This Tumblr account is for random reblogs, theatre stuff, and my All For The Game hyperfixation. (and other silly queer things) Enjoy!
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YEAHHHHHH HAPPY PRIDE YA'LL!!!!
(currently reading 2 queer graphic novels at once, in the first one, the protag is openly lesbian with a gf and her friend is in a gay relationship, and in the second one there is a gnc protag and a pan or polysexual protag, with an absolutely AMAZING WONDERFUL GREAT transmasc commander/general who binds and is trying to find hormones)
So i'm having a great time.
Happy Pride Month!!!
go ahead! but if you send me asks, please write the question out, I will not be able to memorize all the emojis lol
~ 💖 ASK GAME 💖 ~
📷 What’s set as your phone’s lockscreen?
🍫 Cheese or chocolate?
✨ Do you have any nicknames?
🎵 Last song you listened to?
✏️ Have you ever written fanfiction?
😏 Are you on discord?
💛 Do you have any piercings?
🐰 What do you think says the most about a person?
🍪 If you were a cookie, what kind would you be?
🐶 Are you more of a dog person or a cat person?
🎧 Headphones or earbuds?
🌼 What’s the last thing you said out loud?
🙃 What’s a weird fact that you know?
🦉 Are you a morning person or a night owl?
🧸 Favorite place to nap?
🏳️🌈 Are you a member of the LGBTQIA+ community?
🦋 Describe yourself in three words.
👖 Jeans or sweatpants?
🥤 What’s your go-to Starbucks order?
🧡 A color you can’t stand?
💎 What’s your most prized possession?
☕ Coffee or tea?
🦖 Favorite extinct animal?
🌙 How long have you been on tumblr?
🌴 Desert island item?
🐸 Describe your aesthetic.
🔮 What’s your dream job?
💙 Relationship status?
🌿 Describe your favorite outfit.
🎤 Is there a song you know all the lyrics to?
🤎 What color is your hair?
💌 Do you talk to yourself?
💄 Do you wear makeup?
🌸 Best compliment you ever received?
💞 @ your favorite blog.
Reblogs are appreciated!
Show Week Update!
Before our last day show, the 2 board ops and I replaced the carpet for some reason, after the sound designer knighted me with a broom and the lighting designer talked about how magenta isn't even a real colour, it has to do with the cones in our eyes and how it's actually green but the green cones aren't stimulated. Read up on it, it's really interesting.
For the last show ever of this production, the actors had some fun with their lines, like in scene where an actor was supposed to say 'wow!' they said 'WHEE!' instead. For a scene where everyone had number cards, everyone turned them upside down. One of the characters gave me a bottle of hand sanitizer when i brought out a set piece. Overall, great way to end it, and the seniors graduating said a few words before the show.
Yeah that "WHEEEEEEE!!!!!!" during a scene caught everyone off guard lol
Our last show went well!
There were no sound mistakes (ok that's a lie there was a really small one but no one noticed) and only a few lighting mistakes but whatever. At least no one noticed that much.
Also, the actors included some funny off-script lines for this last show, so me and the lights designer had to keep ourselves from laughing while doing transitions.
i don't have any celebrity photos lol
@moonthemagical
Tagged by: @envydean!
Rules: Show your lock screen, last celeb photo, and the last song you listened to.
I’m counting my screenshot of Xiran Jay Zhao for this.
Tagging: @evilwriter37, @ashleybenlove, @knowerofuselessfacts, @poisonedyouth, @uh-ohspaghettio, @stand-up-and-screamo, and @cascigarette
mélancolie - Lenni Kim
Red Flags - Mimi Webb
Medusa - Kaia Jette
Who Do You Love - Mariana's Trench
Stay - BLACKPINK
(These are just for now, the ones stuck in my head)
@moonthemagical
@le-petite-ivy
(yeah no i dont have many followers rip)
5 songs
🎶✨When you get this, you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to, publish, then send this ask/tag 10 of your favorite followers 🎶✨ Thank you for the tag Carson, @padmedala. I’ve been liking Tears For Fears lately too. I’ll also look at my On Repeat Spotify playlist because that’s a smart idea. 1. Temporary Fix by One Direction
2. Judas by Lady Gaga (not me screaming to Bad Romance on the radio today)
3. I Don’t Love You by MCR
4. Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift
5. Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles
No pressure tags: @pimplepogue @mychemical-ronance, @kaleidoskuls, @downbytheriversside, @swordsandskeletons, @robinsnance, @mayfieldss @theannoyeddragon82, @she-wont-miss, @themaxbyers
And, after I made the announcement on our group chat and pinged all the actors, some of them had the AUDACITY to say;
"Oh thanks, (my name) you're a life saver! People might have forgot their props."
That came from an actor who forgot their costume piece and had to run to get it, and who forgets to put their prop back all the time.
and "THANKS (my name) I'M LAZY"
That came from my friend, who's been on stage crew before. I swear...
Speaking of bad behaviour from the actors, when I was going and doing my rounds and checking everything so we didn't have another mishap, (this show, an actor almost forgot their costume again! Luckily I reminded them to double-triple it!) and they got really annoyed that I was shining my flashlight so I didn't trip on anything. I even had my hand covering half of it! (I attached my flashlight on a chain of carabiners to make the ultimate flashlight)
SPEAKING of tripping on things, while I was going on the stage to stage left, I almost tripped on one of the set pieces we had onstage, conveniently painted... non-reflective black. My shins hurt so much :(
Show Update!
First night show one and done, woo! Still got one more night show tho...
Also, one of the main leading actors was delivering a monologue towards 3 other characters and accidentally did one of their names our of order so just said "and you" but it worked! (I don't think the crowd remembered anyways)
Also, we got our concession stand selling overpriced snacks for the 'experience' so I hope we can get back at least as much as a bucket of paint :/
one litre of paint was like 50 bucks :(
Ok reblogging this because IMMEDIATELY afterwards when I was putting back props and stuff, even made an announcement to the actors on our cast group chat, some actors decided to just leave their props and costumes lying around! This is how mishaps happen!
Since the night show was done and everyone was talking and whatever and getting food from our concession stand, I was running props back, and an actor had a prop. I told them to put it in the props box, but they didn't. I hope they didn't take it home.
SPEAKING of things people took home, I couldn't find my charger block, and I don't think I left it out in the open, so the sound designer pinged everyone in the cast group chat to tell them I lost my charger but no one's gotten back to them yet.
Show Update!
First night show one and done, woo! Still got one more night show tho...
Also, one of the main leading actors was delivering a monologue towards 3 other characters and accidentally did one of their names our of order so just said "and you" but it worked! (I don't think the crowd remembered anyways)
Also, we got our concession stand selling overpriced snacks for the 'experience' so I hope we can get back at least as much as a bucket of paint :/
one litre of paint was like 50 bucks :(
Show Update!
First night show one and done, woo! Still got one more night show tho...
Also, one of the main leading actors was delivering a monologue towards 3 other characters and accidentally did one of their names our of order so just said "and you" but it worked! (I don't think the crowd remembered anyways)
Also, we got our concession stand selling overpriced snacks for the 'experience' so I hope we can get back at least as much as a bucket of paint :/
one litre of paint was like 50 bucks :(
Show Week Costume Mishap!
Since I'm the only stagehand backstage, I have to run props and costumes to actors. No big deal, all the actors double-triple check their costumes and props.
Well, for our third show, which was this morning, an actor forgot one of their costume pieces! Since there's another room with extra costumes that haven't been used, another actor and I looked until we could find something similar.
That was on stage left. I had to cross over to stage right for a set change, then had to go BACK to stage left to grab that costume for the actor, then back to stage right. All in a day's work, I guess.
This little grey catbird hit my picture window today. I went out to see what made such a loud thump, and as it was still alive and could pull a wing back into place (so no neck broken, even though it couldn't stand), I moved it away from the window and off the ground, since many cats trespass in my yard. I waited with it for about half an hour until it recovered and flew off. Good luck with your headache lil dude.
lol we were wildinnnnnnn that rehearsal!
we made many inside jokes and funnies
The most crazy Queue To Queue I've done:
so, the actors decided instead of just skipping over scenes by having their first and last line, to give a summary of what happened in their scene, sparking lines such as "so I'm sad and I hate you" and "well, my dad left me. Time to leave!"
other times, due to such quick changes, some actors would mess up their costume changes. An actor arrived onstage with his jacket practically on his face. Another abandoned their high heels and stood on tip-toe half the time.
I also got to RickRoll everyone during the sound check.
YESSSSSS THANK YOU! I got diagnosed with juvenile arthritis when I was 8, and only just now got a mobility aid to help me, because since i've been in remission (touch wood) for the last 4-5 years, whenever I tell people I'm disabled they act really surprised or just... don't believe me... (for some reason)
But I'm so happy that this post showed up for me!
Friendly reminder that:
Young people can have arthritis too.
There are hundreds of life long conditions and diseases out there that are typically diagnosed between 12 and 30.
There is a vast difference between being tired and having chronic fatigue.
Just because you can’t tell that someone is unwell from looking at them, doesn’t mean that you should assume that they are ok.
Many chronic illnesses are life long, and incurable. Many of them are potentially fatal.
If you have a disease like Lupus, on good days you still feel like you have a bad flu, 24/7.
Many of the medications used to treat chronic conditions have side effects that can really affect someone’s self esteem - like extreme weight gain, skin changes and hair loss.
Most chronic illnesses have very little awareness - its unlikely that you’ve heard of Sjogren’s Syndrome, Scleroderma, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or Fibromyalgia.
However these diseases can cause symptoms as varied as joint pain, fatigue, constant nausea, kidney failure, pneumonia, photo sensitivity, full body rashes, paralysis, strokes etc.
So please remember that invisible illnesses exist too :)
Production Update:
Just as i thought i was done painting something, another wild set piece appears! it's Tech Week next week, I don't have time to paint! I need to do all the set transitions by myself!
(But hey at least i got a black shirt and some wonderful black cargo pants and i'll update you all about what i can carry on my belt that's needed for the show)
Today during rehearsal I was painting something for a run and some of the actors begged me to come back and help them because everyone was missing the set changes. Hey, it's not my fault if NO ONE WRITES IT DOWN!
Oui, moi'ssi j'aime utiliser le déjeuner, dîner, souper. C'est plus simple!
J'adorerais parler le Wallon, mais je connais seulement un couplet de chanson :( J'aurais aimer en apprendre plus à l'école.
Je sais me lire sur les panneaux en général, ça ressemble beaucoup à un accent de ma région. Il y a des pancartes avec des petits proverbes dans ma ville, j'adore les lire.
Ma maman a quelques expressions amusantes en wallons, par exemple "dji vou, dji n'pou" pour dire qu'on veut faire quelque chose mais qu'on en est pas capable. Mon papa est Bruxellois et a des expressions totalement différentes, ce qui fait que pon frère et moi utilisons un mélange bizarre d'accents et de patois.
J'aime bien le français, mais je ne le parle pas comme les Français évidemment. Je trouve toujours que ça a plus de sens de parler de déjeuner, dîner et souper que de petit-déjeuner, déjeuner et dîner. Duolingo utilise le français de France cependant, donc je fais sans arrêt des erreurs avec les noms des repas quand j'apprends d'autres langues.
We have these differences between Flemish and Dutch too. It's not always easy. I wish they were taught more at schools too.
But Wallon will always be superior because of septante et nonante 🙌
Anyway, I like that expression!
And they told me 'oh that table's in the wrong spot' even though I only just knew there was a table there like 2 minutes before...
Production Update:
My director assumes that I can organize a whole cable layout for our theatre in less then a day.
They also assume that I can record audio in less then an hour. I'm gonna need at least ten minutes to set up everything :(
They also think that the tech team (me and one other person) can see in pitch black dark and somehow get the cues right on time. And no, we can't have flashlights because that would be "too distracting". (I just turned up the brightness on my phone homescreen and used it kind of like a glow stick)
One of our lights is broken but they don't understand why the lighting designer can't get a good wash. "It's not that hard", they say, not understanding technology. (We literally only have like 13 channels on our lighting console, so one out of commission effects everything)
ewww i hate people that do that it reminds me of grooming and other slimy people
and don't forget:
"Oh, we can figure it out next week." *Doesn't give time to work on it next week*
*Laughs when someone is stressed* "I'm not laughing."
"Why are you all so tired?" *It's literally 8oclock*
*I slightly raise my voice* "Don't yell at me."
*Doesn't tell me the set for a scene* "You should know the set!"
things my director has said and done that makes me hate them so much:
"Oh, we don't need to worry about lights and sound until tech rehearsals, you don't need to write anything down." *a little later* "Why didn't you write anything down?"
"This show will be much less stressful." *adds projections*
*casts new company members as actors instead of letting me ask them about backstage work*
"You have no reason to be stressed out."
Yeah I wanna do this! Send me some letters in my askbox!
Ask game!
Send me a letter and I’ll reply with the first song that I think of that starts with that letter! Maybe I can help you discover some new music?
@moonthemagical, do you know what all the buttons do?
I think it's funny for people to assume the techies know what all the buttons do. Sure, we know what a lot of them do. We know enough to do our job. But, I've never met someone who knows what ALL the buttons do.
Yeah, I had to unlock the prop room but they wouldn't give me the key so one of the actors going with me literally tried to pick the lock with a toothpick lol
So today in rehearsal, I was working with the lighting crew to re-adjust some lights. (I held the ladder, so helpful) We weren't sure where the ladder was so we had to ask the director for their keys to open various rooms, but here's the catch: They wanted their keys back IMMEDIATELY. So we had to ask them multiple times for their keys, but they were chatting with some actors and whenever we went into the other room to get the keys, they were always mad at us for some reason because we interrupted them? Like what else are we supposed to do, lockpick the doors?
I don't check Tumblr for about 3 hours to play Minecraft and listen to show tunes & Kpop, and suddenly I'm followed by like 15 bots? Come on, Tumblr!
When my disability was really bad and my handwriting started suffering, I was given the choice of a wrist splint or finger braces so my handwriting would stay 'normal,' but I said no, because I thought people would think it was weird or ask too many questions. I was 8 years old. A freaking 8 YEAR OLD already got influenced by ableist nature.
Do not tell someone their mobility aid isn’t cute.
Please, for the love of any god that exists and the ones that don’t too, don’t tell someone their mobility aid isn’t cute. Don’t tell them it ruins their outfit. Don’t tell them they’d look better without it. Don’t.
Why? Because chances are, they were very insecure about it before. Maybe they still are. And also because it’s fucking ableist. You’re telling them that using a mobility aid looks bad. I don’t care if you think the outfit would look ten times better without it, keep that shit to yourself. You’re not the one wearing it and if the person has decided that their functionality is more important than their appearance, then that’s their choice to make, not yours.
Mobility aids are there to help the person using them, not to appease your idea of beauty.
And, not to mention, mobility aids are fucking cute.
The braces worn on the outside of pants because that’s more comfortable or they don’t fit underneath or it’s uncomfortable otherwise? Rock on. Canes that are decorated or otherwise but let someone get around easier? Fantastic. Crutches that let someone participate in society? Amazing. Wheelchairs that mean someone doesn’t have to be in unnecessary pain? 10/10. Walkers that give someone the freedom to do things they want to? Spectacular. Freaking prosthetic limbs?? Iconic. Insulin or blood monitoring patches that means someone doesn’t have to be thinking about yet another thing while they go about their day? Beautiful. Feeding tubes that mean someone can fucking get nutrients? Cute as hell.
If you have something that makes your life easier and you use it, that automatically makes you smart and hot. You have my permission to hit anyone who says otherwise (with your mobility aid if applicable).
TL;DR: Mobility aids are cute and anyone who says otherwise is stupid.
Production Update
Bought a tape measure and a carabiner on the weekend so I didn't have to borrow the director's. This one is even better, and lighter. Why did I not think of this sooner.
At rehearsal, the Stage Manager, the Sound Designer, a few actors that volunteered and I all painted set pieces for about 2 hours. We had to do it outside because the director claimed, "It's a beautiful day!"
I mean it didn't rain but still! Anyways, I got paint on my pants so now I have a trophy to show anyone who asks. Will also have to paint next week, just doing the sides of some flats and a few touchups. The director only told me once I started panicking that 2 of the vertical flats I thought we were painting we actually aren't using. Good going, director!
Anyways, rehearsals are actually going better than expected, so hopefully the actors should get off-book soon.
