Makeshift Fanfic Trello Thing

* What The Storm Brought In - I've got a completed draft. Right now it really needs to get put aside for a week so I can come back to if fresh and see the problems and make it more cohesive. It's currently at about 9k.

* Waiting For This / Where I Can't Follow - Waiting is at about 8k and is in pretty good shape, it's just that it's meant as a prequel / set up for Follow.

Follow was supposed to be a short Halloween fic for last year but the project grew and now I need to get it done. I am basically sitting on a completed 8k fic because I don't want to post it solo or as a WIP. I need to get Part 2 done because... sitting on Part 1 is kinda rough.

* Yes, it's July but I want to come up with some ideas for *actually short* Halloween fics so I've got something in my back pocket if an event or a week or something pops up. But every time I go 'what I've really like to write is...' I realize I am describing Follow.

* I do need to go back to that completed Librarians fic and polish it for posting.

* I drug out my incomplete Jooster Halloween fic from last year. I like the set up, it's based on actual era spoopy season party activities I've not seen in fic. I think I need to edit it down, rip out the subplot and post it as shorter, tighter fic that what it's trying to be now.

Basically, I have a lot of fics that are done-ish. I just need to figure out how to edit them into good fics.

Jessie Gender's Identiteaze

When SAG-AFTRA announced they'd allow productions to go forward that complied with their rules I had discussions a few places about how this is awesome and proves their points, not that they should need proving to anyone capable of basic math, but that hopefully the exceptions would go to some truly indie media. When it was announced it was only A24 and some fundie bullshit that was greenlit.

Sadly, Jesse Gender's upcoming short film has had to call off production to SAG-AFTRA not being organized enough to give a waiver to a Nebula micro-budget short.

I have a lot of sympathy for what SAG is dealing with right now. We all like jokes making fun of bureaucrats in shows and movies, but in reality keeping track of details and getting stuff done is hard and not everyone is suited to it. They do not have the staff for this.

Also, the influencer messaging has been a mess for reasons that are not their fault. The reason why being an influencer is such a viable job or side hustle for so many is that even with regulations put into place over the past few years it is still a massive loophole is a lot of rules and regulations in the US and the UK. It is very hard to bop those who need to be bopped without collateral damage. (Speaking of which, I Like Turtles kid is dead to me for doing paid promo for the upcoming TMNT movie. He's been trying to monetize being a meme his whole life, but this is a new low.)

Still, the point of unions and these strikes is for the established, well paid people to protect the smaller and marginalized creators and workers. This is why The Rock made a historic donation to SAG. Keeping crew working, protecting indie creators, this is everything that the strike should be protecting and they have messed up. A Nebula Short whose cast and crew roster is mostly minorities should be a slam dunk.

To be clear, I don't think they as an org meant to screw over a truly indie project. It sounds like a combination of chaos and maybe some overworked people deciding to not take them seriously, make them low priority when they should have been high priority in this specific situation. Hopefully, this gets resolved but for now their cast has crew has been released to be able to take other jobs and that is a HUGE thing to happen to any production.

And the whole 'we expect you to support us but we don't support you' feels she describes in the video, man I feel that in my soul.

Nancy Drew

I don't think anyone here is watching it, but I will cut anyway. The show is on it's planned final season right now.

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