Curse you, Audacy, for geo-blocking my beloved, crotchety Philly commentary 😭

Which is to say, the fact that it’s been absolute *crickets* from Lucasfilm about everything the cast and crew of THE ACOLYTE have faced during the show's run and post-cancellation is downright shameful

I know I’m viewing it as a fandom journalist, but it was really something for *that* to be the non-response after cast/creatives who worked on OBI-WAN KENOBI, TROP, and PERCY JACKSON (not mentioned in the article but a very egregious example) all managed it.

Or rather, it was—and I'm paraphrasing here because I no longer have access to those emails to source that info—something like, "We'll get right back to you" before I got ghosted for several days and several follow-ups lol

I’ve been looking at job postings outside of journalism as well because lol @ this industry, and the difference between what one industry pays over the other—even the rates of non-journo jobs considered on the low end—is wild

Like, I am more than aware of how low some companies pay, but the job has two people's worth of responsibilities for an obscenely insulting amount of money

Well, if the date passes and one of the pubs runs that piece except a staff writer did it instead, I’ll at least know it’s a good pitch 🙃

And yeah, I do feel kinda weird about tracking emails sometimes, but it’s the only defense I have 🙃

I think I only ever got rejected once. Otherwise (of the no-goes) it was “opened but didn’t respond,” “didn’t open at all,” and (paraphrasing) “interested but pitch again closer to the date, only to not open the follow-up email sent six months later”

Always the possibility someone turns on the extension to block those trackers after that, but the result is really the same, really: *crickets*