#diary of an aerialist

[fever-babe]

all the cool circus kids listen to ICP

[jovae-eagle]

The feeling of floating and gliding along in the air is hard won, it's a long, exhaustive scramble up a steep wall and any progress is cherished.

[elsasadventure]

Power

[tiramiesu]

Music shuffle tag

tagged by the lovely @taekumi , thank you so much💗💖💓

you can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your favorite playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs then tag ten people! no skipping!

I mixed my "the autumn of twenty" playlist (aka my playlist for the autumn) and these were the first ten songs:

1. Satellite - Loona

2. The Aerialist (Wonderboy) - GWSN

3. Kiss kiss - Shinee

4. So let's love - Day6

5. Pretend - Suzy

6. Jazz bar - Dreamcatcher

7. Drawing our memories - Taeyeon

8. Simple - Seventeen

9. Neon - Yukika

10. Dear diary - Yeri

I'm tagging @forzafinale @thefinalgirlz @pporapipam @ghostlyfeast @waterz @staycgrls @bihaechan @ritsukou @fleeceyang @ilusana and whoever wants to do it!

[the-fearmonger]

Last week on The Dragonslayers...

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I saw you. (1 day ago) You:  A rakish magician sent to sweep me out of this place and into adventure, or at least your arms.  

Me:  A Gearbox Engineer with a lot of love to give.  

From the moment I saw you, I knew.  I knew.  I rushed to write about you in my diary, but then everything went black.  Won't you ring my bell?

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Sizzle and spark (2 days ago) You: A tattooed specimen with lightning in his eyes (and hands)

Us:  Triplets L4 Wild Magic with a Half-Elf

Be still, our illusory hearts.  Could you be our hearts' desire made flesh?  Little did we know that today was the day we'd meet perfection. It started as just a day as the reflections of that crazy bitch, mewling at everyone she meets, about how she must "take" one of you.  But there you were: resolute, fearless, and just a little bit wild.  You filled the room with storms and electrified our imaginations.  We can't live any more as mirror images to the doll freak.  Please: spellsteal us away and never let go.

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We're not done (24 minutes ago) You:  My next matching boots & handbag accessory set.

Me:  A doll who will own your soul.

Enjoy your false victory, my poor doomed lizardman.  You may have bested this host, but I will have the last laugh.  I will taunt you in your dreams and whisper laughter at you around every corner.  I will be the undertone of every lover's smile and the voice of your father that tells you that you are worthless.  And when the end finally comes, I will own you body and soul, and you will scream inside your own head as I destroy everything you love.  And no one will hear you.

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Copper & Silver (6 hours ago) You: My Bahamut Bravura

Me: An aeris aerialist, but I'll walk on land for you

Day after day, I fire the bellows, hoping for someone to relieve me of this dull life.  Then you and your cute friend bumbled into my cell and shoplifted my heart.  Your eyes!  Your steady hand!  Your authoritative voice!  Oh, oh my.  Check my profile:  "Ancient Copper Dragon.  AC 21, HP 350.  Immunities: Acid, sarcasm, negativity.  Vulnerabilities: Silver-haired clerics and rescue stories." I will wait for you, my short-lived beauty. --------------------------------------------------------------------------

VSM (1 day ago) You:  My Thief of Hearts.

Me:  A Chromatic Orb just trying to get your attention.

Once again you summon me; I am elated.  Finally a chance to be together, the two of us.  You can brush the acid/cold/fire/lightning/thunder out of my eyes and I can light the way to our dreams.  But once again, your friends are here with us.  It's so hard for a single orb to find time with a cute guy these days.  I admit it; I was angry.  I misfired on purpose, because how can I make you see?  We don't need them, we only need each other.

I await your refresh of my spell slot.

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Wave the white flag (12 hours ago) You: Bound in plate mail, smelling faintly of the sea.

Me: Short in stature but boundless in passion.

I opened my doors to all of you Dragonslayers, but my wee heart pounded only for my sailor scoundrel.  After the wagon league match, SK took you away before you could even say good-bye!  My heart cried for hours.  Would you ever run your gauntlets through my beard?  Brush my eyebrows out of my face, so that I might read your soul?  And then, there you were in front of me, needing a friend and a rescue.  Me!  I rescued you!  Ha ha!  As your strong arms gave my Orctane flight, only my spirits rose higher.

Take me away from the ocean of sand.  Sail me across your boundless sea, steal my love and take your plunder.

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[thepermanentrainpress]

JOLINE BAYLIS: BREAK ME DOWN

Break Me Down – Joline Baylis Release Date: March 27th, 2018

Track Listing:

1. Break Me Down 2. Sins 3. No Lines 4. The Price You Pay 5. Restless Wind 6. Something Real 7. Ruffled Feathers 8. Save Yourself 9. The Water

Released earlier this year, Break Me Down marks indie folk-rock artist Joline Baylis’ debut. This album comes following the end of a decade-long relationship and moving to a new city, so for Baylis this is a diary of that life-altering period. She says of the album, “Out of the wreckage of that old life, music emerged as an unexpected but powerful force that has propelled me down an entirely new path. The songs on Break Me Down reflect the lessons that have taught me to value resilience over security, and to always listen to my creative impulses.” This release takes you through Baylis’ vulnerable journey of starting anew from a whirlwind of downfall. When it comes to Break Me Down, she seems to have found a path that is truly her own. With a nostalgic feel, the album features “echoes of classic rock and laid-back country.” To help create this sound, Baylis rounded up Vancouver talent including Dan Mangan + Blacksmith's Kenton Loewen and Tyson Naylor, Paul Pigat (Neko Case), and Wynston Minckler (Aerialists, Emily Millard).

The title track's first line alone reveals the artist’s vulnerability—“I'm waiting for something to make me feel alive.” It's made clear that this album is centered around a dark and pivotal time. This continues into songs like "The Price You Pay," where she writes about heartache and longing after a lover departs. She sings, "I'm gonna love you when you leave / I know that you will fill my dreams / Oh I know I'll wait till you're half a world away / And in the dead of night I'll think of you and pray / That you don't find yourself another home." The song is also accompanied by a black-and-white video. Meanwhile, "Ruffled Feathers" shows a more playful side of Baylis, with bouncy piano and a lyrical moment of self-assured clarity. She says she won't fall for the guy that other "stronger women" so easily do, and she's firm in that decision. Her bluesy voice confidently glides over the soft-rock arrangement provided by her band. 

It's exciting to see Baylis, a frequent busker around Vancouver, releasing a full-length debut to take her street crowds to some of the city's most intimate venues. She's been performing in BC for an extensive five years, and has since toured around Canada. You can stay up to date on where to catch her live here!

Written by: Tiana Marconato

Break Me Down by Joline Baylis

[matildainmotion]

Crowdfunding Diary #7 On Dropping Your Art or Dropping Off Your Child....

           Part two on the art, the being an artist, the ‘Who Make’ part of our title. Yesterday I wrote about the secret rule as to who is allowed to come to Mothers Who Make meetings: “If you ‘get it,’ if you understand why such a thing as Mothers Who Make might exist and you are keen to join it, then we need you in the room, in the network.” But what is this it? That sounds potentially as elusive as the most elite of cultural institutions. I would argue that the it is both prosaic and ineffable.

           When I first became a mother I went along to the requisite number of mother and baby groups with my newborn boy. I was struck by the fact that the vast majority of the women I met there were on a fixed maternity leave of 6 months to 1 year and were then expecting to go back to a full or part time job. There was a much smaller group of women who had given up work and were in a position where they wanted and could afford to commit to being a full time mother for the foreseeable future. I did not feel I fitted into either group. Here is the prosaic part: being a freelance artist no one was going to give me any maternity leave except myself. Here is the more ineffable, harder to express: I was committed to being a full time mother but equally I felt I had the kind of work I could not give up – it was part of who I am.

           Four years later, through Mothers Who Make, I know I am not alone. I have heard many other women share a similar experience. I am in the extremely privileged position of being supported financially by my husband, so in my case when I say I feel I had the kind of work I could not give up, this is not an economically driven statement. For many it is. But I have also heard women talk about how sustaining their creative work is a matter of survival and they have not meant it on the level of pounds and pence either.

           Let me expand on this ineffable part a little more. Pre-motherhood I worked as a circus aerialist for ten years. When people asked me whether I felt afraid hanging upside down 10 metres in the air I replied, often to their surprise, that of course I did. I was terrified. But I was also terrified when I was the right way up, on ground level. I found being alive a terrifying experience and it was a relief to find a job – being an aerialist – in which my daily level of fear was appropriate. I gave up being an aerialist in part in order to become a mother. I wanted to stop running away up my rope and come down to earth to take up my place here. However I continued to find life intensely frightening, extraordinary and bewildering and I wanted a job in which these were appropriate, even useful, feelings: so far ‘artist’ is the only job I’ve found that fits. So I don’t feel I can give up my work just because I have become a mother – if anything motherhood has only made life more intensely wonder-full and frightening.

           The conventional wisdom however is that mothers cannot do both – we have to drop our art or drop off our children with other carers. But this way everyone loses out – the mothers, the children, the art and also the world. What if we could create a shift – and this is heart of the revolution I want to stage  - in which instead of dropping out due to motherhood, the experiences that women gain through this most everyday and yet momentous of roles could be picked up? Mothers could be carried, not dropped, as they in turn carry their children and their work, supported to continue their creative practice and allow their mothering to inform it, and so also influence the wider cultural landscape? To stage the revolution, if you get ‘it,’ go here to make it happen:

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/mothers-who-make

[fever-babe]

hearing different people call certain aerial tricks different names is so jarring. wtf do you mean “lady on the moon” that’s a figure four

[jovae-eagle]

I need to, I need to, I need to

Every thought starts with those three words at the moment. I need to train my flexibility more, I need to start training aerial silks more, I need to put more time into handstand training, I need to take more private lessons. It's exhausting. I'm exhausted.

Well, let's be honest, I was exhausted three months ago, I'm currently seeing the line of exhaustion disappearing in my rearview mirror as I'm barreling straight towards burn out.

I can't stop though. Or I don't want to stop. I just need to find more time. I just need to be better - a better friend, a better sister, a better daughter, a better student, a better colleague. If I could just find the time, cut off one more slither of myself to fit in this Procrustean bed that I've built with my two hands maybe then I'd find one small moment of peace.

[elsasadventure]

Angel of Small Death

[cirque91]

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[fever-babe]

i’m literally so afycso coded

[fever-babe]

confession: i like clown jumpsuits more than aerialist leotards 😔

[fever-babe]

i have an aerial hoop lesson tomorrow at this new circus school i’m a lil nervous