offensiveagentpie.bsky.social
A Lite-Brite peg stuck in the shag carpet of life. Real amiable sort of freak, just keeping pace.
30+, she/they 🏳️🌈
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I was even recognized for three years of service and thanked in front of the crowd with flowers. It got me emotional, not gonna lie.
It can be chaotic, frustrating work, but as long as the festival is fun for those in attendance, that's what matters.
I can breathe again haha
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But responsibilities and work ... I can't do more than just a few days.
Minus the week I took in January.
But I was, you know, recovering from surgery.
So that wasn't a vacation.
One of these years I'll travel. Until then I'll listen to "Vienna" by Billy Joel and cry.
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Oh for sure, finding a good stick is such a thrill
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Just once, ONCE since coming out I would like to enjoy a pride festival without working to the bone and worrying myself to exhaustion.
But hey, at least I've found the only worry that can drown out the usual anxiety of "oh my god what if we're attacked?"
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The only thing that has me showing up is that the equipment belongs to a friend of mine and I want to make sure that it's treated with respect and not completely fucked up because queens LOVE just dropping mics on the ground for some reason.
Please don't.
UGH, I just wanna crawl in a hole.
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Because apparently they think that this is something that can be done. Just show up, in an instant, without any prior knowledge, training and without being kept in the loop and just run an entire fucking festival.
There will literally NOT be a pride without me. So, you know, no pressure.
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This is our third year. You think that by now they'd NOT DO THINGS LAST MINUTE, but they still do. They just expect me to show up and have magic happen.
It is taking ALL of my willpower to not ... just not show up. Just leave them to set everything up by themselves.
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Like, you better fucking believe I'm throwing them under the bus.
I'm already panicked out of my mind that they expect me to run a system I've seen once and set up never. I'm not taking the blame for not having the equipment for a group I didn't even know was coming.
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I responded truthfully with a: Hello, I didn't know you guys were performing. It is now 5 days from the festival. The only equipment that was rented was 4 speakers, 2 subwoofers and 2 wireless mics. I've only ever touched this equipment once and that was all that was rented by the organizers.