So our Album Release hangout was just so much fun I only got this one photo, to showcase the fact that we ended up playing the ACTUAL CD on an old #discman connected to my #amp !!! It sounded so good, y’all!! 😆🥰🥳 (Thank you to everyone who was able to come! I appreciate you all!)
the repetition of Crowley saying, "i'm a demon, i lie" (white lies. little lies. he doesn't lie about stuff that actually matters) vs Aziraphale thinking he really does lie (about stuff that does matter, like not wanting to be an angel, like not being a good person, like not wanting forgiveness). they really are listening to each other but hearing something different. (aim for my mouth, shoot past my ear)
we should make fun of americans more. why dont their shops include tax in the price tag. like how much does this item cost? its a surprise :)
Honestly, tea. I’ve lived here my whole life and I have never once known what my total is gonna be at the register. Total fucking mystery.
im an ex-american living in new zealand for the past two years and it still never fails to blow my mind that i can take a $2 coin, walk up to a counter with two $1 items, and perform the expected transaction
this callout is completely deserved
Oh my fucking God this is the best part of being unemployed, not having to fly to the US anymore and having to BATTLE their shops to buy things for a totally random amount of money that never matches the tagged price
I just don’t think Meghan has a leg here. She is a princess, no one wants to hear from her on strikes.
Meghan was a working actress for decades. She was a working royal for 18 months. She benefits massively from her show reaching syndication. She stands to lose depending on how Netflix negotiated residuals for Suits with it being out of cable reruns now.
Meghan knows what it’s like to scrimp and scrap for years. She was a working actress doing bit parts her whole 20s!
The fact is that honestly if she didn’t marry Harry, Suits might have been her biggest hit and again residuals would have a huge impact on her. She completely has a leg to stand on joining this fight. Just like she had one speaking up for BLM.
In fact, A-Listers NEED to be using their spotlight to highlight the strike and the working actors who make up the bulk of Hollywood who don’t make millions per movie. It’s important that people like Meryl Streep or Jennifer Lawrence or Matt Damon or Margot Robbie join the strike. A-list talent walking off set and refusing to take part in press and promo is part of what gives the Union huge bargaining power even if those elite actors are not necessarily hurting financially. But also, a lot of A-Listers also have huge stakes in the fight because it’s also about control of their image and their long term financial profit, too.
Meghan is a producer now with a new production company. If she wants top talent on her productions she needs to be ten toes down in solidarity, too.
Meghan was/is SAG. The Union protected her as a working actress, she can use the outrageous spotlight on her to stand in solidarity and to support working actors.
A lot of people don't seem to know that a bunch of older stars end up in poverty. Fame is fleeting. The glamorous role often doesn't pay as well as you think.
Tales of Angela Landsbury insisting ageing stars get roles on Murder She Wrote so they could retain their medical insurance.
Every worker needs unions. Bit-part workers need A-lister solidarity. Being an A-lister doesn't last forever.
Also it's incredibly weird to be like "the most powerful bargaining chips shouldn't get involved". Like what is the logic there. The point of a union is that everyone stands up for each other. Why would you not want influential voices and in-demand service providers being on strike and talking about it. It's like if a bunch of soldiers show up to defend a town and people are like "no, they moved away from that town for a while so they shouldn't be on the front lines, they should go away and let the town fend for itself". I do not understand the 'too rich and famous to strike' logic at all.
Sadly, there is a large part of the human race that thinks the goal of life is "amass enough money and power to stop getting fucked and start doing the fucking", and they can't wrap their mind around the concept of someone who isn't getting fucked anymore* caring about the people who are still getting fucked.
*as if Disney didn't deliberately and flagrantly violate their contract with ScarJo. Or Robin Williams, at the height of his career, for that matter. A-listers have stakes in this fight worth millions, and yes, they earned that money.
Even if success did make someone not care about fairness in their industry I don't see why that would matter. Boots on ground is boots on ground. We want practical achievement in securing fair pay and treatment, not a sincerity contest.
Such a great song! (Source)
Sang myself the Chore Song while I swept and mopped this afternoon.
It goes like this:
A half-assed job is better than none, better than none, better than none,
A half-assed job is better than none, because half a chore's still some.
Other verses include:
* Won't do it well but I'II do it now
* It's already late so I might as well start
* Entropy wants to do me in
* Can't do it all but I can do some
* It won't be perfect, but then, what is?
I find this song very comforting at times.
summer isnt over until the tingleverse summer bbq lets trot buckaroos who is your date? format is way of MY DATE IS THE (1) (2) WHO BRINGS THE (3)
My date is the Mothman camp counselor who brings pool floaties.
This is a male beauty contest in 1919. We have forgotten what the ideal male body is.
Guess what—“Ayre of Grievances”, the first track on my new album SHARDS, just dropped as a teaser for the rest of the album coming out next week!!
Take a listen on some platforms, or below:
Made some snazzy DIY promotional photos in our backyard with @macmanx today! I like how they turned out! :)
I’m back y’all! Making music with Filipino American Symphony Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Just finished a fun #concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Los Angeles Sinfonietta Orchestra! I’ll be back tomorrow… 😉
And yes I did wear these adorbs little moth #earrings from @thegoodekarmaco for tonight’s concert! 🥰
Hiya! Feel free to leave this unanswered if it’s not something you’re at liberty to share, but with the recent revelation about tumblrs financial situation, I was curious—between production costs and actual revenue made, how much are we helping out by buying the merch? As someone with a limited budget but who definitely wants to see tumblr continue as the site we’ve all come to love, I'm curious to what would be more advantageous for y’all if we wanted to spend on something more than crabs, but are limited in how much we can spend at a time
No, that's a great question. So dollar for dollar digital goods do the most for tumblr as they don't have a cost associated with it.
With merch I try to stick with a 35% profit margin so for every dollar you spend on merch about 35% goes back to keeping the lights on. Now merch alone isn't going to bridge the 30 million dollar gap but it is making a positive impact.
If you are looking for the best way to support tumblr it is probably the no-ads subscription or other digital goods.
