Prioritize rest. Go to bed early. Take a cat nap. Stare out the window. Lay under a weighted blanket. Cuddle with your dog. Do nothing at all. You are not here to produce, accomplish, and hustle.
I used to think communication was the key until I realized comprehension is. You can communicate all you want with someone but if they don’t understand you, its silent chaos.
Now that SAG is officially on strike alongside the WGA, remember:
No individual actor or writer is at fault if a project gets delayed or cancelled.
It’s all on the studios, networks, and streamers.
Absolutely—put the blame on the studios who aren’t paying their workers fairly. Support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA to get a fair contrac, keep encouraging their members on social media, and donate to the Entertainment Community Fund if you can. The studios mean to starve out the guilds—let’s make sure the opposite happens.
also, please, please remember that while they are on strike the whole industry is effectively shut down. Greedy capitalists aren’t just starving writers and actors (newsflash, there are actors who are not multimillionaires who are striking too), but literally everyone. PAs. Grips. Costuming. Anyone who works on a production in any capacity is shut down. They’re all counting on benefits and donations and good will while they support each other. Remember that the studios are starving an entire industry in order to keep hoarding money from those whose labor created the things you love.
my favourite thing is when someone says “i think about you a lot” or “i had a dream about you” or “i was just about to text you” or something because the fact that i occur to someone when I’m not talking to them or anything is the best thing i just
