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Yeah, he's still that dude.

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[thesimonkshow]

The Endgame Of The Idol

TW: This post will include mentions of physical abuse so be wary.

So I’m sure by this point everyone has seen or heard about HBO’s The Idol, the newest offering by Euphoria creator Sam Levinson & Abel Tesfaye a.k.a. The Weeknd. It focuses on a pop star named Jocelyn following the death or her mother and a very public meltdown as she attempts to return to the music industry which hits a roadblock when she gets involved with a club owner named Tedros (Tesfaye) whom is leading a cult of amateur pop stars.

It has received A LOT of discourse even before it aired, with many decrying Levinson’s involvement due to his over reliance of sexuality in his productions, many had concerns his involvement would lead to the show being infused with a messed up form of storytelling that would overshadow the story being told. Since it’s airdate, the sexualised elements of the show have been criticised for being too frequent and provocative but this weeks ep Daybreak had an element that moved a more toxic element of the show into the main story.

At a dinner table Jocelyn discusses her recently deceased mother and mentions she used to hit her with a hairbrush when she lost focus, Tedros (who’s looking to break her further under his power) orders her to retrieve the brush so he can use it on her, as he assumes the reason she is struggling to make impactful music is because she no longer has her mother around to ‘discipline’ her. We’re then treated to a rather icky sequence of him using the brush, paired with shots of aftercare and concludes with Jocelyn thanking Tedros for caring about her, yeah…

For a crowd that was already turned off by the show, this will no doubt enrage them, however this one scene of Jocelyn’s backstory opens up an opportunity for new avenues for her team to travel down: We already known Xander (Troye Sivan) didn’t try to help Jocelyn due to not wanting to loose his paycheck as part of her creative team, Leia (Rachel Sennott) is already weak willed to make any level of impact and Nikki Katz (Jane Adams) alongside Andrew Finklestein (Eli Roth) couldn’t care about anything but getting music out into the world to make them money, but what about the other members of her team who’ve shown a care for her emotionally beyond the need for business Chaim (Hank Azaria) & Destiny (Da’Vine Joy Randolph)? How come they didn’t step in any earlier to help her? Is there a potential to have them be redeemed?

Jocelyn’s mother passing away opened up a whole new avenue for her to make her own impact on the world so Tedros robbing her of that opportunity and Jocelyn seemingly ‘welcoming it’ doesn’t sit well on the mind of even those watching The Idol with an open mind, however with this sequence, the show may have just given itself a second season. Think about it, if the show ends on a season final with Jocelyn introducing Tedros at her concert & being met with cheers, it sends a very negative message that abuse leads to results and only backs up the concerns shared about Levinson’s involvement in the project in the first place and even if this season were to end with Jocelyn overcoming the negative influences in her life and regaining her power, it looks as if it’d be rushed rather than paced out fluidly (there are only a handful of eps remaining, two or three dependent on whether the fortnight showing of the show will be the finale), however with a second season that focuses on the new ‘Power Couple’ of Hollywood with Jocelyn becoming concerned with how Tedros’s is dealing with his star rising due to his association with her, it would showcase a commitment to telling the story in a fully fleshed out way.

The endgame of The Idol is clear: Jocelyn is meant to go through a rough handling of the worst parts of the music industry & come out stronger at the other end, obviously going to therapy to deal with the deep seated issues her mother, Nikki & Tedros have created in her, but ready to heal and grow, whether HBO will give Sam, Abel & Reza Fhaim the opportunity to continue it? Only time will tell.

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[depressedgothgrl]

okay ik yall gonna hate it but write the imagines of the idol where we have no tedros’s sex torture 😍. bc THAT would be great

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[immaculatasknight]

Lawlessness in plain sight

[purewhitewolf]

"I... calm yourself... Are you one of those gloom and doomers???"

She would have written this off as a paranoid and disturbed child had she not lay witness to Kara's wings and third eye. "Leoparva! What the Titan? God... were those demons or perhaps... angels?" She glances to her guards, but they act as if none of that happened and even seemed to be in a painful daze. She made them sit down for a moment as she replayed the events that transpired.

This greatly disturbed her. Her mind processing possible horrors began to consume her. All the imagery and panic were interrupted by the whispers of shadows in her ears, trying to remind her of her own words. "Right. Right... I need not lose focus on the uncertainty of fears. I can't fall apart now... everyone needs me."

The next morning, she would have compiled a bunch of records of refugees and new citizens of her kingdom. She would send a letter to her sister and the council of the Draconos that came to her and are being cared for. She also extended an invitation to her sister and others from the council and her past to feel free to come visit if able.

The Sun, The Moon, The Wolf.

@tweetiepea-rps

Her memory of the past and of what she was told was fuzzy. She remembered being taken at a very young age in by a king and queen. Kadri is what they named her. She had two older sisters that at the time she could play with. She had admired them both deeply.

Now as barely a teen, she was watching her sisters fighting over some boy. The most involve she ever got was just listening to their whiny vents... She was missing the days when they were little kids. Now her sisters felt like completely different people. Adeline barely has time to spend with her anymore due to her studying for upcoming duties, and Lavinia was getting...scarier with her mischief and attitude.

She sighs, "Guess you both are just going to do this all day, huh..."

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[inimeitiel]

First half of this year (digital) Inktober, featuring the main characters from me and @ivanhoenineteenninetyfour new comic in the making. Their names are Lyndon and Chaim.

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Chaim Topol (September 9, 1935 – March 8, 2023)

May his memory be a blessing.

[kropotkindersurprise]

November 2, 2024 - Palestine Action activists abducted two sculptures of Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, from the University of Manchester, and destroyed one of them so far.

"The first bust of Weizmann is dead. Soon, his zionist project will be too!" - commented Palestine Action.

Smash Zionism! [video]/[link]/[link]

[sapphlopods]

This will be one of the hardest things I ever have to do, but I need help even though I hate asking for it.

Please help me escape my homophobic and financially abusive parents. More under "Keep Reading"

I'm Chaim, and ever since I graduated high school, I’ve lived with my parents. Australia has an incredibly bad housing crisis, and it’s nearly impossible for me to move out without friends or roommates who have a pre-established house, which I have none. 

Over the course of the past 4 years, I have watched my father devolve into this angry right-wing conspiracy theorist who thinks all “Wokes” should d1e. He has no idea I’m a lesbian as I fear for what he will do if he ever finds out. 

My mother has a range of health issues, in 2022 she had a heart attack, and this year, she was diagnosed with brain and kidney cancer, which she is in and out of hospital for. Her financial assistance has been delayed over and over, we still need to wait 2 months to get help. 

So, my household's only income is from my father and me. My father has an incredibly bad gambling, drinking and tobacco addiction, he goes through a pack of 30 cans and a pack of 30 cigarettes in 2 days. Tobacco and alcohol are heavily taxed here and are upwards of $60+ each; that’s $120 every 2 days, he earns $1600 fortnightly and spends roughly $840 of it on just his addictions; that’s more than half his pay, and that isn’t including the horse races he bets on. 

That leaves me to pick up the slack on groceries, rent, my mother's medicine and lend them money when Dad “overspends” at the pub. My father would rather starve than lessen his addictions a bit so we can afford to stay in our house and have food to eat. 

This has been happening for years even before my mother fell so ill she couldn’t work but it's gotten worse. I do not want to leave my mother, but she will not leave my father no matter what since she sees nothing wrong with what he does. I’m tired of being nothing more than a piggybank and a maid to my parents since I will never be able to move out when all my money goes towards keeping a roof over our heads. Even while I was on vacation, they still called me up and asked for money. 

I’ve wanted to move out for a long time, but my situation is getting direr by the day, and I can’t save a single cent to leave like this. I know many problems are going on in the world right now that deserve people’s time more than this so thank you for reading this far. 

If you can spare anything, please send it to my ko-fi. It'll be going towards getting stuff sorted so I can move to my partner Cinna, who lives far away in Chile, but I have no other option now. 11/12

I also have a few items listed on my eBay that people might like, a lot of it is fandom stuff and collector things I have accumulated, I'll be putting more stuff up slowly as I sort through my things preparing to move. https://www.ebay.com.au/usr/sapphlopods

[thehopefulquotes]

You can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Chaim Potok