#an actual in person gig

[jodievdw]

Three dudes, a drag king and a nonbinary disaster walk into a bar...

Rockhampton comedy news! So stoked to be supporting Anna Brennan, her drag alter-ego Bruce Highway, Shayne Hunter, Kody Maverick and Max Leishman at the Berserker Tavern on Wed Dec 6:

Catch the cream of the QLD comedy scene with this December's Christmas Comedy Gala. The perfect 18+ night out to celebrate the silly season.

Bring your workmates, your mum...whoever. There'll be drinks flowing, jokes cracking and a grown-up version of the 12 Days of Christmas song. 

Three male comedians and a drag king walk into a bar....what happens? Come along and find out. 

Headliner Shayne Hunter has been crushing onstage for over a decade. In 2010 he was selected for the prestigious Melbourne International Comedy Festival Comedy Zone. He has toured every capital city in Australia, plus South East Asia, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar and Thailand as part of Magners International Comedy Festival. In 2020 Shayne started producing his own original, wild and fast paced show Crowd Control, where eight comedians compete against each other to see who can do the funniest crowd interaction. This birthed Shayne's reputation as one of the best crowd work comedians on the circuit.

Check Shayne out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G36UuNXOrw

Host Anna Brennan and her Drag King alter ego Bruce Hwy have been telling their raw and anecdotal brand of storytelling onstage for ten years. Anna has produced and performed at hundreds of comedy shows; including a ten performance run of her solo show Tinderella at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

"She's supremely likeable, with a flair for the physically comic flourish. When she's in full flight Brennan is a wonder to behold." Kate Mulqueen- ARTShub. 

Bruce Hwy is on a mission to smash negative bogan stereotypes. He's the loose yet lovable mate we've all got, and feel the need to warn our posh friends about. Bruce Hwy hit the standup scene in April this year and has just launched his debut parody song Marshamallows in the Fire:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AyCuOY6Uxs

Kody Maverick is a fresh, friendly face on the comedy circuit who had the privilege of performing at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He was raised by a single mum and will be your sister's new favourite comic in no time. 

Max Leishman is an emerging talent who gets away with a lot onstage because audience's can't help but like him. He came runner-up in the 2022 Sunshine Coast Comedy Festival's Laughable competition and is definitely one to watch.

#Rockhampton #live comedy #an actual in person gig #bush comedian

[accidentwithapen]

some more gigs in space +closeups of my favorite little grians :3

#shoutout to the one person who actively rbs every gigs in space post i love you actually #every time you comment in the tags i scream with joy #gigs in space #team gigs #hermitblr #hermitcraft #mcytblr #hermitcraft fanart #hermit doodles #art #grian #docm77 #grian fanart

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

happy new year everyone!! 🌟✨ it's been almost exactly a year since i first tentatively poked my head into this little space here on tumblr, and being part of the wonderful am/miles/tlsp community here with you all has truly been one of the highlights of my 2023 💗

as i'm sure is the case for most of us, it's been a year of ups and downs for me. i've been lucky enough to experience some amazing things (living in a new city, reconnecting with my creativity, getting my dream job, discovering music that speaks to my soul, making new friends, reading some amazing books) and human enough to experience some less incredible things (chronic pain, family difficulties, discovering my dream job is not in fact my dream job, getting long covid, the ever uphill battle of healing from trauma). through it all, this space has been a continued solace and source of joy, where i've met some truly special people and felt part of a little community where i get to have fun and flail and just be me. i can't even begin to express how grateful i am to be part of a space like this, or how grateful i am to everyone here who makes it what it is ✨

i also just wanted to say a quick thank you to everyone who has supported me with my writing over this past year, whether that's through kudos or comments or messages or amazing cheerleading/editing help. one of the absolute gifts of discovering this fandom has been the writing fic side of it. maybe it sounds silly, but writing four walls has genuinely been one of the highlights and biggest achievements of my year. writing has always been something incredibly close to my heart, but my degree left me totally sapped of inspiration and confidence, and i'd been struggling for a while to climb out of that after graduating. something about alex and miles just instantly sparked off inspiration in me that i hadn't felt for a long time, and getting to write about them over the past year has reminded me of the sheer joy of creating and the magic of getting to share that with people ✨

it's something that's finally given me the confidence to pick up my own original writing again too, and i couldn't be more grateful to alex and his wonderful lyrics (particularly the entirety of humbug) and to everyone who's supported my fic ventures for helping me reconnect to and explore my creativity. it's the best feeling in the world to finally feel like i'm coming home to that part of myself and carving out a proper space for it in my life 💗

2023 was far from perfect, but it was filled with so many brilliant moments of illumination and i feel i am leaving it with a deeper sense of myself and my path moving forward. i know it's going to be a rocky one at times, but i am excited for what 2024 holds in store for me - and i can't wait to continue flailing with you all over all things milex and to enjoy all the amazing fics/gifsets/posts/art to come!

wishing all of you a year ahead full of wonderful moments and new experiences and fulfilment 💫✨ i really am more grateful than i'll ever be able to adequately express for this space here, and to all the amazing people i've been lucky enough to get to know through it. here's to an amazing 2024 for all of us 💗💞🩷💓💖💕💝

(the photos above are just a random little collection of ones over the past year that i particularly associate with the various things i've talked about in this post)

#god this ended up being much longer and more sentimental than i realised 😅 #happy new year!! 💜 #also please excuse the photo of me lol #it’s not the best and i’ve blocked out my face for obvious reasons #but it was taken the morning after the am concert in my hotel room just before i left #and i was just feeling so utterly elated and swept up in the post gig high #so it captures one of my favourite moments and feelings of the whole year 🥰 #i couldn’t not include it #anyway i’ll actually shut up now #i blame having an hour to myself for the first time all holiday for this degree of self indulgent rambling 😅 #personal #lulu posts

[bisquitly]

What do you mean only thing in my mind is march and Joker out's gigs....

Aka I just last night saw literal dream where I was waiting their gig to start and made friends on the queue

#sadly I did woke up before the actual gig started #would have loved to have own personal gig #joker out #bojan cvjetićanin #kris guštin #jan peteh #nace jordan #jure maček

[speremint]

I posted this minor vent to twitter, too, but I definitely neglect my tumblr these days way more despite myself feeling the most comfortable here.

I’m really sorry for my inactivity, I tbh have hit the point where my mental health and anxiety have been fucking me over physically as well.

This is the 2nd day of insomnia keeping me up all night to the point where I finally dragged my iPad out to try to work, and then just being paralyzed with burnout.

I’m so sorry for not having new art or anything to show these days, my mental health has been in the shitter and I’m like… two years in, now, on trying to find any sort of medication that will actually work for me. So tired of this 💀

I’m going to *try* today. It’s 6 am and tbh I didn’t eat hardly anything these past two days because of lack of appetite, so I might do a sleepless Starbucks run, but yeah.

It’s been so hard for me lately, but I have no damn good reason as to why, and I’m sorry y’all.

#I still have not actually been able to start drawing BnR s3 and so I’ve been beating myself up over that too #while working on another VERY important gig that I’m just fumbling so hard on #I apologize for the vent// it’s been a super long time since I’ve felt comfortable enough to use my social media as a personal space but #I’m so exhausted #I will likely delete later but yeah Idk I hate having such dead accounts these days #personal

[mitamicah]

Guess who’s also going to the Stockholm date now🥹💚

Looking forward to see some of you wonderful kääryle either there or in Berlin🤘💚

#it feels so unreal that I actually got both #I was so sure I wouldn't be able to get even just one #also I both hate and love that the german gigs opened presale yesterday since then I had some experience with what to expect #and also just less back and forth now #so today waiting for the stockholm gig I was way more calm #still very happy of course #I am gonna see the boy twice :D!!! #and even if it doesn't work out with the berlin show (I hope it does) #I have a hard time seeing my social worker banning me for participating in the stockholm one #given that it is a saturday #so in the worst case scenario (knock on wood that this is indeed the worst case scenario) I will still get one show :'D #käärijä eu tour #personal #me

[motherhenna]

yoooo ok that last job turning out to be bullshit might actually be a blessing in disguise because I just landed an interview for an after school theater teacher gig that pays way better~ I went to theater camp every year from ages 12 to 17 and always loved the idea of being a counselor for a program like that, and did backstage / dramaturg work for a play at UCSB back in pre-pandemic 2020 so I might actually have a shot at this. Wish me luck!

#so far I have a 100% rate of getting the job offer after interviews #ended up turning down the offer I got yesterday as it was a bit too high stakes for me at this point in my life #I take working with kids--especially kids with intellectual disabilities--super seriously #and I just don't think I'm ready to be a para-educator especially since that's not exactly the career path I want to go down in the long ru #but yeah for whatever reason I always do really good with interviews #my resume isn't anything special but when I get a chance to turn on the rizz I usually get the gig #perks of being an awkward neurodivergent kid who had no concept of social cues is that I had to learn it all from scratch #so I'm actually pretty good at being very friendly and personable and telling potential employers what they want to hear #without coming across as phony #partially because I do genuinely like chatting with people #personal

[lovvecherrymotion]

girls when they're cooking and realize it's been a little over a month since the joblr munich meetup and soon it'll be a month since they finally got that jan hug in london and they were being held and taken care of by their friends before and after the gig both times

#i've talked a lot about the jan hugs fixing me but every single hug i got actually fixed me #and the friend i went to the kä dublin gig with is coming over next weekend and we haven't seen each other irl since and i'm just #personal

[charmwasjess]

send help, I went to a punk show last night an hour away from my house on a school night

#I'm not even hungover #or even really that sleep deprived #the damage is all psychic #I did get to experience the surreal fact that the first office I ever had for a professional writing gig got turned into a hip coffee shop #lol when the company inevitably failed due to hiring a person with a poetry degree as a tech writer #but it was cool hey I cried a lot in that very same bathroom!! #it's possible I am actually slightly hungover

[the-meme-monarch]

*Repeating 'I am not immune to propaganda.' while looking at your blog*

GOOD the more people i can convince that scc are actually really charming characters the better i think

#they have Clearly got their own narrative going on chapter 2 #at least twice whne you run into queen scc are in the next room #they are keeping tabs the whole time !!!!! #the specific one i can remember rn is after you meet The Berdly Statue #scc Made that. and then you see them in the next room #OH the other one i think is when they’re selling overpriced bagels? i think queen was in the room before that? was this after noelle was Ju #Just kidnapped or do the bagels bit come after i don’t r #i don’t rmember rn #there are just so many little ties they have to A Lot Of Other Stuff going on in the chapter it just fascinates me #and then they also tell you abt spamton (im fairly certain you met him already when you talk to them in their shop? idr) and then they buil #they built the berdly statue and rebuilt the thrash machine for rouxls #OH AND THEN THEY BUILT THE ROLLERCOASTER TO CATCH YOU? AMD THE MECH FOR THE GIGA QUEEN FIGHT KINDA #they weren’t kidding!!! their main gig is making scrap into machines!!! #I’m just Talking at this point also i saw a theory that the ‘the other thing we made was way cooler’ ‘it was big’ was talking about giga qu #giga queen? which im not sure on. i don’t think they would’ve been proud to have made that if they hate queen #also just how much personality and nuance of their characters you can gleen despite how little they’re Actually Around #the monarch’s court #scc

[cookinguptales]

just a little psa!

Just got an ask asking me for my feedback on a disabled character they want to write. I'd usually just reply to this privately, but that's not possible with an anon ask and -- I mean, honestly, I get these requests every so often so it's probably not bad to write a PSA about it.

I talk a lot about disability, and some of that is because I want to vent and/or talk about my life experiences, and some of that really is because I want to teach people and help other disabled people feel seen and understood. That said, it can be a really exhausting thing to talk about, both physically and emotionally.

While I actually applaud someone doing research and asking actual disabled people for input while writing disabled characters, and while I desperately want more disabled characters to be written in general, I feel like there are two really important things to keep in mind here:

First of all, you may be asking about a sensitive subject. Like -- for instance, asking a disabled person about tropes they personally do not like may be asking them to remember situations that have been hurtful, frustrating, or actively physically painful. When they talk about disabled characters being moved without their consent, they might be thinking about times it's happened to them IRL, and people think it's okay because they see it in media. (Looking at you, Stardew Valley.) When they talk about disabled characters falling into "good cripple vs. bad cripple" tropes, they might be thinking about how they've felt the need to try and be the former so IRL people do not perceive them as the latter. To a greater or lesser degree, every trope we hate is one that is written in blood. Like... for me, when I think about tropes I really hate wrt disability, my first thought always goes back to seeing Amour in the theater and having to do the walk of shame in front of everyone else in that theater. Feeling like everyone was staring at me hobbling past with my cane, even if they weren't, because we'd just watched a movie about how people with degenerative diseases are better off dead -- but that they also shouldn't be afforded the right to choose how and when that happens. I felt so exposed and so judged and like I'd been judged wanting. I went home and I sobbed. That is what I think of every time I am asked that question. And while I don't always mind talking about those things... it's kind of a lot to ask of me on demand. Some days I feel up to it and some days I don't. That's why I write about it some days and some days I don't. I really do need to be able to control which day is which, though.

Second, and really more importantly -- what you're asking for here has a name. It has a job title. It is consultant work and/or sensitivity editing. In other words, you are asking me for a thing that I am literally paid to do. This is a paid thing that some people do for their entire living. I only do it as a side gig (and only for authors who are my personal friends, see #1) but like. It's something that is a job. I'm a consultant on many subjects, and I'd expect to be paid for my time and expertise when talking about disability just as much as I would when helping an author design a new religious movement or something. (And I went to college for that!) I know that things feel fuzzy in fandom, especially when origific is on the line. Frankly, they kind of do in the professional writing world, too. What favors you ask as a friend or a fellow fan vs. a professional. Where discussion and meta stops and where consultancy starts. All I can say is that it's something that's up to each person's individual boundaries, and if you're going to be asking for free labor, it's something you should probably only be asking of your personal friends. (Though -- I should probably note here that my IRL writing friends pay me when I edit their work. Because I am a professional editor who freelances for trad pubs as well as working one-on-one with authors. I sometimes offer to do it for free as a gift or in return for something they've done for me, but they are mindful that my labor is valuable.)

I don't mean this to seem mean or angry or chastising. I get it. I remember thinking I could just casually ask these things, too, when I was much younger. But... what's a casual question for you often is not a casual answer for the person you're asking, and it's really not a great idea to ask these things of people you don't even know.

(I mean... I assume. You are anonymous. We may know each other well, which I guess is kind of another level of weird to this.)

Anyway, tl;dr, I hope you have a good journey when writing this character, and I really do think that it's a worthy thing to do. But... labor is labor, y'all, even when it comes from some weirdo on tumblr. If I decide to do it for free, that's fine and dandy! But there's a difference between asking a creative to do work for free vs. just enjoying what's freely given.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#I say after writing like several hundred words on the subject #this one is a freebie lmao #I actually turned down a paid writing gig #because I was being expected to write about disability often and in very personal terms #and as much as I wanted to help people understand my life and the lives of other disabled folks #it started to feel like monetizing my own trauma #and I just... didn't want to do it #and if I wouldn't do it for pay I'm certainly not gonna do it for free lmao #replies #cw: #disability #chronic illness #ableism

[spandexinspace]

I got pulled into the ceo's office today so we could have a little talk about future opportunities within the company. My boss just might have mentioned me looking at other jobs to him.

#If he's not just talking shit it's actually sounds like a pretty sweet gig #Better than the one I'm mildly pursuing atm #And those people are so indecisive that I'm honestly kind of over it anyway #Personal

[soldier-poet-king]

D THE MAINTENANCE MAN IS MY SAVIOUR

#hes middled aged and married with kids but emotionally i am kissing him #HE FIXED IT #and sure it made a mess #but i can clean that up #UNLIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS OFFICE #who just leaves messes arounf and exoects housekeeping to clean it #THATS NOT WHAT SHES THERE FOR #shes there to like. vaccuum. clean bathrooms. big tasks #Shes NOT UR MOM HERE TO PICK UO AFTER YOU SMH #youd think i wasnt the youngest person in this office #AND YET #SOME OF THESE PPL HAVE NO MANNERS #not to be like. well. white collar workers. middle class. rich ppl #BUT ACTUALLY SOMETIMES I MISS WORKING ONLY WITH POOR PPL #i dont miss any of my blue collar gigs #but SOME OFFICE WORKERS ARE SUCH ASSHOLES

[romansbeathearts]

was going through my screenshots and found these gems

#barney's gig banter is something that can actually be so personal #bernard sumner #fav #yes I'm tagging my own post as fav what about it

[proton-wobbler]

Finishing a field job is always bittersweet. Like hell yes Ive finally got the tedious task of vegetation surveys done, but I also heard a single Gray Vireo today after having a season where I'd get anywhere between 12-20 depending on how far I surveyed for the day. Migration has begun and families are moving away. I wish them all the best!

#personal #its also not been nearly as hot now and Im sad bc I actually like the weather #im not going anywhere awful for the next gig its just finally nice here

[pawsitivevibe]

I dunno why everyone says they hate grooming and hand stripping dogs. I find it so soothing. I would probably go for hours if Arthur didn't let me know he was done with it.

#I wanna say we probably go 30 minutes max usually? For maintenance grooming #When he goes to his breeder to get full groomed he's on the table for like 3 hours #I kinda think having a Poodle could be fun one day for the fun haircuts I could do #I'm not that brave with actually clipping BUT I would be if it wasn't a show dog lol #Like I do love clipping off Haley's feathers. Which I do now because she's an old lady who does not need that excessive hair #Haley gets really really floofy ... makes me wonder what her parents' coats were like. I'm thinking the Sheltie genes are probably why #My mom wants me to try shaving Leia down. Haha. We'll see about that. She is so so wiggly and hyper. Her #groomer has a special way with her #Leia's groomer is a hardcore flyball trainer/competitor so she is used to insane dogs lol #I think it's funny that she grooms all the floofy suburban pet dogs in the neighbourhood while she personally owns Mals and BorderWhippets #ANYWAY I think dog grooming would be a great career for me if I can get the chronic pain under control #I want to at least become an Expert ECS groomer over the next decade lol #Grooming could maybe be a side gig one day if I can get good enough and figure out how to get training #I'm legit considering the idea that the best job situation for me might end up being multiple 'side gigs'