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Jun. 12th, 2023 10:48 pm1. Well, I've deleted about 200 works from Ao3 - after they lifted my suspension today. My goal is to delete everything but the pure meta and fanficttion. And by pure - I mean mainly the Buffy meta. So it should be down to about 140 works by the end of the week.
Most have been transferred to Squidgeworld or Wordpress. I stopped bothering with the episode recap/episode reviews after a certain point. These are old television shows.
I'd put them on A03 - because I was mislead into thinking it was trying to be a fandom repository, but alas no.
2. Been listening to the Maureen Ryan (critic, television writer, and journalist )journalistic take-down on Hollywood, "Burn it Down" and she managed to explain the WGA strike to me. These poor writers are making next to nothing on streaming.
Normally a writer makes anywhere between $40-$10,000 per episode that they write or work on. They don't work on all of them. They might break down the story, write the script, do the teleplay, come up with the story breakdown, touch up a few lines, edit, etc. And get paid accordingly. With 22 episodes a year - they could make a living. Plus reruns and residuals.
But with streaming? They get six episodes, sometimes eight-ten, a year. And it doesn't always get renewed. There's no residuals or reruns.
So..22 episode run? Anywhere from $40,000 to maybe $80K a year. (Unless you are a show-runner - than closer to a million if you are lucky)
Six-eight episode run? $8,000 to maybe $20,000 -$25 k a year.
Dear god. No wonder they've gone on strike. In the chapter she goes into this - the writers are stating that they can't make enough to feed their families or pay a mortgage or even rent on a streaming. Or they work their ass off to become a show-runner for a Netflix or Streaming Channel's series - and can barely get by.
The actors don't do much better - which is why they are in line to strike next.
And it's grueling. The Lost Writer's room made me wince, listening to Ryan's expose on it. I've already gone through David O Russell (I heart Huckabees, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, New Amsterdam, Joy, among others...) and Scott Rudin, both are well...a piece of work and that's putting it mildly.
Apparently Christian Bale had to get up in Russell's face - to get him to back off of Amy Adams. Bale in character, pushed Russell off of her, and intervened. He also intervened in other films, and has stated Russell isn't necessarily the easiest person to work for, although he can get along with him.
Lost? Oh god. Well? I now understand why it kind of went off the rails. And shifted it's focus to the boring white Dudes.
I've not gotten to Sleepy Hollow yet. But the book is not kind to American Gods, Lost, and the X-Files.
Was discussing this with co-workers today. Bullying kind of exists everywhere, in part because we have such piss poor human resources departments or weak ones.
Most have been transferred to Squidgeworld or Wordpress. I stopped bothering with the episode recap/episode reviews after a certain point. These are old television shows.
I'd put them on A03 - because I was mislead into thinking it was trying to be a fandom repository, but alas no.
2. Been listening to the Maureen Ryan (critic, television writer, and journalist )journalistic take-down on Hollywood, "Burn it Down" and she managed to explain the WGA strike to me. These poor writers are making next to nothing on streaming.
Normally a writer makes anywhere between $40-$10,000 per episode that they write or work on. They don't work on all of them. They might break down the story, write the script, do the teleplay, come up with the story breakdown, touch up a few lines, edit, etc. And get paid accordingly. With 22 episodes a year - they could make a living. Plus reruns and residuals.
But with streaming? They get six episodes, sometimes eight-ten, a year. And it doesn't always get renewed. There's no residuals or reruns.
So..22 episode run? Anywhere from $40,000 to maybe $80K a year. (Unless you are a show-runner - than closer to a million if you are lucky)
Six-eight episode run? $8,000 to maybe $20,000 -$25 k a year.
Dear god. No wonder they've gone on strike. In the chapter she goes into this - the writers are stating that they can't make enough to feed their families or pay a mortgage or even rent on a streaming. Or they work their ass off to become a show-runner for a Netflix or Streaming Channel's series - and can barely get by.
The actors don't do much better - which is why they are in line to strike next.
And it's grueling. The Lost Writer's room made me wince, listening to Ryan's expose on it. I've already gone through David O Russell (I heart Huckabees, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, New Amsterdam, Joy, among others...) and Scott Rudin, both are well...a piece of work and that's putting it mildly.
Apparently Christian Bale had to get up in Russell's face - to get him to back off of Amy Adams. Bale in character, pushed Russell off of her, and intervened. He also intervened in other films, and has stated Russell isn't necessarily the easiest person to work for, although he can get along with him.
Lost? Oh god. Well? I now understand why it kind of went off the rails. And shifted it's focus to the boring white Dudes.
I've not gotten to Sleepy Hollow yet. But the book is not kind to American Gods, Lost, and the X-Files.
Was discussing this with co-workers today. Bullying kind of exists everywhere, in part because we have such piss poor human resources departments or weak ones.