand, has an abusive mother, a seemingly distant father, and shitty siblings. The boy is a smooth talker, probably due to constantly having to be in tune with his family’s emotions. He has built a mask of the smooth, charming boy in class. But you KNOW that creative boy was sitting in class, creating fantasies about approaching Katniss, the quiet girl who does not give a shit about classroom dynamics. You cannot convince me that he did not notice Katniss’s love and dedication towards her sister. We know that boy was WEAK for connection and the strongest connection of love he’s witnessed is between Prim and Katniss. How can be NOT be attracted to her?? Katniss is always herself and loved for it, Peeta must act a part to get attention/praise/care. 

Their entire arc so satisfying yet heartbreaking and I am going to babble about it until I die.