my heart is dead

so if you're seeing job openings for screenwriters at places like netflix, amazon, paramount, etc and you're thinking "hey, maybe i'll apply and get my foot in the door," just know that you WILL be scabbing and you WILL be barred from ever obtaining WGA membership. permanently.

That's not allowed but it is industry standard with video game VAs, especially if you aren't a union actor.

It's a huge part of why performance quality in voice acting for games has lagged so far behind VA work in every other media. There's no direction, no scripts. Just random lines for VAs to read in a box in a dozen variations hoping one is right. It's part of why so many of us were ready to go to bat for the Bayonetta woman on day one. That kind of abuse of their actors is commonplace with video games.

The fact that other media profiteers seem to find that desirable is a horror almost beyond fucking comprehension.

you realise there is nothing about a vulva that means you have to call someone who has one “she”, right? and nothing about a penis that means you have to call someone who has one “he”? like that is literally a socially constructed idea based on the perceived gender of a person with a certain set of genitals.

My second language is German, where “she” and “they” are literally the same word.

And I swear there are languages where there is literally no gendered pronouns at all.

Korean doesn't have gendered pronouns, but they are always mentioning how fancy you think the person is.

57% of languages don't have gendered pronouns.

"In 10,000 years they will know you are a woman" For real, they will be speaking the same English we got now? In 10,000 years? The word "woman" is less than 1 thousand years old, my fine fellow, and the entire semantic field is profoundly different than it was 400 years ago.

English is not a biological reality.

Language is a construct. Gender is a construct. Nothing about it is innate.

The level of ignorance about language that you need to say the words "biological pronoun"s reminds me that these people wouldn't know a part of speech if it spit on them.

No one knows why you came back. YOU don’t know why you came back.

"hey, bobby, ginger's kid came out to her as non-binerary! can you believe it?"

"non-binary."

"huh? wha? what'd i say?"

"you said 'non-binerary.' the word is non-binary."

"right. non-byrony."

"ginger's gonna march with her kid in the parade next year! she's so excited!"

"she'll get to make signs... chant slogans..."

"you sound kind of jealous, lin."

"well, maybe i *am* jealous. maybe *i* wanna be a PFLAG mom."

"pee flag!!"

"...kids, are any of you non-binary?"

"i respond to both 'attaboy' and 'you go, girl!'"

Fun fact! When I was googling to find this citation to make it easier to add the text id, google auto-completed "Stormy Daniels" to "Stormy Daniels real name" with her full legal name in giant letters right below the question!

There's also this very insightful bit from her right before the above passage:

"One of the things I want to do, because of what happened to me in court, is to use [my] platform to lobby to change the rule about being able to discriminate against sex workers. Because as a director, all these years in the business, I saw so many girls come in and not want to be stars. They just wanted to make money to go to school, and they didn’t buy purses, they didn’t do drugs, they didn’t party, they didn’t do anything fucking stupid, right? I really got to know these women on a personal level because I was directing at least once a month for 10 years. And so I saw these girls come in, do everything right, get a degree in nursing, leave the business—but then a year or two years later, they’d come back because they got fired over and over and over because they got recognized at work.