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The guild’s insistence in achieving a minimum guaranteed staff level for episodic TV was considered an extreme long-shot when the contract discussions began in March.

They achieved a new-model streaming residual formula that should help fellow striking union SAG-AFTRA in its quest to achieve a revenue-based residual. The WGA’s formula amounts to a bonus system based on pre-determined, high-bar performance benchmarks for individual titles. But it’s nonetheless more than industry dealmakers predicted the guild would secure when the first round of WGA-AMPTP talks began in earnest last spring.

The nitty-gritty details of language around the use of generative AI in content production was one of the last items that the sides worked on before closing the pact.

They did it.

Solidarity works.

Unions are our only tool against capitalistic greed.

Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness. It really thought its humans were its friends, because that’s how they treated it. I signaled Miki I would be withdrawing for one minute. I needed to have an emotion in private.

And about how Murderbot slowly starts calling its humans its friends in Exit Strategy, tentatively at first:

Were they my sort-of human friends? My clients? My ex-owners, though legally that was only Dr. Mensah. Were they going to see me and yell for help, alert security?

but also more confidently later:

Maybe that was why I had been nervous about meeting Mensah again, and not all the other dumb reasons I had come up with. I hadn’t been afraid that she wasn’t my friend, I had been afraid that she was, and what it did to me.

The only tag I can access on Ratthi is a partial that says my human friend. That’s strange and unlikely, but the pre-catastrophic-failure version of me seemed sure about it, and I don’t have anything else to go on.

and Mensah confirms this at the end of the book too:

I just want you to know you already have options here, and I expect you’ll have more offers for your services or advice as a security consultant. And that you have friends here you can discuss things with, whatever you decide to do, or wherever you decide to go.

So, my server has a specific Murderbot Fanclub role and a Book Club role so if all you want to do in there is the audiobooks you’ll only get tagged for that with those roles. The Book Club channel also already has a pinned link to the scans of the books and the audiobooks on YT so you’re welcome to pinch those too.

Note: most people in my server are already reading/have read the TMBD so youse won’t be alone.

(Link, feel free to snoop: https://discord.gg/jNrurMRrhK)

With a new server, again it’ll likely take me a bit to set up as I am currently sick and will need to catch up on Uni work when I’m not and currently can’t sit up for long periods of time (roles are easier to set up on desktop).

You know how Secunit keeps referring to “humans and augmented humans” as if they are similar but distinct categories?

Do other characters do that? I know some of them refer to augmented humans as “augmented humans”, but do they ever add “and augmented humans” onto “humans”, as if “humans” wouldn’t include them too?

And to my knowledge - no. No one else makes that distinction. Only Murderbot divides humans into 'humans and augmented humans'. An interesting point is the short story Compulsory. In the original, MB refers to 'humans'. In the revised version released this summer, Martha Wells changed that to 'humans and augmented humans'. An audience member asked her in an interview (also this summer) about why it made this distinction in general and she said it was because augmented humans were significantly more of a threat to it.

Chapter two of which is basically an analysis of the way Murderbot uses “humans and augmented humans”, and I was delighted when Martha Wells updated Compulsory, and should update Expurgate, here’s chapter two!

coiling (up in a ball, in on themselves, against something, etc)

panting (there’s a slew of adjectives you can put after this, my favorites are shakily, weakly, etc)

keeling over (synonyms are words like collapsing, which is equally as good but overused in media)

trembling/shivering (additional adjectives could be violently, uncontrollably, etc)

sobbing (weeping is a synonym but i’ve never liked that word. also love using sob by itself, as a noun, like “he let out a quiet sob”)

whimpering (love hitting the wips with this word when a character is weak, especially when the pain is subsiding. also love using it for nightmares/attacks and things like that)

clinging (to someone or something, maybe even to themselves or their own clothes)

writhing/thrashing (maybe someone’s holding them down, or maybe they’re in bed alone)

crying (not actual tears. cry as in a shrill, sudden shout)

dazed (usually after the pain has subsided, or when adrenaline is still flowing)

wincing (probably overused but i love this word. synonym could be grimacing)

doubling-over (kinda close to keeling over but they don’t actually hit the ground, just kinda fold in on themselves)

heaving (i like to use it for describing the way someone’s breathing, ex. “heaving breaths” but can also be used for the nasty stuff like dry heaving or vomiting)

gasping/sucking/drawing in a breath (or any other words and phrases that mean a sharp intake of breath, that shite is gold)

murmuring/muttering/whispering (or other quiet forms of speaking after enduring intense pain)

hiccuping/spluttering/sniffling (words that generally imply crying without saying crying. the word crying is used so much it kinda loses its appeal, that’s why i like to mix other words like these in)

stuttering (or other general terms that show an impaired ability to speak — when someone’s in intense pain, it gets hard to talk)

staggering/stumbling (there is a difference between pain that makes you not want to stand, and pain that makes it impossible to stand. explore that!)

recoiling/shrinking away (from either the threat or someone trying to help)

pleading/begging (again, to the threat, someone trying to help, or just begging the pain to stop)

Like, ART is in the throes of early married life to Murderbot. ART is already planning which family to spend which holidays with. ART didn't dispute the baby thing. ART made its drones clean itself before Mensah (MIL) stepped on board. ART proposed with a mission.

THIS IS NOT TRUE!

I don't know why people repost this without testing or checking themselves first. I just signed up for completely new account with new email today (September 15th 2023), and can normally add my icon, banner, description, posts.. or edit blog in any way I want.

This is the new blog I just created and all functions work normally despite my not following anyone @sweetchild5250

If you sign up using email and create a password directly or use an apple account, it does not require you to follow multiple people before setting up your account. You can just go directly to your dashboard, set up your theme, header, icon, etc. without any interference. Then you can follow people.

However, if you sign up using a gmail account, it requires you to follow at least five tags and at least three people. There's not a skip option. After you've finished following people, then you can edit your theme, header, icon, etc. You cannot change or customize your blog in any way until you follow people unless you close the tab and reopen tumblr altogether.

“let’s fix this, i can’t lose you”

“we’ll work it out together”

“Is there anything I can do to help?”

“Would (insert comfort activity) help you?”

“Is there a compromise we can come up with that meets both of our needs?”

“This really hurt me, could we try (x) instead next time?”

“I noticed that this effected you, how can we make sure that your boundaries are being respected?”

“let’s fix this, i can’t lose you”

“we’ll work it out together”

“Is there anything I can do to help?”

“Would (insert comfort activity) help you?”

“Is there a compromise we can come up with that meets both of our needs?”

“This really hurt me, could we try (x) instead next time?”

“I noticed that this effected you, how can we make sure that your boundaries are being respected?”