[ID: tiktok captioned: The moment they realized it was the real Janelle Monae on the ACLUE pride float. Janelle stands on a small float and speaks into a microphone decorated with the trans flag. They say, “We are here, we are queer! We are trans! We are the LGBTQIA+ community and we celebrate us right now! The video turns to the crowd and shows shots of people half paying attention to the float, then doing double takes as they see Janelle Monae singing. /]
Delighted watching this video! Wanted to describe it to the bf but then I realized I didn’t actually know Janelle Monáe’s pronouns (knew they were nb though), so I decided to look it up. My delight went up 20 fold learning.
Actor/Singer/Performer Janelle Monáe uses
‘free-ass motherfucker’
but in a pinch finds they/them/she/her acceptable.
It’s crazy that these strikes are happening given that all the writers and actors are asking for is less than 0.3% of the revenue these studios make.
This is what gets me. The writers and actors aren’t asking for much but these CEOs are digging their heels in
It’s because it sets a precedent that the CEOs are terrified to set. That they will acquiesce to worker demands if the workers are resolute enough.
Because in an ideal world for these rich fucks, the workers give up, and the CEOs win, and its reinforced in the collective public mindset that all a strike does is “disrupt the economy, deprive people of valuable products, and waste people’s time”. The goal is to maintain the assertion that Strikes Don’t Work. I don’t think they genuinely give a shit about 0.15% of their revenue. What they care about is the OPTICS.
They cannot back down, for the exact same reason that WORKERS cannot back down. Because if the workers win, it shows people just that bit more that The Poors have power and ultimately we can make the rich do what we want if we put our fucking minds to it. And that, to the rich, is bad news bears to the highest degree.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ONE OF MY FAVOURITE GAMES EVER!!! Undertale is literally so important to me I don’t think I’d be the same artist without it. It literally made me want to start digital art, and hey I think thats pretty awesome.
VOGUE: Taylor Zakhar Perez Is The Prince Of The Vogue World Red Carpet
It’s also the only theatre in the United Kingdom to have two royal boxes, which surely proved useful at Vogue World: London tonight, where Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice rubbed shoulders with Taylor Zakhar Perez (a man who is not technically blue-blooded but did act as the love interest of a fictional prince in Netflix’s Red, White and Royal Blue). Perez emerged on this evening’s red carpet in a louche, open-collared shirt with an undone waistcoat that first debuted in Daniel W Fletcher’s autumn/winter 2023 collection.
As would be fitting for a Netflix romcom, the deliberate deshabillé of the ensemble made it look as though Perez had perhaps been caught in a moment of spontaneous passion. “I must confess to having watched Red, White and Royal Blue multiple times so I was thrilled when Taylor said he wanted to wear DWF for Vogue World: London,” the designer told Vogue. “Nicholas Galitzine (who plays Prince Henry) has been a regular in the collections so I’m hoping that makes me a good candidate to design some Red, White and Royal Blue wedding suits!”
Fletcher continues: “The look is part of a collaboration with Huntsman of Savile Row and was inspired by something I found in their archive. I hope the prince would approve.” As for the actual royals, Beatrice and Eugenie attended Vogue World: London in bespoke Richard Quinn and aqueous Fendi gowns, respectively, both having been styled by Harry Lambert.
