We also need to stop insisting that everyone enjoying flawed things must put 25 cents in the Problematic Jar and recite all its failings from memory.
If I just may add: we really need to stop pretending that “I’m a Good person, ergo the thing I like is PERFECT and if you criticize it you’re an ENEMY”. You can enjoy stuff AND keep your sense of critical thinking.
We in Labor aren’t hurting our industry. We’re fighting to save it from predatory sociopaths who will gleefully watch people lose their homes and go hungry, rather than release 2% of their grotesque wealth to ensure a healthy industry for everyone.
In 1960, SAG and WGA struck to force management to adapt to the new technology of television. Without that strike and the agreement it birthed, residual use payments would not exist.
Wil Wheaton and Gates McFadden support SAG-AFTRA and WGA at Paramount Studios
My parents forced me to be a child actor, and stole nearly all of my salary from my entire childhood. My Star Trek residuals were not…
Oh and fyi I’m very grey when it comes to aot ships, I don’t ship eruri directly but I love them as an aro soulmate type of deal, (like, nothing can stop us but I’d die for you bcs you mean the world to me bro) but if you want to see this as shipping material, go ahead!! It’s up to you <3