another time when I was probably 13 I was playing Chip in this really spectacular production of Beauty and the Beast and even though I had to be constantly reminded back stage to Shut Up, I took acting Very Seriously my obnoxious 13-year-old behavior never made it out of the wings
except this one time when Bell’s dad Maurice had just escaped the wolves at the beginning of the show and Lumière and the other furniture sat him down and welcomed him and they wheeled me over in my cart to give him a cup of tea and idk WHY bc we’d done this scene 1 million times before but I wasn’t mic’d and when Maurice took a “sip” out of what was literally my head I quietly gurgled “aeEEEeeee my brains”
and only he heard it and I really fucked him up and took him a while to recover
was worried I wouldn’t be able to find a photo of me in all my glory but here it is
This is from the palaeo-art/speculative art book All Yesterdays.
Among other things, it is a gently obstinate call-out of the “shrink-wrapping” trend of palaeo-art (in which all animals are presented as if their flesh was shrink-wrapped over their jutting bones, rather than having normal things like chubby fat deposits or feathers or fluff) and the “killer claw” trend of writing about these beasts, in which the writer must make the creature out to be a VIOLENT destroyer of COMPETITORS in the BRUTAL MARKETPLACE world with its SHARP TALONS and LITHE BODY, as if one is writing fanfiction about an action figure that goes to the gym a lot, rather than describing the natural history of a living animal.
WE WERE GOING THROUGH STORAGE TO GET A STURDY BINDER FROM THE 80S FOR SCHOOL AND MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS FELL OUT OF ONE OF MY MOMS JOURNALS IM SHITTING
im making photo copies of this when i get home
Pls upload a scan to let others make copies
i kept the vintage effects in. this is from the 80s, if not the late 70s
Desert Tourmaline 
