My name is Logan. Bisexual trans man with a touch of nonbinary. Writer. Mathematician. MXTX. Good Omens. Other nerdy stuff. Pronouns: he/him/his. Current Age: 28. AO3: lo_n_behold
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I want to make this absolutely clear to kids: children didn’t used to be stuck inside the house like you are today. There used to be public places you could hang out. It used to be fairly safe to walk around because trucks weren’t designed to kill children. You didn’t need a car to go anywhere so kids without a license weren’t trapped. There weren’t 24/7 cable news networks constantly scaring parents with anecdotes even as crime was at all time lows and the biggest danger comes from adults kids know not strangers.
It’s easy to ignore old people talking about “the good ol’ days” because a lot of the people saying that shit are racist assholes, but the way society treats kids today really is objectively worse than how kids used to be treated. You deserve better, and you should know that better things are possible. We just need to kill the suburbs and for-profit news.
When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, I could go for a bike ride or walk with my sister or friends and we could leave after breakfast and not come back until dinner and our parents weren’t worried. We lived on the edge of town, so we could turn left into the woods or turn right and go downtown or go straight and go to a friend’s house in the neighborhood. I went to a park or the community pool or went out for ice cream alone from a young age.
I also regularly walked to and from school alone from as young as first grade (so, about age 6). And I’m not saying I walked three miles uphill in snow both ways, but I checked a map and it was over half a mile and crossed at least one street that people drive pretty fast on. And that was normal.
All the same for the ‘60s.
during the summer my parents used to open the door in the morning and set us loose, we’d come back for lunch, then we just had to be back by sundown. we’d wanted the neighborhood, ride our bikes, explore the bike trail, play in the creek, for hours and hours. i remember going to neighborhood friends’ houses and just knocking on their door and asking their parents if they could come outside and play. having that kind of freedom is unimaginable for kids nowadays and it makes me very sad.
It feels tragic that a lot of Millennials were the last kids who got to do this, although I’m sure there are many Gen Z kids who were lucky enough to have this kind of a childhood.
In his defence I also saw that necklace and fell in love immediately
If anyone is curious, they did go out on a date! OP couldn’t get past the age gap and the two parted ways very pleasantly, him with the knowledge that thousands of ppl on tiktok want him carnally.
I thought the whole “we’re gonna use AI to write shows and movies and pay you garbage wages to fix the scripts” was vile, but “we want to scan background actors and then OWN THEIR LIKENESS TO USE IN PERPETUITY DESPITE PAYING THEM FOR ONLY A SINGLE DAY’S WORK” is just…
I don’t have words for this. There are no words that capture the sheer revulsion I felt at reading that actual, real fucking offer from the AMPTP.
Antisemitism truly is everywhere and is nightmarish and disgusting. I was looking for old anti-scabbing Union posters and a whole bunch depict scabs as obvious awful Jewish stereotypes (big hook nose, hunched over, long beard and curly hair… it’s obvious what they’re going for) and are still being reposted online to this day? By supposed leftists? But who’s surprised, leftists ignoring antisemitism isn’t news.
Meghan was a working actress for decades. She was a working royal for 18 months. She benefits massively from her show reaching syndication. She stands to lose depending on how Netflix negotiated residuals for Suits with it being out of cable reruns now.
Meghan knows what it’s like to scrimp and scrap for years. She was a working actress doing bit parts her whole 20s!
The fact is that honestly if she didn’t marry Harry, Suits might have been her biggest hit and again residuals would have a huge impact on her. She completely has a leg to stand on joining this fight. Just like she had one speaking up for BLM.
In fact, A-Listers NEED to be using their spotlight to highlight the strike and the working actors who make up the bulk of Hollywood who don’t make millions per movie. It’s important that people like Meryl Streep or Jennifer Lawrence or Matt Damon or Margot Robbie join the strike. A-list talent walking off set and refusing to take part in press and promo is part of what gives the Union huge bargaining power even if those elite actors are not necessarily hurting financially. But also, a lot of A-Listers also have huge stakes in the fight because it’s also about control of their image and their long term financial profit, too.
Meghan is a producer now with a new production company. If she wants top talent on her productions she needs to be ten toes down in solidarity, too.
Meghan was/is SAG. The Union protected her as a working actress, she can use the outrageous spotlight on her to stand in solidarity and to support working actors.
A lot of people don’t seem to know that a bunch of older stars end up in poverty. Fame is fleeting. The glamorous role often doesn’t pay as well as you think.
Tales of Angela Landsbury insisting ageing stars get roles on Murder She Wrote so they could retain their medical insurance.
Every worker needs unions. Bit-part workers need A-lister solidarity. Being an A-lister doesn’t last forever.
margot robbie going from having jar*d l*to as a costar whose idea of method acting was to send his castmates a dead pig amongst other disturbing things, to having ryan gosling as a costar whose idea of getting into character was to black out on the sheer power of ✨kenergy✨ as if he’d, quote, magically become that doll and say things like i kenned in the morning. i kenned at night. i’m kenning now! 🤠 and as ken, i cannot stand any more conversation about ken, we must talk about barbie! 😃💕…what an upgrade. love that for her.
