whitedogblog:

themaninthegreenshirt:

“It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.“ 

Alan Bennett

The Library at Chateau de Groussay, Frsnce

horror-heks:

thatsbelievable:

@horse-is-a-horse-of-course

honestlydeepesttidalwave:

Dog Soldiers (2002)

latetothetheater.com, rottentomatoes.com, horroredits.tumblr.com, tumblr, aminoapps.com

yuyuuyuyuu:

mistiqartscosplay:

After a full year, my Zarya is finally done!

It took so long because we had to figure out all of the fitting systems for easy dress ups and for stuff to keep in place. BTW my muscles are a hack I saw from japan cosplayers: silicone bras and a thick stocking with the tattoo drawn on! Transformation and a constant tattoo in one swoop. I am so happy to role play as her at cons!

@blackbackedjackal

wilwheaton:

vbartilucci:

womenwwe:

Zeliina Vega was released from WWE yesterday [13/11/2020] just 10 minutes after she tweeted the following:

A short statement from the company simply read: “WWE has come to terms on the release of Zelina Vega. We wish her all the best in her future endeavors.“ 

The news of Zelina’s release got fans talking, with many taking to Twitter to vent their fury at Vince McMahon’s, whose name was trending on Saturday.

The word backstage however is that Zelina’s release was decided on well before she posted the tweet and it was noted that Zelina was extremely vocal about maintaining her twitch account. Her starting a OnlyFans page was not a popular decision either and there are some people in WWE who are wondering if Vega was released to “send a message” to others in the company, to make sure they follow the third party platform edict. 

Zelina made it clear that she would be returning to Twitch and also tweeted out her thanks to the WWE universe, posting:

Let me explain what happened here.

Thanks to All…

a lot of wrestlers’ income dropped because they stopped doing live shows. That meant less pay, and it also meant less merch sales.

So a lot of folks started live streaming on Twitch and YouTube, and picking up some extra cash from ads and memberships. And some others started doing custom videos on Cameo.

And the WWE, who employs(*) all these people, basically said “We don’t want you making any money that we don’t get a cut of, if not all of it” and said everyone had to stop streaming.

They claimed since they owned the trademarks of the wrestlers’ names, they should be the ones making money on them.

So the boys said “No problem, we’ll just use our real names on the streams” and the WWE claimed that they also owned the wrestlers’ real names.

They wanted to have everyone turn the stream channels over to the company, and then they could keep streaming, but any income from it would count towards their downside guarantee, AKA, the minimum money a worker could make in a year. 

The wrestlers are all understandably VERY angry about this.

Now, let’s look at that (*).  Wrestlers are not technically employed by the WWE, they are “independent contractors”, which is the company’s way of getting out of paying them an actual salary, and (very important) giving them medical benefits. They’re responsible for all their own expenses, travel, etc. And yet somehow, the WWE still has the ability to restrict the wrestlers from working anywhere else, where they make appearances, etc, things not ordinarily possible for contractors.

This business model has been under fire for some time now, both in the industry as well as outside - John Oliver did a scathing analysis of it back in the spring which got a lot of tongues clicking, but very little actually achieved.

To a degree, WWE is a larger scale version of the Gig Economy issue, and it’s all primed to come to a head soon.

WWE exploits its workers. WWE employees should absolutely form a union so they get the benefits and protections they deserve.