indw replied to your chat “randomishnickname: writing fanfic at 27: Here’s the beloved…”
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I am very proud of everyone who went there from the post and commented!
rsfcommonplace replied to your post “If you didn’t have the cats, would you consider going back to your…”
As another single person household I am finding myselg grateful for things like skype snd the stream team. It makes being stuck at home easier.
Yeah, quarantine or self-isolation is a very different beast than it was 20 or even 10 years ago. It’s so much easier to stay at least somewhat connected.
mr-chatterboxs-column replied to your photoset “kermitlesbian: i didn’t realize how much i needed this article until i…”
@copperbadge , my region is just starting to go into serious all-events-and-classes-cancelled mode, but when things start to resume and I go back to circus classes, I’ll ask around about the forbidden clown car videos. One coach used to perform for Ringling and one of his friends is a nationally touring clown, so they might have some insider info ��
“When the quarantine is over and I can go back to the circus” is such a great sentiment to reflect on!
Please do ask if they know of any good videos, I would love to share them.
yee-jun replied to your photoset “kermitlesbian: i didn’t realize how much i needed this article until i…”
You went to circus camp. Three years in a row. Of *course* you did…
I mean, not a lot of things can explain why I am *hand gesture* this way, but the circus camp definitely had an impact.
It was super fun. It was an arts school that ran summer classes for tweens and teens, and they wanted to make it open not just to athletic kids who could do the gymnastic stuff, or extroverts who wanted to perform, but also kids who were interested in the technical aspects of vaudeville-style entertainment. So you could take “physical circus” (tumbling, balance board, stilts, juggling), clowning (makeup, costuming, physical comedy, a little bit of clowning history), and some ancillary classes like storytelling and oratory. But you could also take prop making (including musical instrument making), basic stage magic and specific prop making for that, set design and building, and “circus management” which was essentially stage managing. You could also, for some reason, take “Cartooning” which was a basic course in single-panel and four-panel comic strips. (I loved Cartooning and Storytelling especially, but I did pretty well in clowning and physical circus too.)
If nothing else, it took kids with too much energy and wore them out, and took kids with too much intellectual curiosity and kept them distracted and out of trouble. Nothing better than circus camp, in my opinion.
