Alchemistress

Just watched Dan Da Dan ep 1 and the way it reminds of FLCL ?

There's been all this talk during the strike that streamers and studios have different end goals. Streamers were built by tech and have different revenue models than studios and creative. There is definitely compatibility. Many years ago, hollywood studios and theaters had monopolies on distribution and actors and writers signed with studios and often couldn't leave even if they weren't working. They could only do films at their home studio, etc. And no one else could get stuff up on screens (independents, small studios, etc). Streamers pay their staff, writers, actors, etc less than anywhere else. (Getting a job on a FreeVee show apparently pays less than minimum wage) When HBO Max renamed to Max it got to disconnect itself from cable/broadcast and pay streaming fees only. It also got to pay streaming residuals instead of broadcast residuals. Max is part of Warner (see list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Warner_Bros._Discovery) Streamers will pay residuals now (yay strike!) but many of them are on the FCC and FTC radar for being monopolies. The quote in the article "“The rise of innovative, new video streaming services is an American success story we should celebrate and encourage, not smother with obsolete and ill-fitting rules and regulations designed for completely different technology, products and business models. Viewers have never gotten more for their entertainment dollar, and I urge policymakers to resist any effort to curtail this hugely beneficial innovation. Let’s not allow some backwards-looking regulatory scheme to block gains consumers so strongly value and appreciate today.” ^That's misleading - where is a new app supposed to get traction? I don't love the cable model but they were required to carry a certain number of emerging options - This alliance is saying it's for us the consumer, but they really want to have carte blanche to own the content and the pipelines with very little room for other businesses to break in. Bad summary, my brain isn't braining today.

Or... put another way - Streamers form lobby to make sure they don't have to follow regulations that broadcast and cable television do... so they can continue to be a monopoly pipeline

Thanks for that I only have ONE MORE ROUND TO GO so I'm feeling excited. (Realizing I shared that probably without any prior context on these boards. I'm in remission, these are maintenance rounds, and they were scheduled for a year - last one in Oct)

I don't always [ever] get to be in charge of what's stuck in my head -

My eyes are dry, but I JUST put drops in... grrrrr

Always been more of a night person, but I'm all over the place right now. Left to my own devices I'd go to bed between 2-3a and wake up at 11am, but the 9-5 world doesn't like that. I'm not working right now, but still doing chemo and have to take stuff 12h apart, I can't quite get it all to work out because I need much more sleep because of the medication. Like, 12h should be enough, but it's either barely drag myself out of bed OR awake but not awake enough to move until I'm hungry.

I missed this news until an ig post this morning and came here looking for our community. I had literally just checked her ig this morning - before her husband posted - to see if there were any updates :( I will miss her. (And autocorrect wanted to make that “kiss her”)

To answer the question - whatever happened to... I keep INTENDING to spend more time here - still my fav online community EVER. In the last couple years I switched jobs (sanity) and that left me time to pursue some creative passions - So I've been spending a lot of free time in Acting classes, submitting for self-tape auditions, and trying to add footage to a demo reel so I can try and get an agent. So far it's a few student films and independents - right where I should be as an actor starting out. Pandemic shutdown has meant little-to-no auditions or filming, so I keep training... And THEN I went back to writing, which is what I am sat-down to do today so I should not let y'all distract me ... But I ❤️ y'all and love being summoned from the ether-ethernet.

You rang ? :)