When Badgers Fangirl

No business like show business, especially when you're all in black and calling cues.

[crepuscularus-blog]

Innocence

Innocence is not ignorance. 

Ignorance is naivete, a wide-eyed lack of knowledge about a topic. It's stumbling down an unfamiliar path, feet catching on potholes and hands brushing against toxic plants that leave burns where they kiss skin. Naivete is rarely a choice. It can be lost, it will creep up again with the passage of time. “You don't know what you don't know.” We look at someone skipping down a path that winds through some dark woods, and we call them innocent. 

We are wrong.

Innocent is the person who knows what is in those woods and the darkness they contain, and refuses to act in the same way as the goblins inside. Innocent is not a child's lisp. It is the bang of a judges gavel, an acquitted man holding his head high. It’s the woman who’s been through hell and back and fights to keep others from that same life. 

Innocence is not a lack of knowledge. It is not something that just happens. Innocence fools attempt to vindicate themselves, weaving the notion that innocent is nothing more than stupidity, something for children. The notion cannot last - it crumbles under a gaze, and under reason, blows away like dust in a fierce summer wind. 

Innocence is a returning soldier who has seen death and refuses to kill again. Innocence is the man who sees a woman and refuses to dehumanize her with catcalls and lust. Innocence is the woman who does not become her abuser. Innocence is clean hands and loyal heart and peaceful mind and a straight path. Innocence can be found in the midst of darkness and despair and grief so great it can tear the sinews of one’s heart, because innocence is so much more than a childlike naivete. 

Innocence is a choice. 

[softlyextraterrestrial]

How I imagine bts would be without Jin

[crepuscularus-blog]

Things I know

AUDIO (aka bae)

Always save your scene. If you have an analog soundboard, put tape on the knobs and faders to keep them in place, or SOMEONE is going to walk by your painstakingly arranged mix and make a smiley face out of it.

MUSICIAN: Can I get some more piano in ears? ME: *runs finger up and down side of soundboard* How’s that? MUSICIAN: Perfect!!

If there’s anyone in the world who can find out where the cookies are, it’s going to be the bass player. I have no idea why. Make friends.

LIGHTS (aka that thing I sometimes have to do)

The COLORS :DDDDDDDDD

The biggest, heaviest cables should be place precariously on top shelves in order to fall on unsuspecting audio techs who are literally jUST TRYING TO FIND AN EXTENSION CORD

No but seriously everyone is going to try and steal your extension cords

STAGE MANAGING (aka I look cool in a comset)

Performers are sensitive. Don’t yell at them.

Performers can sometimes do things where you’re going to have to yell at them. Do it kindly, if possible

Safety first. Safety second. Safety third. Shows don’t look good if someone breaks their arm in the middle of it. SAFETY

DO NOT LOSE YOUR NOT LOSE YOUR NOTES KEEP THEM WITH YOU AT ALL TIMES PROTECT THEM LIKE THEY ARE THE CROWN JEWELS OF ENGLAND

By the end of the show, everyone’s going to be your child. Everyone. Even the people 15 years older than you. (Or maybe that’s just me used to being eldest child and adopting everyone as younger siblings XD)

You’ll want to strangle them and hug them and it’ll break your heart to know the show is over and done.