POI Appreciation week // Day 5: Favourite Quotes ⇢ Pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, and this is just the beginning; it keeps on going, forever, without ever repeating….everything we ever say or do; all of the world’s infinite possibilities rest within this one simple circle.
fawnete
You will recognize it.
Trust me.
This is glorious.
margravinel
I will always reblog this
sailoruuranus
MY FUCKING FACE WHEN I REALIZED WHAT SONG THEY’RE PLAYING.
THIS IS THE BEST OH MY GOD
witchyroses
I was like idk I don’t know it then I was like WAIT WHAT
this was a strange experience
“The thing that we're most proud of in the show is that the effects have received so little attention – I think that means we've done our jobs so well that people don’t notice it.” - Geoff Scott, Intelligent Creatures visual effects supervisor
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Jesus. Fucking. Christ. This show. And all it’s god forsaken talent.
Xena Warrior Princess 6x19 Many Happy Returns
This is one of my absolute favorite moments in this show. At the time I looked it up, and the words are based on a real Sappho poem!
These two, y'all. These two.
What happened to you was messed up, but I will not let you repeat that cycle. Not to my son and not to you.
Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.
We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.
The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.
Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.
Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.
There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.
Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.
We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.
Let OP talk, they’re absolutely right.
colour wheel challenge but it's just brittana performance outfits bc really what else would i have chosen to draw
'Why creatives are seeking residuals' - thread by Stefanie Williams
[Tweet thread by Stefanie Williams @/StefWilliams25
TRANSCRIPT:
Why creatives are seeking residuals vs. "do you pay the mattress maker every time you sleep on a mattress?" A thread. I keep hearing over and over again that writers/actors/creatives don't deserve residuals for the work they create. "If I build a bathroom in a house, I don't get paid every time someone uses the toilet."
TRUE! However, your bathroom build has a set market value. Art does not. No one knows what makes one TV show an overnight success, and another a flop. No one knows what makes one song a hit, and the other a dud. If they did, trust me when I say record companies would be churning out Taylor Swifts over and over again. Studios would be making nothing but Stranger Things.
But that isn't the case. No one could predict Stranger Things would be a massive, billion dollar hit. No one could predict Taylor Swift was going to be a world wide phenomenon who literally could record herself reading Aesop's Fables and make millions of dollars. Which is why residuals are important. The pay structure protects both the creators and the publishers/distributors.
The easiest way to explain it is by referencing an author writing a book. Sure, an author might get a very modest up front fee, but the author is banking on royalties to really make money on the book — for every book sold, the author gets a piece of the pie. This protects both the author and the publisher—because if the book is a flop, the publisher doesn't go broke on a financial promise they made to the author that didn't pan out, and if the book is a mega-hit, the author didn't give away a massive, million-dollar book for 20k.
It's a sliding scale that is required for a product that has no set market value. What makes an actor's work on a hit show more valuable than an actor's work on a show that gets canned after five episodes? The market value for art almost always comes after the fact, so residuals account for that reality. They make sure the creator get compensated at a fair market rate. A person who builds a bathroom knows, upfront, what the market rate for a bathroom is. That bathroom won't suddenly be worth 1000 times more than you built it for in six months. It doesn't have the potential to be built for 20k and generate 20 million.
Residuals are a pay structure that simply account for an unsure market value. Trust me, we all wish we could quantify art in terms of dollars. But art is unpredictable. So studios and streamers -- which literally REQUIRE content to stay viable -- have to account for that unpredictability. And for studios (or record labels, or book publishers) it's always trial and error. The only way to get a hit, is to go through a few flops.
For every Whitney Houston, there was a singer you never heard of. For every Sopranos, there was a show that got scrapped mid season. For every Titanic, there was a movie that bombed. For every Twilight, there was a book about vampires that went nowhere. Residuals are kind of a reverse market valuation. They pay a fair wage for a product than can only have a set value once it's been created and effectively consumed.
And even then, shit changes. Anyone think Kate Bush would spend weeks on the top of the charts in 2022? Residuals account for unpredictable markets. And in order to have accurate residuals, streamers and studios need to be transparent and open about their data, which is one of the MANY things the WGA and SAG are both fighting for.
So many people still seem to have difficulty understanding what residuals are, and why adequate residual payments are so important to the livelihoods of writers and actors.
Unfortunately, the kind of “creative accounting” that’s plagued Hollywood for the past 50 to 60 years makes it virtually impossible for writers and actors to understand just how unpredictable the markets have been during the pandemic, and whether those markets are still just as unpredictable now.
If there’s no way to keep track of just how movies and TV series have been effectively consumed (or not consumed at all), residual payments are going to be affected, so having clear, concise and scrupulously detailed/accurate data is of vital importance.
It also doesn’t help matters when the art itself is being treated like the equivalent of “fast food” that can be sold and bought cheaply, consumed quickly and thrown away once someone becomes tired of it. So, there needs to be major reforms that will force studios and streamers to be more transparent and open with all of their data, in order to create a residual pay structure that’s more realistic, and that gives writers and actors solid residuals that they can actually live on… because no one can make a living by earning pocket change.
This.
Anonymous asked:
Does Killjoys significantly change in the middle? I’ve tried to start it twice and have never made it past the pilot but the (gay) gifs I see are so cool and interesting!
Hmmmm, it really depends on what it is you didn't like about the pilot. The show was always a comedic scifi about Dutch and the Jaqobis brothers at its heart.
But, while it initially starts off more episodic and dropping little tidbits about the bigger story, slowly that reverses and eventually each ep is one bit in the larger mythology. It also starts to become more serious, or well, the jokes are still there, just less shallow? That's what probably makes the gifs seem to hit harder, everything matters more. It does take a while for that to happen, and then there is indeed a soft reboot at the start of season 3 where it's the same characters but the plot it's been building up to zooms out and now it's on a grander scale, affecting more people in a bigger way.
If you're like me and like a more earnest show, it's definitely in there, it just takes a bit of time getting used to.
Rock & Role One
Inspired by this prompt, an enemies to lovers with fake dating AU set in the music industry.
Summary:
Lexa is the frontwoman of The Grounders, a pop-rock band whose last album fell a little flat. Clarke Griffin is a falsey branded nice girl next door making pop folk music. They're on the same label and both not doing so hot, and they have a long history of hating each other.
The executives of the label think there’s a perfect way to revive both struggling artists as they watch a cheeky internet feud unfold in real time and the corresponding amount of comments on how hot and flirty it is from fans.
Monday morning, Clarke and Lexa find themselves in the head of marketing’s office with the c-suite team with a new proposal:
They need to pretend to be a couple as a publicity stunt, or they’re losing their contracts. And the catch? They have to write and record a sexy song together and perform it live on a few big stages to sell the relationship to the public….or they’re off the label for good.
They can't stand each other and make each other miserable, but they need to make nice and make music together for the summer while keeping all of their feelings in the right lanes.
Part One Below - 10302 words:
