Group hug!
Inspired by that heartwarming backstage video.
My names Carpet/Bounce/Gem my pronouns are It/Its/Neon/Mangoself, and I mostly just post random nonsense
It's true that sometimes everything happens too much, but I think there's value in acknowledging that sometimes everything happens a reasonable amount and you're just being a dick about it. You've gotta recognise that you're being petty in order to properly lean into it!
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Almost all of my favorite shows (Rise, Dark Crystal, Inside Job, Infinity Train) were cancelled…BY NETWORKS! Not by writers! Heck! The writers WANTED TO KEEP GOING! To keep making their characters, their art, and their stories told.
Writers are no the problem. Artists are not the problem. They almost never are! Corporations are the problem. Execs are the problem. So many great shows get sabotaged by their own studio (I.E. Rise of the TMNT) and then the studio turns around and acts as though it was the lack of fan engagement. It’s why I tend to watch shows that were made years in the past. They created the problem and now they’re scapegoating writers.
If studios gave up on every show that had a lackluster first season that didn’t pull in the numbers…we wouldn’t have had classics like the Office, OR Parks and Recreation, OR Brooklyn 99. It took a while for those shows to get good.
Writers WANT to create! It’s the studios/corporations that are the problem. It’s A.I. art that is the problem!
Reward writers! Reward artists! Support them! Not the big company’s that don’t respect them!
And don’t ever give up the fight for what you want!