#love them though

[sonofarathorn]

What happens when my favorite mid team (Kraken) meets my other mid team (Penguins)?

[eve-will-perceive]

me when i see anything related to them

[ethereal-occultist]

I have bought my cats so many fucking water fountains because they’re supposed to drink more if they have running water. Yet any time I get myself a cup of water they will be there in less than a minute to drink from it.

[via-fm]

crying my eyes out to slipping through my fingers and then straight into me & i what is wrong with abba

[wickershells]

you think you’re free from all email entanglements you think you won’t get any new notifications for a single day and then here comes the cornell lab of ornithology

[the-colours-system]

55

Does anyone in the system identify as otherkin, therian, or fictionkin?

Hmmmm I don’t think so? The kitty squad are part cat, but not fully. We do have a normal Cat in here tho, but they don’t post here for obvious reasons

[firehologram]

Why are they like this

[leclercish]

╰┈➤ esteban ocon, alex albon and oscar piastri from esteban's newest ig post

[evil-alex]

i think cats r neat

[plate-armoredpangolin]

Day 12: Birth of Imperfection….

[wayfayrr]

It must be vicious to get isekaid into Zelda and be into men and women like you gotta dodge all the hot people before you faint

Lmao sounds like a skill issue

I don't really know how to answer this cause even when I find people physically attractive I haven't ever gotten close to passing out :P hopefully the hot people you run into will help though! (lets' be real they absolutely will)

[groovyarouraios]

[those-goddamn-bats]

the only problem i have with fall out boy songs is that whenever one of the songs gets stuck in my head,

1. i can't speed through the song in my head to find the title in the song (because the title usually isn't in the lyrics), and

2. i don't even know the correct lyrics so when i google them i'm typing gibberish in the search bar

[thehappymanager]

Tip #1 of being a Stage Manager (besides my rant):

TL;DR - Don’t regret your decisions. They were not there. You were. You did good.

Don’t take anyone’s crap. Like seriously.

I have been a stage manager for multiple shows and I can tell you, when I started out, I was super duper shy. I had a hard time controlling the cast and doing my job in general because I was afraid to ask for help. ALWAYS ASK FOR HELP. I cannot stress this enough. Being a stage manager is not something you are taught in a formal setting. It is more like being thrown into the deep end with everyone expecting you to know how to do your job, which you don’t. That is how I let everyone push me around.

In a stage manager’s role, you are to blame for everything that goes wrong in a show, even if you had nothing to do with it. If something does go wrong, it is your job to fix it in the most resourceful and efficient manner as possible while handling a million other tasks. I want to tell you about possibly the worst feeling as a stage manager in an entire production process.

It is feeling the blame.

Not the stress of trying to make a production run smoothly or the many people you have to wrangle into one cohesive unit, but it is having to make the hard decisions when things inevitably go wrong. And the feeling afterwards. As a stage manager, you are the one to run the show from that point. The director has done their job and the other production crews have their set tasks they don’t deviate from unless absolutely necessary. Your job is different every time. Being a stage manager is like being an actor on the stage; you have your guidelines but things won’t happen the same way every time. A problem will arise that did not happen the night before and now it’s a whole new experience. The one thing I struggled with at the start was completing this part.

I was a people-pleaser set on making everyone’s dreams come true. Because of that, I neglected my primary job being a stage manager. A stage manager’s job isn’t to be a people-pleaser; it is to get the job done and well. If you don’t do that, then no one is going to trust you to run the production. And to my main point, no one is going to respect you either.

Many of the cast members demanded things of me that both were not important in the moment and distracting from my original task. If I had considered the possibility of rejecting them, that production would have gone smoother. And this is not about protecting your friend’s feelings because that whole notion was out the door as soon as you signed up to be stage manager. This is strictly a boss-employee relationship, where you may have to get serious with someone you don’t want to get serious with. That is the primary role of a stage manager; to be the stern foundation of an otherwise horribly structured tower. That might also mean protecting the production in the interest of the show itself.

Here is an example from my own experience of making a hard decision.

…

I was sitting in my black stage manager’s rolling chair on stage right looking at my entrance and exit sheet.

Enter Cast Member.

“Happy!” (an alias for anonymity’s sake)

“Yes?!”

“GIRL in the green room has raging pink eye! What are we gonna do?!”

I had gone to check on GIRL.

“Well then, we have to quarantine her in another room and clean the area. She also won’t be able to perform within proximity to the rest of the cast since many people have colds anyway.”

The rest of the cast had agreed and GIRL had reluctantly moved to the another room.

…

This is not the part that is difficult. Here is the next day.

…

Director looks around at the cast and crew disappointedly.

“GIRL did not have pinkeye and you all made a rash judgement costing GIRL performance time on the stage. I am very disappointed. You all are not doctors so you cannot make an immediate diagnosis without knowing the situation. I fully expected GIRL to go on in the next act. All you have to do is wash your hands and not touch your face”

…

In this instance, I was wrong and there will be many times that you are wrong as well. However, I still think that this judgement was best because if you have ever been backstage with a bunch of children, meeting those parameters are almost impossible. Furthermore, while harsh, GIRL was in the ensemble where at least 16 people go onstage with her. Had she been in an important role I would have definitely made a different judgement, but seeing as she was not, it was all that I thought I could do in the moment. If I had more time and less thoughts running in my brain, maybe we could have figured something better out.

I say all that to say don’t regret the decisions you make. Don’t deal with anyone who gives you crap about it because they were not there. You were. That was your responsibility not anyone else’s. Own up if you were wrong in that decision, but don’t let anyone tell you that you did your JOB wrong. Because your job is to run the show, and I know for a fact that they never did.

The Happy Manager😁

[you-get-the-gist]

Hrrg

[grandprixbarzal]

😭