#lx

[g1ngerbeer]

"wheres cheng xiaoshi" hes the croissant (insp)

[nervetower]

[march-hare01]

[hec-chan]

🌼You don't need a reason ☺️🌼

#flowers #daisies #colourful #plantlife #fun #lx

[stagefoot]

what sort of tools/gear do you bring on calls.

Thanks for asking! 😊

As someone who primarily does lighting, the most important thing for me is my wrench (6 inches. Anything more than that is overkill 😉 and will get in your way).

My wrench hangs from a locking carabiner, which I clip to my belt loop. (I had a non-locking one for a while, and the first time it opened and my wrench fell I went to a fortunately nearby store and got a mountain climbing one 😅)

Also on the carabiner is a piece of tie line that loops around my wrist as a safety, and a widget (which I don’t honestly use all that often, but it’s really handy when you do need it! I also can’t find a link to one right now, but if you’re not sure what I mean, just let me know!)

I also clip a roll of electrical tape (very useful!) to the carabiner when I’m not using it.

Everyone’s wrench setup is a little different, but this works for me. It took me a while to figure out what I wanted, so feel free to play around a little until you find a good configuration!

Beyond that, general safety things like gloves and steel toed boots.

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever been given is to bring a change of socks. If I know I’m working eight hours or more, I try to throw an extra pair in my bag (if I remember) and I change them halfway through the day. It makes such a huge difference!

It’s always good to have a water bottle if you don’t have access to another source of water.

Another thing I don’t use often but is incredibly useful when I need it is a multi tool. Again, there are so many out there (I got mine as a gift, so I didn’t shop around) that you can find one with the features you want/find most useful. I mostly need a blade, pliers, and screwdrivers.

Beyond that, I always have a bottle with ibuprofen, gravol, antacids, and diarrhea pills (but that’s more just general preparedness than for calls specifically)

I also have a mini first aid kit (right now it just has bandaids, but even having those close at hand is very helpful).

I don’t need them often in my specific line of work, but I always have earplugs on me, and I recommend that everyone does! Our work can get very noisy and hearing damage is unfortunately pretty common.

I personally like my belt pouch, which is similar to this one and is exactly the right size for gobos to go home with you. (I also use it to collect tie line and little bits of tape)

I always have a phone charger (cable, block, and a power bank, just in case). I also have a Lightning to headphone jack adapter so I can use my phone to check audio playback (thanks, Apple 😐)

Another thing I ‘bring’ is @neil-gaiman’s advice:

“You get work however you get work, but people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time. And you don’t even need all three! Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. People will forgive the lateness of your work if it is good and they like you. And you don’t have to be as good as everyone else if you’re on time and it’s always a pleasure to hear from you.”

In my experience, this is true. On pretty much any given day I can at least manage two of those!

Ok. I think that’s everything!

Of course a rigger’s kit (for example) is going to look very different than mine, but for a general call these are all good, common things to have.

Thanks again for asking, I hope this answer helps! Feel free to ask if you’d like to know anything else 😊

[phosphorescentspaceman]

characters who seem to have normal levels of empathy until asked to put the mild discomfort of Their Person over another persons literal life and you find out there is a heavy fuckin thumb on that scale.

[closetedangel]

1, 12, 23 😘

Thank you!

1. Song of the year?

Coming in at the final hour, my partner recommended I listen to an Origami Angel song he really likes and I ended up listening to the whole album it is from. “Doctor Whomst” makes me so giddy listening to it that I have listened to it probably ten or so times since I first heard it two weeks ago. Definitely a good song to end the year with.

12. Talk about a new friend you made this year

Can I bring up my partner again here or is that cheesy? I haven’t made any other new friends this year but he’s a delight and I love getting to know him more and more every day. I miss him :(

23. If you could send a message to yourself back on the first day of the year, what would it be?

Things are literally going to be so fine. You’ll get into the program you wanted to. You’ll feel loved by friends and family. You’ll be stable. Everything is going to be so good, just hang in there. Also eventually your therapist will say you’re “so stable” so hang in there for that too.

[thekittydrew]

finally the charms are done x_X

[lisboaqueamanhece]

1050-120

[thebuzzreport]

Incredible, superhuman Maxwell's 201, Australia in the 👇

https://buzzrepot.blogspot.com/2023/11/blog-post_78.html

[summerrf]

[words-and-coffee]

I do not wish, my love, to see the hatred that stalks me crossing upon the flowery moon of your forehead. I do not wish to see peoples’ rancour leaving in your sleep it’s useless crown of knives.

Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets: LX

[iggyinuit]

Iggy and uncle LX

[hec-chan]

🫀

#advice #heartbreak #love #lx

[stagefoot]

[atlasthetitan]

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