#background acting

[wigglys-dikrats]

matt dahan is my favourite character in the guy who didn’t like musicals

#he’s always smiling behind his piano and laughing at the jokes #his lean-in to see hidgens dramatically sit is gold #he always looks like he’s having the time of his life #matt dahan #deserves more appreciation #nothing but respect for my emotional support background pianist #starkid #dikrats #team starkid #starkid productions #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #piano #music #pianist #background acting

[wack-ashimself]

The worst background actors ever...

(Or the worst director).

Disclaimer: I have a theater degree and worked (past tense: thank god) in hollywood, so I AM a prissy bitch about this. Sorry.

Discalimerer: The main actors are pretty fucking bad too. I mean with the OVER THE TOP melodramatic background music guiding the scene, it's like a CW show almost. Just so fucking much. And for so fucking little.

"Childhood's End" 2015, Syfy show. A lot of syfy shows seems to slip thru the cracks, and I think it's cuz fewer people stream them.

<I am watching for the story because part of this concept I thought of writing years ago (good aliens saving earth and some of us hating them for it), and it was a trilogy. But they changed a few big aspects, so mine would still be quite different. I want to post it, but it's so different that if I posted it, and saw another movie closer to in a few years, I'd lose my shit. Get out of my brain!>

So I am not even done with the first of 3 parts, and I swear to god, at least once in any scene with the general public, one of the fucking background actors says the most 'thank captain obvious, you did nothing but comment on the scene before us all' shit, CONSTANTLY. So either they were told to do that, didn't care, or it was actually WRITTEN which....it's so fucking annoying. No matter what, tho, it still ends on the director to notice that shit.

"What is that?"

"What is she doing?"

'What's going on?'

'Oh, look, it's so and so.'

And they're not faint, barely heard asinine comments. NOPE! They come up on subtitles, so yeah...probably scripted also. Was this a writer was the director thing? Filler till the next scene*?

I just...it's easy to ignore this in bigger budget movies, cuz of other sounds, and other better actors acting, but NOT syfy. God, they are the single hit or miss channel ever. When it's a hit, HUGE hit. But when it's bad, you're like.....did you even try?

<I wouldn't mind a "Happy" new season. That show was fucking wack nutso crazy!>

*Here's some of my lines I would've said.

'Hey, it's THAT guy!'

"I heard he's in love with a mirror." (In show reference...the alien talks from behind a mirror. Now that I explained it, it's ruined!)

'Can't get enough of those NY penthouse hotel suites that small town regular folk can afford on a whim, let alone for THREE FUCKING NIGHTS WITH FULL ROOM SERVICE INCLUDED! IN NO REALITY DOES THAT EXIST' (I have already tons of plot holes. SO SO many.)

"When the aliens came down, instead of a dead person, I saw someone that's still alive. ...Are they now going to die?"

'Man, I remember when the head of the secret service was in charge of entire the government. Best of times.' (SO SO MANY PLOT HOLES.)

'Gasp. WOW. Geez whiz. That is just neato.'

"I heard about them Missouri boys. All about women and spaceships that take them to even bigger spaceships. It's a shame..."

And this one I would be running into the house of the lead and his fiance:

"Why the FUCK did you lie to her about seeing your dead ex? Who gives a shit? And you're staying in the 3 night hotel room slutsgiving bender on repeat with the alien!? You don't deserve her you smug son of a bitch. BACKGROUND OUT!"

#happy #syfy #childhood's end #background actors #background acting #background actor #background out!

[davidaugust]

I was asked how the compounding for background acting work base pay raises adds up and here’s my insomnia fueled calculation. (Thanks Linda for asking me.)

I am tired and may be making a mistake with this so check the comments for anyone’s ideas/corrections.

Also, these percentages and dates are not pulled from the tentative agreement itself (as I do not yet have direct access) but from initial reports of what it may be. Don’t count on or plan for these numbers yet. Also, I’m not your accountant nor your agent (but I hope we work together soon as actors).

Here goes:

I believe you might get (through simple compounding of the background acting rate increase percentages) the following with a 11% raise this month (November 2023), 4% raise July 1, 2024 and 3.5% raise July 1, 2025. I will call these “periods of time” because I they don’t work out exactly to whole years:

1st period of time of new contract: 11% more than pre strike

2nd period of time of new contract: 15.44% more than pre strike

3rd period of time of the new contract: 19.18% more than pre strike

So the final period of time you are making more than the 18%+ number that the _entire combined_ 3 years results in because in 1st period and the 2nd period you have not yet had all 3 raises. Compounding does that.

To put it another way, using fictional dates of work:

Let’s say you got paid $100 before the strike for work on January 1, 2023 (this $100 is a dummy number just to show the math, a placeholder and not a value I am taking from anything the tentative agreement has; it is purely a dollar amount that is useful to illustrate the compounding).

For a similar day of work on December 15, 2023 (after the 1st pay increase of 11%) you’d get paid $111.

Then (after the second pay increase of 4%) for a similar day on August, 15 2024 you’d get paid $115.44.

And (after the 3rd pay increase of 3.5%) you’d get paid $119.48.

Compounding feels like magic, and not just with pay raises (your savings account and investments can compound). Compounding means every later percentage increase kinda also increases all the previous percentage increases too.

Compounding is nice to have, and confusing to do the math on sometimes. At least if it is oh dark hundred in the morning. 😝

Glad to see the pay increases for background work may be substantial in the SAG-AFTRA film/tv/streaming tentative agreement.

Strikes work, collective bargaining works, solidarity works.

#ActorsStrike #SAGAFTRAStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #UnionStrong #u1 #background #BackgroundActing #acting #compounding

#actors strike #sag aftra strike #sag aftra strong #sag aftra solidarity #union #union strong #background #background actor #background acting #pay #pay rate #compounding #pay raises #insomnia #math

[florallylly]

eddie munson stumbling over his words, speaking absolute gibberish to steve and steve's eyes have just glazed over bc he's already named their children in his head

#everytime eddie acts like a loser steve falls more in love #robin gagging in the background bc eddie is SUCH a loser #steve being obsessed with nerds #like the dichotomy or smth #normie popular boy kisses local theater boy on the mouth #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson

[garfield-milk]

he’s such a fangirl. he definitely has a few scrolls of adventures (and fanfiction) of the Blue Spirit and reads them every night while giggling and kicking his feet in the air.

#trying to get out of my comfort zone #I don’t like doing backgrounds bc they look weird but here I sketched something #ANYWAYS #he’s so obsessed with the blue spirit it’s so cute #he kept saying that he was just inspired by him but everyone knew he act had a crush on him #I like to think that zuko told him that he was the blue spirit after sokka started to crush on him #and thar made him fall hard for zuko #atla #avatar the last airbender #sokka #zukka #(kinda lol) #zuko #(kinda as well) #fanart #atla fanart #ALSO IF YOU KNOW CHINESE DONT COME AT ME #Ive just put a fic in the google translator and I have no idea if it makes sense #but i don’t really care #cuz it’s just a sketch #my art

[mugwot]

someone

#act 5 my beloved my beloathed #at this point in the game i think my brain was a bit fried cos i legit forgot how stories happen and was like yep this is how i die #made it so i straight up exploded afterwards lol just inconsolable #mal du pays #is me when i fucking gets you #cracking open a boy with the cold ones #oh to have your head grabbed in a vice grip by your inner demons <3 #isat spoilers #like kinda big ones #isat siffrin #isat mal du pays #in stars and time #some pose practice kinda got away from me #turns out if you change up how you sketch it can make you a bit looser with it which was nice c: #in this case i sketched with light colour on a dark background #my art

[cozylittleartblog]

the piece i made for the @stillalivezine back in 2021

#portal #portal 2 #still alive zine #art #illustration #artists on tumblr #portal fanart #valve #more art from my Hyper Clean Style era #highlight reel #i never hear about zines until they're over but i dont have the energy to illustrate anymore anyway :( #i wanted to represent the three acts of the game. old overgrown aperture on the two tiles. old aperture thru the blue portal. wheatley labs #thru the background of the orange portal. and a little bit of the ending with the way she's leaving wheatley labs and entering The Wheat #hi snake if u see this i still think its funny we were in a zine together before we were deltarune mutuals

[a2zillustration]

Buddy we literally JUST read a scroll about hubris AND you were just inspired about something called "Don't let history repeat itself," that 10 wis stat is really coming through.

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#ahhhh that insecurity is showing again croissant :) #I do enjoy reading people talk about the patience tav has to have with Gale as he keeps backsliding #meanwhile over here it's more like 'yeah of course the ambitious guy with the prestigious background was eventually going to abandon you' #I am once again making a long form comic for the other big romance scene and I am rubbing my little goblin hands together about it #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #act III spoilers #croissant adventures #tav #gale #gale x tav #comics #WAIT I ALSO WANTED TO SAY #/LOVE/ HOW GALE CONSISTENTLY THROWS IN “FOR BOTH OF US” AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT #GOOD WRITING #breadweave #gale dekarios

[moonilit]

FFXVI serving some of the best dynamics

#Picking out carrots when you never actually said you don’t like them is a love language #Jill: i have never cried once in like 10 years #Clive: crying in the background because snakes have no arms #Joshua mister ‘I have to be the phoenix because thats what my people need me to be’ #Jote making the simplest act of recognition to his person: #Joshua: YOU ARE MORE THEN I DESERVE #joshua rosfield #clive rosfield #jill warrick #jote #ffxvi #final fantasy xvi

[angeldreamsoffanfic]

content warning: this took SUCH a turn to dom eddie munson wanting to make steve harrington just absolutely one, turn his brain off, and two- realize that his interests aren’t stupid. like it’s not… necessarily explicit on here but when this gets a bit more fleshed out… it’s gonna have to be posted on ao3 😂

-

The thing is, Steve Harrington knows hair- okay?

And he also knows that his friends completely like to tease him about it, that they think that most of the time his affinity for it is a bit narcissistic. That he shouldn’t spend as much time as he does on it and he should “let go sometimes”, but he can’t.

He can remember watching his mother years ago in the bathroom mirror teach him how to style his hair, with little spritzes of water and a just a few puffs of sweet smelling hairspray. He can fully and thoroughly recall flipping through magazines when he was younger, back when his parents had started to travel, and taking beauty tips from the pages in regards to detangling. He’d spent three days with a knot at the nape of his neck, after a few days of swim practice, and he had too much pride at the time to ask anyone for help.

But anyway, Steve Harrington knows hair- and it’s not that he thinks other people don’t… but he also knows that some people don’t care as much as he does. And that’s why watching Eddie Munson take a brush to his curls (completely dry which is painful in it of itself) is absolutely heartbreaking in the weirdest way possible.

Steve also is completely and totally aware that his face must be doing… something, because Eddie has turned around to fully face him- instead of glaring daggers at his own reflection.

“What, Harrington?”

Steve shook his head quickly, fingers drumming against his thighs as he diverted his attention to the tv again. He hadn’t had a television in his room before actually, had figured it’d be a bit too much of a distraction from trying to sleep. Steve is sure there’s some study about the light too, a study Robin had rambled to him before.

That’d been before Vecna though, before the year 1986 and all of it’s horrors that it brought along to the town Hawkins once again. In Steve’s mind? A small tv and a couple of VHS tapes was probably the least of his worries after surviving everything. The tv itself had some poorly made horror movie on, something Eddie had brought along from his government provided home, while the two waited on Robin and Nancy to make their way over.

“Stevie?” Eddie had moved closer, brows slightly furrowed as his dark eyes widened. “What’s on your mind, man? Not getting like…” Eddie mimed wiggling his fingers at the side of his own head, and Steve couldn’t hold back the laugh that made it’s way out from his throat. “Okay so Vecna is not getting his creepy hands on you… so what’s up then?”

Steve took a moment and shrugged, before he let himself card a wide-splayed hand through his own hair. The hairspray was just ever so slightly crunchy under his fingers, and Steve huffed as he shrugged again.

“It’s so stupid man, like don’t even worry about it.” Steve flapped a hand in Eddie’s direction, and Eddie was quick to click his tongue against the back of his teeth as he moved closer.

“Nuh uh, big boy.” Eddie eased himself onto the foot of the bed, and Steve forced himself to not scrunch his nose as Eddie’s dry curls swished a bit around his shoulders. “C’mon I can see it in your eyes! Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell m-”

Steve cut Eddie off with a press of a flat palm up against Eddie’s lips, and Steve tried to not think about how soft Eddie was up against Steve’s skin. Steve groaned as Eddie’s tongue swiped against his flesh, and Steve hissed as he reared backward away from the older teen.

“Fucking gross dude!”

“Usually I’m the one doing that, big boy!”

Steve and Eddie both spoke up at the same time, and the two eyed each other warily, before they split into soft laughs between the two. Eddie then shifted further up onto the bed, back pressed up against the footboard, before he knocked his leg against Steve’s.

“C’mon dude, what’s up?”

“Your hair!” Steve finally answered, before he then folded his arms over his chest. “I know it’s stupid, but watching you tear a brush through it dry is actually breaking my heart, Munson.” Steve groaned, and ran a hand over his face before he continued. “And I know it’s stupid and everyone always says it’s stupid of me to care about hair so much-”

“It’s not stupid.” Eddie’s firm tone cut Steve off, and Steve glanced back toward the man through his lashes. Eddie’s jaw is set, firm and unyielding, and Eddie let out a dry laugh. “Fuck man, what has everyone in your life done to you?”

“Huh?”

“You’re… fuck sweetheart, you’re allowed to enjoy things.” Eddie’s voice has gone saccharine sweet, soft and gooey- and the tone has an immediate effect on Steve, making his brain feel all fuzzy and soft. “So, what has everyone in your life done to you?”

Steve doesn’t answer and instead just shrugged again, and it draws a quick intake of breath from Eddie- before the man has pushed himself up and off of Steve’s bed. He’s quick and methodical in his movements, scraping his curls up and off of his neck into a low bun at his nape. Eddie then pulled his boots back on, before he checked his pockets for a moment, and then proceeded to nod to himself. Eddie then extended a hand out to Steve, and wiggled his fingers with a small grin on his face.

“C’mon then, dude. We need to go to the store.”

Steve let his hand meet Eddie’s, and is quick to ignore the flutter in his stomach at the touch. His hands, Eddie’s, are larger than his but the fingers skinnier and calloused from what Steve knows to be years of guitar playing. That, and Eddie now has a pretty decent job at the local mechanic shop, and Steve knows that Eddie enjoys the job. Knows that Eddie likes working with his hands, and Steve tried to ignore the idea of Eddie getting those hands on Steve—

“Stevie?” Eddie snapped his fingers in front of Steve’s eyes, and Steve shook himself out of his revere. Steve sent Eddie a nervous smile, and he tried to ignore the flush of heat he can feel under his cheeks at the soft coo that Eddie let out. “You okay, sweetheart?”

“Mhm,” Steve bobbed his head in a quick nod, even when Eddie hummed before he moved as to grab the pair of Nikes that Steve had on earlier in the day. “Where are we uh, headed?”

“You and I-” Eddie moved back to Steve, and he curled a hand around Steve’s right ankle before he pulled- which caused Steve to unsteadily rock back, before he clamped a firm hand on Eddie’s shoulder. “I gotcha don’t ya worry baby-” Eddie murmured, soft and saccharine again, before he continued on as if Steve’s heart isn’t about to beat out of his chest. Eddie worked Steve’s Nike onto his foot, methodical in tying the laces tight, double-knotted just like Steve does. “You and me are gonna make our way out to Anderson for the afternoon.”

“But why?”

Eddie just sighed, soft and slow at Steve’s softly asked question, before he grabbed at Steve’s left foot, and set about slipping the other shoe onto it. Eddie took a moment, made sure to tie the laces of the shoe tight, before he stood back up so he could peer down slightly at Steve. Steve doesn’t move as Eddie pinched Steve’s chin soft in between his thumb and pointer, before Eddie slightly shook Steve’s face from side to side.

It’s enough that something in Steve just burns.

“Because Anderson has a nice and big hair supply shop in it, and we’re gonna go spend a little bit of government hush money there.” Eddie cooed, his voice soul-achingly sweet again, and Steve forced himself to swallow down the saliva that had been quick to pool in his mouth at Eddie’s tone. “And then when we’re done, I’ll drive us back here and you can do anything you want to my hair.”

“Anything?” Steve croaked, eyes wide as he kept his eyes on Eddie’s from under his lashes. Eddie’s smile is gleaming, and Eddie hummed quietly as he nodded himself.

“Absolutely anything, sweet thing.”

Steve Harrington knows hair, and he knows that.

And he also knows that his friends completely like to tease him about it, well, it’s seems like except for Eddie. So Steve let himself smile and nod, and he reveled in the way that Eddie grinned- a quick flash of teeth as he pinched a little firmer at the meat of Steve’s chin, before he let go.

“Atta boy.”

-

just a little sacrifice to the tumblr readmore gods

#angeldreamsoffanfic #steddie #steddie ficlet #steddie fanfic #steve harrington #steve x eddie #eddie munson #steve harrington has bad parents #steve harrington is not stupid #eddie munson lives #dom eddie munson #sub steve harrington #(eventually) #this is getting fleshed out and posted onto ao3 y’all don’t even worry bout it #background ronance #like if you squint your eyes and tilt your head and don’t have your contacts in so everyone looks like everyone #eddie munson’s love language is acts of service #so is steve’s #i wrote this in an hour can you tell

[north-winds1]

#rain world #rainworld art #slugcat #digital art #rainworld #slugcats #rw artificer #Artificer au #artificer's pups #I'm not really sure what to say #But this was a bit of a pain to make #I think if I make more of these it's probably going to be flat colours and not as detailed backgrounds #Because I wanted to quit several times while drawing this #It still turned out nice though! #I like to think that arti's pups care for eachother a lot very much disliking being separated #Because of the whole separated from artificer thing #But in general wherever one is going the other will be there #One of the pups tries to act much older to try to protect their sibling but they're still a young slugcat #Who hasn't really gotten to explore the outside world #The next arti's pups AU things will be much happier and I'll probably do some doodles somewhat soon! #Wind art

[inkskinned]

maybe i'm a bitch but if i hear you go out of your way to judge someone's weight, i immediately lose trust in you & will probably forever find you a little unbearable . yes also the little floating bar over my head will start reading [hostile]. this is natural and u caused it.

#IF you do the therapy to stop being an asshole and make a POINT of being like #''i used to be a jerk about this but now i'm not'' #..... we can reevaluate .... #btw i hope this doesn't need explanation and everyone can be normal on this post #and not be like #what if i am a DOCTOR and i was aSKED #like we all know what i'm referring to here #you're like in target and lizzo is playing in the background and they're like #DID YOU NOTICE THAT LIZZO IS FAT? #or ur on instagram and like some dude's comment is like #NICE ART BUT WHY ARENT YOU THIN #like .... okay we get it. we get it . go to sleep . go to therapy. bye. #ALSO BTW i am in recovery for an ED and im saying this AS someone with Brain Problems #pls do not clown on this and be like ''actually i'm allowed to be rude and judgemental'' #no u aren't. none of us are. having an ED is not a pass for being a fucking dick #it can make you ACT like a dick. that isn't something you should be proud of or seek to continue #hence.... therapy!!!!!!!! #i know it's kind of controversial to say it but frankly i don't believe in infantilizing mental illness #by being like ''oh they can't help themselves'' #bc that kind of thinking is .... unbelievably toxic lmafo #you might not be able to control your split-second thoughts/judgements #i have ocd i understand #but like. . . .. you know #we both know #this post is not about ''u blurted something u regret'' #this post is about. THAT GUY

[marshmellobunny64]

🌗.

#another kazu fit im stealing #the background is so garbo im so sorry 😭 #mmb64art #a3 #a3 fanart #a3! #act! addict! actors! #act addict actors #kazunari miyoshi #a3 game #a3! game

[letthestorieslive]

Established relationship for @scisaacweek

#scott mccall #isaac lahey #scisaac #scisaacweek2023 #i love isaac for being such a little shit #i love scott for his eternal patience #i love them together because i get to watch isaac slowly learning that he's not alone #(while still being a little shit) #and because scott is like 'i can't believe i'm attract to that idiot with no impulse control that thinks that murder is The Solution' #(stiles in background: you don't have to act on that purely physical attraction you know? #scott watching isaac trying to get literaly anyone to fight him: no no i wanna) #teen wolf #mine

[savanaclawzz]

SO WHERE WAS SEBEK WHEN ALL THESE OVERBLOTS WERE HAPPENING LIKE???

(Spoilers for the twst books)

Random npc: _____ is overblotting!

Yuu: oh word? Sebek shock the shit outta them.

Sebek: *fucking taser noises*

Like sebek could’ve stopped so much if he just decided to give the overblot boys a little push. Oh leona is about to murder ruggie? Tase him. Riddle is about to impale cater? Tase him. Jamil just launched everybody halfway across the desert? TASE HIM.

The mc wouldn’t have become fucking homeless 7 times if this alligator bitch actually did something

AND WE’RE NOT EVEN GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW THE MC COULDVE JUST TOLD DEUCE TO THROW A CAULDRON AT THE OVERBLOTS.

#twisted wonderland #twst #book 7 spoilers #twst x reader #disney twst #sebek zigvolt #twisted wonderland yuu #just like every time an overblot takes place #you can hear taser noises in the background while the housewarden is screaming #no but he’s so real for that though #I would’ve shocked the shit outta silver because now was NOT the time and place for how he was acting #cry in ur bedroom after the event happens like the rest of us

[dailyloopdeloop]

DAY 24: two roads diverged in a yellow wood

#codacheetah #isat #loop isat #siffrin isat #twohat spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat spoilers #homestuck #neil banging out the tunes #4/13 #i'm very fascinated by the concept of loop as a sprite in a homestuck au tbh #siffrinstarsprite...... loop for short :loopwink: #loop reminds me a lot of davesprite tbh #central character reduced to a background character with advanced knowledge that gives out cryptic advice #sacrificing their timeline and their identity to further the progress of their alternate self with no real hope of ever filling the same #niche in the lives of their friends again #i just think it's interesting #anyways gang happy homestuckmas. i hope you left out cookies for dave strider last night