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It shatters my heart that gay people centuries ago lived and died thinking the life they wanted was nothing but an impossible dream, and Iâm perpetually heartbroken that very little record of them exists. And while I think about this A LOT, I never really knew how to express it until I stumbled upon that Sappho quote:
âSomeone will remember us, I say, even in another time.â
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Everytime I hear "a 9/11 a day," I revert back to 13 and need to sit down for a moment til I can breathe again.
along the same vein...
As of May 7, 2020, 76,503 Americans are confirmed dead of COVID-19. To put this in perspective:
58, 209 Americans died in the Vietnam War (1961-1975)
54, 246Â Americans died in the Korean War (1950-1953)
25, 000 Americans died in the American Revolution (1775-1783)
15, 000 Americans died in the War of 1812 (1812-1815)
13, 283 Americans died in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
4,576 Americans died in the Iraq War (2003-2011)
Also:Â Â The annual number of deaths in the USA from infectious disease is about 75,000. Thatâs twelve monthsâ worth of deaths. Â We are slightly over the annual death count for infectious disease after only four months and seven days.
Donât kid yourself that this is normal. This is not even remotely normal.
Big banks have purposely excluded minority-owned businesses and made getting credit/loans in their communities next to impossible since forever. It should be a big story all the time.
unpopular opinion but i think the film and tv industries should have better labor laws even if it makes it harder or impossible to depict certain things
i dont care if it makes it harder to produce game of thrones or whatever, acting should not leave women traumatized
Okay I know this is about acting and people are getting more traction about it (sexuality safety coordinators are a job! yell about them. demand your shows get them) but
Any person who has worked on a set for more than a few years has at least one person they know who died. Â
Not usually on set, but afterwards. Because we donât have anyone shutting down production for unsafe practices when âunsafeâ means 16 hour days. Or more. For weeks. Finishing a day before hour 12 (not including lunch) is considered an early leave.
I had teachers tell us not to, unless we absolutely had to, take music video gigs because theyâll work you for 24 hours and send you to drive home. And if we had to work that, pull over and nap in our car because multiple people per year fall asleep at the wheel and go over the canyons around LA.
I know you mean acting but please. Donât forget the crew. We have a shockingly high rate of suicide because these working schedules leave us with no sleep, no time outside of work, and it destroys lives, relationships, and families. Burnout is high. Chronic illness and broken bodies are common. Cocaine use in order to get through a 20 hour day is rampant. Every single one of your reality shows is fueled by cocaine.
The number of days that are scheduled to shoot a feature has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades. Which means longer days.
Netflix shows are notorious for being poorly organized, understaffed, and long days.
There are labor laws but what they do is levy fines. Those fines are either factored into budget, people are bullied into not reporting actual hours, or crew members see them as incentive to take those jobs because more money and cost of living is high. (Also this industry has a crew culture of dick measuring by sticking your wang in a blender and boasting about how many 100 hour weeks you pulled.)
this can be applied for people working in animation as well. Like I know people who work at Pixar and they straight up work 12 hour days and go into work on weekends to meet their deadlines. The incredibles 2 made over a billion dollars and Pixar still cut jobs due to âbudgetâ. The entertainment industry is a business at the end of the day. There here to make money and they are going to do it at the expense of workers because they know no one is going to do anything about it.
This is why I get pissy when people have a go about British TV shows only producing 10-12 episodes per season at most, instead of 24. Do you know why? Because the UK has fucking labour laws.
When I worked on BBC Causalty, as soon as it hit 5pm, everything stopped. The producer/director etc would have a quick meeting to decide if weâd go into overtime or schedule it in later in the week. And I got an extra payslip in the mail for every minute of overtime I did, even though I was paid a weekly rate.
I donât care if it means producing less content. I donât care if it means it costs twice as much - if treating your creatives and your crew like shit is needed to make your show, then your show doesnât deserve to get made.
And thatâs aside from the fact that actors are often exploited, neglected, coerced into doing scenes theyâre uncomfortable with etc or outright abused by directors for the sake of ~performance.
No art is worth that.
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Fun Fact, thats, more or less, something that wealthy people in China and Japan did, they were called âmusical floorboards.â Designed to squeak when stood upon. A person could make noise all the way down a corridor.
The residents and servants knew which floorboards made a sound and avoided them. But a burglar, or assassin didnât. If you heard the creaking of floorboards, you knew danger was coming.
Even better, despite what movies may show, a lot of the old west was founded by Chinese immigrants, so there could have been carpenters around who knew how to make the musical floorboards!
They were also called Nightingale Floors, and looking up to make sure I had the right term, I found they were super clever! They were more than just ill-fit boards or whatever makes floors creak normally, they actually used little metal bars under the boards placed into small holes in the boards to cause the creak.
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Ok I donât mean to be doing this too often but I literally just wrote a paper about this so I thought I would comment! The English translation is The Cursed Woman but the original French is La Femme DamnĂ©e. âFemmes DamnĂ©esâ was the title of a Baudelaire poem from his acclaimed 1857 book Fleurs du mal, which was known, among other things, to be a collection that famously dealt with the subject of lesbians. The poem tells the story of the desires and passionate love between two lesbians: Delphine and Hippolyte. As a result of this poem and of the book as a whole, the terms âfleurs du malâ and âfemme damnĂ©eâ became lesbian monikers of the turn of the century. Though some have deemed the term âdamned womenâ to be accusatory of some moral dissonance, the poem it is derived from is actually quite sympathetic to the condition of lesbian love as it is a love which is unable to fully flourish in that time. Regardless, the translated title of Tassaertâs painting is misleading, as the original French is less accusatory and more identifying. The title is more accurately âthe lesbian.â
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Funny enough, thereâs a long history of workerâs struggle in the Appalachians and South.
Redneck Revolt is a good group organizing in these areas around this identity and history.
Yeah regions where mining, agriculture, and similar industries are dominant tend to have a history of socialist organizing and labor agitation, funny how that works
i love how many people are commenting on this basically saying itâs an oxymoron for rednecks to be communists like⊠in what universe is it an oxymoron for⊠actual poor and working-class people⊠to be invested in an ideology & movement that centers around working-class/labor struggle⊠lmao ????
literally the only reason why there has been a shift in later years is cus of fear mongering to the point where capitalist criticism has become a taboo even for lower class poor people. like many the southern states are some of the poorest states in usa??
âLetâs show these fascists what a couple of hillbillies can do!âÂ
-Woody Guthrie
coming from  a non-informed point of view i feel like once again this is Reaganâs fault because he targeted workers unions a good dealâŠÂ
People are saying its a oxymoron because âredneckâ is usually synonymous with âracist/stupid afâ in america. And âracist/stupid afâ in america tends to steer very far right.
But there is a actually a whole population of âredneckâ that isnt racist at all. Theyâre actually pretty well educated, theyre just poor and do poor people stuff. Theyâre the ones who end up introducing black people to white people shit. Like moonshine, mudding and camping. Theyre a trip to hang around.
Theres actually a lot of overlap in the âredneckâ and the âhoodâ culture (large tight knit families, general disdain for authorities, love of bbqâŠetc), but the rich white people in power dont want people to know that because if the all the poor people reguardless of color realize they have shared interests band together and raise hell. Its over for the 1%. So they try their hardest to emphasize and exaggerate the cultural differences, in hopes of convincing the low income disenfranchized whites to vote right.
I LOVE capitalist critical Appalachian culture. One of the first things i learned that fueled my interest was the origin of the word âredneck.â
Coal mining was HUGE from the mid 1700s to the early 1900s in states like Virginia and Pennsylvania as coal was a primary source of fuel for a lotta shit. Unsurprisingly, mine owners were capitalist pigs and exploited the hell outta coal miners. Like, paying them by the pound of coal they brought in rather than by hours worked, paying them in vouchers that could only be used at the store owned by the mining company, and offering no kind of health assistance when workers would inevitably succumb to illness and injury caused by the work they did. So miners began to unionize in the mid 1840s. To show solidarity and to make their employers take notice, unionists would wear red bandanas around their necks. And thus, the term âredneckâ was coined to describe the union supporters who eventually dismantled a lot of the exploitive practices used by the coal industry.
Love these! Just discovered the hillbilly leftie podcast the Trillbilly Workerâs Party, and I am so excited to see more leftist organizing in these parts. We have an amazing history of labor struggle, and a fair amount of labor wins, in this region.
also, âredneckâ in appalachia in the 20s-30s was used to mean âcommunistâ because unionized workers would display their union affiliation by wearing a red bandana. hereâs a jstor article about it
battle of blair mountain is the largest labor uprising in US history, and one of the origins of the term redneck, referring to the striking miners who wore red kerchiefs around their neck. apalachia has historically been one of the hearts of socialist movements in the US and thereâs a reason history would rather paint them as backwards, racist, stupid and mean than let you remember that
Classism and anti-Southern elitism are used to divide the working class and push those with nascent leftist interests into liberal politics. Southerners are portrayed as biologically inferior, uneducated, homophobic, and racist despite being both a major site of labor disputes and the largest concentration of black Americans in the United States.
There have always been leftist movements throughout the South, anti-racist organizations and communities of LGBT people have worked for countless years to make the South a safer place to live for many marginalized groups. They are your comrades too, and we must work to overcome the longstanding state propaganda that stereotypes the people of the Southern United States as not worth helping and incapable of helping us.
You know whatâs more fun than worldbuilding that makes some fantasy races EEEEVIIIIIIILLLLL!!!!? Worldbuilding that gives the different races cultural differences that help explain why thereâs a lot of conflict between them:
Goblin culture doesnât have a concept of âPropertyâ. A stick on the ground and a tool in a locked shed are equally up for grabs if a thing needs doing. They casually take and leave things all over their communities, eat from communal pots, and genuinely Do Not Understand why the Core Races are so Angry and prone to Violence all the time.
Consequently Goblins who live near Core communities develop a reputation as âThievesâ despite not even having a *word* for that. (The closest word they have is more like âGreedyâ and it means a person that hides things so nobody else can use them, and itâs a surefire fight-starter to call a Goblin that)
Common Orc Spiritual beliefs hold that a Soul can only grow stronger by overcoming Challenges in life, and see intruding on another personâs Challenge unasked for as not just Rude, but Deeply Harmful. Youâre Stealing their chance to Grow. Asking for help is deeply personal and doing so can be both a way to grow closer with them or a too-personal intrusion, depending on your existing relationship with them. An exception is Children, as far as most Orcs are concerned, all Children are fundamentally the responsibility of the Whole Community, regardless of whose child they are, or even if said child is an Orc at *all*.
This means that Orcs who live near Core neighbors often seem Rude and Standoffish if not outright hostile, because they neither ask for nor offer aid even in times of trouble, and respond to unasked for aid themselves with Anger. There are even rumors that they Steal Children, because if an Orc finds a child lost in the woods theyâre pretty much immediately going to start feeding it, and if they canât find where to bring it back to, or it doesnât seem to be well cared for, theyâre just gonna keep it.Â
This. I like this.
Sweeping a laser over a blown out candle. (Source)
Directed by Tim Burton
I watched this for way to long
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Dude thatâs awesome!
people will be like âfanfiction writers!!! are everythingâ
and then turn around and say a website that doesnt pay the writers they make their traction and money off of is a saint that would do no wrong.
im just saying. ao3 gets their money
those writers dont. lmao.
so whyre you making it about the writers when they could post pretty much anywhere huh? đ and youre only paying a website.
u ever consider they do it this way on purpose so the only people making money on their poorly designed website are the owners
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Have YOU ever considered itâs a volunteer-run website thatâs a nonprofit and is incredibly transparent about where its money goes?
Have you ever learned, like, a SINGLE THING about the legality of fanfiction?
Or are you just being an asshole?
âpoorly designedâ
You mean that ultra-lean, fast-loading site with maybe the worldâs best data sorting and tagging that is open source so you can set up your own archive if you wanna try to run something that big without ever asking for money or if you wanna try to make it prettier or something?
That is free to host fiction on as well as free to read fiction on and is a site with an incredible amount of traffic that runs exactly zero ads aside from occasional funding drives?
As a person with a law degree, can I just tell you how vitally fought and precariously won the ability to even HAVE Ao3 is!?ïżŒ And how a lot of that balance rides on it being a non profit that no one makes money off of? And how very much Ao3 does with how little $$$? (To the point where I mentioned the site traffic to a web developer friend and he honestly couldn't see how the site could even exist because in his world to make it would cost so much and require so much work that it blew his mind that Ao3 even existed with the functionality, traffic, and utter lack of budget compared to what he usually worked with!)
Some days you kids today make your dearest rum aunty wanna beat her head against the wall. I swear to dog.
Fanfiction has to be free to survive.
Itâs not a matter of âOh, without that dastardly AO3, fanfic authors would be free to make money off of other peopleâs intellectual propertyâł and framing it that way is disingenuous.
The way copyright law and Fair Use work right now - the way legal precedent stands in the US, at this time - the only thing stopping Disney from swooping in and suing someone for writing Steve/Bucky fanfiction is that nobody is making any money off of it.
Is it fair that it works like that? Possibly not, but thatâs not actually the argument at hand! Thatâs the way that copyright law works right now. And before AO3, anyone who wrote or hosted fanfic online was in danger of randomly getting a C&D one day - and most people donât have the money or resources to fight that.
It happened. A lot.
And it wasnât just porn! I know the anti-AO3 people like to frame it that way, but it has also happened to stories without any smut at all, just because the person or company holding the IP felt like it.
Nobody is making money on the site. Not the people who founded it, not the people who coded it, not the people who wrangle tags for it. Notice that there's not a SINGLE add on the site. Money isn't being made every time someone loads a page or hits the "next" button, unlike many other sites out there. There's no fee to read, let alone a tiered structure to entice you to hand over a higher amount of money per month. If AO3 wanted to make money... well, then it would be shut down because the only reason it *legally* gets to exist is because nobody is profiting from it on any level. But if that wasn't the case and AO3 really wanted to make money, there's so many better ways they could do so than by a completely-option donation request a couple times a year?
I don't know how you could spend any time at all in fandom and not know these things about AO3. Or miss the fact that they show EXACTLY where every dollar that comes in from their fundraisers goes to.
Like, do you even GO here??
You could run the AO3 frontend off a couple of shitty Thinkcentres networked together for redundancy and haproxy in front of all of it. The site is extraordinarily light and the biggest challenge is load balancing it. Â
AO3âČs backend is...Â
Listen. I work for a $600 million a year company serving DNS and domain names to literally everyone who isnât shopping at GoDaddy. I help run the most successful MVNO in the US. I donât want to say I wouldnât even know where to start to build AO3, but I know exactly where I would stop. And thatâs at the tags. Everything else, sure, I could build in a week. DBs, backups, a fuck ton of caching, monitoring and alerting. Give me another couple of weeks and Iâd build some basic self healing so I dont have to get up in the night when something as big as AO3 breaks.Â
The fucking moment you tell me you want me to index hundreds of millions of tags, Iâm fucking out. We do something similar with domain name recommendations and let me tell you that fucking POS system breaks monthly and it is a goddamn nightmare to fix. You would have to pay me, a single person, what AO3 asks for its entire goddamn operation every year. As far as I know their tech people consist of a sysadmin, a DBA and a few front end folk, all of whom are volunteers.Â
Which means that $130,000 is all being spent on tech. The fact that that number is below seven figures means they are doing it with all open-source software, zero support contracts and probably hardware that fell off the back of a Supermicro van. And no, theyâre not in The Cloud because this shit would cost them an arm and a leg there. I checked. Indexing hundred of millions of tag fuckarightouttahere.
AO3 runs on blood, sweat, tears and some kind of Christmas miracle. So yeah, OP, go cry a fucking river. Youâll only fuel them.Â
Ao3 is one of the best projects on the internet that isnt selling all your data and advertising every available pixel. Writers can post in other places sure but Ao3 is one of the biggest out there. I think it would be best if they got rid of the cp shit that exists on that site but I know it would be nigh on impossible to do.
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