It’s a fantastic point, but John Boyega’s net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn’t safe either…
There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao
Not to mention the way the money was made
An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers
This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.
Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.
But like… an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense).
These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different.
The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner.
Remember folks, proletariat literally means you get paid for working, whereas bourgeoisie literally means generating money via OWNING. Yeah, even the high profile actor isn’t your enemy on that basis alone - but the media executives dictating their contracts and careers are.
For anyone who might be writing fic in order to raise money/donations for a cause, please remember not to mention that anywhere on AO3. It is against the Terms of Service to charge money for fic, even if that money is not going to you, personally. Please don’t mention commissions or donations or fundraising or patreon or kofi etc etc in a fic or on your profile. ❤
I will boost this signal, mostly for myself because my brain is apparently a fucking colander and I can’t remember shit sometimes; and also add, if you’re the one who commissioned a fic, don’t mention that on ao3 either. Not even in your bookmarks! I forget other people can see my notes there. Please don’t get your writing friends in trouble, like I almost did a couple of times :(
Just say ‘i asked for this pairing/trope/continuation/whatever’ Don’t say ‘i commissioned this’.
i’ve had “if you enjoy my writing, click here” with a link to my kofi in all of my end notes for a couple years and nothing’s happened, so maybe try that
Nope. You’re still breaking their TOS by having a site like ko-fi directly linked, and if anyone finds that out or someone reports you, you can lose your entire account. They have to enforce these rules in order to protect us from copyright laws. It’s why for decades individual fandom creators used to put “I do not own this work or profit from it” at the start of every fic/chapter.
What you can do, is say “follow me on tumblr” and promote your ko-fi on your tumblr. But I’ve seen people do the link to their ko-fi/patreon without explicitly mentioning them and still losing their accounts or getting hit by warnings cause someone reported them. (The one person I knew who outright lost their account just kept doing it repeatedly despite multiple warnings, like a doofus, so that was on them.)
(I think there may be exceptions for certain charity drives, but I don’t think ko-fi and patreon are protected by that)
Hi! Former AO3 Abuse team member here! It’s been a bit, so I’ll admit that my knowledge may be slightly out of date. But generally speaking you cannot:
Link Directly to:
Kofi
Patreon
Amazon
Your private book site where you sell your writing
Any other fundraising site such as gofundme etc
If you link and are reported your work is in danger of being deleted, but you will be given a warning and time to fix any issues.
You also cannot mention that a work was directly commissioned with $$, hide the rest of your work/novel/chapter/ or in any way paywall the remainder of your work. Things like “support my writing here!!” are usually no go.
General phrasings like trade, requested, asked for, etc are OK.
Joy is correct in saying linking to your tumblr which advertises your kofi or fundraiser is ok.
If you are reported, the AO3 team will do their best to let you know EXACTLY what works and what phrasing is not allowed. They do issue a blanket “responsible for the rest of your works” statement so be thorough.
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Thank you for that 💖
I did not know this and I think it’s very important others as informed as well.
“Oh, so that’s why you are they way you are. You’re two fire signs ruled over by water!”
Pretty sure it’s just the ADHD.
A fun thing to do whenever someone asks you your sign is to lie about your birthday. It still means listening to them attempt to explain your entire personality badly for a few minutes, but then you can undercut them as soon as it gets too annoying.
So, for a while I was doing mailroom/account followup work for a nonprofit, and on my firt day there, one of the ladies, “Debbie” asked me when my Birthday was. Assuming she was planning office Birthday parties, I told her.
The next day she came in with my ENTIRE star chart with personality tropes, life advice, predicitons for my future and so on. Now, I don’t go in for Astrology but I can tell when someone is making a well-meaning gesture and I can say “Thank you” and shut up.
Especially because I told her the Wrong Birthday.
See, my birthday is in the middle of a cluster of a whole bunch of family birthdays and growing up I used to have to share my Birthday with my older cousins and while that’s not really a big deal (even fun if you’re older) it kinda sucks when you’re five and none of your cousins share your interests.
So mom made a deal with me: We’d celebrate my “Un-Birthday” in January, when nobody else in the family has a birthday or anything else, and the “real” birthday would be my Cousin’s. I got my own birthday and they got a second party and it was fun.
As I got older, I just started using my Un-Birthday for everything except paperwork, becuase January is boring and bereft of holidays except the one that’s really part of Xmas these days. On paperwork, I put my real one, but I’ve been celebrating my birthday in the wrong month for over 25 years now, and didn’t think about it when she asked, and told her my Un-Birthday.
And for a few weeks everything was fine.
But Debbie had a RIVAL.
Another woman in the office “Sharon” was also big into Astrology and was convinced Debbie was Doing It Wrong, so when she was going over payroll, she saw my Legal Birthday, realized Debbie had filled out the chart wrong, and then proceded to drag Debbie on the company facebook group, and a bunch of astrology groups they were both in.
I found out when I came in three days later from a long weekend and Debbie burst into tears and sobbed “HOW COULD YOU LIE TO MEEEEEE???”
After an extremely garbled recounting by our coworkers, a talk with my manager about “Hey yeah I don’t think it’s Legal for Sharon to take my name and date of birth from Payroll and put it all over facebook?”, the manager had a talk about “I know you are all over 50 but this is NOT WHAT THE COMPANY FACEBOOK IS FOR”, Sharon was ‘removed from the premesis’ and I finally got to sit down with Debbie.
I explained the slip-up and how I sort of have two birthdays and think of the January Birthday is my “Real” one.
Debie looked up from where she’d been sobbing into her tissue all morning, realization dawning on her less like the illumination of the sun and more like a baby sea turtle headed in the wrong direction because of light Pollution.
“Oh!” She said “You’re TRANS-ZODIAC! You might have been born as an Aries, but you’re really a Capricorn!”
As someone who’s been hit by a minivan and gotten a minor skull fracture from it, I’m pretty sure hearing that sentence gave me more brain damage.
“Sure Debbie.”
You know, I had no idea where this ride was going to take us, but of all the outcomes I expected, that was not it.
what planet do “no bathroom breaks, just use it during passing period” teachers come from
But I am passing period on this very chair right now.
I always wondered why more teachers in middle and high school weren’t more permissive about bathroom breaks—if a kid meekly asks to run to the bathroom and you say “no”, you’re really taking a gamble. Either they’ll insist if it’s an emergency and cause a scene and bring attention to themself, or they’ll be too embarrassed and just bleed on your chair and you’ll have to be the teacher who deals with a completely preventable bodily fluids cleanup and hepatitis risk.
You know what made actual zero sense to me? My high school had this rule where the bathrooms were closed the first 10 minutes of class, the last 10 minutes of class, and the five minute break between classes. So if I class was roughly 40 minutes long you only had 20 minutes to go. And there was only one bathroom per wing aka 4 bathrooms. And there was over 3,000 students in this school. So imagine 3,000 students having to share 4 bathrooms for only about 2 hours per day. It was a DISASTER. Like if you wanted to pee you had to time it so that you would be able to walk to the bathroom (our building was huge, the largest high school in the state), the lines for the bathroom were often at least 10 people long (the teacher monitoring the bathroom would only let 2 people in at a time), and by the time you got back to class it was probably a 15 minute journey and you missed like a third of class. And that’s if you’re lucky and your teacher even lets you go in the first place. Like… just let people go pee? The fuck?
Oh and if it was half day and the classes were only 30 or so minutes GOOD LUCK trying to pee in 10 minutes! Most teacher straight up would say no! It was amazing!
automatic sliding doors are so butch. i am charmed and romanced by the experience of them every time. it just senses my presence and opens up….. like wow i am really being taken care of rn 😳
automatic sliding doors see me in the grocery store with my silly little femme outfit on and say do you need any help with those groceries princess 💪😉
femmes are getting it where we can in these trying times
actually automatic doors are cringe because i cant open them for femmes. every time the machine takes this from me i want to bullcharge it. but alas, it would simply open, owning me severely…
okay see this is the dialogue we SHOULD be having. fucked up, robots r stealing jobs from hardworking lesbians everywhere …… it’s so sad, “like” if you agree
sometimes i think about the fact that Dreamworks was working on the Prince of Egypt and Shrek at the same time and would apparently send people to work on Shrek instead of the Prince of Egypt as a form of punishment
the night i posted this i couldn’t find a source and i’ve been wondering ever since if maybe it was just some kind of fucked up fever dream or something. but no, it’s real:
Call me Crys. She/Her, He/Him. I'm Blake's s/o and Editor. Bi af. Also I love Life is Strange and my lovely human! I have a tendency to say things ironically until they eventually become un-ironic and annoy most everyone involved!
