Journeying

~~~Just call me Absol~~~ I write, roleplay and sometimes draw.

[unto-myself-together]

Of Stories and Songs: A Haunted Mansion Fanfic (Overture)

Here is the alternate (and true) prologue that I was working on.  It’s much, much longer than the prologue I had up before (which was actually not a prologue so much as a teaser?).  

I have edited this.  This is a better version now. 

BEFORE YOU READ: This is a story based off of Disney’s ‘Story and Song of the Haunted Mansion’. The following trigger warnings are for this entire fic. If you are affected by the triggers listed right under the read more, you might want to skip this whole story (as there will be plot points tied to these things).  

It also occurred to me that I can’t edit things before a read more and have it show up on people’s reblog of this post.  :/ Which means I’m going to just put the trigger warnings underneath the read more, just in case I forgot something and need to add it.   That way, everyone who reblogs will always get the most up to date version of the trigger warnings (which is the safest way).   

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[anonabsolxwolf]

the world on fire

[johnboyegadaily]

that moment when john boyega realized he was a toy…

[sallykie]

On a scale from Buzz Lightyear to John Boyega, how well did you handle the realisation that you are a toy?

[thirstymilkboy]

From Up on Poppy Hill

Garden Of Words

Ponyo

Shokugeki no Souma

Ladies VS Butlers

Sword Art Online

Red Data Girl

Tamako Market

Servant x Service

Samurai Flamenco

Yumeiro Patissiere

5 Centimeters per Second

Summer Wars

Wolf Children

Shokugeki no Souma 

Ponyo

Howl’s Moving Castle

Tamayura Hitotose

Grave of the Fireflies 

[anonabsolxwolf]

randomly-spicy-diamond replied to your post “No, I am not dead yet.   But I…unfortunately had a lot of problems...”

*waves* Glad you're feeling well enough to say hi!

Thank you! *hugs*

@randomly-spicy-diamond

[anonabsolxwolf]

bayalexison replied to your post “No, I am not dead yet.   But I…unfortunately had a lot of problems...”

Double hearts to you <3

*hugs* Hey Bay~

@bayalexison

[anonabsolxwolf]

No, I am not dead yet.  

But I...unfortunately had a lot of problems over the past couple of months. 

I’m on medication now.  And going to therapy.  It’s helping...a little...but I’m still not stable.  I’m not even back in the same place I was last year.  Sometimes I am, but a lot of times I’m not....

Anyways....I did want to say hello.  I miss you all. 

[writerswritecompany]

[anonabsolxwolf]

@randomly-spicy-diamond

is this what you all did too

[thepaperplaneofexistence]

[xanthas927]

Animaniacs pulled no punches.

[blackphoenixincorporated]

Still relevant after all these years

[the-composite-doll]

Diabetes Patients Are Losing Limbs And Sight Because They Can’t Afford Insulin

Earlier this week, we shared the concerns of patients who are struggling with the rising cost of EpiPens, injection devices that can save lives in the case of a severe allergic reaction to foods or…

More on skyrocketing drug costs in the United States

[jewishdragon]

@fangirlinginleatherboots 

[dr-archeville]

“A medical professor who has tracked the cost of insulin over the years says that a one-month supply of a popular version that cost $45 wholesale in 2001 cost $1,447 14 years later, an increase of almost 3,000%.  That’s the wholesale price, not the retail price that an uninsured patient would pay.“

Yeah, that’s messed up.

[guayabaprince]

Wow, it’s really rare I see something cross my dash that’s actually directly tied to my life on a personal level, but yea, I’m Diabetic Type 1 and this is a problem.

I’ve been off insurance for the last three or so years and have been working around through channel I can to continue to obtain insulin and supplies for my insulin pump (of which is currently a problem, fun) for free or at reduced costs.

The Lilly Cares program is one I heavily endorse if your insulin is a Lilly product. They’ve been incredibly helpful to me.

Please spread the word on this. There are a lot of young Diabetics like myself that do not have a support system, do not have insurance, and do not have jobs. Insulin is literally a life-sustaining medication for T1 Diabetics. Please do not just ignore this.

[sevensneakyfoxes]

One of the most ironically fucked things about this is that Charles Best and Frederick Banting, the Canadian scientists who discovered insulin, sold the patent for $1, stating that profit was not their goal.

The fact that people can’t fucking afford a medication that two Canadians discovered and then SIGNED AWAY FOR A DOLLAR nearly 100 years ago is fucking ridiculous.

[fuckyeahroleplayadvice]

Don't Be Selfish -- Your RP Partner Is Not An Object

[agriosanemos-archive-3-blog]

fuckyeahroleplayadvice:

Looking through past posts concerning social problems between partners or groups of roleplayers, the issue of possessiveness and the clinging to partners arises which can create rifts between partners and the entirety of the group.

It’s important to understand that your partner is not an object, they are another human being, just like you. 

I say this because it is rude to be possessive of a partner.

How is someone being possessive of a roleplay partner?

They get extremely jealous of their partner roleplaying with other, and get upset with their partner for doing so.

They yell at/become upset at the other party roleplaying with their partner and tell them not to do so.

They tell their partner that if they roleplay with someone else that they will no longer roleplay with them.

They attempt to guilt trip their partner into roleplaying with them only by claiming things such as, ‘Am I not good enough?’  'Why do you have to roleplay with others? Do I suck that bad?’

They will tell others that their partner is ‘theirs’. Ex. “You can’t roleplay with Alex…He’s mine!”

They show their possessiveness by causing their character to be extremely clingy to their partner’s character.

It’s important to understand that your roleplay partner is allowed to roleplay with anyone else, and that includes roleplaying with people that are not you. They have that right. It is not an attack on your roleplaying abilities. It is not an attack on you as a person. It is not an attack on their ideal of you as a partner.

Your roleplay partner is allowed to branch out to however many partners they so feel like it, and it is not your place to say that they cannot have any partners outside of you. That’s just rude.

This also includes telling your partner that their character cannot be in any other romantic relationship except with your character. That’s rude.

If your partner has a Multiple Storyline Character, these parallel universes allow your partners character to be in as many relationships as they so choose without them relating in anyway, coinciding in anyway, etc. 

Be considerate of your partner and how THEY feel about it. No one likes being guilt tripped. No one likes being yelled at for a hobby that is supposed to be FUN, not stressing. No one likes to be restricted in such a hobby.

It is not your place to tell someone what they can and cannot do in terms of interacting with others. It’s incredibly mean of you to do such a thing and you need to take a step back and see how you could be hurting someone else’s feelings if you realize that you are doing this to someone else.

Don’t be possessive of a roleplay partner. They are not an object. They are allowed to make any decision they want when it comes to roleplay, and you don’t have a say in how many partners they’re allowed to have.

Because in the end, no one is obligated to roleplay with you, and for you to put restrictions on someone who is willingly choosing to roleplay with you is just seriously unkind.

So, don’t do that.

[pinkyoungk]

1st Latina senator in US history. I like her already

[bob-belcher]

[reverseracism]

John McCain’s son, Jack McCain, responds to racists who took “offense” to the Old Navy interracial family advertisement.

Can we also talk about how that woman said “you couldn’t get a white woman”, like white women are the tip top of the racial scale and are a prize to be had. Basically insinuating Black Women are sloppy seconds #NotHereForIt. Great clapback, Jack. Classy and to the point.

[reverseracism]

HEADS UP: I just went through his wife’s Twitter and she’s literally an angel sent from heaven!

You should check it out @reneeitchka on Twitter ❤️

[micdotcom]

President Obama seeks to mollify an anxious nation and asks young people not to get cynical

[floreawe]

imalive (a texting helpline) is homophobic and supports conversion therapy. idk why some people posting things about using them w/o research but holy fuck.

i heard you can use txt4life instead

[long-ago-1234567890]

http://txt4life.org/

[tbbackus]

There should be a blog dedicated to theatrical urban legends. Like that opening weekend of Dracula where Dracula (still hungover) vomited all over the audience during the first stage direction that everyone has a friend of a friend that worked on the show and was there.

[agatharights]

During a passion play a friend of my brother was supposedly in, one of the roman soldiers who was supposed to stab jesus on the cross and accidentally grabbed the wrong spear- he was supposed to grab one with a fake tip, but instead he grabbed one with an actual metal tip and, well

Jesus screamed “JESUS CHRIST YOU STABBED ME”.

Since that Jesus had to be taken down due to a bad case of stab-itis, the backup Jesus came in, but he weighed significantly less than the original Jesus- which would have been fine, except that at the end the cross was supposed to ascend upwards with Jesus on it, and the weights hadn’t been adjusted.

So Jesus, instead, ROCKETED UP into heaven (or, just, above the stage).

[soulpunchftw]

This is wild from start to finish

[totalspiffage]

I was in Peter Pan once and one night at a performance, the adhesive holding our Hook’s mustache on was wearing off. It was near the end with a big fight scene and when he got attacked, he let his mustache fall and went “YOU RIPPED MY MUSTACHE OFF!” in a scandalized tone and it added a new note of hilarity to the whole scene (which was supposed to be funny anyway)

[redheadeddisneyfreak]

My junior year we were doing Romeo and Juliet and after Juliet poisons herself it was supposed to go dark and she’d get off the stage. well the light crew accidentally turned them back on and Juliet who was sitting up slammed back down on the wooden bed with a loud bang. To which my theater teacher says into the com “zombie Juliet” and everyone who heard that had to keep as quiet as possible while our eyes were filling with tears.

[sammywhatammy]

i attended my county’s performing arts high school majoring in vocal studies, (mostly geared towards musical theater and opera styles) and once a year we got a field trip to new york (we were in jersey, so it’s not exactly far). we would do one touristy thing, an actor’s workshop with friends of our teachers working in various performing industries in nyc, and then see a show. 

my first year doing this, our industry contacts were 1 actor, 1 casting director, and 1 producer to get different aspects of the business, and they all gave us amazing advice and told fantastic stories. the actor in question was Zazu on Broadway’s The Lion King for several years, and told the best story by far.

in The Lion King, there are only two pieces of pre-recorded noise in the whole show. one, when Pumbaa does a MASSIVE fart while fighting the hyenas, and the other being Mufasa saying REMEMBERRRRRR as Simba climbs Pride Rock. the actor told us while struggling not to laugh that, during one night’s performance, someone forgot to flip the tape of these pre-recorded noises.

so, at the end of the show, the great climax where Simba finally accepts his place in the Circle of Life, the heavens parted and-

PFFFFFFFFFRRRRRBTFTBTBFTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

everyone froze. and then all ran off stage positively HOWLING with laughter.

the lesson: sometimes there are fuck ups you just can’t recover from.

[cinder-ember]

During a high school production of Beauty and the Beast, where I was assistant costumer and assistant prop master, our director decided that we needed to spice up Gaston’s introduction. You know: in the movie, when Lefou runs in trying to catch the duck/goose that Gaston has just shot out of the sky?

Originally, the actors were going to stroll on stage with our Lefou hauling in the really neat (and real!) taxidermied deer head that we had found in a local thrift store. Now, two days before opening night, our director wants Lefou to run in from off stage and catch a stuffed duck that Gaston has just shot. This, of course, requires two things to work properly as a scene: a gunshot noise, and a stuffed duck.

The gunshot noise, we had covered. Blue-collar, redneck school? Guns a plenty to record. The stuffed duck? Harder than you might have thought to obtain.

Three hunting stores, two taxidermists, and one Pet Supply Store ™, I’d finally found a semi-realistic pheasant squeaky toy. What follows is an account of the ways this dog toy managed to be the nightmare prop of the six show run.

Opening Night: The stagehand, who was supposed to drop the bird from the ceiling catwalk, missed his cue and didn’t drop the it. Lefou’s actor rolls with it and does an excellent job of looking around foolishly before getting cuffed upside the head by Gaston. The stagehand then drops the bird squarely on Gaston’s head. Cue laughter.

Saturday Matinee: Different stagehand throws the bird instead of dropping it and beans Lefou directly in the face with the prop. Lefou falls over. Cue laughter.

Saturday Night: Bird is missing during curtain call. Director hauls the deer head down from it’s place on the tavern wall and tells Gaston and Lefou to revert to the old blocking i.e. no gunshot, no bird, just walk in with trophy. During Gaston and Lefou’s conversation, gun shot sound goes off and a stagehand throws the bird onto the stage…from the wrong side of the stage. Lefou and Gaston stare at it in awkward silence for a solid thirty seconds before Lefou makes off-script, subtle joke about Gaston’s gun going off late instead of early. Cue adults in the audience laughing.

Sunday Matinee: Director begs the stagehands to get the cue right at least once. Gunshot and bird prop go off without a hitch. Lefou accidentally catches the prop when it falls from the catwalk. He’s so startled that he caught it that Gaston runs right in to him. They drop both the gun and the bird props, and grab the wrong prop in their scramble. Gaston spends the rest of the scene gesturing dramatically with a stuffed pheasant, instead of a gun.

Sunday Night:  Director is fed up with bird prop, decides that Lefou should just carry bird prop in after gunshot happens off stage. Lefou accidentally squeezes the prop during the intro conversation, startling both actors into silence with the squeaky toy noise - apparently, neither of them realized it was a dog toy.

Monday Elementary School Show: Lefou walks on stage with the bird. Accidentally drops the prop during conversation with Gaston. Gaston doesn’t notice the dropped prop and steps on it. Cue depressingly sad squeaky toy noise. Cue ten years olds laughing.

[pancakereport-deactivated201904]

In a dress rehearsal for Peter Pan, Wendy forgot one of her lines and started singing the star spangled banner and the audience was singing along and people got emotional

[les-etoiles-de-la-boxe]

Once during the closing night of our high school production of south pacific, we were havin our pre-show pep talk, and our director reminded everyone (mostly seniors) not to go off script to try to be funny. Of course we had one lead who decided to ignore this advice. So during one scene where the sailors were “fishing” at the edge of the stage, he decides to pull up his rubber fish, make a comment about how it wasn’t big enough, and throw it back into the “ocean”, which of course, was the audience. Now, this probably wouldn’t have been too much of a problem if he had gently tossed it, since it would have landed right behind the pit. But naturalt, he decided that this fish had to break free in the most dramatic way possible, so he winds up and chucks this fucking foot-long rubber fish with all of his strength. So now imagine the stage crew, all of us huddled together, silently screaming as this limp fish goes sailing over the heads of the audience in what looks like a low-budget reenactment of free willy, only to slap some poor parent across the face. I swear, you could almost hear the chorus of “mmmm whatcha saaayyy” rising from all those backstage. From that moment on, all rubber fish were ferociously guarded by yours truly, under the direction of our stage manager.

[hey-look-a-hufflepuff]

This post gets better every time it shows up on my dash

[nicin20gayteen]

This may be my all time favorite post. 

[those-fucking-feratu]

I was once in a production of “Hello Dolly!” and the two leads were complete jokers and would prank each other during rehearsals all the time. The rest of the cast never thought they would do that during a show, but they told the chorus (separately) that they each were planning to add some tongue into the final kiss between Dolly and Horace. Of course, we told neither of them about the other’s plan, so during the very last show, we were all waiting in the wings to see what would happen. What happened was we ended the show with the two leads violently frenching each other on stage as the curtain dropped. They started dating two weeks later.

Apparently my director went to see a production of West Side Story a few years ago, and the guy playing Chino forgot his gun before coming out for his final scene. Once it got to the big scene where he is supposed to shoot Tony, he screeched “Poison Boots” and kicked the actor playing Tony until he went down. The girl playing Maria then had to jerk the shoe off of Chino’s foot, and had to do the gunshot scene asking “How many kicks Chino? How many kicks, and one kick left for me”. 

[drag0nfeathers]

In my Freshman year of high-school we put on a performance of Les Mis. In said play there’s the scene where Javert and Valjean confront each-other by the bedside of the now dead Fantine. well, Javert Had his prop weapon (I can’t remember if it was a sword or truncheon,) but Valjean didn’t have his. So we the Crew decided during our builds that we’d rig up a chair to break so our Valjean could use one of the broken legs as a club kind of thing. For all of our shows it went off without a hitch, but for the last one we decided to have some fun. Originally we really just weakened one of the legs so it would break off after our Valjean hurled the chair on the floor, but for the final chair we too saws and cut into everything. All the legs, the back poles, everything. We cut it just enough so that our Valjean would be able to sit in the chair and not break it, but when he tossed it on the ground? Chaos. And that’s what happened. All we told him before the show was “When your toss the chair on the ground, give it your all.” And so when the scene came all of the crew gathered behind the legs and assorted hidden places of the stage to watch. When our Valjean hurled the chair to the ground it shattered. Wood and splinters went in practically every direction and I’m sure that I even saw our Fantine flinch as she feigned death. There was no chair leg left for him to use. So we all got to witness as our Valjean fended off Javert with naught but a splinter. Fun times.

[ryukodragon]

THERE ARE BETTER STORIES EVERY TIME I LOVE THIS POST SO MUCH

[snapfoo]

Back in high school our drama department was putting on a comedy, whose name escapes me now, but the intro starts off telling how the hero was born. The two actors playing his parents came out from either side of the stage and joined in the middle and waved at the audience while the narrator spoke the story. At one point he states ’ they had a bouncing baby boy…’ and a toy baby was literally thrown on stage with a ’ AWAAA’ baby sound effect, then was caught by the father and given to the mother.

Now the first show went off without a hitch.

The second show, my friend was the stage hand that threw the baby on stage.

My friend was also the star quarterback for our football team.

Second show comes on, actors meet in the stage and wave, narrator says his line… And from right stage with the sound effect on cue this baby doll was fucking HURLED into the air about 10 fucking feet and dropped like a sack of wet rags down to the actors and the father actually CAUGHT it first try.

I have never in my life seen the 8D face on an actual person until that day.

[sushinfood]

IT GOT BETTER

[lissy-strata]

OKAY, I gotta add mine.

My senior year of high school we did Annie Jr. for our fall show. Now, we were a very small school, so we didn’t actually have a theatre building, just a cafatorium. So there was no fly space, just ceiling.

We needed a huge Christmas tree for Daddy Warbucks’s mansion, and there was also no backstage space so we couldn’t use a real tree. Instead, we painted a tree onto a canvas and rolled it up and hung it from the ceiling.

My best friend J was the stage manager, and she had the canvas rigged so that all she had to do was pull a string and it would unfurl for the last scene. Well, on opening night during the show, one of the freshman techs wanted to pull the string. So she gave him directions…

“Like this?” *pulls*

And the entire canvas was ripped off the ceiling and fell to the floor.

RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCENE CHANGE.

In the space of 15 seconds, J made a human pyramid of nearby techs and climbed on top of them with the canvas and held it up.

So for the last fifteen minutes of the show, the canvas was held up by a stack of techies, with stage manager calling cues on her headset the whole time.

[agent-jaselin]

I feel the need to add mine niw.

Okay when I was in community college we staged a production of beauty and the beast and we had this really brilliant pyrotechnics guy. With his help we had all sorts of really impressive effects including spurting flames from the enchantress’s hands and an exploding invention for Belle’s father.

Well on one of our dress rehearsals the technician couldn’t make it, so he had his son rig the effects instead, because he was the apprentice.

He put way too much fuel in everything, so the young prince in the prologue ended up getting his eyebrows nearly singed off.

But even better than that, when the invention Belle’s father built exploded one of the pieces shot up about twenty feet into the air, and the actor screamed and fell back about two feet. Everyone stopped to check on him but before anyone could get to him he’d already popped back up on his feet and started laughing.

His explanation? “I was acting guys relax”

[saxyqueen]

Once our high school put on the musical Beauty and the Beast. During our Be Our Guest dance number Belle had a kick towards the end and one night her shoe went flying off stage. A crowd full of kids heard our lead Belle say ‘shit!’ right into her microphone right as the music cut. She swears on her life she said shoe (trying to warn the stage hands of the incoming shoe) but we played back the recording and it was definitely shit.

[kohlrabisabi]

I think the prize goes to @cinder-ember