wendynerdwrites:

A handy tumblr list (with links!) for people who are wondering what I’ve been talking about since Friday. There’s a really good compilation thread on resetera here. And the ex-contributors are working on a document compiling their past experiences. But I thought maybe a  tumblr compilation might help the curious until said document is completed.

1. Firing an employee who had worked for them literally every day, including holidays and weekends, because she had to take time off for surgery, then holding her severance hostage to have her sign a contract saying she wouldn’t work for another media site for 2-4 years.

2. Turning a blind eye to sexual harassment until it almost (or actually) got violent.

3. Not compensating people for days of work

4. Not providing food or water for people on their movie sets

5. Trying to force two of their contributors to do a rape/sexual assault scene 

6. Spending $90k of viewer money on this:

7. Buying a warehouse “studio” and not bothering to sound dampen it

8. Mass producing and selling prints of an artist’s work without informing or compensating her.

9. Firing someone for making anti-Gamer Gate videos.

10. Mislabeling videos in their queue. Then screaming at any contributors who mentioned the mix-up to fans.

11. Constantly changing scripts for anniversary videos so no one could learn their lines on time.

12. A general Wiseau-esque approach to filmmaking and treatment of cast/crew. Like, just WOW. WOW. RIGHT DOWN TO PEOPLE FAINTING ON SET. THERE WERE EVEN CAMERA SHENANIGANS AND THIS GUY HAS COVERED BOTH THE ROOM AND THE DISASTER ARTIST.

13. Not informing contributors that they’d be “retiring” the Nostalgia Critic character years ago.

14. General mismanagement of footage, videos, resources and staff. And expecting people to do tons of work in basically NO time.

15. Verbally abusing contributors (to the point of tears) for their advertising practices (the ad revenue that some were trying to live on, and practices that they’d eventually engage in, such as mid-rolls) (Keep in mind these people were not paid in anything but “exposure”)

16. Never addressing contributor issues and complaints. Insulting and harassing (female) people who had suggestions/complaints.

17. Shutting down entire sites without forewarning to the contributors.

18. General misogyny towards female talent.

19. Management not being available to site members. (Keep in mind that CA is a full blown corp)

20. This shit.

21. Randomly dropping people for “not posting videos” despite random rule changes and/or the videos simply not being scheduled right on the managers’ end.

22. This shit too. Basically a “prime membership” thing that never produced anything that cost $30 to get “exclusive” videos…. that they mass-released a year later anyways.

23. A general creepy and flippant approach to the characters they wrote.

24. Ignoring the existence and work of contributors who had been there for years, including excluding them from video events directly involving their own extensive work, such as the Don Bluth Special. And using other contributors’ footage in “response” videos without telling them.

I encourage everyone to check out @marzgurl, @atopfourthwall, @chaosd1, and @allisonpregler. Check Marzgurl’s twitter here, Allison’s twitter here, Linkara’s twitter here, also Foldablehuman’s, Lindsay Ellis’s, Holly’s, and Pushinguprose’s twitter for more info. 

lisuli79:

heather-hooked:

mad-max-war-girl:

dil-howlters-gay-dads:

wearitcounts:

ishipanarmada:

batmanlockedmeinthetardis:

thisrohirrimisnoman:

1reasonand1reasonolny:

harryriles:

“what are you reading?”

“its a…online book.”

“oh cool, what’s it about?”

“….uh….”

I love that everyone just knows

Or…alternately:

“what are you writing?”

“it’s a….story.”

“oh cool, what’s it about?”

“…uh…”

“can i read it?”

“Oooh what are you drawing? Can I see?”

I FEEL THIS on a personal level

no but also “what website is that?”

“you have a tumblr? can i follow you?”

“what kind of blog is ur tumblr?”

@alcalina

clonithegreatandterrible:

caledoniaseries:

rainbow-femme:

So whenever i would watch movies and see The Badass Female Character fighting in various ways, something about it always bugged me. I just assumed it was internalized misogyny that made me dislike characters like black widow and Tauriel and tried to make myself like them.

Then I was rewatching Mad Max Fury Road the other day and I noticed that nothing bothered me about watching Furiosa fight and I realized the problem wasn’t watching women fight in movies that got on my nerves.

Watching the stereotypical Badass Female Character she always has these effortless moves and a cocky, sexy smirk on her face as everything is easy. Watching Furiosa, she grunted and bared her teeth. Her fighting was hard and it took effort and it hurt like fighting is supposed to. For once her fighting style wasn’t supposed to seduce the audience it was to be effective.

I wasn’t disliking these characters because they were women I was disliking that their fighting was meant to remind me they were women. High heels and shapely outfits and not showing effort or discomfort because it’s more attractive to effortlessly lift a long leather clad leg over your head rather than rugby tackle someone.

It’s the same with the Wonder Woman movie too. Fighting is hard and it takes effort, blocking bombs and bullets with a shield makes her grimace and bare her teeth with the effort it takes. She’s not flip kicking bombs she’s yelling and straining, not because she’s weak or bad at fighting but because that’s what it would be like.

I really hope we’re moving into an era of women having fighting styles designed for realism and not how hot it looks for the men in the audience.

THIS.

One of the reasons I love Atomic Blond. She gets WRECKED in it and everything hurts. Best scene is when she and the bad guy are so exhausted from fighting that they can barely both reach for the gun between them.