My personal headcanon is that Hades’ wall tattoo is a coverup. It just fits with what we know of him, a man who has buried his own happiness under steel and stone and built walls around everything he has—including his emotions. Not sure what he has under there, but something he doesn’t want to be reminded of.
“The Pyramid Guy from the opening credits literally has no significance to the show and never will. He’s just a generic image made to look mythological or spooky like most things in the intro.”
Does anyone have an update on where things are at with the writers strike? It’s disappeared from my various feeds and algorithms.
The writers’ strike is ongoing and the studios are still not returning to the negotiating table. Unfortunately a lot of the coverage has tapered off because we’re on 50+ days of striking and it’s not new anymore. The last strike in 2007 lasted 100 days, so don’t be surprised if this strike lasts as long, or even longer.
Please keep vocally supporting the WGA online to keep the pressure on the studios & to keep WGA members motivated and encouraged! There are many ongoing donation drives, such as the Star Trek fan snack squad (Twitter account required to DM the organizer) and the Our Flag Means Death snack squad (opens the PayPal fundraising page—no Twitter required). There’s a longer list of ongoing donation drives here.
The Entertainment Community Fund is also always accepting donations to support entertainment workers affected by the strike. Please boost and encourage your friends to keep supporting the strike. Hashtag #IStandWithTheWGA #DoTheWriteThing to boost the cause!
It’s sad to see the DGA go the way they went. SAG-AFTRA are still, I think, waving in the wind.
But for the WGA, this strike is currently at (borrowing a metaphor) Helm’s Deep. We have to take the stand that will allow us to—in a month or two, or three (argh), when shit starts to get serious at the AMPTP’s end—roll up in front of Minas Tirith and let the other side hear the horns in the morning.
They think they’re going to successfully wait us out. They are now slowly (however slowly) beginning to realize that we’re waiting them out. Writers are USED to one form or another of the Great Hiatus. They’re not. Their stockholders are going to get restive.
We can wait, though it hurts. It’s what writers do.
With the Titanic tourist submarine gone missing I would once again like to say that every single person on that ship that night got their family torn apart in some way. Survivors had to sit in lifeboats and listen to their love ones die in the water. Many survivors went on to have severe mental health issues and committed suicide. After the incident the White Star Line sent out bills to living relatives of their deceased employees making them pay for the uniforms that their loved ones had died in. The people in Halifax who had to recover the deceased bodies were traumatized for life while also paying for funeral services for unclaimed bodies with money out of their own pockets.
I 100 percent believe that it’s important to study the ship as it continues to deteriorate but in no way should it be used as a fucking tourist attraction and the fact that it’s gotten to this point is straight up disgusting. If one things goes wrong down there that it’s your dead. Simple as that.
Robert Ballard who discovered the ship has even said that he has regrets about discovering the ship because of the damage that submarines have caused to it.
Reminder at the beginning of pride month that rainbow capitalism, beyond anything else, is a metric of public opinion. A corporation slapping a rainbow logo on twitter or selling a t-shirt with a rainbow graphic means that they believe they can make as much, or more, money by doing so than if they refused to. You can talk in circles for hours about whether this is allyship or exploitation or whatever, but it is always a symptom, not a cause.
That’s what should worry you about Target pulling down pride displays, or companies deciding not to walk in pride parades. A sudden decline in rainbow capitalism is a visible thermometer for the political, social, and legal pressure against queer rights, particularly in the USA in 2023.
