odinsblog:

“One weird, silver lining positive from the WGA’s strike has been a sense of calm over a reality that has plagued me with anxiety for years — the fact that despite having a great agent, manager, and lawyer, despite having been in hundreds of rooms with top execs and producers, despite having pitched countless networks, and despite having sold multiple pilots and pitches, I still work in food and bev. For so long, it felt like such an embarrassment in so many ways because it felt like I was the only one who was biding time in between sales with a side hustle. When I would tell people at work that I wrote television, they’d look at me like I had ten heads, or like I was delusional. They couldn’t IMAGINE someone who *actually* wrote television would also be asking them what temp they wanted their salmon.

But the reality is, TV money goes fast, especially when it’s just a pilot sale. And if shit doesn’t get picked up to series, that money only lasts for so long. Being responsible meant swallowing my pride and keeping a job that was more consistent and steady but also gave me the ability to take pitch meetings, to write on my down time, do rewrites, answer e-mails, and take notes calls.

And for so long I thought I was a minority in that regard. Like I had done something wrong to not be successful enough to rely solely on my career as a writer.

Yet the strike has pushed SO many stories to the forefront of writers doing the exact same thing I’ve done, GOOD writers, great writers, writers who shit I watch all the time, whose names I instantly recognize, whose reputations in this industry precede them. So when the studios leaked that the goal was to bleed writers dry, to make it so we lost our homes, I had to laugh. Writers like me will literally do anything to keep the dream of writing alive. It’s in us. It never goes away, no matter how many steaks you server, how many martinis you mix, how many cold calls you make, how many Uber passengers you pick up, how many pizzas you have to deliver. We always always always find a way to make it to that next great hope of a pitch, a sale, a green light.

And that’s how you know that the CEOs are so fucking out of touch with reality. With the industry. With the POINT of the industry the point for most (not all, but most) has never been to be filthy rich, or own a yacht, or even have a membership to SoHo house. It’s been to make something we love. To see it come to life, and make other people happy, or sad, or angry, or scared. To take this story you have kicking around your head and turn it into some epic journey. To be part of the process of making worlds and characters come to life. To tell stories.

The CEO’s point has been to make as much money as humanly possible. And so they think that’s all there is motivating writers. it’s not. It never has been. Just because those CEO’s wouldn’t wait tables or mix drinks or drive a Lyft in order to keep a dream going, doesn’t mean the rest of us wouldn’t. The CEO’s don’t have a dream, they have a lifestyle. And I promise you a dream is a much better motivator than a yacht or a Porsche.

Try to bleed us dry, guys. Just because you’d let your own dream bleed to death, doesn’t mean we would. We will always find a way to keep it alive.”

—Stefanie Williams, a tv writer on strike

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sometiktoksarevalid:

#every time I see people doing any sort of soldering I want to tell them to not use leaded solder#there’s a comment by one of these stained glass artists that you’re okay if you just don’t use it on food surfaces#it’s not#just don’t use it#there’s no safe amount of lead you can breathe in#there’s no safe amount of lead you can have in your blood#it’s toxic and will cause mental and behavioral issues#wash your hands before touching other things#but breathing it in while you solder is just so fucking dangerous#the neurological effects from lead poisoning is irreversible#I’m seriously not joking about this#one of the most concerning things to me about hobbyists who do glass and metal work

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catboymettaton:

cats are so right about lying on the floor and doing a big stretch

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goryfluff:

Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary)
2020 / 2021 / 2022

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pinkvitaminwater:

He shredded for our sins

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jack-frost-apologist:

tiktoksthataregood-ish:

Video description:

A tiktok by @elizamclamb. She is lying on her bed replying to a comment that says “bestie its pretty homophobic to suggest gay men r preying on women :/”

Transcript:

Bestie, when I said “MLMs prey on women and spiral them into debt…” MLM means multi-level marketing, like LulaRoe. I’m not saying gay men, like, snatch women off the street… [laughing] put them in debt… [more laughter]

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ublock-origin:

identifying-cars-in-posts:

trans:

This has done more positive impact for the autistic community than any autism organization has.

2006-2008 Dodge Ram 1500

Autism be damned my blog can identify a car.

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emeraldwhale:

emeraldwhale:

emeraldwhale:

Fermenting in a butch honoring way

I MEANT FEMME NOT FERMENTING

@dramaticromantic

STOP BEING FUNNIER THAN ME ON MY OWN POST

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foxes-in-love:

ALT

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probablyasocialecologist:

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Study finds nearly every pre-2010 video game is unavailable

Games from older consoles are being made less and less available to the point so much of the industry's history could easily vanish without

Game Developer

Vimm's Lair: Preserving the Classics

Preserving classic videogames from consoles past.

Vimm's Lair

I’m just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they’d finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they’ve got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is… considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they’ve only gotten manuals for three games. So if you’ve got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual’s still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm’s Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.

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