#rnd company

[daesungindistress]

"BIGBANG’s Daesung has signed with a new company!

On April 3, R&D Company revealed that Daesung signed an exclusive contract with them. They stated, “Through D-LABLE, a dedicated team for Daesung, we promise to provide generous support in order to show off his talents in various fields including music.”

In addition to this, it was further revealed that Daesung’s manager, who has been with him from 10 years ago since his days in BIGBANG, will also be accompanying him on this new start with R&D Company.

R&D Company is the home of artists including Chun Myung Hoon, KyoungSeo, Kisum, Navi, and more. Through D-LABLE, Daesung will receive a lot of support for various activities. It’s anticipated that he will not only promote his music but also take part in acting, musicals, broadcasts, and more.

Late last year, Daesung parted ways with YG Entertainment after 16 years. However, the agency emphasized that while Daesung left the agency, he is not leaving BIGBANG.

We wish all the best of luck to Daesung as he begins this new chapter!"

[rndexperts]

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[sammylkcho]

*fidgets in place. Kicks rock*

Razzle&DazzlexGn!Reader? 🥺 or Boxten if you don't want to write rnd *looks around nonchalantly*

oh my god, i don't know why but your request filled my head with thousands of super sweet reader and R&D scenarios

and don’t worry! I tried to make it as fluffy and romantic as possible (in a healthy way, of course)

Warnings/Notes: first fic about dandys world yay, fluff, romantic, established relationship, reader with gender neutral

After spending a good while in the elevator extracting ichor from the machines, you felt your hands and feet completely sore and numb. All the adrenaline that had kept you alert had faded away, and now you were fully aware of the pain that invaded every part of your body.

If it were possible, your hands would be calloused by now. Instead, a slight tremor ran through your fingers, still covered in dried ichor that you'd forgotten to clean off while working.

You managed to reach one of the few rooms that hadn’t yet been invaded by the twisteds, a place of rest for the few toons still exploring the floors and continuing with the extraction. With tired eyes, you looked around the room until a familiar figure caught your attention. You immediately recognized the two heads (or masks) and the red scarf around their neck. Your eyes lit up in recognition: your duo and beloved partner.

"Razzle, Dazzle!" you exclaimed, waving excitedly as they turned to see who was calling them.

"Oh! Y/N" Razzle called to you with the same joy you felt, while Dazzle also said your name in a soft but sweet tone. Both looked genuinely happy to see you.

They opened their arms, wrapping you in a hug as soon as you reached them. The warmth of their embrace was comforting, and any negative thoughts seemed to dissipate in their company.

"How was it out there?" Razzle asked. "You’re alright.. aren’t you?" added Dazzle a few seconds later, in his calm tone to avoid overwhelming you.

You buried your face into the curve of their necks, savoring the soft texture of the scarf they shared. You made a small sound of negation before replying.

"It went well, though I’m a bit tired right now. And yeah, I’m okay… just a bit covered in ichor" you responded to both questions, letting the hug envelop you.

You felt the rhythmic strokes of Razzle’s white hand (on the right side, you assumed) and the slow pats of Dazzle’s black hand (on the left side).

"We could help you next time you go; you know you have us here to help" Razzle said.

"Mmh… I could extract the machines, so you don’t get so tired" added Dazzle.

A slight warmth colored your cheeks at their words. Normally, you wouldn’t ask for their help since they ended up tired too, but you always appreciated those supportive and encouraging comments they gave you.

A small squeal of excitement and nervousness escaped you involuntarily, and you quickly tried to hide even further into the scarf.

"Thanks guys" you whispered after a couple of minutes of comfortable silence.

You thought they might simply continue talking normally or stay in silence in each other’s company until you suddenly heard an energetic "mwa" followed by a softer "mwa" leaving you feeling both shaky and nervous.

"Anything for our beloved partner!" "We wouldn’t want to see you so tired and doing everything on your own..."

Their words filled you with a comforting warmth that made your heart race. They were too sweet.

You lifted your head, full of determination, noticing Dazzle’s slight smile and Razzle’s bright grin, both filled with deep love and affection.

You gave each of them a kiss on their cheeks, leaning on their shoulders as you smiled warmly at both.

They were the sun that brightened your days, and you were their burning flame that never seemed to go out, no matter how strong the wind.

[kiefbowl]

Hey sorry I don't know why I'm telling you but just wanted to share, sorry if it's too long

I started working as an intern in this tech company and I'm kinda the only woman in the rnd department. Two weeks passed and it was pretty good but today they sent me and another intern who is a male to the department where they fix broken cards and stuff. The men in there immediately started talking to the intern and asking him to come check out their work cause it would be a great opportunity for him. They showed him the machines and i just tagged along, both me and the guy tried to tell them that i am too an engineering intern but they just ignored. I tried to tell him that i was interested and had similar classes but he didn't even listened or looked at me. I felt kinda weird cause i never really experienced something like this just wanted to share cause I don't know what i was supposed to do.

Sorry you experienced that. That's some old school sexism for sure, and you're bound to run into it some more as you enter the work force. Fortunately, a lot of these old school guys are headed out (which doesn't mean misogyny in the work force is defeated...but you know...we take our wins where we can).

My advice to you: report it. Report it to your direct manager and/or HR. I'm not saying it's a magical fix all in all work places, but if you do nothing, nothing can be done about it. At the very least, it will probably motivate someone to speak to him, like "hey man, you can't obviously treat our female interns differently, and we don't want to hear about this again." Convos like that might make someone salty, but also not want to push their luck a second time. Or not, but again you can only guarantee nothing will happen only if you do nothing.

In the moment, your milage may very, but trying to just point blank in a friendly and professional way ask him to clarify why he won't show you something can really put the pressure on them to admit out loud their sexist beliefs, which they know they shouldn't do. Things like "Did you not hear my question? Are you ignoring me on purpose?" or "I just explained I'm an intern as well, is there a reason you won't demonstrate this to me as well?" or even "I feel like you're treating me differently than him, I hope it's not because I'm a woman" and just leave the unspoken part hang awkwardly in the air for him to puzzle out.

As always, this is easier to imagine and write about than to do in the moment. Don't beat yourself up if someone catches you off guard by being an asshole. Know that YOUR job as intern is to get experience and education, and you do not have to suffer fools that get in your way. If you need to get engineering knowledge out of this guy, be an annoying fly in his ear. Buzz buzz, I'm here for 8 more weeks and if you don't show me how to calibrate this thingy-ma-bob today, I'll just be knocking on your door tomorrow, buzz buzz. Who cares if he walks away thinking women are annoying or whatever, it's your future and you can't change his mind.

[cakeleighh]

lmao I have so many au's for this funky lil guy

Bike au! bike au! bike au! bike au! bike au! :D (please forgive any spelling/grammar mistakes)

Don't ask me how I drew the bike, I was like 'hey why not use the select tool and gradient tool?' and then I blacked out for a few hours and when I awoke there was a bike on the page. I should probably drop some lore with this too.

So the scarab is still an alien that came to earth, but it was attached to -essentially- an accompanying spacecraft which the scarab is directly linked to. Unlike the movie, the scarab/bike was claimed by Victoria Kord almost immediately after Ted Kord died, and she attempted to reverse engineer it for her own interests. Unfortunately for her, the scarab was completely unresponsive to external stimulus and no tools were advanced enough to take apart the scarab/bike. There was only one instance of the mechanisms reacting to something, and that was long ago -before Kord industries was established- and they weren't able to get even an understanding of this alien technology at the time. And no matter how persistent Victoria Kord is, she isn't able to do anything with it.

Kord industries (founded by Ted Kord, with the inspiration of the scarab and Ted's brilliant mind) focused on making bikes and other motor vehicles inspired directly by the scarab. He didn't know how the bike worked but he could theorise and make his own inventions that worked for him. The company became one of the main manufacturers of bikes in the world, and holds racing events every year or so to bring in more publicity. Victoria does not care for these races, but she understands that they're good for the company. Victoria is -non surprisingly- more concerned about the military research and developments in the company.

After years of ruthless and expensive testing on the scarab/bike, with no results, the share holders expressed their concern with the lack of profits and new designs coming out since Ted's passing. Her researchers express how even Ted Kord was not able to get the scarab to respond, and therefore it had been almost 50 years since the scarab was reported to have activated (allegedly). With threats to pull out investments, Victoria was forced to abandon the Scarab program and quickly focus on other RnD departments. Though she personally still wanted to harness the power of the scarab, but she could do nothing without the money.

Through the neglect of the dismissed program, the bike is moved about into storage. But with one miscommunication, it ends up in the wrong warehouse. More time passes, and the warehouse is ordered to be cleaned out without concern for what's in there. The bike ends up in a scrapyard where it cannot be destroyed, so the owner takes the opportunity to sell it to another mechanic for a bit of extra money 'the company wont even know it's been resold'. The mechanic -completely unable to do anything with the funky beetle bike- tries to make his money back by selling to another scrap yard. And there it stayed for another few years, all the while Kord industries still thought it was in storage. This is where Jaime finds the bike, by accident, trying to look for his uncle's "misplaced" bike.

Jenny Kord is still a thorn in Victoria's side, not only concerned with the questionable ethics of Victoria's research, but preserving her father's legacy before Victoria destroys all evidence of it. Jenny knows of the scarab/bike, but has been prohibited in knowing it's location and status. So She's forced to go undercover as a presenter/cameraperson (This will make more sense when I show her design) at the racing events to try and get evidence on where the bike is being held, which is definitely easier when you have control of many cameras.

I made this au before the movie came out, and when I finally saw it, I realised the plot actually lined up pretty well already -which is convenient. The only thing I had to change was the inclusion of Jenny (cuz I knew nothing about her before the movie came out), and adding more detail to the antagonists. I love Jenny's design in this au (soon, I will release the pictures) cuz I had total free reign and a cyber-punk motorbike racing aesthetic to base it off. Also, she rides a bike in the movie too so I can actually base her bike off of the pre-existing one.

[rpking99]

Koopa-view

OPEN RP

"Alright, I'm gonna cut the crap." Bowsette huffed as she removed her glasses, flames licking out past the presidents lips

Your muse was here, at an interview with Koopa-Corp. One of the biggest companies all of New Donk, and you were being interviewed by the president herself to be her new assistant

"I am fucking pissed after hearing some of the shit idiots in RnD have done, costing the company so many coins. So tell me simply why I should fucking hire you, or I'm kicking you out personally. Through the window. With my freshly sharpened, five inch heels." She hissed

You were on the twenty fifth floor....

[drg-management]

RnD here, we need more funding, one of our interns spent our monthly budget on a bottle of château de dwarf.

@thegnomedome-rnd @deeprockrnd is this real or another scammer? I don't think a single bottle of fancy beer can cost the monthly budget of our company's rnd department? How much is your budget? Wait lemme check my files, normally I wouldn't expect this to be real but considering how much DRG pays us normally there's a possibility the budget is this low

[smokingpotatostuff]

Hello! I saw your addition to the post on not going into job fields because you think the people there will retire, which mentioned you know a lot of biologists. I'm a young plant biologist with a BS who just graduated and didn't, in fact, look up salaries before senior year.

Would you mind terribly discussing your own experiences and what you've seen of the lives of the biologists in your sphere? I'm curious to know more about what the lived experience of being a biologist is like.

I mean, it's a lot of people who are overworked and underpaid, especially early career. Obviously, anything academic dials that up to 11 (but is sort of outside my area of experience, honestly), but even if you go industry or government work, that will tend to hold true, albeit to a lesser degree. If you want to do wildlife biology, that is actually like getting in the field and doing ecology type work (I would be inclined to include working for Gov research groups in this sector, as well as things like being a park ranger), you can expect to spend a few years chasing seasonal jobs where you'll have to move states every six months to a year (and getting paid suuuuper shitty. Like maybe 40k/yr if you're lucky, though many of these positions provide housing. Really shitty rundown housing) until you have ~3-8 years of experience and can qualify for a permanent position, which will pay better (though still shit, imagine something like 50-80k/yr. If you want to crack 100k in this sector, you pretty much need a PhD and to be heading up a research department somewhere.) but will be less fieldwork and more data analysis, which is not why most people enter the field, but so it goes.

You can also do more of like a permitting/environmental consulting route where you basically either work with local gov to figure out what areas are okay for what kind of work, or work with businesses to make sure they're meeting EPA guidelines, and that pays better and tends to be a lot more stable, BUT is also not really what people get into biology thinking they'll be doing, and can be SUPER disheartening to see 99% of companies basically trying to do everything they possibly can to avoid or just barely comply with regulations at every possible turn, and still doesn't pay, like, great (maaaaaaaaybe 100k at end of career, if you're lucky).

Im told that micro-bio stuff can pay better if you go industry RnD or medical testing, but that too is well outside my wheelhouse.

[consanguinitatum]

David Tennant's Obscure Performances: His Involvement with Read Not Dead (pt 3) - What You Will

Okay - I promised to fill everyone in on the two unattributed plays David did for the Globe's Read Not Dead project, didn't I? So I'll begin the first never-before-talked-about-in-the-fandom play right now. If you want to catch up on the first two parts and understand a little bit of the history behind the Read Not Dead project before diving into this one, go here for the first part, and here for the second. Then come on back!

The second and third of the four Sunday afternoon staged readings David did while working with the Globe's Read Not Dead (heretofore called RND) project were written by the same author: John Marston. But before we get into the plays themselves, let's take some time to learn a little about John Marston.

Marston was an English playwright whose best known work is 1604's The Malcontent. He began writing in 1598. Much of his work was written for the boy’s theatre company Children of Paul’s and for the Blackfriars. If you went back to one of my previous posts about the Read Not Dead project and David's involvement in their staged reading of 1606's The Fleer by Edward Sharpham, you'll recall reading a bit about the Blackfriars (but if not, they were the Blackfriars Children, a theatre company wholly made up of boy actors.) Anyway, John Marston was a Blackfriars shareholder.

Marston's plays were very popular. He was a consummate satirist who made sure to include lust, violent imagery and impropriety in almost every play he wrote - his poetry was burned by church order! He even dared to satirize the King (though he had to apologize for that of course!) His satirical, critical work caused many a political scandal. Eventually in 1608 Marston was sent to Newgate Prison. After his release, he decided to abandon the theatre, move out of London, and take holy orders. He died in 1634, and to our knowledge never wrote another play. ( As an aside, I encourage you to learn more about Marston. As well as being a contemporary of Shakespeare, he's quite the fascinating character! Here's a good start.)

Okay. Let's go back to the "present" of 2002.

David was a busy boy! He began 2002 starring as Robert in Push Up, an ensemble play about ambition at work. Written by Roland Schimmelpfennig and directed by Ramin Gray, it opened 8 Febuary 2002 at the Jerwood Theatre at the Royal Court.

Push Up was a vignette-style play, and The Telegraph had this to say about it: "The meat of this 90-minute play consists of three edgy, aggressive dialogues between rivals in the firm." David played Robert, who "turns down a proposal from Patrizia for a new TV ad, identical, it turns out, to the one we have already heard described, except that the puddle is now located in New York's Central Park. The fact that these two once had great illicit sex together in Kramer's office, and were both too proud to contact the other afterwards, merely adds to their animosity."

(FYI, I've listened to an audio recording of this play, as it's archived at the British Library. It's stellar!)

David Tennant as Robert in Push Up, 2002

If you've read my previous threads, you'll recall David's first reading with RND was 1999's Edward III and his last was 2004's The Fleer. But now we're in 2002. And David hadn't done another staged reading with RND since 1999. But that was about to change.

Reviews for Push Up were very favorable. The acting was called outstanding, David's was called "a fine performance", and one reviewer said the "undertow of lust between Tennant and [co-star Jaqueline] Defferary [was] particularly riveting." Push Up's run ended in March 2002.

(Oh...I asked director Ramin Gray if there had ever been a programme for Push Up. He told me a printed edition of the play text with the cast list was available, but as far as he was aware, an official Royal Court programme wasn't made for the run. Published by Nick Hern Books, you can find it on Amazon!)

A month later (April 2002) David was treading the boards again as young security guard Jeff in Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan. Set in the lobby of a middle-income Manhattan high rise, the play presented moral dilemmas about things like culpability, justice, and the dangers of truth. Lobby Hero opened at the Donmar from 10 April 2002 to 4 May 2002, then reopened at the New Ambassadors Theatre from 1 July 2002 to 10 August 2002. During its run, the play (& DT!) got rave reviews. It earned David a Olivier nomination for Best Actor, and the play for Best New Comedy.

David Tennant as Jeff in Lobby Hero, 2002

David was probably riding a bit high. Push Up had done well and he'd immediately gone to do Lobby Hero, which was generating awards buzz. But did you notice something about the Lobby Hero dates? David had a month off between runs. And he didn't just sit around twiddling his thumbs -- nope nope nope -- because we all know twiddling has never been David's style.

So on 26 May 2002, David showed up once again to participate in RND. This time it was for a comedy called What You Will, which the aforementioned playwright John Marston likely wrote around 1601 but which was not published until around 1607. What You Will was written while Marston was duking it out (in literary-fashion) with a contemporary writer called Ben Jonson. To say the two men didn't like each other was an understatement. They traded satirical jabs and placed caricatures of each other in their plays. And oh....if the play's title feels vaguely familiar to you, you're not wrong there either! Marston pinched the name of the play from a little old thing you might've heard of called Twelfth Night, written by some fellow called Shakespeare.

What You Will was full of song, music and dance, as it had been written for a children's theatre company. It had a large number of younger parts - pages and the like, and women - for the boys to fill (as I'm sure you'll recall, at this time women's roles were played by men and boys.) In addition to the music, it was also a satire as well as a romantic comedy. Set in Venice, it tells the story of Celia, who believes her husband drowned in a shipwreck. She plans to marry, but another of her suitors, Jacomo, schemes with her family to prevent this. David played the role of Jacomo.

And here's the cast list - again, all thanks and credit for the digitized list goes to the Globe Archives!

Here's a more in-depth look at the plot, and here's a link to the full text of the play, if you're interested.

This performance was recorded, though I haven't listened to it (and sadly, the archive notes the last part of the audio is cut off.) You can listen to the recording of the performance and others from the series, as the recordings are archived in the Globe Archive and Library in London. Access to the archive is available by appointment only for professionals and academics affiliated with institutions of higher education.

So on that Sunday in 2002, David joined in to perform the satirical musical romantic comedy What You Will, directed by James Wallace. And speaking of musical parts - there was singing and dancing to do, scripts in hand. And Jacomo had at least one song to sing!

I'm sure many of you have wondered whether David's done any honest to goodness musicals during his career. Well, I'm here to tell you that while he's burst into song relatively recently and briefly with Don Juan In Soho and Good, and quite possibly with What You Will as well (I haven't listened to the recording of the play to see if David actually sang) - I can provide a partial answer to that question. In a previous interview he mentioned an early play he did in drama school called The Hired Man and said he was a member of the chorus. Yes, that's true, he was, and yes, he did sing in that 1989 production (listen here to hear him sing part of what he sang then.) So he's certainly flirted with the genre. But as I've done much research into those early days of his, there miiiiiight be a few other productions in which he sang. *ahem* I'm just sayin'.

All that comes later. For now, here ends the tale of What You Will. But don't despair - I mentioned earlier we've got one more staged RND reading of David's to explore, and I hope you'll tune in to hear about it, too!

[rapidreptile]

more vesper lore/world building: the company that made them was an independent rnd lab who wanted to make revolutionary weapons for profit. after vesper's escape, investors went "oh shit, I want nothing to do with a runaway DRAGON" and pulled their investments. the company was liquidated shortly after, and is now completely defunct. vesper does not have to worry about being hunted down and reclaimed by any sort of organization. but there are other hardlight wyvern prototypes, whose whereabouts are largely unknown. Vesper might unknowingly have a nemesis in one of them.

[freerangecatmilk-blog]

I literally went on a date and the guy asked me halfway thru

"Why do you have so much existential dread"

I've thought it was normal since like 13 to just have crushing dread for the future and to laugh tht it might come true

Bro called me out and I laughed as tho it was a joke

Tbf I was laughing while saying something about potential job loss under late stage capitalism do to companies willingly using shitty AI to replace engineers, lawyers, and other specialized fields like RND for cancer treatment

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[onlylaboum]

[16/01/2023 LABOUM update] Haein has signed an exclusive contract with RND company!

On the 16th, the agency R&D Company said, “We signed an exclusive contract with Haein, who showed various charms with LABOUM. We plan to provide strong support so that she can show herself on various platforms, not just music. We ask for your interest and support.”

[...] “Haein's new agency, R&D Company, includes singers Chun Myung-hun, Lisa, Navi, Gyeong-seo, [rapper] Kisum, comedian Ahn Il-kwon, and actress Shin Joo-ah.”

Source: [x]

Additionally, Haein opened her youtube channel, where she posted her first vlog!

Now there are 3 or 4 members (not 100% sure of Yujeong) left to join new agencies! Hope Haein’s solo activities will go well and that we will hear more good LABOUM-related news soon!

[hermesserpent-stuff]

funny story, i love irony. so what if Goblin and Crimson Curse fought. :) I'm cackling.

Crimson Curse ducks and hides. What the actual hell is Goblin doing here? This is supposed to be a simple sneak in to get files from Kingley’s companies servers. Harry had some personal suspicions about the guy after listening to him at one of his father’s parties and the RnD department had been rather enlightening for the limited amount of time he had been in the system before Goblin had burst through the wall. 

Curse is ninety percent sure that the masked villain had not spotted him and checks the face of his watch. Shoot. Only at 75 percent of files downloaded. He could cut his losses and flee, but that runs the risk of missing something vitally important. He has to stick around. Curse pulls his cape closed and lifts his hood, absently touching the soft feathers that line the hood for comfort. He could do this. 

Goblin seems to be searching for something. Curse wonders what. His watch vibrates a little. He has the files. He can leave. Deciding to be proactive he taps a few buttons, gets two of the flash drives out of the watch and slips them into two different cardinal griffins. They would be able to get the data out even if he does not make it. He releases two other griffins silently with instructions to alert Quentin. If Goblin notices him, he would need assistance. Once the four griffins are in the vent system, Curse takes a silent breath and starts moving. Unfortunately for him, the door squeeks. Yikes. Goblin turns and Curse bolts while dropping his black and red smoke bombs. 

He can hear the whir of the glider and he definitely does not want to deal with that. Curse slides around a corner and wakes the rest of his griffins. They fly out and form a small swarm around him as he skids into a stair well. He leaps down several steps and flinches a little at the sound of the door being broken a flight above him. 

“You cant escape from me!”

Goblin yells and Curse yells back.

“Hex’s upon ye!”

His grifffins swirl up and attack at the command. Goblin seems a little surprised and Curse takes the opportunity to escape the stair case onto a floor. Still to high up in the bjuilding to risk leaping out of a window. But he knows this building has two main stair cases. He might be able to get to the other one and get a little lower in the building. He gets a beep from his glove alerting him that several of his griffins have exploded. Alright. He hears a pumpkin bomb behind and rolls under a desk and hides. That alert should go out to Quentin. 

“Crimson Curseee~! I know you’re here. I must say your exploits have been quite… interesting. You seem to share similar goals to the Green Goblin. Shaking up the status quo of the criminal underworld.”

Sort of accurate but not entirely true. Honestly if Curse wanted to compare himself to anyone it would have to be either Spider-man or Mysterio. But thats just a personal thought. He keeps silent, hoping the shadows would keep him hidden. He can hear his remaining griffins circling and chirping. He sees Goblin glide past and notes that his griffins have gone into circling mode. Probably because they registered that direct attacks were not working. Fair. They are built for spying, not fighting. They are producing mist and Curse is glad for the the obstruction they are creating. He whispers.

“Choke the lungs, burn the eyes, obscure the room, find the lies.”

The activation trigger is just the first three words, but Curse finds comfort in whispering the whole spell. His griffins spread out and start focusing on filling the room with fog rather than focusing on trying to get a hit on Goblin. The villain seems to be growing irritated as he circles.

“Come out!~”

Good idea. Come out and get murdered. Curse slips on his hex rings and prepares to run again. He is having a hard time seeing with normal vision now, and taps his mask to thermals. Goblin’s on the opposite side of the room. Time to go. Curse stays crouched and makes a run for it. Sadly he is noticed. And Goblin is a heck of a lot faster on that glider than Curse was expecting. 

Curse hisses in pain as Goblin pins him to a wall. He wraps his fingers around the wrists of the hands holding him and Goblin yowls as his hex rings burn him. Curse scrambles to run, but the glider rams him and pins him to the wall. His arms are pinned to his sides as Goblin stands above him.

“That was wholly unnecessary. Why fight when we want the same things?”

“You want to demystify the public and place hexes upon the crooked?”

Curse cannot help himself. He has to ask. Goblin cackles and then leans into his space.

“My, my, you are a cooky one. Here I thought Goblin had cornered the market on insanity.”

Curse resents that. Oddly he cannot find it in himself to be scared. Objectively, he should be terrified. But… to loose his life as part of a noble effort is something Harry had never thought possible mere months ago. Not that he wants to die! But there is a certain amount of peace that keeps him from freaking out.

“I must say, while you costuming and theming are quite impeccable, I must disagree with your thought process. I do not think we desire the same things. I suppose the stars just dont align.”

Curse gives a little shrug and Goblin frowns.

“Are you so unwilling to consider-”

“I sneak around and expose companies, you bomb people. I cannot think of a reason you would want to work with me?”

“You can tear down the Goblin’s enemies from the inside out and I can conquer their scraps.”

Goblin crouches and looks directly into Curse’s eyes. Curse scrunches his nose.

“You desire a lackey? My spellwork is not for such a miserable task.”

He hopes his griffins had found Quentin. This conversation is going down hill fast. Goblin huffs.

“Perhaps not a lackey. Would a right hand position suit you? Consider it,” Goblin’s fingers light up, “Carefully.”

“Mmm.”

Curse tilts his head and closes his eyes, thinking. Not about taking the deal, but about what other gear he has that he can use while pinned to a wall. 

“I dont suppose you would let me keep my anonimity to you.”

Curse asks, fingers flitting across his belt. Hmm. There is a small explosive. It would hurt, but it would also get the glider off of him. He opens his eyes, locking gazes with goblin.

“Oh, no. I would need to know, for security reasons. Cant have you turning rat on me, now can I?”

Goblin taps Curse’s nose and Curse sneezes. It covers the sound of his belt opening and gains a wild laugh from the goblin.

“Hmm, I suppose our themes are somewhat similar. A witch and a goblin. Crimson and green. An idiot and a brain.” He slaps the explosive to the bottom of the glider and says the activation, “Fire and brimstone.”

The explosion hurts were his cape is not covering, but seems to have done the trick as the glider is launched backwards. Curse bolts, holding his injured arm close to his chest with a wince. Goblin sreeches. 

“You will not escape that easily!”

The voice of the goblin echoes into the staircase that Curse bolts down. He trips and rolls down a flight or two. Ow. Goblin catches up with him and Curse dodges a pumpkin bomb. He then hears a ear shattering roar as green gas fills the starwell. Oh heck yes. A queztquatle winds down from above and lunges at Goblin. The villain darts to the side.

“Who-?”

“Tis’ I the great Mysterio!” 

Several Mysterio’s appear. And Curse lets out a breath of relief. Awesome. He is not going to die. He struggles to his feet and starts running as the presumable bots launch themselves at Goblin. He yelps when he is lifted up but relaxes as he relizes it is Mysterio. 

“Got the message.”

“Thats good. For a minute there, I thought the summoning spell had failed.”

“Oh no. I always will come when you call. Though, I have to admit, Vulture was with me at the time. Apparently owes you a favor. He’ll help when we get out side.”

Mysterio then smashes a window and leaps out. He is caught by one of his flying illusion clouds. Curse holds on a little tighter when he sees how high up they are. Green Goblin bursts out of the building, right on their tail, only to be sliced by Vulture’s feathers. Curse grins at the look of surprise on Goblin’s face. Mysterio quickly gets them away from the developing fight and Crimson Curse is free to cast spells another day. 

[rndyounghowze]

Accessibility Is Baked Into The DNA Of Digital Theatre

By RnD

We’ve heard so many times in the recent news just how inaccessible in-person theatre can be for audience members with disabilities. From parents with autistic children being asked to change seats, to an audience member watching closed captions being called out from the stage. They serve as reminders that it is very easy for in-person audiences to be “othered” or ostracized for no apparent reason other than they cannot conform to some arbitrary norm that able-bodied audiences follow without even thinking about it. I even wrote a blog post about this years ago for Howlround talking about my life with Tourettes. While sometimes the audience members get an apology many times it seems there is no recourse unless they make enough of a stink that the theatre companies are shamed online. There is one movement in the arts where these audience members can be accommodated with no problems. In fact they barely have to ask because the accommodations are baked into its DNA. That artform is Digital Theatre.

Say it's impossible for little ones to be quiet watching a family show on Zoom. Then you mute your mic. Say that you are deaf or hearing impaired and want to watch a livestream. It is very easy to incorporate an ASL interpreter or simply turn on auto captions. What if you're chronically ill or have mobility issues which preclude going to see a show in a venue that may or may not be accessible. Good news! The show is happening right there in your living room. You are in a space that is created by you for your comfort. You don't normally have to ask for these accommodations and, while CC and ASL aren't standard practice in digital yet, they happen often enough to be common. There is no shame and no one watching or listening in. You can be your whole self in comfort. Because of this we like to think of Digital Theatre as a breath of fresh air in terms of accessibility. However that does put the fledgling artform in a predicament.

We don't want to see digital theatre known ONLY as a haven for those artists/audiences that would be marginalized in in-person venues. This is mainly because it isn't true. There are thousands of artists with disabilities working in brick and mortar venues everyday. Also there are several able bodied artists that work in digital theatre. What we hope to do is highlight how well a relatively new artform in its third year is already miles ahead of the older venue in terms of accessibility, collaboration, and flexibility.

As much as the mainstream industry likes to adopt and absorb whatever will make it money they are still very slow to make changes especially when there is a healthy and able bodied subscriber base that has bought up all of the season tickets. There are very few in-person theaters that I have seen take a very proactive approach and tried to solve a problem with accessibility BEFORE it cropped up. At least with Digital Theatre so many of the questions with accessibility are answered already so that audience members don’t have to ask as often. Digital Artists still need to be urged to be just as proactive. Digital Theatre just happens to accidentally cater to some of the very same people that in-person marginalizes.

It’s that accidental nature of Zoom accessibility hat scares us. The fact is that no amount of pulling and prodding in the world will make a system that doesn’t want to budge make the needed changes. The system has historically favored a very particular subset of the population and very little hand wringing and fear of having to close their doors has made Theatre Companies search for ways to bring new audiences in. Unless it is made incredibly clear to the mainstream theatre sphere they won’t see the potential of Digital Theatre to reach the audiences that aren’t coming. It would require them to ask themselves why they weren’t coming in the first place.