I am currently working on a new indie animation project called Handel Hill. Though I am the sole writer, character designer, director and storyboard artist, I cannot animate more than a bouncing ball, let alone a whole show. This is where you fabulous people come in!
I am currently looking for animators to help us create our show. This is a passion project only- you will not be paid!! If you are interested, please join our (freshly made) discord server :D
Check out the Handel Hill 𖤐 community on Discord - hang out with 7 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
Additionally, we are looking for voice actors. I'm not looking for Micheal Kovach level experience- if you are a newbie, that's amazing! This could be your first project to put on your resume for future auditions! Since we aren't requiring a resume, auditions will be hosted on the discord where a small scripted monologue will be given, as well as information on what the characters voice should sound like, and you can record your voice and send it straight in!! I'm not expecting many people to audition, so if you do, you're pretty much guaranteed a role. If we do get a lot, I WILL find a way to get your voice in there! Do not fret!
(Auditions close July 14th)
Info about plot and show content under cut, as well as some visuals of the character designs
If you are curious as to the shows content, it is worth noting that it is NOT FOR KIDS UNDER 13!! This show will contain swears, slurs, violence, alcohol, cigarettes, abuse, AND sexual assault!!! PLEASE, do not audition if you are under 13!!
The show itself is meant to be in a style reminiscent of PBS's Arthur. It's set in the late 2000's and early 2010's, and focuses on a group of five middle schoolers in the middle of a small town in Ohio. The name of this town? Handel Hill. It has one church, four stores, two restaurants, and only three tiny schools- our main one by the very uncreative name of Handel Hill Middle School. It's dirty, trashy, and full of crazy people.
I would say this show is meant to be a 'coming of age' style, but it's more like a show about how life sucks and everything always lets you down. Most importantly, it's about hating people.
Irelin Arnolds is a petite black girl who lives in California- or, she used to live in California, until her dad lost his job and they had to move to Ohio- why? because Handel Hill is the cheapest place to live in the entire United States. She is not happy.
She ends up befriending four people, all from completely different walks of life, and all equipped with a blistering hate for one another. Through trial and tribulation and a bit of innocent blood spilled, the five teenagers become inseparable trauma-bonded friends till the end!
(this is not the style of animation it will be in (probably), just my art style since i am designing the characters)
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck.
anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that
the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people
if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems
sorry to be a broken record every month but christ menstruation is a stupid concept. oooooh excuse me for not getting pregnant, why the fuck is there goo falling out of me about it? grow the fuck up and reabsorb that shit for nutrients.
when thinking about how oppression works, on a structural level, my guiding principle is that I must spend at least as much time looking down as I do looking up.
what do I mean by this? here's an example. when my surgery is delayed multiple times, I spend a little time looking up (there is only one surgeon in the entire area who will perform this surgery on trans people, so every trans person's surgical timeline is bottle-necked and delayed by months every time he goes to a conference or takes a vacation or experiences an injury. in other words, if I was cis, I would not encounter this difficulty in accessing surgery). and then I spend time looking down (due to nonstop harassment and legal threats, this practice now only treats adults and will no longer perform surgeries on minors. in other words, my access to surgery is predicated on adult privilege I have at the direct expense of trans youth's lack of access).
if you do not build a habit around thinking in this way, you will become the person Audre Lorde describes as "so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face." If we are seeking to dismantle structures of oppression, rather than to simply use and climb them, then we absolutely must make a practice of looking in both directions, especially when we feel like we're on the bottom.
I don’t think we ought to normalize or justify bullying as a means to keep people from being annoying — a sentiment that in and of itself could make for a whole article’s worth of conversation — but I do think we should make a habit of politely but directly telling people “hey I didn’t like that”, “that wasn’t funny”, “you are mistaken”, and the like if it’s called for, and more importantly, you should be able to take a “that wasn’t funny” for instance without taking it personally, because protecting a polite harmony where no one can criticize each other, not even politely, is also really, really bad.
Not that I think all marriages are doomed but when deciding who to marry you should ask yourself “is this someone I’d want to divorce?” As in, is this someone I believe would be mature and fair, even when they’re upset and don’t particularly like me at the moment. Is this someone I could continue to trust while going through an adversarial process? And if the answer is no, don’t marry them.
